Wandered over to the pavilion at Lake Como and took in a concert by the band of local post of the American Legion. It was fun, and very much a community activity. I was struck by the thought that right there, at that moment, was a defining theme for America. A band playing american marches, . . . → Read More: America
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It’s graduation weekend for Jen and the party never ceases. Her parents drove in (from freakin’ PA, how cool is that?), and we’ve so far been to two of the three major parties scheduled for the weekend. A potluck for the graduates and their immediate families hosted by a classmate, the picnic at lake phalen . . . → Read More: Weary More pictures from the early part of the year. Went with my brewing buddy Todd to a tasting of Knob Creek bourbon at McCormick & Schmik’s seafood restaurant last night. It was really pretty good, though I’m certainly not a convert to the corn squeezings. I learned some stuff about how this particular hooch is . . . → Read More: Knob I subjected myself to three complete campaign speeches on Sunday. MPR carried a speech by Kerry, a speech by Bush, and a speech by Nader. They were all terrifyingly predictable, though better than I had expected. Bush has a good line. Strategically, it’s about the best he can do. “We’re number one, we’re stronger and . . . → Read More: Stuff Hey, not to be alarmist or anything, but this is a pretty freaky little trio of news articles. “Starship Troopers 2”. Stupid sneak attack “the bugs crawl in your mouth and eat your brains” movie. Ick. I have to admit that I was hoping for better from the sequel to “Barbie and Ken meet the big scary space bugs.” “Versus”. Excellent kung fu / zombie crossover flick. Now, understand that by “excellent” I . . . → Read More: Movie night My egg-bot (frame and design by Bruce Shapiro) is working! After a couple of on-again-off-again sessions, I managed to get proper power to all the needed places, got QBASIC installed to drive the parallel port, and connected the parallel port to the appropriate pins. The last step was to give up on mating the 25 . . . → Read More: W00T! Books I’ve read meme jacked from simianpower *bold those you’ve read *italicise started-but-never-finished *underline those you own but haven’t gotten to yet *add three of your own *post to your livejournal . . . → Read More: Books I’ve Read Just got back from excellent Korean food. Waaaaaay too much chili in there though. I can already tell that I’ve evoked the wrath of the belly gods. Only one solution: Ice cream, stat! We bought a catnip plant at the farmers market, and gave the cats a little hit off of it this afternoon. Maia . . . → Read More: Blarg. Eat kitty. |
