Friday was one of those nights where the work hangover renders you useless. By useless, I mean somebody else cooked for us, we stared at the TV, and then we went to bed.
On Saturday we went to church, which was followed by fellowship at our house with Tim, Paul, and Mary. In addition to the human element, fellowship included eggs, potatoes, bacon, and donuts. Later in the day my parents arrived and we spent the rest of the day at our house.
On Sunday we toured the state capitol. Very nice. The capitol designed by Cass Gilbert and completed around 1905 at a cost of $4.5 million dollars. The structure features marble from Vermont, Georgia, Italy, France, Greece, and Egypt. If the capitol were built today I imagine it would somewhat less extravagant; the tour guide would be telling you about the craftmanship of the joint compound spread over the drywall. The capitol has a rathskeller, which is a cool word for a basement restaurant/tavern. Literally it means cellar council. After exploring the capitol we visited Garrison Keillor's bookstore called Common Good on Selby and Western in St. Paul. I bought a book of poems by Alex Lemon called Mosquito. Marye's mom joined us and we went to dinner at the Barbary Fig on Grand Avenue, where we saw Lucy. As if dinner were not satisfying enough, we ate cake at Cafe Latte.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Economist Picks
Chinese business
Truth from facts
Israel and the Jews
Diaspora blues
Second thoughts about the Promised Land
Venezuela
With Marx, Lenin and Jesus Christ
Health care
Pyramid power
Chinese accounting
Cultural revolution
Buttonwood
Oil's not well
America's money-transfer business
Check for cheque-cashers
Economics focus
How good is the World Bank's research
Neuroeconomics
The triump of unreason?
(my nucleus accumbens made me do it)
Truth from facts
Israel and the Jews
Diaspora blues
Second thoughts about the Promised Land
Venezuela
With Marx, Lenin and Jesus Christ
Health care
Pyramid power
Chinese accounting
Cultural revolution
Buttonwood
Oil's not well
America's money-transfer business
Check for cheque-cashers
Economics focus
How good is the World Bank's research
Neuroeconomics
The triump of unreason?
(my nucleus accumbens made me do it)
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Weekend Update
It was an eventful weekend. I bottled 27 1/2 bottles of Italian Pinot Grigio. It tastes good. And apparently the isinglass helped clarify the wine nicely. Isinglass is made from the air bladders of fishes, such as the sturgeon. The word comes from the Dutch word huizenblas, which I think literally means house of the bladder.
Marye and I watched our first movie of the year: Apollo 13. Before the movie, we ate dinner at the Town Talk Diner on Lake Street. I ate a half-pound burger, garlic fries, and a chocolate shake. Yes.
On Saturday we went cross country skiing in Minneapolis for the first time ever. We completed two 4.1km loops at the Hiawatha public golf course, which is next to Lake Nokomis. The cost to ski is $3 or $15 for a season pass. Hiawatha is flat, a good place for me to become more acquainted with my big feet. I always enjoy being outdoors in the winter when the sky is blue, the sun warms your body, the wind is calm, and the temperature is around 17 degrees. After skiing, we stopped at a Baker's Wife and bought many tasty pastries. Good times. In the evening we had people over for a chili dinner. Then we progressed to the Town Hall Brewery, where I consumed a sampler: Black H2O, Masala Mama IPA (cask and keg), Bright Spot, Wee Heavy, and Retreating Darkness. We culminated the night by visiting the Nomad World Pub. The three bands we heard were the Casados, Brass Kings, and Chris Koza. The Casados were a young married couple from Champaign, Illinois. The husband played guitar and sang and the wife played the harmonium - sweet. They were very honest and provided me with a dose of contrast, which is good. The Brass Kings consisted of a fiddle, washboard, steel guitar, and wash tub bass. The wash tub was turned upside down and had a piece of rope extending from the bottom of the tub to the top of a mop that served as the back of the instrument. The bass player wore work gloves, plucked the rope, and pressed the rope against the mop handle to change the pitch. Awesome. Then, in an effort to remind me I am old, Chris Koza started after midnight. It was fun.
Sunday was all about being lazy, which naturally included watching several hours of football americano and reading the Economist during commercials. Before indulging in one of the seven deadly sins, I went to church and then Marye and I went to the Longfellow Grill for brunch.
Marye and I watched our first movie of the year: Apollo 13. Before the movie, we ate dinner at the Town Talk Diner on Lake Street. I ate a half-pound burger, garlic fries, and a chocolate shake. Yes.
On Saturday we went cross country skiing in Minneapolis for the first time ever. We completed two 4.1km loops at the Hiawatha public golf course, which is next to Lake Nokomis. The cost to ski is $3 or $15 for a season pass. Hiawatha is flat, a good place for me to become more acquainted with my big feet. I always enjoy being outdoors in the winter when the sky is blue, the sun warms your body, the wind is calm, and the temperature is around 17 degrees. After skiing, we stopped at a Baker's Wife and bought many tasty pastries. Good times. In the evening we had people over for a chili dinner. Then we progressed to the Town Hall Brewery, where I consumed a sampler: Black H2O, Masala Mama IPA (cask and keg), Bright Spot, Wee Heavy, and Retreating Darkness. We culminated the night by visiting the Nomad World Pub. The three bands we heard were the Casados, Brass Kings, and Chris Koza. The Casados were a young married couple from Champaign, Illinois. The husband played guitar and sang and the wife played the harmonium - sweet. They were very honest and provided me with a dose of contrast, which is good. The Brass Kings consisted of a fiddle, washboard, steel guitar, and wash tub bass. The wash tub was turned upside down and had a piece of rope extending from the bottom of the tub to the top of a mop that served as the back of the instrument. The bass player wore work gloves, plucked the rope, and pressed the rope against the mop handle to change the pitch. Awesome. Then, in an effort to remind me I am old, Chris Koza started after midnight. It was fun.
Sunday was all about being lazy, which naturally included watching several hours of football americano and reading the Economist during commercials. Before indulging in one of the seven deadly sins, I went to church and then Marye and I went to the Longfellow Grill for brunch.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
New Content on Our Website
I added Lists and Recipes to our website.
Lists will track restaurants where we have dined, movies we have seen, and books I have read.
Recipes provides links to pdf version of recipes I have tried. At the moment, all of them are from one vegetarian cookbook. I encourage you to try the vegetable moussaka.
Lists will track restaurants where we have dined, movies we have seen, and books I have read.
Recipes provides links to pdf version of recipes I have tried. At the moment, all of them are from one vegetarian cookbook. I encourage you to try the vegetable moussaka.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Economist Picks
The United Nations
-A chance for a safer world
-Mission impossible?
-Call the blue helmets
Saddam Hussein
-The blundering dictator
Emerging Markets
-The global rusher
Obesity and Bacteria
-Greedy guts?
Here are some excerpts:
The new secretary-general of the UN: Ban Ki-moon.
Some of the worlds problems: Rising nuclear demons in Iran and North Korea, a haemorrhaging wound in Darfur, unending violence in the Middle East, looming environmental disaster, escalating international terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the spread of HIV/AIDS.
When the UN was created in 1945, its founder-nations—the four main victors of the second world war, America, Britain, China and Russia, plus France—allocated to themselves the only five permanent seats, with veto powers, on what was then an 11-seat Security Council. The other members, all elected by the General Assembly, held two-year non-renewable seats without a veto. Since then, the number of the UN's member states has almost quadrupled from 51 to 192, two-thirds of them in the developing world. Yet apart from the addition of four more non-permanent seats in 1965, membership of the Security Council, the only UN body whose decisions are binding, has remained unchanged. The system is not only undemocratic, anachronistic and unfair, but also—as Paul Kennedy, professor of history at Yale, suggests in his new book, “The Parliament of Man”—outrageous. Yet it cannot be changed without inviting a veto from one of the very nations whose powers might be diminished.
poverty, mortality, illiteracy
Thanks to an overhaul of the organisation's department of humanitarian affairs and much better co-ordination with NGOs in the field, the UN's once shambolic relief operations are now regarded as second to none. Around 30m people in some 50 countries currently depend on its services for survival.
Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary-general, liked to say that the UN is the only fire brigade that must go out and buy a fire engine before it can respond to an emergency.
* * *
Saddam's rule coincided with a huge surge in oil revenues. During the 1970s, a relatively peaceful interlude when he exercised real control as second-in-command to a weak president, dozens of ambitious projects swiftly created a first-class infrastructure of expressways, power lines and social services. In neighbouring countries, the oil boom generated garish consumption and commission billionaires. Iraqis could fairly claim that their national wealth had been used instead to create a broad, home-owning middle class, the symbol of which was the “Brazili”, a stripped-down Volkswagen bought by the million from Brazil. Generous state subsidies lifted even the very poor out of need. Corruption was unknown.
* * *
When Thailand's introduction of capital controls sent its stockmarket plunging a few days before Christmas, you could have been forgiven for thinking, “Here we go again”. It is almost ten years since the start of the Asian financial crisis, when capital flight on a huge scale caused financial markets and economies in the region to collapse. The problem that Thailand and other Asian countries face today, however, is the exact opposite: how to stop capital flowing in.
-A chance for a safer world
-Mission impossible?
-Call the blue helmets
Saddam Hussein
-The blundering dictator
Emerging Markets
-The global rusher
Obesity and Bacteria
-Greedy guts?
Here are some excerpts:
The new secretary-general of the UN: Ban Ki-moon.
Some of the worlds problems: Rising nuclear demons in Iran and North Korea, a haemorrhaging wound in Darfur, unending violence in the Middle East, looming environmental disaster, escalating international terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the spread of HIV/AIDS.
When the UN was created in 1945, its founder-nations—the four main victors of the second world war, America, Britain, China and Russia, plus France—allocated to themselves the only five permanent seats, with veto powers, on what was then an 11-seat Security Council. The other members, all elected by the General Assembly, held two-year non-renewable seats without a veto. Since then, the number of the UN's member states has almost quadrupled from 51 to 192, two-thirds of them in the developing world. Yet apart from the addition of four more non-permanent seats in 1965, membership of the Security Council, the only UN body whose decisions are binding, has remained unchanged. The system is not only undemocratic, anachronistic and unfair, but also—as Paul Kennedy, professor of history at Yale, suggests in his new book, “The Parliament of Man”—outrageous. Yet it cannot be changed without inviting a veto from one of the very nations whose powers might be diminished.
poverty, mortality, illiteracy
Thanks to an overhaul of the organisation's department of humanitarian affairs and much better co-ordination with NGOs in the field, the UN's once shambolic relief operations are now regarded as second to none. Around 30m people in some 50 countries currently depend on its services for survival.
Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary-general, liked to say that the UN is the only fire brigade that must go out and buy a fire engine before it can respond to an emergency.
* * *
Saddam's rule coincided with a huge surge in oil revenues. During the 1970s, a relatively peaceful interlude when he exercised real control as second-in-command to a weak president, dozens of ambitious projects swiftly created a first-class infrastructure of expressways, power lines and social services. In neighbouring countries, the oil boom generated garish consumption and commission billionaires. Iraqis could fairly claim that their national wealth had been used instead to create a broad, home-owning middle class, the symbol of which was the “Brazili”, a stripped-down Volkswagen bought by the million from Brazil. Generous state subsidies lifted even the very poor out of need. Corruption was unknown.
* * *
When Thailand's introduction of capital controls sent its stockmarket plunging a few days before Christmas, you could have been forgiven for thinking, “Here we go again”. It is almost ten years since the start of the Asian financial crisis, when capital flight on a huge scale caused financial markets and economies in the region to collapse. The problem that Thailand and other Asian countries face today, however, is the exact opposite: how to stop capital flowing in.
Monday, January 15, 2007
Resolutions
The new year is an opportunity to share with others the directions I am going. Here are a few areas of knowledge I have been pursuing and will continue to pursue:
1. PHP and MySQL Web Development
PHP is a free programming language and MySQL is a free database. I've already learned a little HTML and I've learned a little about CSS. I need to learn how PHP and MySQL communicate with each other. I know enough about databases that MySQL will be easy, but the PHP learning curve will be steeper. I want to create an e-commerce site and I want to create a few applications for things I do at work.
2. Chemistry
I like textbooks. And observing life in relation to elemental properties provides a great deal of fascination and satisfaction to me.
3. Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM)
At some point in the future I hope to become a chum, not for the initials at the end of my name but because I think the base of knowledge necessary for the distinction will benefit me in my work duties.
4. Feynman Lectures on Physics
Who doesn't want to know more about physics, especially electricity and heat.
5. Dutch
This resolution is very susceptible to failure. While I have good intentions, my guess is that my proficiency will remain only with formalities, food, and beer.
6. Economist
This weekly magazine is my commuting literature. Good stuff. I think I will be a subscriber for life.
7. Books
I want to read a few more books than last year. I just finished reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X. I also finished Nostromo by Joseph Conrad.
1. PHP and MySQL Web Development
PHP is a free programming language and MySQL is a free database. I've already learned a little HTML and I've learned a little about CSS. I need to learn how PHP and MySQL communicate with each other. I know enough about databases that MySQL will be easy, but the PHP learning curve will be steeper. I want to create an e-commerce site and I want to create a few applications for things I do at work.
2. Chemistry
I like textbooks. And observing life in relation to elemental properties provides a great deal of fascination and satisfaction to me.
3. Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM)
At some point in the future I hope to become a chum, not for the initials at the end of my name but because I think the base of knowledge necessary for the distinction will benefit me in my work duties.
4. Feynman Lectures on Physics
Who doesn't want to know more about physics, especially electricity and heat.
5. Dutch
This resolution is very susceptible to failure. While I have good intentions, my guess is that my proficiency will remain only with formalities, food, and beer.
6. Economist
This weekly magazine is my commuting literature. Good stuff. I think I will be a subscriber for life.
7. Books
I want to read a few more books than last year. I just finished reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X. I also finished Nostromo by Joseph Conrad.
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
The Arbiter Says It's New
Happy New Year humans!
I am currently reading "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".
Malcolm X lived from 1925 to 1965.
In a similar theme, here are some other authors and books I have read:
Frederick Douglas (1818-1895)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
The Souls of Black Folks
Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Native Son
Black Boy
Ralph Ellison (1913-1994)
Invisible Man
I am currently reading "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".
Malcolm X lived from 1925 to 1965.
In a similar theme, here are some other authors and books I have read:
Frederick Douglas (1818-1895)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
The Souls of Black Folks
Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Native Son
Black Boy
Ralph Ellison (1913-1994)
Invisible Man
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Post-Modern Capitalism: Deconstruct This
* fragmentation of narratives
* the individual's ability to be the artist of his own life
In “The Long Tail”, an analysis of the impact of the internet on the music industry, with wider ramifications, Chris Anderson describes the “shattering of the mainstream into a zillion different cultural shards”. The post-modern “fragment” becomes a “niche” and the mass market is “turning into a mass of niches”. “When mass culture breaks apart,” he writes, “it doesn't re-form into a different mass. Instead, it turns into millions of microcultures which coexist and interact in a baffling array of ways.”
blogs, podcasts, youtube, myspace, etc.
Forgetting Yourself in Function
A happy state arises most often in work that stretches a person without defeating him; work that provides clear goals, unambiguous feedback, and a sense of control.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Status Anxiety
Vervet monkeys at the top of their social tree enjoy more mates and bananas as a result, but they also exult in their position for its own sake.
Monday, December 18, 2006
Meal of the weekend
sausage, eggs, grilled peppers, spinach, onion, cheese, and cornbread covered with hollandaise sauce
Friday, December 15, 2006
Horny Manatee
The Conan O'Brien skit called "New College Mascots" featured a character called the "FSU Webcam Manatee". The manatee was rubbing itself while music played in the background: when I think about you I touch myself. Conan then mentioned a fictitious website: "HornyManatee.com". After the show, the standards department for Late Night explained to Conan that if he mentions a web site that doesn't exist, NBC is legally bound to buy the domain name. Late Night then created the website, giving it the appearance of a fake porn site. The website was introduced on the next show, and Conan asked viewers to submit pictures. A week or so later, the site has received 4.5 million hits and many images, poems, flash games and other media submitted by fans. Check out the Fan Art.
Monday, December 11, 2006
Tom Waits - Road to Peace
I just heard this on 89.3, The Current:
Young Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay) was only 18 years old,
He was the youngest of nine children, never spent a night away from home.
And his mother held his photograph, opening the New York Times
To see the killing has intensified along the road to peace
There was a tall, thin boy with a whispy moustache disguised as an orthodox Jew
On a crowded bus in Jerusalem, some had survived World War Two
And the thunderous explosion blew out windows 200 yards away
With more retribution and seventeen dead along the road to peace
Now at King George Ave and Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus 14a
In the aisle next to the driver Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)
And the last thing that he said on earth is "God is great and God is good"
And he blew them all to kingdom come upon the road to peace
Now in response to this another kiss of death was visited upon
Yasser Taha, Israel says is an Hamas senior militant
And Israel sent four choppers in, flames engulfed, tears wide open
And it killed his wife and his three year old child leaving only blackened skeletons
It's found his toddlers bottle and a pair of small shoes and they waved them in front of the cameras
But Israel says they did not know that his wife and child were in the car
There are roadblocks everywhere and only suffering on TV
Neither side will ever give up their smallest right along the road to peace
Israel launched it's latest campaign against Hamas on Tuesday
Two days later Hamas shot back and killed five Israeli soldiers
So thousands dead and wounded on both sides most of them middle eastern civilians
They fill the children full of hate to fight an old man's war and die upon the road to peace
"And this is our land we will fight with all our force" say the Palastinians and the Jews
Each side will cut off the hand of anyone who tries to stop the resistance
If the right eye offends thee then you must pluck it out
And Mahmoud Abbas said Sharon had been lost out along the road to peace
Once Kissinger said "we have no friends, America only has interests"
Now our president wants to be seen as a hero and he's hungry for re-election
But Bush is reluctant to risk his future in the fear of his political failures
So he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press 10,000 miles from the road to peace
In the video that they found at the home of Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)
He held a Kalashnikov rifle and he spoke with a voice like a boy
He was an excellent student, he studied so hard, it was as if he had a future
He told his mother that he had a test that day out along the road to peace
The fundamentalist killing on both sides is standing in the path of peace
But tell me why are we arming the Israeli army with guns and tanks and bullets?
And if God is great and God is good why can't he change the hearts of men?
Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help
Maybe God himself he needs all of our help
Maybe God himself is lost and needs help
He's out upon the road to peace
Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help
Maybe God himself he needs all of our help
And he's lost upon the road to peace
And he's lost upon the road to peace
Out upon the road to peace.
Young Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay) was only 18 years old,
He was the youngest of nine children, never spent a night away from home.
And his mother held his photograph, opening the New York Times
To see the killing has intensified along the road to peace
There was a tall, thin boy with a whispy moustache disguised as an orthodox Jew
On a crowded bus in Jerusalem, some had survived World War Two
And the thunderous explosion blew out windows 200 yards away
With more retribution and seventeen dead along the road to peace
Now at King George Ave and Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus 14a
In the aisle next to the driver Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)
And the last thing that he said on earth is "God is great and God is good"
And he blew them all to kingdom come upon the road to peace
Now in response to this another kiss of death was visited upon
Yasser Taha, Israel says is an Hamas senior militant
And Israel sent four choppers in, flames engulfed, tears wide open
And it killed his wife and his three year old child leaving only blackened skeletons
It's found his toddlers bottle and a pair of small shoes and they waved them in front of the cameras
But Israel says they did not know that his wife and child were in the car
There are roadblocks everywhere and only suffering on TV
Neither side will ever give up their smallest right along the road to peace
Israel launched it's latest campaign against Hamas on Tuesday
Two days later Hamas shot back and killed five Israeli soldiers
So thousands dead and wounded on both sides most of them middle eastern civilians
They fill the children full of hate to fight an old man's war and die upon the road to peace
"And this is our land we will fight with all our force" say the Palastinians and the Jews
Each side will cut off the hand of anyone who tries to stop the resistance
If the right eye offends thee then you must pluck it out
And Mahmoud Abbas said Sharon had been lost out along the road to peace
Once Kissinger said "we have no friends, America only has interests"
Now our president wants to be seen as a hero and he's hungry for re-election
But Bush is reluctant to risk his future in the fear of his political failures
So he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press 10,000 miles from the road to peace
In the video that they found at the home of Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)
He held a Kalashnikov rifle and he spoke with a voice like a boy
He was an excellent student, he studied so hard, it was as if he had a future
He told his mother that he had a test that day out along the road to peace
The fundamentalist killing on both sides is standing in the path of peace
But tell me why are we arming the Israeli army with guns and tanks and bullets?
And if God is great and God is good why can't he change the hearts of men?
Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help
Maybe God himself he needs all of our help
Maybe God himself is lost and needs help
He's out upon the road to peace
Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help
Maybe God himself he needs all of our help
And he's lost upon the road to peace
And he's lost upon the road to peace
Out upon the road to peace.
Oenophile?
I have 6 gallons of Italian Pinot Grigio undergoing primary fermentation in the basement. To begin the process I mixed bentonite and hot water. Then I poured in the juice and topped the fermenter up to 6 gallons. The specific gravity was 1.075 at this point. Finally, I sprinkled the yeast on the surface of the solution. As of Sunday the SG was 1.024; it must be 1.010 or less for me to transfer the juice to my carboy for secondary fermentation. When the specific gravity is 0.996 or less, I will add metabisulphite, sorbate, and isinglass. After a couple weeks, the wine will clarify and be ready for bottling -- 30 x 750ml bottles.
hear hear
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own.
-Bertrand Russel, What I Believe
-Bertrand Russel, What I Believe
Friday, November 17, 2006
Summary
Time does not respond to my entreaties, so there is no time for details.
Mason Jennings concert
Herkimer - Red Fly Marzen
Good times with Ziyad & Jenny, Jose, and neighbors
My first all-grain brew
Bought a wine kit that makes 30 x 750ml
Borat
Chocolate and wine tasting at International Market Square with the Klinkers
Beer extravaganza at John & Jo's at 11:11 on 11/11
List of Beers:
Ichabod Pumpkin Ale
Archadia IPA
Stella Artois
Big Sky Crystal Ale
Anchor Steam Liberty Ale
Pyramid Thunderhead IPA
James Page Burly Brown Ale
Summit Great Northern Porter
Bell's Stout? The head was brown!
I'm forgetting one.
In other news Paul, Tim, and I have formed a denomination that meets every Sunday morning.
Marye and I leave for Nebraska after work today. We will stay the night with the Ritz house in Ames, progress to the Living History Farm race, continue to Omaha, and finish our journey in Hastings, Nebraska, where we will consume mass quantities of food.
Mason Jennings concert
Herkimer - Red Fly Marzen
Good times with Ziyad & Jenny, Jose, and neighbors
My first all-grain brew
Bought a wine kit that makes 30 x 750ml
Borat
Chocolate and wine tasting at International Market Square with the Klinkers
Beer extravaganza at John & Jo's at 11:11 on 11/11
List of Beers:
Ichabod Pumpkin Ale
Archadia IPA
Stella Artois
Big Sky Crystal Ale
Anchor Steam Liberty Ale
Pyramid Thunderhead IPA
James Page Burly Brown Ale
Summit Great Northern Porter
Bell's Stout? The head was brown!
I'm forgetting one.
In other news Paul, Tim, and I have formed a denomination that meets every Sunday morning.
Marye and I leave for Nebraska after work today. We will stay the night with the Ritz house in Ames, progress to the Living History Farm race, continue to Omaha, and finish our journey in Hastings, Nebraska, where we will consume mass quantities of food.
Friday, November 03, 2006
Halloween with Conan O'Brien
I watched Conan on October 31. The sound was a rerun of a previous show but the people were replaced with skeleton marionettes. Brilliant.
In the year two thousand...
In an effort to eliminate the middleman, White Castle will start grinding up meat and spraying it directly onto the inside of toilets.
In the year two thousand...
In an effort to eliminate the middleman, White Castle will start grinding up meat and spraying it directly onto the inside of toilets.
Cut Chemist
On Wednesday night 89.3 The Current played 30 minutes of uninterrupted fresh beats from guest DJ Cut Chemist, who has a new CD called The Audience's Listening.
Butt Sex
The Rev. Ted Haggard, the former president of the National Association of Evangelicals and one of the nation’s most influential Christian leaders, has conceded that some of the accusations that led him to resign are true, a church official said today.
What are the allegations?
A former male prostitute in Denver said in television and radio interviews that he had had a three-year sexual relationship with Mr. Haggard.
Mr. Haggard, who is married and has five children, had initially denied the accusation, saying in a television interview: “I am steady with my wife. I’m faithful to my wife.”
He also said he had never met the man making the accusation.
The evangelical association states on its Web site that homosexual sex is condemned by Scripture, and Mr. Haggard has advocated passage of an amendment to the United States Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
What are the allegations?
A former male prostitute in Denver said in television and radio interviews that he had had a three-year sexual relationship with Mr. Haggard.
Mr. Haggard, who is married and has five children, had initially denied the accusation, saying in a television interview: “I am steady with my wife. I’m faithful to my wife.”
He also said he had never met the man making the accusation.
The evangelical association states on its Web site that homosexual sex is condemned by Scripture, and Mr. Haggard has advocated passage of an amendment to the United States Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
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