I'm Back!

I enjoyed my break...but I am glad to be back! Thanks to you sweet people who emailed to ask how I was. Thanks for still checking on me. It meant! Anyway, our weeks away were full. Track Meets, mission prep. with Auntie Beth, a trip to 3 states in four days, a wedding, some major business changes, as well as many other things. We just returned [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 23:48:54

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West Seattle Crime Watch: Is this burglary loot yours?

> One day after the Southwest Precinct announced arrests in the “BB Gun Burglaries” — in which BB-type guns were used to shoot out windows to ... of recovered items that police hope to match with their rightful owners. Read on to see the other ... other cases in other parts of the city (including Beacon Hill, as mentioned in yesterday’s report [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 00:46:12

Journalistic ethics is only sort of an oxymoron

As a general rule, media ethics debates work best in journalism schools (where they can safely and entirely be discussed in theory). But here we go. Dave Sommer, a former TV producer, today’s Post. “I sincerely believe that when your job is to spend every day learning about other people, places and cultures, you’re automatically bound [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 22:43:38

Silent Break-Ins: How Technology Compromises Physical Security Too

I could have used this technique last night — I got home to my apartment in Oakland at 11:30, only to realize I’d left my keys in Sacramento.  Two hours later a locksmith finally came and charged me $100 to let me in my own apartment.  Expensive?  Maybe, but comparable to other services, and compared to the havoc that a lock-breaker [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 23:17:53

Win Wall-E

Sure to be on most children’s wish lists this holiday season, Disney Pixar’s box office favorite, WALL•E , is hitting store shelves on November 18th. After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL•E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 19:22:30

Sunnybank Show Jumping Nov 08

Having had quite a bit of trouble with Muppet lately who has been going through a napping stage and on a couple of occassions has gone straight out of rings and blindly into any other horses in his way we have been taking him to places where ... t they consider that it is other peoples safety we are concerned about. As it happened although he was [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 00:00:01

(Guest Blogger: Erin Hunter)

Hallo! 2008 has been an incredibly exciting time for us, not just because we found out your choice for Ultimate Clan Leader☺, ... are the best ever! (That's YOU, by the way!) Writing about North American bears instead of feral ... are the most popular pets in America! Go, dogs, go! But when we sat down and thought about it, we felt [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 19:41:32

#NaNoWriMo update

So far today, I’ve only gotten out slightly over a thousand words on my novel. To pull this off, I’m going to need to increase this substantially. Yet the novel is taking on a life of its own. The other night, I had a dream, in which people’s feet were turning black and swelling up. It struck me that this must be part of the plague predicted [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 00:28:58

Monumental Terror

In a case the U.S. Supreme Court will hear tomorrow, followers of Summum, a 33-year-old sect that (per The New York Times) ... displays on public property to approve virtually every other proposal, no matter how hideous, offensive ... contains the privately donated Alice in Wonderland statue, must now allow other persons to erect [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 20:24:00

What Next … Mandatory Aerobics During Recess?

Students are now forced to become more creative to raise money and awareness for their causes at school: The old-fashioned school bake sale, once as American as apple pie, is fast becoming obsolete in California, a result of strict new state nutrition standards for public schools that regulate the types of food that can be sold to students [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 23:31:27

another day, another sleepless night.

In case you were wondering, Maggie continued her assault with Operation: Only Child last night and this morning ... canine gum area MIGHT look KINDA different than the other ones. Not that I examined all four spots several times today or anything. Ahem. In other news, we had to perform our first Pea Extraction [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 00:07:36

A Child on Trial: Heartbreak in Arizona

By Claudia Cowan, FOX News correspondent How often do you hear that an 8-year-old child killed two adults, execution style, re-loading as he went? Minutes after I read about this case of an 8-year-old boy allegedly gunning down his father and another man in Arizona, my photographer Tom Whitaker and I were sent to cover the story [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 21:53:16

Attention & Ambiguity: The Non-Paradox of Creative Work

Psychology Today: The Creative Personality Some days, I can’t decide how I feel about Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (say: “chick SENT me high”). He’s written some great stuff, but, sometimes, he mixes Big-Word academicspeak with anecdotal observation in a way that smells a little hokey to me [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 00:05:06

How Not to Get Real (and die trying)

Recently, Austen of Dashboard startup in Florida posted a somewhat snarky blog post about one of the responses to a job opening at their company ... what the market will bear. Put another way, why would I want to work for anyone other than the employer ... he could get for it, and it wasn’t a very good price. Maybe the other buyers know something you don’ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 22:36:17

should i use fert right after flush?

im going to flush my plant because she has been having some issues ( i wont get in to all that unless you guys need to know so just ask). but i think i have a nitrogen def too, aside from other problems. so i was going to give it a light dose of some 20-20-20 fert with the last gal of water i pour in. is this a good idea?? any help [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 00:01:39

Chosun Ilbo: How to Have Sex in a Bar in Korea

Last week we saw that several women’s organizations are campaigning to have major newspapers quit encouraging prostitution, accusing them of doing so in their adults-only section. Normally those sections require log-ins using a Korean citizen’s ID number, but we all know that Korean web design leaves — ahem — something to be desired, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 00:07:57

Ask the Industry Insiders Why “It’s a Great Time to Buy”

I’m in the process of sending interview requests to some of our area’s prominent industry insiders that we frequently see quoted in the local media proclaiming that “now is a great time to buy” or other such sales pitches. We give these people ... for one particular person. I’d like to expand the conversation and give the “other side” a fair shake. [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 19:39:07

Collector’s Edition KesCards!

Well, maybe not so much. I decided since I’ll be going to Best Buy on Wednesday night for the Midnight Opening for Wrath, ... be there? I know of at least one other person in the local area (but I believe she’ll be at Gamestop, in the Rushmore Mall). Two other South Dakotans I know are a husband and wife from my guild, but they live in Sioux [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 00:05:58

Blind pilot lands safely

A British pilot, Jim O’Neill, went blind 40 minutes into a solo flight from Scotland to southeastern England last week. He was 5,000 feet in the air. The cause of his sudden blindness was a stroke, for which he felt no other effects except ... , but he doesn’t seem to have suffered any other ill-effects apart from losing his sight,” O’Neill’s son said [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 23:47:17

Novel 2.0

Reports of the Web’s harmful effects upon reading habits have been greatly overstated. Two recent online projects sufficiently demonstrate that we’re only just beginning to understand what the Web can do. The first is Power Moby Dick, an online depiction of Melville’s classic novel with often very helpful annotations on the side. ( [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 23:11:06

Am I the Only One Who..?

I hope this article finds all of my fellow Americans in good health and spirits. I would like to take this opportunity to offer my most sincere congratulations to our new President-Elect, Barrack O’Bama. For those that know me, I am still a very devoted Republican Conservative who realizes that Barrack O’Bama is as much my new President as those [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 23:15:27

Unite the C.H.A.O.S.

Andre Sheldon wrote:A “Catalyst” is planned to set the initiative in motion. A strong representative of nonviolence is suggested – something different, readily accessible, already organized in many ways, and usually, summarily dismissed – WOMEN! Women are asked to be the diplomats and the peacemakers to lead the way for a world-wide unity [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 00:00:14

Andrew Bacevich: Let’s Investigate ‘Covert’ Raids

This week, the New York Times published leaked information about Special Operations Forces and CIA raids in Syria, Pakistan, ... the capabilities of al-Qaeda and other groups in “15 to 20 countries.” Recent “covert” operations included ... just eliminated? Can we be certain, in other words, that we are not simply engaging in an [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 22:27:03

In My Kitchen: Coconut Sugar

I am so thrilled to be able to share about this product with you all. I know that many of you already feel that half my recipes has some unheard of ingredient (millet, quinoa, sorghum-hey, they are old friends to me!), and so I do hate to introduce yet another new product to you. But I think that you will be glad I did because... [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 00:09:31

Carnegie Vanguard parents on edge We got a tip today that Houston ISD is planning to build a new Carnegie Vanguard High School on the same campus ... on one campus on one piece of land with a few major areas that would be shared facilities." In other words ... something that other kids would think was outrageous, they just say, 'Good going.' Kids don't [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 00:32:53

thank you…

over the last 7+ months countless friends, family members and complete strangers have helped me deal with the loss of my wife, 27 hours after she gave birth to our daughter. i never imagined that i would find such a tremendous support system by simply writing about my experiences on my blog [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 23:03:39

This country

This is a country whose citizens allow themselves to pay for a useless government agency called Jobs and Family Services which a spokesman today ... more than other children around the globe. This is a country rich and prosperous enough for a writer ... who was hung in 1864 at the age of 33. (Seems to me some other ‘misfit’ was crucified at about age 33 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 23:49:53

What Got Us Into This Mess

The New York Times reports on California. “Because of plunging home values, almost 90 percent of homeowners here owe more on their mortgages than their houses are worth, according to figures released Monday. That is the highest percentage in the country. The average homeowner in Mountain House is ‘underwater,’ as it is known, by $122,000 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 20:29:37

I.O.U.S.A., the “insurmountable” deficit, and health care costs

I.O.U.S.A. is a documentary that purports to explain why America is drowing in debt, both public and private. Unfortunately, it tells something of a one-sided story that leads viewers towards right-wing economic conclusions, as the Center for Economic Policy and Research points out, minute by minute. The issue here for me is less the symptoms ( [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 20:58:43

leaving the comfort zone

I just had a nice conversation on serindipity. Serindipity is a pleasant aspect of learning. Serindipity brought me this video tonight. And it focusses on two less pleasant but nevertheless very rewarding aspects of learning when you have the time to look back. some highlights for me: - "they saw things in my sign language, that I did not mean [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 23:54:16

Scream Queens Recap - Episode 4 - Kiss Off

Thank god Lina wouldn’t do the girl-on-girl kiss! If she had, we might never have experienced anything this brilliant as long as we lived… And that would be such a shame! The girls return from last week’s judging. Here’s Michelle’s brief recap: There are worse things to be than all-or-nothing, though. Like nothing-nothing [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 20:31:17

Hersh: Bush Secrets Will Spill Out in January

The departure of President Bush from office in January is expected to be greeted by a stampede of whistleblowers who will reveal details of his ... administration's warrantless wiretapping and other surveillance. Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh said in an interview last month. "You cannot believe how many people in the administration [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 23:30:25

Bush team speeds up mortgage revamps

by Frank James A lot of experts have argued that the financial crisis and the larger economic woes the nation is encountering will only be reversed when the unending cascade of home foreclosures is finally stopped. So the Treasury Department, along with the federal agency that now oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 21:00:21

It Pays to be Petite!

This just arrived in my inbox from ShopBop, read below to save big now! Patience? Frankly, it’s never really been our strong suit ... . That's why we're not waiting ‘til the holidays to give you our... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 00:40:22

Movie Review: Role Models

by Omar Mazariego Before I get into the movie itself, what’s really good with that National Guard “Citizen Soldier” recruitment music video they play before every movie these days? They even got Kid Rock to do his own National Guard recruitment video. I’m not surprised though. He risked his life by hittin’ those Pamela Anderson skins [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 20:46:03

Once Again, the Long Tail Refuses to Be Buried

Wired editor Chris Anderson’s theory about the Long Tail has been a cause of intense debate, ... of his thesis centered on whether there was such a thing as a “long tail” at all — in other words, whether digital distribution of music and other forms of content have allowed little-known songs, movies [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 20:23:20

Shift Happens New Vocabulary Word of the Day

I was watching this presentation by Thomas Friedman about his recent book Hot, Flat and Crowded (which I haven’t read yet) ... with and about each other, and to foster relationships that will help us solve problems that know no borders. With how many of the nine Americums (or other countries) have your students collaborated? [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 21:30:00

More “Backlash” Fun

Gah! I just lost a major post on race and Prop 8, which I am not gong to reconstruct now. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe never. However, I did find a couple of other things that look interesting. First, Scott Lemieux does a nice dissection of Jeffrey Rosen’s “backlash” argument. It’s the same ridiculous argument [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 19:09:35

Arkansas blacks can’t break state, Congress barrier

Arkansas remains the only state from the former Confederacy never to elect an African-American to Congress or any statewide office — and last week it soundly rejected the man set to become the nation’s first black president. Barack Obama lost by 20 percentage points, even though fellow Democrats control all of Arkansas’ statewide offices, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 00:37:10

“It’s A Wonderful Christmas”

Delightful. Lovely. Heart-warming. Majestic. These words come to mind as I think about Michael W. Smith’s latest Christmas album, It’s a Wonderful Christmas. Having enjoyed his other Christmas album, I looked forward to hearing this work. It did not disappoint. The recording opens with a sweet [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 23:51:46

Gun Sales a Terror Watch Indicator?

Apparently the folks at BioDefense Corporation think citizens exercising their Second Amendment rights are terrorists waiting to happen: “A disturbing increase in reports that gun sales are dramatically increasing now that the presidential election is over indicates that other forms of intentional mayhem such as bio-chemical [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 20:10:43

Financial stocks hit new lows despite U.S. cash infusions

If the government’s financial-system rescue plan was supposed to give investors comfort about holding stocks of banks, brokerages and other industry players, maybe it’s time for Plan B. Do they have a Plan B? Many financial issues today have tumbled below their October closing lows, a distressing sign for market [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 19:26:16

Voting access discussed tonight on NY1 with T.K. Small

As the hangovers subside and people gradually get used to the fact that the last eight years of horrendous governance will be coming to an end shortly, I thought I would share with the BHB community my experience voting during this historic election.  At some point during the day I commented on BHB that there were special voting machines for the [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 00:03:02

Changing the Culture of Pentagon Contracting

Over the past five years, the ongoing U.S. military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought to the fore a host of challenges affecting America's armed forces. Few, however, have taken on greater prominence and touched on a wider array of management and oversight issues than the role of [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 21:05:27

Homemade Applesauce Recipe & Canning

Even though I’m not finished steps 5-7 yet it was canning season so I had to jump ahead a little. Last year I canned tomatoes, salsa, dill pickles, and tons of peaches. This year my garden was a bit of a failure, plus I knew I would probably be moving soon, so I didn’t want to stockpile too much food [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 00:09:15

Permanent Link to

November 11th, 2008 • No Comments » Posted in Uncategorized Well the weekend was great. The dolphins won again, woot! I went to a bingo nite hosted by the sisters of perpetual indulgence with Jessie and a couple other friends. It was supposed to be a costume event but we were the only ones that dressed up. Twice [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 23:58:05

FREE Nuke!!! Hurry to be the 1st to claim it!!

Reply to: sale-12345@craigslist.org Date: 2008-11-11, 3:39PM MST Aboslutely FREE! Classic Cold War era H-bomb. Oldie but goodie! Sorry, no pics. Cannot deliver. Please bring your own sub for pick-up. Location: Greenland it IS ok to contact this poster with terrorists or other commercial interests PostingID: 12345 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 00:26:54

No Fennec for Android!

The recently announced Firefox web browser Fennec, which is just in to its alpha version, can’t be developed for Android ... us to remotely access our desktop browser’s browsing history, bookmarks, and other personalized settings. It also enables us to remotely share our data literally with the other users and even third parties. [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 00:05:36

the idiot opens his mouth

and idiocy emerges! Well duh! Bush: ‘I regret saying some things I shouldn’t have said’ CNN By Alexander Mooney NEW YORK (CNN) — NEW YORK (CNN) — As his presidency nears its end, a reflective President Bush suggested Tuesday that he regrets some of his more blunt statements on the war on terrorism over the last eight years and said he [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 00:20:28

Veterens Day Reminds Me of My Dad

My dad had two friends who were drafted into the Vietnam War and sent to Germany to apparently sit around and smoke pot all day ... of stories that I pulled out of him. In fact, I have only one full story and bits and pieces of other ... and I'm guessing off duty at the time. It was my dad and I think three other guys. He made it seems [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 23:55:26

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