Unusual Cards — collage cards by Francesca Berrini are greeting cards made of old retro images combined together, like old school books with kids playing combined with dinosaur illustrations, or old pictures of 60’s casseroles overlayed on landscapes as “giant food.”
Interesting article via Boing Boing on digital theater and how George Lucas was hoping to cause a switch-over to digital projection with his new installments of Star Wars.
From what I understand, the resistance on the part of theater owners is because of the cost of switching to digital equipment, and the probability that digital equipment will become quickly outdated and need to be upgraded frequently. I can see why theater owners wouldn’t want to get on the “built-in obsolence” bus, when the equipment they have works fine and lasts for decades.
Funny it is. Dolly Parton he likes.
And Chewy has blog, too. That’s got to be hard to read.
I’m sorry, but I’m sick of people defending Rush Limbaugh’s drug addiction and giving Howard Dean a hard time for bashing Rush’s hypocrisy because he attacked others for drug use while he was higher than a kite. Drug addiction is a serious issue hence it is important to know about factors that leads to drug addiction.You can also click to read more about drug addiction.
I’ve been prescribed OxyContin (which is basically Vicodin) and Darvocet for my open heart surgery, which is far more painful than the “chronic back pain” that Limbaugh claims to have suffered from. So I know a bit about painkillers and what’s necessary to take when your in constant pain. And if you take a good look at the AMOUNT of drugs he was taking — holy shit. He had to have been higher that a crack whore, and there’s no way that amount of drugs was necessary for the “pain” he was undergoing. I’m taking far less drugs than that, and I’m not allowed to drive. He was not only driving while under heavy influence (scary!!!), he was hosting a radio show where he talked shit about people taking drugs and suggested that they should be locked up, while he was higher than any of the people he was criticising.
And I’m sorry, but becoming “addicted” to these drugs isn’t that easy, it’s really not. That’s not a situation where it’s understandable that he might become addicted. No way. He was a fucking drug addict, and he has no business talking moral values at all.
I’m not that great of a cook. I’m not terrible, either, but I find cooking to be very stressful, mainly because I have difficulty getting the timing of multi-course meals down correctly; I seem to never manage to get things all heated up at the same time in order to serve a meal.
I’m not a fan of cooking, or of doing dishes because they were my “chores” as a kid, and I always resented the fact that everyone else in my family got to see prime-time TV shows that I missed while I was cleaning up after the family dinner. My mom used to say that I had to learn to cook because I’d have a husband and kids to cook for someday, whereas my brothers needed to know how to mow the lawn. Heh. Yeah, right.
But I have been, since I’m home, doing some cooking and baking. It’s much less stressful to do when you’re at home all day, rather than racing home after work and then trying to figure out what to fix. Usually I’m so tired after work that I’d rather eat ravioli out of a can.
I made my mom’s peanut butter cookies the other day, which came out pretty well despite the fact that I had to make some substitutions because I didn’t have all the ingredients. I made a low-carb version of banana bread from a mix (which was TERRIBLE) and today I whipped up a batch of banana bread from scratch, my mom’s recipe. I’m anticipating it will be better, because my mom’s was always excellent. I used Splenda instead of sugar, so I hope that will turn out okay. The other day for book club I made some brownies from a mix, and the family favorite appetizer of cut-up sweet pickles, wrapped in cream cheese and corned beef.
Stephanie got me the ingredients for blonde brownies, and I’m also planning on whipping up another family favorite, lasagna after we go on a shopping excursion. I’ve been making some baked chicken breast entrees with various marinades, I cooked white rice without getting it clumpy, and the other day I made a really excellent chicken casserole from a campbell’s soup mixed with chicken and cut up tortillas. Very tasty. I’m becoming a regular little Bree Van De Kamp.
Apparently some fine folks in Arizona are traveling around the state in a nice “Please Hate Homos” semi-trailer truck called the “Marriage Mobile.” Beautiful. Why not just stick a nice burning cross on the top of that thing, and make it complete?
If you take a good look at the statistics about gay marriage in Massachusetts, where it has been legal for over a year now, we don’t seem to be contributing to the hetero divorce rate in that state, so I think the argument that we’re threatening marriage has been thoroughly debunked.
Courtesy of Mikal Belicove:
Q1: How do you feel about television, newspaper, magazine, or web site news reports that rely wholly or in part on ‘unnamed’ sources?
It’s acceptable in many cases, if there is follow-up reporting that supports the information from the source. The exception would be where the unnamed source does something illegal, like exposing Valerie Plame as a CIA operative, which compromised her ability to do her job and placed dozens of other CIA operatives in danger. In that case, the source should have been revealed and prosecuted, along with the reporter who helped commit the crime.
Q2: Do you think there should be government-mandated drug-testing for anyone who plays sports professionally?
Not at all. If the people who own and run the sports teams want to test their players, it should be up to them to do so. There’s no reason whatsoever that the government should have anything to do with it. Why on earth should the government care about testing sports figures, any more than they should care about testing me for drug use? Really, who gives a crap if some baseball player’s on steroids? It’s not as though the fate of the free world rests on whether Jose Conseco hit a homer or not. (He is a baseball player, right?)
Q3: When you prepare to eat a hamburger or a sandwich, do you prefer to cut the burger or sandwich in half before eating it, or are you okay eating it whole?
I eat them whole, unless I feel like they’re too big and are going to fall apart in my hands.
Q4: Restaurants are notorious for charging a 15-18% gratuity on groups of eight or more. Are you in favor of this practice or would you prefer to tip the wait staff yourself based on how you feel they handled your table/group?
It’s okay by me; I can understand why they do it… I used to be roommates with a waiter, so I know how hard they work and how easily they get screwed over by assholes who don’t bother to leave tips. Large parties make it very easy for jerks to get away with that sort of thing. You would not believe some of the tipping horror stories my roommate suffered through. The best were the ones on Sundays: no one ever wanted to work on Sunday lunches, because the Christians were terrible tippers. They’d come in after church with their strollers and children in tow, create mess, noise, havoc and broken dishes wherever they went, and then leave a religious pamphlet on the table as a “tip” instead of money. What would Jesus do, indeed. He wouldn’t do that.
Yeah! Scientists discover a new species of monkey in Africa. The BBC story includes a picture of the new guy, called the Highland Mangabey.
“This exciting discovery demonstrates once again how little we know about our closest living relatives, the nonhuman primates,” said Russell Mittermeier, chairman of the Primate Specialist Group of IUCN-The World Conservation Union’s Species Survival Commission.
“A large, striking monkey in a country of considerable wildlife research over the last century has been hidden right under our noses.”
In other monkey news, Tokyo, Japan is pursuing a renegade monkey on the loose in the streets of the city.
This Japanese company makes some weird cat robots called Necoro cats. They’re lifelike enough to be creepy.
Call me when you make some monkey robots, people.
Cool: from the site 360 electrical – outlet plugs that rotate, so if the plug you have is too big and blocks the other outlet, you can rotate the plug.
I need this for practically every outlet in my house.