9336 - friday
Jun. 27th, 2008 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scottobearFriday! Weekend! Yahooties!
Cathy's Yard Sale Preview went well. We got 3 bookshelves, confirmed out swap of the china cabinet for the huge red sectional, and got a few additional bits of loot - rechargable candle lights, a pizza stone for the oven, a cooler bag.
Farmers Market Dinner was awesome - I had a veggie-meatloaf sammich with cheese, garden veggies and bread & butter pickles. a meal fit for a king. dessert was pound cake with vanilla ice cream and fresh raspberries. All while Watching O Brother Where Art Thou?
Life is good.
Newt and Pye Wrestling.
Pye, caught on cam bug hunting, while Newton Lounges.
This site lets you track the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle (when in orbit), and all sorts of other satellites in relation to their position over the earth with a familiar Google Maps interface. Very cool.
"...even if tomorrow we opened up every square mile of the outer Continental Shelf to offshore rigs, even if we drilled the entire state of Alaska and pulled new refineries out of thin air, the impact on gas prices would be minimal and delayed at best. A 2004 study by the government's Energy Information Administration (EIA) found that drilling in ANWR would trim the price of gas by 3.5 cents a gallon by 2027."
via Brian Wood
1 year ago - Emerson, Heat, popular items, Danny and BHK see knocked up - poorly received, Shaolin Soccer & Kung Fu hustle well received, too many pirate ships, port authority links, re-inking thor, gaming thoughts, naughty CIA
2 years ago - cavort, lambchop looks like mother jefferson, sing the blues, gravity's rainbow, ze frank, hoff, more doodles, rain!
3 years ago - Work and junk, call tails, 8 facts, Roy Orbison in Cling-film, rectangles, monster toys, giant popsicle flood, Christian fundamentalist monkey breeders, creatureless jello, found footage, dumb laws, paris by night, phone post, things with many legs pictures,
4 years ago - le prince bleu, abandoned airfields, warwalking, bus census, Nepal and a sweating god, giganticus / fin fang foom, bro
5 years ago - new ren & stimpy poor, battlestar galactica back, evil lj typo-site, physical therapy, no-call list
6 years ago - Arsenic & peg legs, Dan's Dad out of the hospital, Kevin Prescribed daily pills, last bit of magonia (relocation)
7 years ago - nutraceutical, blackguard, caucasians pre amerind?, Santie stays, WOrecord sheets, Bohemian queen sends me eyeball holos!, evil news,Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass, AOK scripting, PaulaPoundstone arrested for child abuse
8 years ago - Pre-breakup confrontation with April
Cathy's Yard Sale Preview went well. We got 3 bookshelves, confirmed out swap of the china cabinet for the huge red sectional, and got a few additional bits of loot - rechargable candle lights, a pizza stone for the oven, a cooler bag.
Farmers Market Dinner was awesome - I had a veggie-meatloaf sammich with cheese, garden veggies and bread & butter pickles. a meal fit for a king. dessert was pound cake with vanilla ice cream and fresh raspberries. All while Watching O Brother Where Art Thou?
Life is good.
Newt and Pye Wrestling.
Pye, caught on cam bug hunting, while Newton Lounges.
This site lets you track the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle (when in orbit), and all sorts of other satellites in relation to their position over the earth with a familiar Google Maps interface. Very cool.
"...even if tomorrow we opened up every square mile of the outer Continental Shelf to offshore rigs, even if we drilled the entire state of Alaska and pulled new refineries out of thin air, the impact on gas prices would be minimal and delayed at best. A 2004 study by the government's Energy Information Administration (EIA) found that drilling in ANWR would trim the price of gas by 3.5 cents a gallon by 2027."
via Brian Wood
1 year ago - Emerson, Heat, popular items, Danny and BHK see knocked up - poorly received, Shaolin Soccer & Kung Fu hustle well received, too many pirate ships, port authority links, re-inking thor, gaming thoughts, naughty CIA
2 years ago - cavort, lambchop looks like mother jefferson, sing the blues, gravity's rainbow, ze frank, hoff, more doodles, rain!
3 years ago - Work and junk, call tails, 8 facts, Roy Orbison in Cling-film, rectangles, monster toys, giant popsicle flood, Christian fundamentalist monkey breeders, creatureless jello, found footage, dumb laws, paris by night, phone post, things with many legs pictures,
4 years ago - le prince bleu, abandoned airfields, warwalking, bus census, Nepal and a sweating god, giganticus / fin fang foom, bro
5 years ago - new ren & stimpy poor, battlestar galactica back, evil lj typo-site, physical therapy, no-call list
6 years ago - Arsenic & peg legs, Dan's Dad out of the hospital, Kevin Prescribed daily pills, last bit of magonia (relocation)
7 years ago - nutraceutical, blackguard, caucasians pre amerind?, Santie stays, WOrecord sheets, Bohemian queen sends me eyeball holos!, evil news,Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass, AOK scripting, PaulaPoundstone arrested for child abuse
8 years ago - Pre-breakup confrontation with April
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Date: 2008-06-28 11:46 pm (UTC)And hey! That wasn't just any pound cake---that was Amish made ricotta, goat's milk pound cake! FANCY!
And we had local grown sweet white corn that was so good no butter or salt was needed!
Hmmm how'd you get the square pegs theme stuck in your head? Hmmmm?
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Date: 2008-06-28 11:59 pm (UTC)fancy-schmancy, and deeeeeliscious!
I have no idea how square pegs got in m head.. mastermind pegs? hip to be square??
the local corn from swans is awesome.
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Date: 2008-06-29 01:33 pm (UTC)chicks dig the cape!!
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Date: 2008-06-29 01:34 pm (UTC)I'm optimistic that we'll find an alternative fuel source... the prez can't fly his plane forever!
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Date: 2008-06-30 05:24 am (UTC)I remember Mastermind - this i found endlessly entertaining. Well, maybe not endlessly, but far beyond the threshold of those around me...
As for fuel prices, I was highly amused by this Stephen Colbert-ism:
''Nation, I don’t know if you’ve heard this, but gas is getting kind of pricey. It’s getting to the point where I can’t burn anyone in effigy anymore.
Things are so bad, people have been driven to the point of madness, believing that they are the President and can pass laws abolishing gas taxes.
And consumers, folks, are so angry at the gas companies that, for weeks now, the People of America’s Oil and Natural Gas Industry have been forced to run full page ads in newspapers all over the country.
Here’s one I saw today in today’s The USA Today. It asks, ''Where does your gasoline dollar go?'' I actually thought that was a trick question because you cannot actually buy gas for a dollar.
As you can see here, 72 percent goes to the price of crude oil. Another 60 percent is eaten up by refining, distribution and service stations. And the last 12 percent is taken away by taxes. That's a total of 100 percent.
That is right nation. Oil is a zero profit business! I mean, they must have had a bake sale to pay for this ad. Yet, somehow, in 2007, Exxon Mobil made $1,300 a second. Thirteen hundred - yes, that’s a lot of money, but it is an unlucky number of hundreds.
That means that, even though 100% of the gasoline prices are canceled out by costs, these companies are somehow able to wring mind bending revenue out of the their not-for-profit venture. I think that’s pretty impressive. So, the next time you get a request from the Red Cross or The Humane Society, you send them 1 dollar. It is up to them to get 40.6 Billion out of it.''
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Date: 2008-06-30 10:23 am (UTC)lots of mastermind online games, if folks nearby aren't into sharing your enthusiasm!
As always, Colbert elegantly gets to the point with a bare minimum of hyperbole. ;)
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Date: 2008-06-30 01:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-30 01:48 pm (UTC)I know your mom was wanting pizza last night!
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Date: 2008-06-30 01:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-30 01:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-30 01:48 pm (UTC)for one!
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Date: 2008-06-30 01:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-30 01:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-30 01:50 pm (UTC)