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  • think I'm going to go lie down now...

    10 March 2006 ( #'Sconsin stuff )

    but WooHOOOOO!!! the first bike of the year!!! It got up to 46 degrees this afternoon and I just HAD to go try it! I don't care how many miles I put in on the stationary bike at the club. It doesn't matter how many mountains I climbed on the elliptical....

  • This guy is so good

    18 March 2006 ( #Current Affairs )

    VDH's Private Papers::Teflon Europe When Westerners die in Afghanistan, it is back-page news; but in Iraq, the deaths make the front page. Why? Because the "bad" war in Iraq was supposedly "unilateral," while the "good" war to dethrone the Taliban is...

  • Bill Gates puts foot in mouth

    16 March 2006 ( #Current Affairs )

    Bill Gates mocks MIT's $100 laptop project - Yahoo! News WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on Wednesday mocked a $100 laptop computer for developing countries being developed with the backing of rival...

  • The sinister kind

    22 March 2006 ( #Background )

    What Makes a Lefty: Myths and Mysteries Persist - Yahoo! News An interesting article on left-handedness, and the possible explanations for why we southpaws are the way we are. I learned something new from the article though, when I read this: In a twist...

  • uh huh

    20 March 2006 ( #meme )

    This week March 20 through March 26 Libra The Sun moves into your opposite sign of Aries on Monday, and this highlights your relationships and brings you a chance to focus and reflect on them. If things have been quiet, they should soon become livelier....

  • But will they make me look like her?

    20 March 2006 ( #Pics and Babbling )

    WarmX Electric Underwear - Gizmodo If you’ve ever tried on electric socks, you know they involve tons of wires, bulk and discomfort. But now WarmX has developed a line of electrically-heated skivvies that solve all those problems, using special conducting...

  • Bet God is glad to have these people watching out for him

    23 March 2006 ( #Current Affairs )

    CNN.com - Top Muslim clerics: Convert must die - Mar 23, 2006 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Senior Muslim clerics are demanding that an Afghan man on trial for converting from Islam to Christianity be executed, warning that if the government caves in to...

  • "White House was my 9/11 target"

    27 March 2006 ( #Current Affairs )

    I think we can safely say that there is an execution in his future. I am sick to my stomach reading this article. CNN.com - Moussaoui: White House was my 9/11 target - Mar 27, 2006 ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (CNN) -- Al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui...

  • Tomorrow's Eclipse

    28 March 2006 ( #Current Affairs )

    CNN.com - World prepares for total solar eclipse - Mar 28, 2006 ACCRA, Ghana (AP) -- Tourists and scientists were gathering at spots around the world for a solar show -- the first total eclipse in years, which will sweep northeast from Brazil to Mongolia,...

  • east vs. west

    20 March 2006 ( #Current Affairs )

    Yeah, yeah, I know..first day of spring and I can't seem to shut up. :-P Running my mouth over things which I know nothing about is a good way of avoiding talking about things I'd rather not think about right now. BBC NEWS | Authors wait on Da Vinci ruling...

  • I'm liking Roberts

    31 March 2006 ( #Pics and Babbling )

    SHE SAID YES, HE SAID NO, AND HE WON - Yahoo! News Chief Justice Roberts, in his first written dissent since he joined the court last year, had by far the better of the argument. He found Souter's opinion "puzzling." It would work against an innocent...

  • weekly horrorscope

    09 April 2006 ( #Pics and Babbling )

    ************************************************************ This week April 10 through April 16 Libra Mars has now moved into your career zone, which has been very quiet. If you have lacked motivation in this area, then you should find you have more...

  • pretty sure I'll be sleeping by then

    04 April 2006 ( #Pics and Babbling )

    From an email: On Wednesday this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. That will never happen again. You may now return to your (normal?) life Well. It won't happen for a hundred...

  • Cynthia gets dissed..

    03 April 2006 ( #Current Affairs )

    Seems Cynthia McKinney has a problem with wearing her ID. Considering the ID I have to flash to get to work at a factory in the middle of nowhere, it doesn't seem much of an imposition to me to wear a damn pin to get to your work on Capitol Hill. Or to...

  • :-O

    03 April 2006 ( #Pics and Babbling )

    Spider-hunting nudist ends with ring of fire Ok, now...this is embarassing enough... SYDNEY (Reuters) - A red-faced Australian nudist who tried to set fire to what he thought was a deadly funnel web spider's nest ended up with badly burned buttocks, emergency...

  • Will you go to work that day?

    05 April 2006 ( #Current Affairs )

    Boycott to support illegals May 1, 2006: Call to Action! "El Gran Paro Americano 2006" "The Great American Boycott 2006" "Un dia sin immigrante" "A day without an immigrant" Nationwide Immigrant General Strike Immigrants contribute 7 billion in social...

  • I'll Do Anything

    15 April 2006 ( #Commonplace )

    It's Jackson Browne night on the old iPod!! I hadn't heard this one since forever, even though it's one of my favorites from the "newer" albums. I've been listening to so much Jazz for class lately that I've been neglecting some of my favorites. Off the...

  • Another one for the Wishlist!!

    19 April 2006 ( #Pics and Babbling )

    I really need to quit reading testbooks and get back to something a little more FUN! Ah well, another month will find me finished with the semester. :D Kate O'Beirne on To Hell With All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewives Uncomfortable truths...

  • the #$(%*% day....

    13 April 2006 ( #Family&038;Friends )

    Just a short update on the crappiest Monday I've had in a very long time. J's funeral is tomorrow in his hometown, a small farm town just outside of Green Bay. Right now, there are eleven of us who are planning to make the two-hour drive over there. We...

  • Wis. Court Mulls Usage of Victim's Letter

    17 April 2006 ( #Current Affairs )

    Wis. Court Mulls Usage of Victim's Letter - Yahoo! News MILWAUKEE - About two weeks before her death, Julie C. Jensen went to a neighbor, shaking and crying, and handed over a sealed envelope. If anything happened to her, she said, he should give it to...

  • Does the phrase "smoking hole" mean anything?

    26 April 2006 ( #Current Affairs )

    Iran threatens to strike at US targets if attacked - Yahoo! News Iran vowed on Wednesday to strike at U.S. interests worldwide if it is attacked by the United States, which is keeping military options open in case diplomacy fails to curb Tehran's nuclear...

  • What will they do with their nukes?

    18 April 2006 ( #Current Affairs )

    Facing Down Iran by Mark Steyn, City Journal Spring 2006 What’s the difference between a hothead and a moderate? Well, the extremist Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be “wiped off the map,” while the moderate Rafsanjani has declared that Israel is...

  • yucky stuff

    25 April 2006 ( #Pics and Babbling )

    Okay, anybody have a clue about how to get rid of referrer spam? It's showing up in my SiteMeter, and it's some pretty disgusting stuff. There's gotta be a plugin to get rid of this crap. UPDATE: Well, we'll try this little piece of code from this place....

  • WooHooo!! One last gasp!

    25 April 2006 ( #'Sconsin stuff )

    ESPN.com - NFL - Sources: Favre decides to play '06 season for Packers Brett Favre informed the Packers on Tuesday that he will definitely play the 2006 season in Green Bay, league and team sources have told ESPN's Chris Mortensen. Neither Favre, Thompson...

  • :yawn:

    19 April 2006 ( #Current Affairs )

    One Down: World Awaits Pitt, Jolie's Baby - Yahoo! News On Tuesday, Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise — aka TomKat — welcomed into the world their first child together, a daughter named Suri. The name has its origins in Hebrew meaning "princess" or in Persian...