These are (supposedly) actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. - John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. - He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and...
...and now there's this unbelievably stupid flag pin controversy. According to the current crop of loud Republicans, if you go fight for our country in Afghanistan and Iraq and have a piece of your brain blown out, but you also...
Some of you may already know that friday being the fith day in a row that seemed to have accessive monday qualities, one of these was me trying to cut off my right hand's index finger's pad. I...
Well I have truly fallen behind this time.NOt only have I been neglecting my blog I have not caught up with all you! Been a GOOD busy time!I have the day off tomorrow and plan on catching up with you...
two of the better relievers in baseball gave up big runs last night, one that directly lead to a loss and another indirectly.
francisco rodriguez gave up a home run to manny ramirez in the bottom of the ninth. to be...
Tomorrow, I will be joined by Q1 percussion wizard/experimental animal psychology expert Dr. Baine Craft at the Tractor Tavern. We will be playing a broken down set of Quiet Ones songs warming up the crowd for Nina Nastasia and drummer...
Today I had someone come over and braid Rehema's hair, it was a real ordeal but it was done finally. I have some before and after pics. Before: After: Last weekend we drove about 9 hours to attend Dil's wedding. I...
And, here we go. One day after the primary firmly established Andy Berke and Oscar Brock as the nominees in the 10th Senate District special election, a news item was written — and appeared in print this morning —...
This weekend is all about relaxing and doing some things around the house I got my porch swing all fixed and hung up . Hung up some wind chimes and flower baskets on the front porch and also placed a...
When Chickenhawks Attack by Brandon Friedman [more here] Earlier this week, someone on the Republican side of the aisle put out the word: The best way to discredit combat veterans who disagree with the President’s policies is to insinuate (or directly say)...
Via Joe, I took the candidate calculator quiz. Here are my results (no big surprises here -- except maybe that Hillary's so high on the list): Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich (D) - 91.43% match Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D) - 80.00% New...
Interesting article about "wired" thinking.Your Outboard Brain Knows All We're running out of memory. I don't mean computer memory. That stuff's half-price at Costco these days. No, I'm talking about human memory, stored by the gray matter inside our...
A while back I ran across these chairs and had plans to re-upolster them with amy butler fabric and bring them back to glory.. but there is just no room in the scooter shed to store them and I'm ready...
3 to 3 darks to lights (counting some people who didn't post here)! Boy are guys are SO MUCH HELP!
So after much thought Jen decided that she wanted....
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to go out with some friends from work and let me suprise...
Compact Flourescent Bulb (CFL)
So are the new CFL light bulbs a good idea? I used to think so, but I don't think I will be purchasing anymore.
Here are some links. Let me know what you think.
This link is...
M27-Dumbbell Nebula on 10/5/07
Tonight was beautiful out and I decided to take the opportunity to try out some of the software I’ve been looking at for stacking and compositing. I mostly took a bunch of images that I will process...
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