Check out Phil Plait’s Top Ten Astronomy Images of 2006.

My friend Susan at MAYA sent me a link to the 1996 holiday card we put together using that funky “new” technology. See it in all its glory…Netscape 3 users actually got mouseover effects. Whoo-hoo!
BTW, those are Christmas decorations I’m wearing as earrings. And I very cleverly put the ornaments on the tree at exactly […]

I find Sandra Lee (of FoodTV’s Semi-Homemade Cooking fame) to be irritatingly perky. But this recipe for Apple-Cinnamon Bread Pudding with Ginger Ale Sauce looks really good. It uses cinnamon bread as the starter, and adds apple pie filling and instant oatmeal for flavor and thickening. I’m probably going to swap maple for the rum […]

Thank you LrdBane for this tip!!!!

LrdBane
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Posted: Oct Sat 28th 2006 6:28pm
No need to revert back to the old firefox. The new one has good features. Just re-enable it in the […]

First, ugh!

At least some folks are enjoying real Xmas weather!
The good news is that I’m ready for Christmas. I got the next-to-last present this morning, and plan on getting the last tomorrow first thing. Everything for Monday is wrapped, and half of it is in the car already.
The trick I learned this year (better late […]

Crooks and Liars points to an interesting speech by Howard Zinn at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Here’s a snippet:
Well, do you get the feeling sometime that you’re living in an occupied country? Very often that’s a feeling I get when I wake up in the morning. I think, “I’m living in an occupied […]

Looks like I’m Time’s person of the year. And you are too!

Tomorrow’s forecast:

Since I live in the Northeast, not Florida or SoCal, the above is a tad depressing just a week before Xmas (though I enjoyed the warmer temps yesterday, as I was a bit late doing my outdoor lights this year).
Kathleen also says “bah humbug” to these unseasonable temps.
However, I will feel just a bit […]

I find the online Zagat a great resource. And I was pleased to see a new (to me) feature the other day when I was trying to find a place for a work-related thank-you lunch.
I don’t exactly know the technology behind it (tho it looks very AJAX-like), but the functionality is sweet…by dragging sliders (see […]

If your password has to be at least 8 characters long, include a number, an uppercase letter, and a special character, what would you do once you created it?
You’d write it down.
Duh.

In nine plus years here, I’ve never had a week like this!
I probably should be blocking off Thursday just to deal with email and voicemail!

This weekend turned out to be movie weekend for me. Yesterday, Margott and I saw Stranger Than Fiction, which turned me back on to Will Farrell (I couldn’t even watch his stupid Anchorman movie).
I then headed down to “babysit” my nieces (shouldn’t it be something else when they are almost 12?!) while my sister and […]

Considering I’ve been doing digital photography for years (the earliest I have on this laptop is from 2002), I can’t believe I haven’t experimented with printing services before this. I used to print my own, but actually haven’t hooked up my printer since moving three years ago. And frankly, I didn’t miss the printing.
At the […]