Month: October 2003

I use Blogger, as such, I do not have integrated comments. Not that I think I get a lot of readers, but it does seem like a standard feature. So, I am trying to work on a home grown solution.

Gretchen went with a friend to go have her horse’s shoes reset early this morning, so I didn’t get any breakfast. I know, I’ve only been having a glass of orange juice lately, and I can pour orange juice just as easily as she does, but I’m not really what you would call a morning person, and I just now even thought about it. However, I think I’ll be making up for it today. One of the managers here in the office gave me a ticket to go hear Jack Valenti speak at the Faculty Staff Club over at the Penn Stater over lunch — lunch is included. So not only will I not be having my miniscule lunch, but I won’t be walking either.

<span style="float: left; padding: 0 8px 8px 0;"><img src="http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/m/h/mhl100/images/Valenti.jpg" width="100" height="104" alt="Jack Valenti, Chairman &amp; Chief Executive Officer, Motion Picture Association" /></span><ins datetime="2003-10-22T14:28:00-05:00">Jack was pretty interesting, though he made a few specious arguments about P2P file sharing. Apart from that, he sounded a lot like I imagine Samuel Clemens as having sounded. Wise, worldly, insightful answers to deep questions. Answers that make you think, with the possibility that they sound really good, but are wrong nonetheless. I had a small green salad, some proven&ccedil;al vegetables, a penne casserole, a cup of hot sausage soup, and a slice of apple pie (oink).</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-10-22T19:59:00-05:00">Gretchen made French Onion Soup tonight. I had two beers with mine (oink).</ins>

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  • Cheese
  • Vegetables
  • Fruit
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• Fruit

Breakfast was a glass of orange juice. Lunch was a granola bar and a four mile walk around campus.

<ins datetime="2003-10-21T08:39:00-05:00">We had the left overs from when Gretchen made <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&amp;id=recipe2784" title="Eleanora’s Eggplant Parmigiana">Eleanora&rsquo;s Eggplant Parmigiana</a> for dinner and a serving of left over potatoes au gratin and a <a href="http://www.saranac.com/paleale.html" title="SARANAC">Saranac Pale Ale</a>.</ins>

A highly durable 12-ga. utility gun that resists corrosion on land or water. Electroless nickel plating covers all metal, including the inside of the barrel and receiver. The synthetic stock has generous checkering for positive control. Comes with 18″ Cylinder barrel with single-bead front sight, six-round magazine, padded Cordura® sling, and swivel studs.

Model 870 Marine Magnum Specifications

Gauge	Chamber	Barrel Length	Choke	Mag Capacity	Overall Length	Avg. Wt.(lbs.)	Order No.	MSRP*
12	3″	18″	Cylinder	6	38 ½”	7 ½	5012	$545

LOP: 14″; Drop at Comb: 1 ½”; Drop at Heel: 2 ½”

*NOTE: U.S. Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price. Actual price may vary.

Remington Arms Company, Inc. (2003), Model 870 Marine Magnum. Retrieved Tuesday, October 21, 2003, from www.remington.com/firearms/shotguns/870MRMAG.HTM.

An old man was picking up objects off the beach and tossing them out into the sea. A young man approached him and saw that the objects were starfish. “Why in the world are you throwing starfish into the water?”

“If the starfish are still on the beach when the tide goes out and the sun rises high in the sky, they will die,” replied the old man.

“That is ridiculous. There are thousands of miles of beach and millions of starfish. You can’t really believe that what you’re doing could possibly make a difference!”

The wise old man picked up another starfish, paused thoughtfully, and remarked as he tossed it out into the waves.

“It makes a difference to this one.”

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What It Takes to Be a Neo-Neoconservative

A war against an enemy whose threat to us remains a matter of debate. The need to commit troops indefinitely. Growing doubts at home. As the American involvement in Iraq has become a commitment of unknown duration, comparisons to the Vietnam War are more and more common.

Whether or not the comparison proves valid, there is another historical parallel to the Vietnam War, one that involves a group of intellectuals responsible for articulating the rationale for the Iraq war. Among the enduring legacies of the earlier era was the split between liberals who opposed the war and the small splinter group that would become known as the neoconservatives. The group’s decision to support the Vietnam War — or at least to oppose those who opposed it — was a shift that would lead them to a new level of power and influence.

SimpleBits | Styling Nested Lists

Recently, I was building a site map and realized that it is basically an outline of sorts. So how should I go about marking it up? I settled on a series of nested tables — ha! gotcha — nested unordered lists.

A Dislike Unlike Any Other? (washingtonpost.com)

The words tumble out, the hands gesture urgently, as Jonathan Chait explains why he hates George W. Bush.

It’s Bush’s radical policies, says the 31-year-old New Republic writer, and his unfair tax cuts, and his cowboy phoniness, and his favors for corporate cronies, and his heist in Florida, and his dishonesty about his silver-spoon upbringing, and, oh yes, the way he walks and talks.

U.S. Troops Order Comfort, With Fries on the Side (washingtonpost.com)

Welcome to Iraq, home of the Whopper.

Deep inside Baghdad International Airport, past a vehicle search, a body search and four checkpoints, soldiers are lined up for burgers and fries. They have come by plane from Mosul, 220 miles north, for onion rings. They have picked up Chicken Royale sandwiches while picking up buddies flying back from a two-week home leave. They have begged and borrowed Humvees, making up any excuse for a trip to the airport and a reminder of what the pink mixture of ketchup and mayonnaise oozing from a fresh Whopper tastes like.

Students, Nuns and Sailor-Mongers, Beware

It has lain dormant in the darkest recesses of American law for 125 years, but this month Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft introduced critics of the administration to his latest weapon in law enforcement.

BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft launches ‘leak-proof’ e-mail

The latest version of Microsoft’s popular Office software will, the company claims, allow users to send e-mails that will “self-destruct” after a set time.

Breakfast this morning was a glass of orange juice.



<ins datetime="2003-10-20T13:01:00-05:00">I walked downtown to McLanahan&rsquo;s Downtown Market &mdash; around three miles &mdash; and got myself a <a href="http://68.9.143.167:84/yocrunch/granolainfo.html" title="YoCrunch">YoCrunch Raspberry Mild Lowfat Yogurt with Granola</a> for lunch.</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-10-20T19:42:00-05:00">After lunch I walked down to the center of campus &mdash; maybe two  miles round trip. For dinner tonight, Gretchen made baked butternut squash, stuffed with saut&eacute;ed mushrooms and mirepoix. Also, we finished the Double D.</ins>

• antique collecting
• archery
• archeology
• architecture
• art history
• astronomy
• backpacking
• bad science fiction movies
• bike rides
• bowling
• brewing beer
• building electronics kits
• camping
• camp counseling
• candle making
• canoeing
• composing music
• cooking
• dining out
• dressing well
• driving cars (road trips)
• enamel on copper making
• fishing
• fossil collecting
• gambling
• going to baseball games
• going to museums
• going to performances
• hammered copper making
• hat collecting
• herb gardening
• hiking
• horseback riding
• house plants
• interior decorating
• landscaping
• leaded glass work
• leatherwork
• learning (taking classes)
• listening to music
• long hot showers
• macramé
• magic tricks
• martial arts
• meditation
• model railroading
• musical instrument collecting
• needlepoint
• photography
• playing backgammon
• playing cards
• playing foosball
• playing golf
• playing music
• playing pool
• playing racquetball
• playing ultimate Frisbee
• playing video games
• pottery making
• programming
• psychology
• reading
• reading about the latest technical research
• remodeling
• riflery
• Robert Frost’s poetry
• rock climbing
• rock collecting
• rocketry
• shell collecting/shelling
• skiing
• skin/scuba diving
• sleeping in
• sociology
• solitude
• stained glass making
• swimming
• talking to people with similar interests
• traveling
• tropical fish
• vegetable gardening
• weight lifting/nautilis, exercising
• window shopping
• woodworking
• writing
• zoology