Wednesday, September 27, 2006
I've got to stop watching local television, or this will turn into the stupid campaign ad tricks blog.
I've no idea which candidate said this, because I was brushing my teeth at the time, but the ad referred to the Arizona Official English Act as legislation to "secure the border". Buh? Really? There are illegal border crossers out there who turned around and went back upon discovering they couldn't get their utility bill in Spanish?
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I've no idea which candidate said this, because I was brushing my teeth at the time, but the ad referred to the Arizona Official English Act as legislation to "secure the border". Buh? Really? There are illegal border crossers out there who turned around and went back upon discovering they couldn't get their utility bill in Spanish?
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I've got to stop watching local television, or this will turn into the stupid campaign ad tricks blog.
I've no idea which candidate said this, because I was brushing my teeth at the time, but the ad referred to the Arizona Official English Act as legislation to "secure the border". Buh? Really? There are illegal border crossers out there who turned around and went back upon discovering they couldn't get their utility bill in Spanish?
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I've no idea which candidate said this, because I was brushing my teeth at the time, but the ad referred to the Arizona Official English Act as legislation to "secure the border". Buh? Really? There are illegal border crossers out there who turned around and went back upon discovering they couldn't get their utility bill in Spanish?
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I've got to stop watching local television, or this will turn into the stupid campaign ad tricks blog.
I've no idea which candidate said this, because I was brushing my teeth at the time, but the ad referred to the Arizona Official English Act as legislation to "secure the border". Buh? Really? There are illegal border crossers out there who turned around and went back upon discovering they couldn't get their utility bill in Spanish?
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I've no idea which candidate said this, because I was brushing my teeth at the time, but the ad referred to the Arizona Official English Act as legislation to "secure the border". Buh? Really? There are illegal border crossers out there who turned around and went back upon discovering they couldn't get their utility bill in Spanish?
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Monday, September 25, 2006
Well, this is disgusting.
Arizona gubernatorial candidate Len Munsil apparently hasn't any real issues to run on, so he's inventing them. He's declared that a memorial to the victims of 9/11, created with bipartisan support and funded through private donations, isn't Patriotically Correct enough for him, and rounded up some supporters to get himself a little photo-op. The families the memorial is meant to honor were, oddly enough, not among those claiming offense, so: shut up!
Read all about it here, if you've got a strong stomach.
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Arizona gubernatorial candidate Len Munsil apparently hasn't any real issues to run on, so he's inventing them. He's declared that a memorial to the victims of 9/11, created with bipartisan support and funded through private donations, isn't Patriotically Correct enough for him, and rounded up some supporters to get himself a little photo-op. The families the memorial is meant to honor were, oddly enough, not among those claiming offense, so: shut up!
Read all about it here, if you've got a strong stomach.
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Sunday, September 24, 2006
Last night I dreamed of Liberace. Playing the piano. In street clothes, which was par for an otherwise unexceptional dream.
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I've recently discovered that there are a whole bunch of hikes up the Beeline Highway towards Payson, within easy driving distance of Mesa. Friday I tried out the Ballentine Trail, just off the Beeline 10 minutes north of Fountain Hills. The area looks a lot like Texas Canyon; lots of boulders and a good healthy climb. I was a bit stiff at the beginning from my BodyPump class the night before. It's still desert, but a good 5-10 degrees cooler than Phoenix.
The critical question is, though, how did my hiking shorts get so tight? Hm, time to replace those cappucino muffins at work with a nice protein drink.
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I've recently discovered that there are a whole bunch of hikes up the Beeline Highway towards Payson, within easy driving distance of Mesa. Friday I tried out the Ballentine Trail, just off the Beeline 10 minutes north of Fountain Hills. The area looks a lot like Texas Canyon; lots of boulders and a good healthy climb. I was a bit stiff at the beginning from my BodyPump class the night before. It's still desert, but a good 5-10 degrees cooler than Phoenix.
The critical question is, though, how did my hiking shorts get so tight? Hm, time to replace those cappucino muffins at work with a nice protein drink.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
I had a very odd Tuesday.
It began with a Doctor Who dream, where the Doctor - who kept switching between David Tennant and the female Doctor in those Ryan Johnson fanvids done back in the 80's - developed super powers by eating cilantro, or possibly flat Italian parsley - the two look very similar. S/he then proceded to not use these super powers against the villain, which inaction s/he explained to me using a convoluted metaphor that I pretented to understand. At some point in the middle of this my alarm clock started dinging, and I shut it off without waking up, annoyed that it was interrupting the Doctor's explanation.
Fortunately, I didn't sleep too far after the alarm went off.
Peasie went in for her first visit to the dermatologist that morning. Yes, you read that correctly. My cat is seeing a dermatologist. We're hitting this allergy with everything. She's going on an even more restricted diet, I'm treating all three cats for a parasite that might be causing the reaction, and Pease is on antibiotics for a month to clear up a secondary infection that's making the itchiness worse. I discovered tonight that taking the e-collar off makes pilling marginally easier, but holy cats she does not like taking that pill.
In the evening - Jack Hanna with animals at the Mesa Arts Center! My favorites were probably the bobcat, the African pigmy goat, and the albino kangaroo. The sun bears were pretty awesome too. The one downside to the evening was that a big "community barbeque" had been advertised before the show, and it was woefully undermanned and understocked. People who arrived at the advertised start time spent half an hour in line and got no food because it ran out. The people who run the MAC have really got to mentally pull themselves out of the little concrete bunker on First Street where they were stuck for decades and start thinking big. Big building, big crowds. Yes, I do get cranky when my dinner consists of a raspberry-cheesecake bar and a bottle of water, why do you ask?
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It began with a Doctor Who dream, where the Doctor - who kept switching between David Tennant and the female Doctor in those Ryan Johnson fanvids done back in the 80's - developed super powers by eating cilantro, or possibly flat Italian parsley - the two look very similar. S/he then proceded to not use these super powers against the villain, which inaction s/he explained to me using a convoluted metaphor that I pretented to understand. At some point in the middle of this my alarm clock started dinging, and I shut it off without waking up, annoyed that it was interrupting the Doctor's explanation.
Fortunately, I didn't sleep too far after the alarm went off.
Peasie went in for her first visit to the dermatologist that morning. Yes, you read that correctly. My cat is seeing a dermatologist. We're hitting this allergy with everything. She's going on an even more restricted diet, I'm treating all three cats for a parasite that might be causing the reaction, and Pease is on antibiotics for a month to clear up a secondary infection that's making the itchiness worse. I discovered tonight that taking the e-collar off makes pilling marginally easier, but holy cats she does not like taking that pill.
In the evening - Jack Hanna with animals at the Mesa Arts Center! My favorites were probably the bobcat, the African pigmy goat, and the albino kangaroo. The sun bears were pretty awesome too. The one downside to the evening was that a big "community barbeque" had been advertised before the show, and it was woefully undermanned and understocked. People who arrived at the advertised start time spent half an hour in line and got no food because it ran out. The people who run the MAC have really got to mentally pull themselves out of the little concrete bunker on First Street where they were stuck for decades and start thinking big. Big building, big crowds. Yes, I do get cranky when my dinner consists of a raspberry-cheesecake bar and a bottle of water, why do you ask?
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Thursday, September 14, 2006
Why the Web rocks:
Yesterday, I picked up some Hallowe'en decorations at the store - a string of "lighted folding bats", to be exact, to go along with the strings of pumpkin lights I already have. I was thinking it's too bad they don't make more Samhain-ish decorations, like pomegranate lights. Then it hit me, and a short google later I had found a string of pomegranate-shaped lights on alljudaica.com. They're Sukkot decorations - now I know. Makes sense, since the pomegranate is a Middle Eastern fruit. Now can anyone tell me why strings of lights shaped like basketballs, golf bags, and colorful insects are also marketed for Sukkot?
I took my first BodyPump (strength training) class on Tuesday. The class is held on the second floor of the gym, and my knees went wibby-wibby-wibby all the way downstairs afterwards. Alicia, who teaches both classes, says that people progress faster in BodyPump than BodyCombat - she also said that I've progressed fast in BodyCombat, which was nice to hear. I'm planning a Rim-to-Rim hike next year, so I need to get some strength built up. I'm hoping that better muscle tone will also help to stave off the weird knots and twinges I get from sitting at a computer all day.
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Yesterday, I picked up some Hallowe'en decorations at the store - a string of "lighted folding bats", to be exact, to go along with the strings of pumpkin lights I already have. I was thinking it's too bad they don't make more Samhain-ish decorations, like pomegranate lights. Then it hit me, and a short google later I had found a string of pomegranate-shaped lights on alljudaica.com. They're Sukkot decorations - now I know. Makes sense, since the pomegranate is a Middle Eastern fruit. Now can anyone tell me why strings of lights shaped like basketballs, golf bags, and colorful insects are also marketed for Sukkot?
I took my first BodyPump (strength training) class on Tuesday. The class is held on the second floor of the gym, and my knees went wibby-wibby-wibby all the way downstairs afterwards. Alicia, who teaches both classes, says that people progress faster in BodyPump than BodyCombat - she also said that I've progressed fast in BodyCombat, which was nice to hear. I'm planning a Rim-to-Rim hike next year, so I need to get some strength built up. I'm hoping that better muscle tone will also help to stave off the weird knots and twinges I get from sitting at a computer all day.
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Monday, September 04, 2006
Crikey!
As expected, Animal Planet has been pretty much solid Crocodile Hunter today. I was sad to read the notice in the paper this morning; I really didn't watch Steve Irwin's show that much, but on my trip to Queensland last year we spent almost a full day at the Australia Zoo, and I was impressed by his conservation work.
In more frivolous news, Aliens Arrested in Roswell!
Flown lately? Enter your Stupid Security story here. Awards to be given: "Most Egregiously Stupid Award, Most Inexplicably Stupid Award, Most Annoyingly Stupid Award, Most Flagrantly Intrusive Award and Most Stupidly Counter Productive Award".
A little out of date, but I thought this Silicon Valley art project was cute.
Also cute, but do we really need Cats In Sinks?
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