March 31, 2005
Yes, I've been playing with the banners
I've got a couple of new ones and some ideas I'm working on.
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maybe I shall whip up an extra banner for you in my spare time. A man can never have too many web banners, you know.
Posted by: Derek at March 31, 2005 10:44 PM (dfss3)
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That would be very cool Derek, thank you! My first original banner was done by an artist friend. It's still in the rotation, despite the unflattering toon Ted it shows.
Posted by: Ted at April 01, 2005 06:13 AM (blNMI)
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Free Association
Seen on the back of a Vlasic pickle jar:
"There's always time for a dill moment"
First thought that popped into my head: "Yeah, just before becoming a Darwin Award nominee."
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Liveblogging My Colonoscopy
Or are y'all still burnt out from the last election?
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Interesting train of thought there.
Posted by: Tuning Spork at March 31, 2005 09:13 PM (BUnQl)
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I'm waiting.... Where is the liveblogging?
Posted by: The Maximum Leader at April 01, 2005 10:01 AM (jiSuM)
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If I ever have one, I'll make sure to send you personal updates.
Never let it be said that I don't do my utmost for Rocket Jones readers.
Posted by: Ted at April 01, 2005 12:22 PM (blNMI)
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March 30, 2005
I wish she would die already
I'm sorry, but there's no gentle way to put that. As soon as she dies then the real debate can start instead of this never ending circus horribilus.
Captain's Quarters is beginning to sound like the mirror image to Kos. It's depressing and boring.
Nobody wins, and until her body stops breathing, we can't even work towards making sure there is never a next time.
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I think I'm with you on that. She's gone. Now let's make sure that this never happens a-frickin-gain.
Posted by: Tuning Spork at March 30, 2005 11:34 PM (GIVbO)
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No more Terri-specific laws. Debate and address the matter fully.
Posted by: Tuning Spork at March 30, 2005 11:36 PM (GIVbO)
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Smarter than a speeding bullet
That's me. Remember that
book thing making the rounds? The one where the very first question is:
You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
Apparently I'm not the only one who didn't get it right away. Think about the story. Think about the people who hoard books. Remember that everyone in that group would memorize a single book?
Ahhhhhhh.
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Well, you weren't the only one. Everyone was choosing
Ivanhoe and very few were choosing
The Old Man and the Sea.
Posted by: Brian J. at March 30, 2005 03:55 PM (V04ml)
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Ugh! I had to read old man and the sea for school.. worst book ever.
Posted by: Mookie at March 30, 2005 05:41 PM (ZjSa7)
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I loved F-451! Loved what it did for my interest in the solar system and interstellar travel.
BTW, if I was fatalistic, I would have chosen to perish by fire than be memorized in secret.
Posted by: michele at March 30, 2005 08:27 PM (ht2RK)
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I thought the whole deal was to pick which book that you thought was least likely to be burned. So, I wanted to be
Charles And His Purple Crayon.
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No, the point is to pick a book to memorize so that when it's burned it will be preserved....
Posted by: Susie at March 31, 2005 08:17 AM (6pkez)
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All of y'all are wrong! The purpose was to interpret the question as you see fit. If the author of the meme *wanted* to know which book you'd memorize, s/he would've (or should've) asked, "If you had to memorize one book, which one would it be?" Likewise, if there was one book you wanted to burn...you get the idea.
Posted by: Victor at March 31, 2005 01:15 PM (L3qPK)
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Reminder
Top left corner of this page. The pink button. Click it on friday, the first of April and leave a comment. No fooling.
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Posted by: buckethead at March 31, 2005 10:07 AM (r8pWR)
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LOL Yep. And you're the first person to notice. I bet everyone's been clicking on her boobs in the banner and muttering "Ted said this would *do* something dammit".
Posted by: Ted at March 31, 2005 10:20 AM (blNMI)
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Well, I click on the boobs, too. I just don't expect the website to do anything.
Posted by: Buckethead at March 31, 2005 04:52 PM (r8pWR)
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Maybe I'm too Ameri-centric
The
Major Soccer League is renaming their teams to be more like the teams around the world. So instead of, for instance, the Dallas Burn, you'll have teams like FC Dallas, where the "FC" stands for "football club". Yeah, maybe in the rest of the world, but not in Dallas.
New to the league this year are Real Salt Lake City (pronounced Ray-al) and Chivas USA. Chivas is spanish for goats. Really.
I was never a fan of that odd trend for new niche sports teams to name themselves for something other than a noun - the "Rage", the "Freedom" and so on. It just seemed so trendy, like a loser trying desperately to be cool.
So the MLS gets away from that nonsense, but decides that they need to be less American and more like Europe. Like I needed another reason to ignore them.
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Real Salt Lake? Seriously? Real is Spanish for royal. I thought we settled that issue some 200+ years ago. Puhleese.
Posted by: RP at March 30, 2005 04:48 PM (LlPKh)
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Rage and
Freedom and
Heat and
Jazz are nouns, but, abstract nouns, not plural nouns. They don't refer to the teammates but to entity of the club as a whole. And, yes, it's annoying as hell. I can't wait for someone to lash back by naming a team
The Vermont Syrup. Heck, Billie Jean King even named her team
The Philidelphia Freedoms.
Posted by: Tuning Spork at March 30, 2005 11:53 PM (GIVbO)
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Spork, I failed English. Badly. I never got the hang of that whole noun/verb/adverb thing.
Posted by: Ted at March 31, 2005 04:46 AM (ZjSa7)
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That dumb, and I can't lick myself either
So I get home Monday to an empty (of humans) house. Son got called in to work, wife was working late, Mookie has musical rehersals, and it's just me and two dogs who are very happy to see me.
They went out. They came in. We played and just generally acted like guys do when they have the run of the house. Lots of toys being thrown about and growling and rough-housing going on.
I had to use the bathroom, so as usual I shut the door behind me and as I stood there I wondered why I did that since I was home alone. When I opened the door, both dogs were sitting there in the hallway and looking at me like, "You are soooo whipped."
There's wisdom there if you know how to read it.
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ROFLMAO! I lived alone (sans a year-and-a-half with the ex- and one with friends) for 15 straight years and ALWAYS shut the door behind me. Privacy is always privacy -- even from the rest of the house!
Posted by: Tuning Spork at March 31, 2005 12:00 AM (GIVbO)
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March 29, 2005
Asinine Quote of the Week
And believe me, there've been some doozys.
"But people would rather live under undemocratic rule than in the chaotic atmosphere of Iraq, for example, which the Americans tout as a model." -- Egyptian Diplomat
The definition of chaos being "more than one choice on the ballot", of course.
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Love means never having to say "I'm in over my head"
A lady at work recently had her entire kitchen renovated. Nic is in the early stages of
going through the process as well.
I mentioned it to my wife.
Suddenly there is graph paper and my big measuring tape on the bar. A night out might mean dinner and then a leasurely stroll through the hardware store.
I'm not too worried about it, because we're certainly not rushing into things. We've lived in the house for 15 years, and before the first was over we'd replaced the appliances and a few years later I redid the wallpaper. Other than that - nada.
So we've had time to dream and consider and ponder and decide, and of course we disagree on several key points, but nothing important enough to turn into a major fuss.
I expect I'll be starting phase 1 here in the next month or so, which is removing the "bar" and cabinets between the kitchen and dining room and replacing them with a new set of cabinets along another wall.
Step at a time, and it's not so hideously expensive that way as long as you don't do something stupid like total up the receipts.
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Sounds like fun! Er... just remember to put up the new cabinets
before you take down the old ones!
Posted by: Tuning Spork at March 29, 2005 08:34 PM (shq3M)
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March 28, 2005
Dangerously Simple
Friday afternoon I was given a new assignment. Looking at the task, I realized that it would be very handy to have a copy of a certain manual, so I jumped on over to Amazon. In ten minutes I'd ordered the reference I needed.
It was delivered this afternoon.
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Ooh. Everything working the way you planned it... that can't be good.
Posted by: GEBIV at March 28, 2005 09:07 PM (huM2u)
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LOL. Forget what I was gonna say. I can't top GEBIV!
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March 27, 2005
Hope y'all had a nice Easter
We had all the kids home for the weekend, and made a huge family dinner. The rabbit was delicious.
What?
As Douglas Adams said, it's all about nailing a guy to a tree for the crime of saying that we should be nice to each other.
So I'm guilty of mocking the commercialized version of the holiday. When the Cadbury Police knock on the door, I'll go quietly.
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March 26, 2005
Too tired to sleep
I'm really really really beat. So tired that I have a splitting headache.
(the reason why I'm so tired is in the extended entry, so's you don't have to read it unless you want to)
more...
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I hear you. I thought the same thing myself when I got home from work at 12:30 am this morning--I'm too old to be out this late! Especially when I have to be back there at noon today...
Oh, Happy Easter!
Posted by: Susie at March 27, 2005 09:44 AM (g8g3w)
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Aah, 'member when we used to be able to stay up all night and into the next day? 36 hours straight and feeling reasonably normal (after the second wind that usually kicked in about 4pm the second day). Those daze are gone.
Posted by: Tuning Spork at March 27, 2005 08:22 PM (6tQaC)
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March 22, 2005
The older I get, the more tame I become
I just didn't know there was a reason for it.

(click for huge kinky size, just once only please)
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Conversation in our house
Mom (to me): We saw a movie we thought you might like.
Daughter: At WalMart, in the discount bin. Some babe in a fur bikini.
Mom: One Million B.C. starring Rachel Welch. Would you want that?
Me: Oh yeah!
Daughter (to mom): Told you.
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Yeah,Raquel was pretty hot and all but my fave fur bikini chick was Kathy Ireland in "Mom and Dad Save the World"
Posted by: Russ at March 23, 2005 07:32 PM (ObxzR)
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March 19, 2005
Kitchen report (updated)
The first batch of tamales is done.
Wow. These are good.
The other batch is in the steamer. It's a more traditional version. Update in an hour.
Update: The second batch is mucho tasty, but the one I tried fell apart. I'll have to try another one tomorrow after they 'set' to see if the sauce was too 'saucy'. I've had three now, and I'm too full to try another tonight.
Apparently I make big-assed tamales, because I doubled the Masa recipe called for and didn't get anywhere near double the number.
Success!
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Glad they came out ok. One thing that's real important is to remember the masa dough expands as it steams, and also to try to be as consistant as possible when making the tamales. It's possible the one you had that crumbled either didn't have enough liquid in the dough or had too much dough in it.
Posted by: Victor at March 20, 2005 02:29 PM (etHvD)
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To die or not to die
Her husband says his wife told him she would not want to be kept alive artificially.
Her parents dispute that, without giving a single supporting shred of evidence.
The parents hope she might get better.
The parents and everyone else involved went doctor shopping until finding specialists who supported their position.
The judge who ruled on the case had weeks and months of testimony and all the facts of the case before making his ruling.
Congress and other judges waited until the last second to get involved. When Jeb Bush tried to step in long ago, he was slapped down pretty convincingly.
The blogosphere has rallied to her cause, and the total effect has been zilch. Zip. Nada. A good reminder of just how important we are in the universe.
The woman was stripped of her dignity long ago.
This isn't even about her any more.
I'm disgusted.
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The husband has no proof that this is what Teri wants, he says that she wanted to die but from the reports that I have read she was a serious Catholic and suicide is not an option. He has two serious conflicts of interest ( the other woman and the children, and the settlement money). You also have a judge who refuses to give an inch on anything. Since Teri cannot give voice to her desires and there is nothing written down, the best thing to do would be that which does the least harm and how can starving a human being be the least harm?
Posted by: Annette Bennett at March 19, 2005 09:40 PM (tA8RJ)
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First off,Annette,someone pulling the plug on you is called a mercy killing and is not murder and is certainly NOT suicide.You whole arguement is invalid.
This woman is essentially braindead.Most likely she won't get better.She is doomed by people like you to spend decades staring at the ceiling and pissing and shitting all over herself.Also,never being able to really do or be anything but a human doorstop for no other reason than the fact that her folks just are not emotionally strong enough to let go.Either that or perhaps their faith is not so strong after all.If they so thought that heaven is so wonderful then why would they want their daughter to continue suffer on Earth?Perhaps they think that if she suffers now she will move up a tier or some other silly non-bible based catholic thing.
Also,the only reason the government is sticking their nose into this one is because it's a perfect chance for them to re-enforce their "you'll die when we say you do because we want to control ever aspect of your life so just be a good zombie and take your daily "medication".Notice that the government also has the same attitude towards assisted suicides?
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Posted by: Boudicca at March 20, 2005 01:04 PM (z7nbM)
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The poor husband had long ago asked the legal system to intervene in her best interest. And everyone but her parents seem to believe it's time to let her go because she's been gone for 15 years already. What I'm curious to know is how much it costs to keep her alive and who is paying for it, because at some point, cooler heads need to prevail and that family needs to finish grieving and get on with their lives.
Posted by: dawn at March 20, 2005 06:57 PM (Dh1V0)
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I've been involved with "pulling the plug" on two people close to me.
In one case, the patient was completely conscious and aware. All I did as next-of-kin was sign for authorisation to discontinue pointless and agonising 'heroic measures' in accordance with his strongly expressed wishes at the time. An inevitable and really uncomfortable death was only hastened by hours, if at all. And made as painless as possible. He'd fought to his utmost as long as there was the slightest shred of hope - but there sometimes comes a time when fighting is not just futile, but pointlessly masochistic.
In the other case, I provided support to the husband, when the tests showed his wife and best friend was unquestionably brain-dead. It still took a long time for her brain stem to cease functioning, hours of sheer torment for all concerned. But at least it was hours, not the days we'd been preparing ourselves for. I'd been best man at the wedding, I'd known them both for years.
So I know how absolutely apalling the whole thing can be. The problem is, the alternative can be worse.
From what I've read, no MRI or PET scan has ever been performed on the lady in question. There's some serious questions about *this case* that means you can't go by general principles. Ny initial reaction of "For God's sake, let her go in Peace!" has been changed by what research I've done, and I'm not sure now what the position is or should be.
Now it's become a political
cause celebre the details and facts about what should have been a difficult but straightforward medical and ethical decision have become blurred by misinformation.
Posted by: Alan E Brain at March 20, 2005 11:51 PM (/dpGp)
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My wifes grandfather had a huge stroke and was in a coma, basically brain-dead for something like 2 or 3 years or more. Some of his "caring" family members guilted his wife into keeping him alive, even saying "it'll be your fault if he dies". During that time he needed major surgery but they couldn't give him any anaesthetic, so they opened him up and performed it. There were even tears running out of his eyes, his body obviously felt it even if his brain couldn't.
Finally they pulled the life support plug, but he had to be kept on a feeding tube, and he lived on as much life as there was there. Finally they opted to send him home without a feed tube and my poor mother-in-law had to house him while he died. If the ignorant buggers had just pulled the plug and see if he lived, he would have passed away quietly and with relatively no pain.
This just adds to the fire to have a DNR form signed now while you are sane and healthy. Don't let some selfish relative keep you as a soulless living cadavre, while they decide that they have grieved long enough and can now let you die.
Posted by: Oorgo at March 21, 2005 07:31 PM (lM0qs)
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Sleeping In - completely bassackwards
Wife Liz had a rough day yesterday at work, so when she got home I sent her upstairs for a long hot bubblebath to unwind. When she was done, I'd fixed some dinner and we sat upstairs on the bed and ate and talked and watched a little TV. I fell asleep before 6:30pm and slept straight through until Liz's alarm went off this morning at 6am.
I could get used to that, if I weren't completely guilt-ridden over that fact that I wasted a friday night. Just not enough hours in a day, days in a week, life's too short and all that. I think I could happily amuse myself if I were immortal.
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After a week of nights of 3-5 hours sleep it was good to sleep 'til 10:30 this morning. Aaaah.
I was just looking at your randomly ordered Munu blogroll. Noticed two that I was unaware of. But, uh, someone's missing
**ahem**.
Posted by: Tuning Spork at March 19, 2005 11:57 AM (DqnfR)
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Huh? That's not randomly ordered, it's the order they became Munuvians. Who's missing? There are a few like Survivor that I didn't include, and a few down bottom under "lost and found" (for inactive blogs), but I don't know who I've forgotten.
Posted by: Ted at March 19, 2005 12:08 PM (ZjSa7)
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I just realized something.
The "missing" blog was
Blather Review. Then I noticed that
Practical Penumbra was missing, too.
The page doesn't fit on my monitor and I didn't notice the scrollbar at the bottom. I thought your list began with
Collinization. Oopsie.
I also have a chronological list. I know fer sure that the top of the list should read:
Ambient Irony (Obi Wan Pixy)
Practical Penumbra (Susie)
Stranger In A Strange Land (Formerly
The Michigander) (Tim)
Blather Review (me)
Tim came to mu.nu about a week or two before I did. Then I list Collins, Jennifer, Victor, Cherry then you and Mookie.
The two I didn't recognize were
Margi Lowry (I'll have to add it in) and
Emigre With A Digital Cluebat (I have it listed as
Delftsman).
Comparing our lists I've noticed that you're missing a couple.
King Of The Blogs goes between
Wolfgang von Skeptik and
Emigre With a Cluebat, and I have
S.A.P.S.A. followed by
Miss Apropo between
G'Day Mate and
Little Miss Attila. (
Miss Apropo should be included in the "Lost and Found" list. It would only be apropo.)
I see some minor differences between our two lists. I guess I could just double-check everyone's archives to make absolutley certain of their order of arrival like it's important or something. Heh.
Posted by: Tuning Spork at March 19, 2005 01:23 PM (DqnfR)
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Hmm. Seems there's no such thing as margilowry.mu.nu and margilowry.com wont load for me. Wassupwitdat?
Posted by: Tuning Spork at March 19, 2005 02:01 PM (DqnfR)
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March 18, 2005
Milestone
Rocket Jones has moved past the 100k visit mark this week, according to Site Meter.*
To each and every one of you, my sincere thanks.
I don't fret much over stats like that, but it gives me yet another chance to parade around in front of y'all, hollering "Look at me! Look at me!"
That is a good thing. My therapist says so.
*That number doesn't include the counts from the original Blogspot home of Rocket Jones, nor does it account for the fact that I didn't bother to put Site Meter on all my pages until last fall. So in reality, this happened some unknown time ago. Like I said, I don't fret over stats.
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Hey, congrats Ted! Rocket Jones is always a daily visit for me. Keep up the good work.
Posted by: bitterman at March 18, 2005 05:18 PM (94VhM)
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