Uh, oh

All those Egg McMuffins I used to grab and eat on the run are haunting me right now. According to an article on Netscape’s site, The Worst Breakfast You Can Eat:
Eat two McMuffins and two hash browns for breakfast and your arteries will remain inflamed until lunchtime, HealthDayNews reports of a new study [...]

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Hey kids, this is fun!

And not even totally wasted time: reading The Daily Nooz, a blog I stumbled across this weekend.
Billed as “A Gateway Drug to Harder News Media,” the masthead lists: Joe King, Editor; Paige Turner, Reporter; Lulu, Staff Hound.
All the posts I’ve read so far have been posted by Lulu. She’s got a great [...]

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100 people, 100 square feet each

I’m fascinated by photographer Michael Wolf’s “100 x 100″ project, just posted online here.
It consists of 100 photographs, each of a resident of Hong Kong’s oldest public housing estate. Each resident has a room that is 100 square feet in size.
Once I started clicking my way through the collection, I couldn’t stop until I [...]

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Urban wildlife

Thanks to my cousin, here’s a snap of a fox lounging on a ragtop in an office building parking lot. He says that she lives in/near the building in Fort Collins, Colorado, and has pups which are rarely seen.

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I learn another new word

“Avulsion” – as in avulsion fracture of the 5th metatarsal. Mine’s on the right foot.
As explained here: “This occurs when the foot or ankle rolls in (an inversion injury). When this happens a tendon that attaches a muscle to the fifth metatarsal can pull off a piece of the [...]

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Grump out day 2006

According to David at f k a and to the Smilemania* folks, Grump Out day 2006 is Tuesday, May 31.
That’s a day when we should NOT be grumpy or mean or rude.
Wow, THAT would slow things down in the blogosphere, wouldn’t it?
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*“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.” — Groucho Marx

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Peregrine falcon chicks in the nest

In Rochester, NY. I posted here last month about this project – and the eggs have hatched.
Follow this link to see current pictures of the little guys – well, of course with parent birds coming and going from the nest. Today the chicks are white and fuzzy looking. In the picture I’m seeing right now [...]

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New Mark Fiore animation – “Lamp Lifters”

See it here. It pokes at the Achilles heels of various groups, hee hee.
I always figure if you are pissing people off – just a little – across a wide spectrum, you might be on to something.

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They Lied.

Hard work has killed lots of people.
Happy weekend!!

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Snuggly, the Security Bear

. . . and his pal General Hayden. “When Americans talk, he listens. And that makes me feel snuggly and secure!”
The latest animated cartoon feature from Mark Fiore is online – Snuggly, the Security Bear.
“We’re watching you – because we love you.”

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“Put your hands up and step away from the pharmacy window, ma’am”

It’s early Monday morning. I’m still sleepy when rousted out of bed by the alarm clock. I put the black camwalker boot cast thing on my broken right foot and shuffle into the kitchen, pour and sip my first cup of coffee courtesy of the automatic brew feature on my coffeemaker. [...]

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The NSA: “We hear you”

Posted over at Tom Tomorrow’s site This Modern World, these are posters he designed in the early 90’s for a software company which are, as f k a notes, suddenly and ironically relevant.
Especially the one from the NSA: “We hear you.” Yeah. That’s what we’re afraid of.

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Roots, branches, boys, men

Seven men in black
Two sons
Five grandsons
Suits
Shoeshines
Haircuts
Seven men in black
bore the casket
Stood facing us across it
for burial prayers
Left seven boutonnières
precise white flower line on top
Dignified goodbye
Rest in peace
Seven men in black
Two sons
Eagle Scouts to silver hair
Five grandsons
Rug rats to men
to husbands
to fathers
Your legacy to this world
adjourned to jeans boots
ham sandwiches
togetherness
the new crop of rug rats
romped with [...]

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The Refrigerator Saga

The appliance store finally replaced that refrigerator that was freezing everything, even the things on the fridge side that weren’t supposed to be frozen, after replacing FOUR different parts. I’m not that crazy about the replacement but it works.
And last night I learned on the local TV news that the repair guy is a [...]

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How not to do business in the age of blogging

From LexBlog, Blog law suit dismissed: advertising agency and their lawyers look like clowns.
LexBlog ’splains it this way:
In my opinion, The New York Ad Agency, Warren Kremer Paino, and their lawyers look like clowns. The ad agency gets called on some arguably sloppy Internet marketing by a Maine citizen. Instead of shutting up and maybe [...]

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Privacy, money and working out

Thanks to Sabrina Pacific at beSpacific, you can quickly find and read the prepared testimony of the FTC before the Subcommittee on Comerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Social Security Numbers in Commerce: Reconciling Beneficial Uses with Threats to Privacy.
The big issue with SSNs is of course [...]

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And it gets scarier . . .

NSA Has Massive Database of Americans’ Phone Calls.
Who’d have expected such a scoop from USA Today?
I never expected to feel positive about Qwest Communications, my telephone company. But it’s the only major phone company that didn’t play ball with the NSA and cough up zillions of bits and bytes including my phone number and [...]

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This is so scary

Ohmigosh. The one on the right looks even dumber than the one on the left.
This from the ABC News website today:

By NEDRA PICKLER
ORLANDO, Fla. May 10, 2006 (AP)— President Bush suggested Wednesday that he’d like to see his family’s White House legacy continue, perhaps with his younger brother Jeb as the chief executive.
The president [...]

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A paycheck away

. . . from homelessness. To tell the truth I lived about that close to the edge for longer than I want to think about – and on the surface things were just fine.
OK, I never gambled away the mortgage payment, or even played games by using the mortgage payment money for something [...]

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The Decider

Maybe I do need to mess with the RSS feed thing again, although it made me feel so overwhelmed, worried that I have adult ADD or something. I’m thinking this way because three weeks went by before I stumbled across this very witty commentary on W’s April 18 “I’m the decider” statement.
From [...]

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Katrina, NOLA – and Media Burnout

Please read this article from the May 7 Washington Post, by Howard Kurtz. He was in New Orleans the other day, he writes, and was shaken by what he saw. The entire article is worth your time, but here are some snips of it, with my embellishmens for emphasis:
We all have defense [...]

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Good Housekeeping Tip of the Day

Always keep several get well cards on the mantel so when people drop in unexpectedly they will think you’ve been sick and unable to clean house.

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Let’s go to the show

PLAZA-3
Originally uploaded by suz-at-large.
Box office, Plaza Theater, Altus, Oklahoma.

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My favorite song of all time

Precious Lord, as performed by the late great Rev. Al Green on this CD.
The song was written by Thomas A. Dorsey (1899-1993) in 1932, following the death in childbirth of his wife, Nettie. He went on – for more than 60 years – to pursue an illustrious calling in the field of [...]

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Rebuild America First

“Why don’t we liberate these United States? We’re the ones who need it the worst.”

. . . from Merle Haggard’s great song -”Let’s get out of Iraq, and get back on the track, and Rebuild America First.” Yesss!.
Thanks, George.

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Ok, enough is enough

I have just spent more time than I should have, sitting here writing a few replies to bullshit mass emails about the Bush war in Iraq.
Don’t know what the tipping point was for me. But here I am.
Maybe it’s that I owe something to the memory of my long-gone contemporaries who died in [...]

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The Jesus Cheetoh

Oh, Lord be praised! Thank Heaven for the Internet! Just click right over here to the Miracle of the Jesus Cheetoh – pictured at right, copied from that site.
Dorothy writes that she’s struggled for years being overweight, nothing has helped. Then:
last February, I found myself full of remorse as I pulled down yet another bag [...]

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There went the Libertarian vote

In the post below about Law Day, I quoted f/k/a on the endangered state of some of our Constitution’s better features – including separation of powers.
Yesterday the Cato Institute, that Libertarian stronghold, issued a 31 page report – Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush.
They aren’t fans. From the Executive Summary:
Unfortunately, [...]

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May 1 – Law Day, too

Over at f/k/a . . . David G. has written a long and multi-faceted post, ending of course with some poetry, about May 1 which is, among other things, honored in the USA as Law Day. Go read the whole thing – well worth your time – but in the meantime I must [...]

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Celebrity moment in NYC

Monica Bielanko, aka The Girl Who, has posted this illuminating and thoughtful piece about celebrity and celebrities.

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