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Take a load off and relax with friends!!! Bar is free and the munchies are plentiful.
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Lounge Closed. New Cafe Opened
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Take a load off and relax with friends!!! Bar is free and the munchies are plentiful.
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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Hope everyone had a great day!!!!
What happened to everybody? Maybe they’re watching the ACC tournament like mr. nature.
What’s ACC?
College basketball – Atlantic Coast conference. Apparently it’s a big thing down here? 🙂
Ah! You think I’d know that having dated a college basketball coach for three years.
Must be the pre-senile dementia kicking in. 😉
or the i don’t give a crap about sports thing that i’ve developed lately.
Actually I never did give a crap about sports – which I’m sure had something to do with the demise of that relationship.
I was reading.
You were a teacher’s pet, weren’t you?
I daydreamed, didn’t pay attention, liked to read what I wanted to read, and was really, really stubborn.
You weren’t the kid who said “oh, miss crabtree, you forgot to give us homework!”?
The only homework I was ever interested in was 3rd grade math because I had to have that down before I could join in the family games of cribbage.
Hello. 🙂
to find you here. 🙂
Just finished a Swedish mystery called ‘The Blood Spilt’ by Asa Larsson. I really like her first book, Sun Storm. This one was good but not quite as good.
I’ve read two books this week – really short ones and both very good. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time…and…A Place to Land by Martha Manning.
Curious Incident was a fine book. I don’t know the second one — what’s it about?
Non-fiction, she befriends a young black mother and her kids while doing a secret santa thing – and at the same time fighting off a second bout of serious depression.
Sounds interesting. Was it good? Was this one of your goodwill finds?
yes, and yes!
added to my book list but neither of my libraries have it (they have other books by her, though) so I’ll have to try some of the used book stores.
Anyone reading books from goodwill (or anywhere else, really) gets 4s from me….
(and if you haven’t heard of bookcrossing you should at least look at it…)
CBIP: Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell, and War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges. In and around, Another Vietnam edited by Tim Page and Magnum Stories by the Magnum Photographers.
Cradle to Cradle: remaking the way we make things.
Which, as an example of how to make things reusable, is not made out of paper, but out of a whole new substance that can be easily be turned into something new. And, it’s water-proof, so I’m reading it in the bathtub!
What is it made out of?
It looks and feels like a very rugged glossy paper.
so I can I check it out for myself
I’ve just started reading it, but so far so good.
I won’t be taking it out for awhile so if you change your mind let me know.
No problem.
The subject is part of my larger interest in how to foster change in the patterns of our society by actually providing positive incentives, as opposed to trying to “sell” people on the idea that we’ve all been a bunch of bad boys and girls and now we have to grit our teeth and suffer the consequences.
Which is not to say that I think technology will save us, but rather that we can change very rapidly if we need to and want to – if we are willing to change our perceptions of what constitutes material prosperity.
An example would be everyone having access to a tool library, as opposed to everyone having their own power drill (that gets used on average 20 minutes in it’s entire life). Right now, we are sold ownership as the best way to get what we want, but individual ownership means such a level of material redundancy that we’ve wasted tons of energy in making many more items than are really needed. Anyway. That’s where I’m at at the moment.
I’m always a fan of trying to make change through incremental, positive steps because I think that’s the kind of process that results in a lasting difference.
And I’m completely for the tool library — just so long as all the hand tools come from Garrett Wade.
I haven’t heard of that author … I’ll have to add it to my list of new authors/books to explore.
Hi RF and any other froggies lounging about.
It’s Friday noon here, and the weekend is in sight!
YEEEEEEEEEEEE HAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi rf!
I am very pleased. Finally online again from home.
How’s the new laptop? All shiny?
Yes – bright and shiny.
I love the big screen (17″).
They missed out on the little wireless router I ordered – hope it will show up tomorrow.
After having it for one night — I picked it up on my way home from work last night. When I got home, I discovered they hadn’t connected the speakers when they replaced the mother board. So it’s back to the repair depot. :/
Hi olivia,
I can sympathize with your predicament 😉
But you seem to have online capabilities anyway?
I’m using my old LT which is about 5 years old. Runs very slow — running Photoshop taxes it.
— Important Update! The Sens just scored again … up 3-0! —
from the other night. I guess Canadians think they are immune to Evil Eye. Wrong.
I fully expect them to ‘crap the bed’ in the third pd, so I’m enjoying the ride until then. 😉
So having fun with the new puter?
Well, how much fun is reconstructing bookmarks and downloading/reinstalling various applications?
But the reading pleasure is great and I’ll explore a bit more over the weekend.
BTW; does anyone have the link for the robo-rater handy?
Robo-rater.
http://www.moosegrins.com/bootrib/roborate.html
enjoy the big screen….I’m jonesin’ for a 17″ mcbookpro…..to many $$$$$$$
march on the pentagon: 3.17.07
Draft Al Gore: 2008
Thanks both!
Long time no see … Hope you and Bu are doing well and getting through the winter.
finally got some nice weather….ahhhhhhhh! in the 50’s approaching 60º…supposed to stay this way for the w/e….
Bu’s liking being outside a lot….and had the hse and studio doors and skylights open today
looks cold in O-town…wintered out here
march on the pentagon: 3.17.07
Draft Al Gore: 2008
You’ve had all that snow, so it’s good to hear that you’re getting some nice weather now.
Yep … very cold week so far, but it’s going up to 39F on Sunday. 🙂
ya, officially we’ve had 116″
130″ at casa d….unofficial….records about 144 +-….very likely to be broken
march on the pentagon: 3.17.07
Draft Al Gore: 2008
and got the 13″ MacBook — decided to be easy on the spouse for my birthday. I was really hoping that Apple would come out with a 13″ MacBook Pro, but the iBook was starting to make funny noises so we figured we’d better get the new machine before it dies — I’m going to reformat the hard drive and convert it into the spouse’s personal laptop, then take it in for a basic checkup. I wanted a machine that would be small enough to use on the postage-stamp sized tray tables on the airplanes, as well as on desks at school when I get around to taking some more classes.
VERY impressed with the MacBook — it zooms where the iBook merely plodded. Firefox opens like a charm — even faster than it does on the Core Duo iMac! And the black looks very classy indeed…
Part of the fun is installing and then running programs and going ‘Wow, I can’t believe how fast that came up.’
the first game of the Pac-10 tournament — 8 seen Cal just upset 1 seed UCLA in overtime! (I’ve got a niece up at Cal.)
Spouse taking me out to dinner tonight, so I’d better get my butt moving…
Haven’t talked to you in a while. It’s been good to read about your various travels and your new computer too.
The Sens are playing the dreaded Leafs right now. How are the Sharks doing this season? What about Cheechoo and Thornton?
during their long road trip (they’re stuck on the road every year during February when HP Pavilion hosts a men’s tennis tournament), but seem to have bounced back. They made a couple of good pickups at the trade deadline (Rivet from Montreal and Guerin from St. Louis), and that seems to have helped — team is playing with more intensity. Currently in 5th place in the Western Conference — we’re about 9 points behind Anaheim for first place in the Pacific Division, but we’re hanging in there.
Congrats to Ottawa — hope they make the playoffs…
Good evening, all…No basketball here. Watching Olbermann. Nice reading here this evening.
What have you been reading this evening?
Actually, I got into a major discussion of “conservative economics” with my son, and picked up a copy of Bartlett’s Imposter this evening (in addition to web reading.) It’s a book by a conservative/libertarian on how Bush’s economics is wonky.
I thought conservative/libertarians thought everybody’s economnics are wonky except for Milton Friedman’s.
There’s an absolute rant in the book about Medicaid part D, but it’s mostly about how un-conservative the Bushies are. It’s about a year old; now a lot more of the conservative folks are coming over to that view.
It says a lot for their willful blindness that they’re just getting around to realizing it.
Fundamentalism–in politics.
A confession: A few years back, I hung with a lot of Republican friends, not fundamentalists, but reasonable fiscal conservatives. Occasionally, they would feel pressured to “buy a table” at an event, and invite me to hear their speakers. A lot of it was reasonable and interesting. But the fringy folks passing out crackpot stuff in the lobby totally freaked me out.
At one point, I heard W. in his pre-election spiel. It is not surprising to me that the true believers had a hard time realizing how really dumb and gullible Bush is.
I’ll confess to a soft spot (in retrospect, not at the time) for Goldwater. I don’t agree with “true” conservative beliefs but they are coherent and consistent.
I have to confess to a nostalgia for the days when people tried to balance the budget, there was a general reticence for government to cross your threshhold, and the branches of government were relatively separate.
I am not watching bball since they got rid of the nut hugger uniforms. I am jumping back and forth between blogs. LOL
Ew, I hated those tight shorts! But they do all look like 8year olds in their dad’s clothes now.
ROTFLMAO!!!! Well I liked the tight shorts. The pajamas look like pajamas and I hate it.
those shorts just did not look like comfortable athletic clothing … 🙂
so RF would you prefer mens basketball have uniforms similar to what female volley ball players?
LOL
I like something left to the imagination – unless you’re an olympic swimmer and then tight is just…mmmm.
w/out knowing the outcome … ottawa wins 5-1.