What Comes To Mind
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Electoral Votes and Poll Closing Times
7:00 PM Georgia 15
7:00 PM Indiana 11
7:00 PM Kentucky 8
7:00 PM South Carolina 8
7:00 PM Vermont 3
7:00 PM Virginia 13
7:30 PM North Carolina 15
7:30 PM Ohio 20
7:30 PM West Virginia 5
8:00 PM Alabama 9
8:00 PM Connecticut 7
8:00 PM Delaware 3
8:00 PM Florida 27
8:00 PM Illinois 21
8:00 PM Maine 4
8:00 PM Maryland 10
8:00 PM Massachusetts 12
8:00 PM Mississippi 6
8:00 PM Missouri 11
8:00 PM New Hampshire 4
8:00 PM New Jersey 15
8:00 PM Oklahoma 7
8:00 PM Pennsylvania 21
8:00 PM Tennessee 11
8:30 PM Arkansas 6
9:00 PM Arizona 10
9:00 PM Colorado 9
9:00 PM Kansas 6
9:00 PM Louisiana 9
9:00 PM Michigan 17
9:00 PM Minnesota 10
9:00 PM Nebraska 5
9:00 PM New Mexico 5
9:00 PM New York 31
9:00 PM North Dakota 3
9:00 PM Rhode Island 4
9:00 PM South Dakota 3
9:00 PM Texas 34
9:00 PM Wisconsin 10
9:00 PM Wyoming 3
10:00 PM Iowa 7
10:00 PM Montana 3
10:00 PM Nevada 5
10:00 PM Utah 5
11:00 PM California 55
11:00 PM Hawaii 4
11:00 PM Idaho 4
11:00 PM Oregon 7
11:00 PM Washington 11
1:00 AM Alaska 3
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Eeeep
Take a picture of yourself right now.
don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
post that picture with NO editing.
post these instructions with your picture.
don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
post that picture with NO editing.
post these instructions with your picture.
'
Trying to operatate an iPhone backwards makes me frown.
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Monday, December 17, 2007
Camping this last weekend at West Hills
This is the shelter we stayed in. The high pitched roof helps keep the heat in, and the rain out. And the snow, although that mostly melted.
This was the point of the whole trip. A garbage can cooked turkey to share with friends and family. The can acts as an oven, with the charcoal providing way more than enough heat to cook the bird, which is impaled on a stake, holding it vertically in the middle of the can. The 15 pound bird cooked in just a few hours.
My boy Jonathan (on the left), me on the right, and our friend Joel in between. Yes, that's coffee in the mug. And, yes, it's a stainless steel vacuum mug. With a spill proof top. But not the one I leave at the office.
My other boy, Michael, against the far wall, near the fire. They're warming up after we sent them outside to do some of the cooking. Which was mostly making sure there were enough coals around the trash can.
We also made mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, gravy, peas, corn bread, stuffing, and cherry and apple pies, cooked in dutch ovens. The dutch ovens were in the fireplace opposite the one in this picture, in the far corner of the shelter. Between the two fireplaces, the inside temperature got up into the 80s at one point. We had to open the doors to let out the heat.
And the smoke.
Everyone had a good time, and we came back with the same number of boys we left with. ¶ 11:05 PM 0 Comments Links to this post
This is the shelter we stayed in. The high pitched roof helps keep the heat in, and the rain out. And the snow, although that mostly melted.
This was the point of the whole trip. A garbage can cooked turkey to share with friends and family. The can acts as an oven, with the charcoal providing way more than enough heat to cook the bird, which is impaled on a stake, holding it vertically in the middle of the can. The 15 pound bird cooked in just a few hours.
My boy Jonathan (on the left), me on the right, and our friend Joel in between. Yes, that's coffee in the mug. And, yes, it's a stainless steel vacuum mug. With a spill proof top. But not the one I leave at the office.
My other boy, Michael, against the far wall, near the fire. They're warming up after we sent them outside to do some of the cooking. Which was mostly making sure there were enough coals around the trash can.
We also made mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, gravy, peas, corn bread, stuffing, and cherry and apple pies, cooked in dutch ovens. The dutch ovens were in the fireplace opposite the one in this picture, in the far corner of the shelter. Between the two fireplaces, the inside temperature got up into the 80s at one point. We had to open the doors to let out the heat.
And the smoke.
Everyone had a good time, and we came back with the same number of boys we left with. ¶ 11:05 PM 0 Comments Links to this post
Monday, November 26, 2007
Office 1 (me 0)
"my office looks like a bookstore exploded in it, and then an electronics store was dropped on it to smother the flames." - J.Scalzi
http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=152
The books are all triple stacked, and there are several more shelves surrounding the room....
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
This showed up in my local bookstore
Penn Books on the LIRR Level of Penn Station. Small store, but many shelves of SF, particularly if you know to look under the display table across from the main set of shelves. The staff are outstanding. I got the first recommendation for Vinge's Rainbows (sic) End there. They also have an excellent classics and literature section. As in, when I mentioned that 'March Up Country' was (sort of) based on 'The Anabasis', they knew where it should be shelved, wondered why it wasn't there, and offered to order it. Which might just be good salesmanship, except, after picking up my copy, I was looking in the same section for a copy of the Eddas, which they had, and spotted another copy of the Anabasis.
Buy books there, if you can. ¶ 9:21 PM 0 Comments Links to this post
And this is where I bought it:
Penn Books on the LIRR Level of Penn Station. Small store, but many shelves of SF, particularly if you know to look under the display table across from the main set of shelves. The staff are outstanding. I got the first recommendation for Vinge's Rainbows (sic) End there. They also have an excellent classics and literature section. As in, when I mentioned that 'March Up Country' was (sort of) based on 'The Anabasis', they knew where it should be shelved, wondered why it wasn't there, and offered to order it. Which might just be good salesmanship, except, after picking up my copy, I was looking in the same section for a copy of the Eddas, which they had, and spotted another copy of the Anabasis.
Buy books there, if you can. ¶ 9:21 PM 0 Comments Links to this post
