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- It's time for the weekly roundup of bloggery goodness known as the Carnival of the Vanities. This week's host: Dodgeblogium... |
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- R.B of the Infinite Monkeys does a fine job at explaining a frightening experience. So of course I pick out... |
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- I know the lady who took this photo and I have |
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- Those points make complete sense. Is it the same feeling |
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- KK, you know how to add the drama to a contest:) |
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- This is so much fun KK!! Thank you :) |
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- You are probably right, because they sent me an a-mail saying |
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- Tonight for dinner I made some simple bean and rice burritos that included my smoked jalapenos that Christella Lans and I processed last Sunday evening. Wow! Great flavor! But the capasin had its revenge. Just two jalapenos in the mix brought me to to my knees. |
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- So Toby Farley called me to ask about my "Freak Out" at last Sunday's UUUS worship. Toby was not at the service, so I am sure that he has a vision of me foaming at the mouth throwing hymnals and lunging at people's unprotected throats. Sorry but nothing so exciting happened. I was just staring off into space and mumbling the hymns. |
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- It has been a few weeks since I bashed Microsoft. I have finally started designing my web sites with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS is a way to provide web pages with much greater layout control. You can almost create pages as complex as you could in a desktop publishing program such as QuarkXPress. CSS is an internet standard. |
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- After a friday night UUUS Pot Luck, a Saturday Night UUUS Men's Cooking Group party, the Sunday UUUS Pot Luck was too much for me. Actually, I was feeling a bit stressed and depressed about many things: Work Shopping Cart for Kerry Murdock Web server upgrades for the Nickel Learning new Statistical Analysis for Jason Karpeles Web site for Serra Construction starting up gjActive getting invoices out learning Zope work for non-profits preparing to go to New Orleans Writing keeping up with my blog learning to be a feature writer Sandy Dorr's writing work shop House Closing Getting the house ready for occupation Painting Environmental Upgrades redoing the floors fixing the leak contacting the utilities moving buying furniture UUUS Adult RE Auction Committee Worship Participating in activities newsletter Self laundry house cleaning bookkeeping gardening processing food from my garden fixing my mother's computer time for friends finding a girlfriend So I basically freaked out during the worship service. Christella recommended that I leave immediately after the worship and go work in my garden. So I went and harvested one row of peppers. |
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- The UUUS Men's Cooking group served a wonderful Pan-Asian dinner which we had auctioned off at last years Service Auction. Peter Robinson generously offered his house for this event, he even sent off his wife and three daughters to the Holiday Inn for the night. We had a wonderful 8 course meal from my father's Pot Stickers, Duane Carr's Chinese Curry, David Miller's Soup, the stir-frys of John Mayo and Eric Niederkruger. My contribution of a desert of fresh pineapple and mango sherbert. Being that this was the Men's Cooking Group, Shari Daly-Miller and Martha House both showed up in sport coats and ties. |
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- After a night at UUUS, I got up first thing in the morning to go to the Congregation wide Leadership Meeting. Using the most broad definition of who is a leader in UUUS that would included well over 50% of our membership, we met to dicuss our communities objectives for the year and how we shall relate to each other. While we did not get anywhere near everyone under this broad definition of leader to participate, this was a much better criteria than the very exclusive Startup Weekend that we held last year. I have a very great feeling that we are on the correct track. |
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Pot Luck 1 (Oct 01 2003 13:30 GMT) - This is a busy weekend for UUUS. It is the Start Up Weekend to launch the ministry of Reverend Marlene Walker. Marlene has been here since the start of July, but the startup weekend is the time when the Mountian Desert District Executive Ellen German, leads us through some visioning ground work to prepare for the coming year. Tonight we had a very successful pot luck (the first of two this weekend UGH!) After the pot luck, we talked and talked about "Vision", "Mission", "Goals", "Purpose", "Covenant", "Polity", "UU-Elastic-Up-The-Wazzo-Buzz- I have already been involved in enough of these types of discussions to be bored out of my gord. |
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Dave Bird (Oct 01 2003 13:30 GMT) - Dave Bird old neighbor, friend and professor from my home town of Three Rivers, California arrived yesterday. Dave was my chemistry professor back when I was trying to become an engineer. He has been spending the last weeks back packing in Wyoming and Colorado and attending a rock show (the-things-one-the-ground-not It has been six or seven years since I last saw Dave. It is surprizing how many people don't seem to change that much through the years. He cuts through the bullshit of Life quickly with simple questions "But You LOVE what your Doing, right? |
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In trouble (Oct 01 2003 13:30 GMT) - I am in so much trouble for not blogging! |
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- I finally held my Monty Python party that I had offered at the last UUUS Service Auction. For the second year in a row, this was the second biggest money earner for the auction bringing in about $1400 for 8 couples to attend the party. I provided home made pizza's including Pepperoni and Mushroom, Veggi, Deep Dish with homemade sasauge, Southwest Chicken, and SPAM and Pineapple. I purchased fresh mozerella from La Panoteca. I did have help from some of my friends to pull off this big event: |
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Red Truck (Oct 01 2003 13:30 GMT) - I had dinner with Shari and David Daly-Miller. The big event was the introduction of fine beverages from Palisade Brewery. The Grand Valley now has a nice local quality micro-brew. I very much enjoyed their Red Truck IPA. |
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Asian Plans (Oct 01 2003 13:30 GMT) - The UUUS Men's Cooking group had a get together to plannin the coming Asian Dinner. |
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- Well, Christella is now officially blogging. She is learning her way around HTML , and making some beginner mistakes (such as not using proper HTML closing tags). But she will get the hang of it quickly. Tomatoes! Yum |
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- Last night I attended the Grand Junction Symphony's season opening performance with Martha House. The program was entitled The Three B's, but its not the three B's that you are probably thinking about. The B's were Hector Berlioz (roman Carnival Oveture), BŽla Bart—k (An Evening in the Village) and Johannes Brahms (Concerto No. 1 in D minor for Piano and Orchestra). The big event of the evening was the introduction of the Yamaha concert grand piano which was brought to life by the guest artist pianist Jon Klibonoff. |
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- This weekend is the wine festival in Palisade. Alas, I fear that I will be too busy to partake in this event! What with the Spamival that I am hosting Saturday! |
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Vrey Ctue (Oct 01 2003 13:30 GMT) - Mitch Kapor reoprts on an inetretsing bit of brian sicecne: Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe. |
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- Christella's Blog is up and running. Now I just need to show her how it works. |
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- This month's Cinema at the Avalon film was the German movie Nowhere in Africa. This story of a families relationships set on the back drop of German Jews escaping to British colonial Africa to avoid the Holocaust and the friendships they build with the Africans. |
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- LabourStart headline - Source: Philadelphia Inquirer |
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- LabourStart headline - Source: FNV |
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KCTU (Oct 01 2003 13:30 GMT) - found 1999 data |
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- Doug Williams, quarterback of the Super Bowl XXII champion Washington Redskins, and, like Donovan McNabb, a black man, has a few questions for Rush Limbaugh:"Could Rush make it up the stairs to do his radio show with a broken ankle?How many times has Rush put on a jockstrap?Could Rush answer a question or two regarding his inane comments Sunday about McNabb?Williams guesses at an answer for the last question. |
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- BusinessWeek Online's Alex Salkever notes that Macs have an opportunity in the Information Technology (IT) space, thanks to a growing awareness about the security risks involved in operating a "monoculture," or a homogeneous computer network comprising only one platform (like Windows). His comments come in a new "Byte of the Apple" column entitled Finally, an Opening for Apple in IT. |
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- The Duke University Chronicle has a piece on the paralysis research of Duke researcher Miguel Nicolelis. Excerpt: "Next week, he anticipates, the fledgling Public Library of Science Journal [PLoS Biology], meant to compete 'head to head' with the well-established Science and Nature journals, will debut exciting preliminary clinical data on neuroprosthetic devices that can be controlled simply by thinking about [them]." |
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- Der Vorteil des Alters ist, daß man die Dinge nicht mehr begehrt, die man sich früher nicht leisten konnte. |
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- Morgan Computers deal in surplus, overstock and closeout computer, camera and electronics stocks; you might even find golf clubs. They... |
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- El proper dissabte cel·lebrem la 3a Assemblea de ciutadans/nes i moviments socials de Tarragona. A partir de les 16 h. al Centre CÃvic de Sant Pere i Sant Pau - Tarragona. |
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- I don't usually get sentimental about money. Here's an exception... Frankly, I thought they were nuts when the Dean campaign gave itself the very public goal of raising $5M in ten days, mainly over the Internet. And it looked like I was right as the thermometers on the Dean site slowly edged up. But last night, they made it and came damn close to the absurd goal of raising $15M in a quarter, breaking the previous record of $10. |
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- There's news that Ronnie Dawson passed away last night. I haven't found confirmation, but will update as I get... |
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- We are pleased to launch the first version of our new resources database which represents a large project for us this year at LTSN Engineering. This first version is very much a prototype and we very much welcome your feedback and comments. The major changes you will notice coming online over the next few months will be an advanced search interface and enhanced presentation of the search results. |
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- UK engineering research is in an extremely precarious position, the Royal Academy of Engineering warn in a report published on 5 September. The Future of Engineering Research challenges the Government to boost the dwindling supply of skilled engineering graduates and solve the staffing and funding crises in university engineering departments. |
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- Republicans and Democrats in Congress have agreed upon a compromise version of the Innocence Protection Act. It will be introduced... |
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