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"Hi, this is Shirley MacLaine, and when I'm regressing into the past, I listen to Spy -- On the Perception Management Radio Network."
This was a bit I recorded for my cousin Dan about 25 years ago. I couldn't have been more than 7 or 8, and at that age, I had no idea what the hell 'regressing' meant, or why the idea of Shirley MacLaine regressing into the past was meant to be funny. But I know now, and it is, indeed, funny. And you know, it really is.
I do, I just do. Winter more than summer, which may explain why I live in Chicago ... Anyway, this is staying on top until the Olys are over.
Favorite sport:
Long Track Speed Skating and THE LUGE
Favorite athletes:
Bonnie Blair and Johann Olav Koss
Favorite nickname:
Hermann "The Herminator" Maier
I hate NBC though, and their time-shifting idiocy. It's 2010, NBC. 'Most' people do not watch the games at 8pm PT anymore. We watch it all day long, on every one of your 8 channels and on-line. Catch up or move your asses out of the way. Now, GO CANADA!
Don't get me wrong, I love MediaWiki. It's 'overkill' for what I need, but then again, I wanted a stand-alone 'encyclopedia' where primarily text based articles were listed, without the ability to comment. And until someone can trim WordPress to run as fast as MediaWiki, I'm sticking with it. Well, that and they need an 'import from MediaWiki' tool, cause at 700-odd pages, I'm not doing it by hand. It's a static website, and it does it's job well.
But right now, and every time I need to update it, I hate it. Read the rest of this entry »
I sent this to a site I adore, The Expired Meter, but I suspect our hero the parking geek is running behind. So after a month, here's my story of how I learned about how secure our city stickers are. Read the rest of this entry »
I preface this with the acknowledgment that, indeed, some of what I blog is ill-thought out drabble. I don't exhaustively research what I'm saying every time I say it. But that's why this is a Blog, and not news website. Even my 'news' site that I run isn't a newspaper, and doesn't pretend to be. I call it a News Blog because I ... blog about news! Shocking!
Here are two articles I read that made me wonder how these idiots get jobs in the 'real' world.
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