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Roujiamo (Chinese: 肉夹馍; pinyin: ròujiāmó), also known as rougamo[1] or rou jia mo, meaning "meat sandwich," is a street food originating from the cuisine of Shaanxi Province and now widely consumed all over China. The meat is most commonly pork, stewed for hours in a soup containing over 20 spices and seasonings. Although it is possible to use only a few spices (which many vendors do), the resulting meat is less flavourful.
Many alternative fillings are available. For example, in Muslim areas in Xi'an, the meat is usually beef (prepared kabob-style and seasoned with cumin and pepper), and in Gansu Province it is often lamb. The meat is then minced or chopped, then mixed with chopped coriander and capsicums, and stuffed in "mo", a type of flatbread. An authentic mo is made from a wheat flour batter and then baked in a clay or mud oven, but now in many parts of China, mo is made in a frying pan or a pressure cooker (some even substitute a steamed bun), and the resulting taste diverges significantly from the authentic clay oven-baked version. Depending on the types of spices used to cook the meat and the way the bread is made, the taste of roujiamo can vary greatly from vendor to vendor.
Roujiamo costs around six yuan in most parts of China[citation needed] and is considered the Chinese equivalent to the Western hamburger and meat sandwiches. In fact, roujiamo could be the world's oldest sandwich or hamburger, since this bread dates back to the Qin dynasty (221–206 BC) and the meat to the Zhou dynasty (1045–256 BC).[2] Contrary to popular misconceptions, roujiamo is not a street food unique to Muslims. It was invented first by the Han Chinese, while Muslims simply substituted pork with barbecued beef or lamb due to Islamic restrictions on eating pork.[citation needed]
Roujiamo can be found in many street food vendor stalls or near Chinese mosques. Some vendors also call it la zhi roujiamo (腊汁肉夹馍), which simply means roujiamo with special gravy. Others call it bai ji la zhi roujiamo, which means roujiamo with special gravy in a bread (bai ji refers to the type of bread).[citation needed]
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- ^ "肉夹馍英译Rougamo 泡馍标准黄豆粒大小" (in Chinese). Xi'an Daily. 26 May 2016. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
- ^ "What Are Chinese Hamburgers And Why Aren't You Eating Them?". The Huffington Post. 8 April 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
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- Connelly, Michael Alan (December 18, 2014). "20 Must-Try Street Foods Around the World". Fodor's. Retrieved July 24, 2016.


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... to "Out of the Prim" at Quadrapop Tree Isle.
Kolor Fall will be doing a talk soon on a cool tool he has created for drawing in 3 dimensions within SL... before then we will have a seminar looking at the concepts behind the Quadrapop Tree Isle... keep an eye on this space for more info.
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Review of Deadly Eyes by Michael Meyer
The Caribbean is a popular setting for many fiction writers. The beautiful weather and scenery, and colorful language and culture provide an exotic backdrop for many fictional plots. Only some authors, however, go beyond scratching the surface to delve deeper into the Caribbean that visitors sometimes do not see-the islands scarred by poverty and economic despair, and the skepticism and sometimes even resentment that is often harbored by local people towards tourists but that is carefully masked because of reliance on the money and jobs generated by those same tourists. Independent writer Michael Meyer is one of those authors. His story of James Cuffy, known as Cuff, and his indomitable girlfriend Rosie, is set against the backdrop of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.
Cuff is an American but he is not a tourist. He has come to St. Croix to start life over after false accusations from a student ends his idyllic career as a university professor. As a permanent resident and not merely a tourist, Cuff experiences St. Croix in ways in which the vacationing tourist cannot. He becomes accustomed to the natural beauty and the slow pace of the island, and learns to appreciate the local foods, customs,and ways of speaking. Through the struggles of his girlfriend Rosie, a bartender/server at a popular bar, readers understand the poverty that many islanders live with as they rely on low-paying jobs in the service and tourism industries to make a living. As Cuff tries to build a new life for himself, he is unwittingly falling prey to an unknown stalker whose all-seeing eyes mark his every move. As the mysterious assailant closes in on Cuff and Rosie, everyone that they come into contact with becomes susceptible to danger and they must race to find out the identity and motive of the killer before they become the final and ultimate targets. In addition to the careful detail and attention that the author uses when painting the background story for readers, an additional characteristic that I haven't seen in a book since my junior high days reading the Choose Your Own Adventure series makes this novel unique-Meyer includes an alternate ending. Meyer gives readers fair warning before choosing to read one or both of the endings. Ending A is the 'happy ending' while Ending B is the more sinister one. Ending B actually wrapped up details and loose ends more than Ending A however, answering several questions that would no doubt be in the back of readers minds as the plot unfolded.
Michael Meyer is a retired university professor and the author of another suspense thriller in addition to Deadly Eyes. He enjoys traveling and uses the locations that he has traveled to and worked in as the settings for his novels. For more information about him, check out the Author Interviews page on this blog.
Deadly Eyes combines two of my favorite things in a novel-a mystery and a Caribbean setting. The mystery at the center of the story is fast-paced and believable, although as previously stated, the second ending provides more answers to some plot details than the first one does. The author presents a realistic, unvarnished view of the Caribbean through the eyes of Cuff in a way which is neither idealistic nor patronizing. Cuff does not carry himself like a stereotypical obnoxious tourist, but has truly made the island his home, accepting the good and the bad that go along with it. He and Rosie are fully-fleshed, believable characters with flaws but who are overall good people, and their complex relationship is put to the test but ultimately stands strong as they fight for survival. The plot is unique and truly keeps the reader guessing until well towards the end as they try to piece together how the varied and colorful characters that Cuff interacts with are all related to the mysterious threat that he faces. The addition of an alternate ending, something done with modern movies on a regular basis, adds a nice twist to the novel as well. Michael Meyer establishes himself as a credible independent author with well-written prose, fully developed narratives and characters, and an engaging story line that pulls readers in from start to finish.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
What Lyla's Been Up To...
Lyla looked extra spiffy yesterday in her little outfit and I grabbed my camera, as usual, and began snapping an abundance of photos. Looking through these pictures, versus the last batch I took (a week ago maybe?) I realized she is changing and learning at warp speed these days! Here's what little Lyla has been up to lately:
(a couple things: 1. yep, my house is a mess. there's no point in putting the toys away because they literally come right back out as soon as I clean them up. 2. I realize some of these photos are out of focus..this girl is hard to capture because she is on the move so much now!)
Happy Friday!
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After reading an infection story, I finally was able to move onto my intended reading for the summer, zombie novels. I've expressed an interest in journal style zombie stories previously, so my husband recommended Day By Day Armageddon by J. L. Bourne.
Through the main character's journal, we learn that there is word of a mysterious virus in China. The virus spreads quickly, and causes the patients to become very violent and attack their caregivers and loved ones. The US sends medical aid, then brings the aid workers home when the situation becomes too dangerous and they have been exposed to the virus Our main character is a military man, he can tell that the information on the news doesn't add up with the net sources, the military and governmental actions being taken, or what his fellow military men are observing while overseas. He begins to prepare for the worst by stockpiling supplies.
When he starts to see the undead in the streets, he decides not to answer the base's call. He determines that he'll be safer at home than on the base, this turns out to be correct. The government is in complete chaos, as is everyone else. We go with our hero on supply missions, and see how he's coping with loneliness and inactivity. He discovers that one of his neighbors has survived as well, they begin communicating and assisting each other when possible. They save each others' lives a couple of times and begin making plans to leave the area as the undead begin to overrun it.
The hero evolves in the second story. He and his friend John, over the course of the story must decide whether to answer distress calls that they hear. It is very risky to leave safe places for supplies, much less traveling a distance to save people that might not be alive when you arrive. They answer one such call, and it dramatically changes their situation. As more survivors enter the group, the journal becomes less self-centered.
Our survivors come into contact with marauders that try to take their shelter. They also must deal with a horrible consequence from the decision of the government to nuke large cities that are overrun with the dead. The zombies close to the explosion are incinerated by the blast; however, the irradiated dead are faster, stronger, more coordinated, and seemingly more intelligent than their non-radioactive counterparts. People killed by radiation sickness also join the ranks of the undead, as in this universe people do not have to be bitten to turn.
This series is a fun read, not deep or thought provoking. A great way to kill some time. I'm sure I'll read the third book when it comes out. Beyond Exile also had a cliffhanger ending. I'm interested to see which way Bourne takes the story, and resolves it.


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Sunday, March 09, 2008
Memphis' $3 Billion Bonus For Being Average
In a presentation to 500 people at Leadership Memphis' annual community breakfast, Portland economist Joe Cortright said that our city gets a $3 billion bonus if it can just get to average in the key indicators of the 50 largest U.S. metros.
That's why the big idea for Memphis is this: "Get to the middle."
Those average cities on the list of the top 50 metros now have $3 billion more in economic activity than Memphis, so rather than set unattainable goals right now, Mr. Cortright said that Memphis' best course of action is to set a goal of being average. That will put $3 billion more money into the pockets of our people and into the economy.
Making a persuasive case that a city's distinctiveness is its competitive advantage, he said: "Distinctiveness matters more today than decades ago. Competitive strategy is about being different. Think about what makes you distinctive in this global economy. It is the unusual behaviors that lead to economic opportunity and distinctive innovation."
Punctuating his speech with 75 slides of key factors determining the success of the 50 metros, Memphis was in the bottom ranks in way too many key areas such as creative workers, patents, new business, jobs growth from new firms, venture capital, higher education students, cultural participation, home ownership, travel and foreign-born citizens.
The ones that particularly caught our attention were that the Memphis metro is #50 in the economic integration of its neighborhoods, #47 in creative professionals, #44 in patents, #47 in cultural participation, #48 in restaurant variety, #50 in small businesses, #48 in foreign travel and #49 in library visits.
Battle Of The Bulge
Memphis is younger than most metros, caused by a bulge in student-age children. "In today's tight labor markets, they could be a significant advantage, but only if they are educated," he said, pointing out that educational attainment of Mid-Southerners is lower than the average metro.
Among Memphis' strengths are its connection with FedEx, which has one of the strongest 18 brands in the U.S. "Perhaps only Coca-Cola and Atlanta have a brand as closely associated with a city as Memphis does with FedEx," he said, adding that it's no surprise that Memphis has twice as many people working in the logistics sector as the average metro.
He also commended the work of Memphis Bioworks Foundation for finding a unique niche – orthopedics – for its biotech strategy while most cities "have no idea what they are good at."
Some other headlines from his presentation:
• Older residents are moving away
• Memphis is in middle of pack for population growth
• Memphis is among nation's most diverse metros because of 45% African-American population
• Hispanic population is much lower than average metro
• Asian-American population remains small
• Very few foreign-born residents
• Lower than average new business birth rate
• Weak jobs growth from new firms
• Low venture capital investment
• Below average entrepreneurship among college-educated young adults
• Average in manufacturing
• Below average in creative occupations
• Fewer restaurants per capita
• Low magazine subscriptions
• Drinking problems relatively low
• Low in physical activity
• Weak cultural participation
Behaviors And Beliefs
Mr. Cortright also spotlighted behaviors and interests of the Memphis metro. Most surprising – and defying long-held conventional wisdom - is that Memphis' religious participation is slightly below average for the 50 top metros.
Apparently, it's not because we're at cultural events, because we are next to last in cultural event attendance. We are in the bottom four in art gallery visits, lecture attendance, classical concert attendance, or in book buying. We are dead last in arts establishments. At the same time, we are in the top 10 in hunting and attending sporting events.
At the same time, our "geek factor" is low. We are #1 in agreeing with the statement that "we'd be better off without computers" and we were last in agreeing that "surfing the Internet is more interesting than watching TV."
As for the neighborhoods in our metro, we lead the 50 metros in neighborhoods with the highest segregation by income. We are in the top third of metros in segregation by race, indicating that class, not race, is the major driver of neighborhood segregation. Jobs sprawl in Memphis is more than the average metro.
Meanwhile, Memphis metro residents are pessimistic and especially concerned about crime. We are in the top five metros in percentage of people who agree that "no matter how fast our income goes up we never seem to get ahead," "it is hard to get a good job these days" and "saving for the future is a luxury I can't afford."
This economic concern is coupled with an equally big concern about crime. Of the 50 largest metros, ours is first in agreeing with the statement, "I am in favor of very strict enforcement of all laws" and "police should use whatever force is necessary to maintain law and order." We are also in the top three in worrying about family members becoming crime victims and we are in the bottom three in believing that most people are honest.
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Overall, there is nothing elitist about the Memphis metro. We ranked in the top five in subscriptions for Jet, Ebony, Essence, Soap Opera Digest, Guns & Ammo, Southern Living and Southern Accents. We're in the bottom five in Martha Steward Living, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Gourmet and Bon Appetit.
Speaking of food, our spending reflects a barbecue culture. Memphis buys 260% more than the average metro in frozen poultry, 235% more corn on the cob, 185% charcoal, 183% more refrigerated dips, 180% more meat, and 133% more in baked beans.
Our To Do List
So after sifting through all of these measurements – and 40 more that he didn't show at his presentation – what was our colleague's advice for Memphis?
1) Take care of the basics. "Increase choice in education and make sure you deal with public safety."
2) Build on your strengths. "You have a young, diverse population at a time when the rest of the country is wrestling with Baby Boomers moving out of the workforce. You have a labor force if you educate them. Take a difference that could be a weakness and make it a strength."
3) Build on your brand identity. "You have unique industry and cultural assets."
4) Take risks. "Who'll be the next Fred Smith and how do you create the environment for world-class ideas?"
5) Don't play copy cat. "Lots of metros are doing good things, but they may not be what Memphis should and can do. Decide what you can do better than anybody else in the world."
6) Create neighborhoods that attract 25-34 year old, college-educated workers. "They are the most mobile people in the country, and they are moving to the centers of metro areas, where they are looking for great inner city neighborhoods – walkable, bikable, transit-linked, and green."
7) Focus on early childhood readiness and higher education investment. "The more educated people you have, the more successful you are. Better education equals better economy. Raising the level of education is the most important thing you can do to improve your standings."
8) Focus on dropouts. "They are the most expensive problem for your city."
(Mr. Cortright's slides will be posted on the Leadership Memphis website shortly at www.leadershipmemphis.org.)
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Thanks for posting the "de-briefing" from the talk. Memphis is currently on a short list my husband and I have for our next move, and I've been scoping this blog out periodically to figure out if we would fit in. While I found the survey's results interesting and certainly not off-putting, I thought it was funny that the two magazines I currently have subscriptions for - Bon Appetit and Martha Stewart Living - indicate that I am not Memphis material. Thank God I didn't subscribe to the New Yorker, too! :) To be fair, I sort of hate myself for subscribing to Martha Stewart Living, but Bon Appetit? Come on! I thought Memphis was a town of foodies! There's a barbecue issue every summer!
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We understand. We're Vanity Fair and New Yorker subscribers, which did even worst than Bon Appetit and Martha Stewart Living.
We hope you'll come on to Memphis and join us in the most interesting experiment taking place in any city in the U.S.
The most interesting experiment in the city would be cutting off the top Willie W. Herenton's head and see if if there is a brain inside.
I grew up in Memphis and have been in the restaurant bussiness since I was 16.I have been on the Gulf Coast for about 9 yrs in Florida and Mississippi.Before that I was in .Gatlinburg TN.After leaving Memphis I realized that I never was exposed to the various types of food out there.The main reason being my parents grew up in the country and were poor.The other reason is Memphis is not as culturally diversified as other large metro,s.The Food network has done alot for Memphis with there shows on BBQ and Memphis in May.Some times people are just afraid to try something new.I agree that through a better education system the city would thrive.Knowledge is power.
The city has a great music heritage.More trees than any other large city in the US .But the thing people see most on tv is on the show the First 48 showing how bad the crime is, and it doesn,t help being the #1 rape city in the US.This leads back to education.Ultimately this lies on the shoulders of the Mayor of the city.Just like in a restaurant the education of the employees and the cleanliness of the building lies on the person in charge.
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How about this version?
You either get them or you don't.
Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You can open it up, analyze it and figure out exactly what makes it tick…
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I think one of the things I love most about nerd humour is that there is a certain amount of elitism involved with it.
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[PAUL D.] CLEMENT [for the state of Washington]: And I think it's instructive if you look in the joint appendix, I think it's at page joint appendix 45, you have the form that's available to union members to opt in to PAC contributions, and have payroll deductions made for the PAC contributions. The union certainly makes it much easier to opt in to PAC contributions than it makes it to opt out vis a vis the Hudson packet....I agree with the AP assessment that the Court sounds favorable to the state's position, but only on the issue of whether the WEA could make the Hudson process easier, and that the law might not be too burdensome. Nevertheless, they could rule that Washington's campaign finance law, if allowed to stand, as the WEA argues, represents an unfair form of discrimination against nonmembers who support the WEA's political efforts, and that "affirmative authorization" is satisfied by the Hudson opt-out process. (At one point, Justice Alito says "opt-in" before catching himself--the issue is linguistically confusing to everyone who confronts it.)
I could suggest where maybe the Washington Supreme Court went awry in its analysis, it focused almost exclusively on the three stated purposes that were included in the text of Initiative 134, which were all focused more on electoral integrity.
That's not surprising, because there were 36 sections in Initiative 134 that dealt with the whole manner of different campaign finance initiatives. Before this initiative was passed by the voters of Washington there weren't any campaign contribution limits in the State of Washington.
So this initiative is doing a lot more work, just besides Section 760. I think 760 isn't unrelated to those broader purposes because it does make sure that the contributions of the workers here are voluntary, and I think that is certainly something that's very similar to what Federal law accomplishes through the separate segregated fund requirements....
MR. WEST [for the WEA]: Thank you, Mr. Chief -- Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court:
Our submission that Section 760 unconstitutionally burdens the union's First Amendment right to engage in political advocacy rests on three points. One, the statute before the Court is a campaign finance law that was enacted for the purpose of protecting the public's interest in the integrity of the electoral process. Two, it is a content-based restriction on speech, which cannot be justified by the State's authority to limit agency fees in the first place. Three, the statute does not serve a compelling State interest both because it is overbroad in restricting, restricting speech on ballot propositions and because it's underinclusive in regulating the campaign speech of unions but not of other comparably situated entities....
MR. MCKENNA [for the state of Washington]: Yes. Your Honor, the Chief Justice is correct, of course. What I thought the question was about was the question of whether or not all, all non-germane expenses must be opt-in, must be provided. That's all I meant. You're absolutely correct. Of course, in your decisions opt-out is satisfactory, and we're not saying that opt-out is not satisfactory here as far as the State's position is concerned. But what we are saying is that the State has the right to impose this additional requirement of affirmative authorization....
MR. MCKENNA: We don't believe it is content-based, Your Honor. As I said, we don't believe it is, because it's any election of any kind.
JUSTICE GINSBURG: Well, the content means a category of speech as opposed to what is the political position you're taking.
MR. MCKENNA: Yes, that is it's only in regard to influencing elections or operating a political committee, which is a second.
JUSTICE GINSBURG: But I thought that that was content. You could do it, say, in the press, but you couldn't do it over the air.
JUSTICE SCALIA: That's my understanding, too. I think you got to get out of it some other way. I mean, you've got to say it's content but it doesn't apply when it's the government contributing money or it doesn't apply when you're applying it to money that's being coerced by the government.
MR. MCKENNA: Yes, Your Honor.
JUSTICE BREYER: If that's yes, then the category here is election speech. If you're going to call a statute that treats election speech especially, then all of campaign finance regulation would fall in that category. And if you're going to use that distinction to say strict scrutiny applies, then strict scrutiny would apply to all campaign finance regulation. And courts never to my knowledge apply strict scrutiny to campaign finance regulation because there are speech interests on both sides of the equation.
MR. MCKENNA: Yes, Your Honor. Of course, we believe that -
JUSTICE BREYER: I'm glad you said yes to me because that implies a no to the last question.
John West, advocating for the WEA, comes off as a bit flustered in some of his arguments.
I'll write more after I have time to fully digest the (68-page) hearing.
Update: Dahlia Lithwick's summary is well worth your time, if you want the quick rundown.
Update update: Although I will say I'm not terribly fond of the analogy to date rape.


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In this first season of KINK, viewers begin an intimate journey into the lives of people living on the sexual edge; exploring love, pain and pleasure in Vancouver's thriving underground community. Season 1 opens a window onto a world of kinky sexual behavior, exploring sadomasochism, cross-dressing, gender switching, and fetishism, all wrapped up in the very basic pursuit of love and belonging. These aren't actors performing sexual fantasies, these are real people fully revealed through intimate interviews, at work, at home, out in the world and in the throes of love games. Our subjects in Season 1 are searching for ways to be true to themselves and their needs, undaunted by the prejudices of society.
Fogg is a charismatic, articulate, and unapologetic 50-year-old entrepreneur who runs a successful piercing/tattoo parlour in the heart of downtown Vancouver. His own body is heavily pierced and tattooed. He's been active in S/M for decades, a role model for some, a frightening character for others. He has a penchant for young, naive women and with the help of his partner Fanny, he is usually successful in snaring his prey.
Fanny is a street-smart, energetic woman with two teenaged sons who works as a body piercer at Fogg's piercing salon. She and Fogg have been partners on and off for five years. The couple work and play together. They enjoy whips and bondage, bloodsports and psychosexual control. Fanny and Fogg often bring home women from the local pool hall to 'play' with, and Fogg's apartment becomes party central atop downtown Vancouver.
Stephen is a stylish cross dresser who was once married to Kate, an acclaimed jazz vocalist. Since his divorce, however, Stephen now finds casual encounters with men more fulfilling. An entrepreneur with his own hair salon, Stephen is fun loving and mischievous, possessing an infectious laugh that punctuates everything he does, from dressing in sequins and heels, to cruising the beach for a quickie.
David is a serious, heavy-set intellectual who believes in following the rules. He is a self-defined "old school" gay leather master searching for love in the form of a full-time male slave. David spent years coming to terms with his sexual desires, even submitting himself to electroshock therapy. He has long since accepted himself, and the real possibility that a long-term relationship may ultimately elude him. However, over the course of filming, David's most heartfelt wishes appear to come true.
Pat, a masochist, has a commanding physical presence but is only interested in playing the role of the submissive. She is a dedicated 'bottom' who finds truth through pain, and ultimate pleasure in being a 'bad slave girl.' Pat prefers to 'play' with women but will 'practice' with men for the experience. Articulate and direct, tough-looking but extremely vulnerable, Pat's desires lead her to S/M relationships with several partners, although she also pursues the idea of a full-time partner. The trouble is, she is "not yet ready to offer breakfast."
Shaira and Ms. X:
Shaira is an actor/ photographer with a studio in Vancouver's Chinatown. For a living, she drives a handi-bus. On the weekend, Shaira is the master in a loving, dominant/submissive relationship with her girlfriend, Ms. X. Ms. X. is the only main character in the entire series who prefers to remain anonymous for fear of professional repercussions. Shaira likes the control and power afforded her in the role of master, while her lover feels a sense of freedom at giving up the burdens of responsibility.
Velvet was born a woman in a man's body. It's taken her most of her life to fix that. Today, Velvet is a transgendered female. She's happily married to Ray, and is one of the hottest movers and shakers in Vancouver's kink scene. Besides running her own hair salon in the trendy Gastown district, Velvet is the leggy leather-clad host of the Body Perve parties, the city's most popular meeting spot for light fetish fun. As a dominatrix, she is constantly challenging herself, her play partners, and her relationship with her new husband.
ELAINE has a strong sense of herself and her community. Thoughtful and full of insight, she poses challenging questions about the nature of sexuality, and community. ELAINE and her partner, Aiden, who is a woman but looks and dresses like a man, have a playful and loving relationship. As we document with our cameras, ELAINE is exploring the process of 'coming out' to her family in slow stages. While her parents know that she is gay, they don't know that she likes to play with her boy/girlfriend.


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Getting Settled – Siem Reap, Cambodia
Most likely you'll spend most of your stay in Siem Reap at the temples of Angkor Wat, but the town has enough amenities to make you comfortable.
The Cambodian riel, Thai baht and U.S. dollar are all accepted, but people seem to prefer the dollar; don't be surprised if the locals give you change in any one of these currencies. When we went, the dollar exchanged for 4,000 riel.
Siem Reap Provincial Hospital has doctors on call 7 a.m.-11 a.m. and 2 p.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 6 a.m.-noon on Saturday. It's down an alley off Vithei Sivatha.
Tourist Information:
There's a tourist office along Route 6 opposite the Grand Hotel where travelers can get maps of Angkor Wat and Siem Reap. You can rent tuk-tuks, motorcycles or cars with drivers here, as well as licensed guides for $20 U.S. per day. Hours are 7:30 a.m.-11 a.m. and 2 p.m.-3 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7:30 a.m.-11 a.m. on Saturday.
Phone and Internet:
You'll find numerous Internet cafes lining the main road; at least five were within a quick walk from where we stayed at Jasmine Guest House. Make sure to compare prices and service, though. Many will frustrate you with slow loading times and dated machines. Phones with international service are available at many guesthouses as well as the post office.
Mail and Newspapers:
The Siem Reap Angkor Visitors Guide has both print versions and a Web site of tourist information. There are links to local dance theaters and cultural events on the site, and the print guide has maps of Angkor Wat and in-town shopping.
Other Tips:
Businesses close for a large part of the day. Normal business hours are 7:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.-5 p.m. Most stores are closed Saturday afternoon and Sunday.


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Me and the kids went to the pumpkin patch with Brooklyn's preschool class and got to decorate little pumpkins.
After picking out their pumpkins to decorate.
Decorating their pumpkins.
As all the kids, including Brooklyn, were sitting and intently listening to the story/book, Josh was playing with the door stoppers.
Trying to pose for Mommy.
A few days later, we as a family went back and picked out our own pumpkin. We got a really really big one this year. It was as big as the kids! Brooklyn refused to stick her hands inside the pumpkin to help Matt clean it out. But, she did LOVE drawing on it.
The BIG ONE!
Then we had a little neighborhood Halloween party at our house with a couple of games for the kiddos to play, like wrapping each other up as mummies and digging through some yucky stuff for treats. We all had fun hangin' out with our neighbors and friends.
|Playing with the slime I made... SLIME FIGHT!
We also got to attend our church's Halloween Trunk or Treat and party. We took our pumpkin and decorated our trunk a little, ate some dinner, trunk or treated, and played some games.
Brooklyn got to have a little Halloween party and wear her costume to preschool on Halloween. She was so excited to show her costume to her teachers. She LOVES her teachers so much. She always wants to tell them things she learns at home.
Then, of course, we took the kiddos trick or treating in our neighborhood. It was so much fun, as our neighborhood had a horde of trick or treaters and some homes even set up tables with hot cocoa and cider for us moms and dads, too.
Getting ready to go get some candy.
Trick or treating!
After trick or treating, we hung out a bit with our friends across the street. Then, Brooklyn and Josh dumped all their candy out and dug in... as did Matt and I. :)


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Everybody recognizes that South Florida sways with a Latin American and Caribbean beat, but who would have thought it was a bastion of Irish culture?
The Irish Cultural Institute of South Florida rattles off 1990 census statistics that indicate more than 500,000 people of Irish descent lived within a 30-mile radius of Broward County.
But then, of course, on St. Patrick`s Day, the entire Gold Coast turns green and everyone is Irish.
The music, dance, sports, food and folklore of the Emerald Isle come to the forefront this weekend in Broward and Palm Beach counties with festivals and parades.
Among the performers who will be featured this weekend is Irish-American Don McLean, who has achieved superstar status in Ireland.
``I`m known very well in Ireland,`` McLean said in a telephone interview. ``My biggest song there is a tune called Mountains of Mourne. It`s even popular in northern Ireland.``
McLean, who achieved international stardom in 1971 with the release of American Pie and its follow-up single, Vincent, said he has found success through developing careers in different countries.
``What I do is a throwback,`` he said. ``My roots are in folk, early rock and pop, and I used that to build a repertoire. We live today in a world that`s synthesizers and electronics and singers with huge ranges. I have to be sort of cunning in the way I maintain my career. One way of doing that is in having different careers in many different countries.``
A prolific recording artist of original music and covers, McLean has released three albums in almost as many months on Curb Records, with new material on Headroom, a retrospective called Classics, and ``the first and probably the only Christmas album I`ll do,`` Don McLean Christmas.
His old record company, EMI, will release a double CD collection in April called Favorites and Rarities, featuring one disc of his singles (Favorites) and one of previously unreleased songs (Rarities).


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John and I* have this shrieky voice we use when we are going to say something offensive to the other person without really meaning it, or meaning it with love. Yesterday, John shriekily told me to "shut the hell up!" Hannah, who knows our weird ways, said sort of wistfully, "I hope I have a marriage like yours someday."
While considering how to tell this story, it occurred to me that some things are just really hard to put into words without giving people the wrong idea.
Hannah is getting into the groove of our weirdness. The other day, John said something about the bigness of his butt (in the context of trying to navigate our long, narrow kitchen with all 3 of us in there), and I quipped that his butt is so big it has its own gravitational field, and Hannah chimed in that his butt needs its own weather forecast. I high-fived her for that one.
* I have generally moved on from the shrieky voice and play it straight. John finds it hilarious when we're chatting in bed and he says something annoying and I tell him to fuck off. It's twuu wuv!
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Sometimes the nicest things come in little packages. In honor of Olivia de Havilland's 100th birthday, the publisher re-released a book she wrote in the 1960's called Every Frenchman Has One. In the early fifties, after a failed marriage and a child, de Havilland visited France where she met a man, fell in love and married, and subsequently moved to Paris. The book is a collection of short sweet articles about adjusting to life in a new country and culture. Not an easy thing to do, even if you're a famous movie star.
The pages are filled with de Havilland's delightfully self-deprecating wit. She navigates the choppy waters of learning a new language by throwing herself headfirst into lessons often with less than stellar results. "Then there was the day I shook my professor. I'd been on a household shopping excursion and had been rather dismayed by the high cost of things. Well I don't know if you see much difference between matelot and matelas, and I don't know how you'd complain of the price of a mattress. But anyway I rushed in to my professor at lesson time in a state of outrage and indignantly proclaimed that I had discovered that French sailors were very expensive."
The book is a quick breezy read, each short chapter describing an obstacle to overcome; shopping, health care system, buying a house, etc. Miss de Havilland would have made a darn good blogger. Her husband was connected to the magazine, Paris Match, and the book reads like a series of articles, so perhaps, they were. Each one whimsically relates the frustration of a stranger in a strange land, but also the charm of discovery, and the warmth of the French who were willing to embrace a newcomer. Lately, the French have gotten bad press as far as immigration is concerned, but by the last chapter, you'll be ready to book the next flight to Paris.
I don't know whether any of the France of the 1950's exists today. Undoubtedly, much has changed as it has here in the States, but that didn't decrease enjoyment of this book. I like to think the most important aspects in French life are constant; time spent with family, good friends, and a relaxed meal at the end of the day with the freshest possible ingredients. To this poor harried reader, it's all trés charmant.
By the way, you pervert, what every Frenchman has is a liver (fois). If you want to know why it's not only important but funny, read the book.
I received this book from Blogging for Books in exchange for a review.


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By CALVIN PYNN
The Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley (FACNRV) and the Friends of the Pulaski Theatre will present "California Dreaming" on Thursday, Feb. 13.
According to a news release from the FACNRV, the performance will be put on by Springer Theatricals. The Center and the Theatre have featured performances by Springer Theatricals in the past, such as Route 66, A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline, Honky Tonk Angels, and the Marvelous Wonderettes.
The FACNRV is encouraging audiences to get their tickets, pull out their clothes, beads and sandals from the late '60s and early '70s and join in the fun.
"California Dreaming" can be described as a sun-kissed song and dance tribute to the pop music of a new generation. According to the release, songs like "Catch a Wave," "Surfing U.S.A.," "Wipeout," "Dream a Little Dream of Me," "Our House," "Dead Man's Curve," "Good Vibrations" and "California Dreamin'" make for a sunny, nostalgic stage show.
The performance focuses on the time in the mid-'60s when American youth migrated to
California by the millions and transformed pop culture forever. Thematically, it's centered around the well-groomed folk musicians who grew out their hair, plugged in Fenders and Rickenbackers and created the harmonies and lyrics that stitched Malibu, Greenwich Village and Haight-Ashbury together.
The music in "California Dreaming" pays homage to groups like the Mamas and the Papas, The Beach Boys, the 5th Dimension, the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash. According to the release, it is a tribute to the songs that defined an era and introduced the world to the good vibrations of love, peace and summertime fun.
For information and to purchase tickets, call the Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley at 980-7363. Tickets are available for purchase at Martin's Pharmacy and the Fine Arts Center in Pulaski, in Dublin at the Visitors Center and in Radford at Barry's Music.
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You know that old saying, "If a man believes in nothing, he'll fall for anything"?
Seems it's really frighteningly, no...horrifyingly, true.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Posted by breda at 2/21/2008 07:12:00 PM
Labels: wtf
4 comments:
- Jay G said...
Speechless. My only hope is for cuttingly subtle satire...
- February 21, 2008 at 7:23 PM
- Rustmeister said...
More like the Antichrist.
Yes, I'm kidding. Somewhat.
- February 21, 2008 at 7:41 PM
- phlegmfatale said...
Someone my mom knows took her daughter to the REunion arena speech in Dallas Tuesday. She mentioned the applause for the nose-blowing thing.
One boggles.
- February 22, 2008 at 7:57 AM
I'm not, rustmeister.
(cue spooky music)
That could be just who he is.
- February 23, 2008 at 3:04 PM
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I signed up to participate in the layout tag Ch{all}enge Masters held in June. Who knew it would last until almost the end of July. It is really cool to see where the layout started, how all the participants affected it and then how it turned out in the end. The funniest part is that about half way through the challenge, the layouts started to look more like the original, even though it had changed and no one but the second person had seen the original layout. By the end, it was a totally different looking product.
Here is my contribution:
To see how it all began and how it all ended,
While you are there, sign up for the next layout tag. Deadline for signup is this Friday, July 30,2010.
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pot in my garden 2010
great art Peggy :) pretty flowers... thanks for playing along at the Play Date Cafe!
Too fun, Peggy! What a unique take on our color story! LOVE how the live plants seem to fit right in ;)! Thanks so much for playing along with us this week at The Play Date Cafe!
What a delightful project! Fun way to work the colors :) Glad you played with us at The Play Date Cafe!
LOVE this pot in your garden! So fun and cheerful! Perfect for spring and summer! Thanks so much for playing along and joining in the fun over at the PDCC:}


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Vice-President and General Manager
"Bills Vice-President and General Manager Bob Lustig has been an associate of Owner Ralph Wilson since 1948. When Wilson became one of the original members of the newly-born American Football League in 1960, he entrusted Lustig with the responsibility for signing many of the players on the original Bills roster.
Four years later, Lustig was devoting himself full time to the Bills operation as a Vice-President. He took on the additional title of General Manager in 1967. In addition to directing the Buffalo organization's administrative, ticket and stadium operations, Lustig also represents the club at official League meetings and sits on the Board of Directors of National Football League Properties, Inc.
The Bills General Manager was a key figure in the drive for a new stadium to house Buffalo's NFL franchise- a dream finally realized in 1973 with the dedication of a magnificent 80,020-seat facility in Orchard, Park, New York.
'We built the stadium with the comfort of the fan as our foremost concern,' Lustig says. 'We feel we have the finest football facility in the league.'
For all of his present association with football, Lustig's first love was baseball- a sport he played on the American Legion level as a high school student in Detroit, and later as a student at the University of Detroit. His college career was interrupted by Army service in World War II, where he saw action in the European theatre as a member of the 104th Infantry Division. He returned to Detroit following the war to complete his college education, then went to work for the Ralph Wilson Agency."
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While this incident did happen a while ago, we all know that sometime the wheels of justice in our country move slowly. Back in May 2007 a substitute teacher decided to show the movie Brokeback Back Mountain to a sixth grade math class. That's right a math class.
A 12-year-old girl filed a lawsuit claiming severe emotional distress which the jury rejected. While I think that the lawsuit looking for $40,000 was not the best of ideas, I do agree that the family needed to make a big deal of the issue. Sadly, in the highly litigious world we live in, a lawsuit is sometimes the only way to get the proper attention to the issue. In what twisted world is it ok to show a rated R movie that has graphic homosexual love scenes to a bunch of 12 year-olds who are they to learn math? This movie was not approved by the school let alone by the parents.
The kids in the classroom have said that the teacher told them "What happens in Ms. Buford's class, stays in Ms. Buford's class". Are they in Vegas or a classroom? What else does this woman think is appropriate for her classroom that the students don't tell their parents about? She came out with the typical liberal talking point; I am only trying to teach them about tolerance. Well, you know what lady, I will teach my kid about tolerance, that is not your job. You were being paid to teach math, not gay cinema.
Like I said, this didn't reach the legal standard of severe emotional distress but it does make one question why this teacher did not lose her job? All that happened was that she was "disciplined" and the typical union response is that they just "pass the trash" onto a different school. So, if you live in the Chicago area and your kid comes home and tells you that their teacher's name is Ms. Buford, you may want to consider having them moved into a different classroom. She obviously feels that she has the right to teach your children just about anything but math.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
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I ordered the Instant Chalkboard Peel and Stick 1 by 12 roll. I started by washing off the surface I was going to apply it too, in this case it is the fridge. Once dry, I measured the length I would need for the fridge and cut it to length, I started by going over the top, though it's probably better to start at the very top edge, I slowly pressed and attached the chalkboard as I went down to make sure that I didn't have any bubbles all the way down the fridge.
Notice the chalk is tide to the fridge arm with the chalk holder taped to the fridge below avoiding any coloring of unwanted places.
They loved being able to draw on the fridge while I made lunch!
Because we clean up after ourselves the chalk was put away when done. I love this product, I could cut it to fit any area I needed like the fridge, washing machine, cupboards, flat side of the kitchen isle, or cut into a cool design for their rooms! I covered the fridge and still have some left over! Put this together with the ease of applying it where I wanted and I give this product a full box of chalk!
Visit: www.instantchalkboard.com to get your own or enter to win out giveaway for the product of your choice, up to or below $25.00!!!!
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Tri-State area extension agents had some tips for controlling Japanese beetles:
- Don't use traps. Although some people swear by them, extension agents say the traps actually lure more beetles to your yard. The traps catch the males, but leave the females free to lay eggs in your yard, setting the stage for a problem the following year.
- Cover small trees or shrubs, especially young ones, with cheescloth or some other type of netting.
- Spray or dust with pesticides such as Orthene, Sevin and Methoxychlor. Make sure you follow the directions on the label. The pesticides shouldn't be used on blooms or some ornamentals. Spraying on a hot day could burn the leaves.
- If you don't like to use chemicals, use an organic pesticide like Rotenone. One drawback: it must be applied about every other day.


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If you want to install a Visual Studio 2005 Add-in for all users, drop the .AddIn and .DLL files (along with any subdirectory containing satellite DLL(s)) in the following directory:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\AddIns
%ALLUSERSPROFILE% is not
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users on your machine, adjust accordingly.
Microsoft's documentation on installing a Visual Studio 2005 add-in is fairly confusing, although I do see now that they mention this directory in a comment below the main article.
This issue came up as part of deploying a Visual Studio Add-in for Marmoset which a YCP student and I wrote this summer. Marmoset is a nifty project submission and testing server for programming courses. I expect the Add-in will be a part of the forthcoming open source release of Marmoset, which should happen sometime this Fall.


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Bioshock Infinite is this year's Skyrim: Flawed in just about all design, but completely forgivable due to its overwhelming atmosphere.
Bioshock Infinite is exactly what Spec Ops: The Line would've been if its game elements would've worked. Instagram filters and chained shooting galleries of a bland shooter that relies mostly on a storyline with an immense twist.
Bioshock Infinite is like the Twilight series, minus the scruples: Its third act becomes as convoluted and incredible as Bella becoming impregnated by a vampire baby that wants to eat her from the womb.
Bioshock Infinite is what Proteus would've been if they had forced traditional gameplay elements in it: Simply being present in its universe is more consequential than any other, lesser element of the game.
Bioshock Infinite is Far Cry 3 with opposite priorities: A gorgeous shooter with unnecessary ultra-violence that is accepted because of the overall product's excellence.
There are bound to be a few more succinct comparisons to be made in a snappy one-liner. If you have one, feel free to leave a comment!


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When you choose to take a service trip to Uganda, it costs a lot of money. Even if the program you are going to travel with keeps their costs low, flights and food are generally going to stay pretty expensive. For a college kid the price tag on a trans-Atlantic tip can be pretty frightening, however there are things that can be done to help lower the cost.
Luckily I have a generous church family that quickly step up and offer financial support (I love that my church values international missions) and through them I have nearly 80% of the funds that I need. Of course I don't have a lot of spare change floating around, so I have had to come up with ideas on how to fundraise the rest of this money. What on earth could I make and sell that would be enjoyable for me to do and people would actually want to buy?
Oh yeah. CUPCAKES.
Now, I love to bake and cook, and at school I did not get a lot of opportunities to do so. That made it a little scary when someone asked me to make 50 cupcakes for a children's party that would happen two days after I returned. I hadn't made cupcakes in like four months, I didn't have a reliable chocolate cupcake recipe, and I had to do all these cupcakes and frost them in one day, because the party was in the morning. What was I going to do?
Yeah, I was going to plan. I was going to pre-measure my ingredients, I was going to wash dishes as I went and keep the space decently clean. And that's what I did.
Because I needed 20 cupcakes of both chocolate and vanilla I did two batches of each (both of the recipes make anywhere between 12 and 14 cupcakes), and since the order included 10 strawberry cupcakes, I did one batch of those.
It did take nearly all day to get through all five batches and two batches of frosting. What helped me was the pre-measuring, really.
And knowing ahead of time what the plan was going to be. I knew that I did not want to make another batch of frosting after I made the second one, and since it was vanilla (and I knew I had more than twice what I needed for the two dozen cupcakes on my table), I just added some cocoa powder to it and all of a sudden it was chocolate frosting. Imagine that.
Part of what saved me was that I was listening to the radio while I was working. I knew that talk radio would keep me from getting bored with the repetitive task at hand, and so I was able to stay focused and chug right along. I was chugging so hard along the tracks of the cupcake-making train that I forgot to take pictures after I made the vanilla cupcakes. Such is life.
I still have about 20% of my funds to raise in the next few weeks that I am home, so I'll be baking some more. At least this time I know how to handle a large order with out a freak out.
These are the links to the recipes that I used. I find these recipes very effective, I have them printed out and have made each of them multiple times:
You may be wondering what happened to the extra cupcakes that were left over from the batches that weren't sold for the Christmas party, and I can tell you that they went to a good place. The bellies of some firemen. There was a fire in town the same day as the party and so I gave the rest to the duty crew that responded.


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CCL Tube, a division of CCL Industries, announced it will relocate its Los Angeles manufacturing plant to a purpose built 101,340 sq. ft. Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) certified building in July 2008. Under construction now, with final build-out scheduled for early July 2008, the building utilizes renewable and reclaimed materials, and has the goal to provide healthy, comfortable and productive indoor spaces while reducing energy costs, landscape maintenance costs and increasing employee productivity.
Beginning in early July 2008, CCL Tube will run simultaneous manufacturing operations and anticipates a final move-in end of September 2008. CCL, in cooperation with its machinery partners, will install the first of several newly purchased; high efficient, high-speed tube production lines thereby increasing CCL's annual output by another 50MM.
"With this new machinery and new building we will start increasing tube capacity by 50% while significantly decreasing energy usage," said Andy Iseli, CCL Tube's Los Angeles general manager. "This building, along with our equipment upgrades, highlights CCL's commitment to quality, service and innovation. Every day, we look for ways to increase production while decreasing our environmental footprint and production costs, not only for ourselves, but for our customers too."


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By TLex NIVREL's flagship divers model gets a cool new look with the addition of a set of sporty red hands that literally jump off the dial plus a new (to Nivrel) automatic movement for the more economically minded of you thanks to the ever reliable, ever popular Miyota 9015 caliber from Citizen of Japan.
The 9015 is housed in a 43mm by 13.5mm 316L Stainless steel case equipped with a unidirectional rotational divers bezel, a screwdown crown and caseback , a Sapphire crystal and a water-resistant to 50 bar, the equivalent of 500 meters.
The Deep Ocean red is supplied with a Stainless steel bracelet secured by a divers flip-lock deployment buckle as well as a fold-out divers extension to wear the watch over a wetsuit.
There are two things to note here; the Deep Ocean black with its Swiss made ETA 2824-2 caliber is still very much in existence for the purists among you. It can be found in Nivrel's Edition Plongeur collection alongside the Wild Sea and Shark Sea II.
Secondly it's great to be discussing Nivrel again! If you aren't familiar this great German watch brand that began life in 1936 - they are the guys that stuck a tourbillion movement into a 3000 meter water-resistance diver and if I'm not mistaken around the same time if not just before GP did!


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1939 MON – Helped 2 "little" sisters register out at school to-day. I only hope I do as well for myself! – Marie told me that Ray asked about me Sat. night (He was at the dance) – She really emphasized the fact that she'd seen me out at all the dances.
1940 11:30 Yes, thank God, they did come! – After I had given up all hope, they rallied in about 6:00… I was actually shaking I was so happy. It was so good to see them! – We didn't really do anything. I took them to dinner, we rode around… showed them my room… we ate popcorn (sitting 4 across in C's car) + etc… Glad!!
1941 Thur Convocation – I almost didn't sit on the stage with the faculty! Emil played Bach for Bob + me after lunch – He's a darling.
1942 FRI GEE, WHAT A mixed-up DAY… WE DIDN'T GET STARTED UNTIL 10:30 – my FAULT… MRS. C IS marvelous! – I'LL CERTAINLY LOOK HER UP IF I'M GOING TO BE IN Mlps! … LEONARD CALLED – WE and A PHONEY R. CORBER WENT TO SEE John K.
1943 SAT We are right + perfect for one another, I know… We went to the dance for just a little while… Magic on the porch… Alone together (He could have me any time he wished)… Met Marie this noon for lunch. Then Leonard. We washed our hair. – such intimate pleasure. His back is so beautiful, so brown, so smooth.


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Dr. Ron Eaker is an ob/gyn who practices in Atlanta. He has written many books, including Healthy Habits for a Fit Family. He also shared a story in my book Miracles & Moments of Grace: Inspiring Stories from Doctors.
I get Dr. Eaker's e-mail newsletter regularly and really enjoyed his latest one. In it, he talks about running a marathon, and he shares some of his insights into the courage of people who enter marathons, even when they aren't in the best condition of their lives.
"It takes a special brand of courage to lace up the shoes, knowing you are overweight, and vow to complete a race," he observes.
I'll let him tell you the whole story. Enjoy his thoughts!
"I ran and finished my 24th marathon this past Saturday. It was on the
mercilessly undulating Atlanta course weaving itself through the hills and
valleys of such spots as Virginia Highland and Druid Hills. You would think I
would have had a premonition of the topography based on those neighborhood
names, but I was blinded by catacholamines from training runs.
There were about
12,000 runners, 10,000 in the half marathon and 2,000 brain-damaged body fat
haters in the marathon, and I am always amazed at the relative diversity of
folks running. There are people who you would see on the street and not
immediately assume they were runners, some even you may suspect were taste
testers at the Twinkie factory, but nevertheless, they were there and getting it
done. It takes a special brand of courage to lace up the shoes, knowing you are
overweight, and vow to complete a race.
Many people stay out of gyms to avoid
the snickers and stray looks from the Barbies and Kens who pride themselves at
having 2% body fat, so it is especially heartening to see folks of all shapes
and sizes at races. What I have also discovered is that, in differentiation
from the health clubs, runners embrace these folks and see them as fellow
strugglers on a path to wellness. There is a respect and acceptance of those
who don't have the expected anorectic body habitus of a marathoner as runners
understand you can't fake covering the distance.
For most of us, it doesn't
matter if you cover it in three hours or five hours as simply putting one foot
in front of another for 26 consecutive miles is proof enough of
persistence, and a bit of lunacy thrown in. It is a unique breed that
wishes and then accomplishes this, and it proves there is an outlet for us all."


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I found a surprising bit of information in a Venture Beat story about the rise of online video sharing, with a quote from Pew's Lee Rainie. I have always argued that urban blacks (forgive my use of this phrase, but its a commonly used one, no matter that it generalizes the urban experience way too much) have just as much access to interesting online education plays through mobile devices and the Internet as their white peers.
Many people argue that black students, poor rural students, and people who don't have broadband piped into their home are being left out of the education tech game. Intuitively, I didn't think this was true. Now Rainie talks about the rise of video online and I again questions this assertion:
"Just a few years ago, it appeared rural users weren't as open to online experiences but now they have caught up," Rainie said.
One factor in this might be that there so many channels that the barriers to entry to uploading video have vanished. This has created a more diverse representation across all video channels. "Now that businesses, schools, non-profits and individuals can all post easily to these sites, that makes the offering more compelling," Rainie said.
Another interesting statistic that came from the report is that African-American and Hispanic consumers are more likely to use video-sharing sites than white users.
Maybe urban students and rural students come from a low base, but is it surprising that they are outisharing their white peers? I am not surprised. I have been in urban environments like in the Bronx, where poor students have smartphones and they watch hours of video through those devices.
Filed under: Digital Learning, Influence, Tech, ed tech, Nielsen, online, online learning, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, video, Video hosting service


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When GotChocolateMilk TeamREFUEL offered me a free race entry to this spectacle I couldn't resist. The course was as advertised, flat and fast. It's too bad I'm not; I'm more slow and lumpy. I've been trail running so much lately, I wasn't really sure how to get ready for an event like this. As a trail runner I'm used to looking at elevation changes and planning what I need to eat and drink as the miles tick by. I knew I can run a road half marathon, but how do I manage a decent pace and finish in one piece. So of course I went out too fast, crumbled at the 10 mile mark and scooted across the finish line with whatever I had left. So there's my race report, now to get to everything else!
I know Philadelphia pretty well and I was psyched to run through the city. Running past City Hall where traffic is usually crazy was very cool. Here I was in the center of the cheese steak universe running right down the middle of the street and no one was blowing their horn at me. As I ran past Logan's Circle and Eakins Oval I couldn't help but think of the annual pro bicycle race and the late Jerry Casale. After that, it was like a scenic tour on foot up and down the Schuylkill River. I was really looking forward to running across the Falls Bridge; unfortunately that's where I started to feel like crap. My last time on that river loop I was toddling along as a pacer for my buddy Jeff Thompson on his Back On My Feet 20 in 24 Ultra Run last July. The memories of many fun times in Philly came back throughout the run, even through the cloud of pain in the final miles.
This wasn't the first event of mine where Janice volunteered, but this one was a bit different. She needed to be at Eakins Oval at 5:30am to get her assignment(s). Our hotel was just a few blocks away, but as a volunteer she now had a most excellent parking pass to park behind the Art Museum. Arriving with her at that hour was no stretch considering I'm used to start times before sun up, so I went along for the pre-dawn ride. With roads blocked off, the Rock N Roll Marathon folks were hard at work building their event. Janice got her t-shirt and waited for her day to start. Little did she know what would be on her schedule. She built cardboard trash cans, unpacked medals, controlled corral #5(which I never knew darn it) and rounded out her day handing out medals to the exhausted runners as they finished. I started a few minutes after 8am and finished before 10, while Janice worked her tail off from 5:30am till about 1pm. At a previous race, volunteers worked shifts while yesterday the volunteers signed in before dawn and got a break when they were done 8 hours later. Yep, she was exhausted. Every race has its "Janice moment". For Philly, I had a dream that she got the job handing out medals and she was the volunteer who met me at the finish. Dreams apparently do come true, at the finish there she was and I made sure to get my medal from her. While other family and friends of runners were behind barricades, I was stealing a hug and a kiss along with getting my finisher's medal. Pretty cool!
I did prepare for this race. I now own an actual pair of road shoes, I studied the course and I even had an idea of a finishing time I could deliver. What I couldn't plan for was running in a pack of thousands, but let's back up a bit. This race had its own shopping mall disguised as a race expo/packet pick up. While I'm used to running through the woods with guys from PA, MD and NJ; The Philly Rock N Roll Half attracted elite runners from around the world. Janice packs a cooler when we go to race with low fat chocolate milk. This event had a TeamREFUEL chocolate milk refueling station at the finish line. I'm usually the "chocolate milk" guy at races. Yesterday I got to meet other TeamREFUEL members and staff. That was very cool to find out that Facebook and Twitter friends actually are living beings.
Low fat chocolate milk has been part of my workout recovery routine for 2 years. Jam packed with vitamins, protein, carbs, electrolytes and other good stuff I'd probably just spell wrong, low fat chocolate milk rocks as a refueling recovery drink. I recommend it to all. It was cool to have so many other runners ask me before, after and even during the race about refueling with chocolate milk. To top it off having the opportunity to help hand it out at the finish was very cool. One runner told me "this is my savior right here" as she held up her bottle of low fat chocolate milk. I hate to keep repeating myself, but I had an absolute blast being part TeamREFUEL at RockNRoll Philly!
Next up for me, The Blues Cruise 50k Trail Race around Blue Marsh Lake just outside Reading, PA. Back in the woods with a hundred or so other trail crazies, Janice will be back to chasing me in the Jeep from aid station to aid station and yep, I'll be the ONLY "chocolate milk' guy at the event. Right now I'm gonna' go for a run.
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A few days ago I was in town with 2 of the boys. Kampala is a crazy city. There are so many people everywhere. People are selling things. They are begging. They are shopping. They are going here or there. The amount of people and chaos is overwhelming. Out of control overwhelming. Sometimes I love it but sometimes I want to get out and never go back. Things aren't easily situated either, for the most part. You can't just go to a store like Walmart or Target and get everything you need at once. First you go to one building, then to another, and so on and so on until your errands are done. Sometimes it is easy because you know the area of town you need to go to if you want to find a certain thing, but when you have so much to do, it can be exhausting because you have to visit many places.
I think this particular day we had been in the city for maybe five or six hours and were all exhausted. As we were walking back to the taxi park, where we have to go to find a mini bus that takes us back to our village, I was in my own little world. There were people everywhere and while I was aware of them, I didn't really take notice. One of the boys was walking about an arm's length away from me on my left and the other a few steps behind me.
My little world was shattered by a woman's voice. I heard what she said but it didn't make sense to me at first. It took a moment to register. When it finally did, I was still like "WHAT???" She told me to keep my bag, meaning to hold it better and guard it. Between me being in my own world of thoughts and the ridiculousness of what she was implying, I know I had the craziest look on my face. So I replied to her, "He's my son, but thanks" as I reached out and grabbed the arm of the one next to me. It was then her turn to be shocked as she stuttered, "Oh!! I thought…"
As I grabbed his arm and pulled him close to me, we turned to the taxi park. I told him sorry and he asked what she had said. I know heard and I know he understood her. When I told him it was nonsense, he replied, "Are you sure?" We continued on to our coaster and went home and left that lady behind. But I know he understood her and I am sure it hasn't left his mind.
It isn't an infrequent occurrence that people stop me in town and warn me about the boys. Whether they want to point out that I am unsafe by being around them or that they are going to rob me when I am not looking. Even today, someone told me that I was walking with a bunch of bad guys.
I admit, some of these boys are pretty intimidating. Like you might cross the street at night if they started walking towards you, intimidating. It is ironic that I take comfort in the exact thing people warn me about them. I have never felt safer than when I am with them, especially the boy from this story. I know that they will all protect me, no matter what. I don't fear being robbed or anything when I am with them. I know that I am always safe. They will protect me no matter what.
Maybe I should feel bad that people think the boys are nothing but common street thugs. And in a way, I do. I feel bad for them. It is like they can never escape their past. They have made great strides to change and some are completely different, especially the boy from the story. I feel bad that people still insult them and don't give them a chance. I feel bad for the people insulting too because you cannot find people with softer hearts than these boys.
We decided that instead of going to church for Christmas, we were going to be the church. We were going to follow Jesus' example and serve and give. One of our friends was having a party for the boys on the street on Tuesday, so we woke up early to go and serve them. On the way, one of the boys found a small boy that was clearly lost and looked confused. He stopped to talk to him and ask where his parents were. He was a street kid but he must have just arrived and was still lost and scared. He tried his best to get the boy to come with us but in the end, the boy refused. I wonder how many people have passed by that boy without so much as a word or offer of help. But my "thugs" stopped to try and help him. When we got to the party, the boy from the story helped to cook and do whatever was needed for 7 hours so his friends on the street could have a nice day and a good meal. Anytime I tried to do anything, he would say, "No, let me do it." The other boys helped too. Washing dishes, fetching water, running errands. You name it, they did it. My "thugs" that everyone is afraid.


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Seoul Tower Alight
Update: January 9, 2008 @ 8:29pm
Here is a video of Seoul Tower lit up by Kolinka:
I'll be interviewing him for my column in the Expat Living section of the Korea Herald. Stay tuned for that and I'll update this post when it's published.
Update: January 4, 2008 @ 10:15am
I got a comment from Kolinka and he left this link: Namsan 2007-12-30
Check it out!
I missed this one.
I live near Seoul Tower and can view it from my apartment. However, this past week kept me busy, so I missed it.
Seoul Tower was lit up by Alexandre Kolinka to symbolize fire, spring, summer, autumn and winter. How pretty. This is what I get for NOT taking an evening walk up to Seoul tower this week.
However, there are no dates on this event on his website, so maybe it will be up for the whole month?
Décembre 2007 – Séoul, CoréeI'll make sure to find out.
Installation vidéo pérenne, dont le concept initial évoluera jusqu'en 2010. Le projet a été commandité par la Mairie de Séoul.
French lighting artist Alexandre Kolinka's 'Electronic Fire' installation lights up on Mt. Namsan for Seoul's 'Museum of Light' project. The work symbolizes, from left to right, fire, spring, summer, autumn and winter. /YonhapSphere: Related Content


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From Jenna Orkin
"One memorandum, dated July 26, 1950, gives instructions for a campaign to promote a fully fledged European parliament. It is signed by Gen William J Donovan, head of the American wartime Office of Strategic Services, precursor of the CIA. … Washington's main tool for shaping the European agenda was the American Committee for a United Europe, created in 1948. The chairman was Donovan, ostensibly a private lawyer by then. The vice-chairman was Allen Dulles, the CIA director in the Fifties.


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Someone has been helping the Master Gardener, there are places to sit, rustic benches made from logs, to rest on & meditate or to simply lose oneself in the beauty & the song of the river.
Nearly there!
The sun was setting, it was 5.30 pm. & as it filtered through the trees I could not resist one last photo, it was a beautiful day.


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Hope you all are having an amazing Christmas! I celebrated with my closest family at our home. Lots of yummie food and fun Christmas gifts! Right before Christmas I created this page for my GD spot at Pyssloteket. I used my funny selfie and played with lots of paint and Doilies.
I started with covering my whole background with different Doilies. Pyssloteket has a lot of different shapes and sizes of Doilies.
I covered my Doilies with a thin coat of Gesso. Then I mixed Texture Paste and a pink Mist from Dylusions. I spread it over a Stencil. After that I sprayed with the same Mist and finished it off with some black stamping.
Look how yummie it looks! I think one of my personal goals for 2014 will be to let down my guard a bit and dare to be more wild and crazy!


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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Alfresco - Excellent Value Dining
Alfresco restaurant in Somerville.
A few weeks back we wrote about a great value dining experience at Green Tomato II in Somerville. Barely had we finished the post when we noticed another new restaurant just around the corner from there called Alfresco. This was a former pizza place and before that had seen many lives as various restaurants, just a tiny, hole in the wall type place, which often turn out to be gems.
We visited for lunch and I must say this is real value dining. Succulent marinated lamb grilled with vegetables and served over a bed of rice pilaf was our choice. A salad is also served with the plate and a basket of rolls with two dipping sauces. The first was an olive oil with spices including red pepper flakes. I am not a fan of spiced olive oils and definitely not if it's on the hot side. As we've seen in past olive oil posts, a really good quality extra virgin oi live oil will stand on its own as a dipping sauce. It would have been nice to see a sweeter, fruitier oil such as Frantoia, an Italian oil, or Aria, our favorite, a Greek oil. Neither of these need any spice and the flavor is astounding. The other sauce was a marinara with grated bread crumbs. It was OK, again, but could have used a touch of grated cheese, pecorino romano specifically, to give it an extra bite. As it is it is fairly bland.
Alfresco restaurant interior.
The rice pilaf was great. When it's done right (usually my friends of Armenian background do it best) I could eat an entire platter of pilaf alone. This one was done right. The lamb was tender and succulent and perfectly grilled. It's so rare that I eat lamb and when I do it's a treat. This was good. The vegetables were also perfectly grilled, not overdone, charred outside and mushy in spots. They were crisp and fersh and flavorful. Along with the squash and zucchini were mushrooms.
Lamb dinner at Alfresco in Somerville
Tha salad here was exceptionally fresh and the house dressing outshone by far the other sauces. Light but not too full of vinegar, savory but not salty, it was the perfect blend and could easily be bottled and marketed.
All this, including a soft drink, came to a total of $8.95! In a tony location with Versace placeware the same, exact meal would easily cost between $40-50. In fact, I've had less food served for more money, all the same quality, many times before. Now I know why I see a crowd inside every time we've been by since. It is, hands down, one of the best values around.
Wine bottle display at Alfresco in Somerville.
Alfresco Restaurant
382 Highland Avenue
Somerville, MA 02143
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- AnonymousNovember 7, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Hi! This place looks good! I want to enter the contest for the "Spain...On the Road Again" download. I haven't seen that show at all yet, but it sounds really interesting! Talk to you soon.ReplyDelete
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Phantom 2040 was a notable four issues series published by Marvel Comics, based on an animated TV series, for the artwork by Steve Ditko. The unusual character designs in the show, were the distinctive work of Peter Chung , creator of Æon Flux (you got me there, big Aeon Flux fan.) Phantom 2040's unique voice cast included Scott Valentine, Margot Kidder, Ron (Hellboy, yeah!) Perlman, Leah Remini, J.D. Hall, Alan Oppenheimer, Richard Lynch - while Mark Hamill, Debbie Harry, Rob Paulsen and Paul Williams had recurring roles.
In the year 2040, environmental disasters and the economic Resource Wars of the early 21st century have decimated the fragile ecological balance of an Earth once teeming with life. Everywhere, the privileged and wealthy continue to thrive in expensive real estate developments that tower above the suffering masses. The victims of Earth's misfortune have been forced to subsist on scavenged refuse from the past on the mangled streets of forlorn city-states.
In Metropia. once known as New York City, the largest and most powerful of the city-states, the powerful robotics manufacturing corporation Maximum Inc. has slowly shaped a cold, steely urban center, consisting of huge, residential towers intertwined with TubeTrain tunnels. Maximum's robotic "biots" (Biological Optical Transputer System) have replaced enormous amounts of human labor and the corporation is illegally producing prohibited combat biots (reminds me of Magnus, Robot Fighter) to form Maximum's private underground army. Under this guise of efficient progress, Maximum has own plans for the future, all known as the Maximum Era. Through the construction the fortress of Cyberville, an immense survival shelter where only the wealthiest and most elite humans will retreat, and the take over of Metropia by Maximum's biot armies, their plans all ultimately involve the dark path of decline and extinction as the culminating result of man's prior errors and efforts, once Earth finally succumbs to its slowly deteriorating state.
The only hope for the survival of humanity is the Ghost Jungle — thousands of square miles of mutated vegetation that may be the planet's salvation. This secret source of life is submerged beneath Metropia. College student Kit Walker Jr. is chosen by fate to save the world, donning the black mask and purple suit of his people's savior, the 24th Phantom.
In the Marvel Comic tie-in. Peter (G.I. Joe) Quinones wrote the series with pencils by the legendary Steve (Speedball) Ditko, inked by Bill (Justice Machine) Reinhold. Believe me, there's still enough Ditko to enjoy here.
Phantom 2040 #1
Striking Neil (Badger) Hansen cover.
"Generation Unto Generation"
In 2024, the Phantom disappeared. Now, 16 years later, his son is contacted by the former Phantom's assistant to be trained and become the new Phantom. But the forces of Maximum, Inc. are eager on revenge for the death of their leader.
Included a pin up by Ditko & John Romita! Unusual to see Romita outside of Marvel comics.
Editorial, accompanied with an illustration that is used as a poster in #2.
Neil (Savage Sword of Conan) Hansen cover.
"Fighting Alone"
Maximum Inc. captures Guran and the Phantom has to go into their headquarters to free him.
Includes poster by Ditko & Jimmy (Daredevil, Time Bomb) Palmiotti.
Phantom 2040 #3 Cabal Strikes!
Cover by Dan (Doc Savage, Harley Quinn) Panosian.
"Frozen Hatreds"
Criminals steal the frozen body of one of their old compatriots and Phantom has to prevent them from thawing a crime tsar.
Includes poster by Mark (Elric, Doom's IV) Pacella.
Phantom 2040 #4 "Vision Quest"
Neil (Whisper) Hansen cover.
"Vision Quest"
On a visit to Bangall, Africa, home of his ancestors, the Phantom comes across a female imposter, who has strange powers over both animals and men.
Includes poster by Ditko & Dan Panosian.
A promo ad for the series ran in Mandrake the Magician #1. "Humanity's Survival in the Future Only has a Ghost of a Chance"
The TV series was also spun off into a video game.
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Review: Ansible beefs up IT automation
At a time when the configuration management market was dominated by Puppet and Chef, an open source project called Ansible emerged with a simpler approach to automating IT environments. An agentless system that was easy to learn, Ansible quickly earned a name for itself. Before long, the developers behind the project formed a company to offer commercial support. That company -- first known as AnsibleWorks, then Ansible -- was acquired by open source leader Red Hat in October 2015.
Originally built as an execution engine, Ansible began by allowing Linux and Unix admins to remotely run arbitrary commands on one or more machines, but it has since evolved into a complete solution for automating and managing your entire IT infrastructure. With version 2.0, Ansible added more than 200 modules to improve and expand support for Amazon Web Services, CloudStack, OpenStack, VMware, Windows, and network infrastructure, among other targets. Version 2.1 improves Docker support, adds a bunch of modules for Microsoft Azure, and removes the beta label from Windows support.


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1 year ago, bored with the hectic tourist object and dont wanna like main stream tourists did, i planned to visit langkawi, in malaysia, instead of beaches in Thailand.
I wanna enjoy 'me time', get lost and enjoy the nature. As a person who grew up at big city, i never seen wild nature, especially eagles, one of bird species whoo looks like tough animal and often being symbol of states.
Langkawi name itself derives from 2 Malay's words; lang = eagle, kawi = brown.
Located in Kedah State in Malaysia,you can get there by flight from Singapore (Air Asia also fly to this spot) or any following State at Malaysia (Penang and Kuala Lumpur) The attractive site for tourist, not only the clean and beautiful beaches, but also the mangrove with its ecosystem.
Things to do or see in Langkawi :
1. Eco trip : mangrove trip, see the ecosytem in the mangrove, meet the cool monkeys and the rest habitat especially feeding and taking pictures of the brown eagles. I will never forget this experience, during the tour at small boats, our tour guide will explain about the mangrove and educate us with interesting way.
2. diving, snorkelling or beaching at "Pantai (=beach) Tengah" or "Pantai Cenang and Pantai Kok
3. sailing with yacht
4. culinary : please try "Orkid Ria" at Pantai Cenang, modern interior, clean (hiegenic) and yummy foods and "Fat Mum" at Pantai Tengah (house style)Actually Indonesia also has mangrove trip such as at Kalimantan and Eastern Java, but maybe not many promotion and the community not really aware to actively take a great part to promote and maintain the environments
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Whoa, guys, Wyatt has gotten really good at playing with himself. Wait, I mean, let me rephrase that. Wyatt's gotten really good at playing by himself. He's at this adorable, precious little point where he will drive his cars everywhere, say a bunch of gibberish, and then have a big exclamation. Like this.
Just so you know, this video is like 50 seconds long and is not 100% action, which means it will feel like it's four years long in internet time. However, the main reason I have this blog is NOT to entertain you and NOT so that I can get attention for myself, but so that I can have a place to come and look at videos and pictures and stories of
Are you curious about what he is thinking, saying, or acting out? Well, pretty much all we watch is the Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drifts in our household, so, odds are pretty good it's that.
A few things to notice about my parenting techniques:
- I have a "dog-bowl" style feeding system. There's a big vat of food, eat it if you want.
- Dirty hands are not bad hands. Go ahead and touch that cute little stationery your Aunt gave your mom. In fact, touch every page just a little.
- Do you see how he plays around the laptop?! He knows he shouldn't touch it, but what can he possibly due if that George and George George head in the computers direction?
- I have to ignore Wyatt for about 10 minutes for him to play like this. Once he gets the point, he'll play. He'll bug his mom ALL DAY, however, so she has it harder.
He will do this for hours. I mean, hours. I'm pretty sure that I could go to the store and back and he'd still be doing his Vin Diesel on the floor. He even does it as he's falling asleep. (This video's like 12 seconds long so chill out!!)
Sure is cute and sure is fun!! We'll see how long he is able to self entertain, and hopefully it lasts through the long, wet winter.
My mood: kind of left out, actually
Wy's mood: Car crash george george!!
Listening to: Jake and the Never Land Pilots. Oh, wait, Pirates, they're pirates.