One last thing…
I put up a link to Important Quotes on the left hand side. Enjoy.
Woo hoo! Scumbag goes down in flames!
Scumbag congressman Bob Barr, has been ‘bounced out of Congress‘ by a fellow Republican. I can only hope this sounds the death knell of Newt ‘Where Are You Now’ Gingrich’s ’94 GOP landslide.
Important Tip: If you bring home a turkey sandwich from work on Monday do not wait until Tuesday night to open your briefcase and find it. The sandwich will be stinky at this point.
Lastly, this the the pinnacle of home computing.
My theory and linkosity
I wrote up a review for Rebecca Blood’s book on weblogs, The Weblog Handbook. Rebecca linked to my review, but people seemed more interested in my theory that weblogs started with .plan files.
Virulent Memezilla discussed the idea a bit. Graham of VM brings up the good point that signatures also were a form of personal expression that changed regularly. He also linked to a post by Anthony Hicks that discusses the role of .plan files as the precursor to weblogs.
Plep thought it was a good enough insight to rate linkage.
Radio Free Blogistan wasn’t so much interested in .plan files, but seems to have gotten quite enthused about tracking the term ‘navel gazing’ I used in the review.
I was also surprised to see links from two places I had never heard of before, Weblog Bookwatch and All Consuming. Both sites appears to scan weblogs looking for links about specific books. In this case, I think it was the fact that I linked to both Rebecca Blood’s book, The Weblog Handbook and Matt Haughey’s book, We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs, that I popped up on those site.
It’s an interesting concept to have meta-blogs that automatically scan for various bits of data and synthesize an analysis of what people are posting. After many false starts, perhaps the age of intelligent agents is upon us.
Blind at home
I had to take the day off from work today due to my eyes. I’m still just wearing the contact in my right eye. Yesterday it was hurting all day. I had to give it a rest. Unfortunately without my contacts I can’t see. Even if I tried to wear my glasses at work, I wouldn’t be able to drive the freeway with my glasses on. Overall suckage…
Right now I’m squinting at the screen from about 8 inches away.
Michele asked me to help put up the border wallpaper in the kids room with her. She had also shanghaied her cousin James into the wallpaper effort earlier and decided to add me to her crew since I was home. I put on my glasses and we spent a couple hours spashing the walls with wallpaper glue. It’s done now and the border looks good. Pictures to come when I get the chance. Michele was so please with the outcome she went out and got In ‘n Out burgers for lunch.
More later…
Sunday Night
We got back a few minutes ago from a small party at our friends house. They recently moved into a new house. They moved only a block, but the new house is bigger and has more land. It’s the first time we’ve visited since they moved and they really put a lot of work into fixing it up. The kids all had a great time and it was good to hang out and talk with friends.
Last night, I went and saw XXX with Martin and Len. We debated on whether to see Goldmember or Pluto Nash, but we ended up seeing XXX since it’s the kind of movie to see on the big screen. It’s not a bad movie. I enjoyed it and had some good laughs. A couple night ago I finally watched Pitch Black on DirecTV and understood why people thought Vin Diesel was going to be a big action star. I had seen him in Fast & Furious and Boiler Room and was unimpressed. He was good in Pitch Black and I look forward to those sequels.
XXX is just a modern version of James Bond, right down to the specific characters. Samuel Jackson plays the M role and a geeky dude plays the Q role. Everything was typical Bond hyperbole and over the top stunt action. I was hoping for a new twist on the spy thriller, but there wasn’t much out of the ordinary. Nevertheless, it was fun.
Lastly, I recently finished the book on Salt I had been reading. The book was long and took me about two months to get through. Everyone around me at work and home has had to endure my stroies about salt while I’ve been reading the book. The writer, Mark Kurlansky, definitely did his research and it shows. There is nothing left for me to learn about salt, I now know it all. If you like reading history, you’ll probably enjoy this book. If you are looking for action and adventure, this ain’t your book.
The funny thing is that as long as it took to read this book and the chore that it was to finish it, I find myself interested in his book on cod. Evidently, the cod fish drove much of the economic development of North America and the eventually collapse of the fishing banks. Someone stop me before I buy another 300 page history book…
Search
If you look to the right —>
You’ll see a search box. You can now search through the annals of Cruft history easily. I’ll pretty it up when I get time. So if you are getting here via an external search engine, you can try finding what you are looking for via my search box.
Power Tools
In my last post I mentioned how great my wife was for squeezing in painting when the girls weren’t home. This morning I walked out back and caught a glipse of a familiar blue color. Yep, it was a blue Makita tool case. Hrrm, I own a few Makita tools, but I don’t have a case like that.
I walked over and noticed my Black & Decker sander next to the blue case. It’s the sander I used to redo the spa a while ago. I opened the case to find a new Makita sander just like the one we already had.
I asked Michele if she bought the new sander. I knew she had, but I wanted to hear her reasoning. She said that Len and I had ‘runined and broke’ the old sander and that she needed a new one. I asked her how she could have bought a new power tool without me. I mean c’mon of all the shopping we do about the only thing I like to shop for is electronics and power tools. She gets to make all the other choices. She told me to shut up and go to work.
Now I’m at work and I don’t know which sander she bought. I bet she didn’t even know how many choices she had…
Three pictures
Michele’s been busting her ass in the house. The kids are going off to camp during the days, leaving time for Michele to do what she wants. What she wants to do redo the girls room.
She’s been painting the girls room as part of the redo. The kids leave the house around 8 AM. Once they leave she them moves most of the furniture out, masks off the room and paints. She has until the afternoon to get it painted, clean up the mess, and put all the furniture before the kids come home.
She painted half the room on Wednesday and the rest of it today. She rocks.
We harvested a few carrots from the backyard garden last weeked. Their size is fairly small. I’m hoping the corn does better than this. it’s about two feet tall at this point. Time for some miracle-gro.
Also on the weekend, we saw this. I had heard jokes about this but I didn’t really believe it. Yes, that’s braille instructions on a drive-up ATM. You’d have to be in the driver seat to touch/read it. WTF?
Today at the office I was in meetings from 9Am to 5:45PM. 5 different meetings. I didn’t even get to read my work email today. I’m sure it’s going to be a big pile tommorrow.
Forward
I updated several info type pages this evening.
I updated What’s Cruftbox? Where’s pusateri.org? , What is Cruft? , Cruft FAQ , and About Me.
Enjoy.
Back to business
So a while ago I was walking in beautiful downtown South Pasadena on my way to the school board meeting when I saw this…
Holy fuck. It’s a real live warchalking symbol. An actual specimen found in the wild. Sure enough, 60 feet up was Cafe Pop, the same place I connected to while sitting in my car previously.
I guess some this stuff I read about on the net is real…