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Sunday, February 16, 2003

The new Virtual Occoquan is out and it is 30% more effective than duct tape alone in prevention of tooth decay! Protect your family, your pets, and (of course) our flag, the Houston Rockets red glare, pizza, and everything that makes America 43% morally-superior to Pepsi! Go there, memorize it, and be ready for the test. 9:06:44 PM    comment []

Trouble Right Here Matthew Broderick is a personal favorite and I'm a sucker for anything that "rhymes with 'T'," but I'd sure like to watch it without the bad news duct tape around the picture. These alerts vanish, of course, during the commercials. Sometimes I fantasize about getting a seat beside Matthew Broderick on a cross-Pacific flight and saying absolutely nothing to him the whole way. I respect him that much. One time he was in Chapel Hill for a month, involved in a stage show. My friend Mike was the bartender (I do have some non-bartender friends!) at the now-defunct Pyewacket (Quick - where does that name come from?...answer below) and Matthew Broderick walked in on a busy Friday night. "What can I get for you?" Mike asked him, flashing a big grin. "I'll tell you when I want something!" says MB. "Oh...tough guy, eh?" says Mike, who had been a bartender far too long to take any shit whatsoever from anyone. MB, in an immediate and histrionic huff, walks right out of Pyewacket, the best bar there ever was in Chapel Hill. When I heard that, it was the first time I had the fantasy of sitting beside him on that cross-Pacific flight. I wondered a lot what I might say to him and decided nothing was best. Can't help it, I really do respect him that much. If he chooses to be a tough guy in his spare time, okay, at least he's not blowing up foreign countries. (Pyewacket is the cat from Bell, Book, and Candle) 7:46:09 PM    comment []

When Mickey's Big Hand Is On The Trigger! "It is time for this to end, enough is enough," Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, said today regarding demands in the U.N. Security Council for more time for inspections in Iraq. "It is time..." "It is time..." "It is time..." No it isn't. It is never time to give in to the tantrums of a spoiled child. 3:12:05 PM    comment []

Ice Storm Radio: "An icy glaze is beginning to develop throughout The Triangle..." Radio: "(Lynne Rossetto Kasper)...black sesame seeds...the latest dessert craze, spreading westward from NYC...a Chinese original, bananas, deep-fried, rolled in caramel, then black sesame seeds, and plunged into ice water so it crackles..." Mind: "The worst part of cabin fever, as long as there's electricity, is running out of things to photograph..." Radio: "No one would ever think of going to a Betty Crocker cookbook for Indian food, but this one has the complete lowdown on garam masala..." Mind: "How does she remember how to spell all these authors' names? I can't even remember how to spell my doctor's name..."   12:57:49 PM    comment []

This is Gloria. surrounded by her chambermaids. She doesn't like being photographed. When there is adequate light, her stem is too bright. There is some detail on her stem, but it is difficult to capture it with a digital camera. 11:41:45 AM    comment []

For dinner sometime this week... 9:44:35 AM    comment []

Good advice from Radio Free Blogistan Backing up your content: This is probably as good a time as any to make sure you have backed up your blog's data and posted entries. You can make a copy of everything in your Radio Userland directory as a crude-but-complete backup at any time. You can also have Radio automatically write a copy of the public blog contents to a backup directory on your local system. I forget how you do this, but I think it's as easy as checking off a preference. I'll try to remember and post a reminder here when I do. If you've got your Radio software working, then upstreaming your blog to a new address isn't so hard, especially if it's going to another RCS. There are a couple of backup choices in preferences: The first is under "Weblog", "Nightly Backups" and the second under "Advanced", "Keep local backup?" I am the Village Idiot in the XML community, but I get by with a little help from my friends. This link came from a comment by filchyboy at RFB. Minimally, a backup for now (my philosophy is do no more than necessary, it's not laziness, it is economy of motion). 8:47:38 AM    comment []