Picture taken from here Last night I we had our community band practice moved to a church for the night. Ironically it was the church of the girl I lived with before I was with my wife (over a decade ago). I wish I could tell you that we broke up over a mutual disagreement where we went our own...
Friday, May 23, 2008 A controversial development training course called “Landmark Forum” is cited in religious discrimination lawsuits in United States federal courts in New York and Washington, D.C. The seminars are run by a San Francisco, California-based for-profit training company called...
Being a total spice addict, I am very sensible and open to the charms of the North African cuisine. It is so rich in taste, unique, fragrant, refined and ambrosial that I am strongly attracted by it's exceptional dishes... I am also drawn to anything sweet and savory, so I cannot resist recipes that...
Tell me first world , alhamdulilah,….how much labor hours, of effort, was burnt in that fire, Alhamdulilah,….some peoples, life time work, Alhamdulilah,…..and this third world educateds…etc…,……they must be still having there three meals, Alhamdulilah,…..without hearing about that...
We arrived at Bab al-Mandeb at 10:30 pm. Upon arrival, I discovered why the taxi company gave us so much trouble about taking us there. There was nothing there. Well, there was one lonely gas station with about 6 men sitting outside it. That was it. I couldn't find any houses. There were no hotels...
101 Things to Do - Before you Die 1. Write the story of your life. Let’s face it. The odds of anyone else doing it are pretty remote 2. Watch every James Bond film Back to back, from Dr No to Casino Royal(not David Niven one) 3. Sing alone in a music store Ideally very loud while wearing those...
The story of Microsoft in India is stuff dreams are made of. Having set up India operations in 1990, Mirosoft's current headcount stands at 5,000. The company primarily has six business units in India -- Microsoft Corporation India (Pvt) Ltd (the marketing division), Microsoft Research India,...
Internet Radio Last.FM is the world’s largest social music platform. It leverages each user’s musical profile to make personalised recommendations, connect users who share similar tastes, provide custom radio streams, and much more. Slacker is a music company. It delivers personal radio that is...
Saturday evening Karin and I accompanied Amanda to the Paramount Theater to see rock performance by a young group of lads calling themselves Panic at the Disco. If you’ve never heard of them, that’s probably because you are 1) no longer a teenager and 2) have no teenage children of your own....
My second year riding in the Festa Foundation's annual charity century got off to an early start when my duty pager blasted me into consciousness shortly after 4AM this morning. I'm the nighttime on-call person for this week and a maintenance needed some assistance to wrap up. I helped out and laid...
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVE, everyone (gobble, gobble)! I decided since I have been in the kitchen ALL DAY and my back has now rendered me semi-paralyzed, that I would cop a squat for a few and post about tomorrow's menu. From the scope of it, you would think we were having tons of people coming, but...
Shame, Shame, Shame; Shame of Fools This isn't the usual opinionated piece you find at Sex Kitten, full of rants and raves about how you should be free to express your sexuality without shame or fear of shame. This isn't about why it's OK to be a pervert; it's about a specific perversion Secondhand...
My entire night has been consumed with trying to coerce atftpd to play nicely with the latest version of the Tomato Firmware. I began by enabling my /jffs partition. /jffs is a small writable filesystem that's stored on the left over flash rom on most wrt distributions that don't consume the full...
How to Be is an indie film with Robert Pattinson and I want desperately to see it but it's not playing at the LA Film Festival. Pattinson plays a musician and it's the story of his trials and tribulations. I am very put out that it has no established distribution date. D says that if Twilight gets...
A couple of months ago my boss ( see flapper pie, cheesecake cookies, and let's not forget the birthday cake incident) asked me to do him a favor. Sure, I said. He whipped out some photocopied pages from cookbooks and a handwritten letter and asked me if I would make him an Irish Spiced Beef. "It's...
On their vacations, most people would head for the nearest beach with a book from their summer reading list. But not me, Crazy Canning Lady! Already this week, I've managed to produce 11 jars of the much-heralded blueberry-lime jam, and five pints of.....wait, wait, I'm getting ahead of myself....
I suppose it’s high time that I posted something. I know I have gone a few days without doing so, but I have been waiting for Blogger to get its act together. However, I might be waiting a LONG time, so I’m just going to trudge ahead. I know Blogger is free, and you get what you pay for, but...
I know, I know. I vowed that I was done with canning and preserving for the season. (Never believe a canner when they say this.) But I still had seven quinces sitting on a shelf in the front room from October(!) that needed my attention. This is an amazing thing about quinces--they are SUCH long...
I bet you thought we were done with Passover and Easter last month? Well, that's true, if you celebrate with the traditional Protestant holiday calendar. But of course, for our Jewish friends, Passover was last week and ended yesterday. As a special treat for my friend, Rosanne, in Miami, in...
As ya'll know by now I'm sure, this month's hostess is the very lovely Morven, and she chose Dorie Greenspan's Perfect Party Cake which is featured in Dorie's BAKING: From My Home to Yours. (My baking bible) All I can say is that this was a great cake. Not very challenging but that's okay.. I need a...
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