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Wednesday, November 26, 2003

17:15 - my family's preemptively eating the leftovers before i can even get home tonight!

it's a rational move - grandma and her best friend are leaving friday morning, so mom went ahead and cooked up the turkey today to let everyone enjoy it together longer. and i have no doubt that i'll still get more than my fair share.

but i still feel entitled to at least pretend to be offended...

happy thanksgiving, everyone!

hooray for celebrity influence! forget the campaigns to save the whales. apparently michael jackson's go-round last time spurred california into dropping the cooperative witness requirement in child molestation cases. and now we wait to hear - will they get him this time? i wonder if the cal state leg had a groovy nickname for the bill...

Friday, November 14, 2003

08:53 - hi mom! speaking of parental busts, since anna e. tells me that her frequent moves lately are the result of evil fiends who e-mail her parents and not innocent webpage links, i've been meaning for far too long to change the path to get to her latest page. but, um, changing templates is work!

oh yeah, and i have pictures from the asg costume ball too. but just at the moment i should prob'ly get dressed and such instead of finding a place to post them...

Sunday, November 09, 2003

17:42 - a


"carabao"

is not a



"caribou." (corrected thanks to shafi...)

i'm reading ghost soldiers for my wwii class. it's about the bataan death march and the mission to rescue the p.o.w.s remaining when the u.s. made it back to the philippines. the uncontrollable mental image of cute little deer-like things wallowing in mud was getting distracting... i knew it was a different word, but i didn't know what to picture so my mind just kept subbing in the thing with the same consonants. hurrah for the google image search!

Sunday, October 05, 2003

21:32 - barbarossa means red-beard. holy roman emporer, drowned on the way to the crusades. why name an invasion after him?

Thursday, October 02, 2003

22:11 - i'm excited about having a fully functional vacuum cleaner. not an electric broom, a full-fledged vacuum cleaner.

i bought it for $2 at a garage sale.

does this make me a boring person?

14:57 - one of the most frequent edicts issued by hhtpotk is to read a book. but here in k-tronia, we're easy-going, and we realize that sometimes it's difficult to tear yourself away from the internet. and heavens forbid that you strain your poor tired muscles by toting around a hard-back edition...

dave's been reading books online at the bookrags site lately... having started the first couple chapters of one of their classic detective novels, i must admit that their formatting is great.

but for selection, you still can't beat project gutenberg. which i just came across again and felt the desperate need to link... eventually these should get transferred over to the side links, but i'm currently being horribly lazy about anything that involves changing the template here...

00:20 - ok, that seems to have worked. ugh, the appearance of this page in lynx is undesirably excremental... but i'm not taking out all the tables for the sake of the few and far between who are graphicsless.

anyway, my reason to accessing blogger in the first place:
i must alert all cookevillians to the relatively cheap strange food opportunity! wal-mart's apparently got a bunch of derby cheese going bad in one week. so they've got it all marked 1/3 its usual price. that half pound chunk you've occasionally considered trying is $1.50 this week instead of $6.

derby cheese flavored with elderberry wine, no less.

then again, maybe i'm the only one who ever wastes much thought on odd cheeses. maybe that's why wal-mart has so much about to go moldy...

00:20 - i have no idea if this will actually work over lynx... if so, i'm impressed. i seem to be having dns problems this evening. fortunately, i just so happen to know the IP address for tech's fantastically outdated but more-practical-than-webmail vax, gemini. and from gemini, the internet. tada!

so here we go, testing one two three four.

Tuesday, September 30, 2003

17:22 - don't feed desert troops spaghetti.

also, anyone happen to know how to say "self-propelled coffin" in italian?

15:11 - i know it's lame, but for convenience and portability (floopy disc?!? are you kidding?!?) i'm studying for my history mid-term in blog format. feel free to take a look, fact check, whatever you'd like...

07:08 - air france and klm are merging. the article doesn't do a very good job of explaining whether this means that there'll be no more excuses to stop in amsterdam on the way to paris for the sake of cheap northwest/klm tickets across the atlantic...

Monday, September 29, 2003

22:52 - hooray for wool socks. and hot tea. not to mention blankets.

i realize it's a bit premature to start sporting beret and scarf... but give me a break, two days ago my apartment was in the 75-80 degree range. now i'd guess 55-65.

at least i finally found that pesky window i missed this morning in the frenzy to close them all...

Sunday, September 28, 2003

23:42 - elia kazan died.

22:18 - aha! (see previous post for reference):

Another key to the success of Burma-Shave was the product, a brushless shaving cream. A sailor who was stationed in Burma (Myanmar) gave the recipe for this wonder to the company's founders at a time when many men wore beards and/or moustaches. The founders of Burma-Shave correctly saw great potential in a product that did away with the brush and mug allowing men to simply smooth the cream onto their skin.

22:11 - random thought based on alex's response to my away-message plea for interesting info about burma... does burma shave of ye olde rhyming slogans have anything whatsoever to do with that place now labelled myanmar?

22:08 - so i'm starting to think that the coffee meant to jump-start my homework reading efforts has simply backfired into extra-super-duper loquacity... oops.

22:04 - quick technical query: anybody know how google's "similar pages" feature works? because among the ones that come up here, there's not really that much similarity... but i find it odd that both anna's and shawn's webpages show up, but none of my other pals'... and even stranger, jezblog -- with which i'm familiar because it's linked frequently from srah blah blah, where i read when i get a chance -- shows up... methinks that looking at "similar pages" to figure out the rhyme and reason may become a new hobby...

21:41 - steel magnolias was sold out when dave and i went to see it last night. or at least well on its way - the line was longer than the known number of seats, so we left without standing around for the denial. i've never had a problem going reservation-free to the backdoor playhouse before... and now i'll never know why this time was the exception! is cookeville developing its art appreciation? was it the free student tickets? or perhaps the overwhelming to curiosity to see if creter could possibly make this one into a shocking bloodbath? or maybe, just maybe, everyone absolutely had to know which local actress would dare attempt to fill julia roberts' shoes?

21:26 - i never bothered to look all the way through the tracklist on my most recent music purchase, le grand déballage by les négresses vertes... i bought it mainly because "voilà l'été" is among the happiest music ever and i'd left france without a copy of this priceless means of severely annoying chronic curmudgeons. (well, ok, so it's also handy for cheering me up... at least i pretend to act unselfishly!) anyways, it's a long cd, so it was weeks before i heard the very last track for the first time... and when i finally did, i nearly fell over with delight. imagine a nice latin beat, put some iconically-french accordian music over it... then add, "i loov pahreese in zee spreengtime, i loov pahreese in zee fall..."

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