Remember the broken mailbox post? Well, I got a new post for Christmas, as I mentioned, and we put it up (well, brother-in-law got up to his elbows in Quikrete and put it up) on Sunday, so yesterday would have been the first test of its sturdiness. However, our mailman brought the mail to the …
Today is the birthday of my blog buddy Jen. She’s (gasp) thirty-something, and I’d like to wish her a wonderful day. I urge y’all to do the same!
Christmas is over, spammers! No more damned Kinkade Santa Claus figurines or Pasta Pot flyers in my e-mail, please! And, for that matter, no more solicitations to get an international drivers license. What’s up with that, anyway? The New York Times Magazine has a collection of articles this week about some of the more prominent …
Once more into the breach, dear friends… Right click and take that little guy. Then let me and She (No, not H. Rider Haggard’s She) know in our respective comments.
What was happening while I was sidetracked by Christmas? Well, here are a few things I noticed and stockpiled: If you’re interested in a timeline of the Trent Lott story as it appeared in the media, the Online Journalism Review has it. BlogCon participant Jenny got a mention in the WashPost “Blogging as Tech Story …
Christmas gifts gone mad: look at our tree on December 25 and assume the most spendthrift family in the world lives there; then open up the gifts and find things like calendars, cans of compressed air, golf tees and balls, and clothes of the denim persuasion. We have so many “musts” each Christmas that a …
Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897 We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If …
Stocking stuffers: Tangerine for toes–check Walnuts (substitute for hard candy)–check Candy Canes for top–check Gifts: At least three jokes per person–check At least one serious item per person–check Food: Got Little Smokies for pigs-in-a-blanket?–check Got biscuit dough?–Uh-oh Got eggnog?–Double uh-oh Got wrapping paper?–check Got ribbon?–check Got gift tags?–check Yikes!
Right click and take this little wreath. Link back to the site you took it from. Leave a message in the comments if you do it – I’d like to see where it goes! Let’s celebrate the holidays around the web! I got mine from Ms. Toxic. I’m shipping it to Jen.
Well, who knows? It was a week ago that our host switched servers on us with no advance warning, in an attempt to resolve our inability to ping weblogs and other MT sites while on a server “farm.” Ever since then this site has been bouncing back and forth between the former server’s DNS address …