Archive of entries posted on December 2009
A rarity
Y’all know tonight’s a blue moon, right? Tonight’s New Year’s Eve blue moon is the first since 1990. Another won’t roll around for another 19 years. [snip] The most popular current definition of a blue moon is the second full moon in a calendar month. In its honor, here’s Sam Cooke:
End of year Random Ten
Big Girls Don’t Cry — Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons Don’t Stop To Watch The Wheels — The Doobie Brothers Windy — The Association War Of Man — Neil Young (I Like New York In June) How About You? — Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney Steal Your Heart Away — Bonnie Raitt A Case …
Irony of ironies or nefarious plot?
Headline from Honolulu TV station KITV: Limbaugh Hospitalized with Chest Pains Limbaugh, 58, suffered from chest pains, sources said. Limbaugh was sitting in a chair in his ninth-floor hotel room at the Kahala when emergency crews arrived, sources said. He told medical crews that he was taking medication for a back problem, sources said. Paramedics …
Christmas food gift
I got a couple of 5-oz. Hickory Farms-like sausage sticks (kind of a tradition; it used to be chocolate-covered cherries, but they’re harder to find than they used to be). No fruitcake, though. Drat.
Oddities of packaging
I was given six pairs of socks for Christmas, and they came in a resealable bag. Huh?
Netbook setback
Updated below: This little gadget doesn’t have a CD/DVD drive, so how the devil do you load pre-owned software onto it? I went to look at external drives today and found nothing at Best Buy for less than $60, or roughly 20% of the purchase price of the entire computer. That seems a bit much. …
Lost, the final season
February 2 it all begins to unfold. Hopefully we’ll get enough pointers to figure it all out before the end of the program’s run in May of 2010. My question: If I were to declare myself dying of an incurable disease that was sure to take me before the final episode airs, do you suppose …
Netbook!
Mom got an ASUS eee PC for Christmas, and I’ve been setting it up. Who among you remembers the password you created when you set up your wireless router? Particularly if it was nine months ago? I finally figured out how to access the security settings for the router so I could see the password, …
TR and American wilderness
I may surface at some point, but in the meantime I’m reading my big Christmas book: The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. A few years back I was given Theodore Rex, which was a straight biography of the 26th President. Brinkley’s book focuses on Roosevelt’s efforts to save America’s wild places. …