Monthly Archives: December 2008
I read more books in 2008 than George W. Bush
It wasn’t even close. I creamed “turd-blossom” too. As Karl “turd-blossom” Rove reports in the December 26th Wall Street Journal article, “Bush is a Book Lover,” the president read 40 books this year to Rove’s 65. Below is my list (so far).
aside: if you know grep and keep your books in Facebook’s iRead/weRead, you might have noted there’s no export feature. Copy and past the text (not html source) of each page of results in your “my reads” listing. Then find/replace “^\[(.*)\]$” with a blank line. Strip all blank lines, and you’ll have a list that you can work with.
Full list, after the break. Continue reading
A new look
What’s your iPhone wallpaper look like?
Taken in 2003 at the Tate Museum in London … just walking by a gallery and snapped this with a Canon Elan 7 35mm—sometime its better to shoot with the light in front of you.
Windows
No Infectious Disease, no entry
Ms. Kitty doesn’t mind re-gifting
The beds turned out to be to small for my Mom’s dogs, but it doesn’t look like Ms. Kitty minds at all
Off to a good start
Thanks to my Mom for seeding the 2009 reading queue with a nice selection of books.
Christmas morning at Vanderbilt Mansion
“I am personally offended.”
Welcome to shopping in Dutchess County. At the Target in the Poughkeepsie Galleria and the Super Stop and Shop, Laura and encountered this for the first time: shopping carts that you have to pay for.
It took me a while to figure out why I couldn’t use any of these carts. They were in the front of the store, but they are chained together, so you can’t use them.
When we figured out that in order to get a cart in which to place all the stuff you want to buy from the store, you have to pay $0.25.
Or, you can use a hand basket for free and buy less.
The headline quote is courtesy of Laura.
Update: Mom says that you get your quarter back when you return the cart. And aparently, not that many people care about the quarter and still leave the cart out in the parking lot.
How common is this?
