TBBS-land recorded its 800th post. No Jokin’.
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Monthly Archives: December 2006
What a Croc
One of my presents from SWMBO was a pair of black Crocs. With the upcoming carpeting, painting, and sprucing up just around the corner here at Casa TBBS, I’d told her I would wear slippers around the house, to minimize carpet wear. She took me at my word, and bought these. They’re actually darn comfortable. I’m still trying to convince her that wearing them over white socks is in fact, very trendy. In an old guy kinda way.
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Spirits of Christmas Present
I nearly let the Holiday season pass without a post about my seasonal likker purchase. Yesterday, it was time for a haircut, and there’s a Virginia ABC stors in the same strip mall village center as my haircut place.
I walked out of the ABC store with 750 ml of pure amber goodness: Jefferson’s Reserve Very Old, Very Small Batch Bourbon. From the website:
Jefferson’s Reserve takes many years to slowly naturally mature. In fact, by the time we open the barrel, approximately 50% of the bourbon has evaporated. We call that missing bourbon the angel’s share. Fifteen years of aging produces a bourbon with a rich bouquet, golden color and mellow flavor that you’ll find only in Jefferson’s Reserve. We hand-selected each barrel and then mingle them in a very small batch of perhaps a dozen barrels. You can see for yourself – each bottle is numbered.
I got bottle 647 of 2400 from Batch 47. And it’s pure ambrosia. And I consumed a small drop last evening, in the prescribed manner thusly:
We advise those purchasing our bourbon to use no mixers, please. Drink it neat, on the rocks, or with a splash of water.
At 35 bucks, best stuff I’ve had in a long time.
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Puck
SWMBO rarely expresses an interest in electronic devices, and has even given me the stink-eye when I come home with some new electronic gewgaw. Much to my surprise, she was intrigued by the Roomba vacuuming robot from iRobot. She expressed this interest a year or two ago, and we just neglected to acquire one.
We’re having new carpet installed here at Casa TBBS in a couple of weeks, and to aid in its maintenance, I bought her a Roomba Scheduler this year for Christmas. I’d half-expected it to be more of a toy than a serious cleaning appliance. Man, was I wrong. This thing really gets after the dirt; it’s smart enough to know what areas of the carpet need extra attention, and covers those parts multiple times. It does an excellent job getting close to walls, much better than SWMBO or I can do with the Oreck. It knows when it’s low on power, and drives itself back to its docking station to recharge.
Our particular model comes with a remote control scheduler, where you can create a cleaning schedule and beam it to the robot. Then while you’re at work, asleep, or whatever, it will fire up and clean the floor. We’ll try that out when the cat isn’t in the room. Yesterday, the robot saw the cat, and I swear, charged right for him. Our cat knows little fear, but I think the robot would have a decided advantage in a confrontation.
With all the IR signals bouncing around this house, SWMBO and I will probably light up like pinball machines, and pay off in silver dollars.
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We named the robot Puck; looking like it does, the moniker seemed to fit.
Comic Boy
Two in two days. A-yup, this here is blodgin :
The Joker
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The Clown Prince of Crime. You are a brilliant mastermind but are criminally insane. You love to joke around while accomplishing the task at hand. |
Click here to take the “Which Super Villain am I?” quiz…
SWMBO has called me a joker, too.
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There’s Still Time
In the remaining 32 or so hours left in 2006, I’m encouraging my small but loyal readership to head out to One House at a Time, and make whatever contribution you can to help rebuild Pearlington MS.
Whether or not you are from a small town, I think there’s a longing for smaller, slower, and sustainable living conditions in each of us.
SWMBO and I gave as we’ve been blessed, and I’d encourage you all to do likewise. The Feds aren’t helping, so we have to do it ourselves.
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Comment Feed Jam
I thought my Atom comment feed reader was hosed last night, after all the comments on this post. It is OK now, though. The referenced piece is alone at the top of my “most commented on” leaderboard.
And, as someone near the part of the long tail that’s still dragging the ground, I’m happy with all the responses.
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Bill, Where’s My Laptop?
As one of the 49.9999 million bloggers who did not receive an Acer Ferrari laptop preloaded with Windows Vista, courtesy of the Redmondian Empire, I just want to say that I’m damn miffed about the whole deal.
But then, had I been on the list, I’d be compelled to join the big Blogospheric Hand Wring and Pontification about whether I should disclose the gift, what I should write about the product, and spew forth all kinds of tripe about bloggers somehow being cut from better cloth, and how integrity needs to be preserved, and how by damn, the blogosphere is the only thing keeping us from ruination.
Horsefeathers! A blog is a platform. Period. Run by a human who is subject to all the foibles of frail humanity, and sometimes errs. Or who may be a crook and a deceiver. Just like in, say, real life?
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PS – I thought Microsoft had a good idea on this whole thing. Not good enough for me to ditch my Mac, but a good idea nonetheless.
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Necktie Party
New Media, just like the Old
Everybody knows that Robert Scoble was invited to tail along with the John Edwards campaign for the 2008 presidency. And that’s a great thing. A blogger, a real blogger, with enthusiasm, the naivete of geekhood, along on a Big Media Excursion.
And damned if the first 24 hours weren’t good. And then this gem, wherein it is shown in in-your-face detail, how insignificant those who weren’t included really are:
The problem is how do average citizens do trips like this and get access if they have to pay their own way? That’s going to be a problem. Maybe bloggers should start an association to pay for their own representatives to go on trips like this. That way we’ll make sure we keep our independence and credibility, while getting access to things like this.
Average citizens?? Sheesh, dude, average citizens keep this country going, working, paying their bills, drinking a few beers on the weekend. And us average folk don’t really give a rat’s patoot about going on some cross-country boondoggle 18 months before the election. And, there’s no way any association is gonna form, since it’s foreordained that the A-listers in their little fuzzy echo chamber who are going to provide the “independence and credibility”. They’ll look a lot like the Big Media we already know and hate.
Sorry, Robert, but I’ve got better things to do.
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