Monthly Archives: November 2007

RIP, Evel Knievel

November 30, 2007 – 9:28 pm

A daredevil’s daredevil, Evel Knievel, has passed away at age 69.
I’ve always been a fan of daredevils, and man, he was the King.
Footage of the stunt that still makes my stomach clench up:

RIP, Evel.
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How Not to Support Your Candidate

November 29, 2007 – 9:33 pm

Via the Evil Genius Chronicles, a post documenting Ron Paul’s visit to Myrtle Beach. I was sorely tempted to comment on Dave’s observations, and ask for further elucidation of his remarks. Then, a commenter named Matthew made these artless observations:
I beg you to explain to me why you dont agree with Ron Pauls beliefs? [...]

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So, Where’s the Crime?

November 27, 2007 – 8:27 pm

Ga. Man Tries to Deposit Fake $1M Bill
Every so often, a story like the one above surfaces. Every time, the perpetrator winds up arrested. Somehow, in my old-school, baby boomer mind, the phrase “fake million dollar bill” implies that there’s a real one someplace, which of course is false.
If he’d tried to deposit Monopoly [...]

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Pork Fat Rules

November 26, 2007 – 8:22 pm

Chicken Fried Bacon

Two observations:

The adjective svelte doesn’t apply to more than a few of the restaurant’s customers.
If I’m ever in Snook TX, I’m gonna try it out.

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Via Neanderpundit…
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Cyber Monday

November 26, 2007 – 6:09 am

Cyber Monday is today. This is apparently the day we’re supposed to leech bandwidth from our employers to buy Christmas gifts on-line. And I plan to participate wholeheartedly. In the usage of bandwidth part anyhow. I’ll be plumbing the depths of Solaris Live Upgrade and flash archives.
The cash flow from such usage [...]

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The Wireless Broadband lives, too

November 25, 2007 – 3:34 pm

And my Sprint wireless broadband card is functioning OK under Fedora 8, too.  Providing this post shows up, that is.
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From the Laptop

November 25, 2007 – 3:14 pm

OK,  upgrade done, wi-fi drivers recompiled and reinstalled, and alls good in Geeksville.
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Busman’s Holiday

November 25, 2007 – 1:41 pm

Enough turkey, Shiners and football for a bit. I’m flipping back and forth from QVC to the Washington Redskins game, whilst upgrading the Toshiba laptop to Fedora 8.
I normally do fresh installs; this time I’m doing an upgrade. This all in spite my carefully making backups of valuable files, in preparations for a [...]

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A Bit Short

November 25, 2007 – 10:40 am

Last night’s Kansas-Missouri football Border War was an outstanding game; unfortunately, the Jayhawks came up on the short end of a 36-28 score.
Taking nothing away from the outstanding play by Missouri, it doesn’t take a huge sports analyst to say that had the ‘Hawks rushed the ball better, had they not turned the ball over [...]

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About Three point something Million Short

November 24, 2007 – 6:55 pm

Unpopulated, 1-House Texas Town ‘Sold’

$3.8 million would be a huge budget annihilator1 for my little bride and me, and if the Italian guy who’s the apparent winning bidder pulls it off, good on him.
Look at the Albert website, though. What great environs and beautiful country.
In the meantime, we’ll be content with our 40 acres [...]

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