Monthly Archives: November 2007

Hoping to Rock the Chalk Again

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For Kansas fans, Kansas fan wannabes, and Kansas expatriates, tonight’s Kansas vs Missouri football game has been much anticipated. Even more so, since LSU lost yesterday. The game is not only for a berth in the Big 12 Championship, but for #1 national ranking.

I used to rate KU’s football program on whether they beat Kansas State and Missouri; if they did, even though they may finish the season 2-and-whatever, I rated it a success.

I still rate the season by those standards, but the stakes are much higher now. And the ‘Hawks are far better than 2-and-whatever.

Rock Chalk Jayhawk!

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[stags]Kansas Jayhawks, Football[/stags]

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Sammich Monday

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Perhaps the best part of T-Day leftovers are the excellent smoked turkey sandwiches which will occupy my lunch pail on Monday. Smoky turkey, commercial cranberry glop, and a little mayo. With a few Utz Ripple chips. Man, oh man.

Almost enough to make me look forward to going back to work. Not quite, though it makes me look forward to lunchtime in my shabby cubicle come Monday.

-k-
[stags]Eats, Work[/stags]

And the Hickory Smoke drifts Skyward

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The turkey is in the smoker; an 11 pound specimen1 buttered, seasoned, and lightly stuffed with citrus, apple, and onion.2 The fowl is over a water pan, to which some wine and additional seasonings have been added. And the hickory chips and chunks are now working their magic.

It is a little windy for my liking today; it seems that I was always downwind from the smoke. Oh, well, it will turn out OK anyhow.

Now for some live booze testing, as we await the checking and reprovisioning of the water pan at 2PM or so.

-k-
[stags]Holiday, Thanksgiving, Eats[/stags]

1 Free Range, Organic – from Trader Joe’s.

2 No, we don’t eat that stuff.

Booze Test

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While waiting on my little bride to give me the order to light up the smoke pit, I came across this; minus the link to some DC dating “service”:

86%DRUNKARD

I’m sure there will be some live testing in the coming days; live tests are always preferable to multiple choice, IMO.

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Not Kindled

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Over the last few days, I’ve read a lot of oohs and ahhs about the Amazon Kindle e-book reader. The usual shiny new gadget crowd is blogging up a storm about the device. I have a narrowly defined interest in e-book readers, and I’ll bat out a post about what I’m looking for later over this long weekend. This post from Mark Pilgrim popped up in the feed reader the other day; with my new interest in such devices, I decided to quote a liberal chunk of Mark’s post; I emboldened the parts that are links in Mark’s original:

When someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this.

Jeff Bezos, Open letter to Author’s Guild, 2002

You may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to the Digital Content or any portion of it to any third party, and you may not remove any proprietary notices or labels on the Digital Content. In addition, you may not, and you will not encourage, assist or authorize any other person to, bypass, modify, defeat or circumvent security features that protect the Digital Content.

Amazon, Kindle Terms of Service, 2007

This alone rules out the Kindle in my estimation. Mark’s post is exactly on target; read the whole thing.

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[stags]ebooks, Kindle[/stags]

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Soakin’

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Home from work, earlier than normal, but it still wasn’t like getting cut loose at 2 or 3 in the afternoon. Sipping a cold one, and soaking the hickory chunks for the turkey smoking extravaganza tomorrow. My little bride has cleaned the smoker, and lined the fire pan and water pan with foil. We just estimated that our smoking apparatus is around 30 years old; what it lacks in elegance has been more than repaid by all the good eats we’ve prepared in it.

Here is how we prepare our smoked beast.

-k-
[stags]Holiday, Thanksgiving, Eats[/stags]

Safe Travels

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To all who take to the roads (or heaven forbid, the skies) today, please travel safely. I’m doing my part, I’m only going to work and back, and plan to spend the holiday ensconced here at tbbs WorldHQ. In that fashion, there will be one less vehicle adding to the congestion.

Happy Thanksgiving!
-k-
[stags]Holiday, Thanksgiving[/stags]

SimpliFLY

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The ever-vigilant ones at the Transportation Security Administration have prepared a video which instructs holiday travelers on how to pack their carry-ons to expedite the screening process. The suggestions will probably not even be known by the majority of the traveling public, and doubtless administered inconsistently, according to the whim of TSA officers on duty at the time. The video, and accompanying text, are available here.

And the instructions are as precise as a governmental agency, whose only purpose is to keep us safe1, can be:

Pack an organized carry-on bag using layers – a layer of clothes, then electronic, more clothes, and then any heavier items. This will help security officers see what’s in your bag.

I guess the bombs, C4, and firearms go on the upper layer then?

Thanks, TSA, for reminding me of something to be thankful for, and that is that I don’t fly. I only wish more people believed like I do; then the demand for air travel decreases, and some of these side-show antics would cease.

My no-fly streak will continue. Thanks again, TSA, for my first New Year’s resolution.

-k-
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1 Did your sarcasm filter pick up on that?