Daniel's Big Trip

Daniel, a wounded vet in med school, is driving around the country with his wacky Boxer Rocky and blogging it.

Cool stuff! Read it, and donate. Least we can do for one of America's heroes.

Lines run amok!

I dunno what happened, but the lines between posts have grown. Please disregard while I try to figure out how to truncate them :-).

Great news in the blogosphere!

The Diplomad is back!

Media bias

An outstanding article about media bias in reporting on the war.

Obviously, we can't expect Big Media to police itself. They're too busy publishing forged documents as true, ditto using faked photos, and hiring liars.

All to advance their America-hating, jihadi-loving agenda. Older readers will recall the similarity with coverage of Vietnam.

UPDATE: The Daily News also a bit truth-challenged.

Michael Yon

An extraordinary journalist.

If you aren't familiar with his site, g'wan over there now.

Nice preview with pics here [PDF].

Sunspots or what?

We've been having connectivity problems, hence the paucity of new posts.

Some folks with the same ISP claim that the problem originates at the uplink; others say it's caused by solar flares.

Regardless, it's been making the connection time out. Plenty of problems surfing, and much worse when doing something interactive like filling in forms for blog posts.

We're very much looking forward to DSL by the end of this year :-).

Cathy Seipp - In Hospital

From her blog:

I'm at her bedside now, holding her hand. I tell her she has 292 comments on the latest blog post..her last but she just squeezes my hand. She was very happy with this blog. In honor of her, if you can...support the American Lung Cancer Society and or adopt stray dogs and cats from the pound. Those were her causes.

UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who posted. As of 7:45am this morning she is still breathing and pulsing but is passing peacefully.

She was a wonderful writer and a very brave woman. If you pray, say a prayer.

If you've never heard of her - start reading.

UPDATE: Link fixed.

New blogs!

New to me, that is, and they're cool, so I added 'em to the blogroll.

First is The Answer Bird. Marvin the African parrot gives advice - keyboarded by his human, Steve Graham. Set down yer coffee, or lose yer monitor, lol.

Mostly Cajun blogs from southwest Louisiana. Today's post, Critters and electricity, is a hoot :-).

Hello again!

So many visitors from interesting places. I'd love it if you posted in the comments where you're from, and how ya got here.

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So busy [sigh]. It's spring, and that means extra chores, what with stuff growin'. There aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done sometimes, know what I mean?

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At the Hard Copy board, all the old posts on the page disappeared and it started over with a clean slate. That's a Very Good Thing; it was getting quite difficult to sort wheat from chaff.

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Gorgeous weather. Enjoy it! I'll be making a couple posts later on with news, opinion and gossip.

DSL internet service

Somebody at the Hard Copy board mentioned that a Bellsouth employee said DSL internet service will be available all over the area by the end of the year.

I went to the Bellsouth site and had an online chat with a customer service rep.

Yes, it's true. BS DSL will be available all over the place by the end of 2007.

Yippee!

Sorry for the hiatus.

We've been down with the flu.

Will be back posting Sunday [tomorrow].

Hope y'all are having a nice weekend, and stay safe through the storms tonight :-).

Where y'at? And why?

We're getting visitors from all over.

Are you displaced residents? Folks with family in the area?

Leave a comment and tell us your story :-).

NOTE: Comments don't always work correctly, and there isn't much I can do about that. Just keep tryin'.

Latest spam

Introducing the morons who've filled my inbox:

• PaulRubeal - with the busted spacebar.
• Dan Molinaro, who says he's from Bismarck, North Dakota.
• Ethan Wayne
• Saunders Triplett
• Perry Mertens
• ned aleta - of the broken shift key
• Kathrine Haney
• Raymundo Titor
• Vito Peel - sounds like a blender. "Ladies and gentleman, I'm here to demonstrate the amazing Vito Peel. It chops, it dices!"

I also get a bunch of messages from "Free Hoodia," could be a rallying cry. Free Hoodia! "Jose Hoodia is still being held as a political prisoner in this humid tropical dictatorship..."

My favorite subject lines are the ones that promise to help me with my "tonnage." Hey, since when is an extra 15 pounds "tonnage"? Ya catch more flies with honey...

The good ol' days

Seen in the comments at Blackfive:

Take Me Back to the Sixties.

Turn on your speakers and enjoy.

Slothful Sunday

As you might guess, today's Slothful Sunday wasn't as relaxing as I might wish, heh. There was nothing I could leave undone today.

But I've been getting in a little relaxation by watching movies, yesterday and today.

Darling Daughter and I had a Harry Potter festival. I'd never seen any of the Harry Potter films, and she's got the complete set.

My verdict is: very entertaining. And the set decorators must've had a blast. Wonder if there's someplace I can buy a set of those spine candles?

Names from spam

I was enjoying the view at Gallery of the Absurd and somehow ended up at Fresh Spam, which has great illustrations of spam names and subjects.

Spam names? Sure. Here's a selection from my own inbox:

Ladyda Jessica
Dorita Crow
Minnie Sadler
Rajan Eileif
Kobi Levi

I used to see authors like "Wrestling B. Dangler" but maybe my ISP is filtering those now.

Anyhow, after the Fresh Spam site I hopped over to this post at Birdmonster, where a bunch of kind folks are sharing the spam names in their inboxes.

Naturally, you would follow stock advice from Grinchmas Gashy, right? lol

You can make your own names with the Spamfriend Generator.

HTML. The language from h3ll.

Apologies to my readers.

Tried to make the blog classier and add more ads. And I totally screwed up the format.

Par for the course. I think we're back on track now.

Thanks for your patience :-)!

Lookin' for a makeover

I'd love to be able to put Amazon ads in their own column.

Which practically requires a three-column template.

So no more posting for today, while I go ahunting through the WWW for a more suitable look.

Stay tuned for Slothful Sunday! Tomorrow a.m.

UPDATE: Okay, we've got three columns. Now I need to make them the correct width and add all those links in by hand, and possibly a few other refinements.

So far, wuddaya think?

Where? Why?

Hello, visitors!

Where are you from, and what brought you here?

Comments are open. Feel free to leave one!

Ch-ch-ch-ch-chaaaaanges

We've become an Amazon Associate, which means you'll be seeing links to books in our posts. Some of 'em slightly humorous, I hope.

In the sidebar we'll have a running text-only list.

Happy reading :-)!