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Monthly Archives: October 2007
9034 – weds
BHK made some tasty quiche last night, and it was even more delicious as lunchtime leftovers today. Two kinds – Mozzarella & Garlic vs “Chicken” and Gouda.
Yum. In the battle of the quiches, I am the winner.
Yesterday’s lack of rain caught up with us today… the plants must be loving it, given how dry stuff has been.
I may try something new with pictures… since flickr does a by date, maybe a link in the archives will be fun. not sure how long it’ll last.
Annoying discovery yesterday, re: installing software via Citrix – add/remove is the way to go – it caused a pretty serious bit of havoc with some regularly used tools. fortunately, the tools were easily recovered and put in place. The error made no sense to me at the time – I may have to rethink application security if folks are putting stuff on there haphazardly. I did appraise the key folks of the situation and I don’t foresee it happening again.
App compatibility guide is very helpful.
Having a bit of difficulty with insurance – claim I’m not on my policy! Silly error, but it’s a bit of a hassle getting bills that insurance should just process. Spoke to our rep, and it should be fixed by the end of the week.
After work, we went with the in-laws to Jasper’s. Fairly unsatisfactory experiance. BHK was quoted as saying that it had all the style and panache of an Appleby’s. (I have to remember to update the review in the link above.)
I’m thinking that I’d like to take BHK and maybe others to Udupi Palace– I keep meaning to try, but it slips my mind when I’m in the region. It was mentioned to me by one of the bus drivers on my local route… and she seems to know what she’s talking about, based on the reviews.
Halloween doodle of the moment –
More fall pics!
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I wonder if fearsome critter stories are fading out? The Hidebehind and hoop snake were the subjects of some of the very first books I picked up from a RIF function back when I was maybe 6 or 7 years old. I rarely hear mention of any of the critters in westerns I read these days. While whimsical, the tales could take a pretty nasty turn, not unlike most fairy tales from Europe.
With the exception of ATW man, I haven’t seen hide or hair of any Oktoberfest activities. That’s not to say there’s nothing going on. Perhaps it got lost amongst the Harvest Festivals, Haunted Houses, Corn Mazes, etc?
I’m already tired of hearing about the new “News nightmare” of super staph infections. Though, flesh eating super-bacteria is a nice element of October Halloween horror.
IMACRAB plate – I swear, I see more custom names on MD plates!
– torchwood sexuality, off to MD
– marlon takes over during hurricane, demon robot chimp, notpron, san fran in jello, night on bald mountain, 10 windows things, dalek christ, storm voice posts
– walkabout, considering a tablet, nostalgia, “A SUV with an American flag on it is like a whore wearing a rosary.”, Ashlee Simpson snl,Top-Earning Fictional Characters, nuptial ghost
4 years ago – big booty nurse says no, hospital pictures, Flesh-Eating Infection hits fishermen
5 years ago – sniper is caught, Dreamt I was a professional shopper, Picture of Hala& I work on a battle tank, chocolate frosted apple-filled doughnut,Salem PD, Scarecrows
6 years ago – created my palm sync icon, pneumonia, cooking with Bigfoot, Library Dream, scroll lock
7 years ago – 
Toy Story 2 recall, Utburds 
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9033 – tues – mostly pictures. and monkey soldiers.
Happy Birthday Eryx_uk !
Dawn was a nice start to the day – red sky in morning, sailors take warning – it didn’t rain, but was cloudy throughout the day.
Thank goodness for UPDATE `INFORMATION_TABLE` SET `MODIFIED_DATE`=NULL WHERE (`MODIFIED_DATE`='0000-00-00 00:00:00')
or update INFORMATION_TABLE set `MODIFIED_DATE`= replace(`MODIFIED_DATE`,'0000-00-00 00:00:00',NULL); for that matter.
That line of code saved me about three hours worth of cleanup. Let a robot do the searching and replacing, eh?
Also, Mini York Peppermint patties. One is just enough.
more autumn walkabout pics from our weekend – many thanks to BHK for taking most of the better looking photos, and uploading them!
Lots of reds, golds and oranges in our area.
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Mount Airy and Westminster – Historic Graveyard and etc.
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I really like the mail pouch tobacco barn.
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Our picnic view of the blue ridge mountains
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Dinosaurs and the plumbery
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Last bits of hayride and miniature Halloween city.
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Stalin’s half-man, half-ape super-warriors
(I think I linked to this a year or two ago, but it bears repeating. There are monkeys involved.)
THE Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents.
Moscow archives show that in the mid-1920s Russia’s top animal breeding scientist, Ilya Ivanov, was ordered to turn his skills from horse and animal work to the quest for a super-warrior.
According to Moscow newspapers, Stalin told the scientist: “I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the quality of food they eat.”
In 1926 the Politburo in Moscow passed the request to the Academy of Science with the order to build a “living war machine”. The order came at a time when the Soviet Union was embarked on a crusade to turn the world upside down, with social engineering seen as a partner to industrialisation: new cities, architecture, and a new egalitarian society were being created.
The Soviet authorities were struggling to rebuild the Red Army after bruising wars.
And there was intense pressure to find a new labour force, particularly one that would not complain, with Russia about to embark on its first Five-Year Plan for fast-track industrialisation.
Mr Ivanov was highly regarded. He had established his reputation under the Tsar when in 1901 he established the world’s first centre for the artificial insemination of racehorses.
Mr Ivanov’s ideas were music to the ears of Soviet planners and in 1926 he was dispatched to West Africa with $200,000 to conduct his first experiment in impregnating chimpanzees.
Meanwhile, a centre for the experiments was set up in Georgia – Stalin’s birthplace – for the apes to be raised.
Mr Ivanov’s experiments, unsurprisingly from what we now know, were a total failure. He returned to the Soviet Union, only to see experiments in Georgia to use monkey sperm in human volunteers similarly fail.
A final attempt to persuade a Cuban heiress to lend some of her monkeys for further experiments reached American ears, with the New York Times reporting on the story, and she dropped the idea amid the uproar.
Mr Ivanov was now in disgrace. His were not the only experiments going wrong: the plan to collectivise farms ended in the 1932 famine in which at least four million died.
For his expensive failure, he was sentenced to five years’ jail, which was later commuted to five years’ exile in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan in 1931. A year later he died, reportedly after falling sick while standing on a freezing railway platform.
– eryx bday, torchwood, stigmata / burger christ, open season, walkabout pics,
– wilma approaching, pirate scotto, chakra poll, Terry in Cancun, newt-wiggle pic, torchwood arcticle, newt grump-sphynx pic
– Newt entry, voted, bittorrent, 33 questions, randomness
4 years ago – German Dukes of Hazzard, the finger, vanishing penises, prepping for the doctor, spidey-doodle, SA.com gets PMing!
5 years ago – Paper Airplane sim, freebie movies, Dave got a hill giant, Newt head-waggy, Where’s George bill comes back, belarc
6 years ago – Walkin’ Pneumonia, chat proggies poopin out, 5 hours in ER/pharmacy.. waiting, mostly. palm-stream post
7 years ago – First use of GIANT-SIZE MAN-THING as a joke, Summertime, heavy work day
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