For my sweetheart –

SEVEN OF WANDS: VALOR — Energy feels itself at last grasp. Struggles. Possible victory. Obstacles and difficulties yet courage to meet them. Victory in small things. May indicate discussions, wordy strife. Additionally, it may signify success. (I hope it means the success and victory side, certainly. 🙂 )

And for myself –

KING OF SWORDS — Represents the fiery part of Air. A man, active, skillful and clever, fierce, delicate and courageous but often unreflective. Power, authority, militant intelligence. Indicates good advice, determination, productivity and caution. (Hmm.. not sure what to make of that. I’ll reflect on it a bit more as I get ready for the fair.)

For my sweetheart –

SEVEN OF WANDS: VALOR — Energy feels itself at last grasp. Struggles. Possible victory. Obstacles and difficulties yet courage to meet them. Victory in small things. May indicate discussions, wordy strife. Additionally, it may signify success. (I hope it means the success and victory side, certainly. 🙂 )

And for myself –

KING OF SWORDS — Represents the fiery part of Air. A man, active, skillful and clever, fierce, delicate and courageous but often unreflective. Power, authority, militant intelligence. Indicates good advice, determination, productivity and caution. (Hmm.. not sure what to make of that. I’ll reflect on it a bit more as I get ready for the fair.)

Happy Birfday !

Big & great wishes for the caregiver to the feline anti-crime league, from Newt and me.

Up and at ’em!

Off to the fair with and this morning… They’re bringing her sister and brother-in-law, and I’ll be taking my sweetie along (in spirit). 🙂 It’s been a while since I’ve been to one… I think it’ll be fun.

Got together with my little brother yesterday…had a nice time gabbing with him…got a bite to eat and just sort of shot the breeze. (we missed seeing each other at thanksgiving.)

I could not disagree with Alan Cooper any more on his advice to Microsoft to dump the browser. His reasoning is that browsers are like remote interfaces to distant server-based applications… and that this is somehow a bad thing. That’s precisely the thing I love most about the web. If I program my app correctly, I don’t have to worry about different platforms or different versions of an operating system. Ganted, web-based apps aren’t right for everything, but they’re perfect for a huge chunk of the things that people need to do on computers these days. Could you imagine if Travelocity wanted you to use some custom application to interface with their sales engine? Or if you had to have eBay‘s client on your computer in order to participate in an auction? Heck, web-based email alone is a great example of the goodness of the browser.

Anyhoo… Hope everyone has a lovely day, and I’ll get back to y’all later.

assoil (uh-SOIL) verb tr.

1. To pardon.

2. To atone for.

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin absolvere (to absolve).

assoil (uh-SOIL) verb tr.

1. To pardon.

2. To atone for.

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin absolvere (to absolve).

Is it too early to trot out the Christmas Icons?

http://www.iamlost.com/features/superhero/index.shtml

Origin of Powers Your Superpowers are derived from the deliberate experimentation on your body with various chemicals by aliens. The experiment was intended to alter and improve your body. An unknown factor has produced staggering results, and cannont be duplicated. You currently have an amicable relationship with those that created you. They allowed you to leave without conflict.

Side Effects Becoming a superhuman has changed you in many ways. You suffer from the following side effects. You now have six times the normal amount of body hair, which practically resembles fur.

Powers Your minor powers are Super Vision: Advanced Sight, and Extraordinary Mental Endurance.

http://www.geocities.com/codex34/paper/paper1.html – paper space toys you can make.

Day after Thanksgiving factoid… estimated american christmas spending this year, per household – $462. (Down form $490, last year)

About how much are you planning to spend this holiday?

So sometimes I’ll go walking late at night because the path down by the beach is empty and because it’s nice and cool and because I ate half a medium pizza at nine and I have to wait that long for it to wear off. That late, there’s not a lot on the radio except lonely talk show hosts crying into the night like crazed loons, so I tune to the Korean language station that I can pick up on AM, far on the left of the dial. (Is there FM talk radio?)

I don’t speak a word of Korean, but the rhythms are interesting and I like the rolly sound of the language. It sets a pace.

There’s one talk show that I particularly enjoy. The host just let’s his callers ramble on and on and on, sometimes for my entire walk, adding only a soft “Nehhh” every few seconds. I imagine that it’s a “Yes, yes, go on” sound, but he says it so softly and with such regularity that when he actually comes right out and says something rolly back at the caller, you almost stumble over that little dog that’s wandered in front of you.

I also like watching Spanish language TV, but that’s just because it’s scary and alien, and has Erik Estrada.

Minor Evil News –

What the ?!: Man shoots, decapitates pet pony
Cops believe the hunter mistook Sunday, a 3-year-old’s pet, for a bear and chopped off her head to hide the bullet evidence.

harry potter character test

Snape, so high up?

# 1 Rubeus Hagrid
# 2 Albus Dumbledore
# 3 Bill Weasley
# 4 Remus Lupin
# 5 Severus Snape
Continue reading →

🙂

repletion (rih-PLEE-shun), noun:
1. The condition of being completely filled or supplied.

2. Excessive fullness, as from overeating.

Repletion is derived from Latin replere, “to fill again, to fill up,” from re- + plere, ” to fill.” Plenty is a related word.

nutriment (NOO-truh-ment, NYOO-) noun

A substance that provides nourishment; food.

[From Middle English, eventually from Latin nutrimentum, from nutrire (to nourish).]

Happy Thanksgiving!

http://www.uncontrol.com/

don’t go here right before bed. I warned you. it’s addictive to play with goofy flash thingies.

Maynard G Krebs – Beatnik, shaggy prototype.

Village of the Spammed: a small hamlet is cursed by evil junk mail.

The Blog: An arctic research station is paralyzed by indulgent web journals.

A Chocolate Orange: Near future rebel is brainwashed by orange flavored chocolate segments.