tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89558502024-03-07T12:17:10.529-06:00The Armchair NomadLife on the back of the beat...La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.comBlogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-77609766804029770572008-07-23T22:46:00.002-05:002008-07-23T22:53:03.318-05:00Return of the Occasional Bloggerette?Seems it's well over a year since I've bothered to write anything here, despite the occasional nudge from assorted parties. Yours Truly is toying with the idea of reclaiming her small corner of Teh Interwebs, though with a change of venue: <a href="http://armchairnomad.wordpress.com">http://armchairnomad.wordpress.com</a>. <div><br /></div><div>In the meantime, go read someone else's blog. Or go sit in the sun! It's summer, fer cryin' out loud!</div>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-65967502262120697182007-07-04T17:27:00.000-05:002007-07-04T17:29:38.806-05:00Happy Fourth of July<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010290">From</a> sea to shining sea...and to those overseas as well!</span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-89368452756534035932007-07-04T00:42:00.000-05:002007-07-04T01:11:50.378-05:00Quizzie Time: Decades Gone By<div align="left"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Loosely (very loosely) inspired by <a href="http://tigerinexile.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/not-your-fathers-american-upper-class-educational-side/#comments">this</a> post and exchange:</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /></div><img src="http://images.quizilla.com/C/cassinator/1044857793_esthirties.jpg" /><br /><strong>The Thirties.</strong> Take this <a style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)" href="http://quizilla.com/redirect.php?statsid=17&url=http://www.quizilla.com/users/cassinator/quizzes/Which+Decade+Are+You%3F" target="quizilla">quiz</a>!<br /><br /><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">That's reasonably close. I would've said '30s/'40s. Or as the Little Brother once said, "You were born old." Thanks, bro. It's true, though. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff6600;">And on an even more random note...</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></p></span></span><a href="http://www.sparklesparkle.net/quiz.html"><img alt="I am a knife!" src="http://www.sparklesparkle.net/knife.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sparklesparkle.net/quiz.html">What Kitchen Utensil are You?</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Hmm. I'd have said "bowl" because I use them much more often than plates. I guess I do have a tendency to expound whilst cooking, a natural outgrowth of which includes emphatic gesticulation while holding cutlery. Knives are pretty darned useful, too, though.<br /></span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-54633874540975383052007-06-18T12:12:00.000-05:002007-06-18T12:18:13.148-05:00Theory vs. Practice<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><a href="http://www.upi.com/Health_Business/Analysis/2007/06/15/analysis_is_grass_greener_in_canada/4154/">Gee</a></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="color:#ff6600;"><span style="font-size:85%;">.</span> </span></span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-28555171426911862452007-06-12T23:33:00.000-05:002007-06-13T00:16:17.598-05:00Relief<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">I admit it: not being the World's Greatest Law Student frequently worries me. I fret that this means I won't be the World's Greatest Lawyer, and will therefore not have a job, &c., &c. (I never claimed this was a rational fear.) </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">However, as the Great and Wise Nomad Mom--who would be an outstanding President but who'll never take the job--is wont to say, "if <em>Ted Kennedy</em> can make it through, so can you." Just now, I've come across another <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDI1M2RhYjQ5MThmYmViYjA3MzYwMmNkMWY1Nzk4MmI=&w=MA==">weapon for her arsenal</a> for whenever I end up taking the bar and if, God forbid, I ever end up in a courtroom due to some truly evil stroke of misfortune:</span><br /><br /><blockquote><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><em>But the hype was at times nearly overwhelming. To take just one example, it was often said that Mrs. Clinton had been judged one of the top lawyers in America. But both books point out that she failed the District of Columbia bar exam when she took it fresh out of Yale Law School. (Bernstein’s recounting of her years at Yale give the impression that she trained as much to be a social worker as a lawyer.) Of the 817 people who took the exam with Mrs. Clinton, Bernstein tells us, 551 — that’s 67 percent — passed, “most from law schools less prestigious than Yale.” The fact that Mrs. Clinton failed is not a scoop — after keeping it a secret for many years, she revealed it in a little-noticed<br />passage of her memoir, Living History — but it will receive new attention now. (She was also, by the way, unimpressive in the courtroom, and Bernstein reports that her worried Rose Law Firm partners “began steering her practice toward nonjury work.”)</em></span></p></blockquote><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Phew! I feel better already. Don't worry, though--I've no plans to run for Senate, President, or First Lady of anything, or even to try a hand at cattle futures. In all fairness* to HRC, though, hindsight appears to offer a cautionary lesson on hype for aspiring political power brokers: very few of those aspirants will in practice be consistently brilliant strategists or truly great politicians. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><em>*However, having one's White House portrait painted with one's hand on one's book is, well, tacky. On that point, I am unshakeable.</em> </span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-32524877604146433842007-06-05T09:57:00.000-05:002007-06-05T10:24:33.708-05:00With Bated Breath<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">I hope </span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aIep0nT2.tHI&refer=uk">these bettors</a></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"> are wide of the Mark:</span><br /><em><blockquote><p><span style="color:#ff6600;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Bookies are certain Harry's a goner. </em><br /><br /><em>William Hill Plc, a London-based bookmaker, is so sure of Harry's demise that it stopped accepting wagers and shifted betting to the possible killers. Lord Voldemort, who murdered Potter's parents, is the most likely villain, at 2-1 odds, followed by Professor Snape, one of his teachers, at 5-2. </em><br /><br /><em>``Every penny was on Harry dying, and it became untenable,'' said Rupert Adams, a William Hill spokesman. ``People are obsessed about this book.''</em></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#ff6600;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">[...] Rowling has refused to give any clues about which characters will be killed off. Writing on her Web site last month, she asked people not to spoil the ending for fans by speculating about the outcome.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#ff6600;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">``I want the readers who have, in many instances, grown up with Harry, to embark on the last adventure they will share with him without knowing where they are going,'' she wrote May 14.</p></span></span></span></blockquote></em><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">I do hope Harry survives, but as I always tell amused friends, I'll be even more devastated if Ron & Hermione die. I say "Ron & Hermione" because I think they are entertwined and one will not survive the end without the other. (Yes, I know, hopelessly sappy romantic.) I have only a few other simple requirements for JKR:<br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">At least some of the Weasleys must survive.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">And perhaps the most important of all, Remus must live, marry Tonks, and live happily ever after, because no one deserves it more.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br />But as for Harry's fate? You'll find no opinion here! Honestly, I enjoy reading and listening to others' predictions, but I've tried hard not to formulate any of my own speculations on that point. (Which is probably to everyone's surprise.) This time, I don't want predictions to burden the reading experience; I want to see what JKR has been plotting all these years. <br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">HT: <a href="http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/06/harry_potter_mu.html">Marginal Revolution</a></span><br /></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-9551105601239637672007-05-28T10:54:00.000-05:002007-05-28T11:36:06.790-05:00Two Separate Thank-Yous<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><strong>One</strong>:</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">I hope <a href="http://tigerinexile.blogspot.com/2007/05/view.html">this</a></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"> means that both Rosie and <em>The View</em> can now slide back into their respective obscurity, and nevermore will I be subjected to news reports of "what ridiculous, and occasionally physics-defying, twaddle Rosie held forth on today" or, really, any other "who said what on <em>The View</em>." (Honestly. <em>Women.</em> I swear...) O Bliss! Nevermore!</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><strong>Two--and significantly more important</strong>:</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Thank you, on this Memorial Day, to the thousands upon thousands of brave men and women who have given life, limb, and sacred honor to defend this beloved country. "Thank you" is too small and insignificant, but it is the best we can do in honor of your heroism and sacrifice, of what you have done for us and for peoples around the world, and for what you continue to do. </span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-25089528835329838112007-05-24T00:28:00.000-05:002007-05-24T00:34:43.065-05:00Happiness is...<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/xanboozled/510422523/in/pool-flatcoat/">Sticky kisses</a>. (The hardworking <a href="http://stagsleap.blogspot.com">Little Bro</a> will appreciate this.)</span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-64581599880781976402007-05-17T21:26:00.000-05:002007-05-17T21:34:03.251-05:00Real Men Do Not...An Occasional Series, Parts 1 & 2<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Real men do not...</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">1. Wear fuchsia.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">2. Tattoo e<em>nor</em>mous angel wings across their backs. (And if, for some wholly inexplicable reason, they have such a tattoo, they ought not jog by me, shirtless. Twice.)</span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-91139609371366724332007-05-08T12:44:00.000-05:002007-05-08T16:01:10.791-05:00Ha! (ish)<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Well, it may be entirely possible to think one has a quasi-decent understanding of assorted international agreements--TRIPs! Paris Convention! Berne Convention! Patent Cooperation Treaty!--or to think one does, and yet to know that it is equally possible to have answered every single exam question incorrectly.* <em>However,</em> I <em>did</em> correctly answer that Canada is the 2nd largest country in terms of area, unlike a gaggle of TV anchors. Ha! Small victories.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">*Actually, I think I got one right. The other 19, not so sure. Fortunately, most everyone else was probably in the same boat. </span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-1382380641115749112007-05-04T20:10:00.000-05:002007-05-04T20:55:32.010-05:00Observations over Ice Cream<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">I'm <a href="http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=200217064">not persuaded</a> that Segolene Royal's economics are much more than wishful thinking (I grant you I'm watching a translation, y no hablo el frances), but I am persuaded of her excellent taste in blouses.</span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-91766005180813524012007-05-03T11:25:00.000-05:002007-05-29T20:19:32.281-05:00Difficult Questions<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Do I love <s><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trip_Tucker">Trip Tucker III</a> </s><a href="http://www.scifi.com/enterprise/about/">Enterprise</a> enough to purchase Seasons 1-4?</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><strong>Update</strong>: Ayuh, apparently I do!</span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-79172286658524920682007-05-01T20:06:00.000-05:002007-05-01T20:14:38.604-05:00Hereby and Forthwith Concluded<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Perhaps I should not be allowed to chose my own topics, for I shall inevitably have chosen something much better suited for a dissertation, without realizing it upfront. </span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-18059731306714599212007-04-28T23:59:00.000-05:002007-04-29T00:14:10.436-05:00Manual Gaming Gone Wild<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Rock, paper, scissors? You ain't seen <a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5464">nuthin'</a> yet. </span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">I'm not at all familiar with Lovecraft, but seriously, how does this not sound fun? </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff6600;"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff6600;"><blockquote><p><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff6600;"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff6600;"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">From the </span></em><a href="http://www.umop.com/rps101/alloutcomes.htm"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">RPS-101 Outcome Guide</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">: Chainsaw DICES Turnip, Turnip STAINS Cup, Cup HOLDS Beer, Beer AFFECTS Chainsaw USE. Wow.</span></em></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff6600;"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><em> </em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p></blockquote></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Delightfully nerdy. (Would 'Mesh prove to be the champion of this game, too?)<br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-79244283689140666172007-04-16T18:48:00.000-05:002007-04-16T19:15:06.024-05:00Not a Popularity Contest<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDcxNmRhYWVkNmVkOGMzY2FhYTQ2YzM1NjcwNTZjMTg=">This </a>is a refreshingly realistic observation:</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><em></em><blockquote><em><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">I am somewhat pleased by the fact that very few of the frontrunners in either party are particularly likeable. We have had 7 elections in a row in which we were supposed to<br />care about how much we "liked" the candidates [...]</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">[...]</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /></em><em><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">We're not electing a dad or a mom or a best friend. We're electing someone who is supposed to: show up on time and sober every day, even when he's on vacation; work his (or her) tail off; juggle an enormous amount of responsibility; use good judgment with little information or time to respond; appoint reasonably competent people<br />to wield enormous (and sometimes lifetime) power; engage in hardball political negotiations with a sometimes-hostile and sometimes-stupid Congress.</span><br /><br /></em><em><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">I want a competent President who uses his head and who, at least occasionally, sees things "my way". I don't care if he or she is a jerk.</span><br /></em></blockquote></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Quite so. We're electing a President, not a Prom King. </span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-19007660056383936932007-04-16T08:41:00.000-05:002007-04-16T08:44:34.057-05:00Quizzie Time: L.M. Montgomery<div align="center"><a href="http://www.tickledorange.com/LMM/Heroinequiz.html"><img alt="Which L.M. Montgomery Heroine are You?" src="http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a161/valancy8/anne.gif" border="0" /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Which L.M. Montgomery Heroine are You?</span></a></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Way to make my morning!</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">TT <a href="http://tigerinexile.blogspot.com/2007/04/probably.html">Ben</a></span></div>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-53025144777255630712007-04-15T14:26:00.000-05:002007-04-15T15:05:15.917-05:00Reflections<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">What's in a compliment? </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">I don't mean a throwaway "Cute shoes!" or an "I love that dress!" but rather a real, substanative compliment, one you will never forget and will always strive to fulfill because it concerns a trait or goal you value most highly. Though the speaker probably didn't know it would strike you so deeply, it did... And you gathered it into your head and heart so that you might try to incorporate it in order to one day be more deserving. In nearly twenty six years, I can think of exactly two--which is probably as it ought to be, else one's head should be sorely swelled. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Funny things, words.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-19048673016864883982007-04-14T17:46:00.000-05:002007-04-14T17:52:21.016-05:00Where I wanna be...<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><a href="http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2007/04/april-flowers-what-difference-year.html">Springtime in Princeton</a>. Funny how just a picture can bring back all the emotions associated with this time of year there...for Yours Truly, it was always intensely bittersweet. It still is...and being unable to go to Reunions this year doesn't help any. Next year, though, next year.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Thanks to <a href="http://www.tigerhawk.blogspot.com/">TH</a>. </span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-44576956056409828422007-04-14T17:12:00.001-05:002007-04-14T17:40:30.705-05:00Q: Who could possibly have predicted this?<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">A: Pretty much anyone with a pulse. <em>See</em> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">"<a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDIwM2Q2NmNlYTRkZDcxMDgwMTc2ZWU0NmE0Y2M0YzY=">Well I'll Be Darned -- Norks Ignore Deadline to Shut Down Nuke Plant</a>." (Don't you just love Andy McCarthy?) As a friend once remarked, Kim Jong Il may be nuts, but he knows what he wants and is acting very rationally. Et voila... Some days ago--maybe it was last week?--C-SPAN2 had on a panel discussion regarding NK, and one of the panelists drily remarked that it would be very interesting if someone were to do the research to find an agreement of any kind, nuclear or otherwise, that NK had actually ever followed. Indeed it would.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Nor is it difficult to predict that Ahmadinejad & co. have been taking copious notes for quite some time. Whatever else they may be, naive and stupid they are not, particularly given their most recent success. </span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-8912311623065030742007-04-01T01:51:00.000-05:002007-04-01T12:53:15.222-05:00SmorgasBorge<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><a href="http://www.google.com/tisp/">Happy</a> April Fools', y'all!</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Some year I'll remember to <a href="http://www.sugarquill.net/aprilfools2007/">plan</a> some sort of <a href="http://www.sugarquill.net/aprilfools2007/pirates.html">practical</a> <a href="http://thepirateknight.net/squodcast/radio87_ep2.mp3">joke</a>, but this year, it will have to be someone else's wit instead. A few days ago, I was noodling around YouTube, looking for Victor Borge clips to show El Novio, and I was pleasantly surprised to find several. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">For your April Fools' amusement, some vintage Borge--comedy with a musical touch: </span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyArTMtgT1w&mode=related&search">Hungarian Rhapsody</a><br /></span><br /><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Two versions of "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-buiOOwXatM">Phonetic</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7L02tCNi0I&mode=related&search">Punctuation</a>" </span></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvUbrbFdJ8g"><em>Czardas</em> duet-duel</a><br /><br />Intro (in Minneapolis) Parts <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx4n9P4bLEo">1</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y469rFDlPVQ&NR">2</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Warning: since this is comedy from a slightly different day and age, you may find it lacking in shock and offense. You may, however, laugh anyway. </span></p><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-16459667919136454192007-03-27T01:15:00.001-05:002007-03-27T01:21:32.895-05:00Yip, yip, yip<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">For the Nomad Little Bro: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04HZISi-tew">little Flat-coat furballs</a>.</span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-53657924434201809082007-03-27T00:58:00.000-05:002007-03-27T01:07:32.172-05:00The Hammie and The Broccoli<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">I used to use the expression "toe-wigglingly happy," though I think people found it puzzling. But no more! With this expert demonstration by a wee hamster experiencing the transcendent joys of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0E-0ntoNWo">His First Broccoli</a>, the days of befuddlement are ended! </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Courtesy of <a href="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2007/03/this_might_shut.html">Cute Overload</a>, purveyor extraordinaire of warm fuzzies and the greatest site on the interwebs. </span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-5260714186405960922007-03-22T23:28:00.000-05:002007-03-22T23:49:14.673-05:00Fusion Flauting<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Despite my firm--nay, passionate and immutable--string loyalties, I do think this "beatbox flute" concept is creative and well-done...as well as very entertaining listening: </span><br /><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/59ZX5qdIEB0" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"></embed><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">That and I have a soft spot for Axel Foley and the <em>Beverly Hills Cop</em> theme.</span> </span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-44368033459361825682007-03-19T23:20:00.000-05:002007-03-19T22:24:59.986-05:00Quizzie Time: Tarot Card<p align="center"><img src="http://www.flarn.com/~warlock/tarot/chinese/17.jpg" /></p><br /><h2 align="center"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;"><b>You are The Star</b></span></h2><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Hope, expectation, Bright promises.</span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">The Star is one of the great cards of faith, dreams realised</span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><blockquote>The Star is a card that looks to the future. It does not predict any immediate or powerful change, but it does predict hope and healing. This card suggests clarity of vision, spiritual insight. And, most importantly, that unexpected help will be coming, with water to quench your thirst, with a guiding light to the future. They might say you're a dreamer, but you're not the only one.</blockquote></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><p></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><b>What Tarot Card are You?</b><br /><a href="http://www.flarn.com/~warlock/tarot" target="_blank">Take the Test to Find Out.</a></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="color:#ff6600;">h/t </span><a href="http://jeffthebaptist.blogspot.com/2007/03/tarot-personality-test.html">Jeff the Baptist</a></span></p>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955850.post-17498760736404328912007-03-14T20:54:00.000-05:002007-03-14T20:56:19.474-05:00Hmm.<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">Is there anyone who actually adores writing research proposals? I'm going to guess no...</span>La Cothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599497606448492694noreply@blogger.com0