HULK SMASH!!!
Impeach. It is not too late to share the love.
FIRST!
So I have a buncha pics from my Amtrak ride, Code Pink video and catblogging at the Homepage. Fuckers.
billy b
should be here now
olah
no comment?!
Haloscan must be a politician.
Frist? D'oh!
Noooooo/
dshhds
That's weird.
shorter Obama: Florida is now my state, bitchez!
billy b
should be here now
ErinPDX | 05.24.08 - 12:38 am | #
Erin, check out Digitech RP series multi-preamps. Cheap and good. RP50, 250, etc.
Stick a fork in her.
She's a smore.
shorter Obama: Florida is now my state, bitchez!
Shorter NTodd: bitchez!
Who's a smore? Hillary or Joan of Arc?
Who's a smore?
Mmmmm, s'mores.
The Wicked Anti-Witch is Dead...
This energy thing can be solved. But it will not be solved by dreaming it away with pet projects and pie in the sky ideas. Practical ideas and innovative technologies will do it. But we need to do it now.
A series of steps and a general plan will suffice. The idea of subsidizing high efficiency cars and furnaces and other high energy use systems is a good start. It will put people to work and this will have a multiplier effect on teh economy.
Alternative energy sources for electricity for electric cars such as wind power and solar power and hyrdoelectric power generated by in-stream and in-current and in-tide generating systems can also work. Geothermal systems can add to this as well as biomass generation.
Alternative transportation systems: buses at first and trains and even trolly systems in the cities.
But doing what we are doing (nothing) and having politicians as silent as death about it is not going to work.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonl...30/771/5/
521718
again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=4...feature=related
The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl 1988 Live
It may not help Haloscan, Snake Goddess, but it helps us primitive rural lurkers...
http://www.internalcombustionbook.com/
Good evening, moonbats.
i can haz ronjazz, phila,
to help me?
NTodd: still on the train.
It may not help Haloscan, Snake Goddess, but it helps us primitive rural lurkers...
I was a blogger on dial-up for two years. Finally got enough donations to afford wifi.
I hear NTodd pulled a train...
{{{Ali}}} You ok?
don't know exactly where jack the sweet forester lives, but i guarantee it's beautiful
Shorter bitchez: Bi!
Was hapnin, Ali?
Oh, Echidne, thanks for remembering. I am fine. Really. It's all for the best.
OK, team, heads up. Now we're gonna tear each other apart for another three weeks for the good of the team. Henderson! Eyes front.
Then after that, we're gonna pretend that we like each other. Upup! Yes, we like each other. Cuz the big game is coming up, full pads, what we talked about. Your parents will be watching.
Erin, check out Digitech RP series multi-preamps. Cheap and good. RP50, 250, etc.
ronjazz | 05.24.08 - 12:39 am | #
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Diditech makes some good shit! I have a Digitech Vocal 300 vocal effects processor pedal and an older Digitech rack mount DSP 256 multi effects processor.
ron, got stuff to work thru the pa - oldie but goodie peevey
i'd rather play/sing that be a fuckin roadie
Why did Obama get Secret Service protection?
Why did Obama get Secret Service protection?
take a guess.
It's still hard, Ali. So take care of yourself.
...Digitech...
What happened Ali, if you don't mind? If you do, it's cool...
Thanks, Snake lady. I'm touched you remembered.
I found out something good today: If you microwave a choccy bar and then pour it over ice-cream it freezes back and you get a yummy ice-cream sandwich.
Nothin much Elias, just an imploded marriage.. you know, the usual.
take a guess.
I think Hillary needs to ask herself that question. Obama has already received more death threats than any political figue since Martin Luther King.
Elias, you suck.
Sort of like a Klondike bar, Ech...
i'd rather play/sing that be a fuckin roadie
ErinPDX | 05.24.08 - 12:46 am | #
that's why I got the Bose L1 system. no more amps for me. Good processor, good mic, good to go. 15-minute setup and breakdown. No feedback, no monitors, no soundman, no backache, no van.
No-brainer.
Why did Obama get Secret Service protection?
jk | 05.24.08 - 12:46 am | #
I'm not sure I want to know the answer to that question.
The chocky thing sounds amazing! Too bad the store is closed here. *plots*
Sort of like a Klondike bar, Ech...
Except with much better chocolate. I used Lindt's.
Why did Obama get Secret Service protection?
jk | 05.24.08 - 12:46 am | #
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Thats not very reassuring. A story came out last week about some racist secret service police.
They joked about a missile hitting a plane that Jesse Jackson was flying in and that it wouldn't be an accident, hung a noose in a conference room where a fellow black secret service policeman was suppose to hold a meeting. Sick f**ks!
NTodd is a trannie?
It's OK, Ali.
You know what they say about time.
Sometimes it just doesn't get here soon enough.
Keep groovin on Spearhead...
The chocky thing sounds amazing! Too bad the store is closed here. *plots*
Ali, spiritual advisor
Cherry Mash, directions on the wrapper.
Why did Obama get Secret Service protection?
jk
All serious Presidential candidates get Secret Service protection.
Since Truman's admin, IIRC.
Don't they all get secret service protection? I would think it's standard, this close to an election.
You guys have a history of shooting political figures. Even the white ones.
I was a blogger on dial-up for two years. Finally got enough donations to afford wifi.
Echidne
It does challenge, doesn't it. I've been lingering in this bloggy world since 2001, and the only hope for high-speed out here in the wildlands of South Central Orygun is satellite. Mrs. Jack K. has assured me that my little on-line vice will not be sustainable at that price....
Night, all
Peace.
Except with much better chocolate. I used Lindt's.
Echidne | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 12:49 am | #
A good chocolate makes all the difference. I've gotten into Scharffen Berger.
Oh, I owe MP an beverage.
And Elias, I am still grooving on Spearhead. My kids sing along now, too. 
What country you from, Ali?
All serious Presidential candidates get Secret Service protection.
Obama got it last year, way before any of the other candidates (except, I assume, Clinton because of her status as a former First Lady).
I am Canadian.
Night, all.
Bands of angels sing thee to thy rest...
Except for the troll assholes.
Better bands of angels than semi-nekked Finnish guys calling themselves steel concrete.
That's what I thought, Ali. Good for you...
Very much missed-the-thread, but Azerbaijan for the Eurovision win. You heard it here first.
NTodd is a trannie?
Where've you been living, a cave? We've all known this for a while
Where've you been living, a cave? We've all known this for a while
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 05.24.08 - 12:54 am | #
A Brazilian she-male, iirc ...
A trannie with a goatee? Only in Vermont.
ntodd is all like 16 cars long. too bad, so sad.
ronjazz and erin, my baby bro worked as a roadie for one summer. Said he never worked so hard for so little money, and he had a ton of fun doing it. Of course, he was 23 at the time.
Serious was probably not the proper term. But the SS gives bodyguard protection once it's clear that they may be preserving the life of the future President.
Better bands of angels than semi-nekked Finnish guys calling themselves steel concrete.
And singing about heroic, manly men riding, riding.....
Just spent a wonderful evening at a Little Village restaurant named Mi Tierra with my wife and an amazing assortment of beautiful Mexican women who work with her. Great food, Mariachi music and far too many margaritas and shots of tequila.
Anybody who has a problem with immigration can go to hell. These people are the salt of the earth.
thanks ron
saved info for when i can digest
But the SS gives bodyguard protection once it's clear that they may be preserving the life of the future President.
the point is that Obama got the protection before that point because of the death threats.
Ech, some to the best treats are discovered like that.
Try this. Pour some real maple syrup over walnuts. A great natural dessert. It's such a great combo, like grape jelly and PB...
I see the late night crew is here. plus, ntodd took the train today.
memorial day bbq recipes: bring it on, motherfuckers!
some "of"...
Hilary has had SS protection for 16 years.
These people are the salt of the earth.
Salt of the earth goes nicely with the tequila.
Sorry, Shared Humanity, couldn't resist. Sounds like a fabulous evening.
don't know exactly where jack the sweet forester lives, but i guarantee it's beautiful
ErinPDX
...thirty miles south of Bend, Erin, dear...
...and the beauty was somewhat mitigated by the fact that it snowed - hard - here from 0630 until about 11 am today. Moving back to PDX country started to seem like a really attractive option, even considering all the people and traffic and hassles of urban life...
Try this. Pour some real maple syrup over walnuts.
Honey walnut prawns....
Elias, sugared pecans are my weakness. I'll put some sugar in a small pan, add the pecans, and wait for the sugar to glaze them. Yum.
I have a recipe for spicy maple roasted pecans. To die for.
It's too bad the railroads don't still have special cars. We could rent one for the next eschaton.
jeebus, snow in Oregon today? I gotta move back to the Northwest, dagnabbit.
Ali! How are you tonight?
Elias, sugared pecans are my weakness. I'll put some sugar in a small pan, add the pecans, and wait for the sugar to glaze them. Yum.
Try it with Xian babies. Yum.
What country you from, Ali?
Elias
Mrs. Peel, check out these two they are just wild when they get together and elias is great at anagrams too...
Leibniz, no club cars anymore?
Too bad. They could make a fortune off this crowd
Snow, Tony Snow.
I'm fine thx, Sallyh. And how's things down the I5?
Liebniz, pecan encrusted Xian fetus. Mmm, tasty!
Jack K and Erin, I really like the Blue Mountains up above Pendleton, up around the La Ronde River, La Grande and Baker City and in between. And the coast. Haven't been to western Oregun much lately....but I guess I'll see a little bit at WEschaCon...
Ali, headed for Palm Springs tomorrow for the weekend, and hoping the weather's good.
sallyh,
I meant an attached coach, like the one Truman used in his 1948 campaign. FDR even had his own train station irrc, or maybe it was Vanderbilt. And they would attach the family car to the train.
Elias, sugared pecans are my weakness. I'll put some sugar in a small pan, add the pecans, and wait for the sugar to glaze them. Yum.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
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OK then, try this.
1/2 cup each of walnuts, brazil nuts, pecans and almonds + 1/2 cup dark raisons, saute in oil, garlic, ginger, tumeric.
When the raisins start to puff, sprinkle just a little bit of sugar and let glaze until nuts are slightly browned.
Pour over rice or just as they are.
Orgasmic.
I've never been west of Chicago. I'd like to travel the west one day, but whenever I've had the time and the money I've also had a need to see my family.
Leibniz, they're gonna need a bigger train. And more booze.
OK, let's buy an Airbus 380.
MLK spoke at Notre Dame when I was a high school freshman. Goldie, the woman who worked for my mom during football season when we had lots of parties for customers from out of town, was going to see him with her church, even though it was primarily a campus event.
My mom said something to her about how excited she must be to get to see him, but she said, "Oh, I'm afraid he's going to be shot."
Until she said it the idea had never entered our safe little white minds. It was October 1963. The next month JFK was dead.
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I have a recipe for spicy maple roasted pecans. To die for.
Ali, spiritual advisor
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Might have to bride that out of ya...
Echidne, there are about a gillion things to see in the western US.
The American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners, Inc.
there's even a link for cars available for charter, complete with pics!
pecan encrusted Xian fetus only works if you use the unborn Xian placenta to tenderize. then throw it down a well to tenderize more.
then, and only then, grille over coals greyed through the tears of the unborn.
oh shit, I forgotm beatings first, then fetus, placenta, tears. season to taste.
When I inherit my parents' place, y'all can come visit me, 20 miles from the north end of Zion National Park, 'kay? That goes especially for Echidne.
Go to bed, Simels...
Echidne, there are about a gillion things to see in the western US.
I know. One day I will buy a Winnebago and spend a year on the road.
oh shit, I forgotm beatings first, then fetus, placenta, tears. season to taste.
Great, now I'm hungry.
Are you still on the train, NTodd?
The American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners, Inc.
I'll be damned (at least more damned)
I know. One day I will buy a Winnebago and spend a year on the road.
Echidne | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 1:06 am | #
Christ, you'll have to load that thing with cocaine just to pay for the gas!
I've never been west of Chicago. I'd like to travel the west one day, but whenever I've had the time and the money I've also had a need to see my family.
Echidne
Soul Train.
Ech, got just the ride for ya:
http://www.veggievan.org/
Christ, you'll have to load that thing with cocaine just to pay for the gas!
Most likely. But dreaming costs nothing.
Are you still on the train, NTodd?
Nah, the train was late, but I'm in bed now at Code Pink. Alone.
I know. One day I will buy a Winnebago and spend a year on the road.
Better yet, get a small auto, and have a fully charged up debit card with credit privileges, and stay at nice motels, hotels, and B&B lodges.
This way you save on gas costs, and don't have to drive a monster RV down the road. This matters a lot when you get to the Cali traffic.
echidne
see Yellowstone, see Rocky Mt National Park, see arches and zion. see the Wind River Range, buy a beer in Cody, Wyoming, get a cup a coffe at Wall Drug after spending a few days in the Badlands.
wine country is good, but the beer garden above John Muir Woods is even better.
ali
elias
sallyh and me are friends,
we all just help each other ...with stuff
Elias, sounds delicious
Obama's speech on US policy in Latin America today is on cspan.
...actually, the most dramatic scenery you could find in the state is around Enterprise, Joseph, and Wallowa Lake (to the east of La Grand and Baker City). Huge craggy mountains right up in your face...
The Willamette Valley is an entirely different scene, but is interesting in its own way...
get a cup a coffe at Wall Drug after spending a few days in the Badlands.
You know why this is very funny? Because in the little coastal village in Finland where I grew up there is a signpost saying how many miles to Wall Drug.
See Bryce. And Lehman Caves. Grand Canyon, North Rim.
ali
elias
sallyh and me are friends,
we all just help each other ...with stuff
Mrs. Peel
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WTF?
NTodd, no. panty. stealing.
NTodd, no. panty. stealing.
It def is, Sallyh.
Jack K, the folks in Baker City are always talking about Wallowa.
I've been to the Willamette Valley, but not for years and years. It's probably changed some from what I remember, carpets of never-ending green....
NTodd, no. panty. stealing.
*pouts*
Code Blue...
I've never been west of Chicago. I'd like to travel the west one day, but whenever I've had the time and the money I've also had a need to see my family.
Echidne
May I recommend it? It's astonishingly different than the Midwest, and parts of the West are astonishingly different than other parts.
I suggest a road trip, before that becomes a privilege of the rich - start in southernmost California, head up Coast Highway 1 to San Francisco, find your way east on Interstate 80 through Nevada, Idaho, Utah, into Wyoming, and then toss the maps out the window and see what you find.
Well, maybe keep the maps...
That was strange . . . What I meant to say was that the only time I crossed the Mississippi was back and forth between Minneapolis and St. Paul. But I've taken a lot of back roads through the old, weird America on this side.
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I suggest a road trip, before that becomes a privilege of the rich - start in southernmost California, head up Coast Highway 1 to San Francisco, find your way east on Interstate 80 through Nevada, Idaho, Utah, into Wyoming, and then toss the maps out the window and see what you find.
In one of my dreams I was thinking of going down to Louisiana, then across and up California, then across the northern plains to make a circle.
This is one place I've got to see before I die. The Eastern Sierras:
http://www.thesierraweb.com/index.cfm
Has anyone been?
Aww...Poor Georgie
WASHINGTON - In a week of dramatic developments in the Middle East, the most dramatic development of all may have been the fact that the United States, long considered the region's indispensable player, was missing in action.
As its closest allies cut deals with their adversaries this week over the Bush administration's opposition, Washington was largely reduced to watching.
More painfully for President Bush, friends he's cultivated — and spent heavily on — in Lebanon and Iraq asked the United States to remain in the background, underlining how politically toxic an association with the U.S. can be for Arab leaders.
Also, I highly recommend driving through the mountain roads that wind through Santa Fe and Los Alamos in New Mexico. Beautiful country. Or the Sonoran Desert in Arizona in early October.
Good night. I love you all.
Wait a minute, I dislike some of you, I even despise others at times.
Come to think of it, go fuck yourselves.
In a nice way.
Ech, I would have never guessed. You seem so worldly.
Wall Drug is amazing, but you see signs miles and miles before you actually get there. camping in the Badlands gives you the geological reality of the West, and Wall Drug gives you the post-19thC. version of what the mid-19thC. version of South Dakota might have looked like, immediately following the decimation of the Lakota and their lifestyle by gold greedheads and the American taxpayers who stood behind them.
trust me, Badlands is way better than Wall Drug, but if you are driving from the east this dichotomy is what you get after leaving the plains. if you take the Northern route.
Interstate 80 doesn't go through Idaho.
Ech, I would have never guessed. You seem so worldly.
I'm very worldly. I come from Europe, you see.
I've been to Utah a bunch of times, and I'm heading back in June (fingers crossed). I love the desert. It's such a nice change from my soggy neighbourhood.
BTW, I feels I should state that was a joke. I really dig you guys.
Elias, our family traveled all over the West when I was a kid. I've been to the Sierras, but decades ago.
In one of my dreams I was thinking of going down to Louisiana, then across and up California, then across the northern plains to make a circle.
1986 in reverse. please, make those memories stop. please.
I'm very worldly. I come from Europe, you see
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Ba da bing!
I really dig you guys.
gaii
Meh, go fuck yourself MP.
More painfully for President Bush, friends he's cultivated — and spent heavily on — in Lebanon and Iraq asked the United States to remain in the background, underlining how politically toxic an association with the U.S. can be for Arab leaders.
I would think that emergency arms shipments to Israel in 2006 while Israel was generally kicking the shit out of Lebanon in a fit of pique, after invading two countries and making messes of both of them, might not endear Bush to the Arabs.
But, that's just a guess.
I really dig you guys.
gaii
Echidne
HOMOPHONE!
as far as I know, you can still get a cup of coffee for 5 cents at Wall Drug. all day, every day.
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WTF?
Elias
well, that us ... hip hip hurray cats and laterz fellow normal friends
My kids ate the Haagen Dazs. I hate those little bastids.
Shit, I gotta go to sleep. l8rh9rz.
as far as I know, you can still get a cup of coffee for 5 cents at Wall Drug. all day, every day.
The sign post said it was 3000 odd miles to Wall Drug.
Elias, Uncle Fester/Mrs. Peel thinks you and I are the same person.
Elias, our family traveled all over the West when I was a kid. I've been to the Sierras, but decades ago.
Tlazolteotl
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Our local museum has a digital photo exhibit of images from the ES. Mind blowing. Connor pass is so breathtaking. I've got to get there.
night moonbats.
may your dreams be free of a nusto senator from Ny taking potshots at you from a grassy knoll.
Wall Drug has evolved into a 76,000 square foot wonderland of FREE attractions. This American Experience includes a shopping emporium of 26 stores, The Western Mall, Western Art Gallery, and a Restaurant that seats 520 – A South Dakota Museum. The restaurant features a hot roast beef sandwich, buffalo burger, 5-cent coffee, and homemade donuts and rolls. The homemade ice cream and donuts and hot beef sandwiches have been filmed for the National Food Network. The Backyard is a 14,000 square foot building with 1500 historical photos, animated displays, pictorial displays, the T-Rex, and a specialty coffee and pizza parlor. In addition, the Backyard has a Sluicing, Mining, Digging Experience and a brand new shop that carries fossils, rocks, gems, casts, and more!
The Wicked Anti-Witch is Dead...
Long Live Wise Women!
wadr, truly Wise Women don't go on witch hunts.
of any kind.
Ali, never underestimate the imagination of the delusional...
Ciao for now...
OK, gotta go to bed too. G'night sock puppets and also normal peeps.
Dreaming about haagen dazs and maple roasted pecans here...
Interstate 80 doesn't go through Idaho.
Tlazolteotl
Yeah, well, that's why Mrs. U does the navigation.
You just hit on a new flavor. Better get a lawyer.
Aaaaand..... First!
NTodd,
You're up on all of this techno razzamatazz. What is the deal with the early 2009 TV signal? Are the implications only for over the air consumers?
Connor pass is so breathtaking. I've got to get there.
I'm familiar with a Conners Pass in the Great Basin, in Eastern Nevada, just east of Ely (Highway 93/6/50). Must be a million of them with similar names, though.
echidne
wall drug is way too UR America.
the mom and pop diner in East Bumfuck, Colorado (25 miles south of Boulder, 2 miles north of where your alternator finally gives up the ghost) is exponentially better. but Wall Drug is like disneyland in SD, and for that we rejoice.
Elias, Uncle Fester are the same person. Ali, spiritual advisor
oh no, it’s just coincidence that this blog has the only two 40-something bald virgin friends who find solace in anagrams ...
A planned mega-fundraiser for the GOP, featuring President Bush and John McCain, has now been scaled back in the face of a daunting problem: Too few people actually wanted to buy tickets.
According to the Phoenix Business Journal, fundraiser set for this Tuesday in the city's convention center failed to sell enough tickets, leading to fears that the anti-Bush protesters might end up outnumbering actual attendees.
The new plan is for the Bush-McCain fundraising effort, which will benefit both the McCain campaign and the RNC, to be held in private residences in the Phoenix area away from media coverage.
My understanding, is that in early 2009, all TV traffic will move to another band frequency, and without a cable or dish connection, consumers will no longer receive a TV signal.
Yeah, well, that's why Mrs. U does the navigation.
find your way east on Interstate 80 through Nevada, Idaho, Utah, into Wyoming
There is much to recommend US 50 from Tahoe to Ely to Delta then through Grand Junction up to Denver, then up to Wyoming, if long beautiful stretches of 100+ miles with 'no services' and millions of road kill jackrabbits are your thing.
Then continuing north, I know it sounds weird, but Montana actually does have a big sky.
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MT. WHEELER -
Located near Baker, Nevada at an elevation of 13,061 feet. Mt. Wheeler lies between the Wasatch Range in Utah and the Sierra Nevadas in California. Both ranges can be seen from Wheeler Peak. Mt Wheeler is now in the middle of the Great Basin National Park. There are many hiking trails on the mountain, camping sites, alpine lakes, flora and fauna, and wildlife abounds in this protected area. The Bristlecone Pine, the oldest living thing on earth, can be found here as well as the famous Lehman Caves.
http://www.webpanda.com/white_pi...aces/
places.htm
Boo0yah
The new plan is for the Bush-McCain fundraising effort, which will benefit both the McCain campaign and the RNC, to be held in private residences in the Phoenix area away from media coverage.
With the big rally held in a Burger King parking lot in Mesa, with "Up With People!" as the entertainment attraction.
There is much to recommend US 50 from Tahoe to Ely to Delta then through Grand Junction up to Denver
I agree! I also enjoy US 93 (the Great Basin Highway) which overlaps 50 in parts (near Great Basin National Park and Connors Pass as above).
Then continuing north, I know it sounds weird, but Montana actually does have a big sky.
I went to a wedding in southern Illinois and it has a big sky, too, because there are no trees, just fields. I felt a little vulnerable.
As I understand it, some TV towers will still produce signals. But you will have to buy a box to convert them. Let me note that this is a nice insidious trick to slowly move people to where you have to pay to get a TV signal.
Eli's coming. Hide your heart, girl.
And there is more than just jackrabbits. Coyotes, cottontails, pronghorn antelope, and even mustangs! But you have to pay attention.
oh no, it’s just coincidence that this blog has the only two 40-something bald virgin friends who find solace in anagrams ... -Mrs. Peel
ouch!
Ohio is the same way. You just drive and drive, and like the Flintstones, the same scenery keeps rolling by the car window.
semi-nekked Finnish guys calling themselves steel concrete.
Echidne
Riding, riding. Running off the grazing cheep.
That's some fine videoin'.
Okay, I have to go. Birds have been good so far, but now they want to go goodnight. Take care, batses!
good night, Tlazolteotl.
I'm doing the digital tv thing now using rabbit ears. The signals are already in use. You need a digital capable tv, or a box to convert the digital signal back to analog for an old tv.
MP, NTodd is the expert, but I've been interested in this for awhile.
Bottom line, the industry is going to break everyone's Analog TVs in Feb 2009.
If you get a tv signal from the air via rabbit ears your TV won't be getting anything from the VHF broadcast signals anymore. You will need to get a 60 dollar box to get the new digital signals on your old analog TV.
The industry is giving out 40 dollar discount coupons so the box to get signals will be only be 20 bucks.
The reasons that they say they have to break everyone's TV and force them to get new boxes? They say we want to give the analog signals to ....
Guess?
And there's some tiny one-store hamlet out in the middle of endless red sand basin/range, coming over a little ridge and you see it all green like chartreuse almost - extremely irrigated - then you're through it and everything's brown red and dry as a bone again.
Or maybe it was the dope.
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if long beautiful stretches of 100+ miles with 'no services' and millions of road kill jackrabbits are your thing.
Then continuing north, I know it sounds weird, but Montana actually does have a big sky.
You're right about Montana, and there's an austere beauty to the desert, and rock formations by the highway through Nevada and Utah that really ought to be national parks. And I will confess to listening closely for unauthorized mechanical sounds in those long stretches where you can't tell if the mountain ranges to the sides of the road are twenty miles away, or fifty.
ali & elias just leave w/out saying goodbye that's not at all like that tedious asshole ...
Ohio is the same way. You just drive and drive, and like the Flintstones, the same scenery keeps rolling by the car window.
MP
Oh, there's some variety -- the lake ridge part, the glaciated and unglaciated parts, the escarpment . . . It's subtle, though and maybe you have to be off the interstates to appreciate it.
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The desert is the place to be.
Echidne, get yourself a copy of Top Secret Tourism before planning a trip west. You'll get to see lots of great scenery, and you'll get a whole new impression of the U.S. military.
Oh, there's some variety -- the lake ridge part, the glaciated and unglaciated parts, the escarpment . . . It's subtle, though and maybe you have to be off the interstates to appreciate it.
I remembering bicycling from Santa Fe to Phoenix, and finding the geology and ecosystems changed every few hours. Remarkable.
Echidne, get yourself a copy of Top Secret Tourism before planning a trip west. You'll get to see lots of great scenery, and you'll get a whole new impression of the U.S. military.
eek! I'm a furriner already. Probably not a good idea.
Actually, Norway is a little boring after one stops ohing and ahing. It's all beautiful fjords and mountains.
but Wall Drug is like disneyland in SD, and for that we rejoice.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari | 05.24.08 - 1:27 am | #
wall drug fucking sucks. don't get me started...
Remember when Rough Guides used to be on the internet? Those were great for planning blue highway trips to see strange things . . .
.
wall drug fucking sucks. don't get me started...
Like Clines Corners, NM, only much bigger.
Google Earth for planning trips.
wall drug fucking sucks. don't get me started...
Aw, come on, tell us!
I once tried to look up this hotel, supposedly in an old manor house. Trying to get there was straight from that cult movie and when I finally got there the place was dark (it was night), except that three people were dancing around a torch in the yard. I backed the car veryquickly.
Scary.
I once tried to look up this hotel, supposedly in an old manor house. Trying to get there was straight from that cult movie and when I finally got there the place was dark (it was night), except that three people were dancing around a torch in the yard.
Sounds almost normal for Wales, but, it would definitely be out of place in, say, Connecticut.
World Wide Telescope is also tres kuhl.
Good night, bats. Sleep well.
'night Snake Goddess.
Off to dream and plan the next grand adventure.
Night, bats...
Night, Echidne.
Night, Upsidasium.
Night, Atriots. Must eat and sleep.
extreme northwest south dakota is where they find all sorts of fossilized shit that boggles the fucking mind. in fact, the geographic center of north america is just north of the black hills. that's not important right now, but if able to, someday, one simply must venture out here and get lost in the silence.
but do not stop at fucking wall drug...
The text of a letter I just sent my uncommitted superdelate congressman, Dennis Moore of Kansas in light of the evil one's latest outrage:
Congressman Dennis Moore
1727 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Congressman Moore,
I am outraged as any reasonable person would be at Clinton's invoking Robert Kennedy's assasination as a reason for her to continue her failed run for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. She has lost. She cannot win. We cannot permit her a platform to continue to spew her hatred, her bigotry, and her self-serving invocations of national tragedy to justify her personal ambition.
It is time to end this. It is time for you to declare your support for the candidate who won Kansas, who won the 3rd Congressional District during the caucus, and who has won the nomination as our party's candidate in the general election. I just arrived home about 45 minutes ago from working to learn of this outrage and even though it is after midnight, it is time for me to write you on this.
Congressman, it is time to tell Clinton to take her carpet bags and to go home. She is no longer welcome and to tell her in no uncertain terms that she will not under any circumstance; even should the tragedy she has invoked come to pass; be the Democratic Nominee for President of the United States of America.
Please, Congressman. Stand with us against this horrible harridan of hate. Stand with us as we acclaim Senator Obama our candidate, and fortune willing our next President. Please, Congressman, hear this plea to end travesty so we can begin to heal from the wounds she has inflicted on our party.
Sincerely,
but do not stop at fucking wall drug...
Are you going to tell us or not?
MikeyBackwards | 05.24.08 - 2:26 am | # [kill][hide comment]
heh Moore is my critter too. I've been thinking about writing to him to encourage him to support Obama too.
I heard that a crazy lady from Wal-Mart Is running for Pres. and she already lost but she says she has to keep running in case the other guy gets assasinated pretty soon.
So you are not going to tell us.
So you are not going to tell us.
GreekChorusGirl | 05.24.08 - 2:37 am | #
still 14 visitors. i was waiting til it was just you and me, darlin'...
well now there are 15 visitors. What's next?
Old Yurup has caught up with you sleepless americans.
It seems Hillary has used that line a few times before. Time Magazine has an interview back March 6th this year:
"Firstly, she has previously bordered on the remarks she made today...
Then swerved back from them and the awful skid they represented. She said, in an off-camera interview with **Time** on March 6th...
"Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn't wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June, also in California. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing
particularly unusual. We will see how it unfolds as we go forward over the next three to four months." [...]
After the Indiana primary, on May 7th, she told supporters at a Washington hotel:
"Sometimes you gotta calm people down a little bit. But if you look at successful presidential campaigns, my husband did not get the nomination until June of 1992. I remember tragically when Senator Kennedy won California near the end of that process."
And at Shepherdstown, West Virginia, on the same day, she referenced it again:
"You know, I remember very well what happened in the California primary in 1968 as, you know, Senator Kennedy won that primary." http://www.americablog.com/2008/...ment-
about.html
She keeps saying crap till she gets called on it, like landing under sniper fire.
chica toxica? I haven't read that name in a long while.
well now there are 15 visitors. What's next?
chica toxica | 05.24.08 - 2:47 am | # [kill][hide comment]
Beats me.
hey hemp smokers!
Everyone all excited about the novelty candidate you guys are running for President?
This is a pretty amazing picture.
well now there are 15 visitors. What's next?
Orgy?
Oh, I forgot.
NO FLIRTING.
Orgy?
Impossible...I don't have my special orgy hat with me. (It's at the cleaners.)
It's a bursting water balloon, for anyone who was too stoned to figure it out....
SMOKE MY POLL.
Still 15 visitors? Huh.
why do i keep fucking up?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n...h?
v=n7ZkQC0riwc
Anyone else here listening to C.W. McCall?
why do i keep fucking up?
Thanks for the link.
Here is a comment by Randell Beck, the executive editor of the Argus Leader, defends Clinton, saying, "The context of the question and answer with Sen. Clinton was whether her continued candidacy jeopardized party unity this close to the Democratic convention. Her reference to Mr. Kennedy's assassination appeared to focus on the timeline of his primary candidacy and not the assassination itself."
Americablog won't mention this and deleted the comment it was in.
Chica, (if you are still here) how is Europe treating you?
Pentagon cannot account for 15bio$
http://ccoaler.blogspot.com/2008...nt-for-
15b.html
Hillary is on a June thing I see.
June... the month she closes up shop, done fucked up enough this time.
270 Illegal Immigrants Sent to Prison in Federal Push
NYT Headline.............No charges have been brought against managers or owners at Agriprocessors, but there were indications that prosecutors were also preparing a case against the company. In pleading guilty, immigrants had to agree to cooperate with any investigation.
Get the little fish and leave the sharks to bite another day.
I hope, we can save enough polar bears to eat every fundie in the country.
Just my hope.
And I'll air drop all the poop on a ranch in Texas.
My First Officers are the greatest.
They leave me beer and pistachios waiting for me at my hotels.
Barry from AK in Wilmington | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 4:57 am | #
Do they husk the shells?
Probably just me, eh?
Good morning, all 5 of youse.
Morning peeps.
Moe, shouldn't you be asleep after the concert?
Good morning, Marcellina, how're things?
Morning, all three/four of youse.
Hi ql. I always wake up early, evidently. We went and had drinks after, didn't get to bed to 1 or so, then I'm up at 5. I'm on that funny Newfie time-- it's 7:20 right now, practically mid-morning for me. I'll need a nap soon.
Marcellina, I bow in tribute to your fabulous cacti.
I'm good, Moe. What do you know about green roofs? I'm going to post about the one on top of the shopping center here, which doesn't look successful at all — all clumps of brown grass. Any links you can direct me to?
I'm starting to get crows feet. Any advice?
Snarkworth, I will pass that tribute right on to the beau, who is the cactus garegiver. (I think they were smuggled out of South America as babies, but I'm not sure )
I don't know much about green roofs, Marcellina, other than what people say, which is that they act as insulators and such.
There's no particular reason not to have them, but my sense is that they're oversold, at least in this kind of climate. Basically, you're putting an ice sheet on your roof for eight months of the year. Probably work better elsewhere, I'm guessing.
Gilly, I'd recommend a podiatrist. Stat.
Or an ornithologist.
I imagine whoever planned for this green roof was reckoning on warmer winters in the future, and indeed the past two have been mild. Plus, I suppose, the heat from the shopping center below.
OK, I'll go dig up a few articles.
Or an ornithologist.
Snarkworth | 05.24.08 - 5:52 am | #
Isn't that OJ'd first name ?
On second thought, I have to get ready to leave, so blogging will have to wait. Have a good, morning, beautiful people!
Been watching the series "House", which is pretty entertaining, but man, they don't even touch the issue of insurance or lack there of. They have a team of doctors focused on one patient. And man, that House guy is a grumpster!
Crows' feet give character, and suggest wisdom, although that might be false advertising.
Morning, kids!
Grades are in. WooHoo!
Congrats Molly!
What'd I get?
Congratz, Molly! Did everybody pass?
What'd I get?
Heh,, I had some kid make that "DId I pass?" face the other night while crossing the stage at graduation. I gave him a thumbs-up.
Snark,
No, they never do. But most did.
How do the kids take not passing. Do they mostly recognize it it their own fault, or do they try and pass the the puck?
Bell Curve?
So yesterday was the first day of the Great Bus Experiment, and really, it was pretty good & easy. The first one I did was the rural route bus, which you have to schedule a day in advance. But it picked me up at the door and brought me back, all for $4.
ql,
Most people who don't pass don't finish the course. It's one of the differences between CC populations and 4 year students that CC students tend to figure out with month to go in the semester that they're totally overextended, and something has to go. School is often it.
When I first started here, I thought it was me, but it happens to everyone.
So no, they don't generally get mad, but if they contact me to ask, I explain it and give them a chance to get everything in to me. Changing grades is pretty easy.
sheets
hey hemp smokers!
Everyone all excited about the novelty candidate you guys are running for President?
pud | 05.24.08 - 2:59 am | #
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We are too busy laughing hysterically at the ancient relic the GOP is running for President. I've seen better looking corpses.
Any bets on which will fail first, St. Johnnies health or his adult diapers?
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