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Boston Foodie Review
Spent a few days in Boston this week (my brother lives there, his 3-year-old son just had heart surgery, so couldn't travel).
Checked out a few restaurants while there.
First up was a little place called SaburNice little Mediterranean/Middle-Eastern place. Beaten brass tabletops, open firepit for cooking lamb, gorgeous ambiance ( Read more... ) -
I've Committed A Filk
Or at least a Doggerel. Was watching some rather effective use of TreeSinging in a WHFB game today, and this popped into my head.
If you go out in the woods today ( Read more... ) -
I'm sorry, but this is totally ridiculous.
Here's a thought for you.
The deadline for nominations for the Peace Prize is February 1.
That means that someone - someone influential enough for the Committee to take them seriously - thought Obama was worthy of it when he'd been in office less than two weeks.What had he accomplished by then ( Read more... ) -
Apollo Night
Forty years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin received the longest long-distance telephone call ever placed: from the Oval Office in the White House, to the surface of the Moon.
Where will we look back on this from, forty years from now?
What will we be able to tell our grandchildren, "No s**t, I was there when...."?
We are the Children of the ( Read more... ) -
Urban Fantasy Reading
So, I've been getting into that old favorite in reading genre lately, the urban fantasy.
Not the urban fantasy pioneered by Mercedes Lackey, Charles deLint, et al, where you have fantastic elements in a modern setting, but the sort where you have a fantasy setting with a lot of modern sensibilities and an almost industrial attitude towards magic.
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Any Given Saturday
Saturdays in Rochester I can often be found playing Star Wars ( Read more... ) -
This is the end... but the moment has been prepared for.
So, fellow fans... this is it. Galactica is over... the series is ended.
And, MAN, what a ride.
This is the way a series finale ought to be: your jaw dropping at spectacularly good and cool things happening every time you turn around.
We can certainly see where all the FX budget they've been saving by having these introspective bottle-eps this season ( Read more... ) -
Edward James Olmos at the UN: SO SAY WE ALL!
When one of the UN's representatives talked about how part of their mandate was to safeguard the human rights of everyone, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, and station, Olmos got a little heated. "You never should've invited me here," he said, before blasting the UN for continuing to use race as a term of separation, of division among peoples ( Read more... ) -
Presidential?
The 70's called. They want their president back. -
Things Gamers Have Always Known
I was reminded recently of Beloit College's list of "Things Freshmen Know (And don't know)", a list of tidbits about history that has been prepared annually for the last ten years.
It stars such highlights as "'Google' has always been a verb", "Smoking has never been permitted on US airlines", and "The Soviet Union has never existed, and therefore ( Read more... )