Tin Foil Soldier

Making my sweet sweet vacation just a tiny bit longer, a whole extra second will be inserted into the space time continuum in less than an hour.
On December 31, 2008 a “leap second” will be added to the world’s clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This corresponds to [...]

So, because I work in Higher Ed there is no reason for my work to open between Christmas and New Years.
So, updates will probably be slow because I have work to do around the house.
Like dealing with all this freakin snow

Katrina’s Hidden Race War
He’s equally blunt in Welcome to New Orleans, an hourlong documentary produced by the Danish video team, who captured Janak, beer in hand, gloating about hunting humans. Surrounded by a crowd of sunburned white Algiers Point locals at a barbeque held not long after the hurricane, he smiles and tells the camera, [...]

Health dept. sickened by own Christmas party – Diet and nutrition- msnbc.com
After the Lawrence County Health Department had a buffet for 72 people at a restaurant last week, 42 of the attendees suffered stomach problems, including the head of the department, Phyllis Wells.
“Im telling you, it got me down. I about passed out and everything [...]

I am not very good at travel, which is why I took the day off from work.  I still have to go to a friend’s house and feed his cats and fish, then I will finally be on the road to PA.
Merry Christmas!

for stupidity.  Sure he says he wants to make a nice gesture, but its really just a stupid one.  If you want to help people who really need help, go to the food bank and give them gift cards to Walmart if you don’t want to give food directly.
Barry Goldberg decided that this was the [...]

YouTube – Sony Bravia Paint commercial (NEW!).

I still don’t entirely like videos, but the new wordpress (2.6) made it super easy to put them in my blog.  This video, along with basically all of the other Sony Bravia commercials, is awesome.
Via the joint blog my friend choof writes on, JuiceTheBlog.com

I got the lists from JMG but I went to the Billboard website and got the Hot 100 Songs because I didn’t know alot of the songs on the top pop chart
#2 – Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love
#3 – Alicia Keys – No One
#5 – Timbaland – Apologize (feat. One Republic)
#7 – Sara Bareilles – [...]

atom and his package – what we do on christmas
via YouTube – atom and his package – what we do on christmas.

I have this on my Christmas music CD in my car, track 23, and it nicely rounds up my mix of country, instrumental, and acapella Christmas music.

If your eyes are bigger than your stomach, one restaurant thinks you should pay the price for being too greedy. In an unprecedented move, Hayashi Ya, a Japanese buffet on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, has begun adding a 30 percent surcharge for customers who don’t finish food on their plate. In other words, the restaurant’s [...]

Italian Entree
* * STIR FRYDAYS
via RIT – Dining Services : The Commons.

The roads in a certain Iowa town are deliciously garlic-y. They’ve been using garlic salt to de-ice the streets.
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The garlic salt, which would have ended up in a landfill if it hadn’t been donated by Tone Brothers Inc., a local spice producer, apparently works just fine when mixed with regular road salt.
via Odd: Iowa Town [...]

Rise Against – The Good Left Undone – I heard this on 181.fm the Buzz and that’s how this whole music post got started
Three Days Grace – Never Too Late – Good sound I found while looking for the next song
Apocalyptica featuring Adam Gontier of Three Days Grace – I Don’t Care – This was [...]

“A toddler lost in the Virginia woods was back home safe Sunday thanks to two puppies who kept him warm through a harrowing night of freezing temperatures.
via Gents Canine Society » A HAPPY ENDING.
awww!  Every toddler needs puppies!  I miss Dexter!

It’s an alarmingly simple concept that claims to be the world’s first application: Netherlands-based company Natuurcafé La Port installed a power generator into a revolving door. Fantastic, but it took us this long?
The door is the entrance to the Driebergen-Zeist railway station, where it’s predicted to generate 4600 kwh of energy a year—or somewhere around [...]