Today is Dinah’s first birthday. As cliched as it sounds, it doesn’t seem like that long. I have no idea where the time went. In the past year she’s gained over ten pounds and gotten quite a few inches longer.
Its a milestone in her life, and in mine and Sarah’s as well. [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2005
I don’t need no one to tell me about heaven, I look at my daughter, and I believe.
5/7/2005 – 7:48 am
Maybe its time to move away from directv to comcast
5/6/2005 – 11:02 am
10:59 Mark Notarus: comcast is suprisingly benign.
10:59 Mark Notarus: they haven’t pissed me off once since i moved to them last fall.
11:00 Mark Notarus: their modem is even more reliable than anyone’s dsl
Now that’s saying something. You don’t get a better endorsement than that from MARK NOTARUS!
11:00 Mark Notarus: no shit.
American Idolatry
5/4/2005 – 11:50 am
I’m really amused that the people at votefortheworst.com are trying to game American Idol.
8 dollars of liquid beef jerky
5/4/2005 – 11:46 am
In the Chicago Tribune’s food section today there was the article: When smoke gets in your beer, drink up.
The article goes on to talk about a few Smoke beers, including Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier which I have had always referred to as “Marzen smoke ale” even though Marzen is the type (if I remember correctly) of [...]
Morn!
5/3/2005 – 11:51 am
I have a few friends who work at Morningstar, Inc. here in Chicago. Today comes news of their IPO.
CHICAGO — Morningstar Inc., the research firm best known for its mutual fund data, on Monday filed to sell about $140.8 million of stock in an initial public offering.
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The stock will trade on the Nasdaq Stock [...]
And people wonder why the US is the fattest nation…
5/3/2005 – 11:34 am
It looks like someone has defeated the hamdog, which I’ve mentioned before, at least in terms of pure grossness.
Pa. Eatery Offers New 15-Pound Burger
The burger war is growing. Literally. Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub, which lost its crown as the home of the world’s biggest burger earlier this year, is now offering a new burger that [...]
Oh my god, you killed Star Trek! You bastards?
5/3/2005 – 9:49 am
Orson Scott Card had a pretty good commentary on the current “end” of Star Trek.
His basic position is that it should have gotten better with subsequent versions of the show, but ended up getting stuck int he 60’s television mindset of keeping it dumbed down and not making it “good” science fiction. I can’t [...]
