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{ Monthly Archives } November 2008

Holiday Hours

I’m going to my sister’s place in California for Thanksgiving, so posting may be less regular. I know, hard to imagine it being less regular than the last few days.

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Whoosh!

SpaceX tests the Falcon 9 engines.

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Value of Campaign Plans

Jonah Goldberg@ The Corner: [W]e seem to make the same mistake every four years: as a nation we measure the worth of a president by his plans and then we salute his “pragmatism” for abandoning his plans once he’s elected.

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New Fad in Blogs

Picked this up from Instapundit and others: genderanalyzer.com attempts to predict if the author of a blog or website is male or female. Ahem. The envelope please: Results We guess http://explorations.chasrmartin.com is written by a woman (58%), however it’s quite gender neutral. Well, I’ve always said I was a woman on my mother’s side.

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Palin Rumor # — oh, who the hell knows?

Palin Interviewed at Working Turkey Farm, Doesn’t Scream and Run Away as Farmer Kills Turkeys. Tim Blair has a delicious collection of comments, of which my favorite is: What she does not know is that at least two helpless turkeys are being slaughtered alive in the background, their legs wiggling as their heads are stuffed [...]

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Victory In Iraq Day

From Zombietime: By every measure, The United States and coalition forces have conclusively defeated all enemies in Iraq, pacified the country, deposed the previous regime, successfully helped to establish a new functioning democratic government, and suppressed any lingering insurgencies. The war has come to an end. And we won.

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Further, deponent sayeth not.

Embedded video from CNN Video

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Apocalypse Now

A sensitive, meaningful character film. With Mickey Rourke. And Marisa Tomei stripping. About professional wrestling.

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What to do with all those chicken backs

Chicken Stock Lots of chicken backs, wing tips, giblets (except for livers), etc.[1] 6–8 whole cloves garlic 6 slices fresh ginger 2 whole carrots and 4–5 stalks celery, broken roughly into pieces 1/2 cup fresh parsley (or thereabouts. Half a bunch, just the leafy part.) Pack a saucepan loosely with all of the ingredients, close [...]

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Spatchcocked Roast Chicken

My grandfather was convinced that this whole computer thing was a fad — an opinion that I sometimes share to this day — and so insisted my various Hungarian uncles teach me how to do useful things, like pain houses and cut meat. I got to be a pretty fair butcher, and learned to do [...]

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