Socialist Sushi

Via librarian.net

You all know the attitude of the government towards libraries in this warful decade. Here is an interesting piece of ephemera relating to libraries in an earlier war.

Interesting.

Courtesy of weasel in #remops:

Pizza site that asks for your PGP key. I can dig it.

Today’s Calvin & Hobbes is yet another great commentary.

When I was in elementary school I had a friend who decided to give up soft drinks for Lent. I wasn’t a member of his church (or any church, for that matter) but if my best friend was gonna do it, well then so would I. We would make little jokes about how hard it was not drinking Coke or anything for what seemed an eternity at the time.

Then, Lent was over. I drank my first Coke and found that I wouldn’t stand it. It wasn’t until after high school that I could really stomach any soft drinks except Sprite.

For the past several years I’ve pretty much stopped watching TV, and now more and more I’m listening to CDs in my car and non-mainstream radio stations. When I turn on the radio or TV now it’s kinda like when I was a kid: now that I’m not indoctrinated with it anymore I see just how bland it all is.

Calvin was such a smart kid.

Dorothea has a few interesting posts. (I’m a bit behind but hey, this is the most updating I’ve done in a while)

She has a nice recipe for banana smoothies. Will have to try this.

As for the talk of “fricking craptastically overdone” (wonderful phrasing, that), I think there’s generally a tendancy of folks to make things overly complicated.

Finally, on her musings on bratlings, I can’t help but agree. I was talking with a father of 3 today at lunch. He has very well behaved kids, and assures me that it didn’t happen naturally. It’s something you must be proactive for. Glad to see someone willing to point this out.

Been playing with refer. Very interesting to see how people get here. I’ve been hacking it so that it can include more information, though most likely it makes more sense to just use daily log scripts instead of real-time stuff.

Randy tells me that doing a search for “government controlled japanese food” doesn’t return this site. We’ll see how long that takes to change 8)

Our good friends Jeff and Casey, who make up North of Here, recorded a concert at the church this past Friday night. As usual they sounded great.

Look for a CD from them soon. Go by their site and check em out. And pester em to send their stuff to Whole Wheat Radio 8)

Saw a link on Phil Ringnalda’s site about Whole Wheat Radio. Indie music streaming from a little cabin in Alaska (yes, really). Good stuff, for the most part.

Best part about it is the interactivity; the user’s console takes a little getting used to, but it’s not too hard and once you’ve got it you can request music, chat with the DJs and other listeners, and do all sort of other groovy stuff.

All sorts of new music, and a few that I really like, which you can check out here and here.

Check it out, good stuff.

Amber and I have talked for a while about planting a garden. Yesterday afternoon I went out and plotted out a 15-by-15 section of our yard. I’m currently taking a break from removing the sod.

Tiring work. There was a point where I could work 8 or so hours a day out in the south Georgia sun doing construction. Those days are apparently gone. 8)

Oh well… slow and easy does it… so back outside. More info later

And in case you didn’t notice: the picture gallery is up

Amber and I got back very late Wednesday night from New York. Amber had been outside the city, working as a nurse at a children’s camp. I met up with her at Grand Central Station Friday evening and we got to spend a few days in the city. The photos we took are here.
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