Let him make his own coffee

I remember this one from years ago. What an ass.
Via Boing Boing

Have a little historical nip

Everyone knows that George Washington was a slave-owner, general, and the first president of the United States. What most people don’t know is that he was also the most successful whiskey producer of his time. His distillery turned out 11,000 gallons of whiskey a year with the cheap stuff selling for 50 cents [...]

Seven Wonders of the World

Most people know the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Of these, only the pyramids are still [...]

Blast from the past #7

September 4, 1999
History Of The World, part 212….
One of my obligations as a parent is to see my children educated on music. In light of the current retro fad, I think I’ve given them an advantage. One of games we’ve always played is Name That Tune/Artist-Band. I’m proud to [...]

Blast from the past #6

March 5, 1999
“Blue…am I blue….
Remembering “the Blues”….
Sunday afternoon is family time, when I toss everyone in the car and knock off the errands that have piled up during the week. Grocery store, K-Mart, video store … not your typical bonding experience, but it works for us. This past Sunday, the list included [...]

Blast from the past #5

March 23, 1999
“You’ve got to dance like no one’s watching, and love like it’s never going to hurt….”
The source of this quote has been the subject of a running discussion on the med-dance list for the last week, with the final consensus being some country song. But whoever said/sang it first, it speaks [...]

Blast from the past #2

A meme from 1999, before they were called that. A lot has stayed the same, and a lot has changed.
NAME: Teresa Laree (last name deleted)
SEX: F
HOME: currently Spokane, WA, originally Spencer, IA
HEIGHT: 5′ 2 3/4″
EYES: hazel brown
HAIR COLOR: black
FAVORITE TV SHOW: Dennis Miller specials, Sliders reruns
WHAT’S ON [...]

Fragments of history

Being a history and archeology buff, I’ve read every book and transcription of the Dead Sea Scrolls that has come out in the last fifteen years. The history of religion interests me far more than does religion itself; studying the evolution and transmission of faith sheds a lot of light on the human spirit [...]

Oops

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation has a history going back to WWII. Built in 1943 to refine weapons-grade plutonium as part of the Manhattan Project, the complex of three nuclear reactors and two chemical processing plants was built on the Hanford Reach near the Washington state Tri-Cities (Richland, Pasco, Kennewick). In 1945 alone, more [...]

Five years ago today

Because small personal memories are important, too.
Five years ago today, I got up at 7:00 PDT and turned on CNN while I made coffee and waited for the kids to get ready for school. I saw smoke, heard screams and knew people were dying. There was so little information at first–I had no [...]

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