Election Day Eve

“My ballot’s here!” I wrote on my Facebook status. It’s been a long time since I was this thrilled about an upcoming election. Yesterday on the Thom Hartmann program Greg Palast said that mailing your ballot is a bad idea. In Washington’s King County, you can take it to a ballot drop box. At least [...]

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A Conversation Between Me and My Brother on November 2, 2008

Brother: Can you believe it’s November already?
Me: I know! Only 2 more days!!
Brother: No, I’m not talking about the election. It’s just that it’s November and I can’t believe it.
Me: Um, yeah. It’s November. But I can’t believe the election’s only in 2 days!!!

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Pop Culture, Simified

Every now and then, I read an article about some interesting genre or niche. Then I search modthesims2.com.
After reading this article about the steampunk convention,  I plugged in the keyword, “steampunk,” and sure enough, a few downloads turned up. You can also find the steampunk theme and gobs of others over at Parsimonious.org.

I read an article [...]

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Blueprint for Change Video

Watch Barack Obama talk about his Blueprint for Change here.

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Poor Wolves!

From Defenders of Wildlife:
Have you ever heard of aerial hunting? It’s a brutal practice. Wolves are shot from low-flying aircraft or chased to exhaustion, then killed at point-blank range.
Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for Vice President, promotes this barbaric practice, exploiting a loophole in the Federal Airborne Hunting Act to allow private wolf killers [...]

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For The Next Game of Trivial Pursuit: The Jewish Version

My dad e-mailed this to me. For more information on Judaism, take a look at Jewfaq.org.

Interesting Jewish Trivia

Jewish Trivia
(You may or may not know – Enjoy!)
The Roosevelts were Jewish Dutch, arriving in NYC in 1682 (Originally named Claes Rosenvelt before name change to Nicholas Roosevelt) Sarah Delano, FDR’s [...]

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Play On

The husband gave me a bunch of new music yesterday. W00t! I love filling my iPod up with new music.
Here’s what I got:
Aimee Mann @#%&*! Smilers
Alanis Morissette Flavors of Entanglement
Amy Seely Call it Life and The Trees are Glad You’re Back
Beck Modern Guilt
Big Blue Ball Peter Gabriel and Friends
Cold Play Viva La Vida
Joseph Arthur Vagabond [...]

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What I did on my Fourth of July Weekend

On Friday we were going to have a picnic. I wanted to try one of Mark Bittman’s 101 simple picnic recipes, but just looking at the list made me nervous. Where to start? The husband thoguht that maybe it was better to buy something from the high class salad bar. On an empty stomach, I [...]

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Wordle

From my Del.icio.us tags:

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Excerpt from my Head

She breathed a sigh. The kind of sigh that said: “I wish I was whisked away to a tropical island, relaxing on a hammock between two palm trees.” But alas, she was stuck here in the land of Reality: a storm brewing out the window and documents filled with the most boring gobbledygook ever.

Maui

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