Eliot Spitzer is running for Governor of New York State in 2006.

www.spitzer2006.com

Rock.

His motto: "I want to fix what's broken. It's what I do best"

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An islander visits the center right, by which it is to be assumed that he leaves the island and travels far far away.

I have a headache and I am restless.

Money, christmas, new years, school, work, taxation, man's role in changing the face of the earth, and some deep primal desire to go on road trips haunt me.

Thanksgiving, instead of slaking my wanderlust, only made me realize how parched for travel I am. I don't want to get there, just enjoy the ride.

Northeast of Poughkeepsie, a small grocery store, with a minivan in the parking lot full of stuffed animals, had a woman in the checkout in front of me who spent thirty dollars, of which fourteen was spent on rub off a sordid assortment of instant win rub-off lottery tickets, the process of choosing which was, interestingly enough, mind you, a collaborative process between seller and sellee. "Why don't you get this one too?" went the conversation.

The subway stop smelled like olding clam chowder on Thursday. Now imagine the internalized requisite "smile & nod".

The station this evening had an a capella gospel group singing. Less Xmas schlocky, more Hallelujahish.

The trip up north was nice. A cabin in the catskills. Good food. Good wine. Satellite Television with the same collection of shitty channels everywhere else. A record player and tons of LPs to go through. The record player was a delight to play with. Antonia & I were in early twenties indie rocker bliss in finding icelandic disco/late seventies rock. And an excellent selection of country albums, including a collaborative effort with Kris Kristoferson and Kenny Rogers. Oh to have had the cables to record it onto a computer.

The only use of a computer the entire weekend was to search out a Hardees location in order to find the elusive 1400 calorie burger, yes, a passing fancy of mine. The closest Hardees, alas, turned out to be in either DC or western Pennsylvania. No deathburger for me today.

Sunday Dinner is at Jeanne's today. Cornish Hens cooked wrapped in bacon. No Meatards here.

mmm.

AND, Avigail's copious spice rack, an early purchase for our place, is getting much love.

Or is it the other way around?

"Over"

There was a /. article on the Canadian iTunes store this morning, where songs go for 99 cents Canadian, which, is umm, cheaper than the 99 cents US here in the states, assuming, umm, that you actually buy the stuff.

There's a hilarious discussion thread there I took a screen shot of.

I'm sorry I haven't updated more. Lots of stuff from Thanksgiving still have to go up.

And Jeanne's response to "you never call" last night, "We're in New York."

Yeah we're bastards.

I can't remember the last movie I saw in the theatres. I'm thinking of {Sideways,Closer,The Incredibles,The Video with Yo Mama from Last Night}.

Ahh the warm memories of Paul Mel_ passing me a copy of Phrack back in Olsta_'s physics class back in high school.

This is where I learned about smtp.

And now, I find a well (not better) documented version on Microsoft's site while researching "How to fix a stupid exchange server."


funny

Foxtrot today has the dorkiest comic ever..

Every now and then I rediscover Diesel Sweeties, and it is love all over again.

Every now and then I rediscover Diesel Sweeties, and it is love all over again.

Every now and then I rediscover Diesel Sweeties, and it is love all over again.

Fafblog brings up an important point:

Sales of violent video games have lead to increased violence in our culture, but sales of Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball have not lead to increased playing of xtreme beach volleyball. Why is this?

Resetting the alarm when half asleep, and blindly, is never a good idea.

The clock now proudly sits 1.5 hours ahead.

argh.

Cheer up bluestaters:

Clinton for Secretary General.

ponder.

Also gained this weekend, new dead baby joke and things that are done but shouldn't be at bachelor parties involving Jaeger.

Seth's father's legendary Mashed Potato recipe:

5lbs potato

8 sour cream

8oz cream cheese

a stick of butta

sprinkle bread crumbs

stick it in the oven at 250F till barely golden

I will modify it to add copious quantities of garlic and perhaps some cheddar for the meal tonight.

Cookingforengineers has nothing to add, so perhaps I'm good for now.



[Update: 12:08am]

The potatoes were a smashing success!

My final modifications were to add to the above:

+1.5 sticks of butta

4 garlic cloves

fresh ground garlic

.5 cups heavy cream (scalded)

.5 lbs Sharp Cheddar

stuck in the oven at 350 for ten minutes

And now I must go help clean up.

The best University of Michigan commercial ever just played during the halftime of the Michigan/Ohio State game.

It just says "Apollo 15, an all U of M crew."

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I'm only getting a spelling error on the first word.

Hmmm.

jeanne's cat snores and sounds like an owl

Google just announced scholar.google.com.

This would have been ridiculously useful back in UROP. Scirus and the other science search engines are pretty lacking.

Sigh. The results from this query now make me want to cry. There's so much more in 2004 than in 1998.

Damn you gratuitously plastic dinoflagellates! Damn your twenty four morphologies.

The bodega across the street has something like forty boxes of cereal.

We looked at five to ten this evening, and all were expired.

yowza

Gmail finally gave me pop access today.

It isn't IMAP, but I can at least go back to using Apple Mail now.

Gali points out:

as discussed:

Main Entry: asa·fet·i·da
Variant(s): or asa·foe·ti·da /"a-s&-'fe-t&-d&, -'fE-; Southern also
-'fi-t&-dE/
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English asafetida, from Medieval Latin asafoetida,
from Persian azA mastic + Latin foetida, feminine of foetidus fetid
: the dried fetid gum resin of the root of several west Asian plants
(genus Ferula) of the carrot family used as a flavoring especially in
Indian cooking and formerly used in medicine especially as an
antispasmodic and in folk medicine as a general prophylactic against
disease.



Also, I was given a Burger King Crown at a client's office today.

Badly paraphrasing a french king: The kingdom is worth the paper crown.

Gmail finally gave me pop access today.

It isn't IMAP, but I can at least go back to using Apple Mail now.