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Saturday, November 29th, 2008
agtiger
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10:19p
Poll #2794 Did you shop on Black Friday?
Open to: All, results viewable to: AllDid you shop on Black Friday?
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(2 clouded issues.  Cloud the issue.) Friday, November 28th, 2008
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12:00p
Accidental End to the first phase of the sale
I set the sale to automatically end at noon today, the code, for some reason, ran at 10:21 pm. I have set the prices back to the early price and they will stay that way for 3 more hours (until 3PM EST).
In addition, I have refunded the difference to anyone who purchased a permanently insane account at the wrong price.
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7:42a
American Thanksgiving in Canada VII
Since 2002, my household has hosted American Thanksgiving in Canada (that was the year we returned here from our seven year stay in the United States).
We host this for Americans living in Canada, family or friends of same, folks who spent/spend considerable time in the United States, or anyone who is just plain friendly to the United States and its good people. (Those who are Anti-American need NOT apply.)
Yesterday we did it up right, again! At 3 PM the Stars & Stripes went up off the porch at the front of the house, and shortly thereafter, my wife announced that the turkey was done ahead of schedule, and was now on "warm" to hold for dinner at 6 PM. Guests started to arrive at about 5:30, and a few were late, but we were running a few minutes behind so it didn't matter. At about 6:15 PM, we all dug in, and our last carload of guests arrived about 25 minutes later and got to dig in as well.
My wife cooked up a storm for this year's event. A truly amazing assortment of dishes hit the serving table all at once. The night before Thanksgiving, she tried the Rye Bread recipe for the breadmaker, and that worked very well!
One of our good friends who attends this event fairly regularly managed to make it this year, and carved all of the 25 pound turkey away from the bone, re-assembling it cut and ready to go in a turkey-shaped presentation that is truly amazing to behold. Wow, is he ever good at this!
Other friends brought peach pie, finger-deserts to die for made with Bavarian cream, drinks, beer, you name it, they brought it, and we all feasted from a little after 6 PM onward... Much good times were had by one and all. :) We watched some football, but as is our tradition, something "interesting" usually comes out of storage on DVD to make an appearance and introduce people to some entertainment they hadn't seen before. This year, I put on the first episode of HBO's "John Adams". It was a BIG hit, and several people have asked me where they can buy the box set.
Food-coma set in around 9:30, and guests started to depart around 10 PM. I'm so glad I took today off as a vacation day as well, just to recuperate. :)
If you celebrate, I hope you too had a very happy Thanksgiving!
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( Cloud the issue.) Thursday, November 27th, 2008
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9:33p
The sale has started
I was slightly late getting it started, but the sale is up and running.
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(32 clouded issues. Cloud the issue.) Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
agtiger
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9:17p
For Jurrel (and others with breadmaking machines)
Jurrel had asked me for the recipes in the manual for my newly acquired bread making machine. I promised to type them out for him and then realized just how many pages I'd be typing. I thought to myself, "Self, there has to be a faster way... I wonder if the manual for this thing is online?"
Indeed it is! http://www.sunbeam.com/manuals/Sunbeam/005891-000-000_English.pdf
The recipes start on physical page 28 of the printed manual, page 15 of the PDF. I'm not sure how well they'll translate to other bread making machines, but for those who want to experiment, there you go!
current mood:  grateful
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5:59p
Update: InsaneJournal Holiday Sale
Hello we have decided to extend the hours of the first part of the InsaneJournal Holiday Sale. Our 2008 Holiday Sale that will occur on Thursday and Friday November 27-28th, 2008.
We are running the sale in 2 phases.
The first sale will start at 9pm(EST) Thursday, November 27th and end Noon(EST) Friday November 28th.
The prices will be as follows
Insane Userpics: $65
Permanently Insane: $30
1 Year Self-Committed: $20
6 Months Self-Committed: $10
12 Months Extra Userpics: $10
6 Months Extra Userpics: $6
Rename Tokens: $4
Then from Noon(EST) until Midnight(EST) pn November 28th we will have the second part of the sale.
The prices will be as follows
Insane Userpics: $100
Permanently Insane: $50
1 Year Self-Committed: $20
6 Months Self-Committed: $10
12 Months Extra Userpics: $10
6 Months Extra Userpics: $6
Rename Tokens: $4
After midnight Insane Userpics and Permanently Insane Accounts will not be for sale and the rest of the prices will go back to normal.
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(31 clouded issues. Cloud the issue.) Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
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9:33p
2008 Holiday Sale
I am announcing our 2008 Holiday Sale that will occur on Friday November 28th, 2008.
We are running the sale in 2 phases.
The first sale will start at 6am(EST) Noon(EST).
The prices will be as follows
Insane Userpics: $65
Permanently Insane: $30
1 Year Self-Committed: $20
6 Months Self-Committed: $10
12 Months Extra Userpics: $10
6 Months Extra Userpics: $6
Rename Tokens: $4
Then from Noon(EST) until Midnight(EST) we will have the second part of the sale.
The prices will be as follows
Insane Userpics: $100
Permanently Insane: $50
1 Year Self-Committed: $20
6 Months Self-Committed: $10
12 Months Extra Userpics: $10
6 Months Extra Userpics: $6
Rename Tokens: $4
After midnight Insane Userpics and Permanently Insane Accounts will not be for sale and the rest of the prices will go back to normal.
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(58 clouded issues. Cloud the issue.) Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
agtiger
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10:07p
My Alma Mater has gone batshit crazy.
Conversation cops step in to school students
Your friend's new fuchsia fedora might be hideous. But don't call it gay, or you might get a language lesson from the conversation cops.
Students at Queen's University who sprinkle their dialogue with an assortment of "homo" or "retarded" could find out the hard way that not everyone finds their remarks acceptable.
The Kingston university has hired student facilitators to step in when they overhear homophobic slurs, remarks bashing women or racially tinged insults, along with an array of other language that could be deemed offensive.
That means tête-à-têtes in the residence hallways may no longer be just between friends.
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Watch your language
A sampling of some behaviour that could warrant attention from university-appointed student
facilitators, tasked with policing students' offensive language
at Queen's:
If a student uses the phrase "That's so gay" in conversation.
If a student calls someone or something "retarded."
If a student writes a homophobic, racist or other derogatory remark in a public space, such as on a residence poster or classmate's door.
If a student avoids a classmate's birthday party for faith-based reasons.
I'll give them this: The answer to speech you disagree with is MORE speech putting forward your position with good arguments backed up by fact.
But the way they're implementing this with paid student facilitators that live amongst the undergrads listening for troublesome conversations? That's VERY creepy. Things like this have a really bad habit of devolving into programs to encourage you to snitch on your fellow students for bad thoughts and words...
It's one thing when someone says something childish and offensive about a group, and another student calls them a boorish, bigoted asshole for doing it... When the University's hired guns do it, it's done under the color of authority; the same authority that can levy fines against you that must be paid before you can get your diploma upon graduation, or that can simply expel you.
Now you have that authority in your living quarters? Not just no, but HELL NO.
Update: The National Post has noticed this event... Beware the campus thought police
Just who is Queen's University trying to kid? The school may call its new political-correctness cops "facilitators." It may insist they will not be eavesdropping on private conservations, "preaching" to students they overhear using "offending terms," serving as "disciplinarians" or being judgmental. But administrators are simply deluding themselves with euphemisms if they swallow their own tripe. The half-dozen speech monitors employed by Queen's dean of student affairs to wander campus and listen for mentions of racist, sexist, homophobic or other "non-inclusive" language, are nothing more than thought police.
current mood:  shocked
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6:49a
Powerless against Pirates? I DON'T THINK SO.
Iranian grain ship seized as Somali pirates hold world to ransom
Alarm grows as governments and navies are rendered legally powerless to conduct security operations on the high seas
Somali pirates struck again yesterday, seizing an Iranian cargo ship holding 30,000 tonnes of grain, as the world’s governments and navies pronounced themselves powerless against this new threat to global trade. ...
Powerless? POWERLESS?
Send warships to convoy with the merchant ships. Sink any pirate vessel that attacks the convoy, and show no quarter, save no survivors.
The British and U.S. Navies demonstrated the effectiveness of fighting and sinking pirate ships, and the U.S. Marines are made for this kind of fight. Have we forgotten our successes so soon?
UPDATE: Indian Navy sinks pirate mothership during bold stand-off in Gulf of Aden
Nice to see SOMEONE leading the way to sink these bastards.
current mood:  irritated
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