Superbowl: That HUGE bowl you bring out when you want to share a whole bag of tortilla chips with friends.

We always had one gift with an X on it, which we would open with another gift on Christmas Eve. The gift with the X would be a new pair of pajamas. The other gift would be a small one of our choosing. It was a fun tradition that still continues to this day (or yesterday).

The traditional food things would be homemade butter cookies and poppy seed rolls. Our poppy seed roll recipe goes back generations, but for the last 30 years or more we would use cans of Solo poppy seed filling. I wish we could find the filling in more markets, though many markets with good Kosher food selections will most always have it.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

"May all your good dreams and fine wishes cone true." -Mike Jittlov

I have been neglecting LJ! So sorry.

Passover.

Here's wishing you and those close to you peace and happiness.

Happy Passover, everyone.

Many years ago (1999, actually; not that long ago) I moved back to the Providence area and saw a website devoted to Fort Thunder. An archive of most of the site can be seen at http://fortthunder.02909.com/ ...

I yearned to befriend someone from the community and visit. This is something my brain very much enjoys.

It's unfortunate that in 2001 the site was "redeveloped", a cookie cutter Shaws plaza in its place. Shaws has since left, and in its place a Price Rite.

It's so unfortunate that Providence (and Pawtucket as well) has been denying the once thriving artist communities bit by bit.

More information at Wikipedia and Art In Ruins

Meme-time. I don't usually do these, but this one isn't a privacy issue for me.

Put an X by the states you have been to. The average is 8. How do you match up?

There are 30 states that I can remember. There may be a few more that I've visited while on a layover during a multi-hop flight somewhere...

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Anyone know of a decent, free, animated .gif app? Windows and OSX recommendations would be great. There are no linux boxes where this would be used, but I'd also apprecaite that too for reference.

Thanks.

On ETVCommSkip, and automatically detecting television advertising via software that can skip over ads:

"Well, the things is is that it's it's really hard to block that kind well that's why everyone listening should go get it right now. Because it's very hard to reverse-engineer that because a lot of that stuff is automatic: the change in volume, there's a a subtle click, and there there are things that identify it and the reason is is because when the cable feed is coming through for it to auto-pickup the, you know, it has to have something there. And that's what they're looking for."

ETVComskip: http://code.google.com/p/etv-comskip/ for Elgato EyeTV
Based on Comskip: http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/

This is shorter than one of the old Rhode Island BBS Lists from way back!

The US Dial-Up BBS List
http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/dialbbs/dialbbs.htm
(Thirteen of these are dial-up only. The rest are dial-up & telnet.)

I guess this Internet thing really took off. Ha ha!

Highlighted by the 400th anniversary of the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo Galilei, The International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) will be a global celebration of astronomy and its contributions to society and culture.



EdiT: If you don't see the right video above (stillframe of a ringed planet), click on the subject line.

Merry Christmas!

I'm a secretary!

Of transportation!

Coffee and a Chrysler!

'nuf said.

http://plant.bowls-cafe.jp/index.php

I've been feelin' snoggy for two weeks... Yay upper respiratory crapola. I had a coughing fit last night that sent me into a rare asthma attack. So I ended up being the proud owner of three hours of sleep.

To top it all off, I turned the heat on for the first time this season and had to turn it off right away because steamy water was spraying from our main steam line. Gah! Just because I don't have a good cutter for 2" black iron steam pipe, I've got to call a professional to cut this bad pipe out and replace it.

Blarg!

I've fired a painting contractor to finish painting our home. Next, a plumber to replace some steam pipes. I could do it myself but time is not on my side. Darn the long commute times!

Number of times my wife and I swam in our pool (collectively) this season: 0

Amount of money spent on said pool this season: ~$950

We're considering filling it in, covering it up, and building a nice big shed on top of it. An in-ground pool is nice to have, if it gets use. It's more of a pain in the ass than anything.