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I don’t usually even think about what I want for supper this early in the day, but today, I want beef and noodles. That means I can’t make the Ultimate Beef and Noodles, since those are made from pot roast leftovers, but life is like that.
Beef and noodles. Served, of course, over mashed potatoes.
Mmmmmmmm
Okay, off […]

There are two annoying bugs in Excel 2007, specifically, with the regression tool in the data analysis toolpack.

If you do anything on the regression output sheet, you cannot then select or edit the line plot chart.
The chart is funky:

The toolpack creates a column chart.
If you change it to a line chart, it treats the x-axis […]

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From Ann Althouse. A news story from 1981.

This one, from 1969, is even more interesting, and is, in some ways, a better prediction.

No more spam from Ken Blackwell — Steele won the RNC race

Do not feel well. So here’s a couple of recipes.
Buttercreams are European icings consisting of eggs, sugar, butter, and flavoring. The term has been bastardized to refer to that disgusting, cloying powdered sugar icing that has become unavoidable in the US, but there is absolutely no resemblance between it and the real thing.
There are two […]

There’s a new show on Spike that started last night, Toughest Cowboy. It’s a rodeo reality show, and the winner gets his own ranch in Wyoming. The first episode was kind of dull, but that may be because they started with God knows how many guys and had to end up with twelve, so there […]

You know what I think of fake food. But the crunchy granola set created their own category, which I call barn floor sweepings food. You know, 23-pound pancakes made with 187 grains. That’s the original barn floor sweepings food.
Then, people started eating Japanese food.
I don’t want to rag on Japan, but it’s a big vocanic […]

Freeborn John points to an argument between two other British bloggers about, well, it’s really about whether Scots should be taught in the schools, but that gets tangled with Scots v. Scots (or Scottish) English, and language v. lect.
I trained as a Germanicist, concentrating on the North Germanic (Scandinavian) and Invgaeonic sub-families of West Germanic, […]

Ace points to this story about Starbucks. It’s more of what we expect from a business run by people who have no grasp of business.
Starbucks Corp. announced Wednesday that fiscal first quarter profit fell 69 percent as revenue dipped. The company also plans to close more stores, eliminating up to 6,000 jobs.
The coffee chain operator […]

I was at the store yesterday, and thought I got everything for this coconut cake, or I should say, my adaptation.
“Frozen whipped topping” is disgusting, fake food, so the first (last) time I made it, I substituted whipped cream. The problem is that I am ideologically opposed to whipped cream as frosting. You have to […]

I had to go to the airport when it was on, remember? First thing this morning, well, as soon as I could turn up the sound enough to actually hear, I watched it. So whether you call it live blogging depends on whose time perspective you use (wow, how Lost of me).
Here’s the line-up […]

and most disturbing story. Someone in Obama’s name sentenced AIDS victims to die.

Bacon Pie!
Ignore the directions to pour the grease down the drain! Don’t even look at those pictures!

Fortress Australia Outpost. Update your links!

Slideshow, season three of Future Weapons.

I found when I left for the airport yesterday evening that over the course of the day, that would be after we had gotten around four inches the night before, we got another two inches. We had not, by that time, anyway, gotten any sleet or freezing rain.
God knows what happened overnight. It’s still dark, […]

Predator 2. It’s a great sci-fi flick. It’s good enough that it’s good, despite the fact that the most overrated actor in Hollywood history, Danny Glover, chews up the scenery throughout. And how bad is Glover? Well, when you’re upstaged by Gary Busey, that’s bad. Stinkin bad. Foul bad. So bad you didn’t think it […]

I misjudged the amount of new snow. It’s between three and four inches, the plows are just getting started, Atherton and I-99 are slick and messy. I did get to the Waffle House and had my sausage and fried potatoes, and I stopped on the way back at Wal-Mart to get what I needed for […]

And it’s kind of stupid to here, anyway. I’m hungry. I’m going to the Waffle Shop here in a few.
I shall return after I’ve had my sausage and fried potatoes.

The Midway is open at Reading Workshop!

I never saw John Carpenter’s remake of Village of the Damned, but it’s on now. No, I haven’t seen the whole thing yet because it’s not over, but I can tell you right now: Stick with the 1960 original with George Sanders. It’s much creepier, and the script for this remake is just awful. The […]

I’m getting hungry, but I’m not sure what to eat. I could really go for those chipotle wings and a big O-tenna of those ay-mazing onion rings, but (sniff! sniff!) Quaker Steak ‘n Lube went out of business. I don’t want to go downtown, so that rules out Five Guys (not that I’m particularly in […]

I’m working on a project, a preparatory business math text (more like workbook) for kids who will be going to business school. Anyway, I’m digging around for ideas, and found this, which I wrote in 2006.
 
I was curious to see what was on the web and what links I could collect for that stats rewrite, […]

Jose Canseco (6′4, 260) and Danny Bonaduce (5′6, and God knows, but nowhere near 260) in a fight? And I missed it?

You think Canseco killed Bonaduce? Not a chance.
The pair slugged it out at a suburban Philadelphia ice rink last weekend, fighting to a draw in their three-round bout.
The Steroid King sez:
“For a guy my […]

From Scared Monkeys, first this:
McDonald’s Corp., enjoying solid growth despite the global recession, turned in stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter profit Monday.
Then this:
US fast-food giant McDonald’s said Monday its 2008 net profit soared 80 percent from a year, lifted by growing demand from consumers seeking low-cost meals in a deepening global recession.
Net profit for the full year […]

So I watched the All-Star game, but the hockey never started. Sure, there was a lot of really neat puck passing and goals and saves, but nobody was playing hockey.
It was the third period before the first penalty was called, and the commenters were saying it was the first penalty in an All-Star game for […]

I’m just getting around to watching the All-Star game, and what the hell is this crap with these women hanging upside down and doing stupid shit? Why aren’t they playing hockey?
Oh wait. It’s in Montreal. That explains everything.

Glenn Bartley has it right here.

Dinner time!

Hube points to this article in the Daily Mail:
Parents are calling for more men to become teachers because they fear their children lack male role models, research showed yesterday.
Okay so far, but then . . .
Demand is even stronger among single mothers, who told the survey their children had little contact with men in caring […]

I missed it, so here is the NHL skills competition.

I’ve done this before, decided I was going to Texas Roadhouse for a steak, and ended up getting ribs. But this time, I mean it. No ribs. In fact, to keep myself from getting ribs, I’m going to wear my white Penn State sweatshirt.
Having said that, the ribs are really good there.
Steaks are fine for […]

Happy Australia Day!
Yeah, yeah, I should have posted this yesterday, because of the International Date Line and all that, but late is better than never. So tour Australia:
Andrew Bolt Blog
Australian Diggers Blog
Dogfight at Bankstown
Fortress Australia Outpost
Jane Albrechtsen
Kerplunk
Qohel
Radical Cross Stitch
Tim Blair
Top 100 Australian Blogs
Fortress, which was up yesterday, seems to have disappeared. I sincerely hope this […]

Forget 08. Prophetic, wasn’t I?

From FreeBornJohn, this thorough fisking of “organic” idiots, and I do mean thorough:
Well damn! They were putting ammonium sulfate in the fertilizer which was then being sold as organic. Apparently this ‘tainted’ organic fertilizer has gotten out and there’s no way of being sure that it hasn’t gotten into other ‘organic’ mixes […]

Seriously.
In an effort to eat compassionately
Just the first prepositional phrase, and we’ve already descended into the lowest depths of idiocy, but of course, it gets st00pider.
many people choose free-range chickens and eggs — assuming that the birds lived happy, high-quality lives before they became dinner.
Happy? They’re chickens. Chickens have the intellectual power of an acorn. […]

I shouldn’t go back to bed. When I do, I awake in a fog and stay that way. Oh well. I don’t think I’ll be making a trip to the Texas Roadhouse later for ribs. Too foggy.
Anyway, it’s time for the Clown Awards, and after reviewing, I think these mouthbreathers are unsurpassed in the idiocy […]

First, read this (I’d reproduce it, but it’s long) back history.
The next chapter, which I will reproduce, because it’s short:
Last month, I covered the idiocy that is Starbucks. If you recall, the biggest idiot of all, Howard Schultz, CEO, had it all figured out:
After more than a decade of sensational buzz, Starbucks is struggling nationwide […]

I got very little sleep, so I’m going back to bed. Back later.