I had a great time doing the family thing for Thanksgiving. We started off with a pre-turkey day dinner at the local Chinese restaurant. I had to order their Pittsburgh roll (at right), which turns out to be a California roll with shrimp and asparagus. Where’s the chipped ham? Now that’s a yinzer ingredient. All [...]
Archive for November, 2006
Back from daBurgh
Posted in WM_archive on November 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Better late…
Posted in WM_archive on November 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
From CNN: After a firestorm of criticism, News. Corp. said Monday that it has canceled the O.J. Simpson book and television special “If I Did It.” “I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project,” said Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman. Gee Rupert, do ya think?!?
Nielsen was right?!?
Posted in WM_archive on November 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, let me confess, I was the woman the Washington Post quoted many moons ago: One woman jokingly dubbed Nielsen the “Jerry Falwell of Web design” because he holds fundamentalist design views and rigidly rejects stylistic flourishes. Yet even she came to hear him talk. Well, to be fair, I actually came to hear Bruce [...]
First time for everything
Posted in WM_archive on November 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
From CNN: A British man said to have carried out the country’s first “Web rage” attack was jailed for 2-1/2 years on Friday for assaulting a man with whom he had exchanged insults over the Internet. Boy, I can’t wait until Internet access in cars is prevalent.
RSS feed abuse?
Posted in WM_archive on November 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Is it just me, or is anyone else annoyed by seeing the same article a gazillion times in a blog’s RSS feed…often without any clue as to what changed. I’ve just unsubscribed to MyDD after less than a week because that seems pretty rampant there. And there’s a diarist on Daily Kos whose articles appear [...]
Good morning sunshine
Posted in Photography on November 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
What Atrios said
Posted in WM_archive on November 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Re Howard Dean and James Carville … exactly. Obviously the “blame Dean” campaign was all wound up and ready to go before the election, but someone forgot to tell Carville that if [they] went through with the plan after winning big they’d look like total idiots. I used to really like Carville, but the above [...]
One million porn sites
Posted in WM_archive on November 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
When I saw the title — Government study: Internet 1 percent porn — I thought, gee just 1 percent? Then I remembered blogging this, and realized that meant one million porn sites. That’s a lotta porn. But maybe there’s an upside?
I'm a yinzer
Posted in WM_archive on November 14, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Have I mentioned before that I’m a yinzer? Loosely translated, that means I’m from Pittsburgh, where they say “you’ns” (yinz) instead of “y’all” as in “Yinz going to the Steeler game?” Anyways, I was catching up with my many Flickr feeds, including this one from daBurgh (a la “da Bears”) and was tickled to see [...]
MLK Memorial
Posted in WM_archive on November 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The last few days I’ve been watching tents and stages go up on my way to work. Today, I got stuck in a major traffic jam this morning, and it was only because of the slow crawl down Independence that I realized this was all about breaking ground for the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial. [...]




