November 27, 2008
It's a Berkeley Square Christmas
Every year. If you dust off the Christmas Music on Thanksgiving like I do, I will point you toward free MP3s on our band's website. I might call them up and see if anybody wants to record a few; pretty sad that they stop at 2002.
These have been a staple of my Christmas play list for years.
Thank you guys!
Posted by: AlexC at November 27, 2008 12:19 PMSeptember 15, 2008
Heh
And to think I was voted the least likely person to make a Star Trek joke in my Senior yearbook.
The Refugee remains unphased!
Posted by: Boulder Refugee at September 15, 2008 10:41 PMJuly 18, 2008
"I am a small eye poet."
If my posts seem more trivial than usual, I am on vacation this week. Grinding, tedious partisan hackery will return in full force next week.
But today, I got an email from a niece of mine that made me chuckle. There's a T-Shirt at Café Press:
EVERYTIME YOU POST WITH THE CAPS LOCK ON, e e cummings kills a kitten.
Following a link in the comments, I found this. Norman Friedman of the English department at Grand Valley State University (Go Lakers!) makes a good case that mister Cummings's name should be typeset with conventional case.
I always use lower case for my two character sobriquet (which adds three keystrokes to keep MS-Word® from auto-correcting it). Without ee, I am losing academic support.
July 16, 2008
Ag
Twenty Five years ago, the best day of my life:
Awesome! Congratulations to you both!
Wait a minute, is that a barong you were wearing?
Posted by: Perry Eidelbus at July 16, 2008 3:26 PMCongratulations!!!
Posted by: Terri at July 16, 2008 4:12 PMThanks. Yes, Perry, that's a beautiful handmade barong tagalog that my mother-in-law had crafted for the groom in the Philipines. It's an incredible garment (which I still have if you need it for your wedding). I believe it was 100F that day, a tuxedo would have been deadly.
Posted by: jk at July 16, 2008 5:08 PMThe picture really shows that it's real quality, and not just any old thing you can pick up in any SM department store.
I appreciate the offer, but that's yours, and it probably wouldn't fit my girth anyway. :) For our civil wedding here, I'll just wear a suit and carnation. For our church wedding "over there," sometime next year, it'll definitely be in native dress.
Posted by: Perry Eidelbus at July 17, 2008 10:37 AMJune 21, 2008
I Want a Seal, Too!
Senator Obama can't have all the fun!
UPDATE: One of Don Luskin's emailers corrects the latin ("How Many Romans???") in Senator Obama's seal -- I'm no scholar but I think mine is okay.
UPDATE II: Obama Campaign Drops Faux Presidential Seal -- The Possum Sleeps Tonight. The Junior Senator may cut and run at the first sign of difficulty but I have several minutes invested in my seal. And. let's just say "from my cold, dead hands..."
UPDATE III: Professor Reynolds quotes an emailer who says the Latin phrase "vero possumus" was fine.
I have a question - Is Barackobama one of Senator O's infamous seven new states?
And another - Is the capitol city called Michellegomery?
Posted by: johngalt at June 23, 2008 2:50 PMAugust 17, 2007
Who is John Galt....
...and where the heck has he been for the last month? I'm sure that everyone's missed my polite rectitude and insightful wit as I've been too busy to post, comment, or even read the blog. Here's why:
This is the "hot box" facility within dagny's new indoor riding arena and horse barn. It's comin' along...
I know Dagny's good, but I think you're going to have a hell of a time getting the horses up on those ladders.
Posted by: jk at August 17, 2007 4:25 PMFor horses, or Gitmo relocation?
Please ensure the toilets are of suffient "book flushing" size.
Posted by: AlexC at August 17, 2007 5:14 PMThe septic system contractor starts work in 2 weeks. I'll be sure to add "Koran compatible" to the specification sheet. Thanks for the reminder.
Geez, I've missed you guys!
Posted by: johngalt at August 17, 2007 6:09 PMHeh ... that facility looks awfully like a dot com sweatshop I worked in once, but we did not get 5000 calories a day with rice pilaf or sugar cubes ... just chants 'arbeit macht frei' and the looming fear that while they rode us to death, they might just not pay us at the end of the month!
Posted by: mdmhvonpa at August 17, 2007 9:35 PMApril 24, 2007
Old jk Video
My brother in law shot this to help me promote my "jk sings songs from even numbered decades" solo act. I forget the year, but I'm sure it's at least ten years old.
Forgive me as I try to figure out video editing. And, yes, Paper Moon was from 1933; I was pretty liberal with that requirement.
More? I Fall to Pieces, Paper Moon.
Great tunes. Great performance. Extra cool guitar. Uffdabilly Kudos.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Terri at April 25, 2007 11:37 AMFebruary 2, 2007
A new Galt
Mrs. Galt and I have been busy the past two days. (Well, mostly Mrs. Galt.)
(Click thumbnail to enlarge)
"Danica Charlotte" was born February 1. 7 pounds 3.1 ounces, 20 inches and full of joy.
Congrats and good health to all three of you!
Posted by: TrekMedic251 at February 2, 2007 9:29 PMCongratulations! Any story behind the names?
We were going to pick "Charlotte" for my daughter... but four years later, she seems like more of a Veronica.
Posted by: AlexC at February 2, 2007 11:06 PMCongratulations, JG! Here's hoping you and the missus manage to get some sleep sometime before February 2008. :-D
Posted by: Ian Hamet at February 2, 2007 11:17 PMCongrats! Woohoo!
Posted by: jk at February 3, 2007 10:58 AMThanks from dagny and me for the warm wishes guys.
I first heard the name Danica when a friend of mine dated a woman by that name. And then, of course, there is the semi-famous racing driver with "above average" looks named Danica Patrick. We looked it up and found it's eastern european meaning "morning star" - a good fit for the daughter of an amateur meteorologist. Charlotte is my grandmother's middle name. Grandma's 100th birthday will be in December, having been born in that month of the year 1907 - 100 years prior to the year of Dani's birth.
With Dani's big sister we perfected nighttime feedings into an art form: Dagny rolled over and retrieved the crying infant from the bedside bassinet, returned the nourished loved one to her restful sleep, and left the diapers for me to change. This I did, happily and cheerfully, after the first morning feeding. This became so routine that I never woke before the alarm bell and dagny's sleep was reasonably restful too. (At least that's the way I remember it.) :) Hopefully the same procedure will be popular on the second go-round.
Posted by: johngalt at February 3, 2007 6:23 PMHey JG, daughters are so cool! (said the guy with three daughters) Congratulations to you and Dagny!
Posted by: sugarchuck at February 3, 2007 6:39 PMOctober 28, 2006
Give Till It Hurts
The Young Conservatives of Pa have a pretty good record of mixing it up in Pennsylvania politics. The body count after the Pa payraise is the most recent example.
The Young Conservatives of Pa 527 group is looking to continue educating voters in the waning days of the Senate race.
You can hear radio-based lesson here. (go look, they're funny)
Finally, a 527 you can trust!