Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
Let’s assume that ESPN, the Denver Post and virtually every other sports news outlet is right and that Mike Shanahan is planning on replacing Jake Plummer as starting quarterback with rookie Jay Cutler. If so I have to believe that Shanahan is no longer looking at 2006 as a year for the Broncos to get [...]
Looks like Jake Plummer has lost his job. ESPN.com – NFL – Cutler to be new starting QB in Denver The Denver Broncos quarterback controversy is headed for a resolution. Head coach Mike Shanahan plans to turn to rookie Jay Cutler to replace incumbent Jake Plummer for the rest of the season, starting with the [...]
Here’s a baby dragon I made just to have some fun. I got the idea from a tutorial on the web, so I can’t claim the idea, but I did all the actual sculpting here. These don’t photo well, especially when you glaze them. The photo exaggerates the black spots and the highlights way too [...]
I no longer have a Mac as my main computer, and so I had to finally break down and reformat my iPod to a Windows format so I could keep my iTunes and iPod in synch. Well, after doing so I discovered that virtually every album I ported over from the Mac was messed up, [...]
Fan brings ‘Christmas Story’ house to life – CNN.com CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — Ralphie Parker and Brian Jones know what it’s like to want something. For Ralphie, the object of desire was an official Red Ryder, carbine-action, 200-shot, range model air rifle. (Go ahead, say it, “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.”) For Jones, the [...]
“A Christmas Story” hands down. In case you don’t know this one, it’s the story of “Ralphie” who desperately wants a Daisy BB Gun for Christmas. The director uses fantasy sequences to very good effect but the movie is surreal enough that the fantasy sequences are hardly more bizarre than Ralphie’s own life. What is [...]
Well, it’s been a long while since I put up an observing report. But tonight I got my 92mm refractor out and tried to look at a few things. The snow in my backyard has not melted, so I had to set up on my back deck, which is a poor place to put a [...]
So, we didn’t really do any “Black Friday” shopping today, but we did need to get some “paper goods” (euphamism there for toilet paper, paper towels, paper plates, etc…) and that’s why we have a Sam’s Club card, so we can buy paper goods by the ton. But because we were there we couldn’t help [...]
From the category of ultimate “duh”. TIME.com: Iran and Syria Helping Hizballah Rearm — Page 1 Iran and Syria Helping Hizballah Rearm As Lebanon’s government tries to maintain its shaky grip on power, sources tell TIME that Tehran and Damascus are shipping weapons to the militant Shi’ite group And while this goes on the French [...]
Blue videos spark panda love, researchers say – CNN.com CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AP) — After years of painstaking research, scientists say they have unleashed a baby boom among one of the world’s most beloved but endangered animals, China’s giant panda. A bit of panda porn has helped too, they say. “It works,” enthuses Zhang Zhihe, [...]
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