tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110860052012-02-11T21:24:35.590-05:00because i'm bored.melanieburgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00952299023364943888noreply@blogger.comBlogger2031100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11086005.post-58875542900911129882008-11-04T08:57:00.001-05:002008-11-04T08:57:30.061-05:00

I just found this election result tracker on MSNBC. Tres cool!

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Genius!

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So far Dennis Kucinich is the only one explaining anything about this bailout in a way that makes sense. If only more people were listening. Then we wouldn't be stuck with this stupid bailout bill....

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Congressman Kucinich explains why the bailout bill won't work, shouldn't have been passed, and what we should have been doing instead.

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Okay, first I must say that I was recently discussing blogging with friends and they were talking about how much time they spent on their blogs and carefully choosing each word and tracking down the right links... My blog? Not so much. Pretty much all video links. And I thought to myself at that time that I was going to stop doing that and try to make this an actual blog with actual things that

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Last night I received an email from the Kucinich folks informing me that an historical event was taking place -- Dennis Kucinich was on the floor of congress introducing 35 articles of impeachment for President Bush. Google News had stories posted from both Reuters and AP announcing that this was happening. At that moment I did something I had never done before -- I turned on C-SPAN! There was

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Manny high-fiving a fan as he makes a great catch. I do love me some Manny!

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Some very insightful remarks. I wonder if Hillary watches Countdown?I love this man.

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Herbert is the coolest.

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Many thanks to my friend Paul for tipping me off on this chick. I have to say, her dress in this video absolutely cracks me up. The song rocks though, and her talent is undeniable.

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Poor Mitch is not so much alive anymore, but when he was he sure was funny!

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The Flintstones would like you to smoke Winstons...

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LOL. This is cute. A BBC kids show on the importance of sleep. I like Lake Poopo.

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This is an article I found on the Guardian Unlimited site this morning. Sad. Obviously I didn't think that Kucinich would win the primary by any stretch, but I liked the fact that he was still in it, and still fighting for the media to allow him to be *more* in it, although he seems to have lost that battle, too. As one of the 1% in NH, I guess I'm heading back over the Obama camp now and just

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Poor John Edwards. But it could be worse.... He could be Dennis Kucinich!

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One of Tommy's 6th grade classmates made this YouTube short. I have to admit, it made me laugh a lot. Very cute.

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and re-enacted by cartoon bunnies:I've loved these bunny movies for years. You can find a whole mess more of them on angryalien.com. Check out the Shining!

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Okay, so it's not really Thanksgiving time, but this is one of my all time favorite ever SNL skits. Just remember, "I like your new blazer, your sleeves are pushed up, it looks pretty awesome....."

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I knew I loved Sean Penn!! From NBC's Domenico MontanaroSean Penn will endorse Kucinich this afternoon at a press conference in San Francisco, a source close to the Hollywood actor said. He will also be speaking on "the Constitution, the media and Dennis Kucinich," the source said. Expect a political speech.Penn has donated $4,600 to John Edwards' campaign and $2,300 to Kucinich during this cycle

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This video is fantastic:I can't take credit on finding this one though. It was sent to me with a link to a friend's blog post on how to make money on the web (in ten easy steps!).. It's well worth the read.

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Remember all those fun "The more you know" PSAs from when you were a kid? And have you noticed how they've come back now, and they're usually really stupid? Well, here we have the staff of the office telling us the stuff we really need to know:

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As a super-duper huge animal lover, I was distressed to hear that the Animal Rescue Site is not receiving enough clicks per day to meet the needs of all of the abused and neglected animals that they've rescued. These poor pups and kitties are hungry and have already had a rough life. It just takes a second to head over to their site and click the button to give free food to the animals who are in

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How much impact can one album have on the world of pop music? Well, a lot really, depending on the album. Take for example, Michael Jackson's "Thriller." Released 25 years ago tomorrow, this is the first album that I really remember from my childhood. It was, in a word, outstanding. If you think about pop music before that time (which admittedly, I can't do from memory, so I have to take the word

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This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I'm not sure it'll display right on this blog because the video was set to be super wide, but oh well. I guess I'll just have to start posting more again to move it down the list faster. But anyway, I digress, here it is. The pilot of 24 as it would have appeared if it aired in 1994:

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"Quiet... A whale is in trouble!" These are the final words spoken in tonight's episode of 30Rock. Spoken by... who else? Al Gore!!! This was quite possibly the greatest 10 seconds I've ever seen in the history of my extensive TV watching career. The whole thing was apparently brought about by NBC's "Going Green" Thursday. All the shows so far have had green themes. In Earl, during his "Scared

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This is a cool article about a new study which finds that being slightly overweight may actually be good for you! WOOHOO!!! Now I guess I can stop fretting about the 20 lbs I need to lose... Below is a snippet of the article. To read the whole thing follow the link...Extra Weight Said Won't Raise Death Risk Released just a few weeks before Thanksgiving, the findings might comfort some who can't

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Scott and I were laying low yesterday as I nurse this sinus infection away and we flipped on "We are the 80s" on VH1 Classic. It wasn't quite the experience for me as it was for him, what with my big video days being more late 80s and early 90s, but Scott was having fun naming all the videos before the artist information popped up. Then we both were trying to explain to Tommy that videos, to us,

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K, I have tons of things to blog about in short spurts, so let's see if I can remember them all. 1. My chicken patty is almost done. It is CERTAINLY not on my diet, but I am looking forward to it none-the-less.2. I joined a gym. It's true. Planet Fitness. I've actually been a couple of times too! But not as much as I would like. I was supposed to go tonight after work, but I ended up staying

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I found this on a friend's blog this morning and had one of those, "OH YEAH!" moments. Can't wait for next season to see some more giant asses. :-Dsean ness: hubber on the west coast: It is Giant Ass time!

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Slashdot | Joel and Original Cast of MST3K Riding the Cinematic TitanicOH MY GOD!!! How exciting is this?! I can't wait until these new episodes come out. Call it what you will, but it sounds like Cinematic Titanic is just new episodes of MST3K to me!!! WOOHOO!

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It's true, the Red Sox are the world champions!!! Scott and I bought some champagne yesterday because we had a feeling it would end last night. Unfortunately we were too tired by the end of the game to actually crack it open. So, tonight we celebrate! And carve our pumpkins! I think mine will be a Red Sox logo..... YAY SOX!!!!!!

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What else could a skunk say, really? Originally uploaded by smellyknee

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In a bout of political consciousness I have decided to launch PortsmouthVoter.com. The reasoning behind this is that it is now 2 weeks from election day and the Portsmouth streets are absolutely flooded with campaign signs. Names are jumping out at you from everywhere asking to be elected to City Council, the School Board, Police Commissioner, etc. The issue? I have absolutely no idea who any of

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Zakim from Below Originally uploaded by smellykneeI have nothing to blog about at the moment, so in the meantime (or as I used to say when I was super little, in the nicetime) enjoy this picture of the Zakim Bridge while I collect my thoughts. (insert elevator music here...)

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Although I did begin watching the Red Sox game immediately after blogging last night, as my previous blog entry implies, I did not, in fact, watch them kick any Indian butt. I think this is due to the fact that I didn't go and change into my Red Sox pajamas until the 9th inning, when it was already too late. Red Sox, I'm sorry I let you down. But now you must pull together and win this series

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Well, it finally happened. The blue screen of death really meant death this time. I called Dell support this morning and the only fix was a full restoration of factory defaults. Lucky for me I bought an external hard drive over the weekend and transferred all of my documents, photos, web design files, etc into it on Saturday. Boy, not a minute too soon! So although I lost all of the super

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Up until now my favorite book had been The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, which I read on the recommendation of a friend who has similar tastes to mine, and also has written two books, both of which I loved. (You can find them here, if you're interested. He wrote Milenka first, but I would recommend Angel of Mersey. I think he really nailed it with that one. They are both excellent

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It is official, I have a video on YouTube. I finally caught up with 2006!! One of these days I may get an HDTV too... Scary!The video is nothing special, it's my super turtle, Herbert, eating a meal worm. Yum! I am running out of space on my hard drive fast though, so I figured anything that can find a home online somewhere probably should. Anyway, here's Herbert and his tasty lunch:

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Working Like a Dog Originally uploaded by anyoungkevinWhat is it about dogs dressed like people that makes me so super amused??? It's something. I found this pic in the Motif'd Challenges group on Flickr and I can't stop chuckling. (Chuckling is a great word, by the way).

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I have much more to post but am too busy to really sit down and dedicate any time to it right now. I wanted to give a shout-out to the Snapper Forum though. They are a fantastic site that I found full of knowledgeable and friendly folks who have helped me out tremendously with Herbert. If you are into turtles I highly recommend heading over there. There are forums for other types of pet turtles

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It is officially banned book week, as I was told by my librarian sweetie this morning. He then reminded me that I was supposed to read a banned book this week because that was the entire point. Since I just started reading "The Book Thief" and am starting to get into it, this bummed me out. Until I realized - "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a banned book! And I just finished it! Yay, I win!!!Anyway,

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I had a dream about Herbert last night. In it, I was trying to feed him his worms but was having trouble because he had grown to about 5 times his current size over night. Every time I went to pick him up he would snap at my fingers and it was making me sad because I couldn't get him to eat. When I woke up I went down to check on him though, and he is still his super cute, super little, super

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It is cold in my office. Like, really cold. Like I'm DYING in here. But not really dying, more slipping into a deep-freeze from which I'll be awoken when they've found a cure for AIDS, and cars fly, and the whole world is run by cows (they've got their eye on world domination, believe you me). Yessir, that is how cold it is in my office. So yesterday I decided I couldn't take it anymore and I

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I am having to design a new website at work for an upcoming conference that we're hosting and one of the pages is supposed to be a webform for folks to sign up. Now, designing forms is super easy. I've done it a million times. Making them actually work? Weeeeeeell..... I haven't actually *successfully* implemented one, like, ever. They frustrate the hell out of me. In fact, I hate them with the

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Yay!!!! My super-cute super-turtle has officially taken his first bite of food today. I was beginning to get worried because it's been about a week and a half since I found him and I had read that he should have been beginning to eat by now, but he hadn't even opened his mouth yet. That is, until this afternoon. One of the neighborhood kids who is trying to start her own dog-walking business came

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Finally, finally, finally, I have had Indian food again. Indian is one of my favorite cuisines and I haven't had it in probably about 2 years now, unless you count those Taste of India frozen dishes, which I don't. The reason for my sad departure from Indian food is allergies. Not mine, mind you, but Scott's. He has a very severe tree nut/coconut/sesame allergy, and Indian kitchens are wrought

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Jesse Jackson: Obama needs to bring more attention to Jena 6 - CNN.comOh my GOD. I first clicked on this link in google news having not heard yet of the "Jena 6," and the first few paragraphs were just talk of Jesse Jackson making statements and then backpedaling which, by the title of the article, is what I expected. But then it got into the meat of what the Jena 6 is all about... I can't even

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After finishing the Polysyllabic Spree last week I decided that next on my list was going to be The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, mainly because it's a borrowed book that I've had for a while, and I thought its rightful owner may be missing it. I took it with me to the Cape over the weekend and began reading it in the early mornings because apparently for some reason vacation means wake up at

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Sun-rocks! Originally uploaded by smellykneeI took these shots over the weekend in the cape. I have several shots that really came out great, but these are the top 3 of the trip, I think. You can view more of them from this trip and others in the Cape Cod set in my Flickr account.

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The fam and I returned last night from our weekend trip on the Cape where we had a FABULOUS time. The trip was rather hastily planned (as in, I booked out hotel on Friday and we checked in Friday night), but everything worked out just about as perfectly as we could have wanted it to. The only "to-do" item that ended up getting left off of our "done" list was, much to the chagrin of the kids, Cape

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Kevin Everett is becoming my new hero. I was so glad to see another Bill's update about his improved condition. This kid can't be kept down. I hope it continues to go this way for him!!!From the article:Bills team medical director Dr. John Marzo called it "new and substantial" information on injured tight end Kevin Everett. And when Dr. Kevin Gibbons spoke the developments sounded encouraging,

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Candle Trifecta Originally uploaded by smellykneeAnother flickr photo cuz I have nothing else to blog about. I've realized lately that if I'm going to be doing macro photography, my cheapo point and shoot Sony is MUCH better and more reliable than my fancy Canon, which cost twice as much. Still a point and shoot, in general it is much more sophisticated - it has more settings, more manual control

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Hopefully this YouTube embedding thing will work... So far every time I try it, the formatting is all screwy and it covers up all my sidebars.. Oh well. On to the point of this post... About 2 or 3 months ago I was sitting out in my front yard and this car drove by with the music blasting and the windows down. It was playing one of those songs that I knew I had heard about 6 million times in my

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Apparently Kevin Everett is making a phenomenal recovery from his spinal cord injury. Scott mentioned hearing on Sports Radio yesterday the tail end of a story about an injured player who was regaining movement in his arms and legs. He assumed it was Kevin Everett they were talking about, because who else would it be? I thought it must be someone else because I just looked up the article I posted

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I really have nothing to say about this that isn't obvious or schlocky, but I wanted to post it anyway, because it really is so sad.... This is the news story on buffalobills.com about Kevin Everett's injury, which he sustained on Sunday's game against Denver. Everett Suffers Fracture To Cervical Spine - Buffalo Bills: It was eagerly anticipated news when the Bills provided an update on Kevin

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By all accounts this day should be pretty crappy for me. September 11th is my dad's birthday and this is only the second September 11th that I've seen since he died. Something tells me he's looking out for me though, because it's turning out to be a pretty awesome day.The day started with me getting up, out of bed, and ready for work in a reasonable amount of time, meaning that for once I was not

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I have finally finished Nick Hornby's The Polysyllabic Spree. This book which is all of 140 pages should have taken me about two hours to knock through. Somehow it's been a month and I've only just finished it. The inexplicable time it took me to read it is no reflection on the book itself, which is fabulous. Throughout my reading I found myself repeatedly laughing out loud to the point where I

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Slug on my Steps Originally uploaded by smellykneeThis little guy was on our front steps last night. I thought he was SUPER cool looking! I don't think I've ever seen a leopard-spotted slug before!

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I hate Starbucks. It's true. I hate their omnipresence. I hate their bad habit of opening up next to local coffee shops and driving them out of business. I hate their lack of fair trade coffee. And I hate how bloody popular they are despite all those things. When Starbucks opened their first location in Portsmouth, NH, I, like most of the locals, was furious. Our city had two very popular coffee

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I knew I was going to have to do this, and I knew I would have to do this for this one song. In my top ten video post I went through and watched a ton of old videos. While I was doing it there was one video that I kept thinking about, which I remembered loving beyond love, but I was thinking that it was only because I loved the song so much at the time and the video probably wasn't as good as I

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Sepia Tanks, Framed Originally uploaded by smellykneeEvery morning I pass this building on my way into work, and every morning I think that I want to stop and get pictures of it, because it's just so cool looking. This morning I finally pulled over and took some shots. This one came out the best, I think. Now I can finally scratch something off my "someday to-do" list. I hate when there's such

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Here's some video from the march that Tommy and I went on in Kennebunkport last month.

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I was driving to work this morning when Epic by Faith No More shuffled on to my iPod, followed by Sabotage by The Beastie Boys. This, to me, was a sign. I needed to blog about the best music videos from my childhood, as both of those songs definitely make that list. I very loosely am considering my childhood from 88-98 (Born in 79, so I didn't pay much attention to MTV prior to 88). Some of these

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WOW. My boss just forwarded this article to me... This is a scary world that we are living in. Why would people want to do this??? Oy vey.BBC NEWS | Technology | Cyber crime tool kits go on sale: Cyber crime tool kits go on sale Windows XP, PA Hacking tools compete with legitimate software Malicious hackers are producing easy to use tools that automate attacks to cash in on a boom in hi-tech

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Balking? In baseball? Never heard of it. Until last night, that is. Scott and I were watching the Sox/Blue Jays game last night when on one play, prior to the pitch, the umpire stepped out from behind home plate and did a little hand gesture that I didn't understand (as umpires are wont to do), and all of a sudden in comes Varitek from third base. Happy as I was to see this my initial reaction

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There have been so many occasions in the past few weeks where I'm having a conversation with someone and I think, "you know, this would be a really great thing to blog about." And then I promptly forget all about it. Specifically I'm trying to think of a conversation I was having last night in which my boyfriend said, "well if you feel that strongly about it you should blog it and get it out

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Today my computer has become the bane of my existence. It is *killing* me right now.I bought myself a Dell Inspiron 9300 about 2 years ago and LOVED it for the first year or so. Now everything has just gotten deathly slow on me. Come to find out the other day that I only have 512MB of RAM on the thing and am running XP, the Adobe CS2 apps, the full Macromedia Suite, and numerous other

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Yes, I call my son Monkeyfishhead. (And Monkeyman, and Sweetpea, and Boogerface, among others...). Anyway, today is Monkeyfishhead's first day of school, and even more dramatically; it's his first day of Middle School! We did all of our back to school shopping yesterday (nothing like waiting until the last minute!!!) and luckily found everything that was on the list that was sent home, and today,

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Undoubtedly, and without question: The Wonder Years.

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Yesterday 4,000 of my closest friends and I all decided to take a walk. We walked through the streets of Kennebunkport, ME down toward the Bush compound and then headed back to the field that we started in where the Indigo Girls played (although I missed that part as the party of 5 I was in left right after the march was over). The Portsmouth Herald did a write up of it here.It was a very

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A 'Mini-Boston' on a Small Slice of CoastMy boyfriend showed me this article this morning, from the New York Times! We've been hearing the "mini-Boston" thing for about a gazillion years, but usually from the local papers. A New York Times mention is pretty exciting. I loved the "cons" of the area listed in the article. Traffic in the summer is INSANE (but really only on Fridays), and the ocean

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I went to the Portsmouth Herald website looking for an article on the Peace March in Kennebunkport yesterday and saw this article on the homepage... It's pretty scary stuff. This is like Boston Port kind of stuff, but Portsmouth?! Very surreal.Seacoastonline.com: 'Tombstone' left for union boss: "PORTSMOUTH — A week before International Longshoreman's Association president Bill Roach's home and

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I downloaded this album on iTunes months ago, listened to it 2 or 3 times and totally loved it, and then promptly forgot about it. I remembered it the other day when I was driving around and "For the Girl" shuffled on to my iPod. It is by far the best song on the album, which is full of fantastic songs. I'm listening to it right now in my office and I've yet to hear a song that is short of

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I recently wrote to my congresswoman to express my frustration with the fact that NONE of the democratic candidates (other than Kucinich) are proposing single payer universal health care. Today I received her response, which is below:Dear Ms. Burger: Thank you for contacting me to share your thoughts about health care. The need for affordable health care is one of the most pressing issues facing

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I was visiting my boyfriend at his library the other day (he's the Director of the Langdon Library in Newington, NH) and I was looking for something to read to keep me occupied while he was finishing up his work. Browsing through the stacks I found "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" and it occurred to me that I had never read it. I picked it up and started in expecting it to be fabulous, because

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C.I.A. Lays Out Errors It Made Before Sept. 11 - New York Times: "WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 — A report released Tuesday by the Central Intelligence Agency includes new details of the agency’s missteps before the Sept. 11 attacks, outlining what the report says were failures to grasp the role being played by the terror mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and to assess fully the threats streaming into the

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Swinging Frog Originally uploaded by smellykneeHere's another recent shot I took. This guy is swinging outside the Bagel Caboose in Kittery, ME; located right on the traffic circle. I had a spinach bagel with light cream cheese which was DELICIOUS. Apparently the place is owned by a man who was a gourmet chef in France and then moved to America to discover that you could make more money in bagels

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Overlooking South Mill Pond Originally uploaded by smellykneeI took this the other day at the South Mill Pond in Portsmouth, NH while I was waiting for Tommy to get out of summer camp. I was really happy with how it came out - it looks so peaceful. I'm really starting to dig this photography thing. I got some good shots at the Portsmouth Air Show too, but they were on my 35mm so I have to wait

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FOXNews.com - Grrr! Michael Vick's Bogus Plea - Entertainment News | Mike Straka | GRRR! | Ultimate FightingMichael Vick pisses me off. What also pisses me off is knowing this whole thing started off being reported as a huge NFL underground culture, and now there is ONE player going down for it. What about all the other vicious and cruel dog-killers out there?? I hope they're planning on

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165 Safe After Plane Explodes in Japan | World Latest | Guardian UnlimitedWOW. This story is amazing. Imagine a plane exploding and everyone on-board lives?! Fantastic! Still scary though. Planes exploding.. Yeesh!

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Politics on the Hudson » Blog Archive » Not everybody likes Obama GirlI had heard about this girl a few days ago from a friend and we discussed how her video is basically undermining anyone's ability to take Obama seriously. Now here's an article discussing how even Obama doesn't like her. Maybe now she'll go away?

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I sure have blogged a lot today!

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On Monday I was flying home from Atlanta with Tommy and was VERY tired, as we had an 8:40 flight, which meant up and out of the house by 5:30. I dozed on and off through most of the flight, and spent most of my awake time listening to the conversation of the two people sitting behind me. They were strangers, one a young woman about my age on a business trip, the other a young man, probably also

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Oink, oink! Originally uploaded by smellykneeThis guy was at the Yellow River Game Ranch that we went to in Lilburn, GA. It was a really cool place where you could feed all of the animals and would regularly be approached by deer and squirrels looking for a handout. It was so cool. My brother's baby's favorite part was the bear pit, which had 4 or 5 black bears in it. We got up to the edge and

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Phil Rizzuto, Yankees Shortstop, Dies at 89 - New York TimesScott and I were watching the Sox game last night (what an exciting 9th inning!!!!), and afterward turned it over to ESPN to see that Phil Rizzuto had died. My first response was, "why does ESPN care about the Money Store guy?" which didn't make Scott very happy at all as he rolled his eyes at me. But then we watched all the old clips of

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While I was in Atlanta visiting my brother and his wife I was invited to go with my sister-in-law and her 13-year-old daughter to see Korn's Family Value Tour at the HiFi Buys Amphitheatre. It was this past Saturday, which was forcasted to be over 100 in Atlanta. Much to the 13-year-old's dismay her mother and I both agreed that there was no way we were going to sit in the 100 degree Atlanta heat

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Unclaimed Baggage CenterThis site is so bizarre. I read about it in a Reader's Digest in my brother's bathroom while I was.... um.. thinking. It's this store in Alabama that has a deal with all the major airlines to purchase their lost and unreturnable baggage. Then they resell it in their store. When I saw a web address I was hoping they'd have an online store and stuff, thinking it would be fun

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U.S. Marshals Let Fugitives Come to Them, in Church - New York TimesThis is a very cool, forward-thinking idea. I'm surprised that it came out of the government! I'm curious to see what the results will be.

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Monarch ! Originally uploaded by smellykneeI have been waiting for EVER to get a picture of a monarch butterfly. Finally yesterday when I was walking down along the railroad tracks this guy landed on the flowers next to where I was standing. Super exciting!!!!

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Sushi joint takes dig at Bonds - Yahoo! News: "Hapa Sushi Grill ran a half-page ad Thursday in the satirical weekly The Onion that read 'Congratulations Hank Aaron on 755 home runs.' At the bottom of the page, the ad continues: 'Organic beef and chicken, no added steroids.'"This is great! I will be very mad the day Bonds breaks the record. Stupid cheaters.

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DSC02829 Originally uploaded by smellykneeHere's one of the many views that we got last night from aboard the Thomas Leighton on the eCruise. It was really a perfect night for it.

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I would like to report that as of my drive in to work this morning there are no ducks, squished or otherwise, anywhere on the highway. I think the whole family might have made it!! This is very exciting for me as I was worried about those stupid ducks all day yesterday. In other news, the eCruise was a LOT of fun. Also, the boat didn't sink, and no bridges collapsed on top of us. All in all I

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I had a near run-in with a family of ducks on the highway this morning on my way to work. I was driving in the far-right lane getting ready to merge into a converging lane, when all of a sudden I see a mother duck and about 15 babies getting ready to cross the street. In order to be where they were they already had to have crossed the two-lanes that were converging with the main highway, but now

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Bridge Collapse in Minneapolis Kills at Least 7 - New York TimesThis story absolutely horrifies me! Can you imagine sitting there on the bridge that you sit on every day, on your way home from work, and all of a sudden you're plunging into the water below?? This is high up there on the list of my worst nightmares. Usually I'm not highly bridge-phobic, but every time I cross one I think about

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Yep, it's true. I got a letter from photolaureates.org saying that one of my photos will be published in their next photo book. This is the photo:Which will be published in this book: Photography Vibes

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Well, my S2 IS issue (mentioned several posts below) has been resolved, and I am happy, happy, happy! Here's what I wrote on the forum for the issue:I just called back a 3rd time and spoke to Kevin, a first line customer support rep about my issue. I explained the whole thing all over again and he took it all down. He was extremely friendly and professional. He tried to find Nate for me but

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