sKim
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- I'm complicated, beautiful, deeply flawed. No wait, that's a character I saw on TV. I'm pretty superficial, really.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Bicycle helmets, exchange
students, and a journalism
lesson
March 20, 2010 07:37PM - Nervous about reuniting with
my high school sweetheart
March 09, 2010 07:43PM - The Apple Edsel
January 27, 2010 07:38PM - The Drifters Animated White
Christmas video
November 29, 2009 01:27AM - Grammar -- It's Not for
Sissies
August 16, 2009 05:04PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “See, the answer to that
vexing question "What do women
want?"
is quite…”
March 09, 2010 11:31PM - “Thanks Barry, I like
your prediction.”
March 09, 2010 09:36PM - “I'm much more curious
about your Victorian childhood
than the
insipid story of
te…”
December 19, 2009 03:42PM - “Another OSer posted a
link to the video last
Christmas and I
must have
watched it…”
November 29, 2009 01:32PM - “I'm not sure why this is
relevant. Did the unions train
the
rescuers? Do they
pay…”
January 17, 2009 11:17AM
SKim's Links
Bicycle helmets, exchange students, and a journalism lesson
I saw a man and his son on a bicycle today. Both were wearing helmets. You don't see kids on their bikes anymore without parents close by. If I see a child, even an older child, twelve years old, on a bike, I look around, and without exception, there is a… Read full post »
Nervous about reuniting with my high school sweetheart
I haven't played piano in over thirty years. When I was in high school, I bought an old, cheap upright piano. My mom let me put it in the dining room we never used. After seeing the movie The Sting, I had fallen in love with ragtime music. I never took… Read full post »
The Apple Edsel
Remember the Apple Lisa (not to be confused with the Appaloosa)? Probably not. It was a rotten Apple. Named after Steve Jobs' daughter Lisa, it was slow and ridiculously expensive. I'll bet Lisa still appreciates the honor. "Thanks, Dad!" Just like Henry Ford's son, Edsel, apprecia/… Read full post »
The Drifters Animated White Christmas video
White
Christmas - Funny video
clips are a click away
Animated by Joshua Held
Performed by The Drifters Read full post »
Grammar -- It's Not for Sissies
Can I Buy This, Trader Joe? Do You Approve?
I was at Trader Joe's yesterday, buying a bag of walnut halves. That's all, just the walnuts. As usual I was daydreaming, not paying attention to the people around me. It was crowded, like it always is at Trader Joe's and it took a
… Read full post »The Ghost That Dickens Forgot
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An Obama-Palin Administration? It Could Happen
There is some buzz about the possibility of an Obama-Palin win. That is NOT a misprint.
According to this column in the Chicago Tribune, if Barack Obama wins the popular vote in Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Iowa and Colorado, but loses in West Virginia, Florida, Ohio and New Hampshire, there could… Read full post »
Nothing Comes Between a Man and His Teddy Bear
When I lived in dormitories, I noticed that a lot of the women had stuffed animals, usually teddy bears, on their beds. I thought they were a little old for that, but many of them were away from home for the first time, so what the heck, right?
Now I read… Read full post »
Sarah Barracuda Gets Bitten
Something fishy about Barracuda use, says Heart
Reuters Published: Friday, September 05, 2008
The rock group Heart, angry that its 70's hit "Barracuda" is being used as the unofficial theme song for Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, is biting back at the Alaska governor.
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… Read full post »McCain/Romney '08
As far as the voters are concerned, this is not about Bristol Palin. It's about John McCain. Did he really, as he claims, know about Sarah Palin's daughter's pregnancy before announcing her as his choice for running mate?
If he knew, he must have known it would be a huge… Read full post »
Surprise Obama Appearance
Barack Obama's surprise appearance at the convention rendered the attendees speechless, even the Clintons. Then everyone cheered like crazy. He praised the entire Biden family and the Clintons. He stayed on stage only a few minutes. It was a brilliant move. Does anyone seriously doubt that he c… Read full post »
Talking in His Sleep
My husband has developed a new habit in bed. He talks in his sleep.
I'm not complaining. Lord knows it could be so much worse. He could snore, which he doesn't. Or he could have developed an odd fetish, like asking me to wear flippers and a snorkel… Read full post »
“Did you play bingo today?” I ask my Aunt Opal.
She went into an assisted living facility not long ago and to ease the transition, I visit her as often as I can, but my husband and I live a day's drive away, so in between visits, I talk… Read full post »
Blogger at Work
Obama's still mad
12.30pm BST
New Yorker's plane snub over Obama 'terrorist' cartoon
- Matthew Weaver
- guardian.co.uk,
- Monday July 21, 2008
The controversial cover of The New Yorker magazine on July 14, 2008 in New York City, which carries
Especially television.
Digital TV's got better picture, better sound, more channels.
In fact, digital's so much better that, by law, all broadcast TV has to be digital by 2009.
But there's a catch.
Some TVs need an upgrade to get digital.… Read full post »
pet peeve
pet peeve... naming inanimate objects as if they were people
you know who you are... your car is named 'tina' or 'rafael'
your laptop is named 'sigmund' or 'neo'
naming pets is fine, obviously. naming body parts, well, i won't go there.
but naming your bicycle or your moped… Read full post »
busy weekend, you may have missed this in salon.com's war room.
Fox "News" altered the photographs of these New York Times reporters.
They don't even seem to care if it's obvious that they are altering the photographs.
Someone was telling me a disgusting story recently, having to do with a spider's nest in his house. I tried to stop him when I couldn't take any more. "I'm not squeamish, but spiders really give me the creeps."
"I'm not sqeamish, but." That gave it away. I… Read full post »
revealing the family secrets
Over on Slate.com they're discussing whether and how much you should blog about your family, especially your kids. It's one thing to divulge intimate details about yourself online, as so many have done with their "10 Things" lists on open salon. It's something else to spill the secrets of your/… Read full post »
a job for hillary
Hillary will add nothing to an Obama ticket. Her supporters will not be mollified by a VP spot. But some people are suggesting she'd make a good Supreme Court justice and she could make more of a lasting contribution there than as VP. And what the heck, why not promise/… Read full post »
holding the voters hostage
Rumors are flying that Hillary is about to bow out at long last. But wait, there's a catch. It seems she'll agree to quit if the Obama campaign agrees to pay off her $40 million dollar plus campaign debt. That's got to make the Obama contributors grit their teeth. If… Read full post »
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