• Crossposted from My Website.

It has been a while (almost a year) since I posted about the state of my website. I greatly enjoy my attempts to clean it up and make it work the way I want it to. Over the past couple of weeks, I gave the site a pretty major overhaul visually. If you are running your own Drupal installation or are just curious what I've done to the site you might find this a handy guide.

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http://www.snopes.com/business/names/bvd.asp

Is men's underwear referred to as 'BVDs' because the term is an abbreviation of the phrase 'Boy's Ventilated Drawers'?

for my mom & dad
i forgot to take a picture of the pillow i made for brother,
and he left this afternoon... maybe he can take one.

we had huevos rancheros at the farmer & the cook this morning.
braxton is shopping with his aunt for an interview outfit
in minneapolis today. i think i will go pick tangerines.
on tuesday i get on the bus to emeryville to catch the train.

spin from roxanne on Vimeo.

Re: re: Laps in security

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In Willful Blindness, I recount the debacle of repeated entries into the United States by, among others, the Blind Sheikh (Omar Abdel Rahman) and al Qaeda operative Ali Mohammed — the former permitted free entrance, egress and, finally, a green card (as a special religious worker) even though he was one of the world's most famous jihadists and was on the terror watch lists for having authorized the murder of Anwar Sadat; the latter permitted to immigrate from Egypt and join the U.S. army despite having been caught trying to infiltrate the CIA. Now, nearly 20 years later — after 9/11, the 9/11 Commission, etc. — we have Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: He was in the terrorist "database" because we were warned by his own influential father of his radical ties and proclivities, and he was evidently notorious among associates in Africa and Europe for his jihadist leanings; yet, he was issued a multiple-entry visa. And he claims to have been trained in Yemen — the al Qaeda hub to which the administration has just sent a half-dozen trained jihadists previously detained in Gitmo, and where it hopes to send many more.

I wonder what the media would be saying if George Bush were still president.

Hadn't Abdulmutallab heard that we are closing Gitmo? Hadn't he heard that we're phasing out military-commissions so we can show the world that we give even the worst mass-murderers civilian trials with all the rights of American citizens? Hadn't he heard that President Obama has banned torture (yes, yes, I know, actually Congress banned it 15 years ago — details, details ...)? Hadn't he heard that the president has called for "a new beginning" in America's relationship with the Muslim world? Hadn't he heard that this is our new, smarter strategy to safeguard the nation from man-caused disasters?

I suspect he's heard all those things.

Yep. He sure has.

God Bless the hero citizens that took action on Christmas. May we all come to our senses so readily.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/hearttransplant.asp

Texted exhortation claims the phone company will donate $2 for a baby girl's heart transplant every time the message is forwarded.

This is actually quite clever.

http://www.andrewmcdonald.net.au/a-pictorial-guide-to-avoiding-camera-loss/

http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/soldier.asp

A serviceman's poem describes a soldier's lonely night before Christmas.

Ahh, home. I don't have to work for, like, 5 or six days. Amazing!

I'm going to spend it resting and reading. I've got a Koontz book to wrap up, and a new (well, "new") CS Lewis, and it's about time I read some Kempis, and I grabbed one of them's Brad Thor novels that all we fascist conservatives who believe that terrorists are real and stuff supposedly really dig.

No workout this week, I don't think. And then, in 2010, war begind with the last 30 pounds of so I wish to shed, whilst still making ever heavier weights move in the direction I desire them to go (usually, away from my skull while it's perched overhead).

Other plans for 2010, too, but I find I best work in the short term. SO sometime in the next few days I'll be making the obligatory "resolutions" post, but only for first quarter.

:D

http://www.snopes.com/sports/football/tarkenton.asp

Football rumor: A bad officiating call killed the father of Vikings quarterback Fran Tarkenton.

i found another house on the head
picture to go with the others

* & my friend linnea showed me another
& i found another

with bodie



heather came today and we picked citrus and
had lunch at the farmer & the cook and walked
about ojai; we saw matt at bart's and heather picked
some grapefruit that grows on a tree in the courtyard
there and then we had pizza with my parents. i still
have to finish the binding on their quilt; hopefully my mom
will go to bed soon so i can work on it. hee.

...and yet till somehow true.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. --Yoda

:)

Working from home today...it's pure bliss.

:)

Even though my $15 sweater boots from Old Navy are not that comfortable they sure are warm.

And I bring you my To Do:
1. Go to the Post Office after Rush Hour to mail the rest of the holiday cards!
2. Convince T to go to the grocery store to pick up the last of what we need for Christmas Eve dinner and the mini bundt cakes I'm baking tomorrow
3. Clean up around here
4. Finish all of the work to-dos
5. Hit the gym!

http://www.snopes.com/language/foreign/hoity.asp

Does the term 'hoity-toity' come from the French words for 'high roof'?

The world is complicated.

beyond this point from roxanne on Vimeo.

cassandra & i filmed this yesterday. i wanted to
film with my 8mm camera but i think there is something wrong
with it :/ at least digital is more immediately satisfying.
i would like to add sound to it but i need to record or find some somehow...
all i ahve on my computer is prince.