Delta Queen

An article in NYT about the Delta Queen.
TCB’s mom loves the Delta Queen. I mean, loves it so much that she’ll ditch a visit with her only son if a great last-minute deal on a trip comes up. This year, she’s used all of her vacation to ride on it, and is driving down Thanksgiving [...]

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How much time have you lost to waiting on your computer?
Kid Rock in DeKalb County
Will Carlsberg overpay for Scottish & Newcastle?
Kitten tail + fireworks != anything good
Alonso isn’t happy with McLaren’s tactics 
Disappearing cats in Yorkshire
NASA is being shifty with air safety survey results
2 cyclists killed in SC ride
Cyclist killed in unexpected rock-falling accident
Greg Ryan is [...]

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Stuffing recipe with sliders

TCB fixxored the fridge (we hope. so far.)
MythBusters will take on the cockroach and radiation myth
Little 5 Points Halloween celebrations

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Dag.

Emma is so cute.

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I give you…

Arg! So many pictures! So many terrible, blurry pictures! So many blurry pictures that I really wished were in focus! I sometimes curse my shutter-happy-ness. So, finally, I give you:
Mr. and Mrs. Jana!

A better photo of the two:

Katy looked great:

And some previews of sights to come:

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Miniposts

IBM teaming up with Second Life to make portable avatars

Study finds link between drinking and endometrial cancer
Lipstick has lead
Obit for Dr. Craig Smith
Case of vodka as medical treatment
F-16s intercept antique planes headed to fly-in
Opening dayat Rockefeller Center a little slushy

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Well, that was dumb

The building secretary at work dropped off a bunch of peppers from her garden, and I took a handful home to make salsa. Not knowing what kinds they were (battery was dead, didn’t get a picture of them before chopping them up), I happily chopped away and filled the pot. Sans gloves. And now my [...]

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