Archive for November, 2004

Table Manners

Saturday, November 27th, 2004

Man stabbed 2 relatives with carving knives:When Frank Palacios used his fingers to grab a piece of Thanksgiving turkey, Worcester police said, a nephew piped up to correct his table manners: ”Uncle Frank, can you please use your utensils?“Palacios did, police said, but he used two carving knives to stab two family members.

Cheesecake Season

Saturday, November 27th, 2004

I look forward to the fall chill, as it brings with it the scent of cooling cheesecakes and roasting chickens in the air…Thanksgiving always symbolizes the beginning of the cold weather cooking season to me, and although we don’t have the requisite opening feast here in Japan, it seems that I fell into step anyway…. So the large cheesecake goes with us to dinner at a friend’s house tonight, and the others I am going hide in the fridge for later…Tonight will be kind of like Groundhog Day for me.

Children’s Partner Desk

Sunday, November 21st, 2004

Since it is getting cold here in West Nowhere, the paint was taking a while to dry, so I have been painting and waiting for the last few days. This morning I braved the fumes for a few more hours and threw on a few coats of lacquer to finish it off.

Spam Plugin

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

I just came across a new Spam plugin for Wordpress via the Wordpress Planet and dropped it in my plugin folder.

To Moo Bovine

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004

An apple every eight hours will keep three doctors away.To err is human, to moo bovine.Hire the morally handicapped.I have received well over three hundred comment spams in the past few weeks, and they have been causing me much frustration.

Comment SPAM

Sunday, November 14th, 2004

This site is currently being attacked by some casino comment spammer, so I have disabled comments for now. All comments will have to be OK’d by me before publication for the time being. I hope to fix this later tonight if possible.

Furniture Design

Sunday, November 14th, 2004

What a wonderful piece of furniture.As this furniture design just does not seem to actually exist, meaning that I have never tripped over one, I had settled on the idea of just buying an adjustable drafting table and using that…. The desk may not be pretty, but it works.Emboldened by my success at putting a painted piece of plywood on my desk, I decided to go a step further…My son, currently three and a half, loves to draw.