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Sunday, October 31, 2004

October out

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Posted by Marie at 11:59 PM

Friday, October 29, 2004

Sweaty sweaty Friday

Today was sickeningly hot for the end of October. It was a summer clothes kind.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 11:12 PM

Me and Zuul - repost with minor edits

The following is a repost of my entry from Halloween last year. I'm doing this.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 11:01 PM

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

RSS enabled washers and dryers?

What a great idea, if only it were true. Maybe someday soon. According to a.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 11:45 PM

President of the Cardinals

Local newspaper dispenser shot earlier this spring. Is it any coincidence that the president.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 7:29 PM | Comments (1)

Knuckleheads like us

My co-worker is trying to order some software over the telephone. It's quite clear the.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 11:09 AM | Comments (1)

Winter signs

Today's good advice from the Old Farmer's Almanac. It goes: The more red berries seen.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 10:59 AM

Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Still on those federal judges

It's good to see I'm not the only one trying to get people talking about.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 10:56 PM

Electoral vote one week to go

It's hard to believe, but one week from tonight the major network talking heads will.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 10:21 PM | Comments (3)

Feed dropped by Bloglines

Sometime today or last night, one of the blogs I subscribe to was removed from.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 10:03 PM | Comments (2)

We grew apart

In the early days I heard little bits and pieces of conversation about you. That.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 12:14 AM

Monday, October 25, 2004

A lot of blogging going on

More than 4100 blogs pinged Weblogs.com during the period from 11:11 p.m. to 12:11 a.m..... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 11:32 PM

Transcript 2nd senate debate

The Obama Blog has a typed transcript of the second debate and a link to.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 3:21 PM

Sunday, October 24, 2004

Young Americans

Two high school girls were denied admittance to a Bush rally in Iowa. One because.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 9:27 PM

A different Hoosier bus

Spotted recently at the gas station at 11th and Stevenson, Springfield, Illinois. This is.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 1:11 AM | Comments (1)

Thursday, October 21, 2004

On guns

There seems to be a little buzz today amongst the law abiding gun owner voting.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 9:53 PM | Comments (3)

On a real job

Someone's privileged wife says something about not knowing if someone else's privileged wife ever had.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 9:42 PM

Religious debate

Somehow this Illinois senatorial debate just turned into a religious debate. Lot of preaching going.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 7:46 PM

Second senate debate

I'm listening to the second debate between the two main party candidates for U.S. Senator.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 7:37 PM | Comments (1)

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Writing debate questions

Chicago Tribune columnist and blogger, Eriz Zorn put out a call to some of his.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 10:32 PM

File extension quiz

In my neverending quest to find out just what I want to be, I took.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 2:27 PM | Comments (2)

Sunday, October 17, 2004

Electoral vote 16 days to go

Getting closer: Sunday, October 17, 2004, Kerry 253 | Bush 247 (Kerry + 6) Tuesday,.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 11:16 PM | Comments (1)

Night lights

It's a crash barrel caught in the flash of the camera..... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 12:55 AM

White Rabbits

In the Law and Order episode entitled, "White Rabbit," the principal character gets sentenced to.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 12:04 AM | Comments (5)

Saturday, October 16, 2004

Know your Supremes

The nomination process for federal judges didn't get enough discussion in the presidential debates. Both.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 11:37 PM

Friday, October 15, 2004

Know your contrails

GLOBE: Contrail Chart Contrail Clutter over Georgia: Artificial clouds made by humans may become so.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 12:01 PM | Comments (1)

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Senate debate morning after

A few things to note: Cynical at Fresh Paint did a much better job of.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 2:31 PM

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

First Illinois Senate Debate

As much as I would like to have live-blogged the debate, it just wasn't possible..... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 10:54 PM

Pre-Illinois senate debate conversation

Before the debate I overheard this anonymous (wink wink) exchange: Her: Are you going to.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 10:39 PM

Monday, October 11, 2004

Political spam

I just received an unsolicited political spam e-mail that has to go down as one.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 10:24 PM | Comments (1)

Man of steel

Christopher Reeve passed away yesterday. He will always be remembered as a real super hero.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 10:13 PM

Sunday, October 10, 2004

What happened to WordPerfect

The Salt Lake Tribune has an interesting article about the history of WordPerfect's decline and.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 11:49 PM | Comments (2)

Earache My Eye

Insert excuses here for lack of activity herein. I'm just being quiet..... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 9:41 PM

Thursday, October 07, 2004

A sign that you're hungry

We eat horseshoes for breakfast. And lunch. And dinner.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 11:46 PM | Comments (1)

Tuesday, October 05, 2004

November 2nd ballots

For future reference, Sangamon County has put the names of all our candidates on its.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 11:34 PM

Electoral vote 28 days to go

Numbers that came out today, but before the VP debates, as calculated by EVP 2004:.... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 11:19 PM

Monday, October 04, 2004

Another Republican Illinois senate candidate

A Springfield surgeon has registered to be a write-in candidate in the Illinois senate race..... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 10:24 PM

I thought I should say something

Something..... [click for full entry]

Posted by Marie at 10:18 PM