Peyton Manning - Super Bowl MVP

Ladies and gentlemen, your Super Bowl LXI MVP - Peyton Manning.

Horowitz and Rachmaninoff #3

Thanks, YouTube!

Vladimir Samoylovych Horowitz
New York Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta conducting

1st Movement


2nd Movement


3rd Movement

It's snow-bumper cars!

Check out this video of slipping and sliding near SW20th and Salmon this morning (that's just south of PGE Park).

KGW video

Why do they hate America?

Turns out our President has succeeded so well in making Government so inept that they are selling military surplus to Iran.
Iran Gets Army Gear in Pentagon Surplus Sale - ABC NEWS

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Where are our modern-day heroes?




Here is a link to his speech "Beyond Vietnam", hosted by The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.

Jake Gyllenhaal

If you weren't already in love with Jake, here's the definitive reason...

Non-inductive charging

This is from the Consumer Electronics Show via the boys and girls at Gizmodo. This looks really cool. Non-inductive charging of devices via a charging strip. Totally wireless (well, for the devices, anyway). Small device charging strips in March and a laptop version in June. Cool.

Amy v Martha

I love Amy Sedaris. She is brilliantly wicked. Here she is on Martha Stewart's show.

Why I Am A Liberal And A Progressive And A Democrat

by digby

I am a liberal because it is the political philosophy of freedom and equality. And I am a progressive because it is the political path to a better future. And I am a Democrat because it is the political party that believes in freedom, equality and progress.

I lifted this directly from Digby because he said it better than I ever could. Thanks, Digby!
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/

Support the Troops! Support the Troops! Support...

the troops. Oh, wait. If that were true, things would be a lot different. Check out this poll conducted by that liberal rag, "The Military Times". It appears that there are more troops now who disapprove of W's conduct of this war that who approve. Only 41% said that the US should have gone to war with Iraq. That's compared to 65% in 2003. Let's see what the rightwing nut-o-sphere says about that.

Back to work, I guess

So, I've had an entire week off from work. I really enjoyed it. I genuinely like my job, but having the week off was so nice. I could so be a kept man. If only Steve would get rich quick. Or I could win the lottery. I'd be okay with that, too.

If art made money...

It would look like this...

McDavid

Zunetastic - not

ANDY IHNATKO over at the Chicago Sun-Times doesn't like the Zune. Not even a little bit. In fact, he says "I've spent a week setting this thing up and using it, and the overall experience is about as pleasant as having an airbag deploy in your face."

Ouch.

I need a picture

So I really like Bloglines, but...

it doesn't allow people to post comments, and readers must read posts on Bloglines. So, I'm going to start posting here again. Or, judging by how many posts I have so far on this blog, I'm going to really start posting here.

I'll get the hang of this, eventually.

Shadow on the moon

Hmmm. This blogging thing is a little more time consuming than I thought. You'd think someone in this day and age could post a little more often. I guess either my life is more busy, or I have less to say, than the average blogger. Sad, I know.
Here's a good anti-religious quote I found today -
"The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church." Ferdinand Magellan
More faith in shadow, indeed. A genius. Or lunatic. Take your pick.
Oh, one more. This in a very unknown American treaty (http://dim.com/~randl/founders.htm):
The Treaty of Tripoli, passed by the U.S. Senate in 1797, read in part: "The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." The treaty was written during the Washington administration, and sent to the Senate during the Adams administration. It was read aloud to the Senate, and each Senator received a printed copy. This was the 339th time that a recorded vote was required by the Senate, but only the third time a vote was unanimous (the next time was to honor George Washington). There is no record of any debate or dissension on the treaty. It was reprinted in full in three newspapers - two in Philadelphia, one in New York City. There is no record of public outcry or complaint in subsequent editions of the papers.

Saturday fun

We went out to some wineries today with Sandy and AJ. It was fun. First, we had lunch at Madison's Grill. Then we drove out to the Anne Amie Vineyard. They are part of the wine club and had to pick up their regular purchase of wines. Sandy, being good and pregnant, was the designated driver after our winery stops. We had a nice FREE tasting of several varieties (some better than others). There were lots of people there, so we made fun of the freaks. Bad hair, heavy makeup, terrible clothes, high-heel boat shoes. You get the idea.
We then drove around and found another winery. Scary! It was Carlo and something, and it was a real shack, with broken down cars in the yard and everything. Terrifying. We ended up in a winery that had a wine we lovingly called "Jesus Juice". It was made from grapes from Canaan, or something similarly alarming. The wine was awful. All red, all smelly, and all gross.
We found the McMenniman's Grand Lodge and had some munchies, then proceeded to play a round of frisbee "golf". It was fun, except when I managed to get my frisbee into the only water hazard. Twice. Just like the real thing, I guess. Oh, and there were doggie land mines all over the field. Fun!
For dinner, we went to the McCormick's Restaurant in Highway 8 in Beaverton. Yum. Good food. We were stuffed.
Made it home about 9:30. Exhausted and feeling like a ripe watermelon ready to burst.

So, now what?
As it turns out, the Pope happens to be dead. Too bad. And Terry Schiavo died recently, so that must mean their deaths are related. Both to be sainted soon... On other fronts, DeLay is in trouble in TexAss, Charles and Camilla are postponing (as if anyone really cared), and former 98 Degrees "star" Justin Jeffre is serious about Cincinatti politics.
In other news, Bill O'Reilly is taking a stand against terrorists - at the ACLU. Yes, Virginia, he's for real. I also heard a very funny clip on the Al Franken Show on Air America where Bill is talking nonsense about looking a POW captive in the eye if the captive knows where capture Americans are located. He was going on and on about being tough and making sure this guy knew that he meant business. Blah, blah. Then this caller from Portland, "Robert", asks Bill if he ever served in the military. "No." Then he asks why Bill would lie about something so serious. Don't you know people listen to you, Bill? Bill told him to stuff his pansy mouth. In the background you can hear the guy say "Fair and Balanced" and it sets ol' Bill off. He screams at the guy, calling him a crazy wimpy liberal from O-Ray-Gone, hangs up on him and tells him to shove his weasley "Fair and Balanced" comments up his ass. Go Robert from Portland!

I was sick all of last week with the flu. It was rough. Steve is an angel. He took real good care of me. Lucky guy, I am.
We're going up to Mt Hood this weekend with 3 other couples. It should be fun. Hopefully there will be some snow on the ground so that we can feel like it's actually winter.

Gosh, I kind of stopped working on this thing. Well, now that I've finished school (for the time being), I'll keep up with this better.
Check out Portland gas prices.



It will consistently update. I'll probably have to move this over to the nav bar.