Archive for October, 2006
Tough one for the Preds
The Preds take on the Vancouver Canucks on the road tonight. As the Vancouver Sun reports, the Preds are pretty hot right now, but they generally don’t play well in British Columbia. Nashville is 3-10-1 all-time (with the 1 being a tie prior to the arrival of the shootout) at Vancouver, but a lot of those losses were absorbed by less talented Preds teams. It should be another good test for a young and promising Preds squad. Here’s hoping the Preds get out to a steady lead and, for once this season, hold onto it. Go Preds!!
Sad news for the Doster family
This news from the Tennessean is a sad addition to an already sad story. I hope that there will be justice eventually for the Doster family, and I also hope that the suspect in question is deserving of having charges dropped. I honestly don’t know.
Pumpkins, non-extreme
These pumpkins aren’t extreme, but I did witness the carving of all of them Sunday night. Ours is the Macaulay Culkin version in the middle of the top photo. (Yes, ours is from a template. We’re not ashamed.)
Halloween reloaded
Halloween 2.0 has arrived, courtesy of Pith in the Wind.
e-voting
I early (and electronic) voted today. Even at 9:15 a.m. at the Green Hills Library, all the voting machines were occupied. There was not a line, but there appeared to be a steady stream of voters coming in. I have some concerns about a “paper trail” documenting electronic results, but otherwise my experience was positive. It was easy to vote, and I was in and out quickly.
I tried to capture a shot of the machine in action on my Treo, but I accidentally obscured the image with my thumb. Oops. The stock photo above will have to suffice.
KISS your friends today
For 364 days each year, I consider these two people my friends. Today, I consider them rock stars. Happy Halloween, everyone!
Coke is it…
…but what is Coke? Sorry, it’s a secret. Is it all just a marketing ploy? Could someone really make a pretty decent facsimile of Coke without knowing the exact formula? Let me know if you figure out how to make homemade Coke Zero. That would reduce our grocery bills considerably.
Because he could
This page explaining how to build a computer inside a pumpkin (yes, really) had me recalling one of my favorite quotes, this one from Jeff Goldblum’s character in Jurassic Park: “You were so busy trying to see if you could do it that you didn’t stop to think about whether you should.” Be sure to check out all three pages of the fun because the comments at the bottom of page 3 are worth it.
