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2008-08-10 -- 2008-08-16

A daily photolog by Schlake
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I'm going to try and keep the Daily Page pure for pictures. Meaning I will only write text here which is either about the pictures, or about the daily page (which is about pictures). That way my LJ still has content too.

The administrative content for today is about the RSS feed. It sucks. But, is it good enough?


Making a face.
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Just a face.

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Someone recently asked, "Is it autumn yet?"
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When I got to Julies's house, the power was out. I took a couple of picures trying to convey the lack of power. After taking this one, I decided it didn't work and took a picture of the dark controls on the microwave and range. Looking at them now, I realize that this one works the best because Julie not having the TV on is a far more powerful indication of a problem than not seeing the time on the microwave.
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We ate at Jade Chinese restaurant for our evening meal.
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What is this, the Gone Page? Today the carwash was gone.
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The parachute-aided dildo delivery system needs more work.
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It always amazes me when one of these things shows up. They must grow fast to get so big before roasting in the heat.
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Stupid plastic chair.
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Someone melted the Buddah.
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"Now if somebody wants to sue us, they have an option to sue, but I'm
fairly certain that a judge will see it the way the way the citizens see
it here," Mayor James Valley said. "The citizens deserve peace, that
some infringement on constitutional rights is OK and we have not
violated anything as far as the Constitution."
-- http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/13/town.curfew.ap/index.html?eref=rss_latest So, he thinks that he has "some infringment" on constitutional rights, but that has not violated the constitution?
"As far as I'm concerned, at 3 o'clock in the morning, nobody has any
business being on the street, except the law," Councilman Eugene "Red"
Johnson said. "Anyone out at 3 o'clock shouldn't be out on the street,
unless you're going to the hospital."
I didn't know freedom meant staying home at nighttime. These post 9/11 times are frightening, and not because of the terrorists.
Had I known yesterday, I would have posted this then.

The parking lot at PRCC is gone.

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I whipped up a quick script to make an index of URLs on http://infohost.nmt.edu/ which was sorted by modification time. My web browser was quite unhappy that I pointed it at a page with 4.9 million links on it.


The SA is trying something new to encourage participation from students.
At this meeting, a new point system will be introduced and trialed this
semester. These points will be tallied and used to distribute  club
funding next semster.  The points will be something like the following:

 Points          Event
1/member          SA Meeting (up to 5 volunteers)
35                Campus Wide Event (participation >60 people)
20                Campus Wide Event(participation >30 people)
10                Campus Wide Event(participation >20 people)
20                Events during SciFi convention
5/member          SAB Volunteer
15/officer        Leadership Workshop
10                Paydirt Article

Also, every 20 dollars fund raised is a point.
To keep track of points, a sign in sheet for SA Meeting, SAB Volunteer,
Leadership Workshop.
Presidential or Vice-presidential approval for Campus Wide Events.
Paydirt Approval for Articles.
Ideally a club would average at a 100 points.

The old Daily Page is still remembered here.
http://www.stoptheremake.com/
Cloned trees growing in Holland!
The First State Bank sign is gone.
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The roof on Yellow Front is gone, and the parking lot is filled with dirt.
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The parking lot at the Mormon church is gone.
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Having had many hours to think about the new SA plan, I'm of two minds. On one hand, they are trying to do something, and on the other hand it seems doomed to failure. There is a wide gap between the students who care about student government, and the students who want the student government to give them money. There are very few in the first camp, but their optimism that they can make a difference is admirable. Back in my day, the SA was trying to recover $40,000 of "missing" (the word really should be stolen) money, trying to keep random people from telling a business that they were with the SA and then charging things to us, and trying to get clubs to go through formal procedures to get money from the SA instead of having the business office debit the SA for whatever the club or individual wanted. I don't think the SA will get anywhere with this idea, but I hope they keep trying. When I came to the school the SA was a viable instrument of government. It would be nice if they had that chance again. It needs be a grassroots effort though, from the bottom and not the top.

FREE PUPPIES

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While I was at the Farmer's Market, I spotted something famililar. A camera. A Nikon. A swivel body. A red piece of grip. It was a Nikon 950, just like I had used when I started the Daily Page in 2000.
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Not much cleavage.
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If you love something that is broken, put it in a box and next-day-air it to Canon. If Canon loves their reputation for customer services, they will ship it back quite soon.
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I don't think the Daily Page is meant to work with an RSS feed. An RSS feed expects each entry to have a unique URL. The Daily Page keeps a URL For a week adding new entries each day.
I learned that on Wednesday, the owners of Saturn Of Albuquerque, Galles Chevrolet, had fired all the management. Every one of them had been with the company since the dealership opened 18 years ago. Now the management from Galles Chevrolet is spending half time at Saturn Of Albuquerque.
For my evening meal, I contacted people interested in food. The message I sent read as follows.
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:22:16 -0600
From: "William D. Colburn (Schlake)" 
Subject: Lin-Liu Jen's Mother's Steamed Pork Patty

I had a lot of time to read this weekend, and I read from a book by
Lin-Liu Jen called Serve The People.  Early in the book she discusses
how, as a Chinese-American, she was ashamed of her mother's cooking
because it smelled funny and could drive away her Californian friends.
 She preferred McDonalds and Taco Bell over her parents choices of
restaurants which brought out a live fish to the table for approval.
By college she had outgrown that and embraced her ethnic culinary
heritage, and on the page before her remembrance of her first Drunken
Shrimp ( live shrimp which are tossed in a bowl with rice wine and
eaten alive) she gives a recipe for something her mother made; Steamed
Pork Patty.

This is not a meal; just a tasting.  I shall strive for 18:00 this
evening.  Please let me know if you are coming, as it will determine
how much rice I cook.
The book topped with the soy sauce, rice wine,and rice wine vinegar. There is some vegan sugar in the background as well.
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The meat, pork, with almost all visible fat trimmed, is ready to be pulsed in the food processor.

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This is what it looked like outside, just after the power failed.

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This what someone looks like when they try out a pull-up bar.

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The meal is cooked. It doesn't look appetizing.

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It looks less appetizing the more complete it becomes.

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He didn't die from eating it, so it must have been ok.

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