Jun 21: 91 degrees with isolated T-storms
argh!
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008
June 12, 2008, 5:20 pm
Fox Forced to Address Michelle Obama Headline
For the third time in less than three weeks, Fox News Channel has had to acknowledge using poor judgment through inappropriate references to Senator Barack Obama.
The network has released a statement saying it should not have referred to Mr. Obama's wife, Michelle, as "Obama's Baby Mama,'' as it did on Wednesday in an on-screen headline commonly called a "chyron."
"A producer on the program exercised poor judgment in using this chyron
during the segment," Bill Shine, a Fox News senior vice president, said in a statement.
The chyron appeared during a discussion between the conservative columnist Michelle Malkin and the Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly about political attacks against Mrs. Obama. It read in full, "Outraged Liberals: Stop picking on Obama's baby mama!" It was first publicized on Wednesday by Alex Koppelman of Salon.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term as one "chiefly in African-American usage" that refers to, "The mother of a man's child, who is not his wife nor (in most cases) his current or exclusive partner."
Earlier this week, the Fox News anchor E.D. Hill had apologized for raising the possibility that the Obamas affectionate fist bump during the senator's victory rally in St. Paul on June 3 was "a terrorist fist jab.'' Two weeks prior, the Fox News analyst Liz Trotta said she regretted making a joke about a possible assassination of Mr. Obama.
Her mea culpa followed that of former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas a week earlier after he made a similar crack at a gathering of the National Rifle Association.
In other news, Fox News Channel announced today that it was hiring Mr. Huckabee as a contributor.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Going to the chapel..
Today was 10 days, tomorrow is 9 days!
I've gotten over that 'how is it so soon?!' feeling and now it's just a reality that we're getting married in about a week. We basically had a dual-meltdown earlier this week, but I feel like we might be over it now.
Tomorrow we are going to wake up early and actually go get our marriage license! Then to the church to deliver it, along with my baptismal certificate, to the priest so he can do all this paperwork. They need my baptismal certificate because it serves as proof within the church that I haven't been married before because they record every sacrament you receive on it, including the sacrament of marriage. What we're not telling him is that this one was sort of legally forged... the church had no record of my baptism :-( But we have photos and the vivid recollection of my Aunt (and godmother) Reenie who says I screamed the entire time. So, based on our claims (they didn't even get to see the photos) they wrote me up a new baptismal certificate. Who knew it was that easy! (Apparently a lot of documents from that time period under that priest are missing, so it made sense to them).
Then we're going to get Glen a wedding ring! I am going to use my great grandmother's, which I am very excited about. Not only is it a family heirloom, but she and my great grandpa were so in love their entire lives that it's got to bring some good luck with it. She was a redhead too! We're talking about getting her wedding date along with our engraved on the inside -- June 21, 2008 and April 11, 1917 :-)
Then to another dance lesson. Don't get excited people, we're just learning to not fall all over each other.
Then three hours of class. Ignore that part.
OK, also, if you're reading this, you should join Twitter. It's just like updating your away messages, but it get aggregated for people who are 'following' you kind of like a news feed. You can update via the web, IM, or text message, and you can choose to have specific other people's updates sent to you those ways too. You can have your twitter updates become your facebook updates so you don't have to do it twice. You can update every five minutes or every five days.
The best part is your updates appear on my homepage! That way when I log it, it's not just alternating updates from me and Glen. (OK, and occasionally from Nate, Geoff, and Echo) Come on, do it for me! As a wedding present, even! :-) When you join, just look me up under redheadmed, 'follow' me, I'll get alerted and then I can follow you. DO IT.
I've gotten over that 'how is it so soon?!' feeling and now it's just a reality that we're getting married in about a week. We basically had a dual-meltdown earlier this week, but I feel like we might be over it now.
Tomorrow we are going to wake up early and actually go get our marriage license! Then to the church to deliver it, along with my baptismal certificate, to the priest so he can do all this paperwork. They need my baptismal certificate because it serves as proof within the church that I haven't been married before because they record every sacrament you receive on it, including the sacrament of marriage. What we're not telling him is that this one was sort of legally forged... the church had no record of my baptism :-( But we have photos and the vivid recollection of my Aunt (and godmother) Reenie who says I screamed the entire time. So, based on our claims (they didn't even get to see the photos) they wrote me up a new baptismal certificate. Who knew it was that easy! (Apparently a lot of documents from that time period under that priest are missing, so it made sense to them).
Then we're going to get Glen a wedding ring! I am going to use my great grandmother's, which I am very excited about. Not only is it a family heirloom, but she and my great grandpa were so in love their entire lives that it's got to bring some good luck with it. She was a redhead too! We're talking about getting her wedding date along with our engraved on the inside -- June 21, 2008 and April 11, 1917 :-)
Then to another dance lesson. Don't get excited people, we're just learning to not fall all over each other.
Then three hours of class. Ignore that part.
OK, also, if you're reading this, you should join Twitter. It's just like updating your away messages, but it get aggregated for people who are 'following' you kind of like a news feed. You can update via the web, IM, or text message, and you can choose to have specific other people's updates sent to you those ways too. You can have your twitter updates become your facebook updates so you don't have to do it twice. You can update every five minutes or every five days.
The best part is your updates appear on my homepage! That way when I log it, it's not just alternating updates from me and Glen. (OK, and occasionally from Nate, Geoff, and Echo) Come on, do it for me! As a wedding present, even! :-) When you join, just look me up under redheadmed, 'follow' me, I'll get alerted and then I can follow you. DO IT.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
We are sooo close to having June 21 on the 10-day forecast!
http://www.weather.com/outlook/events/weddings/tenday/19147?from=36hr_topnav_wedding
Right now, Thursday is supposed to be 81 and sunny! Wouldn't that be perfect? (Anything below 95 sounds perfect after this week)
I haven't been writing a lot lately because life has gotten so insane. There is so much work to do and 99% of it Glen and I have to do ourselves.
I had my final fitting today and I thought it would be a lot more exciting... I think I was just stressed and really I was just trying on the same dress I tried on last week, not even fully hemmed. I still don't know what to do with my hair and as of this morning I am doing my own makeup, so I have to figure that out too. We really want to be enjoying this last week and a half before we get married, but there just isn't much going on to enjoy! Maybe it makes you enjoy the first weeks of your marriage all the more.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/events/weddings/tenday/19147?from=36hr_topnav_wedding
Right now, Thursday is supposed to be 81 and sunny! Wouldn't that be perfect? (Anything below 95 sounds perfect after this week)
I haven't been writing a lot lately because life has gotten so insane. There is so much work to do and 99% of it Glen and I have to do ourselves.
I had my final fitting today and I thought it would be a lot more exciting... I think I was just stressed and really I was just trying on the same dress I tried on last week, not even fully hemmed. I still don't know what to do with my hair and as of this morning I am doing my own makeup, so I have to figure that out too. We really want to be enjoying this last week and a half before we get married, but there just isn't much going on to enjoy! Maybe it makes you enjoy the first weeks of your marriage all the more.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Multimedia message
My computer is insulting me
My current targeted advertisement at the top of my inbox is a link to "Shop for Flat Chested Bras!"
Screw you, Gmail.
Screw you, Gmail.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Sunny days are here again
oh my gosh look at the Philadelphia forecast!
http://www.weather.com/outlook/events/weddings/tenday/19147?from=36hr_topnav_wedding
90's and high 80's for all of next week!
I wonder if it will stay that hot through to the wedding?
It's amazing... you can already see June 11 on the 10 day forecast... the day when the wedding day will show up on the 10 day forecast!
Or will it be the 12th? Well that's on the 10 day forecast too!
oh my god it's coming soooo soon!
http://www.weather.com/outlook/events/weddings/tenday/19147?from=36hr_topnav_wedding
90's and high 80's for all of next week!
I wonder if it will stay that hot through to the wedding?
It's amazing... you can already see June 11 on the 10 day forecast... the day when the wedding day will show up on the 10 day forecast!
Or will it be the 12th? Well that's on the 10 day forecast too!
oh my god it's coming soooo soon!
Traditional (and logical) food pairings
http://www.culinate.com/mix/dinner_guest/nutritional_combinations
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
You Can't Hide That Tiger Pride
For some reason I think this is hilarious:
http://www.writeonpencils.com/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?preadd=action&key=PNCL-SCND
You can buy other people's personalized pencils... some were overprinted, others have mistakes! If you weren't doing this for the humor, I'm not sure of the point. It does bring the cost per regular pencil down to 4 cents, but they're only 8.2 cents at Staples to begin with.
Anyway, what I'm saying is, this is what I want for Christmas.
http://www.writeonpencils.com/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?preadd=action&key=PNCL-SCND
You can buy other people's personalized pencils... some were overprinted, others have mistakes! If you weren't doing this for the humor, I'm not sure of the point. It does bring the cost per regular pencil down to 4 cents, but they're only 8.2 cents at Staples to begin with.
Anyway, what I'm saying is, this is what I want for Christmas.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
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