Tuesday Morning Open Thread

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Blog Related
Posted on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 10:30:14 AM EST
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Still a busy period for me. Here's an Open thread.

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Some good Orlando news (5.00 / 3) (#3)
by ruffian on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 11:06:57 AM EST

The 12 year old girl that was missing in the swamp all weekend has been found alive and as well as can be expected, pending medical exam. So good to see a story like this end well.

We got our annual 'big brother is watching you' internet use warning at work, so I'm going through some TL withdrawal during working hours. Reading you all on the phone, but not posting much. Sigh.

I sympathize... (none / 0) (#4)
by kdog on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 11:18:05 AM EST

I don't think I could get through the grind without TL...we get those warnings on occasion, I just ignore them...show me what work ain't getting done is the stock answer I have on file should I ever get singled out, and the answer is none.

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I have been bad lately though (none / 0) (#11)
by ruffian on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 12:28:17 PM EST

I could be getting more done. just so bored with it all.

BUT good news- John Hiatt is coming to a little theater nearby in a couple of weeks! Got 3rd row tickets!

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Sweet... (none / 0) (#13)
by kdog on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 12:38:50 PM EST

get your Hiatt on kid, rock away the doldrums!

I got Little Feat comin' up in May to do the same, just back from vacay and it's like I never left, bored and burnt out.

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Love the Feat. (none / 0) (#19)
by sarcastic unnamed one on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 01:19:41 PM EST

Is Tower of Power going to be with them?

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Unfortunately no... (none / 0) (#20)
by kdog on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 01:27:58 PM EST

Tower of Power will be in Japan.

Anybody I've ever played the Feat for has loved the Feat...even my old man who didn't care for much of my rock-n-roll really dug them.

I hear rumors of a Lowell George movie in the works...that would be cool.

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The Orson Welles of rock 'n roll (none / 0) (#23)
by jondee on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 01:38:58 PM EST

Jackson Browne call him..

He was one of a kind.

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That he was... (none / 0) (#25)
by kdog on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 01:44:21 PM EST

one of the greats...this requires linkage.

What Do You Want the Girl to Do?

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I grew up in NJ idolizing Little Feat. (none / 0) (#29)
by sarcastic unnamed one on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 02:01:25 PM EST

Grew up, moved to CA.

Guess who lives a few miles from my home now?

Yep, most all of the band members.

Met the gang a few times through friends. They all play golf and have invited me to hack around with them sometime on the course, but they usually play during the week and I'm still a working stiff, so, no go...

We helped out a little with Richie Hayward's benefit event, it was right near my home.

Should be a great concert!

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That's freakin' cool... (5.00 / 1) (#31)
by kdog on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 02:07:57 PM EST

first Salma Hayek, now the Feat...next you'll tell me Keith Richards stops by for tea when he's in town.

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Ha! (none / 0) (#36)
by sarcastic unnamed one on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 02:31:21 PM EST

Here's another one.

Elton John's lead guitarist's kid goes to my kids' school. Davey got the band together, minus Sir Elton, and my kids and bunch of others performed with the band at a school fundraiser at a local club.

Not quite the same level as Salma or Richie, but pretty cool anyway. Here's a video from the event:

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Pretty cool indeed... (none / 0) (#38)
by kdog on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 02:40:21 PM EST

though Sir Elton is on my sh*t list, the special lady and I took to calling him "Elton John Pinche Cabron" in Chichen Itza when they shut down half the site in preparation for his big concert at the ruins.

Musta been one helluva show though...what a setting, like Floyd Live at Pompei.

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: Somehow I doubt (none / 0) (#40)
by jondee on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 02:57:05 PM EST

that Benny and the Jets is quite what the Mayans had in mind..Though I can almost see Elton camping it up at the piano in a Mayan costume complete with ceremonial headdress..

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Liver cancer, sheez.. (none / 0) (#35)
by jondee on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 02:26:26 PM EST

Godspeed and healing to Ritchie.

I just found out that one of my all time favorite harp players, Norton Buffalo: late of the Steve Miller Band, that killer solo in Bonnie Rait's version of Runaway, Commander Cody etc just succumbed to lung cancer..A definite loss to the planet: the musical one and the spiritual one.

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Sorry your vacay glow (none / 0) (#21)
by ruffian on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 01:29:20 PM EST

did not last longer. I hate that.

I'm planning some trips for my annual 'escape FL summer' plan. that will keep my spirits up after the John Hiatt glow wears off.

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I'm hoping to be headed... (none / 0) (#24)
by kdog on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 01:40:44 PM EST

to your neck o' the woods in June...a dear old friend is getting married over in "Deadland" aka Deland, I feel I should be there to see a fellow degenerate bachelor off into the sunset.

Something to look forward to for the next 2 months anyway...looks like his best man is sleeping on the bachelor party too, so I might have to take the helm...look out Sunshine State:)

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Thanks for the warning (5.00 / 1) (#28)
by ruffian on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 01:59:46 PM EST

We'll lock up our daughters!

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: If you need cage space... (none / 0) (#30)
by kdog on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 02:05:07 PM EST

releasing the dope dealers to make room for the daughters would be a big help:)

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This sucks (none / 0) (#5)
by Militarytracy on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 11:31:20 AM EST

I usually look specifically for your posts because you understand a lot of my social and weather issues :).

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: You are too kind (5.00 / 2) (#9)
by ruffian on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 12:25:40 PM EST

May I recommend weather.com and a weird relatives support group in your area!
I'll probably slip back into my evil ways soon. Have to try to behave though for the sake of my contracting agent. And my conscience. I do tend to slack off when the work gets too excruciatingly boring, which has been a lot lately. Gotta find a way to make it more interesting.

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Time to rock out (5.00 / 1) (#7)
by Dadler on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 11:48:16 AM EST

THE HEAVY - "How You Like Me Now?" And watch at the end, Letterman likes them so much he requests they play it again, and they do.

: Awesome! (none / 0) (#27)
by vml68 on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 01:53:17 PM EST

I also wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your posts about the young girl you are planning on adopting.

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Just in case... (5.00 / 1) (#16)
by desertswine on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 12:56:51 PM EST

anyone missed this stunning hominid fossil find in South Africa last week.

The team has assigned the name Australopithecus sediba to their finds.
"It's at the point where we transition from an ape that walks on two legs to, effectively, us," lead scientist Professor Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand told BBC News.

But....but (none / 0) (#17)
by jbindc on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 01:13:09 PM EST

We CAN'T have evolved from, or be related to, apes!

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Coulda fooled me... (none / 0) (#18)
by kdog on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 01:14:59 PM EST

sometimes I wonder if we aren't stuck on "apes on two legs"...only more dangerous.

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Zoey finally quit running like an (none / 0) (#33)
by Militarytracy on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 02:14:53 PM EST

orangutan only a few months back. I kid you not though, when she first start walking, in order to run it required that she raised both arms over her head and kept them there the whole time she was running. Funny as heck from a Nana evolutionary perspective, I'm sure the pastor down the street wouldn't find my Nana observations so funny though. I'm probably a child abuser finding such "similarities" in my own grandchildren.

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: Siamangs do that. (5.00 / 1) (#41)
by desertswine on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 03:17:29 PM EST

When they walk on the ground, they hold their arms over their heads so they don't drag them on the ground.

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Cool Pic (5.00 / 1) (#39)
by squeaky on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 02:51:17 PM EST

Of the suns path... six month exposure from a pinhole camera, iow a pinhole in a tin can with film inside tied to a post for six months.

Pretty stunning image, imo

the Braves... (none / 0) (#1)
by jeffinalabama on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 10:37:54 AM EST

Excellent start at home, but the west coast is cruel. My thoughts on the San Diego game yesterday: "The streets were dark with something more than night," Raymond Chandler.

: Heyward... (none / 0) (#2)
by kdog on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 11:02:01 AM EST

is even the talk of NY jeff...everybody saying he reminds one of Daryl Strawberry.
Meanwhile, our best hitting prospect tears up Triple A while we have two scrubs manning 1st base on the big club...I'm convinced the Mutts will never suceed until the Wilpons sell the team...their ineptitude just permeates through the entire organization.

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: Stay tuned. I had to miss opening day (none / 0) (#44)
by oculus on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 09:58:38 PM EST

due to tutoring. But I got the score in the bottom of the 5th and almost fell over. Most unusual.

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I just mortared in a bunch of slate (none / 0) (#6)
by Militarytracy on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 11:34:27 AM EST

wow what a mess I am. I guess you have to do it every day and then you can make it look like you are frosting cupcakes with Martha. And the bathrooms remain on my list as soon as the backdoor is in and the HVAC is completed. I did notice today though that someone has come up with SimpleMat for piggy slobs like me. Wonder what it costs? Probably my first born. We might have a deal here.

those are words that will never start (5.00 / 1) (#8)
by ruffian on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 12:21:04 PM EST

one of my posts. :-)

Good for you and good luck with the cleanup. how does one remove mortar from skin anyway?

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turpentine (5.00 / 1) (#12)
by CST on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 12:29:38 PM EST

Or just rub and peel - that works better the rougher (thicker) your skin is, since it will probably take some dead skin with it.

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: No spa can compare (none / 0) (#14)
by Militarytracy on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 12:47:44 PM EST

and it sucks the impurities right out of your skin along with all youthful moisture too :) I wore heavy rubber gloves but by the time I'm done I've got some on me someplace that bare hands will touch.

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MT, my first thought was (5.00 / 1) (#10)
by jeffinalabama on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 12:26:56 PM EST

you had fired mortar rounds... guess my infantryness still comes out.

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It is a new tiling technique (5.00 / 1) (#15)
by Militarytracy on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 12:48:57 PM EST

that gives everything a weathered aged look, ya know, a once fired upon patina :)

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Sounds pretty! (none / 0) (#22)
by ruffian on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 01:32:14 PM EST

Is this indoor or out?

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: That is the cool thing about (none / 0) (#32)
by Militarytracy on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 02:09:02 PM EST

many mortars, it doesn't matter much if you are mortaring things that are indoors or outdoors.....oy, I need to stop snarking now. I'm bordering on drier than the Sahara.

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nuclear deal reached (none / 0) (#26)
by CST on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 01:49:12 PM EST

this time with Mexico, Canada, and the Ukraine all downgrading their nuclear power plants to contain not-so-highly-enriched uranium, eliminating all weapon's grade uranium from these countries. The weapons grade uranium will most likely go to the U.S. and Russia to be disposed of/converted into lower grade uranium.

Link

The U.S. and Russia appear to be focusing on their borders first.

: Reducing nukes is one of the (none / 0) (#34)
by brodie on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 02:25:40 PM EST

few areas where Obama is acting like the kind of liberal many of his liberal supporters had hoped for in Nov 08. Picking up where the last liberal president, JFK, began in 1963 with the Test Ban Treaty, and where good US-Russia relations last were most consistent with Bill Clinton-Boris Yeltsin.
I also appreciate how O is getting good smarts marks from his Russkie counterpart. Nothing wrong with a good working relationship, for a change, with the world's second most powerful nuclear power.

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seagal on hannity (none / 0) (#37)
by Jlvngstn on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 02:32:21 PM EST

"HANNITY: But -- but when you're doing that job, you're seeing the darker side of the human experience.

SEAGAL: I mean, you see both, brother. You see both. You see some of the greatest people you've ever seen in your life, putting their own lives at risk to help people. And then you see the other people who are predators trying to eat whatever they can."

Anyone else following ... (none / 0) (#42)
by Robot Porter on Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 04:23:27 PM EST

the UK elections?

Fascinating stuff.

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