lol

In light of our own recent history, I'm having trouble keeping a straight face during NPR's oh so serious report about those dastardly Chinese commies who allegedly kidnap malcontents off the street and store them in off the books detention facilities where they are treated badly and not allowed access to the courts.

I guess it's only a problem when other countries do it?
Or was their mistake not shipping them off to Turkey or Uzbeckistan for the dirty work?

retro video: Soundgarden

File under tunes I loved, completely forgot about, rediscovered and was surprised to discover still kicked total ass



I scrounged up their first EP from the used bin at Boo Boo's, picked up Louder Than Love when it came out and then sort of lost track of them when they got popular. Some bands I track early and follow forever, but some lose too much glow if you have to share it with the world.

Anyway, this song is just as fantastic as I remember it being, and the nutty video catches them right as they're scrabbling over the top of the mountain, before they tumble down the other side into fame.

True Customer Tales

Older couple come up with a stack of books that ring up to $17.94.

The wife comments

"1794...that sounds like the year something happened."

True Customer Tales

young fella wearing pink short shorts with a red and black flannel & a blue ballcap:

Excuse me sir, I'm looking for Fitzcarraldo's Great Gatsby?

True Customer Tales

older guy in ski cap:
I'm missing something...where's your non-fiction section?

me:
Well, pretty much the whole store is non-fiction. Everything except literature.

Guy: Oh!

me:
Are you looking for anything in particular?

Guy::
Yeah, Kerouac.

me:
.....well, he would actually belong in fiction.

what kindle hath wrought

Our bookless future.


“When I look at books, I see an outdated technology, like scrolls before books,’’ said James Tracy, headmaster of Cushing and chief promoter of the bookless campus. “This isn’t ‘Fahrenheit 451’ [the 1953 Ray Bradbury novel in which books are banned]. We’re not discouraging students from reading. We see this as a natural way to shape emerging trends and optimize technology.’’

Anyone who's ever dealt with balky hardware and old data formats should be chucking to themselves right about now.

true customer tales

Large nerd enters store with smaller beta nerd in tow, takes a theatrically deep breath and declares

"Aaaaaah...smells like KNOWLEDGE!"


Ten minutes later he dropped $20.00 on Star Trek: The Next Generation novelizations.

hey look an update!

Made a really dirt simple thing that tasted great yesterday- Pollo Colorado in the crock pot.

This is the recipe in its entirety:

2 medium yellow onions, sliced
2 red bell peppers, sliced
3-4 chicken breasts
1 28 oz can red chili sauce

Throw the sliced veggies in the crock, stir to combine.
Layer the chicken on top.
Dump the chili sauce over the top, turn dial to 'low' and let it go for 6 or 7 hours.
Shred the chicken, toss back in pot, stir up.

We used it for tacos, but it'd probably work better with burritos, with rice to soak up the juice.

YUM.
As good as it was with canned chili sauce, I can't wait to try it with home made.