Day: September 23, 2005

That last is “rolling on floor kicking myself in the butt”

Such a delish Chiles Rellenos recipe I posted for the Carnival of the Recipes this week…

And then didn’t submit to the Carnival.

Oh. Well.

OH! Can stop kicking myself, now: this just in from SWWBO:

September 21, 2005
Important Announcement

Okay- from now on, the Carnival of the Recipes’ deadline for recipes sent to recipe dot carnival at gmail dot com is noon Central on Saturdays.

Whoever is hosting can have it up anytime on Saturday or Sunday of their week.

I was stuck on stupid thinking that I (or anyone else) could easily put it together on a Friday morning!!!!

🙂

Just go.

Rich, The English Guy, has another blog that I’d missed (how many do you have, anyway, fella? ;-). Cool! what’s hot! Is a neat place to stop by and check out! Man, Rich, I don’t know how I missed the banner announcement! (Must be early oldtimers’ disease *sigh*)

Justa thought (courtesy of The Cave of Adullum): during the 16th/17th century slave trade, somewhere around 600,000 to 650,000* African slaves were transported to what is now the United States (although some were transported to French and Spanish territory, now U.S.).  During that same time, Muslims captured and took to Africa as slaves, between 1,000,000 and 1,250,000 Europeans.

I’m sure that had some kind of deleterious effect upon my European ancestors.  I want reparations. The Saudis have deep pockets. Let’s all sue them.

*note: yeh, there were 10,000,000 or more African slaves taken/transported during the same time frame, but most went elsewhere, not to what turned out to be the territory of the U.S. Brazil? Jamaica and Haiti and Cuba, ya think? Tons. Etc.

Sadly, very sadly, this is not shocking.

If the story (documentation at The Smoking Gun linked above and here) shocks you, you just haven’t been paying attention to this space’s occasional warnings that stupid people (school administrators-duh) are running public schools.

Oh, a preview of the link? How about:

“…Columbus, Ohio public school officials–found only that Wedgewood Middle School educators drank booze during the school day, got kinky with each other in the boiler room bathroom, and spoke about where to score cocaine….”

The ringleader of this lil coven of kink? The principal, of course. A principal who reportedly once told a teacher at the school, “she smoked pot daily en route to school because ‘I can’t stand those kids.’ ”

Yeh, well, that’s probably why she was a crappy teacher before she became a crappy administrator. (It’s natural selection, you know: those who can’t teach become school administrators so they can obstruct the efforts of teachers who can teach and children who want to learn.)

h.t. NIF

This is another, different hosting service that’s in alpha right now. I have NO idea what’s gonna happen when I blog this mp3 file…

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Hmmm… I think I like this better than the embedding process I had to go through with putfile.com, even though I had to come back and manually edit to add a title for the post.

Those of y’all who are regulars will recognize this file as one I posted earlier. Had it handy. Arr copyrighted 2003 DWN–if you hunt down my post listing and find it below, I think I posted a link (somewhere) to the words. 19th century gospel tune. Actually, this was kinda fun to do. I was on a music e-list where someone requested a copy of the sheet music cos an older saint in their church had asked them to find/sing it for her. Found the sheet music (tune/lyrics) and thought, hmmm… I think I’ve heard some of the old folks around here mention this tune. Sure enough, I had. So, wrote out/recorded this lil thing for them (and for the person who’d requested the sheet music) and that’s making a short story long.

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A quick question: those of y’all using Internet Exploder (The World’s Crappiest Browser, as the title bar in myversions read :-), tell me, please, does this load without problems for you or not? One comment I’ve recieved resulted in my experimental loading of Internet Exploder (the World’s Crappiest Browser) to test it, and I had a very unsatisfactory experience with it. Just wanna know how it works/doesn’t work for you.

hosted at putfile.com

Now, I’m gonna see if this file will play for a few days or if putfile will delete it for not being accessed the way putfile wants.