The headline is the title of one chapter of Baby's Named a Bad, Bad Thing, which is one of my favorites to read if I need a good laugh. Sure, I'm getting a laugh at some poor child's expense, but I'm mostly laughing at the goofy parents who go around naming their children Mikayla and Macques. I understand wanting to name your baby something unique, but I swear people are just making up random sounds and deciding those are names. Poor kid's gonna spend a lifetime saying, "My name is Sidney, spelled C-Y-D-N-E-I-G-H." Anyway, the website is a hoot. It's comprised of quotes taken from baby name message boards around the internet, followed by smartass commentary from the person who does the site. Hi-larious.
My husband says if we had a kid we should name it Euphrates Throckmorton III. Our name isn't Throckmorton, so that would be fun for the kindergarten teacher to figure out.
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Still doing a little sprucing up, but I have links today
I'm still not done playing with the look of this page, but I haven't had a lot of time to mess with it this week. Maybe today will be better.
Interesting stuff in today's Lasso, the blog of the Austin American-Statesman. In an entry entitled "The Eternal Sunshine of a Mind Just Like Mine", there is a discussion continued from yesterday's entry of how we tend to isolate ourselves into little groups of people who think just like us. Of course this creates a very us-against-them mentality and I'm sure eventually it'll break out into a shooting war. Except all those gun nuts (THEM!) will have the guns and WE! US! will have, um, hopefully U.N. peacekeeping forces or something. As someone who grew up among a whole lotta "them", I don't have many solutions to offer. Everybody thinks everybody else is crazy and dangerous, with no end in sight. Maybe we'll finally get together when the aliens land and suddenly we have a much bigger "them" to worry about, and suddenly gay marriage doesn't seem like such a big deal anymore.
On McSweeney's front page today is a satirical piece listing "Movies Directed by Mel Gibson's Father, Hutton Gibson" (now world-famous holocaust denier). Sample:
Poor Judgment at Nuremberg: A war crimes tribunal convenes in Germany, but since there has been no Holocaust there is nothing for them to do. Court is adjourned and everyone goes to lunch.
Interesting stuff in today's Lasso, the blog of the Austin American-Statesman. In an entry entitled "The Eternal Sunshine of a Mind Just Like Mine", there is a discussion continued from yesterday's entry of how we tend to isolate ourselves into little groups of people who think just like us. Of course this creates a very us-against-them mentality and I'm sure eventually it'll break out into a shooting war. Except all those gun nuts (THEM!) will have the guns and WE! US! will have, um, hopefully U.N. peacekeeping forces or something. As someone who grew up among a whole lotta "them", I don't have many solutions to offer. Everybody thinks everybody else is crazy and dangerous, with no end in sight. Maybe we'll finally get together when the aliens land and suddenly we have a much bigger "them" to worry about, and suddenly gay marriage doesn't seem like such a big deal anymore.
On McSweeney's front page today is a satirical piece listing "Movies Directed by Mel Gibson's Father, Hutton Gibson" (now world-famous holocaust denier). Sample:
Poor Judgment at Nuremberg: A war crimes tribunal convenes in Germany, but since there has been no Holocaust there is nothing for them to do. Court is adjourned and everyone goes to lunch.
Thursday, March 18, 2004
Under construction
You may notice some horrifying color schemes popping up here. Don't worry, I'll get them fixed. One big reason I started this blog was to teach myself HTML, and so I'm experimenting. Right now, I'm learning how to make colors. Right now, I suck at that. I'm starting to figure it out though and fortunately for me, my husband understands about that whole color wheel thing, so eventually I should have a decent color scheme going here.
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Here's a Mexican recipe...
I stole this recipe from today's edition of the Austin American-Statesman:
Breakfast Tacos
3 medium potatoes, peeled and diced
2 to 4 Tbsps. cooking oil
6 slices bacon, cut into bite-size pieces
Salt and pepper to taste
1/4 cup milk
4 eggs, beaten
8 flour tortillas
salsa
In skillet, fry bacon until crisp. Remove bacon from skillet and drain
on paper towel. Add oil to bacon drippings and fry diced potatoes until
done. Beat eggs with milk, salt and pepper. Drain excess grease from
potatoes. Warm tortillas. Pour egg mixture over potatoes. Add crisp
bacon bits. Stir mixture until it starts to set. Stir lightly and cook
until eggs are glossy but moist. Divide egg mixture among tortillas.
Fold or roll tortilla to close. Serve with salsa, if desired. Serves 4
to 6.
-- Adapted from South Texas Mexican Cook Book
Yum. I'm making these as soon as possible.
Breakfast Tacos
3 medium potatoes, peeled and diced
2 to 4 Tbsps. cooking oil
6 slices bacon, cut into bite-size pieces
Salt and pepper to taste
1/4 cup milk
4 eggs, beaten
8 flour tortillas
salsa
In skillet, fry bacon until crisp. Remove bacon from skillet and drain
on paper towel. Add oil to bacon drippings and fry diced potatoes until
done. Beat eggs with milk, salt and pepper. Drain excess grease from
potatoes. Warm tortillas. Pour egg mixture over potatoes. Add crisp
bacon bits. Stir mixture until it starts to set. Stir lightly and cook
until eggs are glossy but moist. Divide egg mixture among tortillas.
Fold or roll tortilla to close. Serve with salsa, if desired. Serves 4
to 6.
-- Adapted from South Texas Mexican Cook Book
Yum. I'm making these as soon as possible.
Monday, March 15, 2004
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