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Comment on Surf the Interwebs from your Waffle Iron! by Fellow Winonan

Fellow Winonan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:35:10 +0000

Wow, i stumbled on this blog when i was bored, doing a google search on “Chae”. Been a long time dude, glad to see you’re doing well. I remember Tascha, she was such a sweet Husky, although i remember her almost dying from the heat in the summer. Your description of Chae is funny, i’ll have to show it to him.

Comment on September 10, 1995 - Who’s playing second? Knoblauch? Hale? Puckett?! by Christian

Christian — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:44:23 +0000

Great story Wyl!!

Comment on A Walk Down Memory Lane/Riding the Wave by Spencer Quiner

Spencer Quiner — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:54:18 +0000

It has been a long time since that Squad Bay in San Diego. A lot of the guy that were there have reenlisted or moved on to other things. It has been a long strange trip for a lot of us I think. The was a great deal of unpleasentness and stupidity but that is all just part of being a Marine. My contract was a year longer than most so I am still looking at another six months before I am done. I feel the same concerns about life after the Corps, but it is better to be moving on forward than standing still.
I kept in contact with Shawn James for about six months after Boot Camp. We ended up going to A school in Pensacola florida at the same time. I lost contact with him when I was stationed at Camp Lejeune. I haven’t really run across any one else from plt 1146 though I thought I saw SSgt M in Camp Falujah Iraq a couple months ago. It was at a distance so I am not sure.

Comment on Top Five: Internet Rabbit Holes by Jo

Jo — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:44:28 +0000

My favorites are decidedly less intelligent…

Metafilter is one of my daily stops - it’s a community board where people post “the best of the web”. I’ve found so many amazing things there.

For sheer hilarity, Go Fug Yourself is pictures and commentary on the worst (or best) of celebrity fashion. The Britney Spears page is genius.

And finally, if you don’t want to see a movie but you’re dying to know that surprise ending, check out The Movie Spoiler.

Comment on Top Five: Internet Rabbit Holes by Mike

Mike — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:29:03 +0000

I want to check to see how far Lancaster County is from me but Google Maps doesn’t know where Lancaster County in Virginia is.

The only site I can think of is Exploding Dog, which you may or may not have seen before. Sam Brown comes up with pictures based on short lines that people send him. They aren’t always the interpretation you may have pictured, which makes it a lot of fun. Some are silly, some are demented, some are poignant. Plus, there’s a ton of them, so you’ll be going through the site for a while.

Comment on Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (but mostly trains) by Carriage Return (↵) » Blog Archive » Top Five: Internet Rabbit Holes

Carriage Return (↵) » Blog Archive » Top Five: Internet Rabbit Holes — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:13:54 +0000

[...] I’ve held forth at length here in the past on the subject of high speed rail connections in this country. The MHSRA has crammed more information into one place than I can possibly link to, so you’ll have to do the exploring on your own. Worth looking at no matter if you’re a railroad buff, a proponent of sound civil engineering, or just curious about why high speed rail is such a no-brainer for the Midwest. [...]

Comment on Prefabulous Cubed by Rob

Rob — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:10:58 +0000

Three words:

Big in Japan.

Comment on [The Days of] Wines N’ Roses by brianS

brianS — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:03:45 +0000

Perhaps you could first apply yourself to a beer-and-ballads guide? Much cheaper research. I’ve participated in barleywine tastings that have run towards 40+ different samples. There’s nothing like excessive amounts of barleywine to make you start hearing things

Comment on [The Days of] Wines N’ Roses by Rob

Rob — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:47:21 +0000

When I think of the reviewers pounding out these articles, what springs to my mind first is a sort of semi-pro literary Jackson Pollock. Instead of flinging blorps of paint, raspberry preserves, and motor oil at a canvas like Pollock, these absurd abecedarians delve deep into their numerous thesauri and sling random nouns at their articles, waiting to see what sticks and what runs down the page to pool in a sticky puddle at the bottom. Whatever clings to the page makes it through the final editing. The Pollock Method of writing is what gives you notes of tar in wine. Either that, or sections of freeway built through vineyards via eminent domain.

That has to be the best and most colorful description of the absurdity of food reviewing I’ve ever read. Well done. Great article.

Comment on Pretty Good Polenta by brianS

brianS — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:32:09 +0000

Looks tasty.

Polenta (or “mush”, as my dad prefers to call it) is ridiculously easy to make. I wonder why it had (almost) died out in the States. My grandma made it frequently in the 1930s and 1940s when my dad was growing up (usually as “fried mush”). I _never_ had it as a kid, but have since made it a few times per year. particularly when the old man comes to visit, although he has to put up with my pretensions when that happens — blue cheese, mushrooms, whatever.

come back, Wyl. If you post regularly on food and drink, I at least will comment regularly.