Lovely Wife and I are like anti-nerd and nerd. She's a 16 and I'm a 74. On the positive side our kids should be at least passably good in sports while still being able to figure out mathematical proofs.

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Blogdaughter Tiffani's got the skinny.

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My interview is up at Jennifer's History & Stuff. Go and find out all about my cow porn and my skill with foreign languages.

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I just took the 20 Questions to a Better Personality quiz (found at LeeAnn's place).

Wackiness: 50/100
Rationality: 24/100
Constructiveness: 58/100
Leadership: 72/100

You are a SECL--Sober Emotional Constructive Leader. This makes you a Politician.

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It's food time! The Carnival of the Recipes is up Caltechgirl's World. Lovely Wife's pea soup is in this one.

Mmmmmm... pea soup...

I'm doubly thankful for the Carnival today. Looking at some of those yummy-food recipes has finally gotten my mind off of that pancake sandwich I had for breakfast.

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Egads this weekend went fast. It must me Monday though since I'm at work and there are lots of grumpy people all around.

What to do to dispel that fine case of the Mondays? Get a cup of coffee and look over the Bestofme Symphony. It beats the hell out of working and today's a holiday so you don't even have to feel guilty about it.

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Ask VW. She's this week's host for the Carnival of the Recipes.

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And you can add the briquettes. I'll be interviewed by Jen, Queen of History and Stuff, and the questions get supplied by y'all. And the one or two readers she has that don't read this blog, I guess. And maybe a few folks who just follow the interviews. And the occasional flightless bird.

Anyway, send your questions to her by noon central next Thursday (1/20/05). She'll put them all together and give them to me in anonymous fashion. Not that she'll be anonymous. I mean, when somebody comes up and says "Yo! Here's the interview questions" and hands you the interview questions that's not really anonymous at all. I mean she collects them and gives them to me without telling who asked what question. So ask away in the knowledge that you will be free from my diabolic retribution.

I will of course naturally assume that boob related questions come from Harvey.

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Carnival of the Vanities - Mucho reading material. Check out the blog too.

[This area reserved for space aliens.]

Google photo montage - Dirty words work too! And check out the blog - very funny.

100th review celebration giveaway - From one of my newest constant reads. If you sign up to win the prize without reading some of the reviews (which are hillarious) then you are a skeezer.

Happy Birthday Girl Child - Happy Daddy has a very sweet post remembering the event.

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Random Penseur has another installment of his Behind the Curtain series where he shines the spotlight on history's supporting players. Claudius Smith was a swashbuckling cowboy, jailbreaker, and "a bold, handsome man, around whom secretly clustered all those unprincipled and daring men". He was also a murderer and villain, an American who terrorized New York and New Jersey in support of the Crown of England.

Go read. It's a good 'un.

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Paul lost a big-ass post. Don't you just hate it when that happens? I don't. That is, I would hate it if it happened but I learned long ago to protect my sanity and will to live by typing my posts in Notepad. There's an even better way now!

Rob found this nifty little utility called SharpMT. Offline post creation integrated with your Moveable Type blog! Holy sweetness, Batman!

It's got spellcheck, auto book lookup, some music thing I haven't figured out yet, formatting, URL and formatting doohickeys, multiple categories, extended entry and excerpt support, all those doohickeys at the bottom of the MT entry screen that you never use but just might want to check out some day ... hot damn!

I wrote this post in it, by the way.

Update: And I updated it in SharpMT too! Damn, I love toys. Especially useful ones!

Update: Okay, editing seems to just make a new post so don't do that.

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Yay! Like a belated Christmas gift the sixth installment of The Great Dismal has arrived.

Oh, and Mr.Fielek? If I have to wait the better part of a quarter year for part VII after the way you ended VI, I will go bat-shit nutso. No pressure now but I thought you should know about the possible ramifications.

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