Last spring, we replaced our leased 2006 Toyota Sienna with a new-but-left-over 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan, purchased from Family Dodge at the Philadelphia Automall.
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Jan 10
From the Archives: The Mummers
[Update for 2010: You can watch the mummers on TV (in Philadelphia) on WPHL17. I can't find any available live online streams 
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Mummering
is a pagan tradition dating back to 400 BC as the Roman Festival of Saturnalia with Celtic and Druidic influences. Rowdy groups (another proud Philadelphia tradition) parading on New Years Day goes back to Revolutionary times.
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Nov 09
Amazon Listmania: Network Attached Storage
Now that my household is desktop-free (with his-and-her’s laptops), it’s difficult to share photos, music, and documents across our wireless network. I previously had Orb running on the desktop, which allowed me to share files as well as use my at-home desktop’s TV-card to watch TV anywhere, including via capable mobile devices.
At some point in the near future, I plan on adding a Network Attached Storage device to my network. My criteria is the ability to access files across both my network at home and anywhere via the internet, the ability to stream media off the drive, and the ability to automate backups. I’ve created an Amazon Listmania for “Networked Attached Storage” to help share my choices with everyone. Fell free to use the list as well, and comment in the links here with your own feedback, comments, and suggestions.
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Jun 09
Nostalgia for 199X
I’ve recently begin feeling like moving to somewhere ridiculously rural. I’ve come to realize that during the 199Xs , I felt this way not because I was secretly a Ron Paul-libertarian who believed in the mythology of the rugged American rugged individualist, but rather because I have no patience for the Idiot Americans around me.
Just like in the 1990x, I am beginning to lose my ability to politely allow them to continue to say stupid things in my presence. Montana is looking mighty good to me right now…
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Dec 08
Best of October, November, and December 2008
October 2008
- Daily Links for October 30th
- Daily Links for October 28th
- Daily Links for October 27th
- Daily Links for October 26th
- AP in the tank for McCain? [Update]
- Best. Post-Election. Crackup. Ever.
- Daily Links for October 24th
- Daily Links for October 25th
- Daily Links for October 20th
- Of course, they’re only voting for him cuz he’s black.
November 2008
- About that store closing list…
- Black Friday 2008
- Daily Links for November 5th
- In defense of Nick Miccarelli [Though not an endorsement].
- Daily Links for November 16th
- On the Auto Industry Bailout…
- Daily Links for November 9th
- Daily Links for November 1st
- Craziness.
- Daily Links for November 19th
December 2008
- Daily Links for December 1st
- Daily Links for December 9th
- Carmageddon!!1
- Daily Links for December 3rd
- Daily Links for December 4th
- Daily Links for December 7th
- The one where I advocate the pardoning of torturers, war planners, and domestic wiretappers…
- Daily Links for December 8th
- Daily Links for November 30th
- Is it over yet?
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Dec 08
Best of July, August, and September 2008
July 2008
- Hero Worship.
- Popular: Bad Banks
- Installed FireFox Extensions via DumpList.
- Judicial Confluence: Pat Meehan, Vince Fumo, and Curt Weldon.
- Daily Links [delicious.com]
- Billmon’s Triumphant Return.
- Daily Links
- Daily Links
- Grand Obstructionist Party
- OF COURSE they did [Flight 93].
August 2008
- Delicious.com upgrade fuxored Daily Blog Posting
- Daily Links for August 17th through August 19th
- Daily Links for August 25th through August 27th
- Bookmarks for August 12th through August 13th
- World War IV: Excellent News for Republicans
- Ridge for Veep?
- Daily Links for August 21st through August 22nd
- The Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the Great Society, and the Environmental Crisis
- The Evil that men do lives after them…
- O’Biden 2008
September 2008
- Who cares? The majority of America doesn’t know what the ‘Bush Doctrine’ is…
- A Cunning Array of Stunts
- Daily Links for September 27th
- The Political Component of the Bailout.
- Bailout.
- Sh!t, I’d like to introduce you to Fan…
- “Prisoner of the Right” versus “Black Reagan”
- “Will it be like the Great Depression?”
- Daily Links for September 8th
- No Blank Checks.
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Dec 08
Best of April, May, and June 2008
April 2008
- Yoo can always get what yoo want.
- Justice Perverted
- Which ones are the bad banks, anyway?
- Lazyweb: Google Android UI Possibilities
- ABC Thinks that Pennsylvania Democrats are Shallow, Bitter, Patriotic, Wealthy, and Republicans.
- Pennsylvania Primary Post-Mortem Ponderings
- Youngstown and Yoo
- And So It Begins…
- War Expires on 1/1/2009?
- Consumer Housing Bailout?
May 2008
- What to Do About Newspapers?
- FOX: Alleged DC Madam Deborah Jean Palfrey Found Dead in Florida
- Not So Sure About That, Krugman.
- Ahem.
- Do I have to claim God as a dependant?
- Office of Special Counsel Visited by the FBI?
- Daily Links
- Daily Links
- Moral Hazard Defined
- Daily Links
June 2008
- You Made Your Bed, That’s Where You Lie [Update]
- George Carlin is Dead.
- Why’d He’s on the Moon? [Update]
- “No Cuntry for Old Men”.
- Meme-Debunking: John McCain is different than George W. Bush
- Greensburg, KS: Creative Destruction and Idealized Design
- Secret Service: McCain versus Obama.
- Straight Talk Express, Brought to You By…
- Reflections on the FISA – My Subsiding Outrage on the Vote.
- Not a Dip: A Demand Side Shock.
