My poor man's mocha (so dubbed by some nameless soul, and I rather liked it). I decided in order to be a true Seattlite I needed to learn to like coffee, so I developed this concoction consisting of sugar-free hot chocolate mix made with 3/4 a cup of coffee, topped off with chocolate milk and covered in light whipped cream. With the help of these darlin's I'm developing quite an affinity for that morning coffee. :-)
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My candy collection was recently enhanced from coworkers bringing more to try, so I hadta document 'em before I ate 'em all. I believe that's a Russian chocolate at the top left, a coupla Korean plum and strawberry candies, a Japanese hard candy, and a coupla Mexican candies, all surrounding a lovely smelling lavendar chocolate (that was edible and quite delicious!)
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I love it! Can't help but wonder what makes the bell ring...
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Vardan Kushnir was found dead in his home this week after being smashed in the head with a blunt object. Kushnir, the head of the American Language Center, was infamous for sending out millions of emails to Russian internet users with ads for his language courses. And from MosNews.com, the headlines covering the event are nearly as brutal:
Russian-language media, both online and offline, has made little effort to conceal one central thought when dealing with the spammer’s demise: that somehow the late Mr. Kushnir got what he deserved. “The Spammer Had it Coming”, one headline reads. “Spam is Deadly”, “Ignoble Death Becomes Russia’s Top Spammer”, “An Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem” - 84 Russian-language news captions on Kushnir’s murder, retrieved by the Yandex News search engine within a day of the event, seem to share the general feeling.
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It’s little wonder, then, that Vardan Kushnir became as popular a character among Russian-speaking Internet users, as Lord Voldemort must be among Hogwarts’ fans. And a tale of some anonymous ’Harry Potter’ paying him a private visit on a warm July morning produces quite a predictable sensation among the audience.
Who'da thunk it?
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For the price of two LCD monitors, Sony'll be offering this darling screen later this month that projects two images simultaneously at different viewing angles. Perfect solution for when Mom wants to play solitaire in the midst of Dad's flight sim venture to Seattle. Only now you might find yourself trying to hook up two computers to the same monitor instead of the other way around...
URL: Sharp develops 'two-way viewing-angle' LCD
This is why investing can be so much fun... I managed to buy SIRI for 5.85 a few weeks ago, and today it's up to 7.11. Great way to start off the week (even if it's not rainy!) =)
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The Supreme Court's recent rulings on the 10 Commandments cases appears to muddle the path for future rulings on these public displays. They've declared it's unconstitutional for the Decalogue to be allowed in Kentucky courthouses, while allowing Texas to keep it's monument.
Kerby Anderson's commentary on the subject points out that Texas places their Ten Commandments amidst a 22-acre display of a number of other historical monuments, where as in Kentucky it is hung alongside the Bill of Rights, American flag and a Congressional declaration of 1983 as the "year of the Bible". At least in the past the Court made clear it's position against the Commandments.
In his dissenting opinion on the Texas ruling Justice Stevens wrote, “The monument is not a work of art and does not refer to any event in the history of the state.” Funny, considering that 12 of the 13 original colonies included the full text of the Commandments in their civil and criminal codes (David Barton) and that the American Bible Society was formed by an act of Congress (Ears to Hear).
Ironically, the Ten Commadments remain engraved in stone in the Supreme Court's own courthouse.
