The coldest winter I ever spent
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With great aplomb and particularity, I present to you in majesty and grace the unofficial yet highly regarded theme song for Lee!
Theme song by Tenacious D (who by the way are the greatest band on earth). And no, I don’t have any rights to the song.
I am so Web 1.0… Here is what my homepage looked like until today.
I removed the old homepage in favor of my blog site. I folded all the old functionality into the blog.
This is a page that I had on my website at http://lee.org/cooking/index.html for many years. I post it here for archival purposes. I have much more to say about food on my blog. And I can see that how I cook bread has changed. You can see part of that here.
Update February 1, 2017: This post and the comments are, if nothing else, a plea for evidence based research. The evidence continues to mount that, actually, the polar ice caps probably are disappearing and we’re probably doing it. Please continue to comment and and use science as a tool to uncover the truths in the world.
TJIC points out that the Arctic Climate Research group at the University of Illinois has very detailed records on world ice coverage, compiled in cooperation with the National Center for Environmental Prediction/NOAA.
There is no ice crisis. So, if you please, shut up now.
Click and understand:
That image was lifted directly from the ACRG site, except for TJIC’s comment of course. As of 5-14-09, you can find the most recent version of this chart on the ACRG site by looking about 2/3 of the way down on the right.
Update March 3, 2013: There is a lively and informative discussion about this subject in the comments below. I especially would like to direct you to comments by Cyrus who has some good refuting arguments.
(I posted this review to Yelp on 8-8-07)
Mina Abazari, MD
1580 Valencia St
Ste 102
(between 26th St & Cesar Chavez St)
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 821-0600
She’s really good.
Dearest Lazyweb
I want an application that will easily let me send and receive large files.
For example:
A customer has a set of files they want to send me but it’s too large to email. So I do the following:
Similarly, I want to give files to customers by uploading it to the service and giving the customer a web link.
I’ve found a ton of these services out there. Some look shady, some look silly expensive. But it should be open source. It’s just so very simple.
I did a bad thing ;-)
I got yet another telemarketing call from “The Carpet Cleaning Company”. Over the last couple years I’ve tried getting myself off their telemarketing list, starting with being on the National Do Not Call Registry. I tried “press 9 to remove yourself from our list” maybe 3 times in the last year (they call a lot). I tried talking to the nice lady who comes on and have alternately been hung up on and told that I’d be removed. Let me also say that I have no carpets that might possibly be cleaned! The biggest rug in the place is the throw in the bathroom.
So today I signed up to have my carpets cleaned. They’ll be here Thursday between 8 and 10 am.
I gave a ficticious name and a ficticious address. They said they’d call before coming out. I’m debating whether I should call it off when they call to confirm. I mean, all I want is for them to realize it’s not in their interest to call me. I don’t want to put some guy in a van out.
What do you suggest?
Update 4-23-09: The Cleaners Arrive
I got a call at about 9:30 from “the carpet cleaners” saying they’d be arriving shortly. At about 10, there they were!
I took a few photos of their truck, waited a few minutes and then approached them.
The conversation started out like this as best I can recollect. I’m forgetting some little bits but you get the idea (next time, I’ll record video of everything)
As I approached from across the street, the angry cleaner immediately asked something like, “So what about the carpets you need cleaned?” I guess I had “clean my carpet!” written all over my face. I had been trying to be all nonchalant. Oh well. ;-)
Lee – I don’t have a carpet needing cleaning. It’s illegal for you to have called me because I’m on the Do Not Call List.
Cleaner – Hey but we’re here.
Lee – Your company has called me 10.. no 20 times in the last 2 years and I’ve tried to get off your list every which way.
Cleaner – Hey maybe it wasn’t us that called you. There are a lot of companies like us out there.
Lee – Well, you’re here so it must have been your company.
I heard his phone ringing for a while and he picked it up. He handed me the phone telling me that I could talk with his company about it. There was a woman on the phone that I told much the same story to. I gave her my real name and phone number and she said something like she’d look into it or remove me from their list or something. As we spoke on the phone, the cleaner got more agitated and I ended up talking to him more than the woman. He took back the phone and we talked more.
The cleaner was getting angry that I had photgraphed his truck and said he wanted the pictures back. I saw it was getting ugly and thought to turn on the video function of my camera.
Watch the video. NSFW: profanity:
Pay particular attention where at 1:13 in the video the cleaner commits assault, gesturing angrily and saying, “I’m gonna screw your ass. I know where you live. Ok bitch?”
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Here is the contract from the video that the guy was so adamant about not giving me. (right-click to view a legible size)
Notes:The back of the truck has the email address scrtysiltns@yahoo.com on the portable job box. It’s a Ford F-150 pickup truck, white with orange near the bottom. California licence plate 8T12730.
The invoice he kept waving at me has the following written on it “Rug Steamer Tel: 888-587-5482”
Maybe I’m off their telemarketing list. It’s definite that their value proposition for using illegal telemarketing has decreased.
Update 12-10-09: I haven’t gotten a call from them in months. I think I’m finally off their list :-)
There isn’t.
It’s kinda funny how long that acronym is.
Charlie Gadeken wrote:
Tom Kennedy a great man, a great friend, a wonderful husband and world class artist, passed away last night. We will miss him and the world will miss him. He was caught up in a rip tide on Ocean beach and was pulled out to sea, a friend was able to bring him back in but they
were unable to revive him.he was love and he will never be forgotten.
More information can be found on LaughingSquid and TomKennedyArt.com
That’s it. I’m quitting my job and moving to… anywhere! How about the moon. How about Io? Construction on my massive space fleet begins tomorrow!
Here are scans of one of the three $100,000,000,000,000 bills I currently have in my possession.
