The Beckyan Deli
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Punk’d!
Yeah, we got punked. But Biden has had two of the funniest lines of the campaign, so this should be fun. With Your kitchen table is like mine, you sit there at night after you put the kids to bed and you talk about what you need. That’s not a worry John McCain has to…
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Evan Bayh?
So apparently there are Obama-Bayh bumper stickers being printed up in Kansas (h/t Mark Ambinder). And then I checked and www.obamabayh.com redirects to http://www.barackobama.com/learn/meet_evan.php. There’s no obababiden.com, or obamasibelius.com, or even obamaclinton.com. You heard it here first.
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Those are some elitist bootstraps, I guess
Plenty of bloggers and journalists, not to mention McCain himself, have called Obama “elitist” at various points throughout the campaign. I would just like to point out that in politics right now, the two greatest examples of living the American Dream — of starting from nothing and working hard from there — are Bill Clinton…
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NBC Doing Well with Olympics, the Bastards
Apparently the Olympics have been ratings gold for NBC this year. Swimming and gymnastics have been extremely popular, and everyone has been talking about the Olympics. What this article doesn’t mention is that the West Coast isn’t getting any of that live primetime coverage. Nothing but tape delays for us! NBC said Saturday’s prime-time broadcast…
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What were the other 19% thinking?
I know August is a slow sports month, what with only preseason football and pre-pennant race baseball, but it’s still a pleasant surprise to see how many people are paying attention to the Olympics. In the ESPN.com poll (to which I cannot directly link, and can I file a complaint about that?), over 80% of…
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Saag Paneer
We’ve made saag paneer (or palaak paneer, as they call it in Southern India) many times, using a combination of two recipes. Both recipes are from Madhur Jaffrey: one in World Vegetarian and the other in World of the East Vegetarian Cooking. We don’t like either one by itself, so now that we’ve finally adjusted…
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Dorky Fun with Wordle
It seems that wordle is all the rage these days. And I decided to look at what comes out of the RSS feed of astro-ph. Let’s take a look (click image to enlarge): I didn’t realize that “magnetic” would be number one!
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In case of emergency, please try again later
This morning we had a moderate earthquake in the LA area. It was strong enough that we felt it 150 miles away in Santa Barbara, but not so strong as to make us feel like we were in danger. After this minor event, it was almost impossible to make a cell phone call into or…
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Birthday tradition!
Yesterday we went out for sushi for Eli’s birthday. In honor of the yummy sushi, here is the very funny “Japanese Tradition” video about how to eat sushi: I’m not sure if they’re aimed at Japanese people, or people learning Japanese, or what, but I really enjoy the “Japanese Tradition” videos. There’s also a very…
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Planet: A self-gravitating body that is nearly round
The other day I was looking at the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) database table on photometric classification. I needed to recall which type was a star and which was a galaxy. So I was interested to see the following two listings in this table buried deep in the SDSS information: Galaxy: An extended object…
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