Archive for May, 2007

May 17 2007

Food Stamp Diet

Published by N/A under Random Thoughts

I’ve often wondered how much food you could obtain if you lived solely on food stamps. Apparently there are a few legislators who decided to find out for themselves. I read their blogs and it’s telling to say the least. Frequent themes are skipping meals, drinking lots of water, and having to eliminate things from [...]

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May 08 2007

The 1/6th Club

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I remember as a kid watching those cartoons from clay with their lifelike representations of the real world in miniature. There is a club in the UK where they assemble and collect 1/6th scale figures and objects. As this page shows, some of these are amazingly real looking. When I first looked at the page, [...]

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May 04 2007

A Flash of Fire

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You find examples all the time of great Flash animation on the web, but this one caught my eye recently. I like the song, I like what he did with the pictures, and I also like his encouragement in between the verses. A fitting tribute to a great songwriter who did visit Buffalo recently. A [...]

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May 02 2007

Prom Prep

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Here’s a concept: your kid wants to go to his or her school prom but in order to do so, you as the parent or guardian must attend a special meeting hosted by the school on drug and alcohol abuse. This school has apparently caught on to that idea. Regardless of this meeting, the parents [...]

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