Monthly Archives: November 2006

Another day, another meeting…

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 30, 2006

Woke up feeling refreshed. Ran the dog out around the wind-break to help her get some yayas out. It’s cold! The weather has returned to Wisconsin-normal, with ice covering the ground and a bitter north wind sucking the life out of everything. Sat down here with a luke-warm cuppa coffee and basically zero minutes free [...]

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Not in thy back yard…

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 29, 2006

An odd opportunity for development has cropped up here in the Town of Dunn, a rural island with a strict land use plan in an otherwise rapidly urbanizing county. The Federal Government has finally decided to close the Plum Island Animal Disease Center and replace it with an even more secure facility, the National Bio [...]

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The Esquimaux have a thousand words for sleet…

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 29, 2006

Oh the weather outside is sleety and I’m here with my sweety so no matter the icy blows (quelque chose, quelque chose, quelque chose) It turns out the Inuit don’t have a word for sleet. Well, perhaps they do. How would I know? They may also have a word for “frozen fish fed to husky [...]

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Off the cliff and floating free in the world of fashion

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 28, 2006

Kat Herding has pushed me over the edge. Or maybe Halley did it. Whatever. Today is the day I’ve vowed to put aside my self destructive bingeing on ze Frank shows and old Tick cartoons and focus, focus on STYLE! So here is my very own stylin’ link-o-rama. It contains images of Paris Hilton and [...]

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Scrabblephile

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 28, 2006

If you too are a Scrabblephile, you will laugh out loud at this show from ze Frank. If you are not a Scrabblephile, you may laugh even harder.

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Comment Spam

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 27, 2006

I love the guy who ends his herbal supplements advertisement with the prayer: Don’t delete this. Mwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha… I deleted it again! And again! I’ve noticed a huge up-tick in comment spam since I amused myself with the forklift message. I figured Chuck Mortimore might scratch his head in puzzled amusement if he ever vanity-surfed that [...]

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Cluebacca…

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 27, 2006

Just noticed THIS in my referrer logs. Everything, as I like to say, is mucilaginous.

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YUI Yahooie!

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 27, 2006

I’m all atwitter about this great resource! Here, for example, is a handy RGB and HEX color picker using Widgets brought to you by Yahoo! I take back some of the mean stuff I’ve been saying about the company. (But I reserve the right to lash out mindlessly whenever their BigCo interests seem to be [...]

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