The Countertop Chronicles

Arnold Schwarzenegger to the California Legislature

Fuck You

Seriously

“80% of the guys who hit on me are married. I go home with 50% of them. What’s your story?”

Bar Tramp to my buddy, at Capitol Grill bar (aka Cougarville) tonight.

My boss is retiring this week. I have been offerred his 8g iPhone 3G.

Any thoughts? I know the newest and latest is a 3GS – but that’s not in the cards.

Currently, I have a blackberry curve on Verizon. I use it A LOT for email, for web surfing, for remote wireless internet access and as a phone.

I travel a fair amount. And travel a lot to the midwest and generally rural agricultural areas.

Any thoughts on making the switch? Should I? Or not? What will I like and dislike??

UPDATE
Turns out I’m not getting his iPhone. Its going to someone else on our staff. Instead, the other lawyer who does lots of international travel is going to get a new 3GS and I’m getting his 16gb 3G.

So, that begs the follow up question . . . . which apps are essential??
And how many can I fit on a 16g phone?? Also, is it large enough to hold a movie?

Update

I am iPhone boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just waiting for tech support to finish up!

So let me get this straight.

A former pro bowl quaterback was running around behind his wife’s back, with a drug addict cocktail waitress – and the wife had no idea there were any problems in the relationship while the drug addict cocktail waitress had told her family that she was selling her furniture to move in with Mr. Quarterback since he was in the process of divorcing his wife (which wasn’t happening) and then . . . . something happens to make her want to shoot this guy and then kills herself (like, perhaps . . . and I’m just speculating here – Mr. Quarterback told her he was married and not getting a divorce) and we are supposed to think this is the gun’s fault??

Right.

Some folks, Uncle and Chris Byrne come to mind, have discussed recently why they don’t use facebook. I agree, but unlike perhaps Uncle I find facebook to be far more user friendly as far as posting goes. Basically, I always have my crackb erry with me, but don’t always have access to my laptop. And when I do, at home at night, I’m just too burned out to spend time with blog posts – yet the snariness is alive and well with facebook along with the added benefit that I can do all – post and upload pics direct from my own blackberry FB app.

Of course, I’m writting this on my crackberry, but its through the cumbersome internet browser which provides a pretty lacking experience.

So my bleg is this (and its sort of repeated) but does WP and/or photobucket have either a blackberry or iPhone dedicated app that will allow me to automatically and directly post text and/or camera pics to the ol’ blog here?

I don’t have anything on my iPod that I am ashamed of. Every single song rocks. But if I have to pick five I’d say

-Van Halen 1984
-The Rise and Fall of Ziggystardust and the Spiders from Mars
-Neil Young – Massey Hall
-Iron Maiden Powerslave
-Eric Clapton Me & Mr Johnson.
See, I got nothing that isn’t great.

So far at least – actually, and fully in the spirit of Godwin’s law – David Brook’s pulled of two in his stunner of a fantastic NY Times Op-Ed

The first:

These events have heralded a new era of partnership between the White House and private companies, one that calls to mind the wonderful partnership Germany formed with France and the Low Countries at the start of World War II.

And the second:

These executives have been invited to make these donations in the same spirit that the Cossacks invited my ancestors to emigrate to the Lower East Side.

Yes, he’s right. It is beautiful change occuring before us. I can almost hear the Angel’s Rejoice.

Leigh Scott

Politics today is very similar to Hollywood. We have a President known more for his wife’s fashion and his great speeches than any policy achievements. After all, do you call someone lost without their script (i.e. teleprompter) anything but an actor? It’s all style and no substance. People pick politicians like they pick movies, based on the short version, the “trailer,” and not on the substance of the actual individual. It’s an emotional decision, based on immediate needs and not on actual principles.

First, I think this is the first time in over a month (well over a month) I’ve posted something here two days in a row.

Heck, yesterday’s post was the first in 3 weeks.

Anyway, things are a bit crazy on the home front. HopeChange and all that.
But one thing I’d like to do, in addition to maybe blogging a bit more, is to tidy up the appearance of things here. Snazzy it up, make it more readable, get rid of the puck color.

Any suggestions?

Valencia Mohammed, the director of Mothers of Unsolved Murders, a D.C. advocacy group for mothers of homicide victims

She is speaking about the D.C. Voting Bill which looks likely to come up for a vote – with the language repealing the District of Columbia’s gun control laws intact – before Congress breaks for Easter recess.

Oh yeah, she has also lost two kids to gun/gang violence in Washington, D.C.

“This is one of the inalienable rights that I wanted,” she said. “I want my vote to be counted. I want representation in Congress. And I also want the right to bear arms.

“I’m just looking at the history of my ancestors and what they went through and how they were shot and killed, tarred and feathered and burned to death,” she said. “Guns was one of those things that they could not have and a tool for other people that kept them enslaved. I’m saying no more of that. I want to enjoy all of those rights that they were denied. . . . It’s time.”

I have sent her an email and have offered to buy her lunch at the downtown restaurant of her choice.

Don’t worry, its not going anywhere.

But as I face a busy busy year here dealing with the new Obama Administration – I am traveling around the country making presentations for the next 4 weeks (except for a few days back in DC to attend the inauguration) – and won’t have much time to blog (or hunt) till February.

Still, I am going to try to post something – anything – at least once a week (if not more) here.

In the meantime, I might also be found bitching in some others kitchens about recipes and such, and reviewing restaurants and discussing food policy, on occasion.

Nada. Zip. Zilch.

Sorry, but I’ve had little inspiration to blog for some time, as you can probably tell. Perhpas I should take a break. Or not. Or just say, watch your feeds. I’ll be back, I’ll be moved at some point.

I just don’t know when.

In the meantime, enjoy some Viola Lee Blues

With apologies to my gay friends and readers

From the comments at Katie Granju’s blog

Andrew Sullivan can stick it up …. uh, what did you say?

Oh, he does?

Never mind.

And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I
don’t mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
There’s no reason for it, you’ve gotta go sometime.

If you can hear this whispering you are dying.

I never said I was frightened of dying.

RIP, Richard Wright

Victor David Hanson

When Palin talks about her present life it sounds as authentic as Biden�s showy populism came off as false. Enraged feminists are apparently the gatekeepers for less well-educated American women, who are supposed to have 0-1.5 children not 5! Their husbands must be professors, lawyers, CEOs, editors�not snowmobile champions, union members, oil workers, and fishermen�or, worse, all in one! And unlike a Pelosi, Quinn, or Clinton, Palin, God forbid, did not rely on a powerful, wealthy husband or father to energize her career. Worse still, she took no women�s studies class, never attended the Ivy League, and shoots moose. The danger is not just that Sarah Palin could win McCain the election, but she could expose the entire flimsy structure of doctrinaire liberalism as the hypocrisy�and chauvinism�it has become.