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Thursday, Aug. 07, 2008 - 12:08 a.m.

First, courtesy of my friend Peter Wong, here's the link to the San Francisco Bay Guardian's Best Of The Bay results for 2008.

There are some excellent finds here, so if you're coming here for a visit, as in a three-dimensional real life visit to our fair city, have a look around this wonderful site.

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John and I watched a bunchity bunch of television last night.

Project Runway is abysmal this year, on a Monkey House level; there are a few contestants who are more consistently mediocre than the rest but nobody's designs are catching our attention, at least certainly not for good reasons.

I'm also having a look at Shear Genius, which I enjoy a little more.

And of course, we're glad Dog is back.

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There are bagels in the house today! John found some that are wonderful, and I eat mine sliced, toasted, with a little cream cheese, along with a dash of salt and a dusting of garlic powder.

When the sunshine comes back, I'm going to try and make some.

And if anybody gives a twinkle, I do not believe sweet bagels are bagels. If a bagel has chunks of fruit, or is swirled with caramel or cinnamon, that's called a "doughnut", not a bagel.

Your mileage may vary, but if it does, you're just wrong.

Neener.

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Froma few days ago, here are the answers to the questions I asked during my Common Knowledge rant:

What common item, found in most wallets, can be used to measure increments of thee and a half inches, or two inches?
A business card. Standard business cards in the USA measure 3.5 inches x 2 inches.

Why do people keep candle stubs to use on old windowsills? How are they used?
The wax stub is rubbed along the windowsill frames to keep the windows from sticking when it slides open.

How are your knuckles plus the dents between them used to determine whether a month has 31 days, or less than 31 days?
Knuckles equal 31 days, space between the knuckle is for a month that is NOT thirty days. Start with January on your pointer knuckle

Anybody remember how to shut the noise of your modem off with the proper Hayes commands?
ATM0 which I was told stood for A Ttention M odem 0 ff. The 0 in this instance is a zero, to indicate an absence of sound during the dialout and connect. Would you whippersnappers believe we actually had to program the modem ourselves to tell it what kind of duties it was going to perform when calling other computers?

Who was the first man on the moon? What year did we land there?
Neil Armstrong, on 2:56 UTC July 21, 1969.

Thanks for playing, please drive through.

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Okay! That's it. Have a wonderful Thursday!

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