Food, food, food...

It's been a while since I talked about dining choices, but dinner this evening was GREAT!!!!!!

The main course (speaking for myself only, of course) was a medium wheat crust pizza from this joint. Why eat at a pizza joint called Lupi's? It was chosen as the Best of the Best 2010 pizza by readers of the Chattanooga Times Free Press. I can see why. If you're in Chattanooga and jonesin' for some pizza, Lupi's should certainly be at or near the top of the list.

You might like to think an entire pizza (hey, it was only a medium) was enough, but...

We wanted dessert, so we went to this little diner (one of two in town) called City Cafe Diner. Having been there before, I knew their desserts reign supreme. They have a variety of cheesecakes, regular cakes and pies. Most of the regular cakes are nearly six inches tall. And they are insanely sweet. I had a slice of "tiramisu cake". Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!! And yeah, I ate the entire thing. Talk about carb overload. You know what? You only live once...

via THOMAS from the Library of Congress - Top Ten Bills - Week of October 03, 2010

Top Ten Bills - Week of October 03, 2010: "1. H.R. 4667 - Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2010

2. H.R. 5297 - Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010

3. H.R. 3081 - Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011

4. H.R. 4646 - Debt Free America Act

5. H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

6. H.R. 6134 - To provide for a 10 percent reduction in pay for Members of Congress; to make Federal civilian employees subject to a period of mandatory unpaid leave, and to reduce appropriations for salaries and expenses for offices of the legislative branch, during fiscal year 2011; and for other purposes

7. H.R. 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

8. H.R. 45 - Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009

9. H.R. 2378 - Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act

10. H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010

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Sure enough, it's fall again...

The Alabama Tourism Department has a lot of good information for various events throughout the year. However, one spot that is particularly appropriate to this time of year can be found here.

Here's a quick and dirty (Flash required) map of estimated dates and color peaks:



Key

 no change  slight change  near peak  peak  past peak

The official info page again...
http://www.800alabama.com/activities/tours-and-trails/fall-color-trail/

4:30 AM, no traffic, 56 F....

View Nice quiet 1 mile loop in a larger map

Two quick trips around this loop was just enough to get the blood pumping in the morning...

News From KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY of DPRK

For an absolutely bizarre view of news from North Korea, this is the place to go...

in reference to: News From KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY of DPRK (view on Google Sidewiki)

Shards O' Glass RECALL

Shards O' Glass RECALL

Top Ten Bills - Week of September 26, 2010

Top Ten Bills - Week of September 26, 2010: "1. H.R. 5297 - Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010

2. H.R. 6134 - To provide for a 10 percent reduction in pay for Members of Congress; to make Federal civilian employees subject to a period of mandatory unpaid leave, and to reduce appropriations for salaries and expenses for offices of the legislative branch, during fiscal year 2011; and for other purposes

3. H.R. 4646 - Debt Free America Act

4. H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

5. H.R. 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

6. H.R. 4667 - Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2010

7. H.R. 5136 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011

8. H.R. 45 - Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009

9. H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010

10. H.R. 4213 - Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010

"

Kids, moms and dads can be healthy in Tuesday's Autumn Chase Run

Kids, moms and dads can be healthy in Tuesday's Autumn Chase Run: "

On Tuesday, Huntsville Hospital is hosting an event where adults can practice what they preach to their kids - to be healthy.

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This Week's Sky at a Glance

This is for you sky watchers out there...

This Week's Sky at a Glance

Congressional Record Latest Daily Digest for Friday, September 24, 2010

Nothing earth-shattering in the daily legislation and debate yesterday, but the Congressional Record can definitely be an interesting read at times...

Congressional Record Latest Daily Digest for Friday, September 24, 2010: "Latest update was Friday, September 24, 2010"

NASA | Dust Simulations Paint Alien's View of the Solar System

Happy Birthday John Coltrane! (via In The Muse blog from loc.gov)

Happy Birthday John Coltrane!: "

John Coltrane House, 1511 North Thirty-third Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. Prints and Photographs Division.

One of the great tenor (and soprano) saxophone voices, composer John Coltrane was born on September 23, 1926. The Music Division has a number of lead sheets that Coltrane submitted to copyright for compositions such as “Blue Train” and “Moment’s Notice.” The Library is also home to a set of tapes recorded at a performance by Coltrane and Thelonious Monk at Carnegie Hall in 1957. The tapes were discovered in the collection by Reference Specialist Larry Appelbaum, who at the time was a Recording Engineer in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. In a documentary about the discovery and release of the tapes, Larry spoke of the moment he realized the magnitude of his discovery: “I thought, well, it’s possible this is a rare unpublished recording by Monk. And then when we went to digitize the tape, I heard the tenor saxophonist in the quartet – and I knew it was John Coltrane. My heart started to race! ”

On this first full day of autumn, remember Trane with the 1960 recording of “Equinox” on the album Coltrane’s Sound . Or just listen to him all day, starting with his contribution to Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue (named to the National Recording Registry in 2002), classic Atlantic recordings like “Giant Steps” (named to the National Recording Registry in 2004), and the exploratory masterpiece A Love Supreme.

For more autumnal music, see the Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800-1922 in the Performing Arts Encyclopedia for titles like “Al Trahern’s “Harvest Moon,” (not to be confused with Nora Bayes’ more famous “Shine on Harvest Moon” version, also recorded by Tiny Tim).

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-via In The Muse blog

Recall - Abbott Voluntarily Recalls Certain Similac® Brand Powder Infant Formulas That Did Not Meet Its Quality Standards

Recalls, Market Withdrawals, & Safety Alerts Abbott Voluntarily Recalls Certain Similac® Brand Powder Infant Formulas That Did Not Meet Its Quality Standards

Congressional Record Latest Daily Digest for Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Congressional Record Latest Daily Digest for Tuesday, September 21, 2010: "Latest update was Tuesday, September 21, 2010"

For your handy dandy reading pleasure...

I've gathered all the RSS feeds from http://www.loc.gov/rss/ into one convenient list.

Things To Do In Huntsville (via about.com)

Things To Do In Huntsville: "Here's some things you might want to check out in Huntsville & North Alabama over the next week: Scarecrow Trail at Botanical Garden, Harmony Park Safari, Flying Monkey's Artist ...

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I've already posted this at Facebook, but ...

Ever thought about incorporating the statuses of your FB friends as a feed that you can use in your favorite RSS reader (makes for much quicker reading)? It used to be a bit easier, but here's what you can do:

Go to http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?friends

Copy the subscribe link (left hand side of the page) and change friends_notes to friends_status

For example, http://www.facebook.com/feeds/friends_notes.php?id=xxxxxxxx&key=xxxxxxxxxx&format=rss20 becomes http://www.facebook.com/feeds/friends_status.php?id=xxxxxxxx&key=xxxxxxxxxx&format=rss20

Obviously, your id and key will be different (I've taken the liberty of replacing mine with Xs).

You can do the same thing for links that your friends post to their wall. For that, just change friends_notes to share_friends_posts

Voila! You now have an RSS feed URL for your friends' statuses or links. Hope this might be useful...

Update from 1/14/12 - I looked at this again and instead of saying subscribe or RSS, the "Friends' Notes" is now just a hyperlink on the left hand side that says Friends' Notes. When your mouse is over it, the link will say rss or rss20 at some point...

Never forget!!!!!

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/html/sept11/sept11-overview.html

http://news.yahoo.com/topics/september-11-attacks

http://september11.archive.org/

http://911digitalarchive.org/index.php

http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Terrorism/Incidents/September_11,_2001/

http://search.usa.gov/search?query=9%2F11&USA.gov+Search.x=22&USA.gov+Search.y=7

http://twitter.com/sept11memorial

http://www.facebook.com/911memorial

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/sept_11_2001/index.html

Libertarians release top 10 disasters of 2009 Obama administration and the top 10 of the previous administration...

There's NOT a great deal of difference.

Libertarians release top 10 disasters of 2009 Obama administration

Though it's doubtful that Mark Twain actually said this...

"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."

-Often likely misattributed to Mark Twain

I'll continue the tradition right here. This is really only of much interest for those of you in North Alabama. For those who had any doubt, August really was hot. See? FWIW, while you're at it, check out the Fall edition of Rocket City Weather...