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It’s peaceful and quiet in here

Posted: January 5, 2009 by datechguy in local stuff, personal
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Some local Fitchburg stuff:

Today is the first day since Nov 11th that the kids have gone to school, the youngest as usual on the first day was up early and ready. It will be the only other of the school year when it is true.

When my wife leaves for her school in a half hour the house will be as peaceful quiet as Pat Cohan’s at 8:45.

That is my favorite fight scene ever in a movie.

Glaze ice all over my road. My other son has a large catapult about 3′ x 1.5′ x 2′ for a school project so I drove him. The main roads are sanded but the side roads stink. That’s Fitchburg all over.

The Diner at the end of the road is still there after 3 weeks. It is not only amazing that someone just opened a business in Fitchburg but it also opened during the week of the ice storm. I wish them luck.

Their sandwich sign should have their morning special on it ( 6-8 a.m. 2 eggs, homefries, coffee, toast $1.75). and not just their opening. If breakfast under $2 won’t get people in there nothing will.

Found out Sabino the baker has retired. When I was a kid after mass we would go there to pick up our italian bread for Sunday dinner. His bakery burned down in 1977 killing a local fireman John Cetrino (the street formally called 5th street is now named for him) and he moved. A while back he got involved in a restaurant-specialty store in Leominster called Tre Sorelle where his daughter worked. He would be up 6 days a week baking fresh bread there. When I drove by one day and saw his name I literally did a 270 to pull into the place. Thanks to Tre Sorelle my sons had the chance to taste the best Italian bread in the world. Sabino is now 80 and decided he had enough of a 6 day week. I wish him the best. His rest is our loss.

Since the house is still pretty clean from the party I guess it is job hunting, blogging and some Civ IV today.

Bloggers doing the work the MSN used to be paid for

Posted: January 5, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Michelle Malkin who like Don Suber was a reporter before the days of blogs has a rather comprehensive list of original reporting done by bloggers over the last year:

Well, over the weekend, a few bloggers on both the left and right perpetuated an ill-informed and self-serving myth that demands debunking. The myth is that conservative bloggers don’t do reporting.
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For various reasons, the incredible amount of investigative online reporting published on conservative blogs in just the last year alone has gone largely uncredited. Let’s fix that here and now.

The list is MUCH too long to quote here, just go and read the whole thing. via Hotair which was also a creation of Michelle Malkin.

Now that is what is called targeted advertising

Posted: January 5, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Ok we know the New York Times is tanking in value. You need to somehow increase readership, where do you advertise?

Why MSNBC of course! Although I think the Morning Joe audience is likely to be less excited by the prospect then the views of the rest of the lineup.

Update: Massive Irony alert. Do you remember this:

I can’t think of the New York Times without thinking of my favorite writer Glenn Reynolds. Of course he is not a professional writer but a law professor who blogs for at Instapundit I am one of his many blog children. I never forget that when I started reading him in 2001 he used to have a quote on the top of his page saying “The New York Times of Bloggers.” I remember when he removed from his site thinking its absence enhanced his reputation.

The day the New York Times can call itself the Instapundit of Newspapers is the day its stock will not be tanking, its building will not need to be mortgaged and will be worth reading again.

I just went to Instapundit and saw an ad for subscriptions to the New York Times. That the times hopes to improve it’s bottom line by advertising with Glenn brings a huge smile to my face.

Even more Sherman.

Posted: January 5, 2009 by datechguy in Uncategorized, war
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Either Sherman was a much better analogy than I thought or there are a million Civil War buffs out there just dying to use him in a post. The latest is the American Thinker:

While the Union Army respected the sanctity of private homes, all public buildings and infrastructure including railroads were subject to complete destruction. Needless to say, resistance was not tolerated. Millions of slaves were freed in the wake of his march.

Recognizing that it was not in their economic interest to continue the fight, civilian political support for the Confederacy began a precipitous collapse and the war soon ended. Despite rebellious pledges that the “South Would Rise Again”, peace and prosperity has lasted 144 years.

It’s a good argument except for the religious component, if the Palestinian Arabs are convinced that there is a religious component they may fight anyways. Secondly unionists were not summarily executed in the south, just try to express support for Israel in Gaza, hell try to express support for Fatah in Gaza and see what happens. Thirdly you didn’t have schoolrooms teaching their kids everyday that the North was a bunch or murderous barbarians. Although AFTER the war the north didn’t do so well in southern classrooms.

I would have found a source other than Wikipedia myself, after all it’s history and not Doctor Who we are talking about.

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