Chris Paul piece at Mardi Gras World in New Orleans
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Mardi Gras World
Creepy Clown
Crawfish Etouffee in Nawlins
Loving the dining in The Big Easy.
If You Could Ask W One Question
I'm at a conference this week and the keynote speaker today is
President George W. Bush. There won't be a Q & A segment but I was
wondering if you could ask him one question what would it be?
I'm not sure what mine would be. Since we're in New Orleans it would
probably have something to do with Hurricane Katrina, his
administration's response to it, and a comparison to the Obama
administration's response to the oil spill.
How to Get More Mileage Out of Your Inkjet Cartridge
Cool one minute video about how you can possibly get more mileage out of your inkjet cartridge. FYI, it doesn't involve shaking the thing.
Who Wants Their Car to Be a Rolling Windows PC?
This story in the New York Times (h/t to BookofJoe for the lead) shouldn't have surprised me since I regularly have to re-boot the one late-model car I own, but with paragraphs like these it's hard not to be shocked:
The scientists say that they were able to remotely control braking and other functions, and that the car industry was running the risk of repeating the security mistakes of the PC industry.
“We demonstrate the ability to adversarially control a wide range of automotive functions and completely ignore driver input — including disabling the brakes, selectively braking individual wheels on demand, stopping the engine, and so on,” they wrote in the report, “Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile.”
We're so very hosed.
Inside O’So
Per a reader request here's a shot of the O'so dining room. Unfortunately the request came too late for a food shot. Figure you wouldn't want to see the carnage.
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$10 for Your Favorite Charity Could Turn Into $10,000
Mybridges.net has a raffle ending on Wednesday that will net one charity $10,000. That's cool, but here's what's REALLY cool. When you buy a $10 raffle you get to choose a charity to dedicate it to, and $5 of it will go to the charity you choose whether it wins the raffle or not. The winning charity is the one that gets the most "votes" or raffle ticket purchases dedicated to it.
So if you buy a $10 ticket on behalf of Second Harvest Food Bank then you know at least $5 will go to them, and if they win they'll get $10,000. Since Second Harvest can get 12 cans of food (or seven meals) for every dollar that $5 will equal 60 cans of food or 35 meals. That's pretty cool.
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What My Kids Are Learning This Summer, Part 1
My kids are in Mississippi this week on a mission trip with our church's youth group. My daughter texted this pic with the message "It's so hot here!" If nothing else they've learned that it's hot in Mississippi in June. Go figure!
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Cash 4 Gold
Since I work in Greensboro and have to be in different parts of the city on a regular basis I have ample opportunity to pass through intersections like the one at Merritt and High Point roads that feature strip malls with nail salons, pawn shops and "cash for gold" stores. The picture below is of one of the kids that the "Cash 4 Gold" proprietor hires to dance in 90 degree heat while wearing a stormtrooper helmet painted gold. Ed writes about the interesting economy we live in, epitomized by the cash 4 gold ops. Times are still tough people.
Befuddled 