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CULINARY: My ninth night at Pigalls

CULINARY: My ninth night at Pigalls

  On Saturday, December 10, 2005, I worked at Jean-Robert at Pigall’s for my ninth night. I took some delicious chocolate bark that Wendy & I made for the gang in the kitchen, and judging from how quickly it disappeared, they enjoyed it. 

Dean Gray Tuesday

Dean Gray Tuesday

Reprinted from Boing Boing. Today is Dean Grey Tuesday, a net-wide day of protest over Warner Brothers’s attempt to censor a stupendous noncommercial mashup album called American Edit that remixes Green Day’s album American Idiot. For today, websites across the Internet are mirroring the American…

Amazing Christmas Lights

Amazing Christmas Lights

UPDATE: Bad news from Carson Williams… He’s shut it down. Read all the details here.

After seeing this amazing video (and this one, too) of a house with a synchronized light show, a little research revealed that the house is located near where we live!

 

Lights on the house
With our friends Rob & Dave, we drove over to the house to see it for ourselves, and it was amazingly cool. There were three songs with synchronized lights — Frosty The Snowman, God Bless the USA, and the song in the video, Wizards of Winter — and a little pre-show from one of the NATIONAL LAMPOON movies. In order to hear the songs, you tune your radio to 96.9 (I think), which apparently is broadcast out of the house with a very limited reception area.The light show runs every few minutes from 6:00pm until 10:00pm until New Year’s Eve. To get there, take I-71 to exit 19 (Mason-Montgomery/Fields Ertel exit), turn LEFT onto Mason Road, which becomes S. Mason Montgomery Road. Turn LEFT on Socialville Foster Road. Turn RIGHT onto Simpson Creek Way (into a subdivision), turn RIGHT on Meadowview, and turn RIGHT onto Winding Creek Court. The house, which is impossible to miss even without the address, is at 8047 Winding Creek Court. The owner, Carson Williams, says in the broadcast that the lights are a “Williams family tradition” and thanks his neighbors for their patience.
The Williams Family
If you’re in the area, it is certainly worth a trip! Thanks to Mr. Williams, his family, and their neighbors for this great light show. A bit more information on Mr. Williams is here, and information on how he did it is here. 

Cool CAT scan of one of our cats

Cool CAT scan of one of our cats

Here’s an CAT SCAN image of our cat Merrick’s head…

You can see his ears and the ear canals (black) going into his skull, and the bony round canal where the important ear stuff sits inside the eardrum. One canal is black and full of air (normal) and the other canal is grey and full of something not normal. We can’t tell if it’s just fluid (a nasty inner ear infection) or if it’s actually a mass (probably benign, but still needs to go) but the radiologist who reads the films will tell us next week. Either way he’ll be OK, but this picture was too cool not to share.

 

CAT scan of Merrick
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