Just because. Allen seems to be a pretty nice guy, and reasonable. Like all of the people in my Friends list, he seems like someone I wouldn't mind having a beer and a political discussion with.

..and went pro. We did a civil ceremony at the courthouse, but the judge also happens to be an Episcopal priest. So I guess nobody can say "we're not *really* married because we got married at the courthouse."

I imagine it'll take a while to get used to the ring, and to calling Gail "my wife" instead of "my fiancee".

This post. And I dug around in some of his previous posts and they seemed to come from a reasonable person.

Ingredients:

• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 can Ro-Tel Diced Tomatoes with Green Chilis
• 1 can navy beans
• 1 can red kidney beans
• 1 can southwestern style black beans
• 1 can chili beans with green chiles
• 1 can white shoe peg corn
• 1 package powdered taco seasoning mix
• 3-4 cups water
• 1/2 teaspoon of dried and ground African Birdseye peppers (optional)
• Shredded cheese (optional)
• Tortilla chips (optional)

FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE
Pizza delivery driver
In-house tech support
Bench technician
Retail management

FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER
Orgazmo
Patton
Pulp Fiction
The Punisher

With all the bull-manure marketing blitz this time of hear, and people worrying about the credit card bills they'll get in January because they thought they just HAD to spend $5,000 on electronics for Little Johnny and a necklace for Cousin Jenny, and people getting offended at hearing the word "Christmas", and people salivating over their forthcoming Christmas bonuses, it's occurred to me that maybe some people need a reminder of why we celebrate December 25, so here goes:

I finally had enough at work and am in job-search mode.

I currently work at a new-and-used bookstore in the East Ridge TN/Ringgold GA area. My boss is the most annoying, unconsciously selfish person I have ever met, with the possible exception of a former boss of mine from when I was in college. Interestingly, both of these top two are from Northern California. Though I hate to stereotype, I have to wonder if that might have something to do with it.

Cue taken from StalinsNotDead and RailGunner

Instructions:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Turn to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

I had to share this with some folks, because this recipe makes the best damn ribs I've ever had. There are a few very important bits to remember when you set out to barbecue. First, cook low and slow. That means low temperatures and long cooking times. Second, the smoke is half the flavor. You cannot get barbecue flavor by sticking raw meat in an oven. You can finish the meat in the oven, but start it on a smoky fire - the smoke flavor gets into the meat best when the smoke hits raw mea

Here's something I picked up in my /. travels, posted by vandan today. I modified it a little, but it still does basically the same thing. The blacklist is a text file in which each line is an IP address. I keep it in /etc/blacklist. Very simple, very small, and in the words of the original author, it works :)

(BEGIN SCRIPT)
#!/bin/bash

# variables
BLACKLIST=/etc/blacklist
IPTABLES=/sbin/iptables