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It took some years for me to warm up to ‘alternative’ comic-book writer Harvey Pekar. But my friend Morris Hyman is a big Pekar fan, so I gave him a copy of the DVD American Splendor, which is a very good movie.
An interview that Pekar did with Terry Gross on the NPR show Fresh Air has been re-run. It’s at this link.
Here’s this year’s candy pile, atop my drawing table. There’s a bag of Heath Bars in there, hidden from view. That’s because I want them! Tuesday night I’ll take an “after” picture.
Here’s some musical candy. The Beau Hunks from Amsterdam performing Leroy Shield’s “Candy, Candy.”
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Sounds/Wordpress/OCT06/CandyCandy.mp3]There aren’t as many younger kids in the neighborhood as when we moved here 8 years ago, and traffic is light anyway, because we live on a dead end street — excuse me, a “not a thru way” street. “Dead” is, apparently, a word the DPW is no longer allowed to use.
That framed picture on the table is of me hauling Eric in a backpack, on a Sunday hike a long time ago. Now he’s almost as tall as I am!
As my father has pointed out many times, UK coverage of Iraq is quite different than it is here in the US. There is notably less attention paid to Elephant vs. Donkey racing, and many more non-American opinions.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Sounds/Wordpress/OCT06/BBC.mp3]Here are 8 minutes of the BBC call-in show “Have Your Say.” Brigett Kendall moderates between Georgetown U. professor Robert Lieber, and a caller in Iraq. This provides clear contrast between an academic expert and an actual resident; who, I should note, doesn’t want American troops withdrawn.
Internet Explorer 7 is now running on one of our home computers. The most obvious change is that it does tabbed browsing, which is something that Firefox users already do. Another addition is that IE finally reliably displays “favicons.”
A favicon is a mini-icon that appears in the address field of a browser. I’ve just added a favicon to DogRat.com. This is how it appears in IE7.
Nice! Just as I wanted it. So yay to that much about IE7. But I’m sorry to say it screws up something else. It’s cropping the bottom of the site title.
Boo! Perhaps I need to edit the style sheet, or maybe Microsoft has done something for which there is no easy workaround. I’ll look into it, but not today.
