December 2010

Blogiversary

December 31, 2010

I forgot… Christmas Eve was Funny’s blogiversary! LOL! I’m getting so senile I can’t remember how long the thing has been online. Both the current WP version and the old WordPress.com site show December 24, 2007 as the first post, but in it I’m nattering on about biweekly pay, and I know I had 15 [...]

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Hoppin’ John and Cornbread: The Good Luck New Year’s Dish

December 31, 2010

My father, being a Texas boy (he used to say the best thing about being from Texas is being as far from it as you can get), loved black-eyed peas. I was never nuts about them, because Southern recipes overcook them to an unappetizing state of sogginess. But in my grown-up incarnation, I learned that [...]

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MozRank…Is This the New PageRank?

December 29, 2010

Have you noticed the groundswell of blogospheric opinion in favor of MozRank, a new website page ranking system? Google PageRank is moribund—some rumors suggest it will soon go away altogether—but even if it weren’t, many of us are frustrated with its inscrutability, immutability, and apparent unfairness. From what I can tell, MozRank is a metric [...]

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Live-Blogging from Storm Central

December 29, 2010

It’s gettin’ mighty cold out there! And dark. Here in the middle of the afternoon, all the lights in the room are burning against the twilight gloom that seeps in through the windows. A big cold front has lurched in from the West Coast. We’re supposed to see rain all day today, tonight, and tomorrow [...]

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Carnival of Money Stories, Comin’ Our Way!

December 28, 2010

Come January 3, Funny will be hosting the Carnival of Money Stories! Submissions are already pouring in, so be sure to get yours in, too. This carnival is being directed by Mrs. Accountability, of Out of Debt Again fame. Visit the site for all the details, and to volunteer if you’d like to host, too. [...]

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In the Depths of the Dillard’s Outlet

December 28, 2010

I just bought $756 worth of clothes! Yes. That would be eleven (count’em, 11) shirts. And I paid $108 for the lot. Yesterday morning La Maya suggested we explore the Dillard’s outlet store, in the Metrocenter Ghost Mall on I-17 just south of Peoria Avenue in Phoenix. I haven’t visited those precincts in years. The [...]

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