Gordon Wagner
- Location
- California,
- Birthday
- September 21
- Bio
- Graphic Designer / Illustrator. Single father, two teenagers, two cats. Holding together in the suburban badlands near San Diego.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Six Months as a Pedestrian
April 19, 2012 04:26PM - Five shrubs
March 11, 2012 12:37AM - In Dreams
February 17, 2012 10:54AM - February? Really?
February 16, 2012 06:01PM - The funniest part of the
story...
November 17, 2011 11:32AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “SS -- the iPod does have
a really basic text composer
and it
does establish an
In…”
April 19, 2012 05:23PM - “Laughing @ myself -- I
looked at some of my older
posts on OS
and discovered
I'd…”
April 19, 2012 04:34PM - “Oil reserves were
discovered in Uganda. Not long
after that,
the US announced a
n…”
March 12, 2012 05:53PM - “Corporate promises: my
ex-ex is in Rome and
apparently spent
an hour on
the phone…”
February 16, 2012 05:45PM - “Well, I imagine the 1%
feels puffed up with power and
pride
and commands
"TH…”
January 31, 2012 07:18PM
Gordon Wagner's Links
- Hot Spots on the Infobahn
- What Really Happened
- Rotten.com/news
- Google.com/news
- Amazon
- RecipeZaar
- M30
- Land-o-Links
- lolcats
A Swiss watch in an ancient Chinese tomb?
Anachronous discovery: Swiss watch in ancient tomb
16 December, 2008, 11:54
Chinese archaeologists have found a tiny Swiss watch in a tomb dating back to the Ming dynasty, which they believed has been intact for four centuries.… Read full post »
A Swiss watch in an ancient Chinese tomb?
Anachronous discovery: Swiss watch in ancient tomb
16 December, 2008, 11:54
Chinese archaeologists have found a tiny Swiss watch in a tomb dating back to the Ming dynasty, which they believed has been intact for four centuries.… Read full post »
Mossad in America
Israeli intelligence steps up its activity in the U.S. — and gets away with it.
By Philip Giraldi
Israeli government claims that it does not spy on the United States are intended for the media and popular consumption. The reality is that Israel’s intelligence agencies target the United… Read full post »
Buying pads
"I need more pads, Dad." reported Kid #2. I'd purchased a package of "Stayfree ultra-light pads" some time ago, figuring that it would be smarter to have them on hand when she began to need them ("Menarche").
Anyway, apparently they are all gone. The last time she declined to use a… Read full post »
Lightbox 2.0
I ran across a web page that employed Lokesh Dhakar's "Lightbox 2.0" CSS code and was blown away -- I immediately set to rewriting my web site (www.spaceways.net) -- a major improvement. I'm tickled. The effect (one of those Web 2.0 things) is so slick that I gleefully send Mr. or… Read full post »
Six hours later
Got up at 4:30, shaved, showered, got dressed, killed ants, fed the cats, woke the kids, made coffee and breakfast and school lunches. Delivered kids, went to office supply stores. Came back home. Sat down. 10:30. Nearly fell asleep. Six hours awake and I'm tired. Weird.
The days blend together
The first day of school was Wednesday. My cell phone alarm went off @ 4:20 and I actually got out of bed rather than waiting eight minutes for the snooze alarm to go off.
The first day went well, the second day, yesterday, went well... this morning I found myself… Read full post »
LA Jail to install "heat ray" to use on prisoners
LA authorities plan to use heat-beam ray in jail
I never get tired of this fake gold bar story
December 04, 2009
It's one thing to counterfeit a twenty or hundred dollar bill. The
amount of financial damage is usually limited to a specific region
and only affects dozens of people and thousands of
dollars.… Read full post »
Program for Struggling Homeowners is a Ploy to Enrich Banks
Treasury Makes Shocking Admission: Program for Struggling Homeowners Just a Ploy to Enrich Big Banks
By Zach Carter, AlterNet

Posted on August 25, 2010, Printed on August 26,
2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/147955/
The Treasury Department's plan to help stru… Read full post »
How to clean glass
First, put on your big, thick, heavy pair of black rubber lab gloves, the OSHA-approved kind... no, just kidding. Get some CORNSTARCH and some water, mix a half-handful of cornstarch into about a pint of water use that to wash whatever mirror or window you have in front of you, then… Read full post »
ACTA: The death of the web
http://www.anti-acta.com/
Visit the URL right after you read this story. This is a big deal and it looks to me like an end-run to stifle the web. An international treaty is a way to get around the Constitution. You in a hurry to have your iPod checked at the
… Read full post »The Middle Eastern market and the best burgers EVER
So it says here that "shish kabob" seasoning contains onions, salt, pepper, sumac (yma?), parsley, turmeric and maybe cumin, coriander and mint.
I ventured out of the house today to visit the local very interesting Middle Eastern market, called North Park Produce. I'd stopped in on Friday but didn't… Read full post »
Ratajczak: Killed by Israeli agents?
From www.presstv.ir :
'Holocaust denier death, Mossad linked'
Florida mosque firebombed, US Media silent
From http://crooksandliars.com :
Florida mosque bombed; FBI calls for help; national media mute
Roman Common Law for BP
A very clever idea pilfered from a letters column regarding the BP oil spill:
"Since English common law is now destroyed, invoke the ancient Roman common law: compile a List of the Proscribed, whereby traitors (write here government and BP lackeys) are removed from the planet (rope is… Read full post »
The American Driver
After a (not very) enchanting voyage out into the local boondocks to drop Kid #1 off @ a LAN party (this place was really out in the sticks, and the absence of a fucking STREET SIGN meant we were touring the San Pasqual Valley since we missed the turn) I was… Read full post »
Philadelphia wants $300 per blogger for a "license"
Got a blog that makes no money? The city wants $300, thank you very much.
by Valerie Rubinsky
For the past three years, Marilyn Bess has operated MS Philly Organic, a small,/… Read full post »
Surprise! Property tax bill quadrupled in Hawaii
Property tax quadruples for needy families in Kalihi
Aug 20, 2010 2:12 AMBy Mari-Ela David - bio | email
KALIHI (HawaiiNewsNow) – Slapped with a monster tax hike, Kalihi families are in shock, opening their mail to find their real property
… Read full post »maps.google.com
Google has a maps feature which has an option to view the Earth from a satellite's point of view. It's amazing.
You're kind of "flying" above your old neighborhoods, your old hangouts, places you visited -- amazing. The beaches I used to walk on at dawn back in college. No… Read full post »
Good news and bad news
Hm. Looks like another CD which I was hoping to earn some money with has been "called" -- did the bank that issued it give up on it? Anyway, I have about a thousand dollars heading to my thoroughly depleted checking account. I'm out of arrows, though. No more CDs to… Read full post »
Sudden bad turn
Yipes. Sudden bill I forgot about. Zero money left.
This is looking grim. Cancel my health insurance. Heh, it's already been deducted for this month. Small blessing.
Where is my charming ex's child support payment? I'm out of ideas to make ends meet.
Cancel the kid's dental appointment? It loo… Read full post »
Job Interview
Oh, shit. Someone actually called me up about a resume I'd sent them.
I was afraid something like this might happen. So I had to find some clothes to wear to the interview, which involved a trip out to a men's clothing store. Incredibly, they had a marked-down pair of generic… Read full post »
Biscuits
It was fairly cool this morning for August in San Diego. I've wanted to make a batch of biscuits for a week or two. They're buttermilk biscuits from a Cooks' Illustrated recipe from three or four or five or six years back.
The dry ingredients (the usual suspects) get… Read full post »
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