Silflay Hraka

If this boycott comes off, how long will it take US Air to seize the obvious marketing opportunity?

US Airways: Now 100% Muslim free!

Let me start by saying that we don’t appear to have any comments in the MT database here at Silflay Hraka. I’m not sure exactly what’s going on, but we have no comments on any blog using MT. I’ll check into it but hope it will resolve itself soon.

I don’t have a lot of time to update as I have to be at the airport in just under an hour to pick up a friend of mine. I thought I’d touch on a couple of topics before taking off to complete that task.

First off, let me say “Bon Voyage” to Chuckie Tomato, former NCSU head football coach. According to Raleigh’s own News & Observer, an announcement on Chuckie’s future is to be made tonight. After finishing the season with seven straight losses, it’s tough to imagine any announcement being made that reaffirms Chuckie as State’s coach. A quick scan of the message boards over at The Wolfpacker reveals how delusional State fans truly are. Failed Miami coach Larry Coker and WF coach Jim Grobe are being mentioned as potential successors to Tomato. State fans would revolt if it were Larry Coker and they’re dreaming if they think Jim Grobe will leave WF for the job.

Speaking of Jim Grobe and WF, congratulations to WF on winning the Atlantic Division of the ACC for the right to face Georgia Tech for the ACC Championship. I know Icehole is beside himself with glee. Congrats, buddy. If WF makes it to the Peach Bowl, you have a place to stay. I’ll probably go to the Peach Bowl no matter which ACC team is selected. What the heck.

Lastly, I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving holiday. I spent almost the entire holiday playing “Lego Star Wars II ” with my five year-old nephew. The kid is a machine when it comes to video games, much like his father. I awoke every morning of my stay in Boston at around 8:00 a.m. to the strains of the Star Wars soundtrack and received short breaks from it only for meals. For the record, Lego Star Wars is a great game. Nephew Ethan’s favorite character in the game was “BoBo Fett” (accent on all syllables), though he also liked Darth Vader and the Emperor (or as those in Boston say “the Emperah”. Nephew is already dropping his Rs, much to my Southern chagrin.)

That’s it for the weekend update. Hope everyone had a great Turkey Day! More soon. – Kehaar

Okay, I have to resort to the InstaCarny format again this week. No time to read everything again. I do apologize. It is my intention to find time for this blog some time in the near future. The new job is keeping me busy as is getting settled in Atlanta. The good news is that everyone makes it into the Carnival of the Vanities again this week and there were a lot more entries than we’ve had in previous weeks. The bad news is that the Blog Carnival “instant” code is a nightmare and it doesn’t help that my editing PC went down with a bad hard drive last week. This means I’m on my laptop and the only editing software I have available to me are NotePad and MS Word. Don’t even get me started on how badly Word screws up a simple HTML export. For those of you who think I spent no time on this Carnival, please know I spent at least half an hour cleaning up the freaking code problems.

I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving! I’m off for Boston for the holiday! Another Carny appears in this space next week. Enjoy the Carnival of the Vanities.

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Michael Emilio presents Foreclosure:
Questions and Answers posted at MichaelEmilio.com.

DWSUWF presents Libertarian swing vote backs Chuck Hagel for President posted
at Divided We Stand United We Fall, saying, “First we must deal with the elephant in the room. Not just any elephant, but the wounded, clinically depressed, angry, bipolar, borderline psychotic elephant that is the GOP today. For Hagelto get in position for the libertarian swing vote to put him in the White House, he first must ride that elephant to the election.”

Peace Moonbeam presents Alternate Universe posted at The Peace Moonbeam Chronicles.

Leon Gettler presents Interview with Al Gore posted at Sox First, saying, “An exclusive interview with Al Gore on the subject of climate change.”

RebChaim HaQoton presents The Daughter of Abraham posted at Reb Chaim HaQoton.

Advice

TripHub presents TripHub: 10 Tips: How to Blend In Abroad posted at TripHub, saying, “Keeping your cool, stylish persona can be a chore when traveling overseas. Here are some tips for how to be culturally sensitive and not stick out like a sore tourist thumb.”

Julia Dorofeeva presents What makes women sign up for Adult Dating Sites? posted at Online Dating Blog.

Conan Stevens presents Think Your Life Is Bad? Email From Bradley And Inspiration From Stephen Hawking posted at Conan Stevens Online, saying, “Too many people think their life is bad – here is inspiration from a man who cannot walk, talk, and barely lives yet he is a prolific author and one of greatest scientists to every live.”

Culture

Jon Swift presents Jon
Swift’s Complete Amazon Reviews posted at Jon Swift, saying, “Considering all the attention my reviews have brought to the money-losing Internet bookseller and all the inspiration they have given people by showing that you don’t necessarily have to read books to review them, you would think that Amazon would be more appreciative of my work.”

David presents Success from a European Perspective – Part 2 posted at Worldwide Success, saying, “In this
article, we will expand upon the initial discussion and talk about life in Germany and in Spain. We will also conclude with some general thoughts on how life in Europe differs from the US and how our definition of success is influenced by the culture that we live in.”

Economics

Barry Welford presents The Ubiquitous Web posted at StayGoLinks, saying, “The Ubiquitous Web describes efforts to ensure that all can be in touch and stay in contact with the Internet whatever device they are using, whether it be cell phone or desktop PC.”

Ethics and Morality

Jake Danger presents
href=”http://lunaticwisdom.com/blog/2006/11/15/how-to-become-a-religious-hypocrite-in-10-easy-lessons/”>How to Become a Religious Hypocrite in 10 Easy Lessons posted at Lunatic Wisdom – The World According to Jake Danger.

~Dawn Cadwell presents Bring Your Own Food posted at Queercents, saying, “Queercents poses a couple questions in its weekly “What Would You Do” feature around the topic of bringing your own food into the movie theatre.”

How-To

Christine Kane presents How to Break Up with Your TV posted at Christine Kane.

Jack Yoest presents The Best Company Structure in Four Easy Steps posted at Reasoned Audacity, saying, “Our
business schools teach that structure follows strategy. And this big stuff is important to know. But what Your Business Blogger most often sees is where the boss misses the basic questions — the easy stuff. Such as, What is the business owner’s most common company-structure challenge? In our egalitarian new-age of Aquarius where we are all equal to each other and the boss considers the individual input of each of her employees to be the equal of her own or anybody else. After all, we are all family here. This, of course, is nonsense.”

Paula Gregorowicz presents Top 7 Secrets for a Stress-Free Thanksgiving posted at Coaching4Lesbians.

Human Interest

polliwog presents Zero to 60 in three days posted at bobbarama.com.

Phil B. presents Proud to be Proud
Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity.

Humor

Avant News presents Iraq Study Group Report Includes $25 Million Reward for Exit Strategy posted at Avant News.

Mark A. Rayner presents Proving his religion ? Dr. Tundra and the Noodly Norsemen posted at the skwib.

Chris Dolley presents chrisdolley: Confessions of a Pioneer Computer Game Designer (Part Two: The Most Aggressive Chess Progam Ever) posted at Author Chris Dolley’s Page.

CGHill presents A Colonel of truth posted at dustbury.com, saying, “With KFC changing its image again, can other restaurants be far behind?”

bobbarama presents Hesitation: the 9th
deadly sin posted at bobbarama.com, saying, “A hilarious take on how men handle one of the most dangerous questions they’ll ever face: ‘Honey, does this dress make me look fat?’

Mark A. Rayner presents Ask General Kang: Do you celebrate Thanksgiving on your home world? posted at the skwib, saying, “I know I’ve already sent a post, but if you’d like to use this one instead of/in addition to, it’s quite timely.

Michael Wade presents Help Wanted: Toady posted at Execupundit.com, saying, “Michael Wade at Execupundit provides a recruitment announcement that is common but normally unwritten.”

News

polliwogpresents Giving it up for peace posted at bobbarama.com.

Personal

Rocket presents Flay posted at The Rocketman’s Change For A Dollar, saying, “‘Flay’ began as a vent for my frustration at a personal chronic ailment, but it grew into a larger bit of fiction. Completely out of character and beyond the scope of my usual genres, it is dark, twisted, and psychedellic – and in my opinion, one of the best pieces I’ve written since I branched out from print and began posting online. Thank you for allowing the opportunity to share it here.”

Philosophy

Francois Tremblay presents My Struggle with Propaganda. posted at Francois Tremblay.

Big Picture Guy presents Crash
Course posted at Big Picture, Small Office, saying, “Big Picture Guy was driving with his clever, if at times callous, CEO. Stuck at a red light, the two witnessed a drama unfold as an ambulance attempted to make its way through the intersection. Unaffected by a near catastrophic collision, the still calm CEO drew parallels between the careless drivers and today’s captains of industry.”

Politics

Andrew Ian Dodge presents Islamist vs Paxman posted at Dodgeblogium.

Mr. Purpleslog presents Constitutional Amendment Needed To Close Loophole On Presidential and Vice-Presidential Eligibility posted at Purpleslog,
saying, “Stopping a future American political crisis”

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Update: Forgot Wayne Hurlbert’s entry. One day I’ll have to ask him why he is boycotting Blog Carnival. His entry this week is on False Encouragement: Avoid Empty Statements.

I’m going to bed. Doggonit.

is the air being let out of the balloon.

I knew it was coming, just did not know when it would happen. Wake was down to their 5th string running back (a former walkon) – and it showed. Va Tech pushed them around and got some points off uncanny Wake Forest miscues.

But – wait – it ain’t over – Wake still has a shot?!?!!?

Saturday
College Park, MD
7:45 pm on ESPN

for all the marbles…….

LETS GO DEACS!

Hola, compadres! Kehaar has returned. Did you miss me? Sure you did. Sorry for not being more on the ball as far as the blog is concerned, but it’s been a long week. I moved out of my condo in Greensboro last Friday, moved into my apartment in Atlanta on Saturday, started work on Monday, received all my stuff from the movers on Tuesday and spent the rest of the week exploring the area. So far I’ve gotten lost everywhere I’ve gone.

I got lost in the hallway of my apartment building the first time I walked into the place. I got lost trying to find the Target and the grocery store. I got lost trying to find Best Buy and the Home Depot. I got lost the first two days I went to work. The first time I got within a mile of the building and circled for half an hour. The second time I circled for 15 minutes. I also got lost on the way home from work the first two days. On Wednesday I drove straight to work. That’s the day I got stuck in the revolving door because I forgot to swipe my security card. That was pretty embarassing.

We have great security at work. I have to swipe my card to get into the building, at two different junctures. I take the elevator to the 8th floor and swipe my card to get into our offices. When I go to the bathroom, I have to swipe my card to get back into the offices. If I go to another floor, I have to swipe my card to get into the other floor. If I take the stairs, I have to swipe my card to get out of the stairwell. If I ever forget my security badge, I’m screwed.

Why all this security, you ask? Stalkers. We get ‘em. Lots of ‘em, evidently. The On-Air talent at The Weather Channel attracts all sorts of weather weirdos. Kinda’ like this blog.

Initial thoughts on work: I’m going to like it. The people are uniformly intelligent and motivated as far as I can tell and the office environment is fairly laid back even though everyone is very busy. That’s the main reason for no bloggage this past week. I have no time for it even though I’m the new guy and I’ve been there for only five days.

Some improvements over my previous workplace: the cafeteria, holidays and free, bottomless coffee in the breakroom. The first day I went to the breakroom I looked around for the coffee donation container. I couldn’t find one. We used to have to bring our own coffee and then make it ourselves. Now I come in around 8:15 every morning and there are three pots of coffee waiting for me. I drink my first cup and head back half an hour later. More coffee. And it’s all free.

I spend the rest of the day quivering from the caffeine overdose.

The cafeteria is also an improvement. They have a selection of five different entrees for lunch every day and at least one is a healthy choice. Finally I can get a healthy meal without having to leave the building! They also have an ATM so I don’t have to remember to bring cash every day. That’s good because I have no idea how to find the Bank of America around here.

We also apparently get extra holidays. I’ve been back and forth with the HR folks all week to make sure my vacation days transferred properly. I wanted to use one of those days to take off the day after Thanksgiving so I could fly to Boston to see Black Sheep and his family. I spent hours chasing this around only to find out that we get the day after Thanksgiving off anyway. As if that wasn’t enough, they also close the office at 3:00 p.m. the day before Thanksgiving so we can all get out of there. Apparently we also get the day after Christmas as a holiday. I can now roll over 5 extra vacation days until next year. I’m in heaven.

Other thoughts about Atlanta: the traffic is bad but not unbearable. The commute to work is about 30 minutes with about half of that spent in heavy traffic. The commute home is 20 minutes. I guess I miss the big rush hour on the way home or something. I dealt with worse traffic coming back from Best Buy an hour ago than I do going to work.

I think that’s it for now. I thought I had more to say when I started this but I seem to be losing steam. I’ll try to post more tomorrow, maybe when the delivery guys show up with my brand new Frigidaire front-loading washer and dryer from Best Buy.

Until then, thanks for stopping in!

This is a pretty cool site - you may have seen it.

Tons of live shows from the 1980′s and before. You get to listen to live shows from bands like Duran Duran, America, Echo and the Bunnymen, 38 Special (STILL TOURING!), etc….

Registration takes about 3 seconds and the live music is free…

“Please, please tell me now, is there something I should know?”

Welcome to the 217th edition of Carnival of the Vanities. I apologize in advance but I have no time to edit the Carnival this week. The last week has been crazy. Last day of my old job was Thursday, moved out of my condo on Friday, drove to Atlanta on Saturday, started the new job on Monday and received my furniture, clothes, etc. from the movers on Tuesday evening. No time to read all the entries or edit anything this week. I’m also borrowing a wireless signal from an unsuspecting neighbor because I don’t get my cable hooked up until next Monday. All this means that I’m basically going to post the Instant Carnival produced by Blog Carnival. That means everyone who submitted this week gets in. Good for you.

Oh, and before I forget, Wayne Hurlbert doesn’t use Blog Carnival. Here’s his submission.

Sam presents Your Credit Report and FICO Credit Score. Good Credit Rating Makes Buying a Home Possible posted at Surfer Sam and Friends.

A Samuel presents The Kendra Todd winner of The Apprentice Season 3 Podcast posted at Nubricks.com.

nhmind presents Smoking in Cars with Kids posted at New Hampshire State of Mind.

Advice

Christine Kane presents 10 Things to Do When the Dirt Comes Up posted at Christine Kane.

Culture

Jon Swift presents Save Britney’s Marriage posted at Jon Swift, saying, “If Republicans really want to save the institution of holy matrimony, they should start by saving Britney’s marriage. and make the Defense of Britney’s Marriage Act the first order of business in the lame-duck session of Congress.”

Daniel Rourke presents The Conceptual Time-Capsule: posted at The Huge Entity, saying, “I’ve submitted the post under ‘culture’ because that word kind of describes all the areas the posts in the ‘Time-Capsule’ rest under. I hope you enjoy the writing contained within, from a variety of superb blog authors (and a couple of published authors too). Here is a description of the post for easy reading:

“The Oxford English Dictionary defines a time-capsule as “a container used to store for posterity a selection of [entities] thought to be representative of life at a particular time.” With this is mind, we thought it might be interesting to assemble our own time-capsule and, this being the web-lead information age, bury that capsule online, in an enormous web-garden.

What ideas will future generations glance back at and laugh in contemptuous hindsight? In 50 years time which contemporary cultural memes will be deader than the proverbial Dodo? Lying in the digital darkness of our internet time-capsule these questions, and more, will have to wait 50 years of technological shifts; of societal upheavals; of cultural fermentation before they can be answered.”

Thanks!”

The Monk presents Journalism’s Sidney Poitier, RIP posted at Failure of ’56 to inspiration of ’06?, saying, “A eulogy for Ed Bradley”

Current Events

Leon Gettler presents Iraq auditing: shooting the messenger posted at Sox First, saying, “The Bush administration is closing down the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction which has consistently exposed corrupt practices. Blame it on some obscure clause sneaked into a military spending bill terminating the auditor’s work. It’s like Dilbert. Got a problem with the project? Fire the auditor. It all raises a number of important questions.”

Steve Faber presents When Will It All Stop??? posted at DebtBlog.

Environment

Mark A. Rayner presents A bedtime parable posted at the skwib, saying, “This is a short fiction that’s somewhat topical, given the Stern report. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/
green/story/0,,1942948,00.html”

History

Barry Welford presents 100 Million Websites – How Many To Go? posted at StayGoLinks, saying, “Jakob Nielsen points out that the Internet has now ‘slowed down’ to a mature growth rate of 25% per year. What seems to be unknown is how this growth rate splits between the Mobile Web and the regular Web.”

Andrew Ian Dodge presents The War Sonnets: V. The Soldier posted at Dodgeblogium.

How-To

Patricia presents How To Overcome Loneliness, During The Holidays Or Any Time posted at Patricia.

Human Interest

John Hill presents Why Diets Dont Work posted at Universe Of Success.

David presents Success from a European Perspective – Part 1 posted at Worldwide Success, saying, “In the spirit of keeping a global perspective in the Worldwide Success site, I am writing this article directly from Europe. I will make some observations about success from a European perspective, and will contrast it to the American view of success. First, I think it is fair to say that most European countries have stronger tendencies towards socialistic ideas than our free market views in the US. I will try to point out the pluses and cons of such environment. I will also discuss the day-to-day habits of the Europeans and the impact of their health and quality of life.”

Humor

Avant News presents Dark Matter Mostly Socks, Keys, Ballpoints posted at Avant News.

Polliwog presents Hesitation: the 9th deadly sin posted at bobbarama.com, saying, “I am not the author. Bob Bobbarama is the author. Thank you for your consideration.”

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Contending With Time posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog, saying, “Self-Help humor about time management”

Medicine

Aleksandr Kavokin, MD, PhD presents Colon Cancer Quiz posted at RDoctor Medical Portal, saying, “colon cancer quiz”

aparna presents Breakfast is essential for good health posted at Beauty & Personality Grooming.

News

Michael Emilio presents Rock Singer Nick Hexum from 311 is Listing His Island in Key West for $10 Million posted at MichaelEmilio.com, saying, “Thanks for considering!”

Personal

Mama Duck presents The cookie monster is appeased….– posted at Lil Duck Duck.

Philosophy

Francois Tremblay presents The Grand Conspiracy. Part 1/2 posted at Francois Tremblay.

Politics

Bill Adams presents World ends in Michigan. Minorities, students to benefit most. posted at World Ends in Michigan / Minorities, Students to Benefit Most, saying, “The end of affirmative action is the beginning of a better world. California’s experience, though widely misrepresented, shows the way.”

James Poindexter presents Requiem for Conservatism posted at Southern Pundit, saying, “If the GOP wants to win elections, some stuff is going to have to change.”

John Bambenek presents Preemptive Strike: Bush Firing Rumsfeld is Heading Off Congressional Harassment posted at Part-Time Pundit, saying, “Rumsfeld resigned in the aftermath of the election, suggesting that Democrats have the upper hand over the Iraq policy. Here’s why it was a smart move by Bush to preempt Democratic harassment.”

Watcher presents Dejection 2006 posted at Watcher of Weasels.

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carnival of the vanities using our carnival submission form.
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Living the Dream!

I just fainted.

Winston-Salem Journal: Winston-Salem Journal | UNC, Davis have deal: Three sources say he’ll be Tar Heels’ next football coach.

News & Observer: Davis, Heels deal not done yet

Charlotte Observer: Davis, Heels to continue negotiations.

Carolina Blue and Inside Carolina continue to say it’s a done deal. Furthermore, both are suggesting that Mike Paulus is reconfirming his commitment to UNC and Greg Little is set to announce for UNC over Notre Dame today. If true, that seems to suggest that UNC has indeed hired a coach.

More:

Durham Herald-Sun: Butch on board? Reports conflict

Fayetteville Observer: UNC not ready to celebrate Davis yet

Fayetteville Observer: Still no word on Davis deal

And the most insightful look at the whole thing from the place I should’ve looked first: David Glenn’s ACC Journal. Regarding Butch Davis…

Update: I am not a member at InsideCarolina.com, but they have a headline reporting that WR Greg Little has chosen Notre Dame over UNC. No real surprise there except to some individuals on the CarolinaBlue.com message boards!

CarolinaBlue.com – Reports: UNC, Davis come to agreement.

Now we just have to see who’ll be coaching at NC State next year.

More on the reported agreement between UNC and Davis:

Winston-Salem Journal: Sources say that UNC has hired Davis as football coach.

Charlotte Observer: Agent: Reports that Davis signed to coach at UNC inaccurate.

ESPN.com: Source: Davis nearing deal to coach North Carolina.

SI.com: Report: North Carolina hires Davis.

InsideCarolina.com: Heels Hire Butch Davis