Oh, sweet Jesus on a rowboat. Four or five weeks into this project, and someone has just asked me, "We get a printed document in addition to the training course, right?"

Dilbert was a documentary.

I just ate there a couple months ago and it was only OK. Same for Mesa Grill a couple years ago. Good restaurants in the city seem to go downhill at some point, although it seems like I never hear anything bad about Batali's. In that vein I just ate at the new place "Diner" and it was pretty awesome, actually.

Is there a chance the chef is branching out? Todd English's place Olive's went downhill once English became a name.

Oh, speaking of chefs, I noticed last night on my TiVo that no new Kitchen Confidentials are scheduled. Is this one of the shows that is off the air for the month, or has the rumor that the show was a goner--the rumor that was debunked--been rebunked? Does anyone know? I am *really* enjoying the show, so I expect it will be gone soon.

Signs the "housing bubble" may be bursting: [link]

The Big One isn't the long-predicted California earthquake or even a hurricane named Katrina. The genuine big one will arrive with a deafening pop, the sound of the real estate bubble bursting. In the past few years there have been plenty of false sightings, but now comes something truly ominous: a 13 percent drop in Manhattan real estate prices in a mere three-month period ending October 1.

As if that were not bad enough, more unsettling news of the same nature is reported in Boston, Washington and San Francisco, the places that have led the national upward zoom in real estate prices for the past several years.

Is this one of the shows that is off the air for the month

It's FOX. Most of their shows (OC, Prison Break, Arrested Development, etc) are off the air until this sport with the small balls is over.

Which reminds me -- more guys should be too embarassed to heft their testicles in public. I feel dirty whenever I see someone doing it¹, and they always seem to make eye contact with me before I run screaming.

¹: Except in a martial context, like because I just kicked them really hard, or they need to shift their cup.

Oh, speaking of chefs, I noticed last night on my TiVo that no new Kitchen Confidentials are scheduled. Is this one of the shows that is off the air for the month, or has the rumor that the show was a goner--the rumor that was debunked--been rebunked? Does anyone know? I am *really* enjoying the show, so I expect it will be gone soon.

Remember that the playoffs are underway. Game 5 of the two NLDS series, if necessary, are on Monday. Ditto Game 5 of the NLCS on the 17th.

re KC, it's Fox, and it's playoff season. The rumors haven't been rebunked, but all the hiatuses are starting to hit my TiVo hard. Curse you, television, for luring me back in only to go away!

no new Kitchen Confidentials are scheduled

I think it's a baseball thing.

Hi. I'm a slow poster.

massive x-post. No, we're not bitter.

Thanks ita, dw, amy, and aurelia. I'm relieved that's why I'm not seeing it. It's a cute, cute, cute, cute show.

Schools cannot teach Creationism alongside the theory of evolution (because of a Supreme Court ruling in the late '80s). So what did the publishers of a Creationism textbook do? Replace every mention of 'Creationism' with 'Intelligent Design.'

Kinda blows a hole in their "Intelligent Design is science, not Creationism" argument, huh?

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