Not much of a surprise now, is it?
Texas Gigs breaks the news.
German astronaut Thomas Reiter is hard at work at the International Space Station. After a rough day (night?) of walking in space and fixing robotic arms, he craves a little more than Tang and some freeze-dried fettuccine Alfredo. So he sends a message to Houston requesting some comfort food. NASA nutritionists put in a call to Germandeli.com, a huge all-things-German store and warehouse in Southlake. Kein problem! Last Monday a Progress cargo craft filled with Mestemacher whole grain breads, Salzstangen (pretzel sticks), Bahlsen and Hanuta cookies, Alstertor herring, Milka chocolate candy bars, Thomy & Hengstenberg mustards, and European liver pâté took off for the ISS. Now that’s service.
An aware, albeit self-interested, FrontBurnervian reminds us traffic will be a touch heavier than usual around Mockingbird Lane and Central Expressway tonight. Why? Because SMU plays UAB in a nationally televised football contest. Kickoff is at 6:30. Tickets are undoubtedly still available.
Why did LaTrese Adkins attack Michael Phillips’ White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001 last week? He thinks he might know why.
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A tech-savvy FrontBurnervian has some advice for sufferers:
I had the same problem with receiving my email last night, and the activation process was a total joke. Still is to my knowledge. I eventually worked around the issue by manually changing my mail software settings on my own. I get duplicates of emails, but at least I get them in my program without having to log on the server.
A glass-is-half-full FrontBurnervian writes,
The upside to Time Warner (if they operate in Dallas like they do in Austin) is that their billing department is just as slow. You can go for months without paying your bill and they won’t cut you off. I like to think that I am on a quarterly payment plan.
A disgruntled FrontBurnervian says Time Warner’s introduction to this market has been less than smooth:
Time Warner Cable is having a major meltdown during the transition in Dallas. Customers using Outlook Express or any other mail program are unable to send or receive E-mail. You have to log onto your server is order to do so. One of the problems is that during the activation program , Dallas isn’t listed as one of the locales (Houston, Austin, El Paso etc.) At 2:00 AM this morning I was 64th in waiting for a on-line help/chat. At 2:30 PM , I was 764th. Needless to say, they also aren’t answering their phones.
Yikes.
Your Dallas Mavericks will win the 2006-07 NBA title defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in six games. That’s according to the computer simulation of EA Sports’ NBA Live 07. Sweet.
When I posted last week about Dr. Latrese Adkins’ response to Michael Phillips’s book, I didn’t hear a thing for several days. Then I got an email from someone who recorded the lectures and put them on YouTube. Today, Michael Phillips himself answered, saying that he thought I had created a misimpression of his remarks. Here’s what he said:
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The Texas 17th Congressional district stretches from Burleson down through College Station. Democrat Chet Edwards is always considered vulnerable in such a conservative district (President Bush still garners a 51% approval rating from his neighbors around Crawford), but this year the political gods are with him. The latest polls show him leading Republican Van Taylor 55-38.
Or at least disgusted conservatives do. Here’s Rod Dreher’s take today on Red Ink Republicans.
Hansen would like to set the record straight on that awkward exchange between him and John McCaa. He’s heard from a bunch of people who thought it sounded like he was mad at McCaa. Not true. In an e-mail, Hansen writes:
Good audio maybe, but like all good stories, it’s a little bit off. They didn’t bring me in to do the World Series story. They were having John do it all along, just before sports. I was mad at some decisions being made behind the scenes. But I was NEVER upset at or with John.I have a tendancy to let my real emotions show through sometimes, and this was certainly one of those times. Childish on my part. But just for the record: there is no problem between John and me.
Two points worth considering about MegaFest, according to that article: 1) “During MegaFest 2004, at least 560,000 people attended the four-day event.” 2) “The MegaFest festival … will return to an undetermined location in 2008, said officials with Jakes’ ministry.”
If Phillip Jones, Mary Suhm, and Laura Miller haven’t already had a meeting with Jakes to figure out how to bring the event to the bishop’s hometown (I know he lives in Fort Worth now, whatever), then they should. Dammit.
A wiseacre FBvian writes:
Dare I say that religion makes for strange bedfellows?
But seriously folks:
As a man raised a lifelong Episcopalian, the church founded upon ‘live and let live’ and now cannibalizing its own: Viva la UCC!