tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88745474591062218142011-04-21T17:16:06.393-05:00<i>Finally, the Tao that <b>can</b> be told...</i>Tom Accuostihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07005315193581153959noreply@blogger.comBlogger641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874547459106221814.post-42931172457017322132010-05-29T13:19:00.001-05:002010-05-29T13:19:31.296-05:00

The cake is a lie... Not!

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The women have decided to go wheat-free for Lent. Let's see how a month me dieting works out.

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Zombie hunter training class needs some unusual school supplies.

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A traditional Valentine Day steak on the grill.

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The original Burger King.

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Not on my diet.

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So much corn, so little butter.

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Birthday at Noble sushi. Not ours, though,

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Trying to take off the weight I gained on my last diet.

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Which one is the dumb, hairy animal?

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From a Fox News story:300 Irate Chinese Taxi Drivers on Strike Smash Cars, Demand Crackdown on Unlicensed Cabs Sunday, November 30, 2008 BEIJING — About 300 taxi drivers went on strike in a southern Chinese city, smashing cars and demanding a crackdown on unlicensed taxis in the latest protest against illegal taxi competition in China. Hundreds of cab drivers

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Eat

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From Fox News: Dave Freeman, co-author of "100 Things to Do Before You Die," a travel guide and ode to odd adventures that inspired readers and imitators, died after hitting his head in a fall at his home. He was 47. Freeman died Aug. 17 after the fall at his Venice home, his father, Roy Freeman, told the Los Angeles Times on Monday. An advertising agency executive, Freeman co-wrote the 1999

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I'm totally for this! Let's get the write-in vote started.You can see more about VW Charles' groundswell support on the news website.He's got my vote! After all, why choose the lesser of two evils?

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Once again we picked Jenn up from overnight camp at Silver Lake and stopped at Kent Falls for a picnic. This was the most crowded I'd ever seen it, but it was a nice day - mid-80s and not too humid. The falls we lower than I would have expected, considering the rain we've had last month, but the water was cold and fairly clean.Kent Falls 2008As usual, click the picture to see the album.

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Scott Adams is one of the few people that I've met who have publicly professed this particular sentiment about certain amusement parks: One day we went to something called a "water park." I had never been to such a thing and was excited about the prospect of standing in line for 45 minutes in the sweltering heat for an opportunity to spend 12 seconds sliding down a watery tube while clutching my

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Is she rubbing my rooster in public?

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Our new favorite restaurant.

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The last workout session! So long, Neal, and thanks for being a great inspiration.

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One of the things that keeps it interesting in New England is the weather. An ice storm just knocked out our power for the whole morning.

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What to do with leftover ice sculptures...

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A diaper cake for a baby shower? Who the hell thinks up this stuff, anyway?This represents about $150 worth of diapers and other related baby stuff that women coo over. Oh, and about 2 hours worth of design and construction work.

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Chicken Pie 2007And neither does good, stick-to-your ribs comfort food.Once again, the first Saturday in November finds Linda and I elbow deep in food as the First Congregational Church has their annual Chicken Pie Scholarship Dinner. I wrote about this last year, and it was pretty much the same thing. A lot of work in preparation and cleanup. We served about 160 dinners and raised about $1,200

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Could there be any more quintessential cultural experience of a New England autumn than leaf peeping? That's the colloquialism for taking a long, slow drive on back roads to look at the changing scenery. It's long and slow because you're behind a couple of dozen lost New Yorkers who managed to find their way out of the city and can't get back until they see a sign for a parkway.The answer, of

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I knew that I would be expected to say a few words at the anniversary party. I spent some time thinking about what to say; should I be funny? Pithy? Should I look for quotes from famous people like Bacall and Bogart? Read a poem? Present a Powerpoint slide show?While I was thinking about it, I happened to be talking to a young man who did some landscaping and handyman work around their house. We

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The remaining surviving members of the Accuosti anniversary reunion party attacking an unsuspecting herd of Belgian waffles at brunch the next morning. The traditional method of silently surrounding the waffles and then ritually drenching them in fruit syrup and whipped cream has taken many Belgian waffles out of the gene pool over the years.Nature - red in tooth and claw. No, it's not pretty,

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This is the historic Longwood Country Inn at the edge of scenic Woodbury, Connecticut. Quite literally on the edge, in fact, as fifty feet to the left of this picture on Rte 67 is the border of Southbury.We're having a family reunion of sorts as my parents celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. Clicking the picture will take you to the Picasa online photo album.We can't recommend the Longwood

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3 generations of the Accuosti family gather for breakfast at the crack of, er, nine. Most of us got here last night, and some more family will be coming in later on today before the party starts at 6:00 pm here at the Longwood Inn. Signs posted on the doors informed us that breakfast would be served between the un-Godly hours of 8:00 and 9:15 am. About 9:10 most of the family started sauntering

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Three months ago when I started at Horizon's Gym I could barely do situps on a flat surface.Each week, we'd move it up a bit or add some weight.At my last session, the crunch board had been moved up for someone who was doing some serious work. I asked to leave it there. Why? 'cos it was set to "11," of course.It hurt, but I managed.Okay, doing situps at a steep angle isn't a skill one needs to

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Saturday morning, September 22.10 am.I get on the treadmill and suddenly it all comes together for me. I just start running and don't stop.2.04 miles in 20 minutes. That's 6.12 mph.I made it to the Gold board!I can has cardio, indeed!

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I really thought that I was going to hit the 2.0 mile mark today. But I did make sure to warm up by jogging for several minutes beforehand on the treadmill and stretching a bit. I also tried to keep the intervals closer together; instead of jumping from 5.0 to 5.5, I just upped it .3 or so at a time, and pushed a bit every 30 seconds instead of waiting for the 1 minute mark.

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I don't know how runners do this all the time. 20 minutes and I still didn't break the 2 mile mark.

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Small gains, but I'll take anything at this point. Notice that Linda made 1.41 - she just started the treadmill last week.

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A portion of the 600 hamburgers and hot dogs we grill up for the Rally Day picnic. My t-shirt spells PETA: People for the Eating of Tasty Animals.

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Small gains, but now I'm totally determined to hit 2.0 by the end of September. If my knees, joints, and lungs don't gang up on me.

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From Fox News this morning.Submitted here without comment, mainly because I can't post a video of my head shaking in disgust.=============Colorado Springs School Bans Tag on Playground, Citing Conflicts Thursday, August 30, 2007 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased

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Okay, it's not a huge breakout move, but I'll take it.

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It's got to be the new Mizuno Wave Riders. After 2 weeks of painful running with no gains in speed or distance, I flew past the old record.

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Yes, I did go to see The Simpson's Movie. Why do you ask?More to the point, one of my friends turned me onto www.simpsonizeme.com, a marketing site with a Simpsons and Burger King (Home of the Whopper) tie-in. You upload a picture and the "simpsonizer" scans it for facial characteristics and creates a Simpsonized likeness. I suspect that instead of creating something, it matches your pic up to

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One of the only drawbridges left in Connecticut.

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This is a shot of the Charles W. Morgan Joseph Conrad, apparently masquerading as the Charles W. Morgan.

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More vacation, this time on the opposite side of the state.

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Kent Falls State ParkSomewhere in the Northwest Corner of ConnecticutPicked up the sprog and her friend from camp, where they'd been all week. It was raining like crazy earlier, but it cleared up enough to stop on Rt. 7 and have a picnic lunch.A shot from halfway up the falls.I just got home, and can see that sometimes the phone just ain't a camera.

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I totally blew away the 1.69 from the other day.Problem is, I get more and more tired out after each session. When the hell do I start feeling better, feeling all that energy that they keep telling me that I'm supposed to having?

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This was from Saturday morning. Somehow, I always feel "lighter" on the weekend, and now that I'm on vacation, everything seems a little bit easier. Saturday marks the end of three straight weeks in the "Body for Life" program. Normally they want you to go for 12 weeks, but I've only got the 8 weeks of July and August. I'm seriously considering, though, continuing this for another four, through

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From Movable Jewel comes part of the secret to Bro. Don's "Top Secret" ribs: "It starts the day before with selecting the best meat I can find." From Ashida Kim's "Zen Koans:" 31. Everything Is Best When Banzan was walking through a market he overheard a conversation between a butcher and his customer. "Give me the best piece of meat you have," said the customer. "Everything in my

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How could I not mention the headline from this afternoon's Hartford Business Journal?"Bathroom causes evacuation"I'm sure that there is a causal relationship, but still...Actually, the article refers to a smoke alarm in the Hartford State House being triggered and causing employees to leave the building.Still, the 12 year old in me is having a giggle fit.

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Getting tagged with a blog meme is a love/hate thing. On one hand, since most of them are left-over teenager "Truth or Dare" games, they're a PITA. On the other hand, if nobody ever tags you, then you start to feel left out. Proof that some of us never seem to leave junior high school. Anyway, Chris Garlington over at my new blog discovery (and not un-ironically named) "Death by Children" got

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Three times a week I ask myself this question:"What? I've been running my butt off for the last twenty minutes, and I've only gone a mile and a half?"Ok, not record breaking, but pretty good for a beginner.I've been doing this diet and resistance training for the last two weeks, and ever other day is a cardio workout. 20 minutes of running on a treadmill, first slow, then more quickly, then fast,

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Okay, the presidential elections are still well over a year away, and already I'm sick of the campaigning. I'm not, however, sick of the parodies. Let the send-ups begin!

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For some reason known only to the gods of teh int3rw3bz, one of the most consistently popular blogs on Wordpress is a place where people send in terminally cute pictures of cats (they allow token other animals, but it's mainly a feline blog) that have been "capped" - tagged with sickeningly cutesy captions. The blog has spawned several parodies, and I can envision a time in the not-too-distant

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I know - where's Part 1, right? Briefly, I flew down to the Orlando area where my wife and her family were having a reunion of sorts. I hung around trying to relax amidst the various family and friends who stopped in, left, came back, stayed for dinner, slept over, left, and returned with others.People from large families know what I'm talking about. However, I'm from a small family, so this was

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Just one of my friendly traveling companions on the Boeing 717 bound for Orlando. I asked him "Where's The Fire?" which is what I assumed was represented by his shirt. Apparently he didn't get the humor.Kids, huh?

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In one of those trade-offs that all married people know about, I offered to do some grocery shopping while my wife went off with our daughter to do some girly things. It was a Saturday. On Memorial Day weekend. I had the list with me, which meant at least an hour looking for items for our annual picnic. And true to form, when I got down near the end of the list, there it was: the mystery item.

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Un-effin'-believable.When I read the news blurb the other day, it seemed so far-fetched that I figured there had to be a mistake. Or that the news was not reporting all of it, and there was some "rest of the story" that would, in context, help everything to make sense.I was wrong.In case anyone missed it, in Murfreesboro, Tennesee a group of middle-school children on a class trip were suddenly

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There is an old Urban Legend that some people have particularly odd personal magnetic fields around them that cause breakdowns in mechanical wristwatches. When electronic watches became more popular in the 80s, I didn't hear it as often, and even less so in the 90s as the technology to produce small, cheap watches got better and better.My wife is one of those people, who, in a similar vein,

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Here's something that I ran across this morning:=======Silence can say more than a thousand words.This day shall unite us all about this unbelievable painful & shocking event and show some respect and love to those who lost their loved ones.On April 30th 2007, the Blogosphere will hold a One-Day Blog Silence in honor of the victims at Virginia Tech. More then 30 died at the US college

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They told me that I needed a stress test.Funny. I mean, did they think that I didn't know how to get stressed properly on my own?No, as it turns out, my blood pressure and cholesterol - genetically dispositioned to be high - had passed the point where we'd kept saying "We'll keep an eye on it for now." Since I'm also rapidly approaching the half-century mark, it was time to get a whole bunch of

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"'I am not your father,'" said Redwine. "'Rather call me brother. But I am not your brother. Rather call me son. But I am not your son. Rather call me a dog. But I am not your dog. Rather call me a flea on your dog. But I am not a flea. Rather call me a germ on a flea on your dog. As a germ on a flea on your dog, I am eager to serve you in any way I can, just as you are willing to serve God

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Some of my brother Freemasons have joined the online movement "Blog Against Theocracy," which ostensibly supports the ideals of maintaining the political firewall between church and state. I write "ostensibly" because in backtracking the various links, I've noticed a few things that gave me pause for reflection.For one thing, the logo proposed for the "Blogswarm Against Theocracy", designed by

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I wonder what Taoist Sudoku would look like?

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Blogging from my phone. Totally cool.Google is totally impressing the hell out of me.

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