I made some chicken parmagiana for the first time…I’ve done veal before, but never correctly. This came out pretty good, if I do say so myself. I paired it with my favorite table wine (Concha y Toro Frontera Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot).
For future reference:
Chicken breasts or tenderloins (I used the latter)
Eggs (beaten and salted)
Bread crumbs
Marinara or spaghetti [...]

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Today is the solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God. This title, Mother of God, is important to all Christians to recall, because of what it tells us about Christ. Many Protestants and Evangelicals are uncomfortable with this title. I think this is because they misunderstand its background and importance. While we ought to give [...]

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Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback, with real sugar, are back for a limited time. The packaging this time is more distinct, making it easier to spot.

If your local grocer doesn’t carry it, ask him to do so, won’t you?

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Do-gooders are a tiresome lot, and their knack for overlooking the consequences of their initiatives makes them even more irritating.
It’s January 1st, so many new laws go into effect around the country. In Oregon, we have a number of new laws, and two in particular which I think ought not to have been enacted.
One law [...]

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The news media, racing blogosphere and some drivers and crew chiefs have just about gone mad wringing their hands over Sunday’s race at Talladega, at the end of which Carl Edwards’ car was nearly flung into the stands. Carl and the other driver involved in the wreck, Ryan Newman, are OK, but some fans [...]

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Red Scare

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Fr. Gerhard Wagner, who had been appointed to auxiliary bishop of Linz, has asked Pope Benedict XVI to withdraw his appointment in the face of hysterical opposition by liberals in the diocese. Sadly, the Holy Father has accepted his resignation.
For those unfamiliar with this diocese, it is quite possibly the least orthodox diocese in Europe, [...]

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Mark Steyn, in discussing the laughable expectations the West has for the Islamic world, hits on a point which is really something about which we need to have a conversation about as a civilization.
We are gradually losing our Western identity, and losing the support of those who really ought to support it, largely because we [...]

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OK…this is another one of those things that I’m posting in case anyone else is trying to do this, and can’t find information on how to do so. After extensive Googling, it appears there was one German guy looking for an answer to this, but never received one.
What I was trying to do was install [...]

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OK…this is a bit different from what I usually post here, but I want to put this somewhere in case anyone else is ever trying to figure this out.
After fighting with Nagios distributed monitoring off and on for months, I have concluded that the submit_check_result_via_nsca script is just broken. It is sending the service state [...]

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