I finally ate at the Southern Kitchen in New Market VA. It's just off of I-81 in the middle of VA and it's GOOD. The best thing I had there was their "peanut soup". Imagine a sufrito w/ smashed up boiled peanuts... It's crazy good.

--timball

Southern Kitchen @ HollyEats.com

Three years before Ray Kroc began franchising McDonald’s, Wright’s Dairy Rite of Staunton, Virginia, started serving Superburgers. Two beef patties with cheese and lettuce, topped with special sauce and layered in a triple-decker bun, this monumental hamburger is still served as it was in 1952 – by car hops at the window of your vehicle in a car slip at the side of the restaurant. Wright’s added a dining room in 1989, so it is possible to eat inside, where décor includes a handsome Wurlitzer juke box (with compact discs rather than 45s) and vintage Wright’s menus from the 1950s and 1960s; but for us, the joy of this place is in-car dining.

If really, really hungry, we forgo the Superburger for a Monsterburger. That is one-half pound of beef barely sandwiched in a bun, available in a basket, with French fries or, better yet, with Wright’s homemade onion rings. To drink with this festive heap of food, one needs a shake. At Wright’s, milk shakes are the real thing, available in chocolate, strawberry, or vanilla, as well as with real bananas or strawberries (mmmm!), and with or without malted milk for additional richness. While on the subject of dairy products, we should also note that this place knows how to make a fine banana split, a float (a big blob of ice cream set adrift in the soda pop of your choice), and a flurry (candy and/or cookies blended into soft-serve ice cream).

Wright’s serves three meals a day, and the menu goes well beyond burgers. There are regular and foot-long hot dogs, pork barbecue on a bun, sandwich baskets with potato chips and a pickle, whole submarines, hearty chili with beans, and even some recently added low-fat wraps. In addition to milk shakes and soda pop, the beverage list includes that drink known to connoisseurs of Dixie mixology as the champagne of the South – pre-sweetened ice tea, served in cups that range up to one-quart size.

Yet another place that I ate at off of I-81. The malted milkshakes (yes I hate ice cream, but I do love a good malted) and the superburger were awesome. I'll definitely be hitting this place again.

--timball

Wright's Dairy Rite - Staunton, VA

Located in historic washington grove maryland , Hershey's restaurant makes some of the best fried chicken I've ever eaten. While rattle was in town we went to this local bar/restaurant not once, nor twice, but thrice! At $12 for half a fried chicken with two sides (rattle says the mac&cheese is great) and ~ $5 for cocktails it's a great way to spend some time in gaithersburg md. Be sure to ask for Bob's special maryland style bloody mary (the secret is some old bay).

I'll bet I post a tabblo w/ some pix RSN.

--timball

Hersheys Restaurant

Jailtime.org: Virtual filesystems for Xen

This site provides a variety of downloads and howto’s to facilitate use of the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor. Xen allows you to run multiple operating systems on a single piece of physical hardware. Here you will find Linux distributions that can run as Xen guests out of the box, obviating the need to create your own custom filesystems. The filesystems on this site have already been tweaked to deal with Xen’s idiosyncracies, and are also designed to be lightweight and minimally divergent from the original distribution.

Lazy man's quick and dirty way to setup some stripped down xen installs.

--timball

Start [Jailtime.org - Downloadable Images for Xen]

Welcome to The Bengies Drive-In Theatre!
We would like to welcome you to our 52nd season of movies under the stars. The Bengies Drive-In Theatre features the BIGGEST movie theatre screen in the USA (measuring 52 feet high and 120 feet wide. 6,240sqft) The Bengies Drive-In Theatre features TriPPPle features on almost every Friday and Saturday night, cartoons, vintage trailers and intermissions clips, in-car heaters and dusk till dawn shows. Please note that a radio is required to listen to the movies and you'll be glad you have one because our state-of-the-art FM broadcast system will impress you. AM broadcast is provided as well for your convenience.

One of the last drive-ins in the state of MD. With the soft-top down, I'm totally gonna feel up some chick in the back seat. Now I just need to get a convertible and a chick.

--timball

Bengies Drive-In Theatre

June 7th 2007

Some shots from the Center for American Progress's annual progressive dinner. I am particularly proud of the shot that's red, white, and blue.

--timball

CAP Progressive Dinner '07

"I write at the direction of the President to advise and inform you that the President has decided to assert executive privilege and therefore the White House will not be making any production in response to these subpoenas for documents,"

oversight is overrated

--timball

Bush Won't Supply Subpoenaed Documents - washingtonpost.com

Dick Cheney is the most influential and powerful man ever to hold the office of vice president. This series examines Cheney's largely hidden and little-understood role in crafting policies for the War on Terror, the economy and the environment.
Today: Part 1
Working in the Background

A master of bureaucracy and detail, Cheney exerts most of his influence out of public view.
Monday: Part 2
Wars and Interrogations

Convinced that the “war on terror” required “robust interrogations” of captured suspects, Dick Cheney pressed the Bush administration to carve out exceptions to the Geneva Conventions.

Tuesday: Part 3
Dominating Budget Decisions

Working behind the scenes, Dick Cheney has made himself the dominant voice on tax and spending policy, outmaneuvering rivals for the president’s ear.
Wednesday: Part 4
Environmental Policy

Dick Cheney steered some of the Bush administration’s most important environmental decisions — easing air pollution controls, opening public parks to snowmobiles and diverting river water from threatened salmon.

"Angler" is VP Cheney's SS code name. The wapo is gonna do a 4 day expose on the OVP. Should be required reading.

--timball

Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency | washingtonpost.com

The House Oversight Committee is demanding that Vice President Cheney explain himself. Is his office part of the executive branch? Part of the legislative branch? Or is Cheney suggesting that as far as federal rules are concerned, his office essentially doesn't exist?

The issue at hand is Cheney's insistence that his office is exempt from an executive order issued by President Bush in 2003 requiring all federal agencies or "any other entity within the executive branch that comes into the possession of classified information" to report annually on its activities regarding the classification, safeguarding and declassification of national security information.

As Mark Silva reported in the Chicago Tribune in April 2006, Cheney's office maintains that its dual executive and legislative duties (the vice president also serves as president of the Senate) make it uniquely exempt from such rules.

Henry Waxman, the Democratic chairman of the Oversight Committee, begs to differ, and wrote a letter to Cheney this morning saying so.

The argument is funny, but clearly bogus. The EO doesn't make any special exceptions for the OVP... But if the OVP isn't part of the executive branch how come the OVP uses the WH's webserver? http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/

--timball

Cheney: Neither Here Nor There? - washingtonpost.com

Sysprof is a sampling CPU profiler for Linux that uses a kernel module to profile the entire system, not just a single application. Sysprof handles shared libraries and applications do not need to be recompiled. In fact they don't even have to be restarted.

Just insert the kernel module and start sysprof.

This + oprofile and opannotate are possibly the neatest tools I've found to figure out what's going on w/ codey-McSlowy.

--timball

Sysprof - A System-wide Linux Profiler