These are my favorite trees. My parents have two in their yard now.
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When I was growing up we used to call this “The White House” because it was, well, white, and Jimmy Carter lived there. Obviously not the former president …
My mom told me tonight while we were eating that the fire department is going to be burning it down in a training exercise soon, so I figured I’d better take some photos of it while I had the chance. I always liked it … I’m a fan of this era of farm houses.
There have been way too many cool old farmhouses around where I grew up that have been left to decay and are either falling down or have been torn down in the last few years.
I uploaded some of my better photos from the Raymondville, TX trip last year.
Then I decided to check my account and see how many more photos I could upload this month, thinking I might upload some of Autumn, or maybe some from Baton Rouge.
Yes, yes. I see.
No, I’m not dead. Yes, I know it’s been over a month since I posted anything worthwhile. Hopefully that will change.
I am currently in the midst of making some major decisions about the direction of my business, so that has been occupying my time. I’m also now in charge of audio and computer stuff at church, which took an immense bite out of my time because I had to figure out on my own how all the sound stuff at church worked together because nobody else knew everything about the system. Finally, I’ve been trying to spent more time with my wife and daughter despite all of the above and all my other commitments. Fun times …
This month I did manage to find my way onto television. The Hamilton County Libertarian Party staged its annual tax protest here in town, and I got interviewed since I’m now the party chair. I didn’t do so hot on camera, but I got a small sound bite (and a quote on their web site) nontheless. It’s not what I would have preferred they quoted … but oh well.
On to basic complaining …
Yesterday on the radio I heard a GWB sound bite. It went something like “We’re not in a recession … [pregnant pause] … it’s just a slowdown.”
Um, George … I think “recession” and “slowdown” essentially mean the same thing. What you said is about as logical as saying “I don’t drive a car … I drive an automobile.” Or “We’re no sailing the ocean … we’re sailing the sea.”
Next gripe … there are advertisements on WGOW for the “First Annual Southside Blues Festival.” People, people … don’t call the first ANYTHING the “first annual (fill in blank).” You’ll just look stupid if the whole endeavor goes toes up and you don’t have a second one … and of course having the event for multiple subsequent years is a qualification for something to be “annual.” MAYBE after the first year you can call the next one the “Second Annual _______” but I’d wait until the third year.
It reminds me of when one of my former churches held their “first annual missions conference and dinner” … there was no “second annual missions conference and dinner.” Or, in another vein, it reminds me of when I was on the way to the Outer Banks in 1998 and saw a sign for a restaurant that was “famous since 1996.”
That being said, I hope the blues festival is a great success and we do have it regularly. I hope to be there … it sounds like it’s going to be good.
It’s been a really, really long Monday. So long that it’s lasted until about 3 a.m. on Tuesday. I even almost went to bed, and realized I still had something to do yet. Whew.
When you have this kind of day, you need some humor. Whenever I find I need some humor, I go a YouTube and find a NewsRadio clip.
I think that’s my second favorite clip, after the “Super Karate Monkey Death Car” clip …
My brother and I have had an ongoing conversation about how it sometimes appears that news organizations pick the worst possible photo of an individual to use for a story.
The photo of Eliot Spitzer utilized by many news outlets after he announced his resignation is a prime example. I borrowed this one from a Christian Science Monitor article:
If he sucks in his bottom lip much more he’ll swallow his chin.
I think that’s probably the best example in recent memory, save the Orange County Sheriff’s Department booking photo of Lisa Nowak after her little kerfuffle with her lover-boy’s other girlfriend:
That, my friends, is a priceless image if there ever was one.
I found this piece of mail in my mailbox a few days ago:
Besides being addressed to “Four-Ight-Four Sftwr Works” … I was amused at the idea of “keep[ing] [my] business in the black” while charging stuff to a credit card.
Is it any surprise that our nation is in serious economic trouble when a credit card company can send out something like this (presumably with some modicum of straight-facedness)?
Last night I downloaded the IE8 Beta 1 release and started playing with it. I cloned one of my XP Pro virtual machines and installed it on that so that I still had machines for IE6 & IE7.
For the love of all things good, why haven’t you guys fixed that gawdawfuluglyhorrendous interface?
At least you’re making strides towards being seriously standards compliant.
Have I ever mentioned that I like the Market Street Bridge? I have? Oh, sorry …
So, I’ve been thinking about picking up some noise cancelling headphones since I work from time to time in coffee shops and other places that aren’t necessarily too quiet. I decided to look at some reviews of some of the less-expensive models to see if they were at all effective.
I found the following statement in a review of one particular model:
… there was absolutely no ambiant noise reduction at all if the NC was in “off” mode.
Hmmm … you think?
No wonder the bulk of our nation votes Republican or Democrat.
I mean … is the person in question so mind-numblingly stupid that they would make statements like the following?
… my TV won’t show any channel at all, cable or broadcast, if I have the power turned off!!!
My car won’t move with the ignition off!!!
I tried to bake a cake with my oven off to save energy, and even after 48 hours it still wasn’t done!!!
When I close my eyes I can’t see any more!!!
I hope not, but expecting the headphones to cancel noise with the noise cancellation circuitry turned off … well, it boggles the mind.
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