I’ve added some more images from last week’s trip to my gallery and now that takes us up through the end of the festival weekend. The actual festive activities start with this photo; I took a bunch of pictures of the mostly-inactive revamped fountain before there were actually people at the site. This time I tried to take more images of people and interesting things rather than just pictures of static performances. Take a one man band, a bunch of guys in Utilikilts, some dancing girls, some singing groups, and an incredible array of fascinating characters and long-lost friends, and…
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Yeah, I’m still milking that Episode III “worst line” joke. Deal. 😉 In my job as a corporate travel deranger, I often have to listen to airline hold music and “infotainment.” In years past (and in another lifetime and job entirely) I used to have to call international and domestic airlines a LOT more often, and I got to be something of a connoisseur of the stuff you have to listen to while waiting to talk to someone at an airline. I was reminded of this yesterday on my first day back at the office after vacation. Why? Because Southwest…
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My husband David let me know that he’s had another interview request from an industry magazine (he’s got fairly high visibility in his admittedly specialized field) and so he’ll be seeing his name in print again sometime in the next few months. They’re interested in talking to him about his blog, which occasionally touches on his professional interests and on the computing community discussion lists and archives he hosts, moderates, and generally rides herd on. My hubby, the go-to guy: I’m so proud, even though the interviews end up in obscure technical magazines you’ve never heard of. His parents love…
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BotGdn18apr013 Original upload: GinnyRED57. Okay, there was actually something wrong with my main index template, which I tracked down to a bad “div clearer” format that stupid IE handled incorrectly and smart Firefox handled correctly, meaning that the page looked fine in IE and like warmed over dogs-dinner in Firefox. This was forcing the top blog entry to streeeeeetch to the bottom of both columns before the next post could display. Dumb. Me. Okay, now try again with Flickr…oh, and this photo was taken at the Botanic Garden this year.
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Anybody reading this who’s not a spammer knows I’m not what you call a “consistent,” or “focused,” or even a particularly “interesting” blogger. I have my same few dead ponies I enthusiastically beat around and around the blogular racetrack. Yaaaargh. My husband David is not alone in being pretty bored with endless “Amazing Race” gushfests; now that TAR7 has run its “halfway round the world and back again” course I won’t have quite so much easy found blogfodder to post. Hmmm. Hmmmity hummity hmmm. That’s a lot of thumb-twiddling on the horizon unless I get cracking, eh?
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Because Father Ted used it as an example in a recent sermon at Holy Moly, I’ve been wanting to see Chocolat again, and that’s a bit dangerous. Even more since I’ve been reading French Women Don’t Get Fat and getting a double dose of passion for chocolate, eating well, and living life to the fullest. It’s an interesting premise – eat as the French do, enjoy food, and still avoid getting fat. However, it’s pretty unworkable in practice here in the States, as much of it depends on daily walks to the nearest fresh farmer’s market, seasonal foods in great…
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It’s the end of another weekend, and in spite of my usual practice, it was actually a productive one, and I’m pretty happy about that. I’m just not that motivated (or organized) a person as a general rule, but now and then even I can actually get something done around here. Yesterday was one of the exceptions to the Rule of Saturday; normally, I spend the first few hours of the first morning of the weekend in bed, listening to NPR’s Saturday Edition, and then to Car Talk, and then to WWDTM. Possibly also to “Whaddya Know.” By then, it’s…
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A followup to the story of Captain MeLinda Morton, a Lutheran chaplain at the Air Force Academy; she had complained about excessive evangelical influence and an opressive religious atmosphere there. As she predicted, she’s “toast.” And she’s being redeployed to Okinawa, surely a comedown from being chief of the chaplain unit at the Academy: Air Force Removes Chaplain From Post>After several “reasonably tense” days among the academy chaplains, Morton said, she received an e-mail on May 4 from Whittington. It said a new executive officer would be named, effective immediately. Fox, the academy spokesman, said this change was made because…
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Our Preziduhnt is very busy. He leads the Free World. He is very smart. He reads books. He likes to read them to little children. He likes to ride bikes. Ride, ride, ride Mr. Preziduhnt! No one will bother him during your nice bike ride. They know how busy and smart and fit to lead the Free World he is. They won’t bother you during naptime, either Red Alert! Where’s the Captain?
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Colorado Springs is a very, very, very religious place, and the Air Force Academy is a little too cozy with the leadership of Focus on the Family, the Navigators (knew one in college… very scary) and the Officer’s Christian Fellowship. The academy had that little rape problem a while back, and now apparently they have a little religious intolerance problem, too. When a recent tolerance program was shown to a ranking officer, he responded “Why is it that the Christians never win?” A study conducted by the Yale Divinity School (another hotbed of mainline, non-evangelical, non-fundamentalist theological error) noted the…