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    Work, Church, and Life Is Cutting Into My Blogstyle

    August 3, 2006 - By 

    Work has been crazy-busy the last few weeks. Actually, now that I really think about it, it’s been crazy-busy for so long, I can’t remember what it’s like to have a few moments of peace between calls. It was bad enough early in the spring. and then with trips to check on Mom and then when she passed away, there was so much upheaval and upset and wackety-do-dah that I sort of forgot what it was like to be able to have a normal day without feeling like a phone-shaped gun was being held to my head all day. At…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Pocket Bikes Must Die!

    August 3, 2006 - By 

    Helmets off to Joey the Accordion Guy, who offered this impressive graphic illustrating the latest stupid craze:     Pocket bikes. Tiny little miniature road racers, styled like Sabre or Samurai-styleroad rocketsthat are ridden by teens, and most disturbingly, fully grown adults, in the mistaken belief that riding a high stylin’motorizedchihuahua will make them look cool and get them hot chicks.   Or, not so much.   But it might get you a ticket, because they’re illegal for street riding in many places, including my little characterless burbclave. Luckily for us, one of the neighborhood kids got one, so now…

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    The Newest Age of Man: The Melt Age

    July 31, 2006 - By 

    I read something online recently about how “climate change” and “global warming” just don’t cut it as sufficiently frightening metaphors for the rising sea levels, melting ice caps and glacierrs, unusually hotweather in summer, unusually mild weather in winter, alternating deluges and droughts depending on which part of the country you live in, and unusuallydevastating seasonal storms. As in, “hello, Katrina and Rita.” It made me wonder what better handle there might be for all of this weather-related irregularities. So I started thinking about all the different eras we humans have named in our journey from the past to the…

  • Flickr - Moblog - Uncategorical Weirdness

    The Boys In Red, White, and Blue

    July 30, 2006 - By 

    Did these guys call each other before they got dressed for their big day out going to Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry? Here they are, purchasing transit cards, which probably means they’re tourists. Their caps are all perfect fits for their perfectly round heads – they looked like a set of bobbleheads that decided to go on a spree. I’d like to know why the guy onthe far left broke the fashion rules and isn’t wearing a white shirt though. He’s too matchy! And yes, I’ll probably regret trying to use yet another beta upgrade of ecto, because every…

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    Leonardo

    July 29, 2006 - By 

    I started a really, really long post about our visit to the Museum of Science and Industry‘s Leonardo da Vinci exhibit, but then ecto and I had a parting of the ways and my post got totally messed up. I had a ton of links that were all formatted incorrectly, and then my attempts to add text got formatted all wrong because ecto does not play well if you switch between “Rich View” formatting and “HTML View” formatting. Plus, the backspace key behaves oddly in ecto, and I over-deleted a bunch of critical text. Bad, bad things happen. For instance,…