Archive for January, 2007
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
Abandoned
We have been abandoned. Our human goes off at the crack of dawn. She’s been outside of the house three evenings in a row. She comes in smelling of livestock of all things. Last night she smelled of beer. She says it will come to an end today. All we have to say is that [...]
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
The Best Camera
I’ve always maintained that the best camera for the job is the one you have in your hand. I haven’t taken my Canon 10D with me this week because I didn’t want to get distracted from being with my friends. Today, I was sitting by myself for awhile to film A. riding while M. was [...]
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
The Comfort of Old Friends
For some time now I’ve known I needed to take two or three days off from work and unwind but I’ve been holding out for this week at the stock show when I could spend time with my friend and her daughter. I am awful . . . emphasize awful . . . about keeping [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Stock Show Sunday
Serious blogging was set aside today for breakfast at the stock show with my friends Missy J. and SerenityVeritas — followed by a wonderful evening at the stock show catching up with my friend M.H. and her daughter. I’m headed back down in the morning at some ungodly hour of the day. We’ve worked through [...]
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Saturday, January 27th, 2007
When Technology Scares the . . . Out of You
Last night I should have had a screaming techno geek melt down. I wanted to. Several pieces of software were conspiring to make me literally sick at my stomach. But instead I sat calmly in my chair while R. watched Law & Order and figured it out. Have I achieved some new zen level of [...]
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
On Paranormal Direct – Ghost Photos: Real or Fake?
The ForteanTimes article “Photographing Phantoms” offers a good jumping off point for an examination of the state of the debate on photographing the paranormal. Can it be done? Are people just being fooled by dust spots? Do we see what we want to see?
(Click here to read the article.)
Technorati Tags: paranormal
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
Hillary Clinton and Web 2.0
Just a little something that came through my RSS reader that would seem to bolster my opinion of the Senator from New York’s degree of web savvy (or that of her web team.) See: Hillary Clinton and Web 2 0 from Webpronews.com.
(Click here for my earlier post.)
Update: If you’re iffy on the whole Web 2.0 [...]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
A Quick Clarification
The Google ads that appear in the sidebar of this site are contextual and generated automatically according to what I have written. Since I posted three reviews of the websites of both Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls, some political ads have begun to appear in the sidebar. Just to clarify, I am not publicly supporting [...]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Don to Earth
This afternoon I stumbled on to a wonderful blog, Don To Earth. This gentleman is 93-years-old and beautifully articulate and witty. I read several entries aloud to R. and we agreed how much we’d like it if he lived close enough to have dinner with us from time to time. Fabulous stuff, and do read [...]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Now Sharing Google Reader Items
Although my initial reaction to RSS readers the last time I gave them a look — maybe a year or so ago — was tepid at best, I have become a dedicated user of Google Reader in the last month. I’ve been making a studied effort over the last few weeks to really examine my [...]
