If you missed the WVLT news around 6pm, you can catch me in this article which includes a link to the video.
Month: May 2007
No, I won’t buy her a teacher gift
Because a good teacher does not kill the spirit of a happy child.
Thank you Youtube!
This video is innocent. It’s your mind that’s not.
Rezoning continues…Feeder schools
I had a call today and had the pleasure of being interviewed by Gordon Boyd of WVLT regarding the next phase of Knox County Schools rezoning, feeder schools (ie. Middle and Elementary). If they use my footage, it will air between 5:30 and 6 today. I enjoyed the interview and afterwards thought many wonderful ideas and tidbits of information I could have shared and probably could have talked another 15 minutes. Of all this school rezoning stuff, I have really come to respect the quality of our local reporters. Regardless of station, they are professional, courteous, well informed, and very friendly. I am very unimpressed with some of our school board members and hope that they will never again run for office unopposed! That said, Cindy Buttry, Robert Bratton, and Thomas Deakins did their jobs very well, deserve commendation, and should be re-elected. I cannot speak much one way or another for Rex Stooksbury or Jim Williams. I was terribly unimpressed with Sam Anderson and do not think he holds office with an open mind. Karen Carsen needs happy pills and to not hold office. I thought Indya Kincannon was going to be a good board member but in the end I think she is just a good politician. I felt she played both sides of the fence and at the last minute chose the side that benefited her the most. Dan Murphy is a self-serving, arrogant ass and should be booted out of office today.
Update: Here’s the article with a link to the video.
And how’d your day start?
My day began with a discussion about "The mating rituals of the screw worm.""
Supporting Emotional Needs of Gifted
So, if I am existentially depressed, does that make me gifted?
Dreams
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die,
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.Hold fast to dreams.
For if dreams go,
Life is a barren field
Covered with snow.– Langston Hughes
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Heroes Coolness
I got a phone call from Nathan Petrelli!
From the mouths of babes
Amy (4 years and 11 months): "I need to take a chill pill!"
Heroes txt msg
Election’s 2day. Petrelli’s asking people 2 visit votepetrelli.com. I’ll hav a msg waiting when they arrive – 1
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Absentee Blogger Minded
So Cathy noted that I haven’t blogged since Thursday which is uncharacteristic of me. Seems the tenants in my head have been having some heated debate over the direction the next chapter of my life must evolve.
The loudest tenant seems to think that we have some opportunities in front of us in the form of 8am to 5pm employment which could greatly change the level of stress this body carries, reduce the chance of heart attack, provide some stabilization of historic cash flow issues, and provide other stabilities to our family. That tenant seems to think that blogging "Seems the tenants in my head…" could cause a literal minded human resources person to circular file our resume.
Another tenant is claiming that we have a good situation with a small company in town and although it does not pay that much does provide flexibility and predictability. That tenant admits the small company causes some hardship for the family and is hindering getting some high risk/higher reward work completed. This tenant believes we should maintain the status quo.
Yet another tenant points out that the status quo is not being entirely fair to the small company nor the higher risk/higher reward company. That tenant suggests we let the small company go and put all eggs in the high risk basket. And also points out that developing a cash cow of our own, which brings in some predictable revenue, would reduce the risk.
A tenant with a nervous, squeaky voice suggests a merging of status quo and high risk by bringing on some staff or contractors.
The lunatic tenant in the bunch thinks we should spend all of our time on the house and with the family and seriously expects money to fly out of our butt.
The cacophony between the debaters makes thinking about anything very challenging.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: There is a constant pounding in my head!
Master: Something needs to be let out.
Sunk and drowning
So I am scuba diving and I am deep. Real deep! There is a mermaid swimming beside me. Her name is Cathy and she is drop dead gorgeous! Her red hair floats around that beautiful face with such fair skin and seductive eyes. Her perfect breasts[NSFW] accentuate the elegant curves of her waist and hips. She twirls showing off her tail which ends at a wonder set of buttocks. She takes my breath away! Oh no! I am out of air. I look down and see the enormous treasure I sought. I could grab it but I may never reach the surface! I hear Cathy sing. She wants me to stay with her. Another diver collecting water samples offers to let me help him in his research; in exchange, he will give me air but I cannot have my treasure, it will be an eternity before we surface, and I must be apart from Cathy.
My new favorite movie quote: "I think I’m in a tragedy!"
Today’s Trainwreck
If you push play, you won’t be able to quit watching. Video of a tough kid and his pet. Bad parents?
Call it toast
Our toaster died months ago. We’ve used the oven’s broiler to poorly toast waffles but mostly gone without toasted items. I have been waiting to purchase the family a nice, expensive toaster on the premise that you get what you pay for. Last night I gave in and bought a toaster…for $6.69. It looks identical to the one for which we paid $24.99 except this has 2 slots instead of 4. I mean everything is the same including the print except for the number of slots and the brand name. Thank you China!
LOST – The Man Behind The Curtain
SUDO-SPOILER ALERT!
In that scene with Ben and Locke where everything got all shaky and you briefly see a person, I did a frame by frame playback and the person sitting in the chair has the exact profile (including that very distinct forehead and extremely distinct nose) of Ben!
Stealing Cathy’s thought, have we gone a little 6th Sense here? Who of the Others have the Losties actually physically contacted and conversed with? Richard? I’m not so sure anymore. Patchie? Definitely. Juliette? Definitely. Tom? Definitely. Ethan? Definitely.
The revelations in tonight’s Lost episode were awesome!
