Blingo movie tickets are now Fandango movie tickets. No biggie.
Lost – Spoilers
It’s bugging me that I don’t have time to write a review so I’ll spit tidbits here and there.
The escapee that released Sawyer was the plumber at the beginning of the show.The plumber was Ethan.- I believe some of you (and others) are giving The Others too much credit with regard to Jack’s dossier. Nothing terribly revealing in the info. They have been spying on our people and Kate was obviously tortured so she probably spilled info.
- Here is a Lost glossary – needs more work
- They never intended Sawyer to be fed polar bear food. Just a left over gizmo from a previous tenant.
See also and also and also. Just incase you don’t know or have forgotten, ABC has the show online for free along with Grey’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, Six Degrees, The Nine, andThe Knights of Prosperity.
Hard Lessons
Sarah is the student council historian this year. So for her birthday, we got her a Kodak EasyShare Z730 camera. I am very impressed with the camera.
One of my mantras to the children that they hear moaned out several times a day is "Don’t put it down; put it away." Sarah does not follow this at all. Her world does not operate by our laws, our physics, nor our logic. And, she leaves droppings wherever she goes. If she visits a friend, socks, trinkets, school notes, or something will have to be picked up several days later.
She took pictures in art club after school yesterday. Art club is supposed to end at 4:45 and we picked her up at 5 (the time she always comes out of the building anyway). She had set her camera beside her stuff then picked up her stuff to rush out leaving the camera behind. She realized this 15 minutes later at Target. Since the school would have been locked up it made no sense to go back but I got her there early this morning.
Apparently she was the first into the classroom but no sign of the camera. The teacher doesn’t recall seeing it and it hasn’t appeared in lost and found. It may still turn up but, sadly, the odds are against it. What is worse, the list of suspects is small: custodial staff, the few remaining art club students, and teacher. It should be easily recovered.
I feel bad for Sarah. I grew up with a belief system of trust. I believe people should be trustable and honest. If I find money or something like a camera, I seek out the person that may have lost it. I try to do my part as a citizen. Yesterday as I parked at Target the lady with a child in the car beside me was unloading the last few items from her cart. I waited then asked if I could take her cart for her. It was the right thing to do. If a person took Sarah’s camera with no intent to return it, that would be the wrong thing to do. I only hope that this does not scar Sarah’s trust in people or influence to not do the right thing because she has been burned. I want her to care enough to take the person cart rather than declare it SEP.
Now, the angry dad in me wants to jump to conclusions, secure the school security tapes, and go after somebody.
Lights Out
The Browncoats can rest. No more Serenity.
See also.
7.7 Earthquake to hit Knoxville on June 19, 2007
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Mark your calendars! The New Madrid fault line will slip! "Southern Illinois, southeast Missouri, western Kentucky and northwest Tennessee would be among the hardest hit areas." The last time the New Madrid (1812) slipped the Mississippi River flowed backwards (see map showing waterfalls) creating Reelfoot Lake (Eagle Cam and history and info) and rung church bells in Richmond, Virginia and Boston, Massachusetts.
The probability of magnitude 6.0 or greater in the near future is considered significant; a 90% chance of such an earthquake by the year 2040 has been given. [Source]
Memphis could very well be the next Katrina! So, how do I know that a 7.7 will hit on June 19, 2007?
A mock earthquake – drill – June 19, 2007 will register a magnitude of 7.7 and last 34 seconds, encompassing the entire New Madrid area. Southern Illinois, southeast Missouri, western Kentucky and northwest Tennessee would be among the hardest hit areas. [Source]
The Associated Press released these details of the drill on August 18, 2006.
Kevin Turner of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Paducah (images) and the Honeywell International Plant in Metropolis, Ill., (links) which produces uranium hexaflouride, are both near the fault line.
Each could produce devastating fallout in a major earthquake… [Source]
Check out all the recent activity in East TN! A previous blog entry regarding New Madrid.
Off the wagon – Gimme the juice!
My first cup of coffee was at age 10 or 11 in Café Du Monde (wikipedia entry) eating beignets.
The cafe is open (has been since Oct 19, 2005) and trying to contact its employees. If you took in some Katrina victoms that are related to or know of people who worked for Cafe Du Monde, please let them know.
We are still trying to make contact with many members of the Cafe Du Monde team. If you are an employee of Cafe Du Monde please E-Mail us to let us know that you are O.K. and fill us in on your future plans. [Source]
That cup of coffee was horrible. I switched to hot chocolate and stayed away from coffee for nearly a decade.
In college I was very involved in dorm life. I became the treasurer of the Clement Hall Resident Association. I ran movie night introducing double features with animated cartoons during intermission. I would start of with a series of cartoons then we would show a popular movie, do a cartoon intermission, and finish the evening with an esoteric cult flick (wish I had written the names down). I also had a bootleg of the Rocky Horror Picture Show (before it was released to video) and we would periodically watch the show on Friday’s at midnight complete with a virgin call but not with the full regalia. Eventually I took a job as a desk worker with shifts of midnight to 4am and 4am to 8am. Later I would become a Resident Assistant for the 8th floor.
As a desk worker, sleep would call. Change would tinkle into the vending machine and coca-cola would keep me awake. Soon it felt like all the money I was making was going into that machine. One night the coffee pot caught my eye. It was ever present and best of all free. I tried it. Didn’t really like it but it worked! And better than the Coke. I was renewed! And hooked.
At my peak, I was drinking 2 pots of coffee a day. I would brew one in the morning and another about 8 in the evening. I thought all that shaking was due to unstable ground (Knoxville is on a fault line discovered in 1993). When I started having serious dizzy spells, I cut way back on the coffee. 4 or 5 weeks ago I stopped drinking coffee altogether. Since then I have had 3 cups. I also had a very minimal number of soft drinks. In recent years, I have had very little alcohol to drink.
A full pot of coffee sits on the counter now. Thanks Target! Stopped in Target last night to get dinner supplies and they had my coffee marked way down. I grew weak. I bought it. Today I shall be perky!
See also RHPS fan club.
I haven’t chimed in on Foley yet
I am not certain that I have made a strong enough effort to introduce many of you to Ze Frank. After losing, Amanda (ie. the Rocketboom fiasco), I more or less turned my daily 3 minutes of "I’ll watch anything" to Ze Frank’s The Show. My standard disclaimer is that Ze Frank is very bright but uses some language that might not be appropriate in certain settings – maybe not quite Red Fox but definitely not Bill Cosby.
All that aside, I think today Ze Frank pretty much summed up the Foley stuff. Push play and see for yourself.
I 40 east still not moving due to lane closure. Glad i am not on it.
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Who you gonna call for Halloween?
Wow! That’s a costume!
United States Empire … and broke its crown
I find it difficult not to write about politics in these times. Our government is changing and I fear our grandchildren may never understand or relate to the America we knew as children. There is a Roman parallel to 9/11. In 68 or 67 BC, the Roman port at Ostia was sacked.
IN the autumn of 68 B.C. the world’s only military superpower was dealt a profound psychological blow by a daring terrorist attack on its very heart. Rome’s port at Ostia was set on fire, the consular war fleet destroyed, and two prominent senators, together with their bodyguards and staff, kidnapped.
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For in the panicky aftermath of the attack, the Roman people made decisions that set them on the path to the destruction of their Constitution, their democracy and their liberty. One cannot help wondering if history is repeating itself.
[Source]
My most recent reference to 1984 comes with the death of habeas corpus. Now the question: Are you awake?
More Ostia with great pictures. I want to visit!
Google’s Hidden Search Engine
Google is trying some new tricks. They call it SearchMash. You can actually give feedback on the usefulness of features. It is unbranded as to not skew opinions or results. Google answers some questions here along with some speculation. It looks like this could be the work of Udi Manber, previouslyl of Amazon’s A9 search engine.
See also.
Knee Replacement Surgery – No Big Deal
So this morning I pull in to pickup my mother-in-law to take her to physical therapy. See, a few weeks ago she had a mad scientist take a Dewalt 5 inch saw and cut her knees off. To his manic cackling he scraped out the stuff that holds the bottom part of the leg to the top part. To lightning, the humpbacked nurse helps insert the plastic and titanium, guaranteed-fun-at-the-airport new knees! He laughts and raises his hands skyward shouting, "she lives! She lives!" She stands up! And immediately falls on her face.
Getting back to this morning. As I approach her house I see hop-a-long with brace on the deadleg left knee toward the end of the driveway with walker in both hands and making the final adjustment on the second trash can that she just pulled down the driveway–somehow. I only wish I had shown up a few minutes earlier to watch. Fortunately, she had only pulled the recycle container out the back door and not worked it down to the street. Apparently, my inlaws recycle lead, ore, rock, and concrete disguised as aluminum cans and newspaper. After lugging it to the street I begged to take her place in physical therapy or at least sneak me one pain pill. I also noted that had she taken the recycle bin herself that she wouldn’t need the PT today because she’d be in the hospital!
Yes, I said "inlaws." Note the s. It makes the word plural. She has an ambulatory husband who, like my son, was asked to do the garbage the night before and, like my son, 7:30 came and he went. Also like my son, he doesn’t clean up animal poop. These two should live together for a year with cats and dogs! But that really wouldn’t be fair to the cats and dogs.
My morning thus far
3:30 – beg myself to get up
5am – actually rise, bathe and dress
6am – wake the doughnuts
6-7am – some blogging, mostly help Noah cook muffins
7:30-8 – drive Sarah to school
8-8:30 – pickup mother-in-law
8:30 – pickup Amy
9 – Drop Amy at pre-school
9:20 – Drop mother-in-law at sadist’s (PT)
9:20-10am – Starbucks theraphy then home
Later:
10:50-11:30 – pickup mother-in-law, take her to bank then home
1:30 – pickup Amy
4:15 – Noah to karate
4:45 – Pickup Sarah from school
5:00 – Pickup Noah from karate
5:30-6 – drive to Lenior City
6 – Drop Tommy in Lenior City
8:30 – Pick Tommy up from Lenior City
9-10pm – Lost!
To squeeze in: work, programming, marketing, resume writing, returning calls/emails, budgetting, banking, and food
Don’t ignore email
I have not checked email for several days which means I will have angry emails and a back log that could have me doing nothing but email all day.
iTunes Visualization Cheat Sheet
For you iTunes junkies out there. Play with your visualizations.
Have fun! There are 11475 form/effect combinations, and 734400 form/effect/color combinations. It would take over 1000 hours to try them all out! And of course you’ll want to try out your favorite ones with different types of music. And if you’re still bored, you can try to experiment with favorite transitions – which should keep you busy for the next 100000 years or so… [Source]
