Snow Ball 2
Originally uploaded by Chambo25.
He looks like a gremlin in this picture! Yay for action pics!!
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Seattle Here I Come!
Snow Ball
Originally uploaded by Chambo25.
Dear Seattle,
I've never met you before, but on Saturday I'll be flying out. I'm pretty excited. I have heard good things about your coffee, your atmosphere, and your grunge music. Okay, so maybe the grunge music thing isn't as current as everything else. Anyway, I think it should be fun.
See ya soon,
John
So... yeah, that's right, I'm headed to Seattle on Saturday night for a conference that my company is putting on from Sunday through Tuesday night. My flight back leaves Wednesday mid-day so I'm hoping to do a tiny bit of exploring before I head east... we'll see how that goes.
Meanwhile, this past weekend I snapped a couple awesome pictures of Chester playing one of his all-time favorite games, "Snow Ball" There are a couple others up on Flickr if you click the link below the photo on this post. I'm hoping to edit and post some other fun things soon too.
I hope that everybody has a wonderful day as it continues to act more and more like spring here in New England. Funny, I believe today is officially the start of spring. I, for one, am pretty excited about that.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Signs of hope
News can get me excited sometimes. Especially when it's news about people who often seem crazy to me acting more sane/rational. As someone who grew up religious and still identifies as such, I'm continually disappointed by the strange and seemingly sick things that people do with organized religion. It's not a new phenomena, and it's not particularly American or Christian. Heck, all of what I'm saying is ridiculously basic.
Anyway, here's some reason for hope: Evangelical leaders are fighting over the fact that many many of them want to focus on some issues that fall more on God's agenda than the Republican Party's agenda. Such as preventing torture and the destruction of God's green earth. I guess I don't necessarily always look to the evangelical community for hope, and to be fair, I've never been part of their community so I am sure there's lots I don't understand. I know that many evangelicals are very service-oriented, which I find extremely admirable. Anyway, this story struck me as one about sensible people speaking up.
Amazing, right?
I thought it was pretty cool.
Anyway, here's some reason for hope: Evangelical leaders are fighting over the fact that many many of them want to focus on some issues that fall more on God's agenda than the Republican Party's agenda. Such as preventing torture and the destruction of God's green earth. I guess I don't necessarily always look to the evangelical community for hope, and to be fair, I've never been part of their community so I am sure there's lots I don't understand. I know that many evangelicals are very service-oriented, which I find extremely admirable. Anyway, this story struck me as one about sensible people speaking up.
Amazing, right?
I thought it was pretty cool.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Climate Science Smears won't break-a my stride
So... today apparently the NYT ran a smear of Al Gore, and Grist (good stuff) did a pretty great rebuttal. Unfortunately the distribution of Grist doesn't really rival the NYT... so I thought I'd toss their piece up here. Feel free to check it out.
Meanwhile, in other news, it's a beautiful day in CT. I had my window open all morning, and then I realized that while it is beautiful outside, it's not quite warm enough for that yet. Still, it's a great day here, and I hope it's just as sunny and wonderful where ever you are.
It's world music day here. I've recently uploaded a bunch of stuff onto my ipod that I haven't listened to either in a long time or ever (some CDs I picked up while working at the college radio station and never gave much time too).
Happy new discoveries and rediscoveries include:
Also on the list of things I've gotten back into listening to this week are the following (non world music) bands:
and my favorite new I-don't-care-how-cheesy-it-is-to-like-ipod-commercial-music band, the Fratellis. I can't help it, Fathead is just too catchy. I can't resist.
Good stuff. Yay for good music on a nice day.
Meanwhile, in other news, it's a beautiful day in CT. I had my window open all morning, and then I realized that while it is beautiful outside, it's not quite warm enough for that yet. Still, it's a great day here, and I hope it's just as sunny and wonderful where ever you are.
It's world music day here. I've recently uploaded a bunch of stuff onto my ipod that I haven't listened to either in a long time or ever (some CDs I picked up while working at the college radio station and never gave much time too).
Happy new discoveries and rediscoveries include:
- Manu Chao
- Ephat Mujuru (who plays one of my all time favorite instruments the mbira (pronounced marimba)
- the Mahotella Queens
- Amadou Et Mariam
- Los de Abajo
Also on the list of things I've gotten back into listening to this week are the following (non world music) bands:
and my favorite new I-don't-care-how-cheesy-it-is-to-like-ipod-commercial-music band, the Fratellis. I can't help it, Fathead is just too catchy. I can't resist.
Good stuff. Yay for good music on a nice day.
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Who hates polar bears?
Well... if you guessed Bushie and Co., you're right. Hating polar bears!?!?! I mean, seriously how low can you go???
Money quote from the NYT article, "This sure sounds like a Soviet-style directive to me," Ms. Williams [Deborah Williams, environmental campaigner and former Interior Department official under Clinton] said.
What's that you say? You don't like my source for info. How about this one? Still too liberal media biased? Okay... maybe so. Still, what is the deal with this crap. I like polar bears. It made me sad to learn they're being found dead because they got exhaused swimming around trying to find some sort of ice mass to rest upon. The animated polar bear in Inconvenient Truth... he got me... right in the tear ducts. Okay, now I'm being rediculous, but it's a good escuse to track down a polar bear photo for this here blog...
hmm...
.... yup
okay, there we go:
Money quote from the NYT article, "This sure sounds like a Soviet-style directive to me," Ms. Williams [Deborah Williams, environmental campaigner and former Interior Department official under Clinton] said.
What's that you say? You don't like my source for info. How about this one? Still too liberal media biased? Okay... maybe so. Still, what is the deal with this crap. I like polar bears. It made me sad to learn they're being found dead because they got exhaused swimming around trying to find some sort of ice mass to rest upon. The animated polar bear in Inconvenient Truth... he got me... right in the tear ducts. Okay, now I'm being rediculous, but it's a good escuse to track down a polar bear photo for this here blog...
hmm...
.... yup
okay, there we go:
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Interesting
So... Nate thinks camera is tossing is lame... so is reading somewhat lengthy articles about trash, I suppose. Here's one, if you're feeling lame, as I almost always am:
Grist mulls landfills vs. incinerators.
Meanwhile, working from home is good fun. It's a constant ordeal to keep focused and on task, but then again I find that offices offer many distractions as well... so perhaps this is only a different shade of a familiar problem. The new job has ample work to make me suitably non-bored, so that helps with the focusing issue. I've got much more to post soon... but for now I have to, well, get back to work.
Grist mulls landfills vs. incinerators.
Meanwhile, working from home is good fun. It's a constant ordeal to keep focused and on task, but then again I find that offices offer many distractions as well... so perhaps this is only a different shade of a familiar problem. The new job has ample work to make me suitably non-bored, so that helps with the focusing issue. I've got much more to post soon... but for now I have to, well, get back to work.
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