Summer Trucking - A Photo Competition From Tachoblog
Tachoblog is delighted to announce the launch of Summer Trucking, a photo competition (with prizes!) that you can all enter.
via tachoblog.com
Forget Randomized... I've gone native..
I've found my new home..
New Feed, same dude creating it, possibly content that's worth connecting with....
Moving to RandomizedRadio.com
I will be abandoning my Posterous Blogs for Blogger. Right now http://RandomizedRadio.com points to the blog that I will be keeping updated instead of the posterous site(s). also http://randomizedradio.blogspot.com/ In any event, Posterous is fine but has its limits due to its simplicity. I've just got to get the blogger address in my phone so I can do updates to that blog, via email like I'm doing right now. :)
@thenose100
Dear Blog, Day 356 of 2010: Bra Hats?
Image Courtesy of Johnny Madden on flickr.com
As I sit down to write this, that cat has done her thing. Which reminded me. Why does cat poop smell like burnt rubber? Or Vice Versa, as the later came first? Maybe I ought to send a message to the Michelin Man and ask him?
With the weird work hours, I can't seem to get my brain to function very smoothly in the evenings. Today it seems apparent that getting up at 4 am was agreeable, as my alarm was set for 5 am. But I woke up at 4 wide awake. Yesterday the alarm was set for 2:20 am. That was way to early. Thus the Mush brain last night, all it was good for was light conversation and some TV. In any case, I was warned that today will start with a short run, with the possibility of another one tacked on when I'm done with the first. The second run, would take at lest 9 hrs. But that might wrap up my week due to the holiday.
I did try to humor a friend yesterday with a text message asking him to ask to try on some bras as hats at the drug store he was going to for some pills. He's having some serious surgery done, and I'm worried. I fight my worries with humor. Sometimes at inappropriate times. But really, what's the best time for humor? When you're expecting a laugh? That's one of the reasons that I don't care for a lot of Hollywood's movies and sitcoms. If they have predictable humor. If I can see the joke coming at me, it's not usually funny. AND some of the crap they try to pass off as humor just isn't funny. Granted, Comedy isn't always easy to do. When I'm asked to be funny, I can't be. Maybe its the same way when writing a script?
Soo... I missed the Lunar eclipse. It also fell on winter solstice. And that brings me back around to the holiday season, and get me to wondering. Why do Christians still continue to Celebrate Christ's Birth on a Pagan holiday? If you know it's the wrong day, why continue the process? Why not move it to a Spring Event, as that's when he was born? So, this begs the question. Does admittedly doing something wrong, and continuing to do the wrong thing in the name of a tradition make it right? And yes, I will be doing come gift giving, and Celebrating the tradition of Christmas. Why? Well, its something we've always done. But it always makes me wonder... Are we doing the right thing? And, if not, How would you "Fix It"? I just chalk it up as one of those goofy things that we do.
Gotta go! :)
Dear Blog, Day 354 2010, Western Union, 1937
Hey there, I was chatting with my mom talking about old things, and getting caught up, and she mentioned that she had a old Telegram that her Dad had send his dad, announcing her birth. Cool, eh? Back in those days, Western Union was the state of the art in communication. This telegram was sent from Flint, MI to Turner, MI about 100 miles. No, I got a Photo copy of the original, and have edited it to look what I think it might look like. Maybe one day, I can do a real scan of it. :-)
I love old things like this, the old radios, the smell of a transformer burning dust off of it...
Anyway. Do you have any old images of your family and it's history scanned and shared?
Anyway. Do you have any old images of your family and it's history scanned and shared?
Dear Blog Day 352 2010 - The Big Road and a NuT - Wigglestick
I used to blog on a site called Journalspace. My Blog was called "The Big Road and a NuT". Back in 2003, when I was blog hunting, and trying to see what it was that I was missing, I did some Blog hopping and site testing, etc. Blogger, WordPress.org, Myspace, etc... I wasn't on Twitter, facebook, or a few of the other social network sites, and didn't see the point at the time. I do think that I had setup an account on some or most all sites, looked around and decided some looked more like a business site, others looked like there were kids just doing their thing, and showing off the musical groups that they liked. Others looked ok, but no one was connected. No Community. Blogger Didn't have a sense of community, nor did a few of the other sites. But I still liked Blogger, and still do. Journalspace did. I've met a few friends there, and we've stayed in contact over the years, even with the demise and re-birth of Journalspace. I did back up some of my blog postings from there, but where I put the backup. I'm not so sure. :-[ I was kind of hoping to find the file, and to grab parts of it and share them. But also to do a re-view of what I might have been saying, as that's always kind of interesting to see what you said 5 years ago. I was looking at some of the photo's that I had on Photobucket, as that's where I used to save most all of my files, and ran across this one.
I had the idea that if I posted a few weird images of things that didn't really exist on T-Shirts, that maybe I could raise some money for the Prostate Cancer Foundation. I got so far as getting a Domain Name (seems someone is squatting on the current version of it now, Meh!) But I didn't take the time to do anything else with it. Didn't know how to promote it, or a site or anything like that. I was feeling a bit bummed due to there's so many things that I've thought about, and not acted on. Ideas that are dormant. There's only so much time in the day. Even a Metric Clock won't change that. :-P If I ever get to the "work at home" state of things, maybe I'll be able to work on some other ideas a little more. Right now, all of that is just a dream. And I'm trying to learn my way around the blogosphere a little bit better. Maybe one day, I'll actually make enough money from AdSense to purchase a cup of coffee. What kinds of things have you started that you've not finished? I've started lots things that I've forgotten about. But here is a list of a few things of mine. I'd like to know what kinds of things you'd like to invent or create if you had the time. Who knows, maybe we can merge some ideas? Randy's short list forgotten things to make or do... A Decade Car: A car manufactured to stay basically the same for 10 years, that is easily modified. I'd like to sit down with some ideas and hash them out, and at least make some kind of prototype out of wood, play dough, or Lego's. An Open Source Coffee Shop: A Learning place for open source ideas, geared for learning. Sort of a Mash Up of a Sylvan Learning Center, Make Magazine and Panera Bread... So? Again, What would you like to see done, or do? =-O
Dear Blog Day 351, 2010 - A Metric Clock or Calendar?
