I'm the village idiot, I don't have anything to do with this pathetic little opera, I just felt like passing through!
Smittie The following is taken from the online Santa Cruz County, CA Ballot (as provided by SmartVoter.Org: US Representative United States Representative; District 17 Sam Farr, Democratic Anthony R. De Maio, Republican Please notice that the Republican candidate, Mr. De Maio, has no links. Mr. De Maio has submitted nothing to any of the online voting … Read more
The second involves an AWOL soldier turning himself in to face the music. In the first part of the article the soldier, Specialist Darrell Anderson, claims that he fled to Canada rather than deploy with his unit because he felt the war was illegal. However, later in the article we found out that Anderson suffers … Read more
That is the only conclusion I can draw after reading this article. Aloha [posted with ecto]
One of (OK, the only) Tako Productions projects that I am still working on is Sacred Digital. This is an endeavor with a buddy of mine to create video podcasts that talk about the Christian faith. My buddy, Chuckk Gerwig, is a pretty awesome communicator. He’s a lot of fun to work with. We have … Read more
Pure Nerd 52 % Nerd, 34% Geek, 21% Dork For The Record: A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia. A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one. A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions. You scored better … Read more
We went surfing that morning. It was bright, sunny, decent waves. We’d paddled out before dawn. As we were standing in the parking lot getting dressed some guys were talking about the World Trade Center being blown up. Huh? What are you talking about? The World Trade Center. In New York. The news is saying … Read more
Festivals Summertime. The in rural United States and especially in the Midwest, August and September are the time for county and state fairs. When we lived in Iowa I used to love going to the fairs. Here they have festivals. Parades and activities throughout the day and into the night. There is a festival going … Read more
So, jet lag kept me from sleeping. At 0530 I decided to get up and get the day started. I had a 0750 airplane to check. I climbed in to the shower. Wow! Awesome shower. Water pressure that would be the envy of most fire departments. A nice shower head, it didn’t do tricks, just … Read more
’06 AT: Uchi Focus Lens Day 1 Had a flight out of San Jose. Got there about three and a half hours early because of all the security warnings. Spent about two hours cooling my jets in the airport. Would have liked the extra hour of sleep but I did enjoy not having to rush … Read more
This article by Frank Gaffney makes very clear the eventual outcome of efforts to cut & run in Iraq. As I’ve said many times in this blog, it does not matter what you think about how we got into the war we are currently fighting, we have to finish it. Nixon’s exit from Vietnam was … Read more