PhoneBoy Says

I was going through some old photos last night when I came across a couple of photos from high school of a play I had done. Seeing as there was a lot of light coming from the back of us, the pictures did not come out all that great. Fortunately iPhoto helped enhance them a little bit.

It's interesting comparing memories with Jennifer, whom I sent one of these photos to on Facebook last night prior to posting. We both had fond memories of this experience of working on and performing this play, though we both remembered somewhat different things about the experience.

We were both so young back then…

For some reason, I thought it would be neat to put my fedora atop my Mac SE/30 and take a picture of it. Might make a great profile picture, what do you think?

"Don't ever tell my children to color in the lines, that anything is a certain color. If the sand is blue in their eyes, then let it be blue!"

"What on earth are you talking about?"

"I never realized where my problems were. I was always told--sand isn't blue, giraffes aren't green, fingers and eyes aren't the extensions of an artist. Do NOT fill my children's heads with that nonsense! Anything can be any color, and lines are only suggestions, not rules."

via thebeadedbranch.blogspot.com

While I've never fancied myself someone who could color or draw very well, I can relate to the core of this piece: that we often have to hide whom we are and what we think in order to "conform" to the expectations of others. It's definitely a creative block.

And yes, I gave away the ending of the piece, but go read it anyway.

Welch: Obama's Policies Anti-Business

Welch: Obama's Policies Anti-Business Part 2

At the Helm With Jack: Intimidation, taxes, trade and labor

via online.wsj.com

This picture reminds me of a sort of cognitive dissonance that occurs whenever I spend an extended period of time taking pictures or video. I get so focused on taking that picture or video, I forget I can see it with my own eyes.

While it's great we can capture things like never before, don't get too caught up in that to enjoy it while it's happening.

It's all over the news. "The recession is over." Themainstream economists say so. This was the longest recession sinceWorld War II, I heard on the news (say, I thought the economy was justdandy throughout that war -- oh, never mind).

The end of this terrible recession into which the free marketplunged us is all thanks to the federal government, of course. Inparticular, we owe the Obama administration our gratitude for itsstimulus program. But we should also tip our hats -- hats we canpresumably now afford to buy -- toward the Bush administrationfor its TARP bailouts, without which the banking system would havecompletely collapsed, credit would have dried up and we would have allstarved to death.

via campaignforliberty.com

Of course the government didn't cure the recession. They created the recession in the first place.

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I wish I had a politician like Nigel Farage representing me--someone who actually has a backbone and tells it like it is.

I would have expected to find out about this video on No Agenda, but I instead found out about it on the TWiT Live Stream. This is an awesome speech from a lawyer that explains no matter what you say to a police officer regardless of the issue, you're better off not talking.

via blog.tmcnet.com

I didn't realize that George Bush Sr. was running against Ronald Reagan in the 1980 Republican primaries. I was a young lad at the time, so I suppose I could be excused for not knowing that.

That said, the ideas here are just as relevant today as they were 30 years ago.

In going through my dad's blog to clean it up after the import from Vox, I discovered he created another blog called TechZilla News. It had primarily technical content, but was separate from his primary Vox blog. I decided if I was actually going to get all of what dad wrote, I had better get this blog as well. Fortunately, it was a rather small blog at only 36 posts or so, but it still requires work since I'm still up against the Vox closing deadline of next Wednesday.

I wonder why I am doing this, and ironically enough, I find the answer in one of dad's old blog postings. It's about reviewing the movie that is my dad's life frame by frame, making little changes that ultimately improve and preserve the integrity of the original film. And because, quite honestly, it seems like the right thing to do.