I know I said I'd post a retelling of my dream from the weekend ... but then Facebook went and threw me a curve ball today and forced me into the new profile (dream-telling will occur next Thursday!). After taking its tour, I have to say it doesn't seem too too different, but it has caused some concern for me. One of the new features is to list your family members (or those that agree to publicly admit such a connection) -- and I just hope that it's prepared to handle my situation.
Over the years, I've been blessed to have not been limited by any legal definition of family and to have not been restricted by only considering those of blood relations to be in that category. [Here's hoping I worked those negatives right.] Zuckerberg, I don't know your "family" background (I'll get to the Social Network before the Oscars), but I hope you are ready for a boy with multiple "mothers", all kinds of "brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces", etc., etc."!
SUPPORT THE GENIUS THAT IS AARON SORKIN:
http://www.amazon.com/Social-Network-Two-Disc-Collectors/dp/B0034G4P7G
THE SPIN IS NOW I'LL HAVE MORE AMAZING CONNECTIONS:
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-12-06/tech/facebook.profile.update_1_profile-photo-facebook-friends-facebook-page?_s=PM:TECH
NOT EVERYONE's HAPPY ABOUT THE CHANGES (NOR ARE THEY SUPER WORDY):
http://www.jplaforge.com/blog/facebooks-frequent-changes-are-irritating
January 13, 2011
January 12, 2011
Random Wordplay for Wednesday 1/12/11
Quest.
Used in a sentence: "This has nothing to do with the telecommunications company that was all tied up with the Baby Bell mess, and is much more akin to Don Quixote chasing his windmills: in this season of resolutions, it's time for me to create some action steps around my stated Quests."
Resolutions get broken. Quests are lifelong journeys. So let me state it publicly ... I will move forward in 2011 with progress on the following commitments (don't get it twisted -- I'm not giving up my day job and jumping in an RV to complete these missions tomorrow or anything) ...
MUST WAIT UNTIL WARMER WEATHER TO GET UP NORTH:
http://www.great-lakes.net/tourism/circletour/
CURRENT AtoZ LIST FOR HARD ROCK CAFE (MY QUEST IS DOMESTIC!):
http://www.hardrock.com/locations/cafes3/locator.aspx
THIRTEEN (14 IF YOU COUNT NIXON TWICE) REPOSITORIES OF PRESIDENTIALNESS:
http://www.suite101.com/content/united-states-presidential-libraries-museums-a117188
Used in a sentence: "This has nothing to do with the telecommunications company that was all tied up with the Baby Bell mess, and is much more akin to Don Quixote chasing his windmills: in this season of resolutions, it's time for me to create some action steps around my stated Quests."
Resolutions get broken. Quests are lifelong journeys. So let me state it publicly ... I will move forward in 2011 with progress on the following commitments (don't get it twisted -- I'm not giving up my day job and jumping in an RV to complete these missions tomorrow or anything) ...
- sticking my feet in every Great Lake (Erie ... check ... Michigan ... check)
- purchasing shot glasses and a t-shirt from every HardRock Cafe (10 down out of 45!)
- touring the United States alphabetically, one year at a time [(c)1998-present] (to continue once economy recovers)
- viewing every modern day Presidential Library (new for 2011!)
MUST WAIT UNTIL WARMER WEATHER TO GET UP NORTH:
http://www.great-lakes.net/tourism/circletour/
CURRENT AtoZ LIST FOR HARD ROCK CAFE (MY QUEST IS DOMESTIC!):
http://www.hardrock.com/locations/cafes3/locator.aspx
THIRTEEN (14 IF YOU COUNT NIXON TWICE) REPOSITORIES OF PRESIDENTIALNESS:
http://www.suite101.com/content/united-states-presidential-libraries-museums-a117188
January 11, 2011
Random Tune for Tuesday 1/11/11
First ... that's even more ones than a few days ago!
Second ... something new for the new year. A new occasional series to last all of 2011 -- "AtoZ Musical Eccentricities (the cassette years)". Eccentric, eclectic, expressive -- adjectify as you wish, but my musical collection is all over the map. As I relocate my 600 or so cassettes to a new storage device, I thought I'd take an alphabetical trip down music memory lane in the months ahead.
Without further explanation, and to represent the letter 'A', and, yes, on a cassette I still own, here's why I sometimes just yell out "horse-shoes" for no apparent reason!
A is for ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cltwERxX7Ss
Second ... something new for the new year. A new occasional series to last all of 2011 -- "AtoZ Musical Eccentricities (the cassette years)". Eccentric, eclectic, expressive -- adjectify as you wish, but my musical collection is all over the map. As I relocate my 600 or so cassettes to a new storage device, I thought I'd take an alphabetical trip down music memory lane in the months ahead.
Without further explanation, and to represent the letter 'A', and, yes, on a cassette I still own, here's why I sometimes just yell out "horse-shoes" for no apparent reason!
A is for ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cltwERxX7Ss
January 10, 2011
Random Memorial for Monday 1/10/11
Gone but not forgotten:
John Roll
Gabe Zimmerman
Dorwin Stoddard
Christina Greene
Dorthy Murray
Phyllis Scheck
I've nothing else to add today, as these moments of silence speak for their lives senselessly lost and about the families they left behind.
Surely, you will be missed.
SIGN A GUESTBOOK IN THEIR MEMORY:
http://www.legacy.com/guestbook/azcentral/guestbook.aspx?n=victims-of-tucson-shooting&pid=147664429&cid=view
John Roll
Gabe Zimmerman
Dorwin Stoddard
Christina Greene
Dorthy Murray
Phyllis Scheck
I've nothing else to add today, as these moments of silence speak for their lives senselessly lost and about the families they left behind.
Surely, you will be missed.
SIGN A GUESTBOOK IN THEIR MEMORY:
http://www.legacy.com/guestbook/azcentral/guestbook.aspx?n=victims-of-tucson-shooting&pid=147664429&cid=view
January 9, 2011
Random Scandal Sheet for Sunday 1/9/11
What Chicago is talking about this week:
It's electioneering season again (isn't it always?) in Chicago as the mayor's election is just a few weeks away. And, as predicted, the race for the next mayor is quickly becoming more and more about the race of the next mayor. Unity behind one African American candidate was achieved as individuals were pressured out ... and now that same pressure is on for the two main Hispanic candidates to "voluntarily" opt for just one to stay in the race ... all to promote unity (at least within one's own race) and to defeat the chosen one in Rahm.
Let's run the numbers, though, as the winner must get over 50% on Feb 22 to avoid a runoff in April, and with a racial make-up in the metropolis of 36.8% black, 32.8% non-asian white and 26.0% hispanic/latino -- somebody's got to rise to the challenge and start building color blind coalitions to run this city.
Irrespective of race, let's just keep it noncontroversial and list them all alphabetically -- Braun, Chico, DelValle and Emmanuel. And now that I see it that way, do we have the makings of an LSAT logic game? Maybe we can skip the voting and solve a logic puzzle to choose our next leader?
BRAUN SAYS BRING BLACK, WHITE, BROWN - ONE SIDE OF TOWN TO ANOTHER:
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/moving_america_news/24737
CENSUS BUREAU DATA FOR CHICAGO AS OF 2000:
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFFacts?_event=&geo_id=16000US1714000&_geoContext=01000US%7C04000US17%7C16000US1714000&_street=&_county=chicago&_cityTown=chicago&_state=&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=160&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=ACS_2006_SAFF&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null®=&_keyword=&_industry=
CLICK ON THE LINK AT THIS LINK TO WATCH KENNY G TEACH LOGIC GAMES:
http://www.kaptest.com/LSAT/Learn-and-Discuss/Everything-LSAT/lsat-logic-games.html
It's electioneering season again (isn't it always?) in Chicago as the mayor's election is just a few weeks away. And, as predicted, the race for the next mayor is quickly becoming more and more about the race of the next mayor. Unity behind one African American candidate was achieved as individuals were pressured out ... and now that same pressure is on for the two main Hispanic candidates to "voluntarily" opt for just one to stay in the race ... all to promote unity (at least within one's own race) and to defeat the chosen one in Rahm.
Let's run the numbers, though, as the winner must get over 50% on Feb 22 to avoid a runoff in April, and with a racial make-up in the metropolis of 36.8% black, 32.8% non-asian white and 26.0% hispanic/latino -- somebody's got to rise to the challenge and start building color blind coalitions to run this city.
Irrespective of race, let's just keep it noncontroversial and list them all alphabetically -- Braun, Chico, DelValle and Emmanuel. And now that I see it that way, do we have the makings of an LSAT logic game? Maybe we can skip the voting and solve a logic puzzle to choose our next leader?
BRAUN SAYS BRING BLACK, WHITE, BROWN - ONE SIDE OF TOWN TO ANOTHER:
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/moving_america_news/24737
CENSUS BUREAU DATA FOR CHICAGO AS OF 2000:
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFFacts?_event=&geo_id=16000US1714000&_geoContext=01000US%7C04000US17%7C16000US1714000&_street=&_county=chicago&_cityTown=chicago&_state=&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=160&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=ACS_2006_SAFF&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null®=&_keyword=&_industry=
CLICK ON THE LINK AT THIS LINK TO WATCH KENNY G TEACH LOGIC GAMES:
http://www.kaptest.com/LSAT/Learn-and-Discuss/Everything-LSAT/lsat-logic-games.html
January 8, 2011
Random Soapbox for Saturday 1/8/11
I don't mean to go off on a rant here, but ...
... as much as I want to comment on today's tragedy in Tucson, I'm going to bite my blog-tongue and wait a week until more details are gathered (and to focus on good thoughts for those that might still recover, as is my true wish). There is a downside to the 24 hour news cycle in that assumptions get made while facts are still being gathered. [Rest assured, I am 100% confident that in a week I'll be bemoaning the loss of civility and discourse and chastising those who foment anger that gets channeled into pure evil -- but if all this ends up as the work of an unsettled grammarian, I want to make sure I rant properly.]
So, to distract us all from that violence, I'll discuss how frustrated I am by my own gas, in an attempt to comment in diatribe style on those who now so quickly share the most intimate health news. [Consider that a fair warning, if you're still reading this, then I'm not accountable for your reaction.] Maybe to blame is the proliferation of physicians on TV, both fictional and "reality" (that's in quotes as those words are no longer opposites), so Dr. House and Dr. Oz and Sanjay Gupta and Cuddy (I remember you fondly when you were a high class prostitute for Rob Lowe in DC during West Wing) and McDreamy and those doctors that include some guy who was a bachelor ... here's my dilemma. [Last warning -- look away. You might think this conversation to be déclassé, but now that I'm closer and closer to that age where discussions of bowel movements are de rigueur, I think I'm allowed to continue.]
I was awakened from my dream in the middle of the night (look for its description this Thursday) with a painful gas bubble. While waiting for it to be completely eliminated, I was struck with the thought that my bathroom kind of smelled like Lucky Charms. And not the marshmallow delights, but the toasted oat pieces leftover in the bag once you pick out the horseshoes and clovers and rainbows and etc etc. And I used to like Lucky Charms. So -- doctors -- why is that? Can you diagnose anything about my digestive issue? How am I ever to experience a magically delicious morning ever again?
FUN FACTS ABOUT LUCKY CHARMS (INCLUDING A LINE UP OF MARSHMALLOWS):
http://www.retroist.com/2009/03/17/lucky-charms-fun-facts-and-commercials/
I'LL BE DAMNED, THAT TOASTED OAT SMELL IS EXPECTED WITH INTESTINAL GAS:
http://www.aboutincontinence.org/site/about-incontinence/treatment/gas
YOU GIVE GRAMMAR A BAD NAME (BAD NAME):
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/08/arizona.shootings.suspect.social/index.html
... as much as I want to comment on today's tragedy in Tucson, I'm going to bite my blog-tongue and wait a week until more details are gathered (and to focus on good thoughts for those that might still recover, as is my true wish). There is a downside to the 24 hour news cycle in that assumptions get made while facts are still being gathered. [Rest assured, I am 100% confident that in a week I'll be bemoaning the loss of civility and discourse and chastising those who foment anger that gets channeled into pure evil -- but if all this ends up as the work of an unsettled grammarian, I want to make sure I rant properly.]
So, to distract us all from that violence, I'll discuss how frustrated I am by my own gas, in an attempt to comment in diatribe style on those who now so quickly share the most intimate health news. [Consider that a fair warning, if you're still reading this, then I'm not accountable for your reaction.] Maybe to blame is the proliferation of physicians on TV, both fictional and "reality" (that's in quotes as those words are no longer opposites), so Dr. House and Dr. Oz and Sanjay Gupta and Cuddy (I remember you fondly when you were a high class prostitute for Rob Lowe in DC during West Wing) and McDreamy and those doctors that include some guy who was a bachelor ... here's my dilemma. [Last warning -- look away. You might think this conversation to be déclassé, but now that I'm closer and closer to that age where discussions of bowel movements are de rigueur, I think I'm allowed to continue.]
I was awakened from my dream in the middle of the night (look for its description this Thursday) with a painful gas bubble. While waiting for it to be completely eliminated, I was struck with the thought that my bathroom kind of smelled like Lucky Charms. And not the marshmallow delights, but the toasted oat pieces leftover in the bag once you pick out the horseshoes and clovers and rainbows and etc etc. And I used to like Lucky Charms. So -- doctors -- why is that? Can you diagnose anything about my digestive issue? How am I ever to experience a magically delicious morning ever again?
FUN FACTS ABOUT LUCKY CHARMS (INCLUDING A LINE UP OF MARSHMALLOWS):
http://www.retroist.com/2009/03/17/lucky-charms-fun-facts-and-commercials/
I'LL BE DAMNED, THAT TOASTED OAT SMELL IS EXPECTED WITH INTESTINAL GAS:
http://www.aboutincontinence.org/site/about-incontinence/treatment/gas
YOU GIVE GRAMMAR A BAD NAME (BAD NAME):
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/08/arizona.shootings.suspect.social/index.html
January 7, 2011
Random Flashback for Friday 1/7/11
OK ... one last holiday picture (after all, I'm not taking down my tree until this weekend). And I guess it is Greek Orthodox Christmas/Ukrainian Christmas/Epiphany/the 12th day of Christmas -- you get the idea -- so it's not completely out of sorts. With that disclaimer, let's get right to the point: here is my niece Casey Jo enjoying her first holiday and what I can only guess is her first lil caboose. [Eagle eyes will recognize the chair in the background from the Flashback on 2/26/10 (her actual birthday)]. And be forewarned, you'll see how quickly a child grows by the end of this year's flashbacks.
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