The Other Side

You hardcore bloggers are all nuts!

Okay, so the rest of the world figured weblogs out back in 2003 and so everything is old news to everyone, but for me it is a brand new world. I finally got with the picture way back in, oh, let’s say a couple of weeks ago. This is really kind of funny because I’ve been using the Internet for many, many years. I remember when Lynx was the browser of choice and everything was text. I had a bulletin board system (BBS) back in the 80s and I setup a gateway on it for people to access the Internet. Yep, that was a long time ago.

It’s not like I didn’t stay up with what was happening, but I do use technology and the web extensively in my career in IT. I guess the thought of online journaling really didn’t have tremendous appeal to me, in fact, I thought bloggers were nuts. Read the rest of this entry »

Them’s fightin’ words!

Okay, at the risk of pissing off some people, I do have some questions that I would like answered. This weekend I attended the 4th Annual Gay Orlando Film Festival. This year there were some fine films which I enjoyed for the most part and I may write separately about them, but the films are not really what this post is about.

Out of the four films, the last film was billed as a lesbian film. The first film, Another Gay Movie, Read the rest of this entry »

In 2005, I took a film studies class which I found fascinating. I had to make a film as part of the last project which was fun, but left we wanting to play around with things more. I decided to join Group 101 Orlando which was a group of filmmakers that were learning about the industry by creating films and showing them to audiences.

Each month, the directors were given a topic and a technical element that had to be incorporated into the film. Thirty days later, the films were debuted at the Downtown Media Arts Center in Orlando.

The topic for August was “Living the Dream” and the technical element Read the rest of this entry »

Now this is a true slap in the face to those of us that call Orlando home. It seems that Men’s Health magazine has ranked the top 100 Angriest Cities in America. They have the list posted on their website here: How Angry Is Your City? and Orlando has the dubious distinction of being #1. (Another city I formerly lived in, Tulsa Oklahoma, was #41.)

I have to admit that I was pretty taken back with this list. I mean, everyone knows that the Land of the Mouse is the “Happiest place on Earth,” right? So how did this happen?

When one looks at the measures that were used to compile this list, some things have to be questioned. The first factor listed Read the rest of this entry »

Wired News: Giant Robot Imprisons Parked Cars

We all knew it was going to get to this sooner or later. How many B movies have we seen where machines and computers eventually spell out the inevitable doom for our species? HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey would have been proud of this piece of automation.

These are some mighty creative people with a lot of extra time on their hands and a whole lotta cardboard! Mike gets a new office

It seems I need to visit this one more time due to a couple of comments and some additional information that has come to my attention. It seems like I was not alone in my time spent thinking about this subject as a little bit of searching turned up hundreds of sites where others had gone there before me. That figures, really, it seems I’m always the last one to the table.

Anyway, I was rather shocked to see that Wikipedia has an entire page on the toilet.

But, even better, to test your knowledge of how the whole bathroom etiquette works, check out this link on drinknation.com.

Okay, I think I’m done with potty stuff.

Tonight I was surfing around and came across a post on Pam’s House Blend.

This was allegedly a reprint from an email that was sent out to a company’s customers which is certainly any business owners right. As an avid gardening household, I certainly would have been shocked to get this from one of my sources. I expect political or religious content emails from friends and family Read the rest of this entry »

Ever reach a point when you know you just need to get away from it all for a little while? When you feel like one more little thing might set you off just due to the day to day stress of things? I feel like that right now. This summer has been a mixed bag. It started out pretty great and we had friends come visit for a few days. We fixed up somethings around the house that had been neglected and things were looking pretty good. Then a very important project, as I’ll call it, came up at work and everything has been non-stop stress since then.

Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind some stress and for the most part I enjoy my job, but there does need to be some balance in there somewhere. I’m not sure exactly why we let it get to this point, but I don’t think I’m alone in this. In a case like this, it’s just part of doing what needs to be done. In addition, we’ve got several trips planned between now and when we get more vacation time, so I’m trying to conserve what I have left. It’s always nice to have a few extra days left over when the holidays roll around.

So, I need to get away, plain and simple. Next trip, New Orleans, the Big Easy, home of great Jazz and even better food. It’s been three years since I’ve been there and I’m anxious to get back for some authentic Cajun and Creole food. Yum! Now that I think about it, it seems like a lot of my vacations and trips are planned around food. Oh well, there are worse things to live for!

Yesterday I was pleased to see that NOAA downgraded their 2006 hurricane season outlook, albeit by one storm in each category, so not much, but at least it is down.

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Living in my previous homes in Colorado and Oklahoma, I never really gave much thought to hurricanes and their impact. I certainly didn’t have any idea what they are like to live through. Actually when I moved here, I didn’t really think there would be much of a threat from hurricanes as we are in the Orlando area, after all, and it had been decades since anything of significance had threatened here.

Well, in 2004 that all changed with four hurricanes hitting Florida and three coming right through our neck of the woods. Read the rest of this entry »