I watched In the Name of the King last night, a movie that I was fully aware was supposed to be horribly bad. I still wanted to see it, despite the reviews, just to say I’d seen it and fully experienced its badness. If you feel the same way I did, that you just have …
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Photography Blog & Nice Quote
I ran across this site today, by Charile Stout, which contains great images from ye olde stomping grounds at and around Lubbock, Texas (and elsewhere). The best part about the site is the quote in the header: i don’t shoot weddings. there is no sum of money so great, no location so exotic, no lonely …
Blogging the Election
With only four and a half months left to go in this interminable election cycle things have become quite amusing for those of us who don’t listen to the news on TV and get most of our updates from the web. I present, for your entertainment, Why You Should Vote for Barack Obama: Barack Obama’s …
Screenspace.org
I’m not sure that everyone’s aware, but I’m not the only person in the family with a Podcast. Screenspace.org is Jenn’s professional blog and podcast. Check it out. She’s on episode 4 now.
Further Schooling
Open Question: If you had sufficient time to devote to full-time graduate school, or just full-time study in the Gentleman Scholar type of framework, what would you study? We are assuming here that you haven’t burned yourself out already on, or sworn a blood oath about avoiding, advanced academic degrees. I think I’d have to …
Political Action Spam
I’ve been spammed by a political contribution aggregator named ActBlue1. Hello Fundraiser! Thanks again for creating a fundraising page to support Barack Obama. Now that you’ve spread the word and hopefully have contributions rolling in, we’d like to show you how to track your progress. As a page creator, you can see who has contributed …
Gales of Laughter
I made a huge mistake at 12:55 this afternoon. I checked the Whatever and saw that John Scalzi is running a contest. He is asking for creative hate mail to include on the rear cover of his latest book “Your Hate Mail will be Graded.” In that entry, he linked to an entry he’d posted …
My Ruhsam-ness Falling off Google
The Eyebrow used to be in the top 3 of google hits when you searched on my last name, “Ruhsam”. It was often the first hit. Now it’s on the seventh page. [sigh] I’m forlorn. Apparently a lot more Ruhsam’s are appearing on the web and doing google-worthy things. That’s good! It used to be …
Ramp Meters
Cross posted from Talking Traffic. Go there to comment. Alluding to yesterday’s post concerning the inaccuracies in an Atlanta Journal Constitution article about Ramp Meters, I have an anecdote: My wife and I go to plays at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta every few months. In order to get there from our house (during rush hour), …
As You Like It
We attended the Georgia Shakespeare performace of As You Like It, by William Shakespeare. It was fine. As you can see from the image, the play was set with a groovy 70’s fashion statement. The first act wasn’t so 70’s as to be overwhelming, but the second act felt like Austin Powers. Alas. Still, the …