KYTV here in Springfield has asked its employees to take a voluntary one-week furlough.
Not only is it hitting the newspaper industry, but my guess is that TV is starting to get hit just as hard.
My thoughts and prayers to everyone over there on East Sunshine and I pray they don’t share my fate and are forced to take time off without pay.
Keep your heads up, guys.
I am a Qwitter, capitalized and spelled incorrectly for a reason.
I signed up for Twitter awhile ago and I thought it would be a cool use of a sort of microblog.
Twitter has made some people go absolutely bananas, posting about the most mundane of daily activities and trying to make them sound interesting.
You just stepped into your office and needed to let me know you crossed the threshold of your door? Thanks for the heads up.
You’re eating tilapia for lunch? Shoot, should have asked me to join.
And oh, no way, you just got off the toilet? TMI.
And to top it off, with half my Facebook friends having signed up for Twitter accounts and cross-posting them into their Facebook status updates, it’s become a little much.
@When you #see people going RT crazy and posting @crazystuff like #this all the time, it really makes you wonder how people come up with the wherewithal to post constantly on something that restricts you to 160 characters or less.
So I am officially a Qwitter. I am saying so long to Twitter right now and concentrating my efforts on my more cogent blog.
#peaceout
You too can be a Qwitter and make your life more resourceful.
The man is a socialist, plain and simple.
You tell me what else he can be after his administration put a huge load of pressure on the General Motors CEO to resign. The CEO of a private (yes, albeit failing) company.
Let’s look up the very definition of the word socialism from a few sources here.
American Heritage Dictionary:
1. Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.
2. The stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved.”
Merriam-Webster:
1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2 a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done
Encarta:
1. political system of communal ownership: a political theory or system in which the means of production and distribution are controlled by the people and operated according to equity and fairness rather than market principles
2. movement based on socialism: a political movement based on principles of socialism, typically advocating an end to private property and to the exploitation of workers
3. stage between capitalism and communism: in Marxist theory, the stage after the proletarian revolution when a society is changing from capitalism to communism, marked by pay distributed according to work done rather than need
Three sources, pretty much the same definition even though Encarta puts a different twist on it. If the Obama administration’s move over the weekend doesn’t smack of socialism to you, what is it?
To me, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and even poops like a duck…yeah, you understand where I’m coming from.
I honestly hope our President starts executing some more sound judgment and simply takes his hands off the reins a bit to let the market correct itself.
What Obama is doing simply is not working. Nearly every time the man opens his mouth to speak about the economy, the Dow plummets. It happened again today.
If our President can take his hands off of private business and use a little bit of his eloquence to start hammering the importance of fiscal responsibility to us and our children, we’ll already be on the path to recovery.
Obama can be the most eloquent President to date, but words don’t amount to anything if he can’t perform the actions necessary to instill confidence in the economy and America as a nation again.
It’s a shame many don’t realize that. But then again, Israel has their king.
SOFA gathered and played a heated match of flag football that was a bit lopsided for the Yellow team, by a score of 38-14.
Unfortunately, I was on the Red team and the game was so horrible I don’t remember much about it. We all looked lazy out there though.
Even though he was injured, Nate Papes came out anyway but instead used his mad photo skills to capture the event in time and space. Having good high-quality photos makes a bad football game look good, so I give him props!
I’ll throw the album on Facebook soon — everyone tag yourselves, but for now here are the photos.
Check out the photos starting with the first one, here.
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Yes folks, it’s time for my first 54321 in a month as I have been shirking my duties to my fellow bloggers and blog readers.
For those of you new to The 54321, it’s a post I try (try being the key word) to write every couple weeks or so to showcase the music that is most popular on my iPod…it also serves to show everyone what kind of music I’m into.
I use imeem to do this, making simple playlists and sharing them for the free world to see.
It’s electronic music heaven, and this week is no different. Without further adieu, here’s the March 29, 2009 edition of The 54321.
Boxee has been touted as one of the best pieces of open source software to be released in quite awhile, and I’d have to wholeheartedly agree with the people who say so.
Boxee is a media center program that reaches a little farther than, say, Windows Media Center — not only getting its content from your hard drive and the Internet, but proving more extensible with third-party plugins and some nifty extra features.
I was able to successfully scan my media files, and when the metadata for one of my shows was incomplete, Boxee hurried right in and asked me what the name of the show, the season and the title was. It filled in that epsiode’s data as well as the rest.
Playback is smooth and its navigation functions are pretty simple, and reside at the bottom of the screen. A right-click does away with them if you don’t want them there.
A nifty feature is the support for subtitles. It only took a few clicks before I was on my way to being able to see what was being spoken.
As mentioned earlier, Boxee can also pull content from the Internet. Here is an example of the MTV channel being played.
All in all, Boxee is a pretty good piece of software and for me, it puts the fun back into organizing my media. If you’re on a Mac or running Linux, you can download the program instantly. If you’re using Windows (like me) you have to wait for awhile for a program invite. It’s worth it though.
What a roller coaster ride of the last twenty-four hours, health-wise.
Yesterday I woke up around 6:45 and headed to the Republic Community Center gym to play basketball. Some cool guys from the Republic Fire Department play there every now and then and invited me to run a couple games with them, which I did. It was pretty cool as I didn’t score much but as one guy said, I rebounded my butt off…we split two games.
So I get home and immediately my stomach turns queasy. I took care of necessary business and got ready for work.
Once at work, I felt fine but around 11 I had a shoot and a minor headache. Not only that but I began to start sweating profusely in the office, which is odd because it’s climate controlled at 72 degrees in the multimedia room.
I went to lunch around noon and accompanied my friend Bethany on a mission to gorf down Chipotle burritos. We were successful, but by this point my headache was so bad I had to get back to the office and sit down. I had started to feel horribly weak and feeble, like if I were to try to punch someone it would be nothing more than a love pat.
I finished my news story around 3 and went home, rested up and felt a little better by night time…just enough to stay on my feet for extended periods of time.
Went to bed around midnight, woke up at 7:45 and the headache, stomachache and the queasiness is gone — but the energy still isn’t there.
It’s really weird because I’ve largely been devoid of any energy for the past two weeks now, and I feel like everywhere I go I could just curl up and sleep. It’s odd.
At any rate I’m back on my feet again today and I’m thankful for being mostly healthy.
Ladies and gentlemen, we now have our Springfield Open Football Association shirts for sale. Ya know, the ones that have your name and number on ‘em.
Here is the general design…
Creator Designs has won the job, so to speak, with the lowest price of $15.50 per shirt. The minimum order is 12 and we have six confirmed so far. If you play in SOFA on Sundays or you want to be a super-fan or something, order a shirt!!!
If you wish to order, please let me know your name, jersey number and shirt size. Email me at chris AT chris-brewer DOT com and let me know what’s up. Also bring $15.50 to football on Sunday.
We’ll have the order in by late next week.
(cross-posted at the SOFA site)
There is a good story about the above photo of a monolithic crow.
Chehalis, Washington is home to a wacky store called Yard Birds. My grandparents used to live just up the street from the place, and sometimes when I visited them, our excursions into town would lead us into Yard Birds and past this giant dopey smiling bird that I found mesmerizing and amazing.
Every time we passed that bird, I wondered how it was built, how it got there and why the frick was some giant crow sitting there beside the road. Shoot, you can even see the thing from I-5 if you look through the trees.
Well, to make a long story short, I remember praying to the good Lord Jesus at night from the room in which I would stay at my grandparents’ house. One time I thought the bird was so big that had to be the place my prayers were going. You could see that thing for a wide radius…it was truly a sight to see.
As I grew older into my early teenage years, the Yard Birds was replaced with a Shop ‘N’ Kart store — what was once a giant surplus store was became a creepy supermarket and a whole lotta open space.
I also remember there being some really weird wrestling matches once Yard Birds closed.
Yes, Yard Birds had closed (I hear it has reopened???) but the bird still remained. Unfortunately I never had the opportunity to see an even larger bird grace Kresky Avenue as it burned down long before my time.
Why am I writing all of this, you ask? Because a weird part of my childhood has a big brother that needs to be resurrected. WE MUST BRING BACK THE BIG YARD BIRDS BIRD!!!
My good man Jordache Perozzo, who once hailed from the area, has created a Facebook cause to bring the big oafy bird back. I’ve joined it and I think it’s a noble cause…donate some cash here and there incrementally for donation to the Lewis County Historical Museum.
Although rebuilding it is a pipe dream, we can at least rally for a display in the museum. Join the cause and if you can’t donate cash, at least donate some good thoughts and wishes.
Let’s bring back the BIG Yard Birds Bird in some fashion!!!
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