My Life by Location

I enjoy visiting the Google Sightseeing site every once in awhile. Generally, I end up looking at all sorts of things other than the original topic. This spurred an idea; catalog how my life has played out by location.


I created a Google map of my own and placed pointers around the country to various places I have lived, worked, or had something to point out. There really isn’t a point to this other than to see what it looked like when it was done and to satisfy my geekiness quota for the day.

I’m not sure how I feel other than to say maybe it’s time to slow down a bit. To be fair, I’ve been a consultant/contractor for ten years now, so I do tend to not work in one place too long (with a notable exception). I clearly need some help in the “how about you move someplace and stay put for awhile” category.

Twitter

I'm playing with Twitter again (see the twitter updates in the column to the right on my blog). I'm not sure why, other than they have a handy little gadget that plugs into the Google desktop (which I recently started using again). If you're asking "what the hell is Twitter?", then you're probably as old as I am (or older) and you can read this to learn more.

Interesting Reading

• A real person, a real death
• In perhaps the greatest scientific discovery of all time, the nitrates in bacon have been found to minimize the damage caused by heart attacks. Bonus: they don't cause cancer either
• World Sunlight Map
• Alcohol Consumption per Capita

Interesting Reading

• Top 15 Celebrity Transformations
• Suicide Bombing Makes Sick Sense in Halo 3
• 11 Phenomenal Images of Earth
• Earth Clock

Interesting Reading

• Why We Should All Become Muslims
• Why It Was a Good Idea to Attack Iraq
• ROYGBIV-ness
• Top 10 Most Expensive Libations
  

Welcome to Christmas!

I love it when I'm right. Or in this case, I'm pretty much smug knowing that I was right and miserable that I know I'm going to be tortured with non-stop Christmas advertising for 55 days.

I submit to you the proof: Star 102 FM in Kansas City. Now an all Christmas all the time format! You can even stream it now! Merry Christmas!

The Christmas Conspiracy

Happy Halloween! Enjoy it while you can, because it's already gone. And it won't be back either.

My fiancée and I have been commiserating on the sad state of Halloween at our places of work. She, an elementary school teacher, has been told to not to wear any Halloween related clothing or costumes and to prepare a lesson plan to celebrate "Multicultural Day." I don't know about you, but I just can't contain my excitement at the thought of celebrating "Multicultural Day." As my she points out, "Why celebrate our own traditions when we can celebrate everyone else's?"

As a corporate drone, I used to enjoy the annual costume contest sponsored by the company, whereas this year it is noticeably absent. There is a total of one person in costume within eyesight, and he went through the painstaking process of putting on a funny hat. He's a rebel.

I'm pretty sure there is an insidious plan afoot. Did you notice the Christmas lights going up prior to Thanksgiving last year? The marketing people for Christmas have clearly decided that now that they've blown past Thanksgiving, it's time to attack the next holiday in line: Halloween. In just a few short years, July 4th red, white and blue will be replaced with green and red, with flaming Christmas trees being launched skyward. You read it here first.

I used to think the neighbors were Whiskey Tango for leaving their lights up all year; now I know that they were just ahead of their time.