That last thread was getting a little long. Time for a new one. Talk on. No snow on the horizon yet. Temperatures only in the 30’s during the day on Wednesday.
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Open Thread……………………………………Wednesday, December 8
Cargo,
I just saw a clip on the news of the Richmond Christmas Parade. The clip was of the Rudolph balloon getting clipped by the traffic light at Meadow (Rd?). leaving him with a hole in his head. I imagine there were a couple of crying kids when they saw Rudolph deflate. Did you see this happen Saturday? I tried finding the clip to share, but to no avail.
@Laf, oh dear God, Rudolph is dead. Killed in Richmond. I hope Cargo didn’t do it.
The Hylton Planetarium will be having a Holiday show open to the public. Unfortunately there are no advance tickets. It’s on a first come, first serve basis. These looks like a great evening of entertainment.
From the article dates/times.
The holiday show runs Dec. 9 at 6:30 p.m. and 8:15 p.m., Dec. 10 at 8:15 p.m., Dec. 16 at 6:30 and 8:15 p.m., Dec. 17 at 6:30 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. and Dec. 21 at 8:15 p.m.
Tickets are $10 at the door and are sold first come, first served. Advanced tickets are not sold.
http://www2.insidenova.com/news/2010/dec/07/hylton-planetarium-offers-window-stars-ar-701180/
The school is at 14051 Spriggs Road. For the planetarium show, enter through door number 3.
Moon and Gainesville, I thought of both of you when I saw this article.
I didn’t find the clip from channel 4, but I did find this one with written story, stills, and video. Channel 4 said to the kids not to worry, Santa will have Rudolph guiding him this year. Enjoy!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336381/Horrified-children-watch-hugh-Rudolph-balloon-burst-Christmas-parade-Virginia.html?ITO=socialnet-twitter-mailonline
30th anniversary of the death of John Lennon. Hard to believe.
Morning Joe is saying that Lennon’s death was the first real evidence that the baby boomers had arrived to take their place in society as the dominant age group.
Go boomers go.
The Beatles albums outsold all but one other artist in the last decade. Amazing. Their band formed in 1960. UFB.
Joe Scarborough is speaking to one of Steve Thomas’s themes about it being more difficult to be crappy to someone after looking them in the eyes. (Sorry Steve, if I botched what you are saying.) The topic is about bullying and varieties of it.
Who’s John Lennon?
Wow, that was quick… a few weeks ago I posted the list of 111 companies that have applied for and got Obamacare waivers including some of it’s biggest supporters (SEIU and other labor unions). Well, in just 3 short weeks that list has now doubled to 222. I wonder how long it will be until it doubles again…
Full list here: http://www.hhs.gov/ociio/regulations/approved_applications_for_waiver.html
Pretty soon it may be easier to just count who hasn’t gotten a waiver.
Are you afraid your company will get one, hello?
http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2010/122010/12072010/592561
Up the Irish!
What kind of flim flam was Corey trying to pull last night regarding changes to the environmental chapter? When will he stop trying to sneak things past the public–his constituents? Apparently some of his colleagues put their respective feet down this time.
Stay tuned…..
“Looked at only white U.S. children with at least one college educated parent.”
Whoa, we need to be more inclusive. Suggest we add Asian students, especially
for the math and science test.
Nope. Didn’t see that. What a shame.
I wouldn’t shoot Rudolf. I like venison but that glowing nose seems indicative of radiation poisoning…. 😉
So are we making a smart and a dumb list?
If I had to do it all over again I would marry a plumber rather than a white collar worker. You can’t do with out one and they are often very rich. College isn’t required.
@Cargo, Love Canal Rudolph.
@Moon-howler
The tract we lived in in California in the early 70s was inhibited by all tiers of society, but the only resident who drove a Cadillac, a pink one at that, was the PLUMBER!
My granddaughter is dating one right now!
Well, it wasn’t really INHIBITED, rather INHABITED.
(Those slippery keys!)
Sounds like your daughter is chosing wisely, especially if she wants a Cadillac.
“A nation that scorns excellence in plumbing and tolerates shoddiness
in philosophy will have neither pipes or theories that hold water.”
John Gardner
The BOCS session last night was also pretty revealing regarding the Dominion Power Line issue for Manassas. Being a City guy serving on a tri-jurisdictional Commission (the two Cities & PWC), I review the BOCS Agenda each time. A little cautious of what happens in the County since one issue back in 2007.
So, saw the Glen-Gery rezoning and amendment of Comp Plan, and my interests got raised. I looked at the various maps on the Agenda, and compared them to the maps Dominion has up on their website.
I was following the presentation when the point came up about the proposed line – and the comments that Glen-Gery is in discussion with Dominion, and the “Big D”, in working with running lines, is avoiding the Enviromental Areas on G-G’s property. Big D told G-G their preference is to run down the side of the railroad tracks, come down the By-Pass 234, and then down Harry Parrish Blvd.
Going to the Big D meeting later today to hear, but with the BOCS approving the two action items on G-G, almost say the track of the wires is a done deal.
Have to go back and watch the other piece though….Moon, you are the second person I know who today has raised a flag about it.
M-H, Many an individual often wishes they had married a good plumber
or at least had one in their family who lived close. And with a Cadillac
it would help to have ties with a first rate auto mechanic.
My point is the academic study in the article fairly compared
apples to apples. (cohort to cohort?).
family puts 350,000 lights on home!
http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/26052636/detail.html
They’re debating the nightmare act right now. Vote at 8:30, Senate right after that, supposedly.
@Slowpoke Rodriguez
I wish the nightmare act would be put to bed for once and all!
Thanks for the update. Listening to Steny Hoyer now.
@e
After taking a look at the lightshow I couldn’t help but wonder whether this person has any neighbors.
Another proof of Chrismas/Holiday insanity.
Thanks for posting that Lafayette. I didn’t even know they had a planetarium at one of the local schools. Sounds interesting.
Too funny about the Rudolph balloon deflating by the way!
More people than usual are getting caught in spam. Not sure why. Let me know so I can go drag you out. grrrrrr. Sorry. I don’t know why it happens.
Big Dog, I lost track of the intent of your original comment. I am sorry. I got off on the plumber track….
M-H,
Of course, White House “plumbers” have often made the front page.
My favorite part of “A Christmas Carol”
They were a boy and girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility. Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing. No change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade, through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread.
Scrooge started back, appalled. Having them shown to him in this way, he tried to say they were fine children, but the words choked themselves, rather than be parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude.
“Spirit! are they yours?” Scrooge could say no more.
“They are Man’s,” said the Spirit, looking down upon them. “And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it!” cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. “Slander those who tell it ye! Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse! And bide the end!”
“Have they no refuge or resource?” cried Scrooge.
“Are there no prisons?” said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. “Are there no workhouses?”
The bell struck twelve.
-Charles Dickens
A comment about the recent PISA (Program International Student
Assesment) test mentioned in comment #10 link caught my
attention because it attempts to compare apples to apples –
cohorts to cohorts. Something all academic assesments should do.
Geotags in your photos, especially from your smartphone, may tell more about you than you want the world to know. This is one reason why the Army doesn’t like smartphones on the battlefield.
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/images/pdf/1012-geotags.pdf
In August of 2010, Adam Savage, of “MythBusters,” took a photo of his vehicle using his smartphone. He then posted the photo to his Twitter account including the phrase “off to work.”
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Since the photo was taken by his smartphone, the image contained metadata reveling the exact geographical location the photo was taken.
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So by simply taking and posting a photo, Savage revealed the exact location of his home, the vehicle he drives and the time he leaves for work.
The following was published in
Wired Magazine in 2009
“I ran a little experiment. On a sunny Saturday, I
spotted a woman in Golden Gate Park taking a
photo with a 3G iPhone. Because iPhones embed
geodata into photos that users upload to Flickr or
Picasa, iPhone shots can be automatically placed
on a map. At home I searched the Flickr map, and
score—a shot from today. I clicked through to the
user’s photostream and determined it was the
woman I had seen earlier. After adjusting the
settings so that only her shots appeared on the
map, I saw a cluster of images in one location.
Clicking on them revealed photos of an apartment
interior—a bedroom, a kitchen, a filthy living room.
Now I know where she lives.”
Carago, you’re giving away our best tricks! – bastardization of a quote from WarGames.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNiiBrEHBWA
Next your gonna tell people about how LE is trained to seize gaming machines because they can be a treasure trove of h4x0r tools or states secrets.
WarGames is such a classic movie. It’s why I wanted to be a future digital warrior on the electronic battlefield. 😉
Blame Michael Yon. He’s the one that posted the Army pdf.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46198.html
This makes me very, very happy.
The global warming scientists and climate activists that can understand the earth’s climate and demand we change our ways sign a petition to ban Di-Hydrogen Monoxide.
That would be H2O.
Oh, and they support destroying this nation’s economy, lowering our GDP by 6%, from 14.266 trillion to 13.41 trillion. Now THAT would be a recession….
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2010/12/hilarious-green-activists-fall-for-the-old-%E2%80%9Cdihydrogen-monoxide%E2%80%9D-petition-prank-at-cancun-global-warming-summit-video/
President Obama has finally unified the country. Now its HIS party that is saying “F… the President.”
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2010/12/meltdown-dem-lawmaker-mutters-f-k-the-president-during-closed-meeting/
I wonder if MSNBC will comment.
Northern VA’s own Jim Moron, the epitome of class!
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/133039-dems-show-signs-of-abandoning-obama-after-frustration-with-tax-deal
Ok…I have very limited Internet service for a few days. Call people by their right names. There is no one named moron.
It is easier to just take comments down than baby sit.
Oh, oops!
I dig this! Progressives are attacking Obama in the most classless ways imaginable, and we’re caught around the axle on a typo! Love It!!!
Whatever works. just so I don’t have to baby sit using only an ipad.
FIOS sucks. It’s great when it works and an invention of the devil when it doesn’t.
I was a little late to the “Some New Heroes” thread but I was the person MH was referring to with problems with the flooded unbuilt lot next to my house. Anyone interested can read the details there.
Unless Elena comes to the rescue I probably won’t try to put up a new post tonight. I don’t do too well with ipad typing. GR, so far I havent ended up in moderation or spam but I am using 3G not wifi. Good thing I got 3G. If you are in doubt….this is ones of those times it comes in handy.
How about that Bill Clinton?? 🙂
@Juturna
🙂 back at ya!! His two biggest fans missed seeing him today. I didn’t though. 😉
Hmmm, , FIOS seems not to be working well for Moon either. And I thought it was just my machine. Son-in-law tells me, however, that there is a mini-epidemic of computer viruses floating around right now. Whenever he can free himself from all those paying clients who are tearing their hair out, he will try to clean up my system. Until then, it is slow…slow…slow…and slower.
I have no idea what’s wrong here. I usually am trouble free.
So will Clinton be on the news? I am sorry to have missed him.
You might be right about 3g vs. wifi on the ipad. Well, other than for this, I haven’t had any issues with wifi on the ipad and have so far managed to find wifi where I am with it.
I have to say this. Anyone who saw the press conference early this evening got a 1/2 hour look at a real President of the United States. It was really something to watch Obama slink off to a Christmas Party, leaving Bubba behind to show us what a real President looks like and sounds like. He’s still got it!
Internet is mysteriously cured. This is absurd.
Slow, I will fully admit to loving Bill above all others. I cried the day he left office like he had died. I feared what was coming.
Yet, I know it is unfair to hold others to that standard. I feel he was THE president of my lifetime.