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Richard Ashcroft – Natural Rebel
Former The Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft's fourth record, These People, an album that was ten years in the making, was a rousing comeback that saw Ashcroft take aim at the injustices of the world. Unfortunately his fifth solo record, Natural Rebel, a swift follow-up to These People, can't even come close to recreating the iconic frontman's best work. In fact, it feels incredibly meandering, sauntering and with limited ideas at its disposal. Like a pastiche of American 70s soft-rock, it's a far cry from Ashcroft's superb back-catalogue as a solo star and with The Verve. Gone is the gritty exterior, and all that stands is a soppy, formulaic mess.
Tvam – Psychic Data
For a number of years, Wigan's Joe Oxley has been making a big name for himself under his Tvam moniker. Creating an intoxicating and heady mix of rave and shoegaze from the confines of his bedroom, there seemed little rush to release a debut album. However, at last, Psychic Data arrives, and it confirms Oxley as one of the most interesting artists around at the moment.
Cloud Nothings – Last Building Burning
Cloud Nothings have always been a terrific live act but, despite having a number of good albums, they've never truly managed to capture the beauty of their on-stage performances into recorded form. However, Last Building Burning is a record which finally emits the frantic energy of their gigs and a culmination of the Cleveland band's development.
John Grant – Love Is Magic
Back for the fourth time as a solo artist, John Grant has returned with another treasure trove of quips, sardonic wit, and an ever-increasing array of electropop classics. His love of synths and keyboards have been there since his 2010 solo debut Queen of Denmark, but this record finds him fully embraced in that world. As with this year's Creep Show side project, Grant is again working with Ben Edwards, and that collaboration continues to provide rich pickings. "Each record I make is more of an amalgamation of who I am," he explains, saying that this record, "is closer still to how I've always wanted my records to sound".
Connan Mockasin – Jassbusters
Jassbusters is New Zealand born Connan Mockasin's third record, not including his side project with Sam Dust, Soft Hair, and one which sees him retain his crown as king of crooning. Recorded in 2016, it was only released last Friday (12th October) via Mexican Summer. A first of its kind for the artist in many ways, Jassbusters was recorded with a band, as well as being paired with a five part melodrama film, Bostyn 'n Dobsyn. The project spent 20 years in development – but took just 10 days to film. His work is so spectacularly peculiar, it seems only right that it spills onto the screen; and the first screening will be at the Barbican next month.
Jess Glynne – Always In Between
It's hard to believe that it was just a few years ago that Jess Glynne burst into the charts alongside deep house producer Route 94 with hit track 'My Love' along with a feature on Clean Bandit's 'Rather Be'. Since then she's worked with the likes of Rudimental, as well as releasing her debut I Cry When I Laugh, which spawned hits such as 'Hold My Hand', 'Don't Be So Hard On Yourself' and 'Real Love'.
Now Glynne is back with her sophomore album, Always In Between, which features the singles 'I'll Be There' and 'All I Am'.
The Kvb – Only Now Forever
Returning for the first time since 2016, Only Now Forever feels like a new chapter for The Kvb. The pair chose to produce the album themselves this time around, with that decision coinciding with a newly found liberal attitude towards instrumentation.
Kurt Vile – Bottle It In
The Philadelphia rocker dropped the most successful album of his career with his last solo LP, 2015's B'lieve I'm Goin Down. Then, last year, he released an acclaimed collaboration album with Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett, Lotta Sea Lice. Now 38 and set to release his seventh solo album, Kurt Vile is continuing on his upward trajectory, whilst documenting his fears, hopes, and dreams on this, his most personal album to date.
Haley – Pleasureland
To the casual follower of Haley Bonar (real name Haley McCallum), a fully instrumental album like Pleasureland will seem like it has come out of left field. However, in truth, the clues were there as far back as 2011's debut Golder with its moody instrumental pieces hidden away inside. This album, released as the punchier Haley, takes that inclination to its logical conclusion, offering a fascinating and atmospheric view on the world.
The story goes that Matador played this experienced and relatively successful singer/songwriter an Adele album, the point being made to demonstrate what a hit album sounds like. Despite a working relationship with the esteemed American label stretching back 20 years, they didn't think Wanderer was worth their time or effort.
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'No, my hometown didn't have a Costco'
When I was growing up Midcentury-Modern Style in the Midwest, my very small home town had a main street with a few stores (and several taverns) on it.
If you wanted to, say, buy a Christmas present for your mom (Evening in Paris was a popular choice), you'd take your allowance or your paper route money and go to the Dime Store. (Ours was a Ben Franklin, but we always called it the "Dime Store".) Which was owned by a really crabby guy who totally didn't like kids and would follow you around like you were going to shoplift. There really wasn't any other option.
Then, sometime after I'd gone off to college, a Walmart came to town. It was out on the west end by the Dairy King (totally different from the Dairy Queen). A (gasp) Walmart.
My Personal Family. In the front yard of the house I grew up in — in my Walmart-welcoming home town
Did my town protest? Did they try to keep that Walmart out? No way. They welcomed it, big-time. I remember reading a Big Story about its Grand Opening in the local paper (which I subscribed to because I worked there during the summers.) And it was only a matter of time — and not much time, either — before everyone was shopping at this new Walmart.
They weren't crabby at Walmart, for one thing. They had (and still do have) these Greeters, who go "Welcome to Walmart" when you come in the door, and say "Thank you for shopping, please come again" when you leave. Take that, crabby Dime Store Guy.
Why is this goldfish smiling? Maybe because you can buy him — and dozens and dozens of his friends — at Walmart
And Walmart had everything. You could buy not only giant cartons of milk and huuuuuge bags of Cheetos, you could get rose mulch and stereos and DVDs and khaki pants and baby shoes and glitter. My Nephew once bought a BB gun there. (Walmart cheerfully took it back, even though it had been fired, when he returned it for some reason I do not recall, probably involving his absent mother.)
Nephew Phil (or is that Groucho?) without his Walmart BB gun. But I bet that's where he got that disguise
Walmart became so popular (at least in my family) that I remember coming home for some sort of school break, sitting at the kitchen table sipping coffee, when Mom goes, "Who wants to go on a Walmart Run?" Turns out a "Walmart Run" was a Thing.
Yup. My Mom got her coffee at Walmart. And after consuming some, she'd go right back to Walmart
My Late Lamented Dad even called The Child "Walmart" — before and after she was born. See, while preggers with her, I was of course asked many times what names The Dude and I were considering for our imminent bundle of joy. Sometimes, if feeling feisty, I'd do a riff on the trend for non-traditional names. Which is perfectly okay by me, O You Who Have Named Your Child "Brie". I just happen to think it amusing to name a child after a type of cheese. If "Brie" is cool, why not "Cheddar"? Or, how 'bout this one: "Time for supper, Camembert!"
My father amusing some random child whose name I can't recall (tho I bet it wasn't "Roquefort") with a sparkler, no doubt purchased at Walmart
Anyway, I'd been amusing my father with this funny-name bit; had run through the Cheese Names and the State Names (If "Montana" and "Dakota" are cool, why not "Delaware"?) and even the Neighborhoods in New York City names (If "Chelsea" is hip, why not "Soho"? Or "Tribeca"?) Well, I was just getting into the Store Names (I like "Tiffany" for a girl, and I think "Duane Reade" is rather distinguished for a boy, don't you?) — when Dad pipes up. "Walmart"! It's a great name for a boy or a girl.
So he called her "Walmart". For years.
Speaking of children, we recently enjoyed our annual visit from The Dude's nephew, his amazing wife and their three-count-em-three frisky and adorable girls. The Dude and I, being grandchildless, are drawn like moths to their collective flame. But then so are The Child and her BF.
The Child and BF roughhousing (er, playing) with the Adorable Girls
This is the nephew and wife who started a chocolate company (yes, they started it!) that you may have heard of. It's called Taza, and makes incredibly delish stone-ground chocolate. They make dozens of products (I have to hide the chocolate-covered hazelnuts from The Dude's Brother Bill) but on this visit they were most excited by a new one they developed for Costco.
It's called the Paleo Dark Chocolate Slab. And you can only get it at Costco
Now, you can indeed find Taza products at your friendly neighborhood Walmart. But Costco, unlike Walmart, is a membership-only buying club. And it, well, has a certain je ne sais quois. New York City Upper East-Siders who wouldn't be caught dead in a Walmart will happily drive their Range Rovers up to Northern Manhattan (yes, I said "Manhattan") to stock up on organic stock from free-range chickens (as well as their eggs) and almond milk (no doubt from free-range almonds) and the like.
How the Paleo display will look in a Costco. If you are lucky enough to be able to go to Costco
This new Taza product, being Paleo and all, is a perfect foodie fit for Costco-goers. (I tried some, and even though I am not a Paleo Person, it certainly hit my personal Sweet Spot.) We were pretty excited for them — and for the lucky Costco-goers who get to buy it. I'm betting it'll be such a big hit that sometime soon I'll be hearing my fellow Upper East-Siders saying, "Hey, who wants to go on a Costco Run?"
No need for a Costco Run here. These lucky girls have parents who own the whole darned chocolate company
New York City. June 2019
Tags childhood memories, Costco, family, food, growing up, humor, Main Street, midwest, New York, shopping, small towns, stories, Taza Chocolate, Walmart
'Yet another trip down my personal Memory Highway'
It might be only a tad wider than a sidewalk, and just over a mile long, but The Seaside Promenade — lovingly dubbed 'The Prom' — is jammed with traffic. Memory traffic; for me, that is.
As you Faithful Readers know all too well by now, I was raised, Midcentury-Modern-style, in a small town in the Midwest. It was a nice enough small town, but as it happened, all five of us Henry Kids scattered to the four corners of the country pretty much as soon as we could get our respective acts together.
The small-towny, rather Carlyle-esque house where my parents lived in Seaside
And, a decade or so after the last of their brood flew the coop, our parents too pulled up stakes (I'm dizzy from mixing metaphors here) and relocated to Seaside, Oregon, an unassuming small coastal town that one of my beloved-and-hilarious Younger Brothers immediately christened "Carlyle-by-the-Sea".
We had an Old Crab or two in Carlyle, too
Similarities? Lutheran Church with coffee hour: check. Library where they forgive an overdue book (or two or five): check. Neighbors who don't mind if you "drop in": double check. Plenty of local character(s), too. Carlyle had Skinny Man and Skinny Lady and That Guy Who Rode His Bike Everywhere (when I was a kid, a bike-riding Grownup was definitely considered a "character"); Seaside had Bubble Man. This was a guy who rode a bike-like contraption that spit out bubbles. I never actually saw him, but my brothers swear that he existed.
Just like home: Carlyle HS Buddy Dan drops in on Mom for a Seaside chat
But Seaside has something that Carlyle, even with its Corps-of-Engineers-dam-and-Illinois'-Largest-Lake, just doesn't have: the Pacific Ocean. And with that Prom running right alongside.
Typical morning, typical weather, atypical view: The Prom on a recent early stroll
My parents loved that Prom. My Mom still gets out there every day (every day when it's not doing what she calls "sideways rain", that is) and walks it. Even my Dad, who notoriously hated walking — he would drive to his office when they lived in Carlyle; and his office was literally across the street ("Why don't you walk, Dad?" "I might want to drive somewhere once I'm there." "Oh.") — even my Dad could be induced to give The Prom a stroll now and then. (Though my Mom and I had a sneaking suspicion that he did this so he could sneak a cigarette, speaking of "sneaking".)
Both Dad and Mom also rode bikes along The Prom. Once a cop stopped Dad because he thought he was riding stolen property. But nope; turned out someone else in Seaside had a bright blue three-wheeler.
One of two identical blue trikes in Seaside. This is the one with my Dad on it
And once when I was on a Prom stroll, I met my Mom coming from the other direction on her (regular, two-wheel) bike. She motioned me to stop. "Hey, there's a naked couple playing cards right by the window in that motel up ahead," she stage-whispered. And, sure enough, there was.
The motel where the naked couple were playing cards. Bricked-up doors, but curtains that definitely do open
I'm pretty sure this was the same motel where the lady stayed who kept her horse tethered right outside. But it might have been another one a bit further on. Seaside has dozens of motels, including one boasting of a "Heated Indoor Pool" with water the color of soy sauce. Yes, you can see it through the window.
There's plenty more to see on The Prom, and not just through windows. There are adorable pail-and-shovel-toting children galore, and hand-holding couples of all ages, most sporting every type of tattoo imaginable (the couples, not the adorable children; though one can't be sure). And I think it's a local law that Prom-strollers be accompanied by a cute dog.
Forgot your tattoo? No worries; you can get one here — along with "Free Advice". My advice? Don't get a tattoo
There's this place midway on The Prom called the "Turnaround", because, well, that's where all the cars have to turn around, the road ending at the ocean and all. There's a statue of Lewis and Clark there because that's where they had to turn around too, the trail ending there and all. (The whole Lewis-and-Clark Thing is fascinating — Cape Disappointment! — remind me to tell you more another time.)
"She had a hat." Selfie Time at the Turnaround
On any given day, there's lots going on at the Turnaround. Once The Child and I were the only ones dancing to a street band. And another time my Mom and Favorite Sister and I had to jockey for selfie space with a gaggle of Furries.
Smile and say "fur!" A group of Furries at the Turnaround
But, basically, The Prom, including its Turnaround, is all about the Pacific Ocean and that incredible view. Here, in closing, is a 360 taste. This was shot just a few days ago from the relatively quiet, non-Furry-and-street-band-infested end of The Prom. And already, like everything else I've told you about here, it's a memory.
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New York City. May 2019
Tags boardwalk, family, Furries, growing up, humor, Lewis and Clark, midwest, motels, Pacific Ocean, prom, Seaside, small towns, stories, travel
'The dirty little downside of belonging to a big happy family'
I have this very good friend, Jim, who is astonished that anyone could have grown up in a house with only one bathroom. It's a good thing he doesn't read my blog, because he would be shocked (shocked!) to hear that not only did we Henrys share a bathroom — we also shared our bathwater.
(Of course, he told me once he shares a shower with his cat, so there's that.)
Anyway. Back to the Henrys and their sharing of the suds.
Those of you who do read my blog (bless you many times over) know that I am the proud member of a large, happy family. A large happy family who did a lot of sharing.
We shared popcorn in front of the TV, we shared (sort of) the toys in the toy box, we shared seats in the car. (See 'He's Breathing My Air' for how that worked out.) Of course we shared bedrooms. My parents (natch) shared Mom and Dad's Room, my three brothers shared The Boys' Room, and I shared The Girls' Room with my Favorite Only Younger Sister Laura. She and I shared so nicely that she even tried to move on to cohabit my dorm room when I went to college. (It's a pretty good story, called 'Larry and the Nose Holes'; you might like to read it after this one.)
We shared chores too. Here I am enthusiastically taking my turn loading our (quite astonishing at the time) dishwasher
And all five of us (plus two parents) shared our one bathroom — and the bathtub in it. When we were little and there were only three of us kids, Mom would line us up in there all in one go: me in the deep end, Scott in the middle, and Roger at the shallow end. Later, when there were more of us, we took turns.
I'm honestly not sure if this was about efficiency — it taking less time to bathe children using the sequential-dunking technique — or whether it was about the fact that our hot water heater couldn't face the challenge of five tub fill-ups. But I do remember being grateful that I was the oldest and therefore got dibs on the hottest (first) bath.
In my family, bath sharing happened even before I had any siblings. Here I am getting squeaky-clean with my Aunt Susie and Cousin Jimmy
I guess sharing water was a Henry Thing. Here I am sharing a washtub with some Unidentified Cousin. At least we have pants on
Of course, there was a brief blip before my oldest younger brother was born when I got to have the tub all to myself. (See the photo at the top of this post, taken when Mom and I lived at my Gramma Peterson's while my Dad was away in Korea, for seriously cute proof.)
Being the firstborn, I got everything all to myself for a while — including the kitchen sink
Being a child at the time, I honestly don't remember being grossed out or embarrassed by having to share my bath time ablutions. But I do remember being humiliated and horrified when my brothers would dig this particular photo out of the big cardboard box in the attic and taunt me with it. Sometimes they'd even threaten to show it to my friends.
The incriminating photo. It didn't help that my mother had written "Big Girl!" on the back
New York City. April 2019
Tags bathing, bathroom humor, bathrooms, bathtub, childhood memories, cousins, family, growing up, humor, kids, small towns, stories
'When it comes to age, everything is relative.'
My Favorite Younger Sister Laura (at left above, smiling and be-hatted) has a lot going on and is often in a hurry. When someone dawdles, say, at a traffic light that has just turned green — or spends too much time chatting up the checkout girl at Costco, she is wont to mutter "while we're still young".
She does this so often that when her adorable daughter Natalie was only about two, she would parrot her, much to our amusement.
But, amusement aside, "while we're still young" has begun to resonate with me, and not just at traffic lights.
See, we helped The Child celebrate her birthday last week. And I realized that she is now the same age I was when I pulled up my socks and moved myself to New York City. This was a pretty brave thing for me to do at the time. (And yes, there's a story, called "Take a Letter, Miss Henry".) I didn't know a soul here, but I decided I needed to get my Ad Career into gear before I got too old. Continue reading
Date April 2, 2019
Tags aging, birdwatching, birthday, Child, childhood memories, daughters, family, growing up, humor, moms, relatives, sisters, stories, theories, young
"I seen smallah"
'Alice's Adventures in Underwear'
You just gotta love the Seventies. Well, at least I did. One reason was because in the Seventies, even in the Midwest where I was living at the time, underwear — at least of the brassiere type — was optional.
Me. In the Seventies. When I didn't wear, um, glasses
See, I hate wearing a bra. Which is kind of funny because when I was 12 or 13 or thereabouts I could hardly wait to wear one. I remember feeling all embarrassed in PE (what you may have called "Phys Ed") when we girls were changing into our bloomers (honest injun, we wore bloomers in PE) and I was the only one sporting an undershirt.
Do little girls still wear undershirts? Well, I'm sure as heck wearing one in the school photo at the top of this post. You can see its telltale outlines under that big "A". (My Mom made that dress, and no, that letter "A" was not scarlet.) Continue reading
Tags braless, bras, childhood memories, family, garter belts, growing up, humor, midwest, nylons, pantyhose, Seventies, stories, underwear
Lucky Thirteen
'A match made in high school heaven'
I once read that some people are so freaked out by the number thirteen that many buildings just skip that floor. Kinda makes you think about that dentist on "14", eh?
Well, apparently my parents weren't freaked out — or maybe they just liked to tempt fate — because they were married on the thirteen. I don't know how many times their anniversary fell on a Friday, but I do know that their umpteenth-gazillionth would have been this past Sunday. I say "would have been" because my Dad, unfortunately, is no longer with us to celebrate. Interestingly enough, The Dude's parents also got married on the thirteenth. Of, maybe, November. (Why not ask The Dude, you're probably thinking. Well, I did, and he said "Heck if I know." Men.)
I like to think this was taken on an early anniversary. But they are outside. And there's no snow. So not January
Another Anniversary-Suitable shot. Though also not in January
I called my Mom anyway, because hey, any excuse to call my Mom. She is remarkably fun to talk to. And it gave me a chance to quiz her on some family marital lore.
For example. I had always known that my Mom and Dad didn't have a fancy wedding, but I wasn't totally sure of the circumstances. Were they poor? Were their parents mad at them? Turns out that it was a Religious Thing. My Mom's family was Lutheran (but you knew that), and my Dad's was Catholic. Not Seriously Catholic, but enough to nix a Church Ceremony. Continue reading
Tags anniversary, childhood memories, family, family reunions, Friday the Thirteenth, growing up, humor, midwest, parents, stories, weddings
A very Marilyn Christmas
'A Holiday Tribute to an Aunt I bet Yule wish was yours'
I was feeling a touch of the Christmas Blues the other day. Remembering The Old Days and how we kids used to peer out the car windows at the Christmas trees lighting up the picture windows of the houses in the small towns along Route 50 on the way up to Gramma's house. And how, once we got there, we'd run as fast as we could to the Tree to see just how big it was and to shake the wrapped presents to guess what was in them.
I think I liked pressing my face against windows. Here I am smudging things up at Gramma's
When Christmas Blue, what do you do? Well, I called my Mom. (Thank goodness I still have one.) She knew exactly what I was talking about, and exactly what I was missing: The Marilyn Christmas. Continue reading
Tags Aunt, childhood memories, Christmas, Christmas traditions, Christmas tree, family, growing up, humor, stories
'Words of Wisdom from One Who Is Older Than Dirt'
Yesterday I was with some super-swell women friends at a really nice Christmas lunch — the kind of Christmas lunch where your plate has a festive little foil-wrapped treat placed right there next to your fork by your thoughtful holiday hostess.
Well. The oh-so-elegant and beautifully-dressed woman seated next to me reached right for her shiny red-and-green-befoiled peppermint bark, unwrapped it, and ate it — not only before eating her lunch, but before she'd even ordered.
I must say that I was very impressed.
See, I'm the kind of person who promised myself when I was young that when I finally grew up I would eat dessert first and have sex every chance I got.
Me, posing with Favorite Only Sister, at about the age I promised myself to eat dessert first
Me, posing with Favorite Only Child, at an age where I could keep my promise but, um, didn't
Needless to say, I haven't kept either promise. Not very well, anyway.
The not-eating-dessert-first part had to do with wanting to maintain a svelte silhouette, something that mattered to me more as a matter of economics than vanity. I reasoned that, if I didn't change size, then I wouldn't have to go shopping. (I hate to shop, not having inherited the Shopping Gene from my loves-to-shop mother.) This worked pretty well for years and years. It got so that people recognized me from party to party not because they remembered my name or even my face — but because they remembered my dress. Continue reading
Tags childhood memories, Christmas, dessert, family, growing up, humor, middle age, stories, wisdom
"Is that for me?"
'A post about knitting, of all things'
What with Holiday Nonsense and all, my stats'll probably be in the basement this week anyway, so what the heck — I'll write about knitting.
Yes, knitting.
Knitting is actually a rather comfy cozy thing to do, especially when it's cold out and you're sitting in front of a roaring fire.
Somebody enjoying a roaring fire while not knitting
But I've also done my share of knitting elsewhere. I used to do a lot of it on TV commercial shoots. See, on shoots they have this thing called "craft services", which is basically a big ole table loaded with every kind of tempting snack and/or treat you can think of: chips, cheeses, little pastries and sandwiches, candies of all types, including bowls and bowls of M&Ms. Our producer on a Hershey shoot once got in hot water by stocking M&Ms instead of Reese's Pieces, which was the client's product. She had to explain that the client on that particular Hershey shoot had requested the M&Ms. Continue reading
Date December 4, 2018
Tags advertising, baby gifts, Child, childhood memories, craft services, crafts, family, growing up, humor, knitting, madison avenue, needlework, sweaters, The Dude
Driving the Unicorn
'I've never bought a car. Not a new one, anyway.'
A couple of weeks ago I revealed to all and sundry that I have never, in all my grownup life, bought a couch. (See the aptly-named "I have never bought a couch" for deets.) Not buying a couch, I mused, meant that I'm probably not really a grownup.
Well, today I'm going to admit that I have never bought a car, either. Well, I have bought a car — an old Austin America, which I'll tell you about in a sec — but I've never bought a new car. Where you go in a showroom and talk to a car dealer. You know, like that guy Jerry Lundegaard in "Fargo".
I remember going to the showroom with my whole family to buy this Ford station wagon. It was brown and cream and smelled amazing
I got to thinking about this whole new-car thing because we just got back from our annual Best-Friends-in-the-Catskills Visit. (See "Take me home, Country Road" for a nice tale about them.) Said Best Friends always have a new car — they lease a brand-new Mercedes every year. (Something to do with business or some such.) Continue reading
Date October 9, 2018
Tags buying a car, car mechanics, driving, growing up, humor, new car smell, new cars, road trips, stories, theories, travel, Unicorn, used cars
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Place Based Education
I've been suggesting we try the Philippines for mom's elective surgery, not covered by Uncle Sam but the medics think it oughta be dealt with, could maybe go with Victoria, still have the total come out less. Of course if we could get one of those new Swedish policies... or maybe those are illegal if you're a USAer, can't remember all the details right now. A pipe dream at the moment.
It's too late for spring cleaning, yet that work proceeds apace, albeit slowly. I did the Edward Scissorhands thing a few times around the yard, making it all a tad less gothic, though in Portland that tends to be an accepted style (Pied Cow a good example). We had an all clear dining room table last night, less like Great Expectations than usual (no mice skittering, no pythons chasing 'em (Barry lives in a snake aquarium)): catfish for Carol and I and yes, corn on the cob for all of us, now that Tara has a Dr. Joe brand smile, an excellent outcome.
July 4 plans are somewhat up in the air, as to details (not in broad outline), plus this week is already being busy. Portland doesn't really slow down much in summer, though it "shifts gears" I would say. We're happy about our Blues Festival coming around again, a signature aspect of our American heritage, just the right notes for an Independence Day bash. Maybe NSK will send us a card or something. USIA could respond.
I've been talking up "place based education" again, all the rage among charters, has to do with customizing curriculum content to reflect local time and place, for example who are your neighborhood association presidents, your school board members, what voting districts do we have, who represents each one and so on. This might cycle by on an LCD somewhere, along with student placed ads to buy/sell/trade bicycles. Additionally, we want to show about infrastructure, such as Bull Run and the tank system it feeds, but that could be more an OMSI experience and might involve actually going to the place, e.g. Joe Miller's, overlooking said reservoir (lots of history attaching).
Another thing we'd do is spend a lot of time flying over the earth using one of those KH-derived Virtual Earth services, especially locally, as young teens are interested in getting around, should know north from south, east from west, west from north... and so on. It's embarrassing when tourists come around going "where's Atwaters?" and the guy at the bar goes "no such animal" and yet it's right in the neighborhood. That's because news of change needs to propagate, and the schools don't engage in that enough, thinking "the local scene" is for somebody else to teach about, and then they complain when the kids tune out. Go figure.
Facebook Quotes
Posted to Facebook regarding infidelity, in the wake of more news cycles involving yet another politician caught cheating, followed by calls for resignation etc. (hyperlinks added):
I hope we have a single woman as USA president someday, and more singles in office generally, as we waste waaaaay too much time on this infidelity business, not just talking about Clintons. If you're not married then no scandals we need to care about right? Keep 'em private and we'll shut up too if you're not breaking the law. Go ahead and sleep with your secret service guy/gal who the fuck cares, you're the prez!
They've probably already made the movie, but I don't remember what it's called. Whoopi Goldberg as prez maybe, doesn't make it a comedy, could be a touching summer romance. I might go with the Ralph Bakshi cartoon version though, given my tastes (into cartoons, even if they're political).
Speaking of cartoons, I forked out $18 in overdue fees at Movie Madness, partly for those Duckman episodes (no time to watch 'em all), although also for Six Feet Under.
Lobbying Again
:: editing in 2005 ::
Cyberspace has made political lobbying a whole lot easier. The last time I was in Salem for something official, it was to help "Captain Haddock" renew his boat license, and no, I don't see myself as a "Tin Tin" (too much a bwana type), enjoyed his adventures though, had a crush on Snowy maybe (takes some years on the couch to get to those).
Patrick zapped me just the right geochemistry info to crystallize a mini-lesson on Avogadro's Number, easy to "crunchify" -- love that nutty goodness. Lindsey, another drinking buddy, is headed to Gay Pride in SF, a fun event for any WV refugee I'd suppose. Daniel posted this great Pythonic math link to a resource on Ulam's Spiral, one of Trevor's fascinations, good deal. And last but not least, the father-son Sandes team delivered a primetime performance regarding their new "how to program" book. Most excellent (and yummy AVP ammo).
When I worked for Associated Oregon Industries it was different, as the VPN wasn't reliable and besides, there'd be complicated requests, too hard to do over the phone, though yes, minor fixes to a VFP project, followed by a build, means simply shipping a binary, none of this "open source" nonsense (AOI was "no nonsense" about open source, and I do my best to uphold the standards of my client, not my place to proselytize, although within such a broad spectrum organization, you'd expect a healthy variety of views -- mirroring those in the legislature across the street).
The asynchronous nature of cybermedia is highly convenient, like a Library of Congress on steroids. She checks in, I check out right away. I check in, they each grab a copy. And so on, like Mercurial (hg) in a nutshell (talking about the Python platform). I'll get this little cabal looking over my shoulder, no need to reveal itself, then the next thing you know, at some cocktail party, this slinky XX will sidle up to me and say she's been reading my blog. I have to be careful if on chauffeur duty for some MVP out-of-towner. It's unprofessional to succumb to flattery at the drop of a hat. I'm working on my "beefeater catatonia" reflex, a sort of grin and bear it aspect, while secretly enjoying the attention.
I started filling out a Lewis & Clark application today, can't live on lobbying or chauffeuring alone (other clients all satisfied at the moment). EuroPython is happening without me in Birmingham, which is OK, as I'm pretty sure the UK has already studied my open source briefings, reached its own conclusions. It's not like I've made a big secret of our world domination plans or anything. What's UniBasic I wonder? Live and learn. No bizmo in time for the Missoula, Montana (NPYM meeting) looks like, PKL needing more of a posse I'm thinking. Woulda had to fit mom and her walker, but that's hardly a big deal.
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We had a great family gathering with mom and my dad's side, Bill Lightfoot cruising through in his Aztek, having driven across continent in his friend's jeep recently.
I explained about open source again, our operating philosophy. Private silos suck down libraries, make them better, spit them back. We're not trying to "put each other out of business". If you're an oil company, like ConocoPhillips, you need a thriving restaurant business like Bridgeport's, for times off rig.
I've been mixing it up with the math teachers again. On the one hand, you have the obliviously retarded NCTM, a disgrace and laughing stock. On the other, the MAA, not much better, though Keith Devlin has a good column.
Fortunately, we have the IEEE and ACM, not to mention the ACC (American College of Cardiology), all way more steeped in the real needs of civilization and therefore more in a position to steer.
We'll not be expecting the NCTM to ever recover its position of status, as a 1900s bandwagoneer. That's a lost cause I think. Don't pick losers, if planning to win, is my motto.
I've started salivating over the latest Ubuntu Dells, even though the sale prices come courtesy of Vista (I'll pay extra to not have that). Tara wisely counsels just replacing the monitor, as KTU3 running WinXP is a fine device (HP Pavilion), not its fault the nVidia blew, and the Toshiba Satellite (also XP), though it has a loud fan, is perfectly acceptable in for CSN work.
Given I just found the VFP9 disk (thank you Glenn!), I'm back in the money on that score as well.
Here's a remix Tara and I both like (Buffy stakes creepy Twilight guy).
Prisoners for Pelau
This weeks Asian Reporter (June 23, 2009 Vol. 19 #24) has an interesting article by Tomoko A. Hosaka, about Palauans maybe agreeing to accept some prisoners from Gitmo, Chinese Uighurs in particular, although it's not explained where this terrifying subspecies fits in to the confusing 911 debacle, with fogs of war still swirling.
For those not familiar with Palau, it was considered a US Protectorate, something like a tribal sovereignty, where an imperial patriarchy is assumed "in control", an historical fait accompli accomplished through generous payments for civic works.
The AP article uses the transparent "nod nod wink wink" style of international diplomacy via journalism. Monty Python should feel proud.
Hammering out the Compact of Free Association took like seven plebiscites to get right (the women kept voting for more independence, tired of colonial patterns). As senior analyst for AFSC, succeeding Paulette Wittwer at Asian-Pacific Issues News, I spent quite a lot of time researching the place and its history. I actually got to Truk, Kwajalein, Ponape and the Marshall Islands (and Guam), but never to Palau itself, I'm sorry to say.
The pattern goes back to the Indian Wars in that the subjugated party is assumed to be slow and unworldly ("stupid Indians"), while Uncle Sam goes "tsk tsk" about all the mismanged funds:
Koshiba acknowledged Palau's financial missteps, saying, "with so much economic aid (the U.S.) gave us, I guess we were not that good at implementing them right."
"We did spend the money, but we spent [it] on things that were not essential to the growth of the economy, " he said, citing the construction of traditional meeting houses -- or abais -- that boosted cultural pride but are not used.
Of course you have to say they're "not used", as the thought of Palauans actually meeting behind their masters' backs would make the bwanas uncomfortable (sounds almost undemocratic somehow, to be excluded from any meetings), and we all know Banana Republicans like their comfort. So why rock the boat and risk sounding defiant?
The Gitmo prisoners won't go off radar though. Many a university is chomping at the bit to send field workers, to get their story in academically rigorous detail, properly translated. Better access for oral history takers is an integral part of the new agreement I understand.
Palau will likely insist on humane treatment for any Gitmo survivors, with Amnesty International, Red Cross etc. given full visiting rights, lest world tourists, important financially, incorrectly suppose the assholiness of the DC mainlanders has spoiled yet another Pacific oasis.
Not being a veteran of the Portland music scene, I write more as the on duty chauffeur, restricting my intake to the one bottle of Sierra Nevada in this BYOB music bar on Belmont named Duke's, with Duke being a friendly large canine, a kind of FOSS boss ("free" as in "liberal").
The performers were mostly XXs this evening, with XYs on guitars and drums for the third set, a peppy punk band anchored by a "serious girl" in leotards -- and I say that with respect (this is clearly a professional operation, even I could see that).
This was where dancers from the audience started "moshing", which means crashing into one another in a controlled way, a style which takes practice if you don't want bodily injuries. Our groupies, though XXL in some cases, were kind to one another and no one got hurt.
Gem, star of the second set, sang soulful guitar songs, a mix of hers and well-known favorites, including Mad World, a song Tara and I consider one of the more melancholy. Also Halleluja, which took me back to my young Friends in Camp Myrtlewood (land for sale in that area, XRL anyone? Joe is our banker).
Indie Anna Joan, first set, has excellent stage presence mixed with plenty of raw youthful energy of the kind people turn out for. Her lyrics are "naughty" by folk music standards, but those aren't the standards. This is Portland, not the Deep South. "Everyone is stupid!" was one refrain this audience could relate to (a guitar decal later: "America eats its young" -- a Funkadelic allusion).
On the other hand, she brought a West Virginia folksiness and friendliness to her gig that set the house at ease. She set Duke's chew toy, a buckyball, on her Yamaha and started bantering with me when I finally arrived, cursing me out (in a friendly tone) for missing her R2D2 song, which I was indeed sorry to miss.
I'd been geeking out, posting to Math Forum, assuming musicians always start late, didn't yet know about the 11 PM curfew. This was after a productive three day open source un/conference representing 4D Studios, a DWA spin-off (hypertoons etc.).
Given my status as "body guard", Indie could play "Savannah style" (drinking while playing, later slam dance) without worrying about driving home with her equipment. Some of her other fans, including one from Germany, left right after her gig. She already has a following, after just a few weeks in town.
We had another Quaker in the audience, much younger than I (we know each other from Multnomah Friends), good to catch up a little.
I'd recommend all three of these gigs: Cuntagious, Gem, and Indie Anna Joan, to people looking to sample the Portland music scene. I also recommend Duke's on Belmont (around SE 27th) as an intimate setting that's nevertheless pleasing to performers, as they've put some real thought into the stage and sound system. It reminds me somewhat of Someday Lounge, next to Back Space in NW (one of our Esozone venues).
Today I walked five kilometers for St. Andrew's Legal Clinic, a charity Matt favors. I'll link some pictures from the Coffee Shops Network blog where I'm currently chief of marketing (another one of my hats). Then I took a nap with my dog, before heading out to a Quaker gathering at one of the clerks' houses, taking the 75 bus (Razz deserves a rest too).
touring Pauling House
Josh Cronemeyer and I hung out yesterday, following up on our attempts to find each other at Pycon. I introduced him to McMenamins, not far from the Hacker Lounge at the top of the Hilton.
Josh works for ThoughtWorks in Chicago, which reminds me of Patrick's company in some ways.
His talk, on the Hack track, which I'm attending, is about hooking to the bash and/or zsh shell and archiving one's command line history to the cloud via shell-sync (the tool Josh created) implemented with Google App Engine. We're talking about a Python application, in other words.
Josh studied Italian and art history for awhile, lived in Rome, Italy for six months, not far from Termini (the train station downtown). We enjoyed comparing notes. There's also a Quaker connection.
OS Bridge is chugging along great. I caught the end of the fonts talk (typography), again continuing an ISEPP conversation. Amber is here, Gabrielle was here earlier (I told her I'd written up her talk), plus I was pleased to follow up with Sara Ford before she took off. Maybe Redmond keeps her on a short leash? I might -- running CodePlex takes a lotta web wrangling I'd think, gotta stay agile.
I should mention to Steve that Oregon Convention Center does a good job of making a small conference feel cozy. I'd been hyping the Marriott after Pycon, for the upcoming Django conference in the fall, mainly based on fond memories of early OSCONs in that venue, close to RiverPlace. Anyway, I'm not on the arrangements committee -- hard to go wrong in Portland if working with pros, lots of ways to play your cards.
There's this geek, Dave Rauchwerk, telling hilarious stories, about making a fool of himself in all these cool ways. He knows a lot of lore, and lore is important. Richard Feynman is a hero, not just Richard Stallman or that Oracle guy. Other speakers brought in boxes full of stuffed dragons, a lava lamp, other swag. I obviously missed a good talk. I also missed Assholes are Killing Your Project (so true, why that backspace button is so important (alluding to Amber's keynote)).
Now I'm in Open Source: the Dark Side, about our tribes, cults, dictatorships, fiefdoms, other anthropology. Jennifer Redmond is taking on the word "objectify", in particular with regard to women ("or even men as well", she adds). "Has anyone here read The Second Sex?" she wants to know. Not seeing a lot of hands.
CouchDB: Perform like a pr0n star
(Golden Gate Ruby Conference)
There's this R-rated mentality etc., which feels like a loss of professionalism to our speaker. She took off for Africa (e.g. Madagascar) after the dot com bust, returning during the web framework bonanza (PHP, Python...) run by these "rock star" script kiddies who were/are actually somewhat immature, more amateurs really, doing a lot of non-scalable stuff, somewhat selfishly self-enamored. They've not been mentored in pro shops, come straight from hacking on some Linux box in the basement. How to address this?
Her answer is, appropriately, anthropological: we need more taboos. "Smack talk" on mailing lists turns people off, mostly guys being rude and crude in tiresome ways. Lots of corporate cultures just aren't that fun, kinda screwy, lotsa jerks. Language communities might get this way too, what to do?
Professionalism: dealing with people in a way that's not personal in a lot of ways, thinking more in a macro way, realizing you don't know everything, learning the basics, understanding your silo isn't the only one, has a half life. Respecting elders might be a part of it, understanding that experience counts for something.
If you ask a silly question, and get a nasty answer, that might scar you for life. This seems a lot like the same dark side we get in the closed source world -- not surprising I suppose.
Let's agree that FOSS has definitely lowered barriers to entry, so you'll get this "bratfinks with power tools" syndrome (could be in suits). True, we may have disproportionately fewer professionals as a result, but that's a welcome cost of democratization, plus cultures have their ways of adapting (this conference is a sign of that).
I think the personal tutoring model is maybe making a comeback, and this might help raise standards and/or keep standards high. Different subcultures will handle the challenges differently, so mono-culture and/or "one size fits all" isn't the answer either. The FOSS covens will have their own ways of mentoring new practitioners.
I was glad to meetup with Audrey's mom between talks, turns out we were coworkers for the ESD (Portland Public), working with TAG kids at that place on Marine Drive. Some of those grade school students are now the adults at this conference, so we should feel some sense of pride in passing the torch, was her thinking.
Open Source is old enough to be experiencing generational transitions, is part of what's going on. Geeks are learning, fairly self-consciously, what that means (means I'm an "ancestor" already, with lots of gray to prove it).
I was glad to have some time away from projects for Tara's birthday dinner tonight, sorry Carol wasn't able to join, though in spirit she might have, from Pendle Hill (a Quaker HQS). Dawn's ring turned out big time for Tara's coming of age two years ago, me just returned from Lithuania. This year, just me and the two sisters, with Laurie & Terri.
We ate out in the rain, the apple tree doing plenty to keep the drops to a minimum, excellent vegan and carnivore options, with me supplying the garlic and olive oil bread dip (bread included). We chatted pleasantly, me lapsing into geek sometimes, yakking up world domination, with or without our XOs.
I also mentioned my Princeton thesis quoting Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, one of Terri's favorites as well (she's a geek too). Some Thoughts on the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (mine) should be at the Mudd Library in Princeton.
I was glad FixMyDeadPC could turn it around quickly, brought them a fresh terabyte drive yesterday (a Seagate Barracuda from Office Depot, greetings Clint). Tara will have her Sims 3 running soon, my thanks to the Lott family for treating her so kindly. Best wishes to Elise and Ruth at the horse contest (I know it's not called that). We are blessed with dear friends.
Glitz 'n Glamour
:: red bull meets bfi ::
Favela Rising (movie review)
You could screen this as a double feature with Burma VJ and get a lot out of it, expect activists in both camps will compare notes by this means, as oppression has a similar face, as does fear, across human cultures.
I'm guessing Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs (Woody Woo we call it) has this DVD in the docket, required viewing in some courses. This isn't Marxism or Christianity so much as a clear eyed indigenous movement borne of pain and suffering, and therefore brilliant, perfect for its time and place. The film makers do a magnificent job with this, another political film that's likewise an art film.
A chief characteristic of the AfroRegge political analysis is not waiting for external authorities to solve the problem, although international investment certainly helps big time. The biggest temptation, leading to the longest detour, is to give in to revenge as a primary motive. You'll find people on all sides ready to stop and reconsider, and that's what's most hopeful.
People living in dire poverty can't be blamed for needing and wanting to self medicate, just like Iraqi troops and civilians alike are heavy into Prozac, plus those Rio police obviously get stoked (the guns themselves are an addictive drug, a symbol of power where people feel powerless -- druglords and cops form a seamless business, is one of the ecological facts on the ground).
Poetically, the medical profession steps in at a very high level to apply a fix, pulls a miracle out of the hat, great when that happens. The DVD itself is destined to fuel our Music Millennium going forward, which is something to celebrate. AfroRegge is highly reputable and professional, another group to win games for when our Coffee Shops Network hits the ground running.
Shortly after viewing this film, I found myself with Carol (my mom) interviewing Keiko regarding her personal experiences with favelas in Brazil. That fear of getting lost between the airport and downtown Rio was palpable through her story, even though she's fluent and a veteran of São Paolo and LA. Many USA zip codes inspire similar feelings of dread, confront pretty much the same issues.
Saving Trees
Forest-loving Portlanders have a problem with wasting trees, even if we recognize legitimate uses for lumber. We have more intra-urban forest park than any other Lower48 city I'm pretty sure.
Take those big dummy textbooks for example (BDTs), the ones that make little kids fall over backwards, cause back injuries.
How much worthy geometry or geography will you find in one of those? Was it worth a whole forest?
We call these "gutless wonders" (a synonym) and know to look in the index for "what's missing" from their dogmas.
We feel superior in knowing some of the "math heresies" -- called "being literate" in my neck of the woods, same as in New York I'd suppose.
Had you been availing of the perfect cycling weather today, not too hot, nor yet these wind gusts of later afternoon, you might have spotted me along Spring Water Corridor, hobnobbing with Darl, our cycles at a temporary stand still.
Yesterday, you'd have seen me in Movie Madness with a gnu math teacher from West Virginia, running on parallel tracks. Sometimes these are Wanderers, other times, who knows.
Hyzy and I walked down to that coffee shop and back in Ladd's, without Josie this time. That'd be typical, with no Mr. Spocks going "fascinating captain" (OK, maybe sotto voce they do that i.e. in a voice imagined "in the head" (the approved metaphoric location for "hearing voices" in western civ -- as long is it's your own, plus you're supposed to have just the one, by convention (plus an "indoor voice" for speaking quietly))).
What many Portlanders take for granted, not having lived in other cities, is that adults are free to go about their business without almost every movement considered potentially scandalous and incendiary.
You're not answerable to busybodies, whose business is to know your business. We don't employ those types of people. We're each seen in the company of others, in all kinds of social and business situations, ethnically diverse, monoculture, whatever.
But then, this is just "life in the big city" to some, i.e. we get more privacy, not less, and like it that way. Dawn and I took this mostly for granted as well. I never had to worry about reports she'd been "seen with strange men" (like duh, what other kind is there?).
This doesn't mean there's no gossip, but that the various "scenes" stay somewhat isolated, as no one outside the circle really knows "what to make of it". This cuts down on "mob psychology", the kind you get in batman's Gotham, where everyone goes crazy in the same way at the same time. Here, we spread it out a lot more, plus pace ourselves seasonally (this is Rose Festival and graduation season, looking forward to some festivities).
All that being said, celebrities still make a business out being seen together or apart, estranged and/or with someone else i.e. it's not like we don't have our entertainment pages. I'm just happy there's no criminalization of consenting adult relationships, despite remaining conventions against public nudity except in appropriately labeled venues (we share Hollywood's rating system, even though we have our own Hollywood and might invent our own rating system someday, if bored or needing a new growth industry).
ISEPP Thread...
This refers to the fragment below (previous post), snipped from a longer set of conversations, including with Allen Taylor of SQL for Dummies fame. This first appeared at the Math Forum, immediately following a post against centralizing math standards to protect lazy publishers from biodiversity.
The threads I'm pursuing with the ISEPP list, a private archive, involve unfolding this map I was explaining to Richard, about some states wanting to try a "digital math track" in parallel to the standard one. You don't want to switch everyone all at once, may want to achieve a hybrid down the road, but for PowerPoint purposes, making sense to the state lobbyists, we just have to keep it simple and talk about two tracks.
Once you have two tracks side by side, there's the question of how to jump across, like if you're teaching "analog math" (featuring real numbers, perfect continuity, all that ghostly greek metaphysics about infinite planes, infinitesimal points) and want to test the waters on our side for a change, how would you do it? You could read Karl Menger on his "geometry of lumps" as prep for class, but the hands on would be more about ray tracing than clay, as we sculpt with light and pure geometry (not forgetting about textures).
We talk a lot about "the observer" in digital math, more like artists than traditional scientists, who think (0,0,0) is the only important position, i.e. one's "point of view" is less often discussed (called "objective", otherwise known as "pretend there's no subject"). We advertise this approach as both more engineer and female friendly, bleeping over how that works for right now (trying to stay on topic: recruiting from the rank and file). We have a (0,0,0,0) to tell some stories about as well, with links to some of the Lakota lore (again, I wander off topic).
This is where the practice of pair teaching comes in. We'll pair you up with a geek, maybe an engineer from one of our companies (Silicon Forest, formed in my very neighborhood), and you'll co-teach a few segments. That'll get you entre into one of our math labs. You might have different students. But you won't be alone. Training will happen, and you'll be one step closer to maybe getting a merit pay position in the math teaching vanguard.
Those digging through my detailed posts find out there's an international component, which I could explain if someone cares to know. Contrary to this hypothesis of 46 states agreeing to standardize on some non-existent "global standard", I would suggest that other countries will be implementing a digital math track, even if we don't, so think about that, next time you want to speak with authority about Singapore or the Philippines.
Jackalope Down
The workhorse laptop wouldn't boot this morning, I have a number of theories, mostly revolving around hardware.
This is a blow, a set back, and partly accounts for my rant this morning, yakking with my friend Barbara, a Wanderer in California, looking after her mom. This is a slightly edited version, compared to the one that went out to subscribers. Sounds like I'm giving up, but more I'm just venting, cop to feeling demoralized after a lot of uphill. Daddy bear (see below) needs a walrus (not!).
I haven't tried booting off the CD yet, other tricks I should try. Right now, I'm supposed to be driving people around though, don't have time to obsess.
I agree with all you said, totally. Not sure why desert is your choice of teaching environment, except that few distractions and great sense of space. Make it desert in winter, not high summer, though. I assume you mean high Oregon desert, but it still gets scorching there.
And, of course, solids, shapes, graphic, geometric play. And always look to nature for elegant solutions to questions of form and function.
Yeah the desert part is maybe not required, just thinking about the XRL (extreme remote livingry) I want to see developed, lots in my blogs, with a focus on the Crooked River (dramatic site).
Probably the storyboard should be some private sector contractors collaborating with the feds on building something futuristic, the idea being that the feds still do futuristic stuff that's civilian i.e. this isn't a pork barrel project for Blackwater or other mindless thugs who just want to run the USA into the ground as a mercenary state, which is close to all its become of late, nothing admirable, can't even think about torture coherently (embarrassing to watch pundits, hard to stomach any TV with Washington DC thinking behind it, so pukey and awful).
The goal is to get some freedom to develop a different way of educating our young that's more generous with technology, explaining how things work, and more positive about where we might be going, i.e. isn't just global warming or war on terror 24/7, i.e. isn't so devoutly fear-based or pessimism-driven.
That's partly my motivation for having a large international component, sharing the desert facilities, other places, with overseas students. It'd be good PR for the USA, show we still have a brain of some kind.
Of course the fact that it's all in storyboard and I'm this single dad in Portland trying to lobby a new education system that pays at least some attention to my Medal of Freedom winning hero's approach to spatial geometry is more what's true on the ground, i.e. it's more last ditch and hopeless-seeming at the moment, given Washington DC still monopolizes TV with its drivel, making Americans look foolish and stupid for all the world to see (not talking about Obama, just about all the pundits who use that characteristic "know it all" authoritative TV voice but actually don't even know what A&B modules are, ergo don't know shit from my perspective, so shouldn't be speaking for anyone but themselves -- but of course that's just my bias against other think tanks that suck, dime a dozen, spoiled brats from hell etc.).
Mostly who gets the cool retreat centers in exotic remote locations are these fanatical religious groups, who collect private donations and then have a place to send their kids for higher level brainwashing. Then they go out and proselytize overseas. Or they go to mercenary camp and learn how to defend and offend against heathen who probably won't convert -- so OK to kill 'em then, the American way.
It's an ugly civilization and probably too late to turn it around, but I thought Oregon might make a last stand of some kind, before we sink into the slime of this dark ages forever. We had a fighting chance. I just want to leave that on the record, in case anyone thinks our fate was inevitable. We chose it, whatever it was. Looking back, we'll see what we chose. Unlike Brian, I don't think failure is foredoomed, just somewhat likely, given no 9th grader in Portland is learning anything about the geometry I care about (and a lot of other people too).


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We are pleased to extend an invitation for you to attend the 11th NAFEMS World Congress. For the past twenty years this biennial World Congress has been the premier international event focused solely on engineering analysis and simulation.
The 2007 World Congress is being held in the spectacular waterside Westin Bayshore hotel, right in the heart of the vibrant and bustling city of Vancouver. The dates are May 22-25, 2007.
The Congress this year will expand beyond the traditional program and include a variety of workshops, roundtable discussions and other sessions which will add to the mix of opportunities to explore the latest developments in CAE technology, and how these developments can be applied to real-world practical applications.
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I am an Italian new entry and this is the first time that I write down something into this forum. Since I am a photo-enthusiast I am a member of other clubs therefore before using this forum area I' d like to understand how goes on and what is its target. For example if I want to introduce myself what is the forum subject ? Q&A, Tips&Tricks, Classified.
Furthermore I' d like to know why we have so little correspondance and practically there are no pictures. I apologize for my introduction but I think that an "Hasselblad club" that rappresents the best of best photo equipment ever since, must be better supported both from Hasselblad users and Hasselblad company.
Hello Tiberio, Thank you for your message and welcome to Club Hasselblad ! Some words about ClubHasselblad.com : we are not affiliated with the Hasselblad company (except for their great cameras of course !). ClubHasselblad was created 3 years ago by 2 persons : a French collector, Mr Alain Lazzarini (my father), and I, the computer geek :). Back then (in 2005), the only available website dedicated to the Hasselblad community was Hasselclub (http://hasselclub.new21.net/), a great website but unfortunately not available in English. As (native) French and (rather poor) English speakers, we felt more comfortable with English. My father was willing to share his passion for Hasselblad cameras so we decided to launch our own Hasselblad community. It all started with a few HTML pages and we are now running a complete CMS with support for forums, galleries, blogs, surveys etc. I'd like to seize the opportunity to ask everybody using ClubHasselblad.com a few questions: do you think we should add new forums ? remove the old ones and build something different ? include more specific sub-forums (V-System) ? I spend most of my time updating our CMS, doing database backups, checking logs etc. so we need your feedback and your ideas. ClubHasselblad was made by Hasselblad users for Hasselblad users. We need you to help us build a real community. Best regards, Jerome.
First of all I' d like to thank you for your explanation and here in after I would like to write down some my ideas.
For secon step you could write to Hasselblad conpany introducing the club statement ad asking them their ufficial support. Of corse in that position the Club has to be manage in the best way.
Third step could be how to get in touch with a professionist Hasselblad photographers around the world in orther to use their photo album. I think that this coud be feasable because for the professionists, your web-site will be an oppurtunity to introduce their product.
Collectionist, Digital photo, equipment, photo album, museum, news, reviews, etc.
Note: I would like to explain that I am not a great photographer, I am a normal person that loves photography and wants to contine using a traditional film matter even because to get Hasselblad digital equipment form me is impossible.
I close my modest suggestions hoping that they could be a good help for you.
It took me some time, but I've finally managed to redesign our forums. What do you think ?
Hello Jerome! I am a very new member and Just joined the Forum .I am attached to the other forums and specially to the Hasselblad forum and I just joined yours. So I read your reply above question of Tiberio, and glad to meet you and Know about you. Your answer to Tiberio has answered to the mine which I was preparing for .
I'll meeting you soon again.


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Nigeria, Twitter need each other, Senate President breaks silence
Senate President Ahmad Lawan has finally spoken on the suspension of micro blogging and social network platform, Twitter, by the Federal Government.
He called for an amicable resolution of the circumstances that led to the ban, saying that Nigeria and Twitter needed each other.
Lawan spoke at a briefing to mark the second anniversary of the 9th Senate, in Abuja.
He said at the end of the crisis, all parties would have learnt their lessons.
"Our belief is that Nigeria needs Twitter just as Twitter needs Nigeria. Our expectation is that we will be able to resolve this issue. But beyond that, I am optimistic and I believe that all of us would have learnt our lessons," the Senate President stated.
On worsening insecurity, he was optimistic that Nigeria would surmount the challenges, saying, "I believe this is the worst level we could get to. We cannot go beyond this level, it could only be better."
"I believe we are going to have a reversal of this situation very soon. We should not despair. We should not be despondent. We should have hope and optimism that our situation will be better," he noted.
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For the past few years the characters of Sally Forth have enjoyed "Powdered Toast Crunch" cereal in a nod to the cartoon series Ren and Stimpy. Exactly one month ago two brave women revealed to Buzzfeed that the creator of that series, John Kricfalusi, had sexually harassed them while they were underaged and engaged in a sexual relationship with one of them when she was 16.
Today marks the end of that cereal appearance and any reference to Kricfalusi's work in our comic. To anyone who disagrees with our decision, you can draw attention to his cartoons in your own damn strip. That is not what will be happening here.
Please support your local bookstore on Independent Bookstore Day and every day. You're not just helping a business. You're helping a community.
Whenever I tell someone I don't eat any pig products (mind you, this response is prompted, not the result of me interrupting strangers' conversations on the street or getting on the subway and saying "It's showtime! Oh, and also, I don't consume bacon, ham or pork") they usually ask, "Are you Jewish?" (I'm not…well, actually, I'm a quarter, but not practicing), "Are you Muslim?" (I'm not), "Are you a vegetarian?" (I'm not) or "You don't dine on swine?" (Because Pulp Fiction).
And I completely understand why people would inquire such. After all, when someone doesn't eat a particular thing often it's the result of a religious, dietary or personal code. But my answer is far more simple—It's because I made friends with a pig on a film shoot.
One day I was working on my very first outdoor shoot, for a movie called Farm Girl in New York which, as you can tell by the title, is about Broadway producers. (It was also a great time working with some absolutely wonderful people, during which I learned that the job of the Assistant Director is to constantly scream at everybody so they can stay on schedule.) We were filming a dream sequence at a farm in upstate New York and as usual between takes I found it hard to talk to people (thereby negating the whole "meet anyone new" aspect), because even as late as 2007 my level of shyness was still rather acute. However, my lack of human contact was overshadowed by just how many animals I could hang out with, because shy people often gravitate to those who they know are incapable of an eye roll or saying, "Why would you do that?" And so I hung out with the horses, the ducks, the cows, and so on until during one pause in filming I met the farm's family pig. Actually, to be more precise, I suddenly heard snorting around my ankle followed by gentle head nudging. So I bent down to pet him, only to realize 20 minutes later that the Assistant Director had been screaming at me to get back on set for the last 15 minutes.
But when I headed off the pig followed. And whenever I couldn't pay attention to him he snorted rather loudly, which was not exactly what the sound guys wanted to hear. So during every break I would go back to the pig and pet him some more. A little later during our lunch break in the farm owner's house, I discovered that the pig was in fact an indoor/outdoor pig, a phrase I just love typing and someday hope to build an entire TED Talk around. We were all sitting on various chairs and the floor (for an independent film there was a good-sized crew), eating sandwiches, when the pig started ambling my way. Naturally, I assumed he was coming for some food and so after double-checking to make sure my sandwich didn't contain any ham, I broke off a piece to give to him. Instead he nudged my hand aside, placed his head on my lap, and fell asleep.
And so I don't eat pig anymore.
FOOTNOTE TO NOTHING THAT WAS NOTED FOR HAVING A FOOTNOTE ABOVE: While I working as Script Supervisor for the film The Echo (2008)—oh, how many The Echo viewing parties have we all attended in our lives?—the crew was setting up a night shot in Washington Square Park to capture the Empire State Building tower lights through the Arch (essentially something like this) when a cab and another car collided into each other right in front of the shot. Immediately both drivers jumped out of their cars screaming and attacking each other because every so often New York City is exactly like non-New Yorkers imagine it to be. Police arrived, people were pried apart, and statements were taken as the rest of us just waited and waited and waited. Finally, everything and everyone was cleared, the camera was in place, the director yelled "Action!" and at that precise moment the Empire State Building tower lights went black, thereby revealing no one had bothered to find out when they go off. (The answer: 2 AM and no, that does not fall under script supervisor duties.) After a long, silent pause that if put into words would sound like "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck," the director decided they would just add the tower lights in post. Movies!
Ted probably watched this with an eyeball-so-close-to-the-TV concentration that it unnerved his dad. That said, the important thing was to show that the reason Ted didn't watch "Starlee and the Moonbeams" had NOTHING to do with it featuring female protagonists. But, if far lesser souls demand that boys have to watch 'boy cartoons" then know as a kid Ted also tuned in to the 80s animated series "G.I. Tract," which was about mercenaries with irritable bowel syndrome.
Whenever you name something new in a comic strip (or any medium) you must do two things: 1) Make sure to avoid any horrible puns (this is why Ted has yet to break out his old cassingle "Ice Ice Nine Baby") and 2) Make sure the name has not been used before. And so I Googled the character name "Starlee." And so I Googled if any cartoon named "Starlee and the Moonebeams" had ever aired. And so I thought I had Googled every aspect of the series. That is until last week, while Googling to see what possible combination of words had not already been used as a Comic Con name (Answer: All of them), when I learned "Darkstars" was also the name of a DC Comics team. Alas, this was long after the name had already been used in a few strips. My sincere apologies.


The premier S.E. Shires B-flat trumpet, the Destino III has developed through a close collaboration with Doc Severinsen over several years. This latest incarnation, in medium bore, features a special, more centered deign that produces a big, powerful, concentrated sound with a minimum of effort in any register and at any volume. Like the original Destino III, it works outstandingly for Jazz, commercial, and classical playing alike.


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Typically, there are three metal spindles on each tread (one 35″ at the front of the tread, and two 44″ at the back of the tread).
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Robert Willoughby, parfois d'Eresby († 1317), fils de Sir William de Willoughby († 1300), fut un baron anglo-normand.

Voir aussi
 Grand-chambellan

Notes et références

Lien externe
 www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk

Anglo-Normands
Baron de la pairie d'Angleterre au XIVe siècle
Décès en 1317

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25 Delightful Roger Ebert Quotes About Movies
By Alison Nastasi
The documentary Life Itself, a poignant tribute that celebrates Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert, was released in theaters this weekend. Generations grew up reading the Chicago Sun-Times journalist and watching him on television with sparring partner Gene Siskel, where the duo coined their "two thumbs up" phrase for positive reviews in the series At the Movies. Ebert's barbed wit, grace, and passion touched the most discerning cineastes, but he was also known as a critic for the common man. He battled cancer for more than a decade, which necessitated the removal of his lower jaw, but it never stole his ability to write — which he did until his death last year. Two days before his passing, Ebert announced he was taking a "leave of presence" on RogerEbert.com. "What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away," he wrote. And he hasn't, leaving us with his beautiful words and wisdom about cinema and beyond. In celebration of the release of Life Itself, we're revisiting some of Ebert's most delightful quotes about one of his greatest loves — film.
"No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough."
"Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels."
"We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in the sense of identifying with the characters, although that is an important part of it, but by seeing the world as another person sees it."
"There will always be those who love old movies. I meet teenagers who are astonishingly well-informed about the classics. But you are right that many moviegoers and video viewers say they do not "like" black and white films. In my opinion, they are cutting themselves off from much of the mystery and beauty of the movies. Black and white is an artistic choice, a medium that has strengths and traditions, especially in its use of light and shadow. Moviegoers of course have the right to dislike b&w, but it is not something they should be proud of. It reveals them, frankly, as cinematically illiterate. I have been described as a snob on this issue. But snobs exclude; they do not include. To exclude b&w from your choices is an admission that you have a closed mind, a limited imagination, or are lacking in taste."
"Every once in a while I have what I think of as an out-of-the-body experience at a movie. When the ESP people use a phrase like that, they're referring to the sensation of the mind actually leaving the body and spiriting itself off to China or Peoria or a galaxy far, far away. When I use the phrase, I simply mean that my imagination has forgotten it is actually present in a movie theater and thinks it's up there on the screen. In a curious sense, the events in the movie seem real, and I seem to be a part of them."
"Most good movies are about the style, tone and vision of their makers. A director will strike a chord in your imagination, and you will be compelled to seek out the other works. Directors become like friends."
"Most of us do not consciously look at movies."
"Old theatres are irreplaceable. They could never be duplicated at today's costs – but more importantly, their spirit could not be duplicated because they remind us of a day when going to the show was a more glorious and escapist experience. I think a town's old theatres are the sanctuary of its dreams."
"When a movie character is really working, we become that character. That's what the movies offer: Escapism into lives other than our own."
"We Americans like to see evil in terms of guns and crime and terrorists and drug smuggling — big, broad immoral activities. We rarely make movies about how one person can be personally cruel to another, through their deep understanding of what might hurt the other person the most."
"There was a time when the feature was invariably preceded by a cartoon, and audiences smiled when they heard the theme music for 'Looney Tunes' and 'Merrie Melodies' from Warner Bros. Cartoons have long since been replaced by 20 minutes of paid commercials in many theaters, an emblem of the greed of exhibitors and their contempt for their audiences. In those golden days, the cartoon (and even a newsreel and a short subject) was a gift from the management."
"A film director, like an orchestra conductor, is the lord of his domain, and no director has more power than a director of animated films. He is set free from the rules of the physical universe and the limitations of human actors, and can tell any story his mind can conceive."
"The point is not to avoid all Stupid Movies, but to avoid being a Stupid Moviegoer. It's a difficult task, separating the good Stupid Movies from the bad ones. . . . "
"A slow movie that closely observes human beings and their relationships can be endlessly fascinating, while a thriller with nonstop wall-to-wall action can be boring, because it is all relentlessly pitched at the same tone."
"The film should be seen as it was originally made. This includes many b&w films of the silent era where some of the scenes were tinted."
"The only responsibility of the script is to produce the best possible film. Those who think it must be 'faithful' seem to treat adaptation like marriage. Fans of some sources, like a comic book or a TV series, will be outraged by any changes, but adaptation can also mean improvement."
"I've gone out to the lobby many times to complain about bad focus, bad sound, a dim bulb or improper framing. The most common reply: "That's how they made it." . . . Perfection is possible, if the projectionist loves his job."
"It seems to me that there are two basic approaches to any kind of comedy, and in a burst of oversimplification I'll call them the Funny Hat and the Funny Logic approaches. The difference is elementary: In the first, we're supposed to laugh because the comic is wearing the funny hat, and in the second it's funny because of his reasons for wearing the funny hat. You may have guessed by now that I prefer the Funny Logic approach. . . . "
"The distribution system seems to be set up to turn every multiplex in this country into an idiot's convention."
"I am against censorship and believe that no films or books should be burned or banned, but film school study is one thing and a general release is another. Any new Disney film immediately becomes part of the consciousness of almost every child in America, and I would not want to be a black child going to school in the weeks after Song of the South (1946) was first seen by my classmates."
"American films are usually about one or two stars and a handful of well-known character actors, while Europeans are still capable of pitching in together for an ensemble piece. There is nothing new in the message of this film, but a great deal of artistry in its telling."
"I'm not opposed to 3-D as an option. I'm opposed to it as a way of life for Hollywood, where it seems to be skewing major studio output away from the kinds of films we think of as Oscar-worthy. Scorsese and Herzog make films for grown-ups. Hollywood is racing headlong toward the kiddie market. Disney recently announced it will make no more traditional films at all, focusing entirely on animation, franchises, and superheroes. I have the sense that younger Hollywood is losing the instinctive feeling for story and quality that generations of executives possessed. It's all about the marketing. Hollywood needs a projection system that is suitable for all kinds of films—every film—and is hands-down better than anything audiences have ever seen. The marketing executives are right that audiences will come to see a premium viewing experience they can't get at home. But they're betting on the wrong experience."
"Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images. Others see it more like 'action painting,' and we've seen a lot of discussion in recent years about what J. Hoberman and others have called 'post-photographic cinema', in which computers have replaced cameras, and animation has replaced photography, as the primary means of creating images on the screen."
"In the previous century the movie theater was often, in smaller towns and cities, the only grand architectural statement, save perhaps for a church or courthouse. They unashamedly provided a proscenium for our dreams."


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