Facebook Tid Bits: 2010-05-12
11:09 AM: Hey Amanda. Great seeing you here. I hear that you won’t be at camp this summer. Neither will I. But we can keep in touch on Facebook. Congratulations on your graduation. 
11:58 AM: To Amanda: We’re going to make our own version of camp here at home by maybe hiking at Rails to Trails, visiting DelGrosso’s park for a day or two, and going swimming at the new pool in this area. We might even roller skate or bowl. But we’ll avoid all those high-calorie foods and the bugs (I was bitten last summer over sixty times by the time the session was over). I think I just need a year or two off. So we may go back eventually, but we’re not sure when.
12:15 PM: A fellow wants to know why he’s still hungry after eating a bowl of cereal and a banana for breakfast. In fact, I’d eat more animal protein; eggs, beef, pork, Etc. Also too much added sugar in the cereal can make you hungry before you’d expect.
03:37 PM: I went for nearly a decade without a record player; and I missed hearing my collection the entire time, trust me. So eventually, I broke down and purchased a Technics SL-1200 DJ table with an Ortofon moving coil cartridge. Not terribly expensive (under $1K), and the sound is spectacular; way better than the Vestax, Dual, Kennwood, and other tables I’ve previously owned. Perhaps Peter Gabriel would be worth the investment in a decent turntable. The question is: How big a Gabriel fan are you?
03:40 PM: Sister Jojo’s dog had four puppies today. Hmmm. Four more mutts under foot.
03:56 PM: We constantly find more ways to utilize the Internet; telephone, hi-res video, equipment monitoring, surveillance, and so on. Yet as a nation, we’ve been slow to upgrade the supporting network technologies to keep pace. As a result, the Internet can get very slow at times. Here at home, I find it crawls most annoyingly in the evening. But it’s much faster during overnight hours, to a few hours past dawn. Google needs to put gigabit networks in all places; not just Topeka. That would solve this problem; at least for a little while.
08:07 PM: I’ve read the blog post and comments [on the Arizona anti-illegal immigration bill] that you suggested on your links list about this law. So far, nothing malevolent or particularly scary discovered. I’ll study the law text itself next. In the meantime though, I’ll point out that at one time, prevailing public opinion favored hanging, lynching, and rampant segregation. Today, it also supports systemic discrimination of many varieties. So popular majority is not always the best indicator of a law’s righteousness. Just because many (or even most) favor it, does not make it right.
11:12 PM: The Pens lost. They’re done now. 2000 words today, and wrote some code besides. Read a few tens of pages and took in an hour or two of news; just so I can irritate my politically savvy friends. The family has acquired four new mutts (my sister’s dog had pups), and Mom is walking well on her new, specially-fitted shoes. But at the end of the day, if I hear one more talking head on television say “at the end of the day,” my day will end in a frustrated heap. Aarrgghh! I still want to know how you pronounce that. Aarrgghh!
01:00 AM: Would it be detestably arrogant of me to mark that I LIKE my own posts? Truth be told, if given the choice of reading most others’ prose or mine, …, well, …, well what the heck? I’d rather read mine!
May 12th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
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