• Biz,  rants

    Pecked to death by ducks

    This would seem to be the month of work-related stress, aggravation and rage.

    Failing to plan is planning to fail.

    Why are people allergic to details?

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  • Music,  Photography

    Yet another gallery


    My black and white phase continues with my visit to the Oakhurst Earth Day celebration. It was dark and I forgot the new monopod, so the photos turned out a bit grainy. I decided to accentuate the grainyness in most of the photos via photoshop.

    Check out the new gallery.

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  • Atlanta,  Cycling,  Photography

    The long ride

    Yesterday, for no particular reason, I decided to go on a long bike ride. I originally wanted to just see where Ponce de Leon Road ended, but the countryside was so pleasant and the roads to bikeable that I decided to set a personal record. I wound up going 25 miles out to Conyers on a very pleasant day. My total mileage was 50.5 miles, in about three and a half hours. Surprisingly I’m not that tired today.

    On the way to Conyers, I passed through Lithonia, which contains a store containing some form of Christian/Voodoo items (from what I could tell). The images below are of the front window of the store.

  • Cycling

    My first half century

    I rode from my house to Conyers today (and back). It wound up being over 50 miles, which is a new record for me. I’m exhausted; it was fun though. More details later.

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  • Bush,  Libertarianism,  Politics

    Interesting poll numbers

    Bush hits 33% approval or so says Fox, and the affection isn’t going anywhere else. Why isn’t everyone happier about this? America is essentially having a libertarian perception of it’s government (similar to the mid 90’s actually). I’m thrilled, but the rest of the libertarian blogsphere seems to not notice this at all. It’s odd.

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  • Photography

    Just back in

    I decided not to let the evening go to waste wound up having an interesting night of photography on the 17th Street Bridge and Atlantic Station. The photos will be up soon.

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  • Photography,  rants

    Grinding irritants

    Before I go off on my little mini-rant, I should say that I’ve finally worked out that Tom Waits song for the open mic.

    Now, here is what’s been irritating me today:

    • I still haven’t heard from 3 people with impending projects
    • I cancelled my photo shoot with my fiddle model after seeing a rainy forecast. Instead, it’s the proper degree of overcast. Curse you Weather Channel.
    • I’ve managed to open up my leg cut twice today, once in my sleep, and then a few hours ago, I’m not sure how. In general it’s healing fairly well, but the deeper areas don’t seem to respond to time or reason.
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  • Weirdness

    Something that should exist

    A mood tracker that one could click on during the day, say at 30 minute intervals. Assuming it was used honestly, it would be interesting to see what averages out to “fine”.

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  • Music,  Weirdness

    The article I referred to at lunch

    Where did I have lunch? What was the reference?

    These things are a mystery. However, here is the article

    Man accused of diverting others’ mail to himself

    A man was charged with using scores of change-of-address forms to divert mail from all over the nation to his address in Beaver County.

    Federal prosecutors this week charged Fred Hill of Aliquippa with wire fraud, accusing him of diverting mail from people both living and dead.

    Postal inspectors said in court records that when they entered an Aliquippa home where Mr. Hill had stayed, they found “a significant volume” of abandoned mail along with lists of Social Security numbers and names of people in California, Georgia and Arkansas.

    Since January, Fred Hill had used the Postal Service’s Web site to file 170 change-of-address forms since January, authorities alleged in court records. The same credit card had been used to pay the $1 charge for filing change-of-address forms online, they said.

    170!

    On another note, Ralph of Luttrell Guitars did a wonderful job installing the new FishMan pickup.

    That’s been my day so far.

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