tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94496542011-12-13T21:55:21.767-06:00Musings and thoughts from a busy work life. . . Marc Windahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01684530109995696349noreply@blogger.comBlogger2221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9449654.post-68813946281445977952008-03-28T08:29:00.002-05:002008-03-28T08:49:06.254-05:00

From the Washington Post: The uprising in the remote Himalayan region lasted for barely more than a day. But it generated a worldwide swell of concern. Now, the Games -- intended to be a festive coming-out party for modern China -- could become a dramatic reminder that the Communist Party still relies on Leninist police tactics and Orwellian censorship to enforce its monopoly on power."Leninist

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An interesting debate! The fact is, Conservatives oppose government programs for the poor, but privately give money to charities. Liberals support government programs for the poor, but don't echo those values in their personal spending. This is from a George Will column today that points out these facts: Sixteen months ago, Arthur C. Brooks, a professor at Syracuse University, published "Who

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The "No-Class" Yankees have fully embraced their "Low-Class" leader and played down to the level of a bush-league team today. In an exhibition game against the Devil Rays, the Yankees intentionally threw at a batter in the first inning and in the second inning had a "spikes high" slide that cleared the benches. On Sunday, [Yankees Shelley] Duncan had dropped a hint that the Yankees might match

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Slate has an interesting article on deciphering the notebooks of politicians, authors, pastors, and other historical figures. Like Artist's sketchbooks, these give a critical insight into how the finished speech, sermon, story, or poem was developed. But problems such as bad handwriting, shorthand, abbreviations, and even writing English words with a Greek alphabet contribute to a complex

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I have been watching the media coverage and there are a couple of big things I have heard NO ONE say that makes me believe Roger Clemens is a dirtbag:We need to really look at the timelines on this Roger v. Andy exchange! Roger claims that in 1999 or 2000 he did discuss HGH with Andy, but Pettitte has it wrong; Roger was talking about his wife and not himself taking HGH. 1) Sports

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I got a chance to meet Lou Holtz last September. This was the week before the Notre Dame v. Michigan match-up. Besides being a truly nice and great guy, Lou made a couple of predictions. Thought I would post them here fore review:1) Michigan will NOT fire Lloyd Carr and will not force him out. He will finish the season and then retire. 2) Tim Tebow will win the Heismann. At that

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I love Bill Parcells, but this is downright dumb!The new coaches also do not have the same understanding of the AFC West. It's almost like playing an out-of-conference game when you don't really know your division opponents extremely well. It goes mostly unseen, but a big part of this season for the Chargers is getting their coaches acclimated to the nuances of playing in that division.http://

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I was reading an article bu Jim Caple on statistics in baseball and thought it was great analysys until I got to this: "3. Expansion has diluted pitching, further increasing offense." LinkI am getting real tired of this being repeated over and over, especially in articles that claim to be analyzing statistics. Here are some facts that are easy to find, but overlooked by the "dilution"

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. . .is we are being asked to make decisions that will change the way of life of billions of people and don't have enough information. We are told the "consensus of scientists support" the crisis is now theory. . .But really, there is more that we don't know than we know: Armies of insects once crawled through lush forests in a region of Greenland now covered by more than 2000m of ice.DNA

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Two different takes on the same statistics and story. Chicago Tribune:New record: Americans give $300 billion to charityAnnual contributions rise in correlation with the stock market.linkNew York Times: Absence of Major Disaster in ’06 Affected GivinglinkA couple more quotes from the Tribune: Giving historically tracks the health of the overall economy, with the rise amounting to about

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"There's no evidence, forget about technology, that the CIA or mob or any of these groups were behind the assassination. Three people can keep a secret, but only if two are dead. Technology won't change people's instincts: People can't keep a secret."linkSame with Rosewell, and the other conspiracies; the "wild fantasy" is much more interesting, but simply not true. ..

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Here is the policy: All touching -- not only fighting or inappropriate touching -- is against the rules at Kilmer Middle School in Vienna. Hand-holding, handshakes and high-fives? Banned. The rule has been conveyed to students this way: "NO PHYSICAL CONTACT!!!!!"School officials say the rule helps keep crowded hallways and lunchrooms safe and orderly, and ensures that all students are comfortable

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He has zero chance of winning, but he had a great line! Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado also referred to his rivals' sometimes changing positions, saying, "I trust those conversions when they happen on the road to Damascus, not on the road to Des Moines."

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Andy Grove (formerly of Intel) has a good starting point! Wired reports: Grove breaks the problem of health care into three manageable chunks. Two have technological solutions -- but not complex tech. Grove wants to keep the technology as simple as possible, a surprising idea for a man who put millions of transistors on a chip.First: Keep elderly people at home as long as possible (an idea he

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I would like to disclose a few context items in case someone questions why I have now posted 4+ times on Duke lacrosse. . .I really dislike Duke; I am a fan of UNC basketball (even though I live 1800 miles away. . .I am not a lacrosse fanI know no one involved in the caseI have no ill feelings towards the girl. I have never done an internet search to read any of the trash posted about her; I

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because the Duke endowment is about to take a big hit! North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper didn't just dismissed all the remaining criminal charges against Evans, Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty. He took the extra step of declaring the players innocent -- the victims of a "tragic rush to accuse" by a rogue prosecutor who could be disbarred for his actions."This case shows the enormous

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1) The Charges will be dismissed today. 2) You reap what you sow: Attorneys for District Attorney Mike Nifong acknowledged that he made many of the comments the state bar deemed misleading and inflammatory. But they denied that Nifong intentionally withheld DNA evidence from defense attorneys -- the most serious of the ethics charges faced by the veteran prosecutor."A lot of people have been

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At that point in time when the teams came back and said, 'Yes, there are violations, and it's not an insignificant amount of code we are talking about,' we, after much dissecting of the problem and kicking it around, came to that we conclusion that we needed to send out an alert or notice to let people know that these problems existed. That notice came in two forms. One was a press release that

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A one-time Linux company that sought to "unify UNIX with Linux", SCO repudiated and breached the GNU General Public License ("GPL") (SCO's only license to copy, modify and distribute Linux), turned on its own Linux customers and former partners in the Linux community, and sued IBM without evidence to support its claims. Now, confronted with record evidence on IBM's counterclaim establishing

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OK, I have heard two things over and over and they are starting to sound as stupid to me as anything coming from the (inferior)commander-in-chief. 1) "I support the troops but not the war." Ever stopped and asked one the troops how they fell about that? Fortunately, someone did! Jeremy Staat is a former professional football player and college roommate of Pat Tillman. ESPN reports:

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From Wired: Early one Sunday morning in 2002, a phone rings in Yu Ling's Beijing duplex. She's cleaning upstairs; her son is asleep, while downstairs, her husband, Wang Xiaoning, is on the computer. Wang writes about politics, anonymously e-mailing his online e-journals to a group of Yahoo users. He's been having problems with his Yahoo service recently. He thinks it's a technical issue. This is

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Recent NYT Report on the Edwards Presidential campaign: Mr. Edwards announced on Thursday, after 36 hours of deliberation, that he would keep on his campaign staff two liberal feminist bloggers with long cybertrails of incendiary comments on sex, religion and politics.and:In deciding to retain Ms. Marcotte and Ms. McEwan, he extracted public apologies from them for some of their work and a

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A classic!!!!Link

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Great ESPN article in my RSS feeds today:He's 20 now. Just two years into a 10-year sentence without possibility of parole, he peers through the thick glass and bars, trying to catch a glimpse of freedom. Outside, guard towers and rolls of coiled barbed wire remind him of who he is. Once, he was the homecoming king at Douglas County High. Now he's Georgia inmate No. 1187055, convicted of

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Mark Schlereth writes: Normally I'd say a lack of discipline should doom a coach, but that's only if there is a pattern. There is no pattern of a lack of discipline being a problem in San Diego. This team normally plays very disciplined football and doesn't make the mistakes we saw yesterday. Was this because the Chargers were nervous in a big game? Maybe, but it wasn't because of

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Another thought occurred to me while watching Mike & Mike this morning. The discussion was on how much blame Marty Schottenheimer deserves. While, LT explained the standard, the blame lies with the coach. When your star player is suspended for cheating, the blame lies with the coachWhen your kick returner no shows and muffs punts, the blame lies with the coachWhen your players have a lack of

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LT said: "I would never react in that way. I was very upset," Tomlinson said. "When you go to the middle of our field and start doing the dance Shawne Merriman is known for, that is disrespectful. They showed no class and maybe that comes from the head coach."Ok LT, what is the definition of class? Maybe the quality of your team's play in the game is the definition of class. . . Things started

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The Problem: The NFL introduced the K-Balls eight years ago after the competition committee decided teams were abusing their privileges and taking unusual measures to condition balls so they would fly higher and travel farther.Kickers and punters were accused of using strange methods to soften the leather, spread the seams and inflate the bladder. Rumors included instances of balls being put in

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What is missing in all these articles is an analysis of whether or not Wal-Mart can or should change. I've written in the past that once a brand has established itself in the value or price category, it is almost impossible to go up market and attract a group of customers that are already going for fancier brands. Wal-Mart is a mass merchandiser that clearly is all about "always low prices."

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor who is best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as well as many other works. He was an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon language (1925 to 1945) and English language and literature (1945 to 1959). He was an orthodox Roman Catholic. Tolkien was a close

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Supposidly this was made within Microsoft. Hard to believe for something this funny. It is true about how hard it is to get tunes into iPod, but the truth is we will have to wait for the next generation of iPods and the shakeout of the DRM wars before we have wireless sharing that works. . . ;)

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I just finished the first week on the road with my new laptop (MacBook Pro 15" with dual core procs). Yup, that is correct: Mac. 1) I have been very public on my opinions about open-source. Tough to show up at conferences with a wintel machine. 2) Mac does everything I want; I am running a Mac version of the Lotus Notes client, Open office, Thunderbird, and Firefox. I have no

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Judge Wells had no questions for David. Many challenging questions for Brent who at one point gently attempted to argue with the Judge. The Judge ruled from the bench in favor of IBM re-affirming prior courts orders that only the final disclosures will be permitted and anything not in the final disclosures (including expert reports addressing issues not in the final disclosures) will not be

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The holiday season hasn't gone exactly as Microsoft had hoped.The much-anticipated Zune, Microsoft's portable music player entry, has received mixed reviews, and demand has been tepid. Sure, Vista made its debut, finally, last week--but only for business customers. The Windows XP successor, more than five years in the making, didn't make it into consumers' hands for the all-important holiday

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I had the iPod on today and Skynyrd came on. I really enjoy many of their songs. I happened to have the browser open and decided to Google "Neil Young v. Lynyrd Skynyrd". I was totally not ready for what I got. Fights over racism, what the songs mean, and people who claim to know what Ronnie Van Zant was thinking, even though he has been dead for almost 30 years. I found the posting that

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"In a recent Pew poll that asked people to name the leader of the Democratic Party, only 3 percent named Dean. More people named Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi as Democratic leader. Sixty percent of respondents don't think the party has one." Link;)

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I just found out that Ed Bradley has passed away: Ed Bradley, the longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent who passed away Thursday, was all those things and more. But he had one more quality few journalists have: He was cool.Bradley was one of the first African-American journalists to break into the top tier of broadcast journalism. For that, and for his many other accomplishments, he will be long

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"Six months later, Ireland's finance minister announced a ceiling of $319,000 on tax-free incomes, and six months after that, U2 opened its Amsterdam office. The relocation of U2's music publishing will halve taxes on the band's songwriting royalties, which already reportedly total $286 million. Although Bono has declined to comment on the move, the band's lead guitarist, David 'the Edge' Evans,

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"TV analyst Lamar Thomas tells the Dan Patrick Show he got 'caught up in the moment' during the FIU-Miami brawl and doesn't condone fighting." LinkLamar, Are you really saying: "when I was speaking in the moment with passion, it really was not my true feelings. Now that I realize I am in a national spotlight, let me tell you what I 'honoestly' feel. . . " If you "wuz-da-man" you try to

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It can hide, but not forever: "no matter how much Larry Coker and the UM brass have tried to scrub away the old Canes' roughneck image -- still keeps finding itself in the muck. If anyone wanted to say the Canes are still the thugs they were in the old days of Jimmy Johnson and Dennis Erickson, they now have five disturbing minutes of YouTube proof." Link

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" Kobe Bryant participated in his first preseason practice with the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday since having right knee surgery.Bryant joined his teammates in a controlled five-on-five scrimmage and did several drills."We're easing our way back," he said. "I didn't do every drill. I just did certain things. It felt pretty good." LinkI realize this in only one practice, but any knee surgery

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Terrell Owens is done talking to his position coach.Owens said on his radio show Friday that his relationship with Dallas Cowboys receivers coach Todd Haley was ruined by a blowup this week. It began when Owens missed the start of Wednesday's practice because of an upset stomach, and Haley berated him for being late. Owens held his tongue then, but they later argued during a meeting.The story

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"Newsday reported Sunday that Steinbrenner would like to fire Torre, but that no decision has been made just yet, according to several people familiar with the situation. The Long Island-based newspaper said Yankees officials were expected to meet to discuss Torre as early as Sunday, with Piniella the likely favorite to replace Torre." Link Yahoo!!!! Now I can fully hate the Yankees again;

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Today Cooper and I participated in the Fargo/Moorhead Visual Artist's Studio Crawl. We made three stops: 1) Ellen Jean Diederich's watercolor studio2) Sandi Dahl's pastel studio3) Robert Crowe's "Crowe's Nest" pastel studio. Cooper hit the snack tables quite heavily while I wandered and observed the work shown and their workspaces. It was great to see an artist in their work environment.

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Brian Vickers stole his first Nextel Cup victory Sunday by turning teammate Jimmie Johnson into race leader Dale Earnhardt Jr., then skirting by the two spinning cars on the last lap at Talladega Superspeedway. and'That's the last thing I wanted to do was get into Jimmie,' Vickers said amid a shower of boos in Victory Lane. 'But what happened, happened. And it's still nice to get this win.'"Of

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"'We had an obligation to cover this story live from the time it broke,' said Norby Williamson, ESPN's executive vice president for production. 'We felt the need to track its twists and turns and stay with it. Our concern was not how much we did, but to be careful not to speculate over Owens' state of mind.' My gripe was that, in hindsight, some of the information that got on the air proved to be

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ESPN has their experts up picking the playoffs. Two things stand out: 1) Exactly ZERO of the seventeen experts think the Tigers will beat the Yankees. Guess it doesn't pay to end the season being swept by the Kansas City Yellows. . . 2) Seven have it perfect (Jerry Crasnick, Jim Caple, Eric Neel, Pedro Gomez, Eric Karabell, Phill Rogers, and John Shea). Twins win it all!! Now, they

Marc Windahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01684530109995696349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9449654.post-1159538645594215352006-09-29T08:37:00.000-05:002006-09-29T09:04:05.666-05:00

911 call: "I think he took too many pills," she told a paramedic. "Please. Now. ... What do I do if the pills are down the throat?"Spin control: When Etheredge spoke Wednesday, she lashed out at authorities, saying, "I am just upset that I just feel they take advantage of Terrell. Had this been someone else, this may not have happened."Reaction to spin:the head of the Dallas Police Association

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I stumbled on a reference to other problems at the Lexington, KY (LEX) airport that are starting to concern me. 1) July 1991 (NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System #183628) -- Commercial jet has confusion with tower over whether it was cleared for takeoff and what runway it is on. Recommendation in the report is for "better runway markings" to deal with confusion between runways 22 and 26

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I have gotten many comments and emails on my posts on my cousin Kelly. Thank you very much; this love and support means so much to all of us. Two updates:Kelly's Comair memorial service at Grace Fellowship Church in Florence, KY at 10:00 AM (ET) on Friday. The funeral in Detroit Lakes will be Wednesday at 11:00 AM. More details to come after the Barb, Dave, Chris, Eric, and their families

Marc Windahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01684530109995696349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9449654.post-1156881118456419012006-08-29T13:30:00.000-05:002006-08-29T22:44:38.060-05:00

As my bio states, I work for "midwest retailer." As far as this story goes, that means that Paige and I are aproaching our 17th anniversary and before last year, we had never spent Christmas Eve/Day with her parents. Last year, for the first time, I committed to being gone over Christmas. So, I found myself standing in line at the local airport at 5am on December 20th with a sleepy wife

Marc Windahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01684530109995696349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9449654.post-1156690343969301842006-08-27T09:45:00.000-05:002006-08-30T13:47:11.176-05:00

My morning run has been delayed by CNN coverage of news conferences. My cousin, Kelly James Heyer was a member of the crew of Delta 5191 operated by Comair that crashed immediately after take-off this morning in Lexington KY. At this point, the reports are of only one survivor who is in critical condition. I am at a loss for many words right now, other than to say that Kelly is a beautiful

Marc Windahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01684530109995696349noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9449654.post-1156531763266995082006-08-25T20:49:00.000-05:002006-08-27T09:45:34.410-05:00

Brad King writes: "It's an interesting quandary for mobile computing, one that is likely to hamstring the industry for some time." Link I am willing to bet significant bucks that I could find this quote in print from every year since 1995 in my archives. . . Why do we spend time writing about this year after year?

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"We like the advice her father gave when the news of Karr’s possible involvement in the crime was first announced. John Ramsey advised: “I feel it is extremely important to not only let the justice system operate to its conclusion in an orderly manner, but also to avoid feeding the type of media speculation that my wife and I were subjected to for so many years.”" and "We say, give us the news of

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If you are going to rush the mound, know what you are going to do when you get there! "A volatile series finally turned violent when Adam Kennedy charged the mound after being hit by a pitch from Texas' Scott Feldman, triggering a bench-clearing brawl in the Rangers' 9-3 victory over the Angels."Link If you have the TV on and this coming up on SportsCenter, please send the kids from the room

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This mornings Washington Post reports::The man, John Mark Karr, 41, said publicly Thursday he was with the 6-year-old when she died and called her death "an accident," the Associated Press reported from Bangkok. "I was with JonBenet when she died," Karr, a former schoolteacher, told reporters in Bangkok, visibly nervous and stuttering as he spoke. "Her death was an accident." Police said Karr

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From Bismarck Tribune: "From Emperor Marcus Aurelius to the Apostle Paul to Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards, journal-keeping is an age-old way of paying attention to our spiritual lives, said Carl Koch, program director of the Franciscan Spirituality Center in LaCrosse, Wis., who will lead a journaling retreat Oct. 21-23 at Sacred Heart Monastery in Richardton.There's a kind of dance, he said,

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Jeffrey Swartz, the CEO of the Timberland Co., strode purposefully into a New York office packed with McDonald's executives. Dressed in a blazer, jeans, and Timberland boots, he was there on this mid-August day to convince the fast-food behemoth that it should choose his $1.5 billion shoe and clothing company to provide its new uniforms. The executives waited expectantly for him to unzip a bag

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"Let me take this time to introduce you to my unnatural fascination with Moleskine notebooks. I love Moleskine notebooks with such a passion, it spills uncontrollably into my artistic consciousness. I love everything about them, from the placeholder ribbon to the smell of the paper; indeed it's very bizarre. And to be absolutely forthright, I have an impulse to purchase the notebooks every time I

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"it's extremely worrisome that the telcos and their friends keep resorting to trotting out lies. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to not support the various laws as written, but this constant string of lies certainly suggests that the telcos recognize their position is pretty weak."Link and another article When someone pays that much to lie, wonder what they are afraid of us finding out?

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I am going to get a bit personal for one post. I have not had a Mountain Dew/Pepsi/Coke since 7/12. For those that know me, this is a BIG thing. Last night, we went to a mongollian barbecue place. I cut the size of my servings and used a lot more Tofu than meat. June 16th was my first workout in the new gym at my office. I have worked out 3 to 6 days a week since then. I lift and do

Marc Windahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01684530109995696349noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9449654.post-1150923630510641802006-06-21T21:00:00.000-05:002006-07-25T09:58:49.193-05:00

"Artists find nothing quite as fascinating as themselves. When the Medici started their celebrated collection of artist self-portraits, housed in the corridor that Giorgio Vasari built in 1565 to link the Uffizi via the Ponte Vecchio with the Pitti Palace, they set in train a cult of the self that pervades contemporary art today.Walk through any graduate art show and you’ll see the signs: the

Marc Windahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01684530109995696349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9449654.post-1149544071667684892006-06-05T21:47:00.000-05:002006-07-25T09:43:14.476-05:00

"Remember those kids who played Dungeons & Dragons and ran the science-fiction club in your high school? They've become transhumanists. Their resident immortalist, Aubrey de Grey, walks around in sneakers, a ponytail, and a 14-inch beard that he strokes like a cat. One of the CCLE officials at the conference calls herself Wrye Sententia; the other dresses like an LSD trip. This was the kind of

Marc Windahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01684530109995696349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9449654.post-1149024206330891962006-05-30T21:23:00.000-05:002006-07-25T09:35:48.503-05:00

We have entered the "Web 2.0" world. People are using email to replace letter writing (faster, easier, no stamp cost, no mailing hassle) and blogs to replace diaries. But I read a post today and I wondered if we are not losing something in the process. Recently, I listened to the audiobook version of Galileo's Daughter : A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel. A

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Reuters reports:"Ending a four-day pilgrimage to Poland on Sunday, the 79-year-old pontiff reflected on how hard it was for a German to visit the former Nazi death camp and how challenging the evil committed there was for anyone who believed in a loving God. And "'God, why did you remain silent?' Rome's La Repubblica quoted him as asking in reference to the killing there of about 1,5-million

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"The United States is the 19th ranked nation in household broadband connectivity rate, just ahead of Slovenia. Want to know why? Because, contends telecom analyst Bruce Kushnick, the Bell Companies never delivered symmetrical fiber-optic connectivity to millions of Americans though they were paid more than $200 billion to do it. According to Kushnick's book, "$200 Billion Broadband Scandal",

Marc Windahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01684530109995696349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9449654.post-1148335453887750002006-05-22T19:04:00.000-05:002006-07-25T09:34:49.780-05:00

Quoting Seymour Hersh in New Yorker: "A government consultant told me that tens of thousands of Americans had had their calls monitored in one way or the other." Blog "27B Stroke6" concludes: "Like I said before, even if you believe this program is a legitimate tool to find terrorists and you believe that those with the spying earphones on are working in good faith, you should be concerned

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"The state Senate Law and Public Safety Committee is expected to discuss a bill today which would make it a crime -- punishable by up to 18 months in jail -- to photograph, videotape or otherwise record for an extended period of time a power generation, waste treatment, public sewage, water treatment, public water, nuclear or flammable liquid storage facility, as well as any airport in the

Marc Windahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01684530109995696349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9449654.post-1145466194214616332006-04-19T19:03:00.000-05:002006-06-01T13:15:59.456-05:00

Here's a great post for everyone to conisider: "What produces white space in your life? Rest; sleep; time to think and reflect; periods doing nothing save staring at the sky, watching a bird, enjoying a beautiful flower; listening to music (not merely having it playing in the background); enjoying a good book. The list could go one and on. White space is made up of just about anything you do for

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I don't know if anyone is guilty or not in this case. But if the sports writers and magazines are going to carry it EVERY day, they need to figure out how to get it right. Here is one of my biggest complaints; this quote by Nifong keeps getting repeated: "Defense attorneys have urged Nifong to drop the case, saying DNA tests failed to connect any of the 46 team members tested to the alleged

Marc Windahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01684530109995696349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9449654.post-1143152693162030352006-03-23T19:24:00.000-06:002006-06-01T13:15:14.680-05:00

"'If I had to guess, I believe they did not wish to revisit the substantive issue, in large part because I think that there's a great discomfort with sexually themed speech and a reluctance to tinker with Miller v. California because prior to Miller the court had 20 years of chaos where they essentially had to act as a trial court, deciding in every case what was and what was not obscene.''I'm

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"Now he's dead at 45, and the obituaries mention but don't lead with his 'troubles.' In fact, they give the story a nice arc. We like our athletes flawed. They so obviously belong on the field that they can't cope off it. Darryl Strawberry and Doc Gooden used drugs, Pete Rose gambled, and Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams were mean-spirited jerks. Puckett's former teammate Jeff Reardon, the great

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"Then I recalled the time I worked on the interactive version of Oracle's Annual Report. We did a video shoot of Larry Ellison saying openings for each chapter of the report. If only I'd kept the outtakes for the one that had my team on the floor--Larry was reading a script for the opening of the 'People' chapter and had just completed the phrase, 'Our employees are our greatest asset,' when

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"No longer do employers need to judge the caliber of a job applicant based on the keywords in his or her resume. We're moving to a better world in which links to online content, relationships, and communities give a fuller picture of every candidate. " Link: At the end of the day, you have to live with what you have said and done. Seek to do the right thing and correct and apologize for your

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"The world is moving into a new age of numbers. Partnerships between mathematicians and computer scientists are bulling into whole new domains of business and imposing the efficiencies of math. This has happened before. In past decades, the marriage of higher math and computer modeling transformed science and engineering. Quants turned finance upside down a generation ago. And data miners plucked

Marc Windahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01684530109995696349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9449654.post-1137033716201874522006-01-11T20:31:00.000-06:002006-01-11T20:41:56.220-06:00

I was impressed with the rich artist's community and art scene in Asheville, NC. One place I really liked was the River Arts District. This vibrant community is only a few blocks, but contains dozens of painters, glass blowers, writers, quilters, sculptors, woodcarvers, dancers, printmakers, furniture makers, and others. They styles range from traditional to avant garde. Time your visit for

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I just finished pulling together a "location book" with my notes from the shoots in Western North Carolina. I include two pieces of information: information on locations that I shot and information on places that I want to shoot, but could not fit in on the first trip. It takes multiple trips to cover a large region and I also like to shoot some locations over and over in multiple seasons. 1)

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Went to the local Arby's last night (Fargo: 25th St South) and asked "what sauce is on the Bacon-swiss Chicken Sandwich?" Then asked for "no honey-mustard." I have to watch my orders because of my food allergies. Get home, and the sandwich has extra honey mustard; it is dripping off the sandwich. Fries are stale and cold. So, I threw it away, and said a few choice words about Arby's.

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I had a chance to fly Pinnacle Airlines twice over the holidays. What a horrible experience! I was harassed both times about my camera bag. I am a traveling professional photographer and I carry valuable equipment. I spent time and money research TSA and airline regulations and purchased a special bag that meets Northwest Airlines carry-on guidelines (which are a bit more restrictive than

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"I'm on the hunt for excellence -- within my organization. I want to define what excellence means to me as well as others. Then, I want everybody to commit to that definition. For those that aren't committing, they shouldn't be part of the organization. After all, can your organization really become excellent if there are those that aren't practicing excellence? I really don't think so.So,

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This is a bit harsh for me, but it does provoke thoughts: "With their proliferation, the world is awash in digital snapshots, and the art of photography dies a little more each day. These cameras are technological marvels, to be sure. But because they do virtually everything for you and require no effort beyond pointing and shooting, pointing and shooting is all that most people do.In a

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Today is dark and rainy, but yesterday was a great day. It was sunny and clear. Bill and I drove up to the Pisgah Forest and visited three waterfalls: Looking Glass, Moore Cove, and Sliding Rock. Looking Glass is listed as "one of the most photographed falls in the US." It was beautiful and challenging. I spent my time trying to figure out how to get the shot that I wanted; something that

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I have discovered a new category of dining. I am used to asking "what do you want?", and hearing choices like: "American", "Thai", "Chinese", "Italian", etc. Last night I learned a new one. It seems in SC, fine dining is defined as a "meat and three". You select one meat and three vegtables. I also discovered that "Black-eye peas" are not just a music group and that "Chocolate sin" is

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Two snippets from/about my wife today:1) We went to a grocery store. Stood in the parking lot and looked at the mountains all around us. Paige said: "This is so much better than North Dakota; even the grocery stores have a great view!"2) Paige was driving as I was shooting stock photo's. She is horrible; gets distracted with talking and drives right past the stuff we scouted at high speed.

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I am sitting here watching the sun come up over the mountain. For many, this may be no big deal; for a boy from North Dakota where it is FLAT, it is a wonderful change. It has put me in a mode to ponder my thoughts. . . I recently watched the A&E Biography of Vincent Van Gogh. o Vincent was the second baby born in the family with that name. His older brother was born a year earlier, named

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I really need this right now! Anyone got any ideas. I would love an AJAX interface that lets me type a start point, end point, and get directions, road conditions, and weather reports for the trip. It would make life a lot easier than having to check the state Dept of Transportation road reports, google maps, and weather.com. . . Technorati TagsGoogle MapsWeatherTravelRoad Conditions

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When I was in early elementary school, our teacher read to our class EB White's book The Trumpet of the Swan. It was a story that always stuck with me, even though I had never seen a trumpeter swan. On Saturday, that changed. Operating on a hot tip from a good source, Cooper and I set off to find the swans. They had been seen on a river between two lakes in west-central Minnesota. The book

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Cooper and I were on a photo-adventure again Saturday. The weather did not cooperate much; temps were around freezing, it was raining, sleeting, snowing, etc., and the roads were slushy or icy. There were cars in the ditch in a few places. We drove Paige's Saturn Vue with AWD and anti-loc breaks. I also drove the Vue last month when we had rain and blizzards in Fargo and most of the town,

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Renaissance Art Sketchbook I recently came across a reference to this website (forgot where, but I am deeply indebted to someone). I went to the site and was just blown away by the large leather sketchbook. Here is the site's description: Whether writing long verse or capturing snow-capped mountain peaks in watercolor, the acid-free artist quality paper in our refills will textually add to

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I was going through my drawer in the office at home the other day and I realized that I have filled 4 moleskine pocket journals in the last two years. Number five was started two months ago (9/11/05) and it is already over half-full. A few more moleskine hacks: o Pen – I have started using the Sakura Pigma Micron 005 pens. It is extremely thin lines (0.20mm), archival ink, waterproof, with

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I am going in two-and-a-half or three directions at once right now. I have a Van Gogh book in the car that has 120 pictures with short descriptions. I love his use of color and brush strokes; the way that he juxtaposes different colors side by side rather than mixing to make a blended effect. I am also reading an book on impressionism. Finally, I am reading a book on Cubism. I find

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I use RSS in both of my jobs and in my personal life to track information on the internet; I could not live without it. Recently, I found RSS Calendar. It allows me to enter my calendar on-line and share it with family and friends as well is on my blogs and website. After signing up for a free account, I was presented with a calendar and I started to add events. Each event has special

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I was getting my son (age 3.5) a glass of water the other night. He wanted a “white glass;” one of the kids cups he got at Famous Dave's Resturant. The cup has their pig mascot Wilbur on it. I grabbed the cup, put water in it, and gave it to Cooper. He looked at the side of the cup, then up at me and said: “Wiiillllllbuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrr!” Glad he had hold of the cup, because I was

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I picked up two samples of PrismaColor Art Stix last week; today I picked up a 12 color set. Basically, they are colored pencils without the wood. They are rectangular pieces of pure color pencil. They are clean to the touch, but you can use the sides or ends to apply the color. You can use it on its side to quickly apply color to large areas. They can be used for base coats, to cover

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Moleskinerie has pictures and descriptions of the new Moleskine for Watercolor. Hmm. my wife's birthday is coming up. . . I think a perfect gift would be to buy two, one for her use, and one for us to fill between now and May and give to our son on his 4th birthday. Very exciting; I am such an notebook pr0n-aholic :)

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"After years of rejection, influential bands the Sex Pistols, Black Sabbath and Lynyrd Skynyrd are finally making it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, organizers said on Monday. The 2006 class of inductees also includes jazz legend Miles Davis and New Wave group Blondie, while trumpeter Herb Alpert and business partner Jerry Moss, founders of A&M Records, will be inducted as nonperformers."

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"Sen. Arlen Specter has accused the NFL and the Philadelphia Eagles of treating Terrell Owens unfairly, and might refer the matter to the antitrust subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee.Specter, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, said at a news conference Monday in Harrisburg it was 'vindictive and inappropriate' for the league and the Eagles to forbid the star wide receiver from

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The Windmedia Store is now open with items for Christmas and special offers on shipping. I plan on adding 20-40 items per night, so please check back often. There will be a link on the blogs with the latest special deals and offers. Thanks.

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Tony Long writes:"But that's the point. My expectations have been raised to this ridiculous level by technology running amok through my heretofore-bucolic existence. I used to be a laid-back guy. Now I'm impatient. I chafe. I get irritable when my gratification isn't instantaneous. And it isn't just me. The whole world is bitchier these days.I'm old enough to remember when waiting a few days for

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Merlin Mann at 43 Folders Writes: "Procrastination can drive most of us into a spiral of shame that’s as mundane as it is painfully personal. We know what we should be doing, but some invisible hang-up keeps us on the line. Unfortunately, the guaranteed consequence of procrastination is growth in the scale of the task you’ve been putting off—as well as the anxiety that it creates. All the time

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