Archive for August, 2006
Brad Paisey was great, Carrie Underwood can rock
Saw the Brad Paisley concert yesterday at the Kentucky State Fair. He had two opening acts, up-and-coming artist Eric Church and American Idol winner Carrie Underwood. Normally having two opening acts would be annoying because it would mean lots of extra waiting for the headliner. But the nice thing about country artists […]
It’s State Fair time!
Woo-hoo, the Kentucky State Fair starts today. I just love State Fairs, what a great excuse to wander around eating horrendously fattening cuisine (mmm, fried Twinkies) while gazing in awe at the huge variety of livestock grown in this country. I mean who knew there were so many varieties of chickens or cows […]
Maybe I’m never flying overseas again
With all the craziness going on these days with international flights, maybe I’m thru with overseas travel. At least any that requires international air travel.
After all I’ve already seen a ton of places overseas. In the Pacific I’ve been to Hawaii, Taiwan, Thailand, Guam, and of course the Philippines. In Europe […]
It’s settled–Pluto is a planet
Well it’s not officially settled yet, but the meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Prague looks like it will approve the new proposed definition of what constitutes a planet. Pluto becomes the prototype for a new class of smaller planets to be called “plutons”.
Seems like a reasonable compromise between those who’d […]
Percentage of minorities grew in every state except West Virginia
Thought this was interesting–a new census study shows minorities made up an increasing share of the population in 49 states. Only West Virginia did not see an increase in minorities. Apparently not a lot of my fellow minorities want to take up coal mining.
Whites are still in the majority nationwide. But they […]
The taste of Gatorade lingers
On the majority of my runs I fill my water bottles with just that, water. But the training book recommends that on longer runs, if you’re going to be out there more than 30 to 45 minutes, using a fluid-replacement drink such as Gatorade. The idea being that it replaces both liquids and […]
Why are the recruiters all coming out of the woodwork now?
So I’d been unhappy at my CNET job for a while, and about maybe 18 months ago I did what a lot of folks do these days when they’re unhappy–I posted my resume on CareerBuilder.com. In that time I got a grand total of one inquiry, a job for which I was completely unqualified […]
Letting users choose out-of-office settings
One of the things that drove me crazy at CNET was the way they had set up the out-of-office system in Exchange. Initially it was set up to not send the out-of-office message to external email addresses. That to me made sense, since most external emails I received came from evil vile spammers. […]
Whoever created useBean is a genius
Even though I’ve been a Java/JSP programmer for many years, it’s only recently that I’ve had a chance to try out the useBean tag. At my previous employer, we had this home-grown JSP tag library (called MACE, but I don’t remember what that stands for). It worked well enough I suppose, but it […]
May have had a breakthru in my marathon training
So this past Sunday, my long run for the week, was horrific. Supposed to go for 7 miles but I aborted at 4.8. Everything hurt–feet, shins, knees, lungs. Yet today, during my short run, I had the best 3-miler ever. Perhaps the events of Sunday were some kind of breakthru […]