Suzan and I went to Macon last weekend to take photos with our friends Ken & Daphne. Suzan wanted to get photos of the Rose Hill Cemetery, and we even managed a side trip to Andersonville Prison (Camp Sumter).
I managed to get some photos (click on an image to see the collection) and shoot stock cemetery footage (might be handy later for Dragon*ConTV). They are somber places full of striking images.
This makes me happy …
… if Rush can’t play their own song on Rock Band, then I don’t feel so bad for hating the game when I try to play it as the “drummer”.
And the men (and women) of Dragon*Con rejoice. “Mailman seeks comfort in kilt”
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/07/21/mailman_seeks_comfort_in_kilt/
“They’re mostly ribbing me, but occasionally there are people who appear to be offended,” said Lunde, 38, who has delivered mail in Salem, Ore., for nine years. “I say, ‘Show me a picture of Jesus in slacks, and I’ll consider it.’ “
Looks like the fail whale has a fat wallet … CNET is reporting that Twitter bought Summize. For those of you that cocked their heads to the side and said “whut?” reading that sentence, I will explain further.
Twitter is a neat microblogging service (140 character updates via the web, SMS and other methods). Twitter has the nickname “FAIL WHALE” because it shows this cute little graphic whenever it goes down … and it goes down a lot [insert Bill Clinton intern joke here]. Summize is one of the many Twitter-based services that have recently popped up to feed off of Twitter’s popularity … that is, when Twitter is actually working.
And yes, there is even a service to tell you if Twitter has … well … failed.
So when your service is associated with being unreliable (note: their IM service hasn’t worked for weeks), maybe you should spend venture capital on more reliable infrastructure instead of nifty features. Spending new money on shiny distractions instead of core infrastructure is the job of government, and we know how much they hate competition.
P1000470 – Originally uploaded by siliconchef
It’s an important day to me for three reasons …
1. It’s Suzan’s birthday (hello my lovely wife)
2. My grandfather and dad were both in the military
3. The more time I spend looking at today’s politics, the more I see how right the founding fathers were when they setup this country.
The photo above is of my grandfather, Captain James M. Roberts (US Navy 1923-1958, USNA Class of 1927). Thirty one years of military service put him in the build up to World War II and The Korean War. Even with several friends currently serving, everytime I try to put a face on a soldier his keeps coming to mind.
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