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In reading the news of late, there seems to have been many stories of groups of people conducting themselves in an unsafe manner.  Has common sense left the collective intelligence of the human race?

In a previous life I witnessed a woman clinging to a tree at a ball field get killed by a strike.  She was told by those around her not to hide under the tree during a thunderstorm.  She brushed them off with a comment about the low risk of getting hit. 

If you want to waste an hour and half, listen to the inane conversation at the new Vinecast. 

This experience was similar to my recent read of the latest David Sedaris book. 

I unfortunately had just reread The Innocents Abroad.  Expecting to follow this with more wit and humor mixed with bitter irony, I was instead given the mediocre revelations of a mediocre life, the highlight of which was to go to Tokyo with the express purpose of ending a decades long smoking habit.

Twain wrote about quitting the awful habit several times.  Each time was with a combination of irony and humor that was totally missing from the Sedaris book.

I will compare TWiT with Vinecast.  On the TWiT podcast, intelligent and well informed people discuss issues surrounding their chosen topic.  With the exception of a fascination with Twitter, the talk mostly stays focused to the issue at hand.  It is moderated by Leo Laporte.

It would be correct to identify the moderator of the Vinecast here, but there really wasn’t one.  It wasn’t until the broadcast was several minutes old before the speakers were even identified.

It would be the right thing to say that I listened to the entire podcast.  It would be the right thing, but it would be a lie.  My email icon popped up and I decided to read SPAM instead of continuing with the podcast. 

That about says it all.

This is a first blog entry using the new off-line editor Zoundry Raven.

In the set up, it seemed to bring the settings for Trounce Ally in the VOX server with no problem. Considering the difficulty we have had getting a VOX based blog working in an off-line editor we will be very surprised if this works.

No bells and whistles with this entry, with the exception of the -30- HTML code.

In an earlier tweet I mentioned that as I have avoided drugs all these years I have also avoided apple products. 

It isn’t easy living in the geek world.  Watching people sit in line for three days for a phone, one with many bells and whistles indeed, but a phone nonetheless, reminds of the people I see standing outside of office buildings in below zero temperatures smoking.

As a disclaimer I will admit being a crackberry. It is a drug of choice thing, I believe.

It has been reported that Bozo the Clown, or at least a man who is associated with the character, Larry Harmon, has died of congestive heart failure at the age of 83.

The pictures of the clown fish was used because most clown faces are copyrighted material.

Bozo Dead

If you want to get lost looking at old photographs, the Smithsonian’s Flikr pages
will gladly provide you with hours of distraction.

In this morning’s NYT there is a story of a man purported to have Aspergers Syndrome and is focused on the workings of the New York City Transit System.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6ey3j9

He is an adult with a long history of behavior and non-violent confrontation with the NYC TA and their  employees.  He has driven busses and subway trains along their routes.  He has made an effort to become part of the system.

The fact that he’s been allowed to do this over and over again shows he has the skill and knowledge to slip right into the role.  It appears to me there has to be a way to make him part of the system in a controlled role so that his “obsession” as the NYT is calling it, can be used in  a positive way.

I’ve been one of those who has made comments regarding blogs devoted to cats and the photography thereof.  However, when a cat that has made its home your home for almost a dozen years meets its end from coyote wounds,
I believe it worth a public statement.

Today, along with the ashes of another long lived pet, we are rearranging the front garden in their honor.

There have been a large number of changes in the geek world: beta Thunderbird, First Release Firefox, one AIR desktop program after another, mostly, it seems, Twitter related.

Twitter itself has burped once or twice over the past week, causing the AIR programs to require manual resets, like old alarm clocks and VCRs.  You do remember VCRs?

This is a wonderful book for children.
Published for $5.00 on Lulu.com

The Brave Brothers

The purpose of a Sunday Morning, is to allow you to wake up when your body, rather than some mechanical device inspires it.  This is only true if you don’t have children, dogs, cats, snoring spouses or various body parts that require your attention.

It was two out of the bunch this morning.  Which two shall remain unknown to the general public.

A lot of what would have been written here under MUSING has been relegated to Twitter.  Instead of a lengthy rambling, such as this, on Twitter, the entry is limited to 140 characters. 

There are hacks that will allow for longer, and you can load links, mostly miniaturized to expand the thought, but still, it is within the 140 characters I try to frame the complete thought.

All of the RSS readers this morning are filled to the brim.  We opened them.  We closed them. 

We brewed tea and read the news.  Then, after half of the tea was consumed, we wrote this rambling comment.