Posted in Blogging, Travel on September 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll be away from home for about a week, on a vacation trip. In case anybody peeks in here to see if there’s anything new. I’m relying on all of you to keep the blog world humming along with interesting content while I’m far away from home.
By the way, I won’t learn to say “Don’t Taze me, bro!” in Spanish. I’m pretty sure I won’t need that phrase at Machu Picchu.
Posted in Blogging on September 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Not guaranteed safe for work at all times, but I watched it for a few minutes and didn’t see anything outside the bounds. Blogger has made its Blogger Play feature available to everyone. It’s an ever-changing display of the photos that are uploaded to Blogger accounts/blogs all the time.
Fascinating. Just click here and watch.
But don’t blame me if you waste too much time there.
Posted in City, Culture, Denver on September 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m considering a road trip this fall, to see some places here in the US. After the price of gasoline and finding decent hotel rooms, I will be concerned about finding the authentic things – the local things - in those places.
Because I know that just driving into any US town means passing strips of chain sameness. McDonald’s. Walgreen’s. W*l-mart. Not so many Sears and Penneys stores as there used to be. Chili’s. Love’s. On and on.
You have to dig to find the local places to eat, to shop, to visit. Thank goodness for those AAA travel books, although they probably can’t cover everything.
Last night I enjoyed local pleasures: dinner at the Handle Bar & Grill, and a play at Germinal Stage Denver. If you’re in Denver and looking for dinner and a play, please don’t be put off by their websites, which are inferior (HB&G) and annoyingly bad (GSD).
The Handle Bar should have its logo on its site, but I didn’t see it there. It’s an eatery inspired by the sport of bicycling. It’s motto: “We ain’t no chain.” The noise from the bar last night drifted clear over to our table, but the food was, as usual, good. And we could hear ourselves think, and talk.
The theater pros at Germinal Stage Denver work their magic on a tiny stage. You won’t find the GSD experience anywhere else. But you may have a small professional theater in your town. If you’ve been meaning to get tickets, this might be a good time to do that. For an authentic, local, experience.
Posted in Career, Life and death, Retirement on September 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve always tested out as INFP on the Meyers-Briggs Type Inventory. A personality type that’s not at all ideal for the practice of law. And I’ve practiced law for 30 years. That’s a recipe for a lot of personal growth – and a boatload of constant stress. Someday I may write more about it.
HT to Saintseester for the link.
Posted in Current Events, Politics on September 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
That’s not how I pronounce “911″ – the emergency phone number is “nine one one.”
“Nine eleven” means September 11, 2001. Now it’s six years on, the first time since then that this date has fallen on a Tuesday. I worked at a major airport for several years – including 2001. I don’t need reminders to remember the date, the events, the lost and bereaved.
But now I’m weary. I’m sad and mad about what the United States government has done in the name of Nine Eleven. The damage to the United States Constitution. The carnage in Iraq. I’m not the only one.
Signe Wilkinson drew this cartoon for the Philadelphia Daily News:
From today’s Denver Post comes another excellent “Grace Notes” column from Natalie Constanza-Chavez which is worth a read in full, and echoes many of my thoughts on the subject. Especially here:
9/11: Taking Stock
. . . Six years ago these United States were loved and supported the world over. 9/11 brought all the good people out to remind us that there are indeed a heck of a lot of good people. Help and grace rained down from almost every country.
And what of that now? The good will has evaporated. We are unpopular with each other and with just about everyone else, we are weary, and we are tired of the fighting and division. . . .
Also in today’s Post, Ed Quillen remembers the 150th anniversary of a September 11 massacre of innocents by religious zealots – in the US: the Mountain Meadow Massacre.
UPDATE: The #1 Dinosaur has posted an eloquent commentary on the massive squandering of lives, money and national goodwill, and dared to ask what if we’d had a real leader instead of the Current Occupant.
Posted in Cool Stuff, Inspiration, Movies, Music on September 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Jesus Dropped The Charges – The O’Neil Twins
Grainy video but good sound.
One of my all time favorite songs. From the movie Say Amen Somebody.
Posted in Bad behavior, Humor, Politics on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Bad behavior, Culture, Current Events, Good things, Humor, TV on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You have to love Niecy Nash on Clean House. Always turned out bandbox-spiffy from head to toe. Just the right sass and attitude. Never at a loss for a well-turned phrase. Strict as a spinster schoolmarm with those homeowners drowning in their clutter and mess who cling to their junk – even after they’ve let a TV CREW in because they want help.
Yep. A whole damn TV network crew. Poking their cameras into the nasty garage and junk-littered bedrooms. And still these people can’t part with their precious “collectible” crap. But I digress.
Niecy gave me my favorite phrase this week: Mayhem and foolishness. (Used by bizzy, better than I’ve done, but still.)
So much mayhem and foolishness in the news today, I don’t know where to start.
Seriously. I’m rethinking my longtime early morning routine - reading the daily newspaper with the TV or radio news on in the background while sipping my coffee and scarfing down breakfast. I could get crazy if I pay too much attention. If this trend continues, I’m going to start using words which really don’t add much to informed civil discourse on any subject.
Posted in Blogging, Humor on September 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You’re Tulane University!
In the old days, you used to cheer for waves as they crashed
on the beach. Now, you’ve just been crushed by them. There are many regrets
that go along with this process, but now you’re hoping for many happy
returns. After all you’ve been through, it’s tough convincing people that
you’re safe to hang out with, but you like to remind them of your aspirations
to be a doctor. You want to save people, but first you have to save
yourself.
Take the University Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.
Posted in Business on September 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Denver Post business section’s weekly interview today: Michael Edesess, a financial industry veteran and author of “The Big Investment Lie: What Your Financial Advisor Doesn’t Want You to Know.” Full text below the fold if the link has expired.
Here’s the money part, pun intended:
Q: What is the small investor to do then?
A: The best strategy is to put 50 percent in a total market domestic index fund and the rest in a total market non-U.S. index fund. It is simple. It is the maximum in diversification, minimum in taxes. You can’t beat it.
Q: Does that strategy work in volatile times like these?
A: It will go up and down. Just forget it. You can’t time it. Ups and downs occur because of unforeseeable events, unforeseeable to the markets and the experts.
Keep reading for the whole thing. (more…)
Posted in Humor, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans on September 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Blogging, Mary Kay Cosmetics on September 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Life moves on, and so do I.
Several months ago I got interested in the goings-on over at Mary Kay Sucks, a blog that morphed into Pink Truth. I wrote a few items here on the general subject of multi-level marketing (MLM) and the specifically icky incarnation of MLM insanity known as Mary Kay Cosmetics. Some of my posts linked to specific entries over at Pink Truth.
Recently the Pink Truth website was completely redesigned, and now those links don’t work. I’m not visiting Pink Truth as much anymore. So now that the links to the source material no longer work, I’ve removed all my Mary Kay entries.
I still think the company sucks, and the Unitnet web pages I’ve seen (MK sales directors actually pay extra to have them) are textbook examples of Web Pages That Suck.
If you got here because you searched for information on Mary Kay cosmetics, the Mary Kay business flopportunity, Tracy Coenen, Mary Kay National (Nasty-licious) Sales Directors, pink Cadillacs (why? good God, WHY?), multi-level marketing, MLM, MLMs, direct sales, or anything similar, you can go to these sites:
And RUN, don’t walk, away from any MLM “opportunity.”
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