Thoughts. Perspective. Ideas. Opinions. Rambings. Observations. Conversations. Questions.
Because I am huge history nerd, I occasionally (OK, frequently) visit websites like the National Archives and the Library of Congress. While browsing our nation’s library, I noticed this posting, announcing that the Library of Congress recently uploaded over 3,000 images to Flickr.
There are currently two photo sets – 1930s-40s in Color and News in [...]
Being at work at 15 past midnight (00:15 as the clock on this PC reads) is not cool.
No Tags
According to Luke 2:7, Mary gave birth to Jesus in a manger (stable) because there was “no room for them in the inn.”
A modern day hotel chain is trying to rectify that mistake.
From December 24 until January 5, Travelodge, a U.K. hotel chain, is offering a free night’s stay to married couples with the names [...]
Seriously, this has to be a joke…
Tags: al gore, Apple, climate change, nobel prize, ridiculous hysteria, total crap
Apple mistakenly released this season’s fourth episode of Stargate: Atlantis, instead of the season premiere via it’s iTunes Store. Apparently, the confusion was caused by episode production and broadcast numbers. Broadcast numbers represent the episodes in the order in which they are to be broadcast and production numbers represent them in the order they were [...]
My dad is a huge fan of his 30GB iPod Video. He uses it all the time to listen to music and various preaching/teaching podcasts. All was well until the wheel/buttons stopped working. I contacted Apple and it was still under the initial one-year warranty. I gave them the information and they sent a DHL [...]
I took the kids through the Chick-Fil-A drive-thru yesterday. One problem: It is out-of-commission. Fortunately, this was Chick-Fil-A. They had two employees out there along the line of cars. One was taking orders on a notepad and passing them to the second person, who was on a cell phone to someone inside the store. She [...]
Lately, we have spent some time at a local neighborhood pool. Actually, it’s the neighborhood where my parents live and where I grew up. So, the kids love it and it’s great to take them out to play in the water.
However, once an hour, the lifeguard blows the whistle and hollers, “Adult Swim!” OK, I [...]
Andrew Robert Ryals was born this afternoon. He weighed 6 lbs, 10 oz and was 20″ long. My sister Ashley is doing fine and she and Bobby are, of course, thrilled. They did not find out the baby’s sex during the pregnancy, so that was a surprise to everyone as well. It was a [...]