Maps #31: Have Map, Will Travel

Here are the coffee houses near the Barbara Bush Library


View Larger Map

Sound: #27: Creating Your Own Podcast

I am not sure about this, I'll check it out later. Maybe something with which my "Artistic Director" can help.

Sound: #26: Making (or listening to) Music Together

Not up my alley. I will have to see what my "Artistic Director" has to say.

Sound: #25: Am I a music pirate? It's hard to know...

I uploaded Nina Simone, 'Revolution' from the Free MP3 of the Day website. There is also CNET Download Music. Free is a great thing unless you are a classical music lover like me. There is a lot of really good material out there though, you just have to be patient.

When it comes to music I am a purist and for me, MP3 or whatever method you use to compress the files, much is lost in the process. Listen to the same song first in MP3 and then directly from the original CD. The difference is very obvious even to someone with bad hearing. Me for instance.

Spring Cleaning #30: Take a Load Off Our Drives

This Spring cleaning business is an ongoing thing with me. I try to check my, and common, folders a couple of time a month. Amazing how much garbage accumulates in just a couple of weeks.

Spring Cleaning #29: Email

I have 20 messages in 4 folders. Inbox 7, iHCPL 6, Minutes 6, Save 1.


I keep most of my documents in a flash drive.

Spring Cleaning #28: Don’t Clutter Up Expensive Cyberspace

I subscribed to Ta-da List because it seemed the least cluttered but mostly because it had most straightforward and shortest Terms of Service and Privacy Statement. I do not have a calendar or to do lists, I am a husband, father, and primarily grandfather. I have enough people telling me what to do, when to do do it, where to do it. but mostly how, or how not, to do it. I love my job at the library.

Having worked on computers most of my life I am painfully aware of of how space, lack or abundance, impacts everything around us. Not just in terms of cost but also performance, time, and in turn, production and productivity. The less space, be it temporary, archival, random access memory, or bandwidth, the longer we spend waiting for the screen to appear. The speed of your personal computer has more to do with space than with the CPU speed. If the fastest transport can only carry one pound it will have to make may many trips to carry a to. Think airplanes vs. freight trains.

I do my Spring cleaning year-round.

Sound: #24: The sound of music!

I found out that WGMS, my favorite radio station from the Washington D.C. area, no longer exists. WETA 90.9 FM is now a very acceptable substitute, as is WAMU 88.5, both part of the NPR network.

I am now able to listen to radio stations from my childhood, long before transistors, or the Internet for those who do not recognize the word "transistor". The radio was the only one in the small town where I lived and we would listen in the evenings. It was a battery powered luggable box. The battery came in a separate box an was as big and heavy as a modern day car battery.

Trivia:
The first radio station in El Salvador, YSSS Radio El Salvador 96.9FM, started in March 1st 1926, first broadcast station in Central America, fourth in Latin America and sixth worldwide.

Bet you didn't know that!

BLAH!!!

BLAH!!!

Children

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

What's done to children, they will do to society.


If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn't
work, use the other side of the brush on the other end of the child.


FORTUNE REMEMBERS THE GREAT MOTHERS: #6
"Johnny, if you fall and break your leg, don't come running to me!"
-- Mrs. Emily Barstow, June 16, 1954

fortune cookie

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they
really hate is lousy programmers.
- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in "Oath of Fealty"

"A Baby's Bill of Rights"

Article the Third:
Where a crime of the kidneys has been committed, the accused should
enjoy the right to a speedy diaper change. Public announcements and
guided tours of the aforementioned are not necessary.

Article the Fourth:
The decision to eat strained lamb or not should be with the "feedee"
and not the "feeder". Blowing the strained lamb into the feeder's
face should be accepted as an opinion, not as a declaration of war.

Article the Fifth:
Babies should enjoy the freedom to vocalize, whether it be in church,
a public meeting place, during a movie, or after hours when the
lights are out. They have not yet learned that joy and laughter have
to last a lifetime and must be conserved.

-- Erma Bombeck, "A Baby's Bill of Rights"

fortune cookie

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
-- Henrik Tikkanen

More From Church Bulletins:

Potluck supper: prayer and medication to follow.

From Church Bulletins:

The Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10. All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B.S. is done.

REASONS DOGS DON'T USE COMPUTERS

Too difficult to "mark" every website they visit.