We had an unusual visitor in the neighborhood today. A pheasant! I managed to get a few pictures of it pacing my next-door neighbor’s fence. I didn’t want to get too close and my camera battery was dieing, but I tried to get some decent shots as it strutted and pecked at the fence.

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No! Not those zits! The comic strip Zits!
If you have access to today’s Zits comic strip, it has a thoughtful (pun intended) laugh about blogging. Unfortunately, I can’t find an online copy to share. And I don’t have a working scanner, so I can’t even contemplate loading an illegal copy myself. Sorry.


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Have you ever wanted to write like Jane Austen? (Yes, I know, dream on.) Well, now you can, sort of…. You might not be able to emulate her prose, but your computer can now copy her handwriting. Download the Jane Austen handwriting font at this site. I haven’t tried it, but maybe it would improve my writing!

Earlier this evening I turned on the TV at the end of Cold Case. I don’t watch this show so I don’t know if this is standard procedure, but they were showing a montage of muted scenes. I guess the mystery had been solved and we were seeing, but not hearing, people’s reactions. Instead of dialogue, a song softly played setting the mood. I had closed ( Read more... )

Too bad it isn’t the Cubs. Oh well. Go Sox.

The one time University of Texas fans actually want Notre Dame to win…they fail us! Yes, they might have won if the officials had thrown a flag on USC when a running back pushed the quarterback into the end zone on the last play of the game. But that never gets called, so, it’s still Notre Lame’s fault for losing!

Personally I’ve always thought it was a good idea to keep a firm grip on one’s camera-or at least put it somewhere so it won’t do a Humpty Dumpty. But these folks have a different idea. They use cameras like bean bags and throw them. They’ve got some really cool pictures, but I’m not sure I want to fulfill the membership requirements. Take a look.

After playing around with settings in TypePad I was able to get the Google blog search engine to find my TypePad blog, but I can’t say the ( Read more... )

For the past couple of weeks, I've been posting the exact same blog in two locations to test two blogging services. I would have tried three blog services, but I couldn't get the domain I wanted at Blogspot. So the two sites are:

• LiveJournal
• TypePad

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I made the mistake of watching ABC’s “Commander in Chief” last night. This is one worthless show. It’s supposed to be a drama; instead, it’s boring, poorly acted, and basically a yawn. I read that the writer/creator has been fired, but this wasn’t confirmed and might not save the show anyway. I’ve never understood the appeal of Gina Davis. ( Read more... )