A statistic for Ted....
Did you know that in the U.S., golf courses take up an area twice the size of the state of Delaware? I didn't. Now I do.
Monday, October 25, 2004
Sunday, October 17, 2004
Mr. Moore comes to Maryville
It was no where near as good as I have heard him speak on TV. Granted, he is used to audiences that are more condensed. This was outside, taking up about 1,500 to 2,000 seats in a 7-8,000 seat stadium.
In fairness, this was NOT an ENCORE presentation, like the ticket states -- that would be illegitimate electioneering. (If I was a Penn State student, or a PA tax-payer, I would be upset about next week's event. He is not discussing film-making.) At Northwest, he was only paid ticket sales. I admire Moore for that, he must have known that he wouldn't get anywhere close to the $20-30k he has become accustomed to. Oh, and he really did not take the football team on, I guess they didn't have too much time to print these or something.
My overall impression was that he was about as humorous as I expected. Many people think that he killed John Candy, but I liked the movie "Canadian Bacon." It was, you know, tender.
Back to Moore, he was sort of faxing it in, especially at the end when he was trying to whoop the crowd. (A difficult thing to do in an outside stadium that is not even a quarter full.) He passed out some clean underwear to some students that were promising to vote for the first time. I don't think this is illegal electioneering.
He was not too vitriolic, which was good for Maryville. He was not too coarse, either, especially in language. I think he cussed less than 10 times, and made only one reference to 14-year-old-sex. He made fun of the student Republican group that was protesting him with signs on the outside. I definitely laughed then, because I despise protesting and have disdain for protestors. (I grew up less than 20 miles from D.C., does it show?)
He might not have changed anyone's mind, but at least he gets people thinking. I like that he uses humor to get people thinking. This makes him a counterweight to Rush Limbaugh (whereas a feisty and mean Al Franken has a counterpart in Bill O'Reilly.) You do have to understand that I see Moore as an entertainer, so I don't get too worked up about his opinions, or in supporting people in general. (This is why I cannot imagine myself taping a bumper sticker to the inside of my window, everyone will let you down eventually.)
I will close this review (hardly can call it that, but I was there and you weren't) by quoting one of his closing remarks. He wants the slackers in this country to say:
Maybe M can turn that into a bumper sticker for his personal blog. Personally, I *STILL* don't know who I will vote for. A write-in for Al Sharpton is still looking pretty good right now. Those debates were lame. Maybe they should let them box or something. I hate boxing...
--gh
In fairness, this was NOT an ENCORE presentation, like the ticket states -- that would be illegitimate electioneering. (If I was a Penn State student, or a PA tax-payer, I would be upset about next week's event. He is not discussing film-making.) At Northwest, he was only paid ticket sales. I admire Moore for that, he must have known that he wouldn't get anywhere close to the $20-30k he has become accustomed to. Oh, and he really did not take the football team on, I guess they didn't have too much time to print these or something.
My overall impression was that he was about as humorous as I expected. Many people think that he killed John Candy, but I liked the movie "Canadian Bacon." It was, you know, tender.
Back to Moore, he was sort of faxing it in, especially at the end when he was trying to whoop the crowd. (A difficult thing to do in an outside stadium that is not even a quarter full.) He passed out some clean underwear to some students that were promising to vote for the first time. I don't think this is illegal electioneering.
He was not too vitriolic, which was good for Maryville. He was not too coarse, either, especially in language. I think he cussed less than 10 times, and made only one reference to 14-year-old-sex. He made fun of the student Republican group that was protesting him with signs on the outside. I definitely laughed then, because I despise protesting and have disdain for protestors. (I grew up less than 20 miles from D.C., does it show?)
He might not have changed anyone's mind, but at least he gets people thinking. I like that he uses humor to get people thinking. This makes him a counterweight to Rush Limbaugh (whereas a feisty and mean Al Franken has a counterpart in Bill O'Reilly.) You do have to understand that I see Moore as an entertainer, so I don't get too worked up about his opinions, or in supporting people in general. (This is why I cannot imagine myself taping a bumper sticker to the inside of my window, everyone will let you down eventually.)
I will close this review (hardly can call it that, but I was there and you weren't) by quoting one of his closing remarks. He wants the slackers in this country to say:
"Bush sucks.
Kerry sucks.
...and that is why I am voting
for John Kerry."
Maybe M can turn that into a bumper sticker for his personal blog. Personally, I *STILL* don't know who I will vote for. A write-in for Al Sharpton is still looking pretty good right now. Those debates were lame. Maybe they should let them box or something. I hate boxing...
--gh
Saturday, October 16, 2004
MY SUBMISSION FOR FAMILY CIRCUS PHOTOSHOP #3...
Since G-Had is fond of quoting The Deer Hunter...
By the way, I did a search for what type of font Bil Keane uses, with WhatTheFont. Pretty nice utility....I didn't get any solid matches, really, but one of the 4 "matches" was called 'Cheltenham,' which I just found out two days ago is the name of the town in England my supervisor from NGS lives in now. Talk about coincidences!
-m
Since G-Had is fond of quoting The Deer Hunter...
By the way, I did a search for what type of font Bil Keane uses, with WhatTheFont. Pretty nice utility....I didn't get any solid matches, really, but one of the 4 "matches" was called 'Cheltenham,' which I just found out two days ago is the name of the town in England my supervisor from NGS lives in now. Talk about coincidences!
-m
Friday, October 15, 2004
Friday, October 08, 2004
Poetic Justice
I am starting to feel guilty about my fake-FWD below. Today, the front cover of the Northwest Missourian ran an article on depression and it had a poem that was like 90% the same as mine. (It was different in that it was real, and it was better. For some reason, it does not appear in the online version, but you will have to trust me. It ended with some line about "finding her black cconverse washed up with the tide" or something.)
Well, I am glad this young woman expressed her feelings through writing, rather than harming herself. And, I didn't intend to demean depression. Still, I felt like I had to comment.
Speaking of coincidences, I received an email from a parent of one of my students who is at home about to have emergency wisdom teeth removal. I replied and assured him that I would contact Student Affairs so that all of her instructors could be notified. In the middle of my response (literally, the second line), Tyler comes downstairs and says "Dad, can you pull this tooth?" (Man, anything to delay bed-time.)
So, there I was yanking a baby-tooth from my 11-year-old's mouth. Then I went back and finished that message. Things seem to happen in threes, so I am anticipating my next coincidence. Steve, you would be proud to note that I did not bring up "irony." Oh yeah, and notice my use of instructor above. I tend to use this as the generic sense to refer to my colleagues. Some professors seem to dislike it (confusing the rank of title with the generic term for the figure at the front of the classroom) which makes me use it even more. I see no problem with it, and it seems technically more correct. (I don't want to say "Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors" every time I need to talk about one of us.) Oh, and I don't really think we are teachers. You know, no education classes whatsoever and stuff...
--gh
Well, I am glad this young woman expressed her feelings through writing, rather than harming herself. And, I didn't intend to demean depression. Still, I felt like I had to comment.
Speaking of coincidences, I received an email from a parent of one of my students who is at home about to have emergency wisdom teeth removal. I replied and assured him that I would contact Student Affairs so that all of her instructors could be notified. In the middle of my response (literally, the second line), Tyler comes downstairs and says "Dad, can you pull this tooth?" (Man, anything to delay bed-time.)
So, there I was yanking a baby-tooth from my 11-year-old's mouth. Then I went back and finished that message. Things seem to happen in threes, so I am anticipating my next coincidence. Steve, you would be proud to note that I did not bring up "irony." Oh yeah, and notice my use of instructor above. I tend to use this as the generic sense to refer to my colleagues. Some professors seem to dislike it (confusing the rank of title with the generic term for the figure at the front of the classroom) which makes me use it even more. I see no problem with it, and it seems technically more correct. (I don't want to say "Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors" every time I need to talk about one of us.) Oh, and I don't really think we are teachers. You know, no education classes whatsoever and stuff...
--gh
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Billy kills a Hobo
Here you go. I just saw his fist and waiting palm and immediately thought of Billy killing a vagrant or something.
SNAP!
--gh
SNAP!
--gh
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
ASSIGNMENT THE SECOND
OK. Here is your third graphics assignment:
Photoshop (or IrfanView, etc) this:
Man..that's a beautiful forward. Perhaps we should purge them individually from the blog before we send them out.
-m
Photoshop (or IrfanView, etc) this:
Man..that's a beautiful forward. Perhaps we should purge them individually from the blog before we send them out.
-m
Fake FWDs-- Your next assignment
Okay, thanks to Mark's comments on fake email forwards and his desire to write some more, our next assignment is to construct plausible yet ridiculous FWDs. Afterward, we can choose to release them in the wild.
Here are our guidelines:
Personally, I have the most disdain for the faith-based FWDS, so that is probably where I will start on mine. Since I am active in my church and have a lot of church-going friends, I might end up with more of these things. I REALLY hate the awful poetry, so I give that as my first example:
Props go to RhymeZone for helping me with some of these attrocious lines.
So, there's your assignment, get busy. I am also awaiting my next picture assignment, I think I can do even more with this tablet-pc-hybrid notebook...
--gh
Here are our guidelines:
Personally, I have the most disdain for the faith-based FWDS, so that is probably where I will start on mine. Since I am active in my church and have a lot of church-going friends, I might end up with more of these things. I REALLY hate the awful poetry, so I give that as my first example:
>>From: QTxtian@hotmail.com
>>To: relientK412@yahoo.com; hisworld17@hotmail.com;
>>jesus-sk8ter@hotmail.com; britneyspears5107@yahoo.com
>>Date: October 5, 2004
>>Subject:If they only knew...
>>Brothers and sisters, this note was found at
>the bottom
>>of the locker of a freshman girl in one of our
>area schools.
>>It was found by her friends and teachers when
>they cleaned
>>out her things after she committed suicide:
>>
>>"don't you know how your words hurt me,
>>when you point how your fingers feel
>>you laughed and call me freak
>>before you prayed for your school lunch meal
>>
>>I once came to your youth group
>>and you turned your back on me
>>you made your church a social caste
>>and never reached out to me
>>
>>Just because I dyed my hair
>>and put goth make-up on
>>Doesn't mean that Jesus hates me
>>or that I should be withdrawn
>>
>>So I hope that you find this note
>>After I've done my deed
>>And the next time you point and laugh
>>at someone you will heed
>>
>>By now I am with the one who loves me
>>and will never seek for me harms
>>because I am now with Jesus
>>he's holding me in his arms.
>>
>>Forward this message to everyone in your
>youth group
>>as a warning to not ignore or dismiss
>people.
>>Unfortunately, the girl who wrote this
>note is not in
>>Heaven, but in hell because killing
>herself was a sin.
>>Don't let this happen to someone you
>know, Jesus loves
>>everybody, and so should you.
>God bless!
Props go to RhymeZone for helping me with some of these attrocious lines.
So, there's your assignment, get busy. I am also awaiting my next picture assignment, I think I can do even more with this tablet-pc-hybrid notebook...
--gh
