Edge Cases

Have you ever noticed that people living on the edges of society and are always attractive in some way. This is hard to explain. Let’s try a couple of examples. Some people are on the edge because they are so much better at something than every one else. Sports stars, writers, A-List bloggers. This is…

Coke and Freedom

Yuna has a great post putting all the things we take for granted here in the USA in perspective. I worry my kids don’t know how good they have it. I wonder how to show them. Take a trip to a third world country? Visit missionaries working in those places? Go volunteer at a food…

PGM: Developing a Portfolio

This entry is from my series: A Photographer’s Guide To Models. I’m not claiming to be an expert, but this is my take on what you can look forward to and what is expected of you by photographers. Your first goal is to develop a good portfolio. A portfolio is a collection of pictures of…

WoW = Bad Blogger

“World of Warcraft Official Strategy Guide” (Michael Lummis, Danielle Vanderlip) After running away I got to parents house in Northwest Arkansas and actually had internet. But I didn’t blog. I’m a bad blogger. Didn’t work on any programming projects either. Didn’t start a couple of new blogs I have planned. Nope, I invested in a…

Evacuee

So I ran away. Took us 20 hours to get to my folks house in North Arkansas, which normally takes about 10. 4 hours of that was my fault. I decided to try and get tricky and go east a little ways and then north, avoiding the main artery of 59. What I didn’t think…

My Wife Is Leaving Me

The Mrs has decided she’s evacuating tomorrow. Personally I think it’s too soon to decide if we need to leave. If it hits directly on Houston/Galveston we could have some serious weather in Kingwood. If it hits where they are predicting right now, we might get some rain. When dealing with any risk you have…

Don’t Stand There Do Something

….is not always the best way to handle things. From Powerline about the Katrina Relief Appropriation Bill. No one made any calculations to come up with the $50 billion number; it was just nice and round. No one has a plan as to how it should be spent. No one has prioritized projects. No one…

May Rain This Weekend

I’m writing this on the North side of Houston, Texas. Right now everyone is thinking and talking about Rita. It’s not unusual for Texans to talk about a Rita that will wipe you out, but normally it involves tequila and not Cat 5 winds. We’re doing some preparing. We like to think were “into” preparedness,…