There’s an article in the Wall Street Journal today about how Bob Ross, a painter who used to have a show on PBS, is more popular today than he was when his show went off the air in 1993. The interesting thing is that Bob’s been dead for almost 9 years. Evidently, his videos and …
Another Day, or The Power of Ten Billion Butterfly Sneezes
Welcome to the new weblog! I hope this software will be less troublesome than what I was dealing with before. The old weblog will be available for a while right here, until I get around to cleaning up to get more space. I was in a meeting this morning, noticing how they had the lights …
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What’s Up
The new radio page is now live. You can get to it by hitting www.joesradiopage.com. I may do a couple updates to some of the descriptions, but it’s 99.9% ready to go. Next up is putting the pointer to the new page. I’ve been messing around with some new weblog software, but I can’t seem …
Dads
Each year, I participate as a first-round reader in an essay contest where kids write about their dads (or father figures). Most of these kids are from poorer neighborhoods, and are in first through fifth grade. This year I got a stack of papers from third-graders. Here is a bit from one of the essays …
Web Things
I’ve taken the first step towards getting more space here at www.jtl.us. My radio page is going to be moving to its own host, which makes sense since I’ve owned the domain name www.joesradiopage.com for about a year. (That domain name already forwards to the existing radio page.) The new site should be up within …
Lost In Translation
I took a trip up to Janesville today to see Bob at his exhibition. It was very cool, seeing what all these people do with their spare time– and the talent! I also got a card from a guy who might be using me to build a web site, so we’ll see where that goes. …
What’s Been Going On Here
Yes, I know I haven’t done anything further with the RadioBlog. It’s all a matter of finding the time, which I hope to do shortly. The next projects on tap for me are the new appliances for the kitchen (coming next week) and figuring out what I am going to do with furniture in the …
Vanilla Sky
I watched “Vanilla Sky” the other night. (Yeah, I know– it came out almost two and a half years ago.) What an amazing movie. I won’t give away the plot, but I will say this: if you thought “The Game” (with Michael Douglas) messed with your head, this movie goes ‘way beyond that. There were …
Destiny’s Gate
The new portrait on my main page was done by a local photographer. I am really impressed with how well the whole set came out. Family members: watch your mailboxes. I saw The Passion last week, and it’s just not worth the hubbub. I saw nothing overtly anti-Semitic in the movie, but as S pointed …
Sugar Bombs
Many years ago, some wiseguy Polish dude invented these evil things called paczkis. Then the idea came to feed them to everyone on Fat Tuesday. My officemate Glenn brought in two dozen of these things, and decided to drop them in my space. So I’ve been smelling these plump, fat-rich sugar bombs all day. I …