Musings

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Poll Response - If you could work with anyone (alive or dead - past or present) who would it be?

This entry is to give you the chance to comment and fill in your answer.

If you could work with anyone - alive or dead - past or present - who would it be and why?

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Dr. Bacchus Wants to Know Five Things About me

According to his blog… http://wooga.drbacchus.com/?p=1415, he wants to know five things about me.  I don’t know that that is fair since he didn’t give me 5 things I didn’t know about him.  I didn’t know numbers 4 and 5 about him…

4. I won the Kenyan national secondary school poetry recitation contest in 1987, reciting “To An Old Lady, Asleep At A Poetry Reading”, by James Kirkup. My phony English accent was convincing enough that the judge was quite distraught to find out afterwards that I was American.
5. In 1983, I won the North Florida, South Georgia, Road Racing Grand Prix, which means that I won more first places in 5K road races than anyone else in the 13-and-under age group.

So, does that mean I only owe him two?

I will have to admit I agree with his set logic.  He said,

Consider two sets. A is the set of all things that you, my loyal reader, don’t already know about me. B is the set of things that I am comfortable telling to the entire population of the Internet. A ∩ B is vanishingly small.

And the union of that set is fairly small…

Well, since I only owe him 2 at this point… let me think…

1) I’m a bastard.  Now some of you think that this is cheating as you *know* I am a bastard.  But, I really mean it.  I am a Bastard in the Merriam-Webster sense of things - definition 1, definition 2, AND definition 3!  Should this count as 1 thing or 3… I’m going to count it as one, as you probably already knew I was at least one of these definitions.

Main Entry: 1bas·tard
Pronunciation: ‘bas-t&rd
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Old Frisian bost marriage, Old English bindan to bind
1 : an illegitimate child
2 : something that is spurious, irregular, inferior, or of questionable origin
3 a : an offensive or disagreeable person—used as a generalized term of abuse b : MAN, FELLOW

2) I have lived in four states - Kentucky (3 times now), Michigan (10 months), Washington (3 years), and California (10 months).

Rich, you want more, pony up new information!

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Traffic in Lexington - what a terrible loss

So, apparently the LFUCG has decided that
1) They want to increase the number of poeple who live downtown
2) They want to make it safer for pedestrians
3) They want to have a new grocery store downtown

So, what are they doing to accomplish this?

They are putting together a 20 year plan. 
This plan includes
1) Taking most of the 1-way streets and returning them to 2-way
2) Adding tons of new apartment types downtown
3) Changing the timing of the lights

Results:
1) more people downtown
2) traffic much slower entering and leaving downtown

Real results:
Lexington becomes even worse for business.  Traffic is already bad for the size town that Lexington is.  They have (historically) done some things to improve this - like the south part of New Circle, the 1 way roads downtown - and they have done some things to make it worse - man-o-war, roads around Hamberg, cloverlfeafs. 

And don’t even get me started on the airport, horse sales, all the empty buildings with the very high rental rates, the high cost of property at the research farm on the north end of town, etc.

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Eating my Corn Pops and thinking

I was sitting at my desk eating my Corn Pops and thinking… Well, perhaps, wondering is a better word. 

I was wondering about when authors of computer viruses, trojans, etc. would finally be taken serious by the governments of the world and actually have something done about them. 

Then, I was glancing at cnn and I saw the following headline, “Bluetooth device to save stroke victims”.  I have not read it yet.  However, my imagination has doctors installing devices into people - pacemakers, health monitors, drug dispensers, regulators of different types, etc.  These devices are bluetooth enabled to allow the medical people to read information and make adjustments without having to physically touch the equipment.

So, bluetooth virus finds the device, and whamo someone is dead. 

Of course, instead of doing something about the virus makers - who are the true terrorists of this century - they will have the manufaturer of the devices start adding antivirus software.  People will have to plug themselves in every day and get a anti-virus update.  Then, while that is happening a 3-D image will project out of their chest advertising the latest ware - because that would truly be the last great advertising opportunity!

Perhaps I’m just being optimistic that the advertising and marketing companies will wait until someone is ill to use them as a human billboard… sigh…

Well, I have to go to work.  Have a good day all.

--Moose

Thursday, May 26, 2005

ascii art

I’m regularly given crap at work either because of the skills I have or the lack there of.  The other day I was being given crap over my ascii art moose.  I love that moose, and I hope you do too…

Courier Font
tilde tilde tilde space tilde space space tilde space tilde tilde tilde return
space space space space at space space at return
space space space space space equals equals return
space space space space space equals equals return
space space space space backslash underscore underscore forwardslash space space dash equals space capital aych eye exclamation

~~~ ~  ~ ~~~
    @  @
     ==
     ==
    \__/  -= Hi!  

Specifications are now here…

Derivitives include but are not limited to:

Courier Font
tilde tilde tilde space tilde space space tilde space tilde tilde tilde return
space space space space at space space at return
space space space space space equals equals return
space space space space space equals equals return
space space space space backslash underscore underscore forwardslash

~~~ ~  ~ ~~~
    @  @
     ==
     ==
    \__/   

Courier Font
tilde tilde tilde space tilde space space tilde space tilde tilde tilde return
space space space space at space space at return
space space space space space equals equals return
space space space space backslash underscore underscore forwardslash

~~~ ~  ~ ~~~
    @  @
     ==
    \__/  

Courier Font
tilde tilde tilde space tilde space space tilde space tilde tilde tilde return
space space space space at space space at return
space space space space space equals equals return
space space space space space equals equals return
space space space space open peran oh close peran return

~~~ ~  ~ ~~~
    @  @
     ==
     ==
    (o) 

With all, adjust the spacings so that the ats line up under the middle tildes and the face lines up…