At work today, one of my coworkers came back from a shoot with footage of students watching a play at the Children’s Theater of Charlotte called “Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel”. None of my coworkers had ever heard of Mike Muligan and his Steam Shovel, and they all thought I was nuts for being [...]
This story appeared on Reuters news service today and I wish I had thought of it. A travel agency in Prague specializes in sightseeing vacations of The Czech Republic for your stuffed animals. If you can’t afford the opportunity to travel to Europe, you can send your stuffed animal(s) instead. “Toy Traveling” (at SendYourDarling.com) will [...]
Back on February 5th I went to a Charlotte Checkers game with friends. It was the first Checkers game I’ve been to in years, since they used to play in the old Independence Arena. It was a lot of fun, and then some of us went across the street to The Epicenter. This whole time [...]
Well one big difference between Blogger and WordPress is apparently the amount of spam. On Blogger I got only a handful of spam comments in an entire year. I’m now getting a half dozen spams per day with my new WordPress blog. But to be honest, a lot of that is probably just the new [...]
This is now my first post on my new WordPress blog. It was way easier to import my old Blogger posts than I thought, but I did have several small but unexpected bumps to smooth out. But all in all very easy. One reason it was so easy was that I originally planned on maintaining [...]
Due to Blogger’s discontinuation of FTP blog support, this shall be my last post on Blogger. Goodbye Blogger. My plan is to leave all 452 blog posts right where they are so that old links throughout the internet will still work. But also to move them all to my new website… The Usual Susspects. * [...]
Maegan wrote an 8-thousand-word novel for school as part of National Novel Writing Month in November. Her class held a book signing event, at which Maegan was chosen to write and read an introduction, and to read an excerpt from her book, “Monkey in the Middle”. I covered the event for the school district. Here’s [...]
I’m one of the original Bloggers. I started using Blogger on January 12, 2001, long before Google bought it from Pyra Labs. I was the 129,287th blogger on Blogger.com, putting me in the top 0.3% of earliest adopters. But what started over nine years and 450 posts ago will soon be over. I’ve complained about [...]