Saturday, December 13, 2008
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Economic Tailspin
For many years our economy was climbing like an airplane heading for the sky. The problem is when you do that in an airplane the engine stalls out and like our economy goes into a tailspin. For many years in aviation this meant death as pilots would do everything they could think of that made sense to pull out of it. Again much like the Fed’s bailout package and congress’s increased regulations.
But it wasn’t until Lieutenant Wilfred Parke became the first aviator to recover from an accidental tail spin that the answer became known. How did he do it? By doing the exact opposite of what pilots normally did. What caused the tailspin was the unintended consequences (or blowback if you will) of government regulations and interference in the free market. And their answer is to increase speed and turn into the spin in an effort to regain control of the plane, I mean economy. No what we need to do is take our hand off the stick, throttle back the engine and go full right rudder against the spin.
Wilfred Parke leveled off his plane only 50 feet above the ground. Let’s hope our government figures it out before then.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Video Skillet TV Podcast
My latest endeavor is a monthly video podcast called Video Skillet TV. Each month I will take an hour to cover a topic with a mix of my videos and by showcasing other peoples videos that relate to the subject.
It will be available through iTunes as a video podcast. Just search for Video Skillet in the podcast section of the iTunes store. (it's free) Or you can go to VideoSkillet.tv to manually check for episodes or subscribe to the atom or RSS feed.
The first full show will be posted November 1st and be on the topic of voting.
See you in the Construct.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Friday, August 01, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Multimedia message
Monday, July 07, 2008
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Friday, July 04, 2008
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Monday, June 30, 2008
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
A visit from Murray Sabrin
Murray is a candidate running for US Senate here in NJ and technically he came to visit my sister. Although neither of us could figure out why we are glad he came. We talked about the election and a bit about the issues of living along the river in a flood plane. All in all it was a very nice time and a pleasant visit.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Today
Today I woke up and hope to work on the screenplay adaptation, my book(let), setting up the seen for the render of the next shot of the movie. It is a nice day outside. Somewhere in the seventies with a light refreshing breeze. I decide to work out on my deck with the laptop and set it up. Only to find that the glare from the plastic front of the screen is reflecting more light then it is transmising. I find myself looking at a mirror, with a keyboard. "Boy do I need a shave." I think to myself.
After the shave and having returned to my outdoor mirror, I wondered if the bench swing would be a better place to work at since it has a built in umbrella. The top is cocked back by the wind after having been neglected all winter, so I adjust it forward only to be met in the chest by a small wall of water that had collected there. This pocket of rainwater apparently had also seeped through the top and wet the seat, at least most of it. I managed to find a dry place to sit on one end and began to enjoy the cool breeze while I rocked back and forth. "It really is a nice day. The first really nice Saturday of this year. Or at least the first one I have noticed." I think to myself as I slowly take in the truly dismal state of my deck.
I can see it has pockets of leaves from last fall and miscellaneous stuff filling the corners. Things that really should have been thrown away at some point. A pile of used cardboard boxes left over from last years flood. Some bits of scrap wood from when I had the roof redone. And the deck, the deck, I can see the green mold slowly trying to claim the deck like a marching army trying to sweep across some foreign map. It is now 2 years overdue for its 2 year treatment of deck stain. I do have the stain, somewhere, it is unopened but about three years old and I would have to power wash it first. Maybe if I just clean and power wash half the deck today I will be able to quickly paint it with stain in the couple hours of daylight I have after church tomorrow. Ok, I'll do that. It wasn't what I planned to do today but if I do the deck it will be nicer all summer for me to enjoy.
I begin to clean off the trash from the deck and move things to one side. I will need my sisters help with the table but she went back to sleep right after breakfast, so I start to sweep the deck. Then my mother comes for a visit and when she comes in she lets my sister's dog in from the front yard. He immediately barrels full speed through the house and slams his 50 pound body right into my screen door smashing it off the track, bending the frame a little and pulling some of the screening from the bottom. My gumption level plummets, I knew it would dip when she came over because she just has that effect on me but most of the time I can deal with it, but now it has instantly bottomed out.
Resolved to continue I start to straighten the frame, get it back on to its track, and begin to work on fixing the area of the screen that pulled loose. All the while my innocent and well meaning mother continues to give me what she believes is honest but totally useless advice. Advice like changing the screen with one that is glass on the bottom, which is impossible cause it is a sliding door and I know the manufacturer doesn't make one like that and that I should fix the screen with TAPE. Like that will fix anything and not make the house look any more white trash then it already does. My gumption is gone, my resolve is gone and the sky now looks a little cloudy.
It seems the more I ignore something the less it gets damaged. Case in point I have a folding tv table that by use had started to break and for the longest time I ignored it and it was useful as long as you were careful with it. Then I fixed it. A new screw and some wood clue fixed it right up. The very next day I walk into the living room and Gabriel my sisters son is sitting on it, while folded on the couch obliviously watching TV as people his age do. I am done, I'm moving back into my bedroom and retreating into my little projects, alone. In a house full of people I am alone. I cant even say I have a best friend that I can go out and do things with like I used to. I have church friends, old friends, internet friends, but no best friends and it is sad when you wake up one day and realize it.
It is not the first time in my life without a good close friend, after all I went until I was about 15 before I had a best friend but I have been using computers since I was 10 and that has been my constant in life. Is it possible that this is my lot in life; to be confined all my days in a room with the curtains drawn under artificial lighting and in the glow of some computer monitor while the sun shines and the breezes drift along at just the right temperature just outside my walls? My life?
End of Day Update:
After about an hour in my room I emerged to find they all went away and that over the past hour my gumption levels had been restored. So I was able to continue to clean and prep half the deck and power wash away the dirt and mold. So I began to wonder is it better to be lonely with people or to be truly alone when you are lonely?
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Fast and Easy Low Carb Breakfast
Ingrediants
1/2 Toufayan Low Carb Pita Bread
1 Jimmy Dean Omelet (they come 2 per box)
2 Jimmy Dean Heat N' Serve: Sausage Patties
Put Omelet and 2 Sausage Patties on a plate and microwave for 3 minutes.
After the omelet has cooled enough to handle, unwrap it and insert into the opened pita. Since the pita and omelet ate both shaped in a half circle they go together quite well. Then insert the 2 Patties. And you have an instant low carb breakfast sandwich that only took 3 minutes to make.
If you like it with catchup I recommend putting in in the pita before putting in the omelet.
TOTAL NET CARBS: 8.5!
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
2007 Photo Journal
Ok, I have finished my Photo Journal for 2007. It is available through Lulu.com. The book is basically my photo album with all of the pictures I took last year but I leave it open for people to buy if they want. Lulu does an excellent job of printing it up as a book.
Time to start blogging again.
I haven't been blogging for a while now for many reasons. One was my home site needed to be redesigned and another is that I am very active with my MySpace page and posted most of my blogs over their as a blog entry or a bulletin to my friends list.
Well now my website is revamped although not quite finished but then it never really will be as it keeps getting modified to reflect my life. (Hopefully.) Now I need to decide how and where to blog about what! It is extra work but I should probably blog to both places. Yet a blog like this really only makes sense here and I am sure some stuff will only make sense there. Oh well I will have to use my best judgment.
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