Oddly enough, of late I’ve been doing things outside my usual office/home continuum. I have attended a few local networking/blogger events, including one of Jeff Pulver‘s increasingly famous Social Media Breakfasts; I visited the Bodies exhibit in Fort Lauderdale (on which more will be written later); I even trekked all the way to Deerfield Beach [...]
First, for those who lack basic access to the media, and who frighteningly rely on this site for news of the world, here are last night’s Oscar winners. My overall review: eh. Host Jon Stewart got in a few decent jabs (at 80 years old, the Oscar is the de facto Republican front-runner for the [...]
The Oscar contest is closed. I’ll be back once the show is over. Share/Bookmark
The Statue of Liberty is an iconic symbol of freedom pretty much everywhere, so it isn’t exactly a brilliant artistic leap to use a fallen or destroyed statue as a symbol for threats to freedom. Nonetheless, I had no idea how commonplace it had become until I saw this essay collecting pictures of a fallen [...]
“[T]hey are incorrectly counting on the fact that there will be, as there has always been, a peaceful transition of power in the executive branch—that the inauguration will occur on schedule? What if Bush and Cheney refuse to leave?” Share/Bookmark
ZENITH BANK COMPENSATION UNIT, IN AFFILIATION WITH THE UNITED NATION. Send acopy of your response to official email: jimovia27@yahoo.co.uk ATTN: Sir/Madam, How are you today? Hope all is well with you and family?,You may not understand why this mail came to you. We have been having a meeting for the passed 7 months which ended [...]
It is time again for that much-maligned commercial holiday dedicated to the selling of chocolate and flowers, said holiday which has the side-effect and clearly polarizing the populace into the sappily romantic and the sneeringly bitter. Since these days I fall more into the former camp than the latter — although I have certainly had [...]
My mother kept souvenirs of all sorts from all our family vacations. A while back my father and I came across a collection of program books and ticket stubs covering decades of family vacations, Among these questionable treasures was the 1971 Walt Disney World Preview Guide.
A brief announcement: Rick, formerly of the regrettably defunct Stuck on the Palmetto, has returned to the South Florida blogging scene with South Florida Daily Blog. Please stop by and say hello. In related news, I will be cleaning up my link list this week, as it has gotten a bit out of hand. (What, [...]