Archive for July, 2008

  • Our New Family Member - July 21st, 2008
  • Here are two pics of our new little family member, a Senegal Parrot tentatively named Butterscotch. (Hey, at least it’s an improvement over “bird-bird”!)
    She REALLY likes carrots! (but wasn’t so excited about the flash…)

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  • The New Arrival - July 13th, 2008
  • Say hello to our newest arrival, a 4 1/4-month-old Senegal Parrot, who has yet to be named. I’m thinking Fannie, ’cause she makes this sound like a car with a loose fan belt. But, it’s not really my decision — this is Donna’s bird, though we’re going to try to help her to learn to [...]

  • Yahoo!ed by Flickr - July 8th, 2008
  • Tonight, we removed all of our images from Flickr. Why? Because of Flickr’s complete and utter lack of diligence with regards to their API programming, and it’s inability to work as advertised with regard to correctly filtering copyright protected images. It seems that images, even those flagged by the account holder as "copyright, all [...]

  • Speaking of Old tunes - July 7th, 2008
  • Now, this is rap!

    This is a great live version of B Movie, by Gil Scott-Heron, possibly one of the best raps of all time.

    Here are the "official" lyrics:
    Well, the first thing I want to say isMandate my ass! Because it seems as though we’ve been convinced that 26% of the registered voters, not [...]

  • Where Does The Orinoco Flow? - July 7th, 2008
  • Back in 1988, Enya released a song called Orinoco Flow (Sail Away). Out and about on the internet, she seems to be credited as the creator of this song. I know, however, that she is not. I distinctly remember hearing this song on WBAL radio in the late sixties or early seventies. However, I can’t [...]

  • New Day, New Job - July 1st, 2008
  • Hello again, everyone. I thought it might be good to update you all on how this all worked out — for those who care…
    Yesterday was the last day for Howard County GTV as a government operation. We all turned in our keys, locked the doors, and walked away, off to the new phases of [...]