Note that I did not say acting my age. Anyone who knows me that is not likely happen, at least not for very long stretch of time. Besides, I like hanging out with younger people to much to really truly act my age all the time, though I am sure that they often think I am way out of touch and to old to be hanging around them. That is whole other story though.
I went to the gym today. Now granted, I have been exercising Read more…
Way back when I really started this blog in the fall, and again when it really started to get on a roll in the spring, I really intended to use it not only as an expression of all those things in which I had an active interest, but to also express my opinions about things that I passively enjoyed as well. One of those things that I have a very passionate passive (is that possible, well, yes it has to be, I can only appreciate it, as I have zero talent in this direction) is music. This summer thus far I have probably attended more musical events of one nature or another then I have since my days when I was running around on campus in and around Transy. Yet, short of a blog or two about Willie and some swing dancing, I have probably failed to mention music in this blog much at all. It is not with intent that I have been so lax and I have a few notes here and there about various artist. Anyway, starting this eve I intend to work back through the highlights of the artists that I have heard this summer and have enjoyed the most.
Most of my music listening this summer has been in the same general tier that most of my jousting Read more…
It is a legitimate question. I know that a lot of folks think that I am a freaking nut case in some ways. Anyway, I have this strong desire the last year or so to really have children. I have had an opportunity or two that was going toward that direction, but alas those seem to have gotten messed up. Anyway, a conversation I had with someone not to long led to this funny awkard point. I pointed out to her, that if all else failed and she still wanted a child there were means open to her to fulfill that need that I do not have available to me. For those of that are going huh? Live a little and use your imagination, but think donor program, either live donor or from, ahem, a bank. As a single man at this point, now approaching Read more…
I was tempted to call this posting centennial+1, but I am not sure if that would have been followed by everyone or not. A more obscure one still would be centennial++. How appropriate that the last post, about my being a slacker from generation-x, was indeed the 100th post to this blog. Granted, the original two or three post here were made when experimenting over on the WordPress hosted blog site and were later moved to this site. If my math is correct, the first post was made on November 17th, 2007, 285 days ago. So that puts the average at something around the a post once everything three days or so. Of course, it took almost two months between the first and second post and there have definitely been some times in there that the posting stream slowed to a trickle and nearly seemed dried up completely.
Obviously I am not living up to the idea of two to three post in a day. I do seem to get that fairly easily Read more…
Earlier this week, I had another couple of days that had a lot of time occupied with meetings. This one in particular was with this fellow from API hired to assist us jump start our strategic planning process that we are starting to put together for 2009 and apparently for 2009-2011. What is relative to this blog though, is a discussion that was had in regards to generations. The conversation itself was in regards to how that there some general characteristics from respective age groups that tend to influence how they view the news and community around them.
There was a book written not to long ago that talked about a cycle that is seen in generations. The book is titled, Read more…
I am sure that her name has just started showing up in about 1G of places all across the network. I just heard and have since read to verify that Sarah Palin is the presumptive nominee for Vice Presidential with John McCain. I have to say this one shocked me a bit. It is happy shock though, as I am more then sure I was not like the two front running possible selection very much and that was turning me further afield from McCain at all points. Especially given his recent straying from the maverick positions he has held on issues in the past, I was actually hoping against all probability that McCain would choose Joe Liberman.
I do not think Liberman would have gone over well with the established republican Read more…
WordPress” width=”300″ height=”233″ align=”right” />For those of you do not know, which probably depends on how much of a technical inclination you have and how far back you have been reading the blog, but this blog runs on my own hosting solution with an installation of the WordPress blog software running on top of that. This particular setup is great, as it back ends to a basic MySQL database, sets on a very nice Linux host that I have a setup running several other sites on as well. WordPress itself is released under the open source, open license concept, which means as things are thought of they can be added and it is free to use the software, available at wordpress.org for download.
It is possible of course to sign up and run a WordPress based blog on the wordpress.com site, by simply signing up, and starting. It does have some limits on the customization options, but very few. It does limit you ability have a direct domain without paying for it and you are also limited in doing any advertising on the site yourself or at least you were when I investigated sometime ago. This is however, probably the quickest and easiest way to get started Read more…
I lament that I did not get this post up here in a timely fashion. A great horse passed from our midst last Monday, August 18th. Genuine Risk passed away quietly in her old age out in her paddock at Newstead Farm near Upperville Virginia. She was a true champion athlete, beating not only fillies, but famously beating the boys in the 106th running of the Kentucky Derby back in 1980.
She raced for three years, have a total of fifteen starts, Read more…
I started this blog on mephistos.com sometime late last fall. I had been doing a bit of blogging off and on another site, as well as the original post that where being initially completed on the wordpress.com hosted version of what eventually became the basis of this blog.
Anyway it occurred to me last night when I was walking through a park near to my new residence with Bitzer on our nightly walk for exercise and some vain attempt to get in shape, look good, and live forever that I had been blogging for a total of just about one year now. It further struck me that one of the first blog notes I had ever written, maybe the second or third one was about a day that I took Jack, the horse Read more…
Ulrich von Liechtenstein has been a hero of mine for some time, ever since I first of heard of him and what he had done in his life. I know some of you are thinking of the movie from a few years back by the the name of A Knight’s Tale, which starred the late Heath Ledger and somewhere in the back of your mind you recall that was the assumed name the peasant turned jousting knight used. Someone associated with the movie must have actually had a bit of medieval history in their background, for there was indeed a true knight from the 13th century by the name Ulrich von Liechtenstein.
The real Ulrich had a life that was probably just interesting, perhaps more so, and certainly as ruled by the notions of courtly love and how to win the favor of his this lady that inspired in him all things. Further, the true Ulrich was not only a knight and jouster of some reknown during his lifetime, but he was further was educated and used his talents to write poetry describing his exploits pursuing the love that spurned him. The title of the work the famed poet-jouster, as he is often called, wrote in the original Middle High German was Frauendienst. Translated to modern English, it reads as Read more…
