Art Attack Central
Fixing stuff, myself included…
Where did those victorian houses go?
The Giant food store chain bought a huge parcel of land in the Waverly district of Baltimore. The parcel includes property running from 32nd Street North to 33rd Street, and stretches three blocks to the East. Four large old victorian homes are/were on Gorsuch Ave. Click on the images to see the before, and fall of the last standing home.
Something to get excited about
I dreamt last night of many blogger type tools, some of which already exist, and other which do not. The only thing is, this morning I can’t remember what they were. Yesterday I heard about a job opening with requirements that I meet, except that I don’t know anything about ASP driven sites. Well as my geekier friends know that’s a microsoft [thingamybobbie]. Oh, and excellent written communication is also a requirement.
And you’re going around saying thingamybobbie?
It’s microsoft, so it’s a bit complicated. I’ve taught myself Flash, Photoshop, HTML and taken classes in C and C++; however, it seems ASP development comes out of Visual Basic which I don’t know. One thing I’ve learned is there is a difference between ASP and ASP.NET. Anyway, enough of that. What I wanted to tell you was that my searching around on the web for ASP information is what I think led to dreaming about blogger tools/applications.
But who cares if you can’t remember them?
I’m hoping they might pop back into consciousness over the next few days, as I try to learn something about ASP using Dreamweaver MX.
Why Dreamweaver?
Because that’s what I have, and I think it’s comparable to Adobe GoLive, which is what was used to generate the existing site. Also, I don’t think it’s reasonable to figure I can get myself up and running on VB, in just a couple of days. However, if I spend some time on Dreamweaver I might be able to come off as knowing something about ASP.
What’s else is new?
I helped my friend Su set up her blog over the weekend; please stop over there and give her the “hi sign.”
1.) What’s your take on this article from the New York Times today?
“…Several privacy and security experts said that Mr. Kapor’s decision was significant and was indicative of the kinds of clashes between security and privacy that could become increasingly common.” (The New York Times, March 10, 2003) Mitchell Kapor is/was from Groove. I posted about the stability and security of Groove software not too long ago. I see his decision to resign as a flag/signal of the erosion of rights we take for granted. Somewhere Chad had a good post on rights, and just what are they anyway? If you are here Chad point to that post. Do I have a right to privacy? Do I have a chance to say I’d rather not give it up, even for the “good of the country?”
2.) Network television is swimming in “reality” shows. You are the creator of the latest show to hit the circuit. Give a brief description of your show. Sarcasm welcomed.
We’ve come full circle from Joe Millionaire to Married by America. I created Married to Dwarfs; a show full of enchantment and magical growth hormone injections.
3.) What do you really wish you were doing today?
I’d rather be painting. I’d rather be having a second cup of coffee, with cream which I’ve run out of.
“There’s a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.”
–Christine Lavin, Prisoners of their Hairdos
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Moving?
I stayed with my parents in their retirement community condo last night. Standing out in the parking lot smoking (no you can’t smoke here) this morning, I saw a large, yellow moving van pull up. My first thought was, are they moving in, or moving out? But, then I realized people only move in here. If the person that lived here is moving out, it’s not under their own power, because the living has stopped. The move outs are conducted by loved ones and friends.
You are so morbid.
No not really, I’m just saying/seeing how it is; although it’s true I do tend to notice things about dying.
So, I’m standing there finishing my cigarette scanning the side of the truck, and the advertising screams out “Moving by Sudden Death,” but then just as my eyes are popping out of my head, I see that it really says, “Moving by Suddath.”
See you are morbid.
What does sudden death mean? Sudden means unexpectedly, or unforeseen. We have a syndrome called sudden death syndrome in infants and young adults meaning death unexpectedly in otherwise healthy individuals. In some way all death is unexpected. Yes, we all know the saying about “…death and taxes,” but even when we’ve been though the experience of losing someone we love, we forget. Maybe getting older increases our awareness of it’s inevitability. My parents are more aware of it, but mostly I don’t want to see. Sometimes I see it when I don’t want to, like this morning. My unconscious mind showing me the last horizon: yours, mine and their’s.
Diet?
Now I know I’m in trouble; I actually clicked on one of those [spammails] to lose weight in my sleep. Are you dreaming now? Just because it felt like spring yesterday, I’m imagining myself putting on shorts, or rather trying to put on the shorts, but they won’t fit!
Testzone Testing
Yes this is a test; it is only a test. You may need to adjust the volume of the sound on your computer. What you are listening to is a description of a lucid dream.
Do you think this Audblog software will catch on, or “fade away?”
