Lost in OK

Now this is what I call an airport terminal.

I’m tired of this scenery crap . . .

Weather is Beautiful, Wish You Were Here

Well, it’s been a long while since I last put up one of these long winded life updates. Well, considering that I’m currently sitting in a giant cylindrical tube hurtling towards Los Angeles at improbable speeds, I figure I don’t have anything better to do.

It’s been a hectic last few months. After almost five years at Advanced Academics, I have changed jobs. I think the simplest way to say it was that the stress finally got to me. Five years of constantly being on call, working almost every weekend, thinking about the job day and night. Well, there’s only so long you can keep that up, at least as someone else’s employee, and I reached that point. Of course, I’ve now become one of those dreaded and loathed technical consultants, but being on the dark side has a lot less stress. I’m currently contracted at Chesapeake Energy, an enormous natural gas concern headquartered in Oklahoma City. Considering that I know absolutely nothing about the oil and natural gas industry, it’s a little scary. However, after a decade in educational technology, a little change of pace is a good thing.

In today’s modern world, you need to be careful about choosing newspaper headlines. For example:

Long-time fishing buddies get down to business with S&M Tool

Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette - Long-time fishing buddies get down to business with S&M Tool

 This ranks up there with “Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim”.

Found at Andrew Sullivan.

Well, I toiled and toiled to make a completely personal design for the new RadicalWacko.  It turns out that CSS is a pain with so many tricks, hacks and caveats that it makes me truly wonder about the value of table-less layouts.  Take, for example, this “simple” explanation of the so called “Holy Grail Layout".  It almost seems that tables aren’t such a bad thing after all.  However, who am I to buck popular opinion?

There is an interesting case in Ohio working it’s way through the courts.  An employee was fired by UPS when he was discovered to have a dissembled firearm in his car which was parked in a public parking lot shared by both employees and non-employees.  The court has ruled that the company’s action was a violation of Ohio’s policy allowing citizens to bear arms.  (You can read more details about the case at The Volokh Conspiracy.)

My mother, who is a truly amazing photographer, has finally broken down and joined the Flickr craze.  She has already uploaded several amazing photos like this one:

Ropes

You can see the rest of her photos here.

OK, this borders on the truly insane, and yeah, I kind of want one:

Real all about it here.  There are a bunch of other videos over at YouTube.

Rep. Mark Souder R-Ind. makes the assertion on the Tucker Carlson program that not only is today’s marijuana like cocaine, but that thousands of people have died from marijuana and that 65% of emergency drug abuse admissions at hospitals are due to marijuana.  Who knew?

See the video here.