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Catvertising – What Can Cat Videos Do For Your Business?
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Physical Type: It Wasn’t That Log Ago
Friday, December 23, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/24/arts/design/printing-for-kingdom-empire-republic-review.html
This article and the accompanying slide show, talk about physical type.
It wasn’t that long ago, that physical type was all there was.
Butchered English: Organic
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Today I received some nice bananas courtesy of a local charity.
They featured a special stick on label and a band holding the bunch tightly both clearly announcing that these were “organic”.
Now I realize that the grocery trade uses this term to indicate that the food was grown without use of synthetic (pure) chemicals and a reliance on impure chemicals created thru living processes. However, I hated this term when it was introduced decades ago and the receipt of these bananas made me realize just how much I hate the term.
It isn’t the “objective” that bothers me; it is the term organic. To me, organic has the classical meaning: noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that includes all compounds of carbon. Thus to me, being organic doesn’t mean “grown” or “natural” or “pure”. It means “carbon based”.
The movement, to me, could have been so much better if they had chosen another term to describe their goals. I mean, I’d rather call the bananas “certified awesome” than call them “organic”.
But, fortunately for everyone else, I am not in charge.
I’ll just quietly keep on buying my “inorganic” bananas (and apples and grapes and avacados and tomatoes and lettuce … ).
Black Cats Can Be Persistent
Saturday, December 17, 2011
From YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_zRPWyATZw
I have a black cat named “Spot” so a friend sent me this.
Gary Powers, Cold War U-2 Pilot, To Be Awarded Silver Star
Friday, December 16, 2011
http://bit.ly/tOYOSP - Air Force Times – 17.Dec.2011
http://abcn.ws/w0Dd4R - ABC News – 17.Dec.2011
My brother, Jon Huggins, is also a U-2 pilot so when I got this news tonight, it seemed appropriate to post it here.
The U-2 section of my personal hobby website is: http://www.JamesSHuggins.com/u-2
Here is a background article on the U-2 from Voice of America (14.Dec.2011): http://bit.ly/scKLu8. This article includes a background video.
Ever Found Yourself In An Unexpected/Uncomfortable Situation?
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
The Harris County Hospital District Adds Email (Finally)
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
I use the services of the Harris County Hospital District (http://www.hchdonline.com). The Harris County Hospital District was created by voter referendum in November 1965 as a way to end the bickering and infighting between Harris County and the City of Houston which shared responsibility. It formally came into being as a political subdivision with taxing authority on January 1, 1966.
I’ve used their services for a little over 2 years now, frequently voicing my quiet displeasure at their use of “stone knives and bear skins” (http://bit.ly/sSudZF) in their overall systems approach (though I should also add that despite my vocal grumbling at their “systems”, including the computer system, the appointment system and their voice mail system… despite that, the medical staff and care are excellent and I am both respectful and exceedingly thankful).
In October, 8 or 9 of my appointments (some of which I’d waited 2 months for) were cancelled because it took them two months instead of one to renew my qualification for services (due to a “system change” – to combat some sort of accross the board fraud, the powers that be decided to require copies of divorce decrees and I had to pay a messenger in Dallas to go to the court to get me a copy of my divorce decree from 15 years ago).
So today during one of my daily calls to try to renew an appointment (which again they couldn’t do so I need to call back again tomorrow) they asked if I had an email address.
LOL!
On the phone I kissed her hand and thanked her. EMAIL! Amazing. Perhaps we are at last moving into the 1990′s.
I am hopeful.
Pepper Spray Pike … OOPS … Not the Kind of Publicity Most People Hope For
Sunday, November 27, 2011
From YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y_W2dwSfSQ
Peterman’s Eye & George Carlin
Friday, November 25, 2011
The great George Carlin on the subject:
“Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: ‘I’m saving food!’ Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent: ‘I’m saving my life!’”
The above quote is from the blog at http://www.petermanseye.com/curiosities/food/8871-the-day-after which I found by reading about Mr. J. Peterman at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peterman after receiving the recent catalog.