• Photos and Shutterblogs - Traveling Along, We're Adventurers

    Road Trip Photo Gallery

    I finally had a chance to get the newest photo gallery started – with a lot of help from David. It covers the epic trip to Colorado and Utah, with the inevitable (and intervening) Nebraska thrown in at the end. There are a LOT of photos in there. Some of them I tinkered with – resized, cropped and so on. Most I didn’t mess with. I haven’t decided which ones I’d like to print out and frame. This photo got Photoshopped a little – it looked good except for one of those &*#!@ roadside reflector wands right in the middle.…

  • Radio

    Take That, Naysayers

    Despite ongoing financial woes, Air America Radio appears to have garnered a significant audience during its first month on the air, particularly among the younger listeners sought by advertisers. An analysis of recently released figures from Arbitron, the radio ratings service, showed that in New York Air America beat Rush Limbaugh’s station among 25-to-54-year-olds during the period that Limbaugh and Al Franken, the host of the flagship show “The O’Franken Factor,” go head-to-head. AAR did a lot better in the ratings than expected. That’s one in the eye for all the conservablather I’ve seen in recent news articles and columns…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Run Rance Run

    It can only be a matter of time before the game is over. Rats. Could he really be, as some believe, Owen Wilson, Ben Affleck, Jim Carrey or even George Clooney? Well, I think I know who Rance is. But I’m not saying for now, because 1. he’s supposed to be anonymous, dammit. B. he’s entitled to some privacy, which apparently doesn’t get much of, bruddah and tha-rrrreee. that would be telling. Besides, Xeni thinks it’s so three weeks ago (although it was originally a Boingboing link of hers that got me hooked). Um. Shutting up now. Proxy Error The…

  • SABRE2th Tigress: Book 'em, Dano.

    Predictions

    When the job change was first broached to me, I was assured that if I took on the international agent task (in addition to the others) I wouldn’t also be asked to take domestic calls. I chuckled then and said “Oh, I think in the real world I’ll be taking some domestic calls.” My team leader was quick to reassure me I wouldn’t. I chuckled again and said “Come on, when it gets tough you know you’re going to ask.” Monday was her first day back from vacation, and it was a tough day with long hold times. Before my…