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1. Did you all notice how Palin ignored questions and answered something entirely unrelated? And she even made a point to tell us that she wasn’t going to play by the rules? OK. First agree and accept the debate format, then ignore the moderator. Nice. This just demonstrated to me that Palin is not a listener. She would tell you what SHE thinks that you want to know. Will she also decide what’s best for you without listening? It also demonstrated that she does not play well with others. She does not handle interaction with others well. Zoning in on the camera helped her focus on PREPARED talking points. And did you notice she had no reaction after Biden’s emotional moment? She was able to immediately turn to the camera and continue with her talking points. She was totally in the zone… the Sarah Palin Show zone.
2. All the folksy talk, the Joe six-pack, the you betchas, the hockey moms, the winking, just sounded like a sales pitch. Yes I know, they were all trying to sell themselves to us. But this one reminded me a slimy car salesperson. (Sorry, but it did.) Do we want to let someone charm her way into our lives and forget about the important stuff? Haven’t we already let someone cowboy his way into our lives for the last 8 years? Do we want that to happen again? DOG GONIT!
3. It was very convenient for her to drag Obama and Biden’s history into the equation. But when Biden mentioned Bush, it was backward thinking? HUH? And if I remember correctly, some people cannot do enough to separate themselves from the Bush administration. How do they do it? By pointing out Bush’s mistakes of course. Oh wait. Maybe Palin doesn’t need to know the past. Just like she doesn’t need to know what caused global warming to fix it.
4. There were still moments that she did not sound coherent. Can you imagine if she HAD to answer questions and not recite prepared talking points? And yes, I DO think she memorized her answers. Oh wait, they are answers only if they can be applied to questions.

I know I am a little mean spirited this morning. But gotta get these things off my chest somehow. Thank you for reading.

WordPress uses the Gravatar system. Other places also use Gravatar for showing users’ faces (or whatever they want to show.) I think it’s pretty neat. You sign up for an account. Upload a picture or two. Add email addresses that you use for leaving comments on blogs or forums. Associate each email address with a picture you uploaded. Done. After that your chosen avatar will show up anywhere that uses Gravatar as long as you use an email address that has a Gravatar setup.

Don’t you want to set one up?

The highlight of the meeting was Janel’s lecture on dyeing and color theory. She is a chemist, and she brought to us so many interesting facts. I can honestly say that it was actually FUN talking about chemistry and how our eyes perceive colors. Who’d knew! Janel also announced her new book, The Eclectic Sole, which is available on Amazon. How exciting for her!

Update, 5.17.08, 10:40am: Think I am going to work on moving the blog today. Nothing like the present moment. There SHOULD be a redirecting message that informs people to update the URL. I don’t foresee any difficulties.

Update, 5.17.08, 6:56pm: Blog transfer complete. Please make a note of the new URL. I am looking to implement a redirect that will announce the change. Now it works automatically without giving any information.

This

Can become this

So think before you hotlink an image. Do it only when you are invited to do so. If not, you may risk having embarrassing images showing up on your web site, or be forever associated with them on a post somewhere in Cyber Space. Want more examples? See here, and here. A word of warning though, to REALLY embarrass hotlinkers, these webmasters used some adult contents. I don’t think it’s very, very bad. But don’t say that I didn’t warn you first.

Here. I grabbed something off the Web and tested the annotation tools:

Back to the 2007 piece. Salt and pepper anyone?

Oops! This happens when you try shaking the seemingly ordinary shakers.

Here’s a brief introduction to this art piece:

Nina Katchadourian’s work springs from observations of the colloquial and the everyday. She frequently uses misunderstanding or misinterpretations as a starting point, and often applies this approach to looking at the human relationship to the natural. Having once mistaken a bird in a remote jungle for a car alarm, she redesigned the standard six-tone car alarm to use only bird sounds.

This salt shaker merges two familiar objects. It smuggles the tiny spectacle of a snow dome into a domestic context where treating this object in the normal manner (turning it upside down to shake the salt out) results in a sudden small-scale blizzard. Its partner, the pepper shaker, behaves the same way but its particulate matter suggests another kind of phenomenon (pollution, debris, ashes), one more man-made and less pristine. This pair of objects is intended to lie dormant, camouflaged into the landscape of the kitchen counter, until the landscapes they each contain are shaken to life.

Anyone interested? Email me (midpath [at] jasonknits [dot] com). Don’t expect detailed readings though. That takes more than one card. It is just a sneak peak of the day. Kind of like a daily horoscope, but maybe with more details. Oh, and I can only handle one person right now.

Note, 6:21pm, volunteer’s position filled. Thank you!