Wit, Wisdom, and Whimsy. (your mileage may vary)
June 3, 2013
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For the second year in a row, the Visalia City Council proclaims June as LGBT Pride Month in Visalia. For our very conservative community, this is a big deal!..I’ll be putting up more pictures as I steal them from various Facebook posts, and once Mary and Herm get their shots to me I’ll have some professional style pictures to show off! For now, these…
June 3, 2013
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May 29, 2013
I’ll be accepting the second LGBT Pride Month Proclamation on behalf of the LGBT community here in Visalia.
May 23, 2013
A very interesting read. You might end up tossing out everything you thought you knew about success and failure.
The Misconception: You should focus on the successful if you wish to become successful.
The Truth: When failure becomes invisible, the difference between failure and success may also become invisible.
In New York City, in an apartment along the Hudson River, above trees reaching out over sidewalks and dogs pulling at leashes and conversations cut short to avoid parking tickets, a group of professional thinkers once gathered and completed equations that would both snuff and spare several hundred thousand human lives.
People walking by the apartment at the time had no idea that four stories above them some of the most important work in applied mathematics was tilting the scales of a global conflict as secret agents of the United States armed forces, arithmetical soldiers, engaged in statistical combat. Nor could people today know as they open umbrellas and twist heels on cigarettes, that nearby, in an apartment overlooking Morningside…
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May 20, 2013
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The Facebook messages have already started. As Oklahoma digs out of the destruction caused by tornados, well-minded people have started reminding each other to “pray for Oklahoma”. I can’t think of anything more useless. Praying obviously had no effect on the path or strength of the tornados, and if they did, I’d still have a serious problem with the deity in charge of such things. A much more useful idea, and one guaranteed to help, would be to donate to recognized charities responding to the area. Cash donations are what serves those agencies best, allowing them to respond in the most efficient manner possible.
You can talk to yourself all you want (praying), but that won’t do anything but let you think you’ve done your part to help. You haven’t. If you really think “God” responds to your prayers, you still have, or more precisely “God” has, a lot of explaining to do about the whole process.
Don’t pray. Act.
May 19, 2013
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I’ve never understood the attraction for an older man that some young gay men have. That may be because I’ve never felt attracted to men older than myself, but there are many young gay men that do go after men twice their age, or even older. They’re looking for “daddies”, and they can be quite determined about it. (“Daddie” here refers to an age bracket and/or an age difference between the men, not any kind of incestuous relationship) From time to time, I’ll receive messages through various media from younger men who want to chat. Usually they are short conversations, as many of these gay bois are looking for a “sugar daddy”, and I neither desire nor can I afford to be anyone’s ATM card. (maybe if I had won that $600 million Powerball draw last night….
May 18, 2013
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I just got home from seeing the latest Star Trek movie, Star Trek Into Darkness. I don’t know where to begin on this one, it’s all over the place.
It’s a huge, bright, fast, funny, dramatic, incredibly well done technical marvel of a movie. There were some incredibly unbelievable ball-drops as well, however! Some things where I get the feeling somebody high-up decided they didn’t have to solve that problem, or have things make sense, because 80% of the audience they’re shooting for wouldn’t know the difference anyway!
I watched it in 3D, and it was very impressive. The depth and realism had me at points startling at things suddenly in my face. The more than 2 hours flew by, and I’ll be going to see it again.
If you haven’t seen it yet, and [SPOILERS!] want to avoid knowing plot points in advance [SPOILERS!], stop here, and go see the movie. Then come back later and tell me what you thought of it.
May 16, 2013
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2 am, 5/16/2013
May 12, 2013
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Recorded on the International Space Station.
JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
A Tale of Two Cities
June 5, 2013
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
What a difference a day makes! On Monday, June 3, 2013, the City of Visalia‘s City Council issued it’s second LGBT Pride Month Proclamation. On Tuesday, June 4th, the City of Porterville issued it’s first. The two events could not have been more different.
Both cities provide online applications for proclamations, with instructions on how to turn them into the city. Such requests are routinely handled by cities across the country, and are ways for cities to recognize citizens and groups. Here’s Porterville’s “Request a Proclamation” page.
Visalia’s proclamation resulted in applause and friendly chatter in a standing room only crowd that overflowed into the hallway. This year’s proclamation went mostly unnoticed by the greater community in Visalia. Last year it provoked some media coverage and talk-radio interviews with the Mayor of Visalia, Amy Shuklian. Porterville’s proclamation, in a meeting room at least twice the size of Visalia’s, also with standing room only and overflow into the hall, resulted in boos, catcalls, the arrest of a anti-gay protestor, and at least two calls for the death penalty for homosexuals.
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