I think I’m a bit insulted!

June 22, 2013

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So the previous post has a video, in which I talk about having the perfect face and appearance for radio.  Watching it from my website, I noticed the ad that was embedded.  This of course reflects the Internet’s current scheme of targeting ads to users based on either some clever algorithm and slick NSA style tracking software, or a coven of crones stirring a caldron of vile liquid (I’m not sure which!).  I wonder if this particular ad is age-based, and if so, just how much data-mining are they doing??
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Oh, Internet, how poorly you understand me!

Video killed the radio star, take 2

June 22, 2013

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Video killed the radio star

June 22, 2013

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A long time ago, in a universe far, far away…

June 7, 2013

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From my junior year at Mt. Whitney High School, 1974-1975.  I remember that kid, but it’s hard to recognize him.

Gerald Ford is President, Harvey Milk has yet to win elected office, the fall of Saigon is imminent.  Visalia’s population is 65,000.  Apple Computer is a year away.  99.9% of phones have a cord.

He is 17, in serious denial, and is trying to find girls alluring.  It’s not working.

Quick!  I need a time machine!  I need to talk to this kid!

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

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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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City of Visalia Proclaims June LGBT Pride Month

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…

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Since it’s Pride Month in Visalia…

June 3, 2013

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History repeats: Conservative California community to again proclaim June LGBT Pride Month

May 29, 2013

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I’ll be accepting the second LGBT Pride Month Proclamation on behalf of the LGBT community here in Visalia.

Survivorship Bias

May 23, 2013

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A very interesting read. You might end up tossing out everything you thought you knew about success and failure.

David McRaney's avatarYou Are Not So Smart

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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Pray for Oklahoma? How about doing something that will actually help!

May 20, 2013

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pray_for_oklahomaThe 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.

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