March 26, 2010

Friday Ark #288

We'll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and....?

Visit all the boarders, Link to the Ark and check back for updates through Sunday afternoon!

You can board the Friday Ark by submitting your post here, leaving a comment or a trackback to this post or emailing fridayark AT themodulator.org. NOTE: Trackbacks seem to broken right now.

You can find previous editions at the not quite up to date Arkives page.

ALERT: It is likely that we will have no internet access from late Thursday night through early Friday night... Normal boardings may not be completed until sometime Saturday. Please be patient.

ALERT 1:10 EDT: Intermittent to no net access until later tonight. Boardings will likely be delayed.

Cats

Birds

Other Vertebrates

Dogs

Invertebrates

In Memoriam

Didn't Make It

  • x

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to:

Birders: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks.

For the Spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles.

For the Herp lovers: House of Herps. The monthly blog carnival devoted exclusively to reptiles and amphibians.

  • The 4th edition, St. patrick's Edition, is up at Kind of Curious
  • The 5th edition, April, will be hosted by TBD

Dog folks: remember to submit your links to:

  • The Canine Carnival hosted by Pamibe last year is on hiatus an looking for a new sponsor
  • The Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey's Musings
    • has been out of operation since July 2007

For other current carnivals check out The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival

Posted by Steve on March 26, 2010 | Comments (2)

March 22, 2010

Don't Blame the Hammer,,,

The dollar rules:

My first reaction was one of righteous indignation. How could they expect me to be a party to wholesale theft of employee productivity? In an era when bankers and CEOs are looting the country, it was time for an honest man to come forward and say, "Enough!"

At some point, a dollar amount was mentioned, and I realized that the person who manufactures a hammer isn't at fault if someone uses it to slay a suburban family who, for all you know, had it coming. All I would be doing is designing a simple web page; I wouldn't be forcing anyone to watch incredibly exciting basketball games during work while getting paid at the same time. I call that free will, which I have been told is a good thing.

I clicked on the Boss Button once on Saturday and was not all that impressed with a quick visual glance at the page but it would probably work from a distance.

You might ask: Why did you need to click on the Boss Button on Saturday? And, I could answer: Just to see what the page looked like. Which is true as far as it goes.

For this I do blame CBS.

A deeper answer is that I had to watch the on demand coverage, thank you CBS and NCAA, both Saturday and Sunday because CBS does not make it otherwise possible for many of us to watch the games we want to watch.

I'd have liked to watch some of Cornell hammering Wisconsin. Not a chance on Northwest CBS. For me, it would not even come up on demand.

I'm all for not watching a boring game. Boring, though, is in the eye of the beholder. If my favorite team is beating up a 3 seed I want to watch it.

I want to watch it. I do not want to be switched away for 1 minute or most of the 2nd half. I want to watch it!!

Posted by Steve on March 22, 2010

March 19, 2010

Friday Ark #287

We'll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and....?

Visit all the boarders, Link to the Ark and check back for updates through Sunday afternoon!

You can board the Friday Ark by submitting your post here, leaving a comment or a trackback to this post or emailing fridayark AT themodulator.org. NOTE: Trackbacks seem to broken right now.

You can find previous editions at the not quite up to date Arkives page.

Cats

Birds

Other Vertebrates

Dogs

Invertebrates

In Memoriam

  • x

Didn't Make It

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to:

Birders: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks.

For the Spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles.

For the Herp lovers: House of Herps. The monthly blog carnival devoted exclusively to reptiles and amphibians.

  • The 3rd edition, February, is up at xenogere
  • The 4th edition, March, will be hosted by TBD

Dog folks: remember to submit your links to:

  • The Canine Carnival hosted by Pamibe last year is on hiatus an looking for a new sponsor
  • The Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey's Musings
    • has been out of operation since July 2007

For other current carnivals check out The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival

Posted by Steve on March 19, 2010 | Comments (1)

March 18, 2010

The Weight of a Swallow

I and the Bird #121 is up at The Birder's Lounge.

Gather some seeds, bring some drinks and join the rest of us in the lounge exploring a wide world of birding delight.

Posted by Steve on March 18, 2010

March 16, 2010

obama Hammers bush

While it is not surprising that obama can run circles around bush there are some wins that are, perhaps, not so positive.

Of course, bush did leave a mess. Including an overall debt increase of $4.9 Trillion.

With all that bush stimulus spending Krugman was probably right in saying that obama's $800 billion was too little.

But, then, with all that bush stimulus why was there a downturn at all...?

Posted by Steve on March 16, 2010

March 12, 2010

Friday Ark #286

We'll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and....?

Visit all the boarders, Link to the Ark and check back for updates through Sunday afternoon!

You can board the Friday Ark by submitting your post here, leaving a comment or a trackback to this post or emailing fridayark AT themodulator.org. NOTE: Trackbacks seem to broken right now.

You can find previous editions at the not quite up to date Arkives page.

ALERT: It is likely that we will have no internet access from late Thursday night through early Friday night... Normal boardings may not be completed until sometime Saturday. Please be patient.

Cats

Birds

Other Vertebrates

Invertebrates

Dogs

In Memoriam

  • x

Didn't Make It

  • x

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to:

Birders: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks.

For the Spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles.

For the Herp lovers: House of Herps. The monthly blog carnival devoted exclusively to reptiles and amphibians.

  • The 3rd edition, February, is up at xenogere
  • The 4th edition, March, will be hosted by TBD

Dog folks: remember to submit your links to:

  • The Canine Carnival hosted by Pamibe last year is on hiatus an looking for a new sponsor
  • The Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey's Musings
    • has been out of operation since July 2007

For other current carnivals check out The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival

Posted by Steve on March 12, 2010 | Comments (1)

March 5, 2010

Friday Ark #285

We'll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and....?

Visit all the boarders, Link to the Ark and check back for updates through Sunday afternoon!

You can board the Friday Ark by submitting your post here, leaving a comment or a trackback to this post or emailing fridayark AT themodulator.org. NOTE: Trackbacks seem to broken right now.

You can find previous editions at the not quite up to date Arkives page.

Cats

Birds

Other Vertebrates

Invertebrates

Dogs

In Memoriam

  • x

Didn't Make It

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to:

Birders: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks.

For the Spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles.

For the Herp lovers: House of Herps. The monthly blog carnival devoted exclusively to reptiles and amphibians.

  • The 3rd edition, February, is up at xenogere
  • The 4th edition, March, will be hosted by TBD

Dog folks: remember to submit your links to:

  • The Canine Carnival hosted by Pamibe last year is on hiatus an looking for a new sponsor
  • The Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey's Musings
    • has been out of operation since July 2007

For other current carnivals check out The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival

Posted by Steve on March 5, 2010 | Comments (2)

March 4, 2010

It's March, It's Near Spring...

...I and the Bird #120 is up at Sand Creek Almanac.

Brush off your wings and join Deb in welcoming spring with birds from her backyard, around the world and, yes, from dreams.

Posted by Steve on March 4, 2010 | Comments (1)

March 1, 2010

*&ck You, That's Why!

The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Make it Rain - Bank of America
www.thedailyshow.com
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Maybe you still need to carry a credit card for some situations but you can minimize it's use, pay it off regularly, use cash instead of debit/credit for most transactions, you know, like that expresso from Starbucks.

Really, do you enjoy giving the banks a cut of everything you purchase? Their execs love it when comes to bonus time. Your congress critters love it when it comes to lobbying payoffs. timothy, ben and the rest of the boys and girls in the executive branch love it when you use your credit and debit cards as they contemplate leaving their so-called public service positions for their payoff positions in the financial industry.

Via Bloggity-Blog-Blog-Blog.

Posted by Steve on March 1, 2010 | Comments (1)