It’s been a while

…since my last post here.

Since our trip to Atlanta, I’ve been under the weather. I wouldn’t say it’s the Swine Flu, but I did meet some people from Mexico in Atlanta…

But I haven’t felt like sitting in front of a computer. Or thinking. Actually, sitting is the easy part. Concentrating with my sinuses plugged up and coughing up a lung is hard.

So, I’m finally feeling better and finished up the DTV post right below this.

Digital TV Mythconceptions

No, I didn’t misspell that title.

Now that I have two TVs and a converter box and have had time to play around with them, now that two of our local TV stations have dropped their analog signals, I think I have a pretty good idea how well digital TV is going to work and it’s not a pretty picture. Continue Reading…

Bird Wars

Kamikaze Chicken lies next to a fragment of my vehicle's mirrorScott Leffler has had a running topic on his radio talk shows on WECK and WLVL about the “Bird Wars.” They consisted of a lot of collected anecdotes to support the theory that birds, as a species, are at war with the species of man.

Conspiracy theory? Wacko talk? You might think so. I was unconvinced. Until today, when the birds turned their fury my way and made it personal.

On the way home from dropping my daughter off to school in Sanborn, and listening to Scott’s Dialog show on the radio (Coincidence? I think not.) one of them attacked my vehicle. Continue Reading…

The only thing weirder than Americans…

The only thing weirder than Americans is how the rest of the world perceives us.

Spain Fallas

Two stories from Germany’s Der Speigel online illustrate this. Both have a really weird way of paying tribute to Barack Obama. Above, in an article about traditional “falla” sculptures in Valencia Spain, they show Obama as a bride, being courted by other world leaders.

Mmmm... Obama Fingers!

The other one is a story about a totally politically-incorrect product that actually came out in Germany – Obama Fingers. Read about it here.