Author Archives: Randy Peterman

Low Hanging News

I shouldn’t pick on the news writers, except that its their job to write useful news… or is it?  Take this article for example.  I want to know what form of logic is consistent that allows you to have an influx of people into an area, that if removed, means that the area would lose population.  You could logically say that if those people stopped coming into an area that the populoation would stagnate and eventually, due to death and alien abductions the population would go down, but you can’t say that because immigrants are moving into an area that the population would go down if they stopped coming.  Its a false argument.

Let me put it forth in a formula because I can’t [SIC]:

Immigrants + population in an area = greater population

but that doesn’t mean that

population in area + 0 > population in area

I’m sure that’s a bad formula and I’m sure I lost most of the readers after the word forumula above.

Worst Horror Movie Concept Ever

I think this beats out any other prior bad movie concept.  Biting Sheep and humanimals [not safe for children and probably work].  I don’t care if this is brought to us by the people who made Gollum, or the people who helped make Gumby, this is dumb.  But the upside of bad movies like this is that you know that Hollywood is making a killing on movies to dump money into projects like this.  MPAA: when money is being bled like this, please don’t come knocking on private citizen’s doors about losing money because of file sharing 🙂

Getting Up Early Helped A LOT!

By reading this article (link) you will get the impression that the switch to daylight savings netted almost no gain in power efficiency in the United States.  I want to posit that the scramble that went into checking software out to make sure that it was ready for the change cost the U.S. more money in computer power and man hours than it will save for decades.

Sad.

Evie Update

As I reported last night Evie hit her head I thought it would be good to report that she’s doing relatively well today.  She’s grumpy (which is more normal recently), and aside from the Klingon welt on her forehead she’s running around being herself.

I’d post pictures but that seems inhumane or something protective.

Oh, and she has s new nickname: Evelion.  She’s been into roaring a lot lately and so since Abby is Abigator, Evie is now Evelion.

That is all.

~Happy Birthday Jessica!~

Happy birthday to my bride, the former “Randy’s Girlfriend.”  The beautiful mother of my children.  The child of my in-laws.  The woman of my dreams.  The woman of my awakes.

Happy Birthday!  I hope today is as fun for you as it could be 🙂

Pray for Evie

This evening Evie walked out of my office (where I was draining the water pipes due to yet another winter storm) and tripped and smashed her face across the bathroom door frame.  She has a bruse that runs down her forehead, nose and lips.  Its sad, really.  She was snuggling on my lap as I held her and then rolled over, sat up on her knees and then threw up all down my jacket, shirt, pants and even managed to score some into my pants pocket.  The poor little girl is not doing well.  Tomorrow is Jessica’s birthday and I’m thinking its going to be less fun because on top of Evie’s funk, Abby has a cold.

I love my family and I hate to see them sick like this.

Compost

At our local mega-giant-club-store-where-you-buy-in-quantities-that-would-feed-third-world-countries they had a compost bin for a price I couldn’t pass up.  I bought the bin because I hate throwing away so much food.  We throw out so much stuff wrapped in plastic trash bags that could be recycled that I’m embarrased to be involved in the process.  So along with recycling glass, plastic, paper and metal products I’m also recycling some of our food waste.  That food will go into the compost bin, get eaten up by bacteria, and according to the line drawing that came with the instructions, will come out as small lines of garden goodness.

We’ll till the compost into our dirt and then our dirt will be happy.  Happy dirt for happy worms that will be eaten by happy birds.  I’m hoping the happy birds will then drop happy bird droppings on our car instead of the sad or solum droppings that they now drop periodically.  Because that would make me happy.   Not as happy as, say, not having the droppings hit my car at all, but better than sad droppings.  That’s why you should compost, too.

What environmentally friendly/fiendly things do you participate in?  Not “earth day” which is just a joke, but real things that you feel emotionally involved in like driving a Hummer or a Prius?

Reggae, Ska and Jamaican Music History

If you’ve not already checked out the Pandora Podcast, please consider doing so, its excellent.  Rather than link straight to it I’m going to suggest you start here: the History of Reggae & Ska.  Wow.  This podcast continues to amaze me with the quality of the information.  Very, very worthwhile for musicians.

Squaredance

There is nothing like country music and line dancing to make you wish you married your sister.  Or if you don’t have a sister, maybe you wish you lost a dog or something.

Squaredancing on the other hand makes you wish that you had coordination enough to dance more sophisticated dances like you see people doing in theater productions.  Don’t get me wrong, squaredancing is fun because its easy, but after evaluating my ability to play simon says where every call is something simon said, I’m ready to take on dancing with the average Joe.  Its like reality TV only its reality.  I have relatives who went to school for dance, I have even more relatives who ballroom dance, but its just not in me.  When I have danced ‘improvised dance’ I think that some people present were ready to call 911 to make sure that the ambulance was hurrying because the convulsions were getting worse.

This last Saturday our church had a dance – but it was a square dance.  Various members of the congregation stayed home because they had some sense, but we wanted our girls to be able to have fun.  And fun they did have [<- that sentence was so Yoda, I don’t know where it came from].  And we as adults had fun.  It was the first time I’d danced with my wife in public since we got married.  8.5 years of not knowing that the easiest way for me to dance with Jessica was to take up square dancing.

I think next year I need to wear suspenders.