Year: 2010

Think He’d Guest Blog If I Asked?

Is it just me or has Barrack Obama gone a little overboard on the guest starring on TV show thing? The only place we should see the President on TV is when he is doing a press conference from the White House, on the evening news greeting heads of state or on the tarmac boarding Air Force One. OK, maybe throwing out the first pitch on baseball’s opening day.

Mythbusters? Come on. What’s next? Glee?

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A Day Late

The MMC is exploring different ways to boost it’s meager membership rolls. The president came up with the idea to put a coupon inside one of those packets that show up at random times in your mailbox. This turns out to be more expensive than you might think.

Because we’ve been watching the baseball playoffs lately we have been exposed to a lot of commercials and the majority of them have been political in nature due to Georgia electing a governor early next month. Which got me thinking today, just how much would it cost to have some political style yard signs made up. Not that much really, 50 (the minimum order), 23 x 14.5 inch, 2 sided, 2 color, including the metal stands would set us back a little over three hundred dollars.

Too bad I didn’t think about this a couple months ago, so our signs would fit right in with the rest of the election signs and could stay visible for several weeks. Now, by the time we got them, and placed them, they might be the only ones out there and stick out like a sore thumb and be ripe for quick removal. Not wanting to let a good design opportunity slip by, this afternoon I mocked up a couple ideas.

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Win A Miata

I almost hate to tell you about these because if you enter you are decreasing my chance of winning, but I’m feeling magnanimous. The state of Florida is giving away Miatas to get you to vist there, fish there or vote for your favorite beach picture from there.

If you send someone an email video postcard (there are several to choose from) between October 1st and December 30th you are entered. You can enter as many times as you like as long as you use sent it to a different valid email each time. Share A Little Sunshine

This one has been running since the end of July and closes on November 1st, so hurry. Not only do you win a Miata, but a free three day fishing trip to Miami. All you need to enter is a valid email address, a drivers license and be over 25 years old. I’ve been entering this one every day at work for a couple weeks now and I even signed up once for the Great Florida Getaways electronic travel newsletter, but haven’t received on yet. Florida Fishing Vacation Package

Between sunrise and 11:00AM on Saturday, November 6th volunteer walkers will walk a single mile of one of Florida’s 825 miles of beach and take a photo. The photos will be uplaoded and displayed on an interactive web map for voting on. When you vote on your favorite photo between November 6th and December 6th you will be entered in a drawing for a Miata & $5,000. The Great VISIT FLORIDA Beach Walk

If I don’t win, I hope you do.

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113,000 Million Gallons Of Water

Another weekend, another lake in another state park, this time it’s Lake Murray at Dreher Island State Park. We were in this neck of the woods doing the final bonus cache in the SC DeLorme Challenge. When we left the state park we were 9 finds for the day and I told Donna we needed 1 more for 10 and that would give us a total of 525. We stopped outside of Saluda and grabbed #10. When I got home and logged all our finds, i turned out I miss counted, we now have a total of 526. Ooops.

I’m not sure exactly how many gallons of water are in Lake Murray, I bet it is a lot, but I do know that the Emperor passed the 113,000 mile mark on our way out of town this morning.

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Flirting With A Maverick Meerkat

Unlike a year and a half ago, this version of Ubuntu (10.10) recognized my laptop’s wireless card right off. Might have been because it is a new laptop, but there were a lot of advances in the software too. The Software Center is great, taking out almost all the geekiness needed to load programs under Linux and it came preloaded with most anything anyone would need. My big problem was the stuff required to do geocaching was sparse and what of it that was available, didn’t work as well as GSAK and it required a healthy dose of that previously mentioned geekiness.

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Where’s The Cheese?

Where does your supermarket keep the grated parmesan cheese? We went grocery shopping this evening and that item was on the list. The most logical place to have it, we thought, would be on the same aisle as the pasta and spaghetti sauces, but it was nowhere to be found there. We did eventually find some, there was a display of the store brand stuff on an island near the refrigerated cheeses. Oddly enough there was another small display of parmesan cheese in the frozen food section on the aisle with the ice cream and frozen desserts.

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