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Quick Shots for 10/13/2017

Quick Shots for 10/13/2017

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Not a lot happened this week that I feel needs mentioning, but I hated to let a Friday pass by without posting something, so here are two quick thoughts.
Hats off to Saturday Night Live for their cold opener this past weekend. Jason Aldean, the country artist who was performing on stage with the Las Vegas shooting began, delivered a message of hope and support for the victims of the shooting, as well as the nation. He then performed "I Won't Back Down." Not only was the song a rallying cry, but it also served as a tribute to its original singer Tom Petty, who passed away earlier last week. Furthermore,… Read more...
Quick Shots for 10/06/2017

Quick Shots for 10/06/2017

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A group has received approval and is currently raising money to erect a statue near the Washington Monument in D.C.. Its purpose is to help promote women's equality. This doesn't seem like a bad idea until you realize the statue that, according to the sculptor, is intended to “combat a culture that increasingly dehumanizes women and sexualizes the female form” is actually a 45-foot tall naked woman. (Isaiah 5:20)
This week I fell victim to one of a gamer’s greatest fears; I lost approximately two years worth of progress in a video game. The game in question is a match 3 game that I play on my Windows… Read more...
Quick Shots For 09/29/2017

Quick Shots For 09/29/2017

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I realize hotels want conference rooms that are as versatile as possible and adjustable to various sizes in order to accommodate multiple groups at one time and make more money by booking consecutive meetings. However, those adjustable dividing walls are really a joke. All they do is block what is going on in the adjacent meeting room from view. You can still hear everything. All this accomplishes is to distract everyone from their own meeting because they are too curious about what is happening just beyond the partition.
When I used to record news segments for the Toddcast 2.0 podcast, I had a couple… Read more...
Quick Shots For 09/22/2017

Quick Shots For 09/22/2017

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If you've been reading Half Air it will no surprise to hear that my family weathered hurricane Irma fairly well. We had no major damage and yard cleanup took about an hour. The greatest inconvenience was the loss of power for several days. The last night we were without power we stayed with friends who got power back earlier that day. The next several days we opened our house up to one of Deb's co-workers who still didn't have lights or electricity. Then, on Saturday, approximately 100 members of my church gathered together to help clean up storm damage in several communities where the residents didn't… Read more...
Quick Shots for 09/08/2017

Quick Shots for 09/08/2017

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Remember the big Twinkie scare of 2012? You know, when we were all told that Twinkies were be being discontinued and we would no longer be able to buy the creme-filled, yellow sponge cake treats? As it turned out, it wasn't even a year before they were back on grocery store shelves. Not only that, but today we have additional Twinkie products, such as Deep Fried Twinkies and Twinkies Ice Cream. Now, I'm not one to give much credence to conspiracy theories, but in this case I willing to at least consider that possibility that the whole "scare" was nothing but a ploy to increase Twinkie demand.
This past… Read more...