03.26.2008/08:26
Beam me up
Star Trek beaded curtains.

03.25.2008/08:37
Up and at 'em
Declared dead.

03.24.2008/13:05
Backwards
Simple idea, admirable execution.

03.21.2008/17:16
The Poor Clio Time Machine
I'm taking a class in May on Adobe AIR for Flex Developers, so I've been trying to build up my chops enough in Flex 3 to make the class productive. Slogging through tutorials is always instructive, but I find I really pick up my learning pace when I try to actually create something and then have to learn all the things it takes to flesh out my idea.

So, I have created the Poor Clio Time Machine, which lets the user find a spot in the historical continuum of Poor Clio postings and see what was posted on that day; to make it more visually interesting, I have also allowed users to limit the results to photo entries. One major caveat: the older a posting is, the more vulnerable it is to any linked pages long ago having disappeared. This is especially true, as you might guess, for news citations.

03.21.2008/05:48
High in the sky
My sister Laura urges us all to take another look at Palemale.

03.14.2008/11:03
Day Job
You can buy "Spitzer Girl" Ashley Alexandra Dupre's songs.

03.14.2008/09:35
Bounce off the walls
Fight your way through this slow, cumbersome, over-designed web site to learn the fascinating and disturbing story of The Rubber Room. Or, simply read about it here.

03.11.2008/13:11
Weed
"As soon as we make one drug illegal, kids start looking around for other drugs they can buy legally. This is just the next one."

03.11.2008/11:09
Tiny Tim with a giant talent
This, I believe, speaks eloquently for itself.

03.8.2008/23:24
Rare bird
Petrel in the news.

03.7.2008/01:05
Birdbrain
“He just kept saying how he didn’t think he could have hit it, which I think is a stupid thing for a PGA Tour golfer to say.”

03.4.2008/23:08
Spuds!!!
International Year of the Potato... including Why potato?

03.2.2008/13:20
Sentencing issue
Susan and I have been married so long that we tend to finish each other's

So much so that it's gotten to where sometimes I just don't even bother to

03.1.2008/23:21

Hot tamales
At the spring Shadows-on-the-Teche Arts and Craft Festival in New Iberia, LA, food prep abuts the historic family plot.

03.1.2008/21:23

Getting the cure
Visitors to Big Bend National Park in west Texas enjoy the mineral hots springs at the banks of the Rio Grande originally developed by settler J.O. Langford.

03.1.2008/21:15

Big Bend Vista
Big Bend National Park in west Texas.

03.1.2008/21:13

Big Bend Windmill
Big Bend National Park in west Texas.

03.1.2008/21:10

Moon over the movie set
Movie set on Contrabando Creek in Big Bend Ranch State Park in west Texas. This set was, I believe, used in the movie Fandango, as well as some others.

03.1.2008/21:09

Ocotillo
Big Bend National Park in west Texas.

03.1.2008/21:05

Cliff swallow nests
Looking across the Rio Grande into Mexico, from Big Bend Ranch State Park in west Texas.

03.1.2008/21:03

James Dean at Hotel El Paisano
James Dean reliquary in the lobby of the Hotel El Paisano, Marfa, TX.