04.26.2007/08:27
What time is it?
I regularly peek at the clocks on the three computers I mostly use, and the two cable boxes in our house. I hardly wear a watch any more, since I have a cell phone at hand to see the time. Those clocks are all set by someone else, deriving time from some remote server somewhere.

I set the clocks on both the kitchen stove and microwave (when they get slightly out of sync, I explain to visitors that our kitchen lies right at the incremental fault line of two micro time zones), as well as the one on the new toaster oven, and might glance at any of them for the time. There is a wall clock in the vestibule and a dashboard clock in each of our two cars, which I set, but the XM satellite radio gets its setting from space. Even though I hardly wear it, let's count the watch, since I set that. Susan has a watch and a cell phone, and I think they each are used for the time.

The score: 8 clocks set by distant servers, 7 set by us local folks. During workdays, I get much more of the time from servers, being either in front of my computer or out somewhere at a meeting and fondling my cell phone hoping for a distraction. On non work-days, I'm more likely to get the time from the stove top as I cruise through the kitchen.

So, when I work I'm scheduled by machines, and when I play I'm free to my own interpretation. I'm thinking of slewing the stove clock by an hour or two and having my own time grid for the weekends. Or, just portraying the stove as being in a really different time zone altogether.

04.26.2007/08:25
Musical paws
Thanks to my sister Elizabeth to alerting me to Nora, the piano-playing cat.

04.24.2007/10:21

High Steppers
Performance of the Soweto Gospel Choir, presented by Performing Arts Society of Acadiana (PASA), April 22, 2007.

04.24.2007/10:19

Soweto Dancers
A performance of the Soweto Gospel Choir presented by Performing Arts Society of Acadiana (PASA) on April 22, 2007, included a lively dance sequence.

04.24.2007/10:18

Step Team
Member of the Comeaux High School Step Team perform in downtown Lafayette, LA.

04.24.2007/10:17

Lynne Arialle
Lynne Arialle plays with her trio at The Ballroom, April 20, 2007, as part of Performing Arts Society of Acadiana's (PASA's) Jazz Notables Series.

04.24.2007/09:31
We're still waiting
"A look into the future that never was."

04.19.2007/12:47
Sweet offering
"It is made from pure sugar cane juice from cane that has been hand cut, crushed by machine, and then heated to reduce its water content."

04.18.2007/11:26
Gone but not forgotten
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
heavenlypetmemorials.com

04.15.2007/21:01
Xbox Heroes
"For whatever reason, girls just don't like you spending time playing video games."

04.13.2007/13:27
Into the woods
Hiking trails now on Google Earth.

04.12.2007/21:36
What Ails Me?
I am taking a CAT scan in the morning to ascertain if something in my sinus cavities is responsible for the persistent cough that has bothered me since mid-March. Today's chest X-Ray didn't find any huge pools of fluids in my lungs -- could I have a CAT in my head?

Update: No cats in my head, and I got a purple cough syrup and some yellow pills that seem to be greatly relieving the symptoms. These are, of course, LSU colors, not that this at all influenced any of the medical professionals helping me.

04.12.2007/21:34
Evolution
"Researchers have decoded proteins from a 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, the oldest such material ever found. The unprecedented step, once thought impossible, adds new weight to the idea that today's birds are descendants of the mighty dinosaurs."

04.12.2007/14:36
Pile it on
Home Composting.

04.10.2007/10:12
Smart boids
"Much of the natural history of ravens suggests that they evolved under circumstances that required them to cope with rapidly changing short-term situations."

04.9.2007/20:55
Reading chair
Bibliochaise.

04.7.2007/08:43
Speakeasy
Chumley's.

04.6.2007/11:43
Red dust
Global warming... and not on our globe.

04.6.2007/07:45
Having it both way
Switch-pitcher.

04.4.2007/07:32
Cat deal
"In a hotly contested deal, the life story of Dewey, a rescued cat who lived for 19 years in a library in a small town in Iowa, has sold for about $1.25 million to Grand Central Publishing."

04.3.2007/14:02
Spring ahead
"Households may draw less electricity for lights at night, but will use more power in the early in the day as they wake to darker and chillier mornings."

04.3.2007/07:23
Sweet music
"A centuries-old Stradivari violin was sold Monday for more than $2.7 million, well above its presale estimated worth."

04.2.2007/16:02

Wess and Stephaine
Wess Anderson Quartet performs with guest vocalist Stephanie Jordan, March 30, 2007, in Lafayette, LA, as part of the Performing Arts Society of Acadiana's (PASA's) Jazz Notables series.

04.2.2007/16:00

Goat Cheese Room
Goat cheese manufacturing room at Belle Ecorce goat farm, near St. Martinville, LA.

04.2.2007/16:00

Country Lane
Near St. Martinville, LA.

04.2.2007/10:22
Film Festival
Over the weekend I launched a new site for my client Cinema on the Bayou, which is hosting a film festival in the Lafayette, LA area May 23-27. The emphasis is on films focused on Louisiana.

04.1.2007/15:06
This bites
The vampire wars. Also, Dwarf Wars.

04.1.2007/11:33
Old, olde
A thousand year-old county.