To know me at all is to know that I listen to NPR on the way to work and the way home every day. I was really struck by this story on the way to work this morning. Although I do kind of want to punch the guy who said… Read More »Bethelehem in 2007
I’m not sure how the subject came about, but one day I was talking to Shannon and she revealed to me her extreme disdain for the cross on top of her church. I didn’t really know how somebody could dislike a lit up cross on top of a church. I… Read More »Kentucky Fried Methodist
I ran into and old friend by the name of Sean Clubine at Best Buy yesterday. For some strange reason we began recounting horror stories about our time spent at Wesley Woods. Then he asked if I went to Mexico for confirmation. I didn’t. He asked because he wanted to… Read More »Somebody Bet on the Bay
This blog is 89 views away from 10,000! That might not be many views for you, but it is a lot for me so bugger off. No, I don’t mean that. Keep coming back. What a great weekend to be a Cyclone! In reality it is always a great Cyclone… Read More »American Gangster
I’ve been sick lately. Without going into too much detail, about the color and size of things that have been extracted from my body lately I will just say that I’ve never been one to let me body dictate to me my social engagements. That is unless my body just… Read More »Clearing My Head
So a guy I work with hosts my website on his server. This is a pretty good deal for me because he doesn’t charge me a plum nickel and I get pretty much all the space I could ever want. However, he recently moved my website to a different server.… Read More »FTP Issues
I don’t want to pile on, but what has been happening with the Iowa football team this season is a disgrace and an embarrassment to the state of Iowa. I’ve always thought that Ferentz was a great coach and I know that nobody can control 125 or so hormonal, young… Read More »Prison Overcrowding
So I’ve begun the task of creating the Photography 139 calendar. I printed out a few test images and hung them on my wall at the mine. I took some sticky notes and numbered them 1 through 12. Then I thought about my very general rules for selecting pictures to… Read More »Curious
Here is a copy of Mark’s latest newsletter. The Taiwan Times By Mark Wolfram Reporting on God’s mission in Taiwan November 2007 Jamming with Jenny Hello again everyone! While in Taiwan, I have had many chances to play the guitar. On a given week, I usually play guitar for 2… Read More »Taiwan Times – November Issue
Tried some stuff tonight. I can’t really explain it. Except to say that these are not manipulated in Photoshop.
Many great things happened on Saturday. Iowa State beat Kansas State I got to take my nephew Johnathan to his first ever Cyclone football game. I got to tailgate with the Fausts, Willy, Jay, and Derrick. Then just to put icing on the Great Day Cake: Kansas put up over… Read More »A Great Saturday
It was Beggars’ Night in Boone on Wednesday night. Thought I’d post a couple of pictures of some people who showed up on the porch.
I mentioned that I was going to celebrate the peak of fall colors with a little train ride. The pictures from the train ride are now posted. Just follow the link below: BOONE & SCENIC VALLEY RAILROAD It was a very overcast and dark day. That meant a large aperture… Read More »BSVRR!
“It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Von.” – Alex DeLarge (A Clockwork Orange) If all things are relative, the loss to Oklahoma on Saturday felt like a win since it was an incredible… Read More »Oklahoma
“Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!” – Alex DeLarge (A Clockwork Orange) I might… Read More »The Third Crack
This week’s full Moon will be the largest full Moon of the year. The two days to get outside and enjoy the largest full Moon of 2007 are Thursday and Friday. I lifted this article below from SpaceWeather.com for your perusal if you are interested in more information. This week’s… Read More »Does Size Matter?
I took my first crack at some fall pictures during my lunch break today. I wasn’t 100% pleased with anything. However, I will go back out for my lunch break tomorrow with a guy holding an umbrella. That guy is Jesse. It is good to have him back at the… Read More »First Crack