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As of the end of school yesterday, Amy is now a 7th Grader.
As of Tuesday I no longer have a Florida driver’s license. Took me long enough I guess. I have been physically primarily in Washington for 17 months. My mailing address has been Washington for 10 months. And I sold my house in Florida 8 months ago. So it is about time. Of course, that is MUCH better than the 3 or so years it took me to get a New Jersey license when I moved from Virginia. Oops. Of course, I still have Florida plates on my car. I think those are the last remnants of Florida. I guess I’ll aim at getting those switched over by the end of the year. :-)
Amy cut almost all of her previously pretty long hair off yesterday, donating what was cut off to one of those organizations that makes wigs for cancer patients and others who need them. Good for her. And now, a new radically different look for the summer…
I can’t speak for the methodology or validity under scrutiny of the chart above, but I love these sorts of classifications and mappings. Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World
(via StrangeMaps) There are a lot of additional charts here as well. This reminds me very much of the Nolan Chart and other similar charts and classifications except applied at a national scale rather than an individual scale. Anyway, very cool map. I like it. I’m thinking though this might mean that I should move to Sweden.
My initial reaction: Long It seemed like a very long movie. Looking it up, it was 167 minutes. Which indeed is pretty long. But there are some long movies that leave you glad for every minute. This is not one of those movies. For quite a lot of it I kept thinking “is it over yet?” Some parts just dragged. Some parts were all action and fighting and such, but I also generally have enough of those sorts of things in a couple minutes. There were enough betrayals and reversals and such to keep it confusing most of the time as well. There were certainly decent bits of it. I just feel like it could have been a lot better if they cut out about a quarter of it and just tightened it up a lot. But then, I’ve never been super into these Pirate movies. They are OK, but nothing I would normally go out of my way for. I most likely would have skipped it entirely if the others hadn’t wanted to go. But once I knew they were going, I also didn’t want to stay home and miss it. :-)
Other shows would have other foci, but Curmudgeon’s Corner was basically your typical political talk show. People with opinions (but not necessarily deep knowledge) mouthing off on the issues of the day. Occasionally we’d have guests and interviews of various sorts. Occasionally we’d have special topics. But most of the time, we’d just talk about our thoughts about whatever was in the news that week. Well, Ivan and I both missed doing it. It was a lot of fun. Sometime in early 2005 Ivan and I spoke about reviving the show as a Podcast. But my computer at the time was underpowered for audio editing and there was a lot of other things going on that kept it on the back burner. In 2006 I got a computer up for the task, but again, lots of things going on, and it was not top of mind. But a little over a week ago, Ivan emailed me and said “Hey, weren’t we going to do the show again?”. And so… here we go. This morning Ivan and I recorded the first episode of Curmudgeon’s Corner since early 1995 or so, right before I left Pittsburgh and headed out to start a new life in DC… then Virginia… then New Jersey… then Pennsylvania again… then Florida… and now Washington. :-) The original shows were hour long shows. We’re now aiming at a bit shorter than that. I know my attention span balks at all but the best podcasts that top 30 minutes, so I didn’t want to go there. The first episode clocks in at just over 20 minutes. We’d planned an agenda that was mostly politics, but at the last minute switched and it ended up being mostly tech. But that’s fine. Whatever is inspiring at the time. I think we are going to try to do these weekly for awhile. We don’t actually expect any listeners, but it is fun just to do, even if nobody listens. In any case, it is all set up as a nice little podcast, so here are the links:
For the first episode, the description is:
If we make it to 5 episodes, I’ll add some permanent stuff on the site about it, but for now, this post will do.
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More than a decade ago… actually a decent bit more than a decade ago, Ivan and I did a show on 
