the generalisto

Sep 02

Trying to get a jumpstart on my work in the wee hours so I can pay attention to the boys when they awake. Too bad servers don’t agree. Doh!

Uber-physicist Stephen Hawking has a new book out + argues that the Big Bang was inevitable due to the law of gravity: http://bit.ly/9q3g4t

Sep 01

Lucian is now giving the smoking double guns thanks to his vivacious mama!

Just plain ol’ good advice all around. RT @monaeltahawy …on the importance of how we react to the right wing(s) http://bit.ly/cI4jgh

An old friend from my Revisor Office days. RT @RedStagNE: Dan Israel will be playing for us tonight starting at 10PM. http://cot.ag/96hocJ

Aug 31

Throwing on cap and jeans and delivering the goods. Then back home to a week with the boys.

Aug 27

Just so thoroughly frustrated with @cityminneapolis and their public works department. Slow, rude, lack of communication. Ugh.

Aug 25

RT@velveteenrabbi: Figuring out the guitar chords for Leonard Cohen’s “Who By Fire” - it will be our prelude to the Unetaneh Tokef prayer.

Finding I can’t sleep any longer when the rain falls because I know the water table is rising. Eddie Rabbitt used to be so right. And now…

Trent Gilliss, sr. editor for Speaking of Faith. Never been to a #pinball. #pubmedia

The lesson of Obama as a Muslim: “factual misperceptions about politics can be surprisingly persistent.” http://t.co/BXQjBE6 h/t @WajahatAli

Working on getting those blog entries and click-throughs back up after a hiatus. It takes work… and timing.

The @atlanticwire has a heckuva rundown on what’s in it for Jews when it comes to the Cordoba House: http://bit.ly/cg7sZ

Sometimes I find myself so frustrated with the lack of attention to editorial judgment when it comes to photography and visuals that are published with print pieces. Here’s one example. The picture you see (Is this a screen grab or a still from Jim Gehrz’s camera?) accompanies a story in the Star Tribune recapping an August 24th debate between Mark Dayton, Tom Emmer, and Tom Horner at the University of St. Thomas. Too bad the shot is actually from a debate held at TPT earlier this August. Would they pull in quotes from another debate and pass them off as part of the current debate without attribution? No. But here the Star Tribune is doing exactly that. My guess it isn’t to mislead; it’s just pure laziness and lack of regard for its audience.

Sometimes I find myself so frustrated with the lack of attention to editorial judgment when it comes to photography and visuals that are published with print pieces. Here’s one example. The picture you see (Is this a screen grab or a still from Jim Gehrz’s camera?) accompanies a story in the Star Tribune recapping an August 24th debate between Mark Dayton, Tom Emmer, and Tom Horner at the University of St. Thomas. Too bad the shot is actually from a debate held at TPT earlier this August. Would they pull in quotes from another debate and pass them off as part of the current debate without attribution? No. But here the Star Tribune is doing exactly that. My guess it isn’t to mislead; it’s just pure laziness and lack of regard for its audience.

Aug 14

Cassettes are back at Coachman Command Central. Dirty Dancing still maligns me, but George Jones now… http://yfrog.com/miafjyj