Our Lady of Good Counsel’s annual Right to Life walk-a-thon is coming up on Saturday, October 4th. If you’d like to donate, let me know.

[Joe]

I haven’t been very good about moving my pictures from my camera to my computer lately, so there was a bunch of random stuff on there:

The Red Baron attacking Oneida?
(Yes, that is an Iron Cross)

How many hundreds of times have we taken this picture?

Grapes along the path to Pixley Falls

Pixley Falls up close

There’s a few more in the September photo album. I also added some more slides to the 1970 Hawaii photo album, but haven’t gotten around to organizing them yet.

[Joe]

If I’m just bad news, then you’re a liar.

Last night while I was playing Sardines, I found Carie hiding, not too surprisingly, in their vegetable stand. Once I saw that Pete and Adam had gone around the house, I doubled back and got into the stand as well. This isn’t a stand that you stand in. The floor is slanted and about three or four feet off the ground. So there we were, getting eaten by mosquitoes, me with my head bent over and arms around my knees so I couldn’t be seen from the side of the stand and a car pulled up. The window rolled down and the person started asking whether or not they are going to have the painted pumpkins this year. Apparently, till the person got close, she thought we were scarecrows. Finally, Carie got the car to go away, but by then we had been found out.

In the mean time, somebody had stopped by the house and had asked Karen if she realized she had a fully grown man in her vegetable stand. All this made me wonder what people think of me, but not for too long, because later on I was hiding on the porch (I choose my hiding spots based on comfort) and was able to overhear a conversation about myself. The guy seemed a bit incredulous when he was told that I was in a PhD program.

[Joe]

The time has come for colds and overcoats.

I thought this was cool. Somebody jury-rigged a Nintendo DS to act as a remote for his camera. From what I gather it doesn’t give complete control over the camera, but it does allow for a lot of flexibility. The one other disappointing thing is that it’s wired to the camera through the DS’s GBA port. The DS has both WiFi (or wee-fee as one of the professors at Syracuse says) and bluetooth, so it’s too bad it wasn’t set up wirelessly. I don’t see why that couldn’t be done and then an iphone could be used as well. Anyway, the guy who made this is talking about the possibility of making more (even some for Nikon cameras) and selling them.

[Joe]

Thank you for participating in the online random drawing for the opportunity to purchase tickets for potential 2008 Mets postseason games scheduled to be played at Shea Stadium.

While your entry was not selected to purchase tickets for potential National League Division Series games, it doesn’t matter since the Mets’ minor league quality bullpen and offense that stops and starts according to the alignment of the planets, the migration of seagulls and/or random quantum events will keep them from making the playoffs anyway.

Thank you again for your participation.
Mets

Ok, so I did some editing.
[Joe]