There’s a trend in the schools to circumvent cellphone bans. Kids are using very high-pitched ringtones that most adults can’t hear (NY Times article).
Can you? Click here.
DYK "Edgar Allen Poe Went to West Point"?
First a little story.
When I was somewhere around 12 years old, Grace and Jack gave me a coffee table sized book for Christmas. I can’t for the life of me remember what the book was specifically about but somewhere in it there was an article or chapter about Edgar Allen Poe. For some strange reason, while I was reading the article I found it absolutely amazing that Poe was a graduate of the US Military Academy. I felt compelled to immediately share this new found piece of information with Mom and Dad so I trotted into the kitchen and interrupted whatever conversation they were having with “Wow – did you know that Edgar Allen Poe went to West Point?”.
Mom and Dad thought this was absolutely hilarious and cracked up laughing. From then on, whenever I would come up with some off the wall “did you know?” trivia fact (which it seems I was wont to do), their standard reply would be “No – and we didn’t know that Edgar Allen Poe went to West Point either.”
I share this story with you for a reason. When I saw your photo of Lex and his umbrella hat I had an “Edgar Allen Poe” moment.
Did you know that Lou Brock, the Hall of Fame basestealer for the St Louis Cardinals, was the inventor of the umbrella hat?
Crawfishfest
After choosing not to go to the Fest the last 2 years because of rain, I decided the kids were old enough to handle a little rain, so I committed to this year by buying tix in advance.
Sho ’nuff, rain!
The kids were champs. I was right, they could handle a little rain. It was the lotsa rain that came later in the day that they couldn’t handle. And I can’t blame them, I’d had about enough by then, too.
Saw the Rebirth Brass Band and Marcia Ball. Ate Red Beans & Rice, BBQ Shrimp, Cachon de Lait (roast pork), and we all had some Alligator Sausage.
We also got some cool hats.
Baby Bean is a (Gary, close your eyes) …
BOY!!! There are several choices for his name, so Dawn and Chris are still undecided. For now, he is still “Baby Bean”.
Does anyone have knowledge of the now unsupported PageMaker?
I know that PageMaker stinks, but can anyone explain why when I put a .tif file into PageMaker from Photoshop the CMYK gets completely thrown out of whack (a lot of red comes through). The color is fine in Acrobat, but the picture gets distorted. Can anyone give me some advice? I’m attaching the picture.
Ring Around the…
Sun! Have you ever seen a rainbow like this? We experienced a circular rainbow while on vacation in Cancun this past week. I haven’t done any research yet…anyone know why, how or when this occurs? It was unbelievably fascinating!!!
Not a bad shot from my little digital camera either, huh? Of course, I was blind for the next few minutes!
US Open Qualifier
Two friends of mine are playing in a local first round qualifier at Scotch Valley Country Club in Altoona for the US Open today so I’m headed over to watch them. There are 39 players contending for 3 sectional qualifier spots. The sectionals will be held June 5-6.
The two friends are Tom Koehle and RJ Porter. Tom used to be an assistant pro at my club Toftrees and has just taken the head pro’s job at Huntington Country Club which is about 25 miles away. RJ is the guy who I wrote about in some emails to a few of you last year who played against Michelle Wie in an US Mid Amateur qualifier.
I’ll be back later tonight to fill in details of their rounds.
SMOKIN’!!
The 1st BBQ of the season. Pork Butt, smoked 12 hrs., hickory and apple woods. I’ll be making Pulled Pork BBQ Sandwiches.
This is 7am this morning.
Below is a shot of the butts (about 16 lbs, total) after 2 hrs.
I’ll add a shot later of the butts after 12 hrs.
Hmmm-hmmm-good!
Just because…
there’s been nothing new for a while.
Chicago Bandits
A friend of mine will be playing for the Chicago Bandits this summer.
“Who?”, you ask.
“The Chicago Bandits women’s professional fast pitch softball team”, I answer.
UncleLar niece, Missy Beseres (bad photo in the link BTW), was drafted by the Bandits as a pitcher. She’ll join Chicago once her Penn State career end – Penn State is awaiting an invitation to the NCAA tournament expected to come later today.
Missy set a Penn State career record for wins this year – she currently sits at 53 over her four years here. A spot on the Bandits roster opened up when uberbabe Jennie Finch got pregnant. A couple of years ago Finch dethroned Anna Kournikova as ESPN’s Hottest Female Athlete.
Here’s a photo of Jennie in action (I don’t think this is an official Chicago Bandit uniform however).
Here’s a shot of Missy in action (that is an official Penn State uniform).
I suspect that Missy will only be on the roster until Jennie makes it back from her pregnancy (she had a baby boy a week ago). The Bandits have a powerful pitching staff and I’m not sure that Missy has quite reached that level yet.
What amazes me these days is the number of opportunities for women to play professional sports. If Missy makes the squad, she will be the fifth female I personally know who is a professional athlete. The others are Jess Brungo on the Connecticut Sun basketball team, and Syndie Nadeau and Ashley Pedersen who both play professional volleyball in Paris and Barcelona respectively, and Joanna Lohman who has played for both the New York Power and Washington Freedom professional soccer teams along with the US National team. I think it’s wonderful that these girls get an opportunity to continue to excel even beyond college at the highest levels in their chosen sports.