17 July 2007

FROM MY CHAPBOOK…

0400 by Jeff Hess

My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. My electronic chapbook was born.

[Hat tip to Sherry Chandler for this particular find.]

This is a passage I copied from War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges.

Just as there are some soldiers or war correspondents who seem to us immortal and whose loss comes as a sobering reminder that death has no favorites, there are also those in war who are locked in a grim embrace with death from which they cannot escape. p. 158

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16 July 2007

FROM THE SANDBOX…

1200 by Jeff Hess

Eric Coulson: The current meme of the anti-war crowd seems to be that if this really represented a colossal struggle of ideologies the President would have called for some sacrifice on the part of the nation and if he had done that then they would be on board. I admit that I do not understand the psychology of “we will sacrificed if asked, but not before then”, but I…

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16 July 2007

THE MUPPETS AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THEM, I…

1000 by Jeff Hess

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16 July 2007

WHAT THEY SAID…

0942 by Jeff Hess

We learn that drawing is meditative. That it is hard, hard work. We are doing one of the things we fear the most: seeing a white sheet of paper, and daring to make that first, tentative line. The first two days we end in a deep exhaustion from so much unaccustomed concentration, and we retreat to our cabins to sleep. Shamash

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16 July 2007

MY COMMENTS…

0928 by Jeff Hess

Part of being a good citizen of the blogosphere is visiting, reading and, most importantly, taking the time to leave a comment on other’s blogs. It’s all about the conversation. In the interest of setting an example I’ve decided to link to those blog posts that have compelled me to leave a comment.

0927 Convention Center Pieces to Clear
0738 Remains of the Day, 7-15-07
0639 Here comes Gargomel
0630 Disability Blog Carnival #18

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16 July 2007

WHAT THEY SAID…

0914 by Jeff Hess

But Commissioner Jimmy DiMora said restricting the tax would be “premature.” He said extra money could be used for other economic development projects in the county.

“I don’t know if you want to limit yourself,” he said.

To paraphrase Daffy Duck, “Hah! That”s it! Hold it right there! Pronoun trouble.”

It’s not “I don’t know if you want to limit yourself,” it’s “I don’t know if I want to limit myself.” Chas Rich

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16 July 2007

FROM MY DAD…

0800 by Jeff Hess

I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.

The answers to Saturday’s post:

1. The third. Lions that havent eaten in three years are dead.

2. The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry.

3. Freeze them first. Take them out of the jugs and put the ice in the barrel. You will be able to tell which water came from which jug.

4. The answer is Charcoal.

5. Sure you can: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

6. The letter “e,” which is the most common letter in the English language, does not appear once in the long paragraph

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16 July 2007

HOW DEAD-TREE MEDIA WORKS…

0756 by Jeff Hess

Via Salon

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16 July 2007

FROM BOBBY MCFARRIN TO THIS…

0727 by Jeff Hess

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16 July 2007

IT REALLY IS THAT SIMPLE…

0619 by Jeff Hess

Crying What I do is me: for that I came.

From As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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16 July 2007

FROM MY CHAPBOOK…

0400 by Jeff Hess

My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. My electronic chapbook was born.

[Hat tip to Sherry Chandler for this particular find.]

This is a passage I copied from War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges.

They saw the Persian Gulf War for what it was, a use of force by a country that consumed 25 percent of the world”s petrol to protect its access to cheap oil. The message that was sent to them was this: We have everything and if you try to take it away from us we will kill you. It was not a message I could dispute. p. 148

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15 July 2007

THE IMPORTANCE OF BLOGLINES…

1231 by Jeff Hess

This past week I got a wake-up call about the importance of my RSS feed in general and of Bloglines in particular. On Wednesday, 4 July I got this message from Jill Miller Zimon: I just noticed that my feed for your blog isn’t updating – hearing that from anyone else? I checked and Bloglines hadn’t updated my blog since the previous Saturday.

At first I thought it was related to my recent server move.

But it wasn’t. I checked in at Bloglines:

If you haven’t noticed any problems with your Bloglines service over the last 2-3 days, you can stop reading here.

For those of you who MAY have noticed a small hiccup or two, there’s a simple reason for it: Some of the new services we rolled out last week have been restarting due to a small glitch in our network protocol.

These hiccups rarely occur and last a very short amount of time–less than one second. Even so, we wanted you to know that we have tracked down the issue and fixed the problem.

We’re sorry about the inconvenience and will continue to monitor the situation.

-The Bloglines Team

It took until this past Thursday for the Bloglines RSS feed to unclog (Other feeds, like Google, continued to work during the downtime) and everything seems fines now, but then I looked at my stats.

Before the hiccup, my numbers were showing more than 4,000 readers per day. Then it plummeted into triple digits. Ouch.

I’ll be watching the numbers closely over the next few days and keeping my fingers crossed that they recover quickly.

Or do I need to get a life?

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15 July 2007

FROM THE SANDBOX…

1200 by Jeff Hess

RN Clara Hart: Fisticuffs was the name of the game today, or, as one anesthesia provider put it, “Rodeo Anesthesia.” Today was the day I ducked flailing fists, kicking feet attached to powerful legs, and tried not to be head-butted by 6′ 4″ 230-lb soldiers. Twice! Twice I dodged punches, kicks and brain-rattling smacks. I was looking forward to an “easy…”

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15 July 2007

JONATHAN REES AT CLEVELAND BLOGGER MEETUP…

1047 by Jeff Hess

Last evening I had the pleasure of meeting a blogger I’ve been working with for nearly two years. It was back in October of 2005 that Jonathan Rees approached me about becoming part of a team of bloggers who would write about all things Wal-Mart. Because the topic is so important, I said yes and we got to work.

I offered our local No Cleveland Walmart blog as a starting point and we changed the name to The Writing On The Wal. 2,500 posts and 10,000 readers a month later we’re going strong.

Jonathan is in town delivering two lectures on the history of steel in Cleveland at the Western Reserve Historical Society for community college professors and he’ll be our guest at Wednesday evening’s Cleveland Blogger MeetUp at Café Marika.

Last evening I showed Jonathan a bit of Cleveland Heights. He has a historical fascination with the Rockefeller family so we made a swing through Lakeview Cemetery to see John D.’s grave where Jonathan dropped a dime. We paid our respects at the graves of Elliot Ness and President James Garfield as well stopping in to see Wade Chapel and the Lakeview Cemetery dam.

The next stop was my stomping grounds: Coventry Village. We walked the whole street and stopped in at Revolution Books, American Apparel, Sunshine II, Passport to Peru, Big Fun (where Jonathan bought a Pirate Bendy for his wife and a Queen Cleopatra action figure for his daughter), Mac’s Backs, and Revolution Records.

After all that walking we were both hungry. With all the food on Coventry there was still only one place a newbie had to eat first: Tommy’s. Jonathan had a Shawarma and a large cranberry juice (he said it was the best he’d had) and I had an Angelo and lemonade. And of course we got two orders of Tommy’s hand cut French fries.

One of the things you might want to ask Jonathan about on Wednesday evening is his recent American History trip to Boston where he required all of their students to blog the experience. (Check out the sidebar.)

And, of course, Jonathan is blogging his Cleveland experiece at The Writing On The Wal.

See y’all Wednesday night.

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15 July 2007

FROM MY DAD…

0800 by Jeff Hess

I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.

After the christening of his baby brother in church, Jason sobbed all the way home in the back seat of the car. His father asked him three times what was wrong. Finally, the boy replied, “That preacher said he wanted us brought up in a Christian home, and I wanted to stay with you guys.”

****

One particular four-year-old prayed, “And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets.”

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15 July 2007

FROM MY CHAPBOOK…

0400 by Jeff Hess

My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. My electronic chapbook was born.

[Hat tip to Sherry Chandler for this particular find.]

This is a passage I copied from War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges.

We did not fight the Persian Gulf War to liberate Kuwait, but to ensure that we would continue to have cheap oil. But oil is hardly a cause that will bring crowds into the street. p. 148

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14 July 2007

MY COMMENTS…

1521 by Jeff Hess

Part of being a good citizen of the blogosphere is visiting, reading and, most importantly, taking the time to leave a comment on other’s blogs. It’s all about the conversation. In the interest of setting an example I’ve decided to link to those blog posts that have compelled me to leave a comment.

0910 Arafat died of AIDS

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14 July 2007

FROM THE SANDBOX…

1200 by Jeff Hess

Teflon Don: There’s a small charm that hangs around my neck. Many soldiers carry some small token or good luck charm — Saint Christopher medallions, coins, crosses, sometimes even hand-blown glass hearts. Mine is a stylized fishhook carved and polished out of bone. The Maori call it Hei-Matau; they believe it will bring strength, peace and good…

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14 July 2007

IS IT RAPE YOU CALL IT WHEN…?

0814 by Jeff Hess

The story of Judge Jeffre Cheuvront, Pamir Safi and Torey Bowen is on its way to generating more comments on Have Coffee Will Write than any other story I’ve considered. This morning, in the wake of a mistrial called because of international scrutiny of the case, I want to throw another can of gasoline on the fire:

Does calling rape when sex occurs with a cognitively impaired person apply to all parties?

From The Associated Press:

Safi is accused of raping Tory Bowen in 2004. He said they had consensual sex; she said she was too drunk to agree to sex and that he knew it.

I don’t mean to imply that Safi was drunk too. I don’t know and it doesn’t make any difference to the questions I want to ask.

If both parties in an act of drunken sex test above a state’s blood alcohol limit has an act of rape occurred?

If the male tests above a state’s blood-alcohol limit but the female does not, has an act of rape occurred?

Can the male file rape charges the next morning?

Does everyone need to administer a field sobriety test to before they make the beast with two backs?

Just asking.

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14 July 2007

FROM MY DAD…

0800 by Jeff Hess

I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.

1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms.

The first is full of raging fires,
the second is full of assassins with loaded guns,
and the third is full of lions that havent eaten in 3 years.

Which room is safest for him?

2. A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?

3. There are two plastic jugs filled with water. How could you put all of this water into a barrel, without using the jugs or any dividers, and still tell which water came from which jug?

4. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

5. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

6. This is an unusual paragraph. Im curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out.

Answers, heh heh, on Monday.

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