I open at the close

Because the blogger group at google has decided to discontinue FTP publishing this blog will no longer be updated. The content that is here will stay here with the ballvase.com link, but I will move www.jrblogs.com to a new tool when the time is right.

You can also see my photos at http://www.jrshoots.com or http://jrshoots.blogspot.com

Dammit even I can't keep a resolution for a year. Mine was to not blog for a year and it's only February and I've blown it!

When I do start blogging again you'll be able to find me at http://www.jrblogs.com and if you follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/JR_Hughson you'll see when I start blogging again, because 140 characters is the new haiku.

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Thanks for reading all these years, I did have fun and I do appreciate it.

Possible, blog closure ahead

I've been thinking a lot about closing this blog. Not deleting it, I mean people often search for "Sergent Hulka" and end up here. I wouldn't want to deprive the world of that, but at the same time I'm just uninspired to post here. I created the blog to be about going back to work. Well now I've been back at MSFT longer than I was there the first time. It just doesn't seem applicable. The other thing is I used to bitch a fuck load in here and my previous blogs. The fact is I'm happy now. I have a lot less to bitch about. I'm not being smug or thinking I'm happier than average, but I am. A lot happier than average.

I've whined about twitter killing bigger blogs. I think there is some truth to that, but I've seen articles tweeted that blogging is still outpacing twittering. I didn't actually read them because they were way over 140 characters.

I'm still a blogger for sure, but this blog isn't doing it for me. I kinda want to try blogging in a more targeted way, but I haven't found a subject or even subject area that inspires me. I've closed blogs before.

I'm going to keep my photography blog going, and I'm not 100% sure I'm going to close this blog. I know you're thinking (not really, I don't even think you're reading this, I'm already mistaken) why close this blog because it's free to keep going and just not post? Again I'm not sure yet.

I think I might have to shut this window before I can find a door? (Strictly metaphorically, and not metaphysically speaking. I swear.) Do you have an opinion about this? email me, I'd really appreciate it.

Lego my apple

So we've been playing lego rockband with the kids. OK really we've been playing lego rockband and the kids have been playing with us in our band. Because of our absolute love for the hybrid apple the "Honeycrisp" we named our band The Honeycrisps. Yeah our little lego peeps jump around the stage with their little lego instruments rocking out (all to often to Tom Petty) and bringing the Honeycrisp rock to little lego figures jumping up and down and worshipping our lego guys.

We've filled in some rhidiculous back story. Like we hate the Fujis and oh my god we can't being around the Galas. So in lego rockband you get to record and album which is a thin excuse for a 3 song set of your choosing, but with album art and title. I was surprised with the rated E (for everyone) game let us name it, "FU Fujis."

I bet if we dropped the F-Bomb (and no don't think I'm trying to keep the work "fuck" out of my blog sometimes the expression F-Bomb just sounds better than fuck. k?) I bet if we dropped the F-Bomb it would reject it, but really I don't have the energy or inclination to check. Really I don't have the energy or inclination to write any more on this post.

Now that's a fire

I got myself a kindle. At first when it came out I didn't even consider it. I knew people who were more on the bleeding edge than I am who got the very first version (or the sony in a similar timeframe) and I was very dismissive of the whole idea. I had always been a fan of this application just being on my TabletPC. I could have done that, but I never found titles I wanted and only recently have I started reading things in the public domain.

Then I held one at work. So thin. So light. The case I have for it, I think, outweighs it. My main concerns were around the screen. The whole idea of no backlight seemed really bad. The flash on refresh when you turn a page also was very disconcerting when playing with one casually. However in practice when you're actually reading on it the flash happen when your eye is rescanning from the bottom of the page to the top and the flash just isn't there. The design goal was for the kindle to disappear and I think amazon has made that happen.

The other feature I hadn't counted really liking was the ability to buy a book from the bathtub. Yeah I mean it. The tub. I bought and started reading a novel last night for cheaper than the paper back costs. The sad fact is if I really like it I'm likely to order it again in physical form. Mostly so I can lend it to the boy. That's good for authors, bad for printers, good for trees, um bad for UPS? Oh wait this thing is good for the environment. Shit. I'm against the enviornment this year. (Next year I think I'll be against revolving doors.) Confusion setting in.

Oh, Amazon, what is this crack you've hooked me on?

Died On the Forth of July

My education apparently lacked history. I don't necessarily mean my classes or teachers didn't present it, but maybe I was not listening. I'm not laying blame, but there is a lot of shit I don't know. The sucktactular part of that is you can't really know what you don't know. It works more like this: you find something out that you really think you should have known and now you know that, but what the fuck else don't I know?

I didn't know that 50 years to the day after the signing of the declaration of independence both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died. Now I'm skeptical, but only for the reason that story just seems too good, but hey I have no evidence that it didn't happen that way.

I just finished John Adams by David McCullough. It is a fantastic and seemingly fair account of history. The other thing I didn't now what putting these presidents in context. If you would have had me put Napoleon on time line with US presidents I wouldn't have been able to do it. Now I could. After Adams and before Quincy Adams.

Did Ms. Sanford in US history even mention this stuff? Did the book? Not sure I'll ever know. This was largely 651 pages of stuff I didn't know so it was time well spent.

I guess I'll just keep reading and finding out shit I didn't know before, but I'll know then. You know?

The Return of Rain

The rain started again today. They say it'll be better tomorrow. Is he talking about the weather? I liked it better when he just talked about his food.

What's better? I'm happy the rain is back. oh now he *likes* the rain. idiot from seattle.

I'm always happy when the rain goes. Well which is it, asshole?

I guess I just like the change in season. That and bacon. I like bacon. Not again with the weather and the food. Jeeesus. I don't like him. I'm unsubscribing to his feed. That's it!

This moment brought to you by Jim Gaffigan.

Pop the bander bubble

One down...

I wonder who else has to post to get Mr. Bander to post everday for the rest of this year.