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No beer?

By the way, you can't buy cold beer anyway near the Motel 6 in Lafayette, IN. First we went to a Meijer store and they sold liquor and unrefrigerated beer. We decided to go to the convenience store across the way. I walked into the convenience store and it had no beer cooler. I asked the girl behind the desk where we could buy cold beer and she looked at me like I was a space alien and said, "Uhhhhh...at a liqour store." What kind of a state doesn't allow beer sales in convenience stores?

We are now about 30 miles north of Indianapolis.

I crack myself up

We have a teen writers group that meets here once a month and one of the exercises we enjoy is passing a paper around and each person adds a sentence to whatever weirdness is already on there. What is produced is always strange and funny. I used one of them below to create this stoopid movie.


We reap what we sow, pal

Found this video via Tom Tomorrow. Glenn Back vomits all this scary sludge day after day and then has to go on television and caution the mob he's helped stir up to not be violent. I know I've said it before but how do people like Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and Drudge even look at themselves in the mirror? How do you make millions of dollars by pandering to the basest instincts of the ignorant and not crawl into the bathtub one night with a plugged in toaster?

John Hughes as Penpal

I was sad to see that John Hughes died. The scene where John Candy is driving the wrong way on the interstate is still one of biggest laughs I've ever had while watching a movie for the first time. I came across a sweet blog entry today. It's the story of a teenager who had John Hughes as her penpal for a couple of years. It's very touching and you can read it here.

New Technology for Baseball

Check out this article from the New York Times. I think this will produce data that will be fascinating to examine. Be sure to watch the video. I love the animation of the throw from the outfielder to the shortstop which the shortstop the relays to the catcher. Notice also in the video how every defensive player on the field shifts in the direction of the ball after it is hit. Fascinating.

Some Photos

Here are a few photographs that I have taken.

The other night there was a beautiful yellow sunset. I had Chris run out with me to the street to try and capture the color.


























































Melanie's battery died Thursday and Wendell was nice enough to pick her up at work.

























We have a couple of teen summer volunteers and a project they are working on is painting our chess pieces. The previous colors of the pieces were brown and light brown and they could be hard to tell apart. No more!



























I'm happy with how this picture of South Blvd turned out.































I dig the symmetry in this picture I took during a ride on the light rail.

How to melt a chocolate bunny

You won't be able to look away.

Stop the Loons

Bill Maher has a nice piece on the crazy nutjob weirdo bozo insane loony Obama birthers here.