Back & Weather

Hello.

Yes, I know. It had been a time, somewhat long. However you measure it... I was on a vacation/trip across the geography of earth. Anyway I am back and on the blogo once again. This weather is quite a temperature. Qwerty and shivery I feel. Good day.

The First of the Month

Bah, it is the first on the month. September 1st 2009 to be precise. What will this month bring? Maybe I should just ask what will this day bring in? I have noticed that every day is different, no matter how many days have gone by. There really is no day that is exactly the same as another day.

August 25, 2009: This Day In History

In an attempt to do something "different" I have decided to post a "This Day In History" message. THe problem is that this really is not that "different". Bah! I shall do this any way. Some folk don't know their history and since the season of learning is around the corner, this may perhaps be a learning lesson. What happend on the August 25th ever since?

This Day In History (August 25th):

1944, Paris was liberated after years of Nazi occupation.

1975, Bruce Springsteen album "Born to Run" is out to buy.

Happy Birthday Sean Connery

About Nothing

I have nothing to say. So there!! Since I am posting it then I guess it is something (which is nothing). Bah!

Pipe News

BAHHH! I turns out that the water system throughout the entire town had to be turned off! Everyone was out of H20. It took all day for the Pipers to fix the main valve and the other pipes. I was obliged to help in the process. What might happen if this unnoticed system was off for an entire year??

As a final note the piping went patching-ly. The water system is working again.

8 Days Later

Maybe I should post an update? It has been six days since I last posted and well, very few interesting events have happened. The pipes at the old pipe plant have all been inspected. During one of the inspections a pipe cracked and burst. It was one of the pipes that was in for the water pressure. This may take an entire week for fix! The whole town is in a stirrer about the pipe plant. The main valve is still under investigation. Bah!

Rainy Yet Sunny?

Bah! The weather is indeed confusing. Today storms were in prediction but when I was out side it was hot and sunny. Then just a few hours ago it stated to rain. The clouds were out and so was the sun! It is a hot day with rain. What should I make of this?






Image from GettyImages

Monopoly Movie?

Word on the web says that a movie version of the popular game Monopoly could happen in 2011! After reading a bit about this it appears that director Ridly Scott (Alien, Gladiator, Blade Runner) may direct this movie. What will come of it? Will it be about the economic times of the 30s back when the game was released? Or set in today's world? Maybe this is going to be a movie because those that own the Monopoly game (Hasbro) also own the Transformers toys. It seems like that company likes movies. If this movie is made it will probably be about money. The characters? A rich man with a top hat perhaps?

I will be keeping my eye on this story indeed.




House Trained
Image from Mark Strozier, available under Creative Commons Attribute

Rain Rain Rainy Part III & Blog

Well! An update on the pipes is in! The police arrived at the scene within minuets. I was asked several questions by the police chief. It turns out that the water supply in the city had drastically gone down after the burst. Our pipe system here is very complex, I don't know what to expect. How the main pipe valve burst is currently under investigation. I think it went into critical and the pressure made it burst.

I am also reading more about this here blog system. I found this blog: the real blogger status has some informing information about this here blog system...Arh! Google friends? If anyone is reading this you may see a few changes "here and there". So much to read! Bahh!

Rain Rain Rany Part II

Water indeed! I was very surprised to see how much water the place lost. As I walked out my front door with the tape I was greeted with a gust of wind and the wetness of rail. Then I started to walk towards my old work place. Ben Ricgz (or known as B.R.) greeted me when I arrived at
the pipe plant. He said, "Go straight down to the basement, the valve room. Red door at the end of the hall". I rushed down the stairs and quickly walked towards the red door at the end of the hall, I knew where the room was he didn't have to tell me again!
When I opened the great red door J.R. was standing there with a huge tool in his hand (I don't know what it was). After we talked about what happened we then took the scarf tape I had brought and taped up the valve. That took some thirty minuets!

Here is what we "think" happened: All of the rain water filled up the drain pipes all across town. It was too much water and the main valve went into M1K mode and still could not hold it. M1K is critical. So then it just burst because of all the pressure. But then again an odd looking crack is on the main valve. Why is it there? Is it because I have never seen this before? I have worked here for over ten years and this has never happened before!

Rain Rain Rainy

Ah! Too much rain today. My old work place called and they needed some help! That is the topic of my post.

Today I got a call from Jay Arr, (sometimes J.R. for short). He told me that the big valve pipe has burst and he needs me to give him some more scarf tape. See I use to work down in the pipes and it has been exactly one year since I left work. I took a case of scarf tape as a going away present (very usefull indeeed).Well, this morning our little town had an overflowing amount of rain and it turns out that the pipes could not hold it. The valve pipe burst? That is the one pipe below that can hold almost anything! Anyway I must go down to the pipes and help J.R. tape that thing up! ---Until next time.

TV Is Like A Bad Movie

Television, blah! As most of you know already TV/TeleVision is at the current time (2009), hardly watchable at all. Let me explain by simply saying this: MTV, reality television, Bravo, ABC, "all new comedy", whatever is on at prime time...blah blah blog!

Today I watched the telly (TV) and it just so happened to be on the network ABC. While watching a sad excuse for an entertainment show a commercial once again appeared on screen. The commercial was for a "new" show on ABC: Defying Gravity. It's really an new show with an old idea. If you see the commercial for this show you will know all about it. To sum it up: It's Desperate Housewives in space or just another soap opera in a new setting. Another show about kiss kiss relationships! So original! Arrrrrg!! Now I know why I like books!

It seems as though the audience television (or just ABC) is geared towards is a group of people who only watch the screen if there is some sort of soap opera between characters or sex. It a shame television (or just ABC) has has taken this direction. Making us the viewer look no smarter than what they are showing us. Bahhh!!!!

(That is my creative image above)

Dark Comedy Close to Oxymoron

So I happened to watch this preview/trailer "A Serious Man". I say it is a serious mistake taken as comedy. The trailer is soaked with violence and annoying editing that is quite disturbing. This kind of film and many other like it (they are out there, beware) is strangely known as a "dark comedy". What is so funny about the dark I ask? The term "dark comedy" is an enigma to me, or shall I say oxymoron. It does not mix well, if at all. I would rather call such a thing a "bad idea". These are the types of things that pass for story or explanation, a "dark comedy" is how it is described. Bah! Use some idea that is both logical and thoughtful to make a point or tell a story! Don't say this is something worth a view!

AR! Such things disturb me!

Just another post

Well well well... here is I again with another post. I might as well tell you what happend today. I went to visit the place I use to work, for private reason I shall not tell you where it is. I went there to look at the pipes because I use to work in that area. Not much has changed! I was quite suprised. Yes, that was my big day. Perhaps my new log will be more .... better? Bah!

-Until next time.

Identification, Profile, and Groups

I forgot to tell this story.

So my friend says that it is a good idea to fill out my web blog (bog! I say...) profile. HA!

I am finding out that a massive amount of re entering information is wanted to develop my blog profile. It seems web pages are connected like a spider web, yet I have to mimic my actions and information the more I travel through the W.W.W. I have just recently done my Google Groups profile. The only reason I am doing these profiles is so my blog does not go unnoticed. (Yet I really would not mind).

Interview Indeed

Bah!! Well you may or may not know that this is not my only blog (bog). Yes, I have actually made another one! Let me explain because it is needed. After learning about the blog world, I decided to do something "different". Since I am doing a sloppy blog anyway, I thought "why not do something creative in this salty field of dreams" (that is not a direct quote). I made Interview Indeed for the purposes of interviewing. I think the idea sounded unique at the time but now it seems silly. I may perhaps hand the idea over to my friend who started me on this blog in the first place. Maybe he can make something out of it. Or perhaps I should just do away with it.....Ag! My ideas are always disembottled!

Until further notice.

Content Permission and Such!

Well well, it seems I have much to say today. This post will be about the usage of content and the finding of permission. By the way that image on the left is my own content! As you can see in my second post I talked about the new Alice in Wonderland (2010) movie preview. It turns out through my journey of finding the type of media I would like to show, I had to present the proper source information to be able to post on this here blog "log". While diving into the inter web and the many functions of its use of searching (as computers now quickly do, Ha!) I was able to find some useful information. To post a movie preview, from say the site YouTube, I would have to ask the company who distributed the preview (or as some say "trailer") permission for me to use it on my blog. I understand the rights they have for their content but my small thinking thought it would be no care of theirs if I used (simply borrowed) their video for my blog post log. It turns out that I need permission prom them (Disney).

At this point I have decided to put that idea on hold and look for an alternative way to showcase content, which is not of my own. I found a few pieces of info that helped in my searchinglys.

Below are a few web links to the web pages that helped me properly use the media content I was trying to use.



Creative Commons
Creative Commons (Flickr) ...............There you can use photos as long as you give proper credit to. How do you do that asking? The link below should help.
How to post image into blog.............This is what I used to properly give credit to an image.

How to post image in blog 2............Another web link with such information from a blogger.
Web Images.................Blogger sites own help page with some good information for some questions & links.



NOTE: There is so much information from the world wide web on this topic, I'm not even sure if I am 100% correct or if I am indeed giving proper credit. You can comment to this log if you have some solid information you would like to share on this topic of content credit and such.

Blogs!

Bah! So, after learning about this here blog and all the information that goes with it, I have found out some things. First the term "blog" comes from the word "weblog". And it turns out that a weblog or blog can be a lot of things. I have always presumed a blog to be an online journal, well it turns out that is just one of the items a blog can be. Yes, it can be an online journel for the world to see (Blah!) A blog can also be made into a "web page" that can be used to discuss such things as: art, fishing, food, movies or anything of interest to the user in command. There is even such a thing called a "blogosphere", such a Si-fi element to the entire webs. Plus there are different providers of blog, not just the one I have chosen to use.

Blogs have also caused a stir in the file of news, personal people, political, and probably whatever else you can think of! There are ever fake blogs which I will not get into because, well... It seems to me that this land of blogs is muddy. I would say that my little blog is more of a journal than anything. My friend who suggested this idea to me probably had no idea about such things! Well...that does it for this topic (for now at least). I have also learned that using my signature at the end of each blog log will not be needed. As since it already compleats that task for me.

Bloggs and a movie preview: Alice in Wonder Land

Bah! So, I am already on my second blog and too soon I must say! Is this what some call a post? Well I decided to view the options web page for this devise and I found many an option ideed. I may possibly configure my little blog, if it is needed or if I find my writings on here too dreadfull to look at. I just wanted to say a few words about this movie (which caught my eye, somehow) which is being made yet again! It is called Alice in Wonderland, yes it is based on the classic book...or is it? I find the original cartoon view to be quite good. I was unable to compleat the reading of the book it was based on. I cannot say if it is true to the original story. What I can say is "Bah Blum!" A remake or shall I say re-telling of the story is in the works! Below is my attempt at showing you all/everyone this here preview I am Bahing about! I find it strangly weird and creepy! It looks to be a departure from the original story it is being based on! Some text say the movie will not appear untill 2010! So this is very strang news ideed! -A.A. Blumblog





Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland
Image from Olivier Ciappa, avaliable under a Creative Commons Attribution






Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland
Image from Olivier Ciappa, avaliable under a Creative Commons Attribution

Blah Humblog blog!

Bah! So this is a blog, a smelly, ugly word for such a devise. Why did they come up with such foolishness as this, and to what point? I am A.A. Blumblog, hello and welcome blog blog I say. You may be questioning why a man like me is here, let me explain. My general guess is that you don't know me, such devices like this seem to be for the stranger. An idea I shall always ponder. A friend of mine, whom I shall not name, gave a word to me about such a place, or idea (whatever you call this thing, this "blog"). He said I should meet some people and write about my life, using this blog .. thing. So all the world can see, well what and idea! "Why would I want that?" I asked him! He said it could very well do some good. Ha! Although the idea is one that is un-unique, un-original, un-fantastic (I do know about the blogs, not a fan I must say), I should at least try so I can report back to my friend to news of this...well...experiment. I most undoubtedly will find it painfully odd, yet my writing or so they say "typing" skills could much improve. As my first writing comes to a close I find that this idea is a puzzle indeed. Bah!!

Until later occasions, -AA Blumblog