The Green Police
This is about right.
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 8, 2010 at 7:54 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Murtha Voted Against Balanced Budget Amendment
Democratic Representative John Murtha has gone to meet his maker. I see this as an opportunity to put a fiscal conservative in the house, regardless of party affiliation. Murtha voted against the balanced budget amendment in 1992 saying:
"If we're going to discipline ourselves, we have to do it now," Murtha said. "If we let it go another six years, I am convinced we'll have a national calamity."
Which, in hindsight, of course, makes no sense. Here we are in the year of our lord Obama, 2010, with the great one poised to spend 3.8 trillion dollars we don't have. We'd have had a balanced budget amendment 12 years ago if the dims hadn't killed it.
RIP John Murtha.
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 8, 2010 at 2:35 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod
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Posted by Rob Kiser on February 6, 2010 at 11:17 PM : Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
The global warming movement as we have known it is dead
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-great-global-warming-collapse/article1458206/
"The global warming movement as we have known it is dead," the brilliant analyst Walter Russell Mead says in his blog on The American Interest. It was done in by a combination of bad science and bad politics.
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 6, 2010 at 10:15 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Obama Lives in a Fantasy Land
Obama is truly disconnected from reality. First, he says that the world would be better off without nukes. Now, he says we'd be better of without Fox New and "blogs".
How on earth did we let someone so disconnected from reality in the White House? Hope and Change? How about denial and delusions?
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 6, 2010 at 3:23 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Nuclear Energy - Not the best idea ever...
I'm not a big fan of nuclear energy. Never have been. The reason is that we don't have a place to store the radioactive waste safely. And, if you consider the costs of storing radioactive waste for 35,000 years, it starts to seem very expensive next to coal, natural gas, etc. Right now, tritium is leaking into the groundwater in Vermont. And, I got to be honest with you, that's not what I want in my drinking water. I'm just saying.
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 6, 2010 at 2:33 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Obama Blows $340 Millon on Census Advertising
Can you believe that commie blew $340 million...not on the census...but on advertising for the census. Somebody get a rope.
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 5, 2010 at 2:23 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Criminal Charges for Climategate Scandal?
The British Parliament has convened hearings to investigate East Anglia University and the Climate Research Unit to uncover unethical and illegal activities. Reap it, tree-huggers.
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 5, 2010 at 9:44 AM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Shelby Blocks All Obama Nominations In The Senate
Obama's going to be furious over this. Politics in Washington D.C.? The gall of some people.
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 5, 2010 at 8:33 AM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Obama says jobs have always been his highest priority
http://dailycaller.com/2010/02/05/obama-says-jobs-have-always-been-his-highest-priority/
The sad thing is that he's so naive, he'll think that jobs are created by taxing people to pay others to do nothing. Pathetic. Why is business experience not a pre-requisite for a presidential bid?
"I know they don't want to just offer nothing to the millions of people in America" without health insurance, he said. "That's what we campaigned on."
Just for clarification, that's exactly what I want to offer the millions of people in American without health insurance. I want to offer them nothing. Nothing but the same opportunity everyone else has. The opportunity to pursue the American dream. To pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 5, 2010 at 8:06 AM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Obama - Dumbest President Ever
Obama's latest tirade focused on "blaming the GOP for what he called politically motivated opposition on virtually every issue."
Politics? In Washington D.C.? Who knew? Maybe if someone had told him that a political career would involve politics - well, maybe he could have chosen a different career path. How could he have known?
This moron will go down in history as the most petulant, puerile, acerbic, confrontational president in U.S. history. I hate to think that he'll be in office for 3 more years. I get the feeling we haven't seen anything yet.
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 4, 2010 at 11:20 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Jersey Shore Poll: Where Should Season Two Take Place?
I have no idea what Jersey Shore is. I'm guessing it's a reality show staring popped-collar guidos. Here's your chance to make sure they spend their next season in Detroit. Hahahahah.
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 4, 2010 at 6:38 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Firefox Ignores Apache Mod_Rewrite Hotlink Redirects
I could not figure out why Firefox was ignoring my Apache redirects. I could not figure it out. I just couldn't get it. IE worked fine. It followed my Apache redirects to prevent image hotlinking. It didn't matter where I put the .htaccess file. I tried putting .htaccess in the root. Tried putting it in the image folder. It didn't matter.
I tried testing the hotlinking functionality so many different ways. I tried using this site and this site to hotlink to one of my images. I asked Uzi to hotlink one of my images from his site. I tried hotlinking to one of Uzi's images with my site (with his permission).
If I used IE, everything worked fine. Apache redirects worked flawlessly with IE. The IE requests were redirected to the "hotlink" image, which says, essentially, "stop stealing my bandwidth". But for Firefox, it would show the hotlinked image. It made me want to start killing strangers. Maddening. I could not figure it out. Nothing made any difference.
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Posted by Rob Kiser on February 4, 2010 at 2:33 PM : Comments (3) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Obama Tzar Waves His Scepter
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/03/feds-ipad-network-congestion/
Soon the iPad will be upon us, and the US government is worried about the congestion it will cause.
Phil Bellaria is a staffer in the Obama administration. Specifically, he's the director of scenario planning for the federal government's Omnibus Broadband Initiative. He published a blog post earlier this week describing his initial concerns about the future demands on our networks.
"With the iPad pointing to even greater demand for mobile broadband on the horizon, we must ensure that network congestion doesn't choke off a service that consumers clearly find so appealing or frustrate mobile broadband's ability to keep us competitive in the global broadband economy. "
This slays me. A government beaucrat warning us of the perils of the free market. Haw Haw. The free market is what drove the internet's success. It's designed so that it can't be taken out even by a nuclear attack (that was DARPA's input). The network is redunant. If any nodes are taken out if the network, the system automatically re-routes the packets. Half the internet could drop off the earth and the internet wouldn't skip a beat.
So far as the cell phones are concerned - If the traffic on the cellular networks gets too congested, then the carriers will have to upgrade their cellular networks, or people will switch to other providers. What we don't need, obviously, is government intervention.
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 4, 2010 at 9:29 AM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Hotlink Protection
I was going through my Apache access logs today and I decided to make sure that my image hotlink protection was working properly, and I decided that it's not working anymore.
I'm not clear what happened to change it, but when I use this website, it seems the hotlink protection isn't functioning properly.
My best guess is that this is related to changes I made when I tried to upgrade my MovableType installation. I've looked at my .htaccess Apache redirects, and they appear to be correct. Hmmmm.
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 2, 2010 at 4:49 AM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Canadian Premier comes to U.S. for surgery
That whole socialized healthcare that Obama's trying to ram down our throats is so good that the Canadian Premier is coming to U.S. for surgery.
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 1, 2010 at 10:21 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
The New and Improved Iron Curtain
"Frankly, I don't know what it is about California, but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I'm not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine, even comes close. When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington, we're number one. There's no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on "Macbeth".
"The three of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of speech. You don't know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words."
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 1, 2010 at 10:03 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Hope? Change? You got it.
President Obama's 2011 Budget Contains $1.9 Trillion in Tax Increases
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 1, 2010 at 8:07 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Dear Miami: Get ready for the Who Dat Nation coming for the Super Bowl
http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf/2010/02/dear_miami.html
"Dear Miami,
The Saints are coming. And so are we, their loyal, long-suffering and slightly discombobulated Super Bowl-bound fans.
While there's still time to prepare -- although a few hard-core Who Dats will begin trickling in Monday, most of us won't arrive until Thursday or Friday -- we thought we'd give you a heads-up about what you should expect.
First things first: You need more beer.
Yeah, we know. You ordered extra. You think you have more than any group of humans could possibly consume in one week. Trust us. You don't."
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 1, 2010 at 1:51 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Haitians Know A Good Deal When They See One
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/31/AR2010013102725.html?hpid=topnews
"The American government should take care of us."
"What we really want is the United States to rebuild it, to modernize."
"...some asked when there would be something more than rice, while others wanted to know why they were left out."
"...Some had beans or root vegetables to add, and a few had meat. Those who could afford neither complained that rice alone would not be enough. "
"The United States should take over the country," said Andrelita Laguerre, shepherding four children and a grandchild at the camp. "Most of my friends expect the United States to take over."
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 1, 2010 at 9:53 AM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
IPCC: Three Strikes You're Out
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/02/the_chinese_get_it_on_climate.html
I am particularly troubled by the fact that top IPCC officials do not seem to take these revelations seriously. Interviewed by the BBC, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, vice-chairman of the IPCC, dismissed the matter as a "human mistake".
Ancient Chinese considered three a breaking point. They could forgive two errors, but not a third. Now that the IPCC has admitted three "human" errors, isn't it time scientists gave its work a serious review?
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 1, 2010 at 8:50 AM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Obama - The Spell Is Broken
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029110104772360.html
A historical hallmark of "isms" and charismatic movements is to dig deeper when they falter--to insist that the "thing" itself, whether it be Peronism, or socialism, etc., had not been tried but that the leader had been undone by forces that hemmed him in.
It is true to this history that countless voices on the left now want Obama to be Obama. The economic stimulus, the true believers say, had not gone astray, it only needed to be larger; the popular revolt against ObamaCare would subside if and when a new system was put in place.
There had been that magical moment--the campaign of 2008--and the true believers want to return to it. But reality is merciless. The spell is broken.
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 1, 2010 at 8:26 AM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Old Habits Die Hard
Dude, let it go already. I mean, when you bowed to the head of a foreign country, it just made you look weak, juvenile, inexperienced, inept, and foolish. But to bow to the mayor of Tampa???? WTF???
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 31, 2010 at 11:31 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
NASA Meets With Renegade Group, Scraps Constellation
NASA has scrapped the Constellation program after a secret meeting with renegade NASA scientists.
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 31, 2010 at 10:45 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Climategate - The Gift That Keeps on Giving
They lied about global warming erasing 40% of the rain forests. They lied about the global warming causing the glaciers to melt by 2035. They lied, and everyone knew it was a lie. First, Phil Jones, the head of the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia Univeristy was fired. Now Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is struggling to keep his job, as the chief lying mouthpiece of the global warming alarmist campaign. Apparently, it turns out that Pachauri is "a former railway engineer" and "has no qualifications in climate science at all." He is accused of making a fortune from businesses linked to in the carbon trading industry.
Guffaw. Reap it, tree-huggers.
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 31, 2010 at 10:14 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
An Inconvenient Truth - The Tenth Amendment ;)
Aha. So, the states are beginning to assert their rights. Very interesting. Last summer, it was Texas Governor Rick Perry threatening secession. This week, it's Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal reminding the feds that the only powers the feds are given are the powers specifically enumerated in the constitution. All other powers are reserved to the states, or the people. This is something the power hungry feds have chosen to overlook for a long time.
The Ninth Amdendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
The Tenth Amdendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
So, while the feds are busy passing laws regulating the flow of our showerheads, someone has the kahunas to speak up. All I have to say is that It's about damn time.
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 31, 2010 at 8:23 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
'Pucho Something With Heat'
I deboard the plane at Lambert Field - St Louis International Airport. As I walk off the plane, I ask them..."what kind of plane is this?"
"It's an Embraer 145," she beams.
I only ask because the plane is too small. Too small for normal humans to fly on. After spending over an hour inside of the beast, I feel like a human accordion.
In the airport terminal, a girl stops and checks herself out. She puts her arms down at her side and checks her sleeves. Her shoes. Her general appearance. She does this without the aid of a mirror. She has a remarkable body. Thin with jeans that cling to her all the way down. Little leather boots. I couldn't say what all she had going on, but she had it going on and this was intuitively clear to the casual observer.
The flight attendants are wearing sweat pants, and this woman is dressed to kill.
As she walked through the airport, she passed by a little restaurant called "Beers Around the World", and was hailed by a fat guy at a table. There's these 3 guys sitting at the table, and I dunno what the fat guy said to her, but she stops and starts talking
to them. The other two at the table snap to attention. One of them is a computer geek with dark plastic rimmed glasses. The other guy is an oriental. Somehow, this fat guy has roped her in, and now the two wingsmen snap into action. Where is she going and why.
She's going to North Carolina. Traveling alone. Like this chick's going to be on my flight. Of course, I don't have the balls to say anything to her. I can't even look her in the eye.
I pause at Brioché Doree, but I just can't pay $8.50 for a sandwich. I just can't do it, so I turn back, resigning myself to a meal at the Sausage Kingdom.
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Posted by Rob Kiser on January 31, 2010 at 1:39 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Convert FLAC files to WAV files
I used WinAmp to convert FLAC files to WAV files, then I used Audacity to encode them to MP3 files.
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 31, 2010 at 11:46 AM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
House Sparrows
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Above: Male and female House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) breeding in Old Salem, North Carolina.
http://www.whatbird.com/forums/forums/thread/136661.aspx
View my other bird photos.
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 31, 2010 at 9:24 AM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Vote Obama Down
There's a poll on how well Obama has done on his first year in office. You can vote to give him a grade of 'A' through 'D', though why you can't give him an 'F', I'll never know. The bleeding hearts at Reddit have voted to give him an 'A'. Let's shake things up a bit.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/01/20/grade-president-obamas-year-office/
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 31, 2010 at 9:16 AM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Southpark Drug-Free Treatment for ADD
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 30, 2010 at 10:39 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
The World's Most Complicated Recall
I don't understand what's going on with the Toyota stuck accelerator. I've seen one recall after another over the last year. I honestly have no clue what's going on at this point.
Toyota CEO Apologizes to His Customers
Toyota Recalls 3.8 Million Vehicles
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 30, 2010 at 6:21 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Obama Admits You Would've Had to Change Doctors
http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2010/01/29/obamas-stunning-admission/
"The last thing I will say, though -- let me say this about health care and the health care debate, because I think it also bears on a whole lot of other issues. If you look at the package that we've presented -- and there's some stray cats and dogs that got in there that we were eliminating, we were in the process of eliminating. For example, we said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your -- if you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it, that you're not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge." [emphasis added]
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 30, 2010 at 6:09 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Avatar Nominated For 'Propaganda of the Year - 2010'
I went to see Avatar today and, I have to say, I was blown away. Not by the computer generated special effects, although they were impressive. But more by the bold strides our komrades in Kalifornia have made in putting forth the doctrine of political correctness. I would honestly say that this movie should be considered more for it's value toward the Dimocratic Party's ideals than as a form of entertainment. It is appreciated much more for it's propagation of the hidden agenda, than as a form of entertainment. As a work of propaganda, however, it excels. But don't take my word for it. This site says:
"Avatar has been thoroughly analyzed as a cliched story about white guilt/reverse racism, cheesy noble-savage mythologizing, cheap anti-capitalist fantasizing, pantheism, environmentalism, anti-militarism, and so forth."
Basically, it must have started out with a bunch of liberal white-guilt apologists sitting around a table in Westwood with some energetic liberal at a white board sniffing a marker for too long. It must have gone something like this:
"OK. Let's see if we can't cover all the talking points with this one, people. The studio has said to pull out all the stops. We want to make "The Birth of a Nation" look like a comedy. We want Joseph Goebbels to sit up in his grave and take notice. We want to go all the way on this one."
"OK...what if we do this...let's have a black female warrior as the lead role....she'll fall in love with a white guy...and they all live happily after."
"No...no...they fall in love and mate...they have to have sex...you know...to get rid of the races...the big melting pot so we're all the same and there can be no discrimination."
"And he's handicapped...a quadraplegic."
"OK...Hang on...let me write this down...so a black female warrior falls in love with a crippled white guy...and they mate...but this is not a R rated movie...how can we show them having sex?"
"We'll come out and tell everyone they mated...make a big deal out of it."
"Oh. I love it...keep going..."
"OK. Then, we'll have a stone-age culture that lives in harmony with nature....and ...uh...we'll have evil white greedy males come in to rape their planet...they'll strip mine a rain forest."
"Awesome. Beautiful. Keep it coming..."
"Wait...I got...the natives live inside a giant tree, and we'll have the military come in and gas, napalm, strafe, and bomb the natives and destroy the tree they live in... White guys, of course....evil white males in the military murdering innocent natives...."
"Brilliant. Perfect. We all know that greedy white males and the military are to blame for all of our problems....bombing trees...napalming natives...love that...that will be a huge hit...what else?"
"Have we covered everything? Let's see...neo-colonialism, white guilt, reverse racism, misandry, eco-terrorism, communism, ADA, pantheism, environmentalism, anti-militarism...I feel like we're missing something here....anyone?"
"What about natural herbal remedies? I know, it's not much, but it's something. Let's push that too. I mean, hey, if we can't shove free healthcare down the throats of the Amerikans, why not pretend western medicine was worthless anyway? The ole Sour Grapes schtick. Screw the hospitals. We'll really play up the herbal remedies."
"Perfect. I knew we were missing one."
"We'll have a tree that literally saves people that western medicine can't begin to help."
"Genius."
"Of course...we'd all like to get some digs in about Global Warming, but after Copenhagen, Climate Gate, and those sea turtles freezing to death in the gulf of Mexico, it looks like we'll have to hold off on that one for now. Let's call it a wrap and go with what we have."
I can tell you this...I'm not taking my daughter to another movie without reading a review to see how much propaganda is in it. This is despicable.
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 30, 2010 at 4:48 PM : Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Postcards From Nowhere: Winston-Salem
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These photos were taken while we were in the "Twin Cities" of Winston-Salem, (aka "Camel City") for Uncle Bobby's funeral (Jan 28, 1010). Very difficult to come to terms with with the loss when someone so special disappears so suddenly. There aren't any photos of Uncle Bobby in this slideshow. Mostly it's composed of family photos, many of which I saw for the first time. I view this grand reunion, the reunification of individuals and of families, as one of Uncle Bobby's parting gifts.
The images were all captured on one of the following:
- Canon EOS 50D with a Canon L-series image-stabilized, ultra-sonic telescopic zoom lens (EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS USM) with an ET-83C hood.
- Canon EOS 40D with an image-stabilized, ultra-sonic telescopic zoom lens (EF-S 17-85mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM).
The images are compiled into a 5 Meg (3:45) Adobe Flash slideshow(2010_NC.swf) that you should be able to open and view with any browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc.). To view the slideshow, just click on the photo above. If you want to view the slideshow as a Windows executable, you can play this version (2010_NC.exe), and it allows you to play, pause, skip forward, backwards, etc.
Image post-processing was done in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. The slideshow was created using Imagematics Stillmotion Pro.
The soundtrack is "Use Somebody" by Kings of Leon.
Lyrics in the extended entry.
Click here to view the other slideshows.
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Posted by Rob Kiser on January 30, 2010 at 11:27 AM : Comments (3) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Winston-Salem Landmarks
While it's fresh in my mind, I wanted to record a few other Winston-Salem landmarks.
1) Nana's House
2) Grommy's House
3) Uncle Bobby's House
4) Uncle Jack's House
5) Old Salem Winkler Bakery
6) Saint Paul's Episcopal Church
7) Crestview Memorial Park & Mausoleum (aka Montview Memorial Park)
8) Williams Family Cemetery at Panther Creek
(Addresses in the Extended Entry)
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Posted by Rob Kiser on January 30, 2010 at 9:06 AM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Winkler Bakery in Old Salem
Wow. I'm not sure who to thank, but the goodies left in my rental car from the Winkler Bakery in Old Salem were out of this world. I'm guessing it was SL or Catherine, as I didn't see Jonathan buying anything. Moravian Sugar Cake, some type of Cherry Pastry, Cranberry Orange Cookies. I can hear myself getting fatter.
Update: We have a winner. It was SL that left me the goodies. Apparently, the Cherry Pastry was day old and marked down to 1/2 price, and she got the last of the raisin bread, plus, of course, the Cranberry Orange Cookies. All was delicious, and much appreciated. :)
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 29, 2010 at 9:43 PM : Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Williams Family Cemetery at Panther Creek
As we always seem to have a hard time locating the family cemetery, I've finally decided to break down and post it on Peenie Wallie. I believe that the address is 11327 Double Springs Rd Lewisville, NC 27023. It's located very close to the Panther Creek Boxwood Gardens outside of Lewisville, NC, at the intersection of Williams Road (NC State Rd 1173) and Double Springs Rd (NC State Rd 1176).
And, while we're at it, here's the Montview Memorial Park where my grandfather, Robert Bean Sutton, is reportedly interred, along with Uncle Bobby.
Update 1: Uncle Bobby's name was also apparently Robert Bean Sutton.
Update 2: The Montview Memorial Park is apparently also referred to as
Crestview Memorial Park & Mausoleum
6850 University Parkway
Rural Hall, NC 27045-9619
(336) 969-6793
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 29, 2010 at 9:00 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Songs I've Decided I Like
When Jennifer and I were in North Carolina in November, we decided we liked the songs "Use Somebody" by "Kings of Leon", "Be There" by Howie Day, and "Calling All Angels" by "Train".
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 29, 2010 at 8:27 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Human Touch iJoy 2400
Jennifer and I found this Human Touch iJoy 2400 at CostCo. It's a chair that massages your back. Makes me feel like I'm in heaven.
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 29, 2010 at 8:20 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Tennessee Williams
I found out this week that I'm apparently related to Tennessee Williams, albeit very distantly. I'm trying to run down the details on this connection through my contacts in North Carolina.
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 29, 2010 at 8:06 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
Rollover
I found out this week that a relative of mine, Jim Sutton, was in a play movie called Rollover that came out in 1981. Pretty cool, me thinks.
He's also apparently associated with "a group of drinkers with an acting problem", or "a group of actors with a drinking problem," depending on your worldview, I suppose.
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 29, 2010 at 8:02 PM : Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
J.D. Salinger's Death
Saddened to learn of the death of author J.D. Salinger. Catcher in the Rye was one of my favorite books of all time.
"if a body catch a body coming through the rye..."
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 28, 2010 at 10:18 PM : Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
