Dear Texas Legislator(s)... (scan)

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Letter to a writer (scan)

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Wow. Just Wow. (commentary)

Google never ceases to amaze me.

If you haven't seen Google Maps before, it's this awesome online mapping tool. Unlike other maps, you don't click on a little arrow and wait for the new map to reload, you just click on the map and move it around.

Anyway, one of the interesting features of this map is that not only can you view a standard 0nline-type map, but you can click a button, and you can see a satellite view of the area that you're looking at.

They have since revamped this so that you can see the satellite map with an overlay of the streets and streetnames. It is absolutely awesome.

Now if they can only include bike routes...

- RG>

Now That's an editorial! (scan)

I'm really taking advantage of this whole image-upload (and scanning capacity) thing... Remind me to rant about bottled water, if I haven't already. I'll probably use the ol' typewriter.

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Typewriter online?

I don't know if I mentioned it here yet. Maybe not.

At the Great Glebe Garage Sale, I purchased a typewriter. I then decided to type my posts on the typewriter, then post them to my blog.

Only, I didn't know how to do that. That didn't stop me from typing them, though.

Well it turns out that now I can apparently upload pictures. So I'll try that and see how it goes. I'll slot them in to when they should be (since I put a timestamp on each entry).

[Update: I have uploaded the images and put them where they're supposed to be. Just skip down past the next two images, or click on the right on entries labelled (type) or (scan).]

- RG>

I'm such a wonderful person (diary)

For a while now, I have been wanting to try a new chinese food restaurant that opened up across the street from my office.

Today, I went in and asked if they had a take-out menu I could take with me. They said they didn't. Being the resourceful technophile that I am, I photographed their menu to take it with me.

Then I got cocky.

On the computer at my office, I typed up the menu.

Then I formatted it into columns, in your typical chinese-food-restaurant-take-out-menu foramt. (The first draft accidentally contained the obligatory spelling and formatting mistakes)

Despite the fact that I still didn't (and still don't) know what the name of the restaurant is, I printed it out and brought it with me. I showed it briefly to the server/owner, and placed my order.

When I was done (a very good meal, too) and paid, I went over it with her so I could clear up some of the details. She hesitated a bit when she asked me how much I wanted to do this, and I replied that a free lunch one day would be quite enough. She was very happy.

I explained to her that as a member of my community, it is in my interests that her business does well. Especially if I want to be able to go there for lunch in the future.

Coincidentally, while I was eating there, I got a call from an old professor of mine, who wanted to hire me to show her how to put her course material into PowerPoint (she had previously used many, many handwritten overhead sheets).

All I can say is that what goes around, comes around, and good Karma certainly goes around!

- RG>

Yet Another Way to Totally Freak People Out (scan)

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