From the Notebook

-Looks like I was wrong, my interview on 1450 KNSI played last Sunday. Hopefully I can get a copy from Mr. Phipps. I will likely have other interviews but it was disappointing getting this one mixed up.

-One topic Dave Phipps and I talked about after he recorded my interview was the difference between “corporate” food and “entrepreneur” food. He made an observation, which I liked and will hereby steal. If a socialist government was to create a state “burger joint” it would look (and taste) a lot like McDonalds. I don’t mean to libel McDonalds, but I would say I’ve met some conservatives too addicted to chain restaurants (something I’m occasionally guilty of).

-I found a great widget website. Widgets are just things you put on your blog to do things, like show RSS feeds of favorite websites or show random pictures on kittens. I was looking for something to spruce up the flagship site (this site) but I couldn’t get everything to work right together. So I added the Burger Time application, the Blog Stir application and a Graphing Calculator application to my irregularly cared for Twins blog. I like widgets but it’s easy to go overboard, and Blogger seems to work better for them than WordPress.

-I contributed to Andrew Kneeland’s Weekly Twins Whatnot and to the Bleacher Report Power Rankings. Eventually I’ll be writing my own columns for the Bleacher Report. Eventually.

-Also, Andrew is probably going to be the first teenager whose blog I link to in Da Roll. It’s a longstanding barrier and I’m loathe to breech it, but the guy produces some good stuff.

-With my lack of home Internet I’ve been relying on the scheduling tool on WordPress to make it appear as though I’m offering daily content. So far, so good; unfortunately between the limited Internet access and the scheduling weirdness I haven’t been cross-posting on True North. This comes only days after Chief at True North (and Freedom Dogs) asked me to start cross-posting my own articles (He had been doing it himself ever since the Joomla platform True North uses scared me away). Well, despite the fact I haven’t been cross-posting my articles, they’ve still been appearing on True North. Well, my apologies and kudos to Chief. True North is the top traffic driver for my website and Chief has no obligation to do my footwork. I’ll be doing my best to remember to start cross-posting my own articles to reduce the workload of Chief, whom I’m sure has better things to do with his time.

-John McCain isn’t pissing me off enough. Okay, that was crass but it’s true. McCain hasn’t aggravated his conservative base enough, which is something he’s going to have to start to do in order to win this election.

-This is sort of out of the blue, but it’s a memory that’s been bothering me for a long time. I remember seeing some sci-fi movie on TV where two spacesuit clad armies had a laser battle in the vacuum of space. It was so preposterous even my pre-adolescent mind had a good laugh. Anyone remember what movie it could have been?