tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173710342024-03-07T00:44:09.449-06:00Central StandardCentral Standard is now the author's perspective on events topical, historical, personal, and/or irrelevant. A selective commentary. Suitable for ages 14 and over. Some language and adult situations. Visitors, please be aware that this is the author's attempt at humor and satire. Any facts proposed should not be treated as such; any opinions put forward should be taken with as much salt as the reader can handle.ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15116878596007440093noreply@blogger.comBlogger588125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17371034.post-39186128135671567482013-02-23T17:25:00.000-06:002013-02-23T17:25:49.547-06:00Dude, I'll Trade You a Carl Yastremski for Your Last Beggin' Strip
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ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15116878596007440093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17371034.post-41270544139990213062013-01-09T06:00:00.000-06:002013-01-09T06:15:28.841-06:00Better Living Through ScienceWednesday, January 9, is National Static Electricity Day. In
my research for this shocking day (glad I got that one out of the way so
early), I stumbled upon the Altius Directory, which, as best I can tell, is a
business service that checks the Internet for information about your business,
or it sells domain names, or it posts articles about little known calendar events
like National Static ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15116878596007440093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17371034.post-43382028309559568352013-01-06T17:20:00.002-06:002013-01-06T17:20:36.112-06:00One Realization That Leads to Another
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Journal Star reported an incident of adolescent hi-jinx this morning in
Gretna, NE. Apparently, a trio of
young men placed an emu in the commons of the local high school ten days ago.
Understandably, this caused quite a ruckus when the janitor found it the next
morning.
Now, I have never encountered a six-foot emu in a school
commons area. As a matter of fact, I ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15116878596007440093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17371034.post-85302119179641275262012-09-22T11:04:00.000-05:002012-09-22T11:13:01.151-05:00A Rose by Any Other Name"Chiara," according to everyone's favorite fact checking site, Wikipedia, is an Italian word meaning "clear." There are several people with this word as a first or last name, and "Chiara" even forms a morpheme of the Italian surname Chiaramonte, a noble Sicilian family who claim descent from Charlemagne.
I tell you all this because a pair of encounters with said word in this morning's ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15116878596007440093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17371034.post-62798072566913133832012-09-17T22:33:00.000-05:002012-09-17T22:48:34.922-05:00I Can't Sit Idly By While Things Like This Go On
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A lot has changed since last I was here. First, it appears that Blogger has been sucked up by the Google monster. It took me several minutes just to figure out how to get into my blog. It might look the same on the outside, but it ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15116878596007440093noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17371034.post-2993594744309596452011-08-17T18:26:00.004-05:002011-08-17T18:36:41.106-05:00ChallengesOne day of school (Freshmen Day doesn't really count), and already a few challenges. Apparently, my yearbook staff will be expected to gather a grand photographic record of the 2011-2012 school year with a total of four cameras (all of various models, with various degrees of quality, wear, etc.). That isn't going to cut it. So, what do I do, having no money in the budget and probably not ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15116878596007440093noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17371034.post-3403513721840607812011-08-16T20:47:00.002-05:002011-08-16T20:54:57.144-05:00Already BusyAnd so here is how it most likely will be for a while: dashed off communiques between work and sleep.
First day for freshmen today, followed by open house meant getting home at eight. Currently, I am sitting on the sofa waiting for Monkey to bring me some leftover pizza. In an hour it's off to bed so I can get ready for tomorrow.
I will let you know about anything exciting. Currently ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15116878596007440093noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17371034.post-74616207108998200332011-08-08T17:35:00.005-05:002011-08-08T18:15:03.347-05:00The Magic Comes to an EndSummer
It turns me upside down
Summer, summer, summer
It's like a merry-go-round.
--The Cars, "Magic"
This is always a bittersweet time of year for me. Tomorrow is the first official day that teachers are to report for duty. Students will not arrive until next Tuesday, and I have actually been doing some form of "work" or another since last Tuesday, but tomorrow it is official.
On one hand, IATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15116878596007440093noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17371034.post-33300586917701551552011-08-05T15:51:00.004-05:002011-08-06T17:28:37.150-05:00Unexpected Visitors (Another in an Irregular Series of Very Long Stories), Part The Last: Fairly Treacherous SnowAs evening drew to a close the night before, the batteries died in the camera, so, while others were able to snap pics with their new-fangled iPhones, I was left with nothing to offer in the way of visual accoutrement.We arose later than I anticipated from our tents along Fern Lake, but, after breakfast and discussion, Laura decided to stay at the campsite, while Mike, Monkey and I trekked the ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15116878596007440093noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17371034.post-68018444622905482342011-08-04T17:29:00.011-05:002011-08-04T18:00:56.400-05:00Unexpected Visitors (Another in an Irregular Series of Very Long Stories), Part Four: Fairly Aggressive Ground Squirrels, or It Goes in the Bear Can@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section @font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } @font-face ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15116878596007440093noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17371034.post-2496053343390661202011-08-03T20:22:00.010-05:002011-08-03T20:43:58.557-05:00Unexpected Visitors (Another in an Irregular Series of Very Long Stories), Part Three: The Mountain Doesn’t Care About You@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } @font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15116878596007440093noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17371034.post-42117313070865111192011-08-02T08:55:00.015-05:002011-08-03T22:57:59.103-05:00Unexpected Visitors (Another in an Irregular Series of Very Long Stories), Part Two: Keeping Your Junk Dry (8/2/2011)@font-face p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { @font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } Our Tuesday hike was planned to Sky Pond, ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15116878596007440093noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17371034.post-62166349548431753572011-07-27T15:22:00.004-05:002011-07-27T15:32:26.001-05:00Unexpected Visitors (Another in an Irregular Series of Very Long Stories), Part One: Fairly Aggressive Birds@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } You may have noticed that I haven’t posted in a while. As I write this, it is Sunday, July 24. Depending on whether or not I can cadge some connectivity in the next several days, this may not be ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15116878596007440093noreply@blogger.com3