Ze Frank: Only 2 Ride the Fire Eagle Danger Days Left

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It’s starting to get sad.

What are we going to do on March 18 when there is no show?

Probably cry.  And make finger fruits.  I’m starting to realize that each one of these shows have taken on a certain permanence in my mind because I can remember where I was for most of these.

“Ah yeah, I watched that one after a tough day of teaching 8th graders last April.”

“That was an awesome episode… remember that one after a day of selling my soul at that conference in Orlando.”

“I watched that one with three others that I had missed because work had been really involved that week.  The release of watching The Show at 3am in a dark room made everyting right again.”

Only 2 “Ride the Fire Eagle Danger Days” left.

The best things are those with self imposed time limits because we really begin to realize how special and important they are.  Without loss, an experience is not complete.  Things that go on forever get stale for a reason.

Thank you, Ze.

the show with zefrank

Boom Goes the Power

The transformer on the powerline outside our house just exploded (second time in a week).  I didn’t do it.  I swear.

Anyway, at least it’s in the 50’s with bright sunshine today.  Not a bad day to be forced outside to get some work done in the books.

I have about 25 books piled up beside my desk that I <strike>want</strike> need to read.  I also have a quiz from last week that I need to grade.  And I have about 1200 feed items that I need to pour through in my feed reader (Linux’s Liferea… thank God I keep an offline feed reader).  And, I have a major paper that I’m trying to write to claim that the Deuteronomistic History was written very late (close to the Maccabean period) by an pro-prophetic agency (not pro-monarchical or pro-priestly).  Fun stuff.

How am I blogging this you ask?  Linux’s cleverly titled “Drivel” blogging program.  I do most of my blogging here because it’s a clean and clear interface.  If you run Ubuntu (or any Gnome distro), I highly recommend.

Gosh, I want to check my email.  Oh wait… I have a smart phone!

UPDATE:  Lights are back on.  A squirrel was fried on top of the transformer, however.  Poor squirrel.

The First TwitterQuake

According to my Twittering contacts and friends in California, there was an earthquake about 11:30 EST on Thursday night:

thomashawk earthquake.

A lengthy discussion of responses, accounts and experiences followed.

Amazing time to be a human being.  Simply amazing.  I urge you to join the fun and set up a Twitter account.  Let me know if you (or already have) do so that we can connect!

I Love This Theme

If you have a WordPress blog, do yourself a favor and check out this site:

http://www.plaintxt.org/

There are three themes there that I absolutely love for their simplicity.  This one is my favorite (for the time being) but the theme of that site itself is appealing as well.

Themes are so important… especially for post-modern deconstructionists!

New Feed Address

Apologies to all, but with the move to a hosted WordPress blog, I’m also consolidating and changing my feeds.

So, the feed address you need to use is:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/samharrelson/GZMU

For those of you who don’t read feeds, for shame!  Try Google Reader, Newsgator, FeedDemon, Bloglines or any of the dozens of readers out there.  You can even subscribe to feeds on your personalized Google homepage, your Netvibes page or your My Yahoo page.  There’s no reason why you shouldn’t be using RSS!  It will change your life – trust me.

Thanks for your cooperation in switching over!