Made my second art piece this year and second animal..a hybrid seahorse and unicorn. This time all paper mache, cardboard and hot glue.
We are seen at about 5 minutes into the video.
Bigger and better, we will be back next year.
Wow! That was amazing. The art parade is great to attend every few years. Being in it is amazing!!! Just lining up was a party.
Most people know I love Marfa and Marathon in west Texas. On a number of occasions people have asked for guides or recommendations. Recently my sister asked, I thought I’d post some of them here:
ART
The Chinati Foundation
Judd Foundation
Ballroom Marfa (large gallery in Marfa)
Marfa Film Festival
Prada Marfa (30+ miles West of Marfa on the West side of Valentine, TX on Highway 90; best viewed at night)
EATS
Squeeze Marfa (yum)
Pizza Foundation (meh)
Austin Street Cafe (score for brunch, if you’re a yuppie)
Food Shark
HOTELS, ODDS AND ENDS
EL Cosmico (future vintage RV “hotel” outside of the Chinati Foundation; interesting to read about and look at; same people who did San Jose in SOCO Austin)
Marfa Vacation Apartments (these are new and all sorts of awesome; great deal)
Hotel Paisano (old Marfa; memorabilia from the film The Giant)
El Cheapo Liquor
Chamber of Commerce
Marfa Lights (the Marfa Lights viewing area is just East of Marfa on Highway 90 between Marfa and Alpine; supposedly best time to watch is right after dusk)
Marfa Public Radio (KRTS 93.5 FM; a little heavy on the yuppie smugness; still a decent resource) -
OUTSIDE OF MARFA
Chinati Hot Springs (I haven’t been yet; heard great things)
Marathon (one hour East of Marfa, past Alpine; completely photogenic; love this little city)
Gage Hotel (the restaurant is the best in Texas in my opinion)
Star Party at McDonald Observatory (pretty cool; nice drive into the Davis Mountains; outside of Fort Davis; allow time for this drive in the evening and night)
Four years ago today I was diagnosed with APL.
Four month months later I was in remission.
28 months later I was done with chemotherapy and medication.
In 16 months the medical community and insurance companies will consider me “cured”.
The whole thing was an interesting experience. I know I changed significantly from the experience. Today I am relaxed and in the moment. I get more enjoyment out of the day to day than I can ever remember. Okay those summers in the 70’s being a free and curious kid roaming the neighborhood on a bicycle were pretty awesome.
You know it seems there was or has been a lot of speculation about Apple releasing a netbook product. Apple has said they do not feel they can release a quality product for $500.00. I am going to say they released their netbook in 2007. It’s called the iTouch.
Many years ago back when I was using iSQL with SQL Server 6.5 I used to find the properties of objects by writing SQL. Since the release of SQL Server 2000, I have been using the object viewer. Unfortunately, the object browser tells you only what it is written to display. If you want more or properties you can copy and paste you have to query the system table.
I don’t want to remember a schema I won’t use very often. I did recall using something simple back in those iSQL days. Google searches availed me nothing. And then I remembered a few excellent stored procedures:
sp_help
sp_helptext
And for monitoring:
sp_who
sp_who2
Say you need to create a report with different row colors and no real relation to the data..like an old school greenbar report.
The method I found was setting the table row background color to:
=iif(RowNumber(Nothing) Mod 2, “WhiteSmoke”, “White”)
More rows with conditions:
=iif(Fields!Column.Value = a, “Gainsboro”, iif(Fields!Column.Value = b, “WhiteSmoke”, “White”))
So Dodgeball is stopping its services tonight. That’s really too bad. Dodgeball had an interesting and high utility network in my opinion. Combine your “social network” with current status (a la Twitter or Facebook or whatever has a status) with SMS (texting) and geography and you get Dodgeball. Really cool that you might meetup with a friend of a friend down the street from your current location or whatever… I think something will come along and do those things when the masses are ready for it. Maybe it will be less structured. You could do what Dodgeball did with Twitter SMS. Who knows.
I say Dodgeball is the new PointCast because when PointCast came out, it was brilliant. I loved it. Bandwidth hog yes. We knew bandwidth was going to get better though. Ultimately PointCast failed. When the masses were ready some five years later RSS feeds functionally took over. Simpler (RSS means really simple syndication…) and not tied to an application or one company I love RSS feeds. However, Google Reader is my current PointCast. So in five years or less I suspect something will functionally replace Dodgeball.
Some ideas are just simply ahead of their time. Curse of innovation.
UPDATE
I knew Google had bought Dodgeball at some point. I did not know they had another product with competing functionality: Google Latitude. If you read the wikipedia entries here and here it seems the Dodgeball founders were shafted by Google (not knowing the acquisition figures…). At the very least they could have maintained the Dodgeball branding. It’s sexier than “Latitude”. Dodgeball also wasn’t ruffling peoples feathers regarding privacy the way Latitude is.
Some information on the Dodgeball shutdown party here.
What do you get when you cross the produce section, too much time on the dance floor and too many trips to the local craft store?
That’s right. You get a disco banana.
