Last weekend’s fun jam session with the musician friends of Hallie’s violin teacher, Vicky Montague, made me wish I played more just for fun. I’m starting a standing invitation to get together and jam. Any of my Raleigh friends who play instruments, contact me by email and I’ll get this organized.
July 1, 2010
Cheap Thoughts: taxes by percentages
Wouldn’t be interesting if you could direct how your federal taxes were spent by percentages, like you do with your 401K investments? I can think of a few ways I’d change the way my money is spent.
When I’m With You
When I’m With You (YouTube)
Sheriff
When I’m With You
I never needed love
Like I need you
And I never lived for nobody
But I live for you
Ooo babe
Lost in love is what I feel
When I’m with you
Maybe it’s the way you touch me
With the warmth of the sun
Maybe it’s the way you smile
I come all undone
Ooh babe
Lost in love is what I feel
When I’m with you
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RTP power failure
Yesterday afternoon around 2:45 PM we experienced a power brownout at my $WORK in RTP. Word was that a contractor working behind the Social Security Commission building in RTP was digging and “hit a primary.” This caused many of our systems to go offline. We get our power from Duke Energy.
I can’t seem to find any external reference to this power failure but I’m sure other businesses must have experienced it.
Change in slide presentation strategy
Inspired by the fast-paced slide presentations by Larry Lessig, I’ve decided that the presentations I create will be built like a video, not like a lecture. Slides will illustrate my talks like pictures illustrate the words in a book. The idea will be to use the power of emotion that images produce to emphasize whatever point I’m making. Visual presentation will be used to reinforce the verbal presentation.
I have a few months until my next GPS presentation at Conn Elementary so now might be a good time to practice this new technique.