Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Doctorow’s new book is online, and is possibly shorter than the “why this hippie gives away his books online” and other licensing crap that preceeds it.
Doctorow’s new book is online, and is possibly shorter than the “why this hippie gives away his books online” and other licensing crap that preceeds it.
I’m going to give AdBrite a go and see how it works out. Anyone can advertise on this site, which is currently listed as one of the top 60,000 visited sites in Alexa. If my content is a good target for your advertising, click the link and see what you can get.
If AdBrite doesn’t work out, I may switch back to Google. I’ll be sure to report on the success or failure either way.
Sitting among all of Berta’s siblings and their husbands (none of her brothers are married), it ocurrs to me that the only other persson here besides me that is a father is Berta’s dad.
Father’s Day is a weird holiday anyway. How do you celebrate it? I don’t know if there’s any traditional method of celebration, but I don’t recall doing anything specific every year.
Ah, the power of cool technology…
We arrived in Johnstown at Berta’s parentls house at around 11:30 last night. I had prepared some entertainment for the car - our usual audiobook, in this case, James Patterson’s 3rd Degree. Instead of the usual tape or CD (over $30 at Borders!) I bought the book at the iTunes store and transferred it to Berta’s iPod.
Ugh. Apart from being one of the most rhetoric-filled “news”-casts on TV or XM radio, Linda Vester’s Dayside is also one of the slowest updated shows on the web. As a result, I can’t find a reference to today’s guest, who was an advocate for censoring television.
The argument of this person, a male book author (I’m listening in the car, so I don’t get any on-screen prompts with names or anything), was that the Constitution does not provide a right for citizens to be able to view pornographic programming - in this case, referring to an ad showing Paris Hilton writhing around on the hood of a car. He contends that it is our duty to impose moral standards to which broadcasters can comply so that our children aren’t affected by lewd or violent content in the media.
Well, that’s utter crap all around, and I’ll tell you why.