I haven’t blogged in a while.. I’ve been real busy at work but now I’m gearing up for Rome River Jam 2009. We will be doing all the sound and light work for the show… If you’re there, look me up. I’ll be one of the guys making the bands either sound good or bad depending on how you look at it. HA! For more info go to www.romeriverjam.com
Last I heard, the crowd is expected to be upwards of 8000 at Ridgeferry!
This picture was on www.thesummervillenews.com website today. It is captioned as follows:
State Representative Barbara Reece Makes Surprise Visit To Prison
She Wanted To Make Sure This Riot Was Handled Properly
Ok… I am not arguing anything about how Hayes is run or anything like that. My point is simply this: What is this woman trying to prove? This is small town politics at it’s best. She has always been a little crazy in my book but no one with any credentials will run against her…
What does she know about handling riots? I can just hear it now… “I am a state representative and you will let me past this check point”…
By the way: She is the reason you cannot by Sudafed in Georgia without having your ID checked… Heaven forbid you need two boxes.
Only in Rome Georgia… There are times I am glad I can say my hometown is Birmingham Alabama. I love this line:
Chandler warned him that he should probably not wear the pants and shirt combination again since he lives so close to the prison.
This just tell me that he should do it more or the prison needs to buy him a new work out suit…
Article copied from www.romenewswire.com
By Daniel Bell • on May 15, 2009
Prison and police officials got an unplanned test Friday morning when not once, but twice, 911 received reports saying a prisoner has escaped and was running on Black’s Bluff Road.
The first caller reported to 911 seeing a black male in a white T-shirt and white pants with a black stripe — only a “Floyd County Prison” stamp short of the uniform inmates wear on work detail — running north on Black’s Bluff toward South Broad Street.
This man and his clothes caused a series of 911 calls because people thought he was an escaped prisoner.
Multiple city and county police officers responded quickly to the area and set up a perimeter. Prison Warden Jeff Chandler, who was headed out of town for a graduation when he got the call, quickly put the prison’s emergency procedure plan into action.
A quick count proved no prisoners were missing and a second count confirmed it. An officer then made contact with the would-be escapee and quickly confirmed he was not a prisoner and the alert was called off.
“911 got a lot of calls from several people because he was running up the road and they thought he had escaped,” said Chandler, who noted that the last time someone tried to escape they stayed in the woods, not on a busy roadway.
The response was so quick, Chandler said while standing at the scene where the man in the suspicious outfit was located, that a Georgia State Patrol helicopter was even in the process of taking off to head toward Rome.
As police officials began leaving the South Rome area a second alert was called out saying a prisoner had escaped from work detail at the water treatment plant. The caller had called the prison and alerted the deputy warden, who told them to keep their distance.
Turns out, it was the same guy from the first call. Chandler blames the second wave of 911 calls on a breakdown in the communication system. Once every prison was accounted for — and every prison was located before the first suspect was found — the second alert should not have been issued, he said.
“It’s beneficial in the fact that we got to test our emergency procedures,” said Chandler. “The police were spot on. They set up a perimeter and found the individual quickly.”
The individual in the outfit that caused the commotion lives on Black’s Bluff Road and was taking out the garbage when police arrived. He laughed with a neighbor as he told them he was mistakenly identified as a prisoner.
Chandler warned him that he should probably not wear the pants and shirt combination again since he lives so close to the prison.
“I might get harassed again?” the man asked. “It’s OK. I like company.”
This is a big problem today. Lawyers DO NOT understand technology… All they did was make a CNAME record pointing crackho.com to the page on the Alaska State Government site. Absolutely no data was hosted on any web server to pull this off. Tell me how they violated any copyright law or any other law for that matter… I am not against Palin or anything I just think it’s funny…
From Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
A reader writes, "The person who owned the domain CrackHo.com set it up to redirect to Sarah Palin’s website on the Alaska state site. No one used the site, but apparently someone got upset: Palin’s lawyers sent a cease & desist, claiming that it was misuse of the Alaskan seal and copyright infringement. Note, that CrackHo didn’t copy anything or use any of the content. It was just a simple redirect to the Alaska website."
She will kill me for posting this but check out this hottie from when we were dating… I found this pic that I scanned (yes scanned from film) while looking for some old files about some IT compliance stuff for a bank I am working on. I had this pic on my desk when I worked for the bank that I am now doing some contract stuff for. It was taken back in I think late 02 or early 03. Now that were married and you have 2 kids, happy Mothers Day hottie… Even though we fight like hell, I love ya! Jack, this is your mother…
I got this from Neatorama. I played the baritone sax in high school but nothing this big… Before someone says it, I’m sure I have enough hot air to play one…
Look at the size of that saxophone!
Pitched one octave below bass, contrabass and sub contrabass instruments are about as low as most instruments go. Aside from those massive pipe organs, they’re also about as big as most instruments get.
See and hear the biggest flutes, clarinets, saxophones, and more in this collection of videos. Link -via the Presurfer
Most of you have probably seen this already, but Saturday Night Live ran this on Saturday… This is the funniest thing i have seen them do in quite some time… The link is to HULU and they are pretty good at pulling down videos so I don’t know how long it will work…
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