In High Gear

This is mostly for family, but there have been updates to the photo gallery, some additions and some rearrangements. You’ll see some albums listed twice as they fall under more than one topic. There are still huge gaps, since not every set of images has been dug out of wherever they are and posted, and there were large stretches of time wherein I didn’t have a functioning camera. So, here you go. Changes are:

Birthdays
– The Younger – 2003
– STG 2006

Modes of Transportation
– page 14

Critters and Nature
– Bok Tower Field Trip 2006
– Morikami Museum and Gardens 2007
– Gumbo Limbo 2003
– Monkey Island 2007
– page 3

Domestica
– Haircuts and Hairstyles
– Holidays
– Gulf Wars Side Trip
– A POD Arrives
– page 1
– page 2
– page 3
– page 4

SCA Events and Activities
– Seamarch Anniversary Event 2006
– Sheri Nichols Benefit BBQ 2006
– page 1

Field Trips
– Water Taxi 2003
– Science Museum 2003
– Kennedy Space Center 2003
– Opa-Locka 2006
– Bok Tower Field Trip 2006
– Gumbo Limbo 2003
– Monkey Island 2006
– Morikami Museum and Gardens 2006
– Gulf Wars XVI
– Gulf Wars Side Trip 2006

Kids’ Photography

Travel
– Denver Trips
– Sweden 2003
– Gulf Wars Side Trip
– Michigan June 07
– Pennsylvania April 07

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Got another email from a friend from my former church, regarding placing kittens. If you know somebody who needs kitteh love, please let me know, and we’ll connect up.

[We] have rescued and domesticated another four feral kittens from under the Caridad Center’s outside storage shed [Delray]. They are now warm and cuddly, love to purr and be held. They cannot stay in my extra bathroom forever, they need good homes, and now they are ready to go and be loved. They are “about” two months old, use the litter box, eat regular food, and love to roll and play. We hope this is the end as we trapped and neutered the Daddy and we hope to do the Mommy soon. Can you pass this along to anyone local so maybe we can find more good homes???

Here they are in their various poses . . . pardon the blur in some of the photos . . . . hard to get little kitties to hold still.

Thanks.

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You know, it just pisses me right the fuck off when colleagues don’t show any respect for the fact that I am AT WORK. They send me babbling IMs that don’t actually further any sort of idea or concept or even have a fucking POINT, nevermind relevance to the job. They ask me questions that they can damn well get the answers to themselves with very little effort. They don’t seen to have any respect for the fact that I am here to DO something, and I might be just have a couple more important and maybe even urgent things to do than to go digging up information to read it off to them. Especially when it’s information they don’t even particularly need. HATESSSSSSSS IT!

I get some of this shit every damn day, regardless how respectfully and firmly I try to indicate that this is NOT my function in life.

If I am at work, I am probably WORKING. If you have time to waste my time, you plainly don’t have enough work to do, and I can SO easily fix that for you.

I hate that damned blinky blinky IM box, and I don’t get to shut it off because I will then miss that one time when it IS something urgent and important and relevant to the job. But anybody who makes me deal with a blinking window just to waste my time makes me want to SET THEM ON FIRE.

Edit: I forgot to mention coworkers who take me off task to try to have inane conversations. Especially coworkers who try to have verbal conversations across a distance with a lot of ambient noise going on. Especially as my keyboard is fairly loud itself, so if you can hear it, it probably means I am pretty busy typing something. So if this stressful and difficult attempt to have a conversation turns out to be about some joke gone wrong or babble about nothing in particular, it sets me right the hell off, and I want them to DIE DIE DIE.

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gillen posted about This Film Is Not Yet Rated, which spc476 showed me a little while back. I’d meant to post on it, but I wanted to do a little more research, and, well, you know. Life happened.

So, at the mention, I remembered I wanted to look at that. Wikipedia has a really interesting article on the history, workings and criticisms of the MPAA ratings system. I’d mentioned to SPC that with all the criticism, surely someone’s started alternative ratings systems by now. He was highly skeptical. Well, I win.

(By the way, some of the links below offend my religiious sensibilities, but I include them anyway, as some parents may find them useful.)

Film Advisory Board

www.filmadvisoryboard.org/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_Advisory_Board

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Office for Film and Broadcasting

www.usccb.org/movies/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Conference_of_Catholic_Bishops%27_Office_for_Film_and_Broadcasting

That’s nice to know, but I still don’t find these ratings schemes entirely satisfactory, as they don’t take into account what kinds of content are playing into the decision for a particular rating. For instance, I don’t find huge amounts of violence with the blood and gore omitted to be “okay”. I don’t like that kind of lack of consequence in live action film. So a movie that gets a mild rating based on that is going to tick me off.

Here are some systems and sites that dig a little deeper:

Kids-in-Mind

www.kids-in-mind.com/

Screen it!

www.screenit.com/index1.html

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_it%21

Kidscore

www.mediafamily.org/kidscore/index.shtml

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_on_Media_and_the_Family

CAP Alert

www.capalert.com/now_playing.htm

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChildCare_Action_Project

Furthermore:

– How motion pictures are rated ’round the world

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_picture_rating_systems

– Television rating systems

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_rating_system

—- V-Chip

www.fcc.gov/vchip/

– Video game rating systems

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_content_rating_system

—- ESRB

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESRB

www.esrb.org/index-js.jsp

– Marvel’s comic book rating system

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Rating_System

www.marvel.com/catalog/ratings.htm

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Okay I see you folks discovered Twitter. Guess I’m going to have to actually post over there now.

twitter.com/springdew

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