I had the pleasure of co-hosting an episode of That One Show with my good friend Bryan Combs. We ranked the Rocky movies and shared our thoughts about each entry in the series. I was so pumped after we were done that I didn’t sleep a wink that night and then knocked myself out shadow boxing in the mirror the next morning… Check out the full episode here:
My good friend Kelly Clibern has started Kel’s Patriot Pizza in Campton, KY. It really is fantastic pizza. He’s using some sort of sauce that has a very unique flavor. On top of the food being great, I really like that it’s a family-owned business being run by his wife, kids, and himself. Having your own business is one of the original American Dreams, and I’m happy that Kel and his crew are chasing it with all they have!
I have created a new domain, jerry.education, as a place to aggregate all of my educational resources. I feel it will help more people find my digital literacy resources than just hosting them here, as the URL itself is rather self-descriptive. I am going to leave the Desktop Publishing Projects page here for legacy purposes, but going forward, new stuff will be posted on jerry.education.
I wanted a Legend of Zelda ringtone for my phone. I didn’t want a MIDI because the MIDI engine on pretty much everything these days are terrible and it will sound nothing like the Zelda Theme we all know and love. In my search, I ran upon this awesome orchestral rendition of the Zelda Overworld Theme.
It was a little too long to be a ringtone, so I used Audacity to make this ringtone-ready version of the GREATEST VIDEO GAME THEME EVER!
…it’s “I Love Free Software Day” too. If you don’t know much about free software, click the lovely banner to find out more!
I want to say thanks to all my friends and family, past and present, who are veterans. America couldn’t be America without you.
This country is a little shaky at the moment, but because of your willingness to sacrifice, we all have the right to try to change things without fear of oppression. That right is a priceless gift that we owe in no small part to you, the men and women of the Armed Forces. God bless you all!
Tomorrow, voters will go to the polls in the 91st district and make their choice for State Representative. Win, lose, or draw, I am proud to have stood by Mike over the last 11 months trying to let the world know why Mike Bryant is what the 91st district needs. Throughout this entire campaign, Mike and myself have tried to conduct ourselves with dignity and honor. We have run a clean campaign. (I know we were accused of otherwise because we pointed out Teddy’s voting record and stated why we don’t agree with it. However, stating a voting record is not underhanded. An voting official is the sum of his or her voting record. But anyway…)
If Mike wins, I know he will work hard to do what he said he would do: That’s why I’ll vote for him. If he loses, he’ll commence to doing what he has tried to do since I’ve known him: Create great software using Information Technology talent from right here in Eastern Kentucky. Either way, it’s good to have a guy like Mike working to make the 91st district a better place.
Mike is like a 10-year-older version of myself in a lot of ways. I can only hope to conduct myself over the next 10 years the way Mike has. I am proud and honored to call him my friend.
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I play World of Warcraft. I’m not addicted or anything, but I find it a welcome escape from reality. My main character is a Dwarf named Drungol. One of the rules of the game is that a Dwarf cannot ride a horse unless he or she is Exalted with the Human city of Stormwind. Without being exalted, Dwarves have to ride rams.I hate riding the rams. The horses sound cooler and look cooler. Today I got incredibly pissed and decided to gain the 3,000 Stormwind reputation I needed to become Exalted with Stormwind…It gives me great pleasure to announce that Drungol finally got his horse!
So, awhile back, I helped my buddy Mike with a website theme for TooKookyForKentucky.com, which is basically an anti-Rand Paul website. Rand (son of Ron Paul) is running for the 2011 KY gubernatorial US Senate in the upcoming 2010 election*. He claims to be a Republican but he seems more libertarian, so Mike, being the good Republican that he is, created the site to call Rand’s bluff. Mike warned me before putting a link to my site at the bottom of the theme that I would eventually be a target of Rand’s party. It took longer than expected, but it finally happened. In response to my post informing everyone that I liked my antique Snoopy book, some guy named Hightower^ had this to say:
What about your own Web-Master, Jerry Travis, who states in his entry of November 25, 2009, “(My vampire obsession goes a long way back, and doesn’t involve a single, boring, pasty-faced Cullen “… interesting, so the guy you used to assist you in your web site design is a admires drinking the blood of human-beings, and is self-admittedly “obsessed” with this? My my, you should be careful who you collaborate with.
That’s gotta be one of the funniest things anybody has ever said about me, especially considering the post was about my love of Snoopy!
This is a great example of context, and what can happen when snippets are taken away from said context. The poor sap probably doesn’t even know what my Cullen reference is talking about. Furthermore, Hightower probably didn’t click on the link for the text “vampire obsession.” It was a post from way back in July 2003, where I talked about how happy I was I got to watch a lot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer during that summer. He actually believes that because I like vampire stuff that I drink human blood. By that logic, I guess that means he likes to smuggle whiskey because he watches Smokey and the Bandit every other day.
If he’s going to sling mud at me, he’s going to have to do better than that. If Rand is anything like Hightower, he is Too Kooky for Kentucky.
Nope. I’m not talking about Twilight: New Moon. (My vampire obsession goes a long way back, and doesn’t involve a single, boring, pasty-faced Cullen :) Beck got me an original printing of Snoopy: A New Peanuts Book, which was published in 1958! The Owsley County Public Library was cleaning out old books and Beck, knowing that I love all things Charlie Brown picked it up for me. Too bad for them!
Reading the hundred or so simple 4 pane strips, I’m reminded why I love Charles Shulz: He combines frustration with humor in a way that makes life’s problems seem not so bad. For example, how often have we all wanted to be somebody else? Snoopy imitates numerous people and animals in many of the strips, and he always figures out that the grass isn’t actually greener on the other side. What better way to be reminded of the truth of this idiom than in the form of a lovable white beagle!
