Dog!

Written by Jim on 16.02.2012 | Uncategorized

What’s the sound of one dog napping?

Where’s the Microphone?

Written by Jim on 10.12.2011 | Life As We Know It

So my wife uses her iPod Touch as a tuner/metronome. She had to buy a small microphone because her Touch didn’t have one, leading to the following conversation:
Kristen: Where’s my microphone?
Becca: I don’t know.
Kristen: Becca, you took it out. I told you to put it back.
Abby: It’s in the living room.
Kristen: Where is it in [...]

Kentwood Water Tower Followup

Written by Jim on 26.09.2010 | Grand Rapids, Life As We Know It, Politics, Sociology

So just for the record, some links about Ed’s experience photographing the Kentwood water tower.
The original Grand Rapids Press article about it.
Blog reactions:
Here’s my reaction.
Boy with Grenade
NYC Photo Rights
Stormy Webber
The Lonely Goth’s Guide to Independent Catholicism
US Message Board
Topsy’s Twitter Trackbacks
Ubervu
Newsvine
Canon Digital Photography Forums
Boing Boing
Reddit: 1 2, 3, 4
Also on Reddit, the picture that got Ed [...]

Security or Paranoia? Kentwood’s Water Tower

Written by Jim on 25.09.2010 | Grand Rapids, Politics, Sociology

Ed Heil’s been a friend of mine since the age of six. It’s pretty much a given then, that I think he’s a decent guy.
Kentwood’s municipal staff haven’t known him as long and apparently weren’t willing to risk the possibility that he wasn’t.
The gist of the situation is that Ed took a picture of Kentwood’s [...]

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