The most important blog of your life

This could be the most important blog of your life. How to win at Rock Paper Scissors.  I bring this up because it seems scientists have spent over 10 trillion dollars (rounding up to the nearest 10 trillion) to make a robot that ALWAYS WINS at Rock,Paper, Scissors.  So unless you are playing that robot, here are the strategies on how to win at Rock,Paper, Scissors.----Watch how your opponent plays other people.  If you are...

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Raw Madison and Lincoln

Route 66 - if we go I'll probably take my camera.  It's one of the few things on my bucket list.   I'll be Tod and DJ will be Buz! Anybody remember this theme song from the show? ---------------------------------------------------------In July 13th 1995 I was on a 500 mile week long bike ride going through Wisconsin.  On that day the hottest heat index ever recorded in the U.S. hit Appleton Wisconsin. 148.2.   I remember...

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Move complete!

Mom is all moved.  NOT without some stress though.  However she is happy and all is well.  One thing to remember when you move your 80+ year old parents . . . . .they keep everything. I was talking to a guy at Hydro Street last night (had a meeting for an event) and he mentioned that he had the same problem.  It seems 80+ year old's grew up in the depression, the real one, not this little economic stumble we had lately and because...

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Moving Day

Well - here we go. My mom spent the last night in the house we purchased for $13,000 40 years ago and she flipped if got $90,000 - WOW - talk about a profit!!   Take that House Flippers TV show! In the mean time a couple more shots from the Columbus Horse and Carriage Festival.Fritz Klein plays Abe  Tomorrow I drive moms un-airconditioned car to 5 hours south!!!  Cheers...

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Columbus Horse and Carriage Festival

In this blog:-Where's Rod -my gripe with the Columbus Horse and Carriage Festival   -a WONDERFUL meeting at the above festival makes me happy   -Abe Lincoln and friends     -A surprise meeting on the road  from Vermont to California---------------------------This Week It's The Big Move week.  I'm moving my mom that has lived in Fort Atkinson for 60 years to Springfield IL.  My brother purchased a...

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Whew - got my act together last night

First off for any of you that do not get my photo email news letter thingy.  I will be a featured artist at the July RAW Madison event.  I'll have more on that when we get closer to July 18th.  The only solid thing I know is that I have 20 tickets to sell at $10 a piece.   I now have a RAW Madison page  at RAW Madison Grinder and if you want to know what RAW Madison is you can go to Raw Madison Mixology.  Help me...

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The Cap and Cbus events

Well, I went down to the farmers market in Madison Saturday and had forgotten how big it was.  Yea yea - USA Today says it's one of the best Farmers Markets in America.  ANYWAY. I took a bunch of shots and this one is NOT one of my favorites.  In fact it's the only one I have looked at so far.Reason for THIS shot is that it's eleven shots total looking directly into the sun.  So what it lacks in quality and wonderfulness just...

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WOW - some people just do not want to give up the fight. 99% of the people on the left are saying let's move on, we tried.   By law a recall is something that is allowed.  However on the right they are all huffy and saying that just because it is allowed BY LAW, to have are recall it is deplorable, Who do you think you are.Geez - Walker got his LAST job because he WON a Recall. The far right only hate things when it goes against THEM. ...

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RAW Madison wants me! - Trailer bonanza

Check this out.  I think the United States should watch this video very carefully and train their drones to catch Al qaeda.  Not unlike how the aliens picked up cowboys in the movie Aliens and Cowboys (which I watched and enjoyed - more on that after the video which way way cool . . . unless you are a fish).Yea - I watched Aliens and Cowboys and I really liked it. It's not a world class movie but an excellent beer and pretzel flick. You can't take it seriously like Prometheus (more on that after Cowboys and Aliens).And speaking of Prometheus...

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Thinking out loud. WHAT? did I say that out loud?

A few quotes of note.  A friend of Karl said  "This is the first time I wish the ballot was an essay question".and one of my favorite quotes came on Facebook by Cathy "Netflix thinks I will like Walker ads because of my interest in crime and fantasy".-------------------------------------------I've started to put floater frames around my a few of my gallery wraps and some work friends were talking about frames and how many pieces of art...

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Big Bang String Thing

Deforest Art Fair nice, much better then last year!  Very few sales but when I did sell something it was a large piece so it all worked out. Yesterday DJ and I were at Hydro Street Brewing and there was a band there called The Big Bang String Thing and they were EXCELLENT.  Perhaps because members have toured with Leo Kottke, The Smashing Pumpkins, U2, Garbage, Asleep at the Wheel, Riders in the Sky and may others  . . . they seemed...

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NO NOT DELETE!!!

WOW - my fat finger just deleted the entire blog that I had written!  But, no worries there is auto save right?  What? it JUST saved my empty blog!   DAMN IT!!!    AAAAGH!!! I had written about how I had nothing to say!  NOW I REALLY don't have anything. Should I retype it?  O man I hate this. Let's see - yada yada yada assignment for a client.  Where's Waldo portrait  yada yada...

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