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Local photography, National rants, Zero navel-gazing allowed… Blogging from Hopkinsville, KY

  • Snowy Farmland

    I had a chance on Tuesday to take some photography of an open field on the outer limits of Hopkinsville. The barn and buildings in the distance belong to the Amish that live in the area. While I was writing the blog post for the church I found a passage in the book of Job…

  • Snow delayed but not Denied

    I measured four inches on the ground at my house. Trigg county received six inches. Hopkinsville is fortunate that ten inches of total devastation did not occur but there’s always next year. I said yesterday I would build a snowman if I had enough material to work with but what fell turned out to be…

  • Snow Roulette

    Let’s spin the wheel another time, the weather man has foretold that Hopkinsville will have devastating snow fall tomorrow. The winter storm warning published by the national weather service guarantees a minimum of four inches and up to 10 inches of the cold white stuff. * SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 7 INCHES ARE EXPECTED…

  • ATT’s ‘sweet heart deal’

    The postmortem following the city’s decision to drop it’s lawsuit against AT&T reads in part: KEMP AND REGAN SIGNED THE AGREEMENT FOLLOWING THE SPECIAL MEETING WITH ATTORNEY DOUG WILLEN PREPARED TO FILE DISMISSAL PAPERS IN FEDERAL COURT TODAY (TUESDAY).  MEANWHILE, NEWWAVE PRESIDENT AND CEO, JIM GLEASON TOLD THE NEWS EDGE HE HAS NOT HAD A…

  • ATT U-Verse Silliness

    I was there Monday night at the product demonstration for AT&T’s U-verse service. I think the Archos 5 performed fairly well to record the meeting. What I have is the full length U-verse demonstration given by Brian Claimer and the question/answer session that happened afterward. AT&T U-Verse Presentation AT&T U-Verse Q&A Discussion In my opinion,…

  • The First Accumulation

    Many southern transplants that come to live in Kentucky will call anything that falls from the sky “Snow” but I think this is really a dilution of what Snow with a capital ‘S’ really means. For frozen precipitation to be properly called Snow it must completely cover the surface on which it falls. Preferably this…

  • Archos Radio: Better than expected

    Happy New Year! Let’s hope 2010 sucks less than 2009 did. I said last week I would be posting an mp3 of that week’s sermon if I could get my Archos 5 device working correctly. The result surpassed my best expectations of what I thought the FM radio accessory was capable of. The microphone is…

  • Coming up for Air

    I’ve been terribly busy at work dealing with Christmas. Today was the first time I have come home before nightfall for the past two weeks. Looking forward two days from now, I eagerly anticipate opening my Christmas presents. I’m old enough that Christmas is not a surprise anymore. In November, I decided what I wanted…