Monthly Archives: December 2007

The Writer's Strike: My Latest BlogCritics' Article

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The writing strike has gone on too long, but I don’t fault the writers. Neither does Dave Letterman, now settled.
My article at BlogCritics, The TV Writers’ Strike-Dave Letterman’s Bargain

Just Wrong

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Tell me this pic is not “just wrong.”

Credits and story of the photo at Geckofly: -Humour and Weird : GeckoFly Free Money?

Go Dave!

David Letterman’s production company has struck an independent deal with the Writers Guild of America that will allow “Late Show With David Letterman” and its sister program, “The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson,” to return to the air Wednesday with its writing staffs, according to a person familiar with the agreement.
-Writers Guild makes a [...]

Little Kids Say the Darndest Things!

“What the hell is that?”
As usual, Sarah tells family stories better than me. Go read her snippet on this humdinger. Note to self: Little kids are sponges, hence watch your mouth dad!

Multiple Blogs: Are they Worth the Effort?

I’ve recently started a traditional writing blog to accompany this blog, a Tumblelog-Hybrid, I’ve had for over a year. Since I did so, I find myself imagining topics for new blogs … it’s getting ridiculous! They are so much work.Still, I don’t know if keeping multiple blogs is such a bad idea. I’m [...]

Bacon Turkey

This is a blog I enjoy on my RSS. Tyler Ingram posts some great stuff about tech and his life. He ruminates on a post today about his Christmas with some great photos like the one above. Check ‘em out.
December 2007 Happenings :: www.tyleringram.com

Blog Goals 2008 (upgrade v1.1)

I’ve settled on two ad sponsors to start the new year with: Adsense and TextLink Ads. Like Dereksemmler.com reports on his blog faithfully, I will try and post the results of these sponsors and say whether I recommend them or not. I’m giving them a 6 month shot. Besides that, I have my [...]

5 Blog Goals for 2008

1) Write one post/week on my “best of” weekly column blog, Cheese Enchiladas.
2) Write One BlogCritics post/week (these don’t pay but they critique my writing, making it an excercise in good writing)
3) Write One /week.
4) Be open to relevant ad opportunities.
5) Keep having fun at learning, journaling, and tumblelog adventures as usual with this [...]

Riley Family Update Dec 2007

Well, it’s the day after Christmas and I must say we had a great one. Sarah’s folks came over in the morning and then in the afternoon we traveled down the hill to my parents’ house. The highlight of that visit was a little electronic game we all played called “Catch Phrase [...]

UnSilent Night All is Not Calm

My 9 year old wants to see the NORAD Santa Cam and I just checked it to find out its all CGI. He’ll never buy it. Anyway, now Bad Santa is playing and my wife is frantically looking for a small box for my sister’s gift. I’m not going to get involved [...]

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