Carl Setzer

I'm thinking, yet again, that it's time to eat "better".  Right now, that means cutting out soda pop and back on sugar. Again. Really, though, tis only a step. I've often wondered if you could get every nutrient on the USDA list through dietary choices. That would be the PERFECT diet, at one level, at least. And what does that look like? Could that be done with flavor and culinary appeal? That'd be important, too. So many diets fail because they're exercises in misery. Important side note: this isn't about weight loss. Rather more energy, physical health, better concentration, and mitigating some health issues due to aging. Welcome to the middle of the week!

As one of my church's sound and video guys, this article speaks to me New Study Confirms Everything The Sound Guy’s Fault . Afterall, it is science.

A few shots from my evening walk. Click on the image to be taken to my Flickr page  

Summer's moving to fall Teachers brewing coffee Preparing classrooms My wife awake before me Coffee ground French press timed Classroom preparations Lesson planning and coordination So much effort this last week Before school starts Forget the thermometer This shows the season's change.

I've blogged on this site for years. Back when I chose Blogger, it and WordPress were very comparable. I'd messed with it on a hosted site some time before Google acquired Blogger, and when Blogger became part of the Googleverse, it seemed inevitable that it would dominate the blogging space. And I was dead wrong. Blogger's sites are pretty clunky, and very limited. And pretty much the whole world of Blogger is managed by Google. No larger ecosystem of themes, plugins, what-have-you to expand the functionality of the sites. Heck, no world changing themes. Heck, even the best are yawn-inducingly dull. And don't get me started on the clunkiness of the Android app (it would be ironic if the Apple Blogger app was more productive, but I digress). It does NOT like uploading images. Most of the time, the app will freeze, then there'll be a uneditable local file on the my phone. And there are times simple text will do the same thing. Additionally, I love the system that...

A few days ago I stumbled upon this trailer:  Kubo and the Two Strings . A stop-motion animated films of epic proportions. Yes, I know that's a cliche, but I find it far too fitting to not use it. Anyway, I'm deeply disappointed in myself for not noticing this film before. The trailers, by themselves, are truly beautiful. It has a stellar cast (Matthew McConaughey, Charlize Theron, George Takei, amongst the most luminary), and 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's clearly a film that needs to be seen. Just got to figure out where or how that will work out as I doubt it's in the theaters any more (was released last year). So, enjoy the preview below. Let me know what you think. Especially if you've seen it (no spoilers, por favor). UPDATE: Kubo is on Netflix !

French aristocrats Their talk of "let them eat cake" Then losing their heads Head Cake, Katherine Dey on dionisopunk.com A post shared by Dioniso Punk (@dionisopunk) on Jul 2, 2017 at 12:09pm PDT

All the fearful talk Invective against others Yet I still hold hope