So, we get transcripted voicemails from our various phone providers. Sometimes they get it right. Other times, not so much. These are not presented in order of their hilarity as perceived by us.
- Hey Jeff. It's me. I just thought I'd see if you had a bed access bradley, I'm, I thought of a With this week cos I don't. Don't worry about it try to fix it, that they can understand St. You. So whatever 204th. Bye and the blocking the driveway make up. Hit me up. So But the I called my got to go and Yeah, so that they can. So, alright. Bye.
- "Hi here yeah it's Monday. I was just wondering if you had be had be out yeah Harry Potter the Harry Potter. We'll talk to this song, Doug Buck. I need it I need it for a project for like not quite a quite a homework assignment. So the school for school. So yeah, thank you you. If you was wondering if you had it because it due my office okay, cool, cool. So yeah, I just wondering if you had to confirm it for like a little bit because I need Abby to school. Please call me back as soon as you can my cell which is 52833539450 and my dad and then I'll do it for me could please please call back as soon possible. If you don't have it sorry I was trying to figure it out but hey, I know what like if you had the book" ... more. Please listen to your voicemail for the remainder of this message.
- Hey, it's me. I'm going to swing by. Anyway I was. Smith. I'm down that or lunch, whatever just trying to do anything C D alright talk about the almost 4 o'clock. So You know my book.
- Hey did rid Smith, How are you. I was just I'm working from home office today. Just pick up the stack of mail and realized it was a saying, hey liz the school and I think that's where the online hello.
- Wreck Hello. Yeah this is the principal calling from 10 o'clock. Yeah, I am calling to inform you that our records show that migraines absent from school today. Yeah, you know. Yeah attendance and school is very important for a successful school year. Yeah, please remember to send a note in with your child when he she returns to school, explaining the reason for the absence yank your.
I was going to post my rant but Emily Yoffee beat me to it. :D
Actually, to begin, Limbaugh needed to first call Sandra Fluke, and if she wouldn’t take his call, he should have had a letter of apology delivered to her. Then when he issued his public statement it should have been something like: “I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke. My remarks about her were false, cruel, and repulsive. There’s no excuse and I offer none. I seriously crossed the line and I am sorry.”
So - meteorological spring tiptoed in last week with a snow storm. Um... goodbye winter? It's a little backward this year - a fall storm (3-4 days without power) and a spring storm, but technically nothing during the winter.
With us getting to "spring forward" this weekend, I put away the "happy light" hoping the end of the long dark winter tunnel is near. The daffodils area all up and rarin' to go under the blanket. Hopefully they aren't all frostbit.
This was the first thing I saw today - on "the daily squee". Love it. I went online and found it where it was stolen from originally. A collection of 50 Best photos from The Natural World on boston.com. It was taken by a photographer named "Kham" for Reuters news service. Which brings me to one of my pet peeves. The material on the internet was created by someone. Attribution is necessary. This is being ignored, and "stealing" is being taught in schools. Makes me absolutely bananas.
The Kid has a project every couple of weeks. One of the parts of the project he's graded on is grabbing photos from the internet, printing them out, gluing them on to the page in his notebook. As a photographer, from a family of artists, this pains me. These students should be taught to attribute the photographs. List, at the very least, the site they grabbed them from. I think the next one I'll require my kid to cite the source of his photos, even though it's not required.
My FIL recently was contacted by a student putting together a thesis and wanted to ask if he could use some of this photographs from his portfolio. FIL was tickled pink because the kid ASKED before he just printed them out and stuck them in his paper, which would have been ridiculously easy.
Just because it's on the internet, doesn't mean it's free for your use. Too many friends have discovered their photos (exif included) in various places. It's not "orphaned" just because it was posted. A teeny bit of work can usually uncover who produced it.
I had a book on "How to draw Celtic Knotwork" years ago. I wrote the author (we didn't have email back then) in Ireland if I could use some of the designs from his book in my jewelry designs.
This should be common sense, but it isn't. And it makes me sad.
