Passing of a friend

Former TISL delegate, Robin Clay Hall - UTK, died Saturday evening and his funeral will be just a few blocks away as the 39th TISL General Assembly convenes. The funeral will be at McKendree United Methodist Church, downtown on Church Street, Thursday at 11:30. Reverend Clay Hall served as pastor of this congregation just a few years ago. I recall that Clay was very active with TISL during the 12th and 13th General Assemblies. Clay was a son, a student, a soldier, a pastor, a husband, a father and a friend. He will be sorely missed.

The Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature is a forum for the top echelon of campus leaders and political science students to exchange ideas and express their opinions on state, federal and local issues.

TISL's General Assembly, which first convened in 1966, meets in the legislative chambers of the State Capitol each November.

Spotlight on Notebooks results?

Scored 100%.

That is 100% wrong.

So much for my prognostication.

Spotlight on Notebooks

I'll go out on a limb about Apple's announcements for tomorrow.

• Sub $800 netbook without hard drive with a 10" LCD screen and an 80GB HD, no optical drive.
• New external USB optical drive that will play BlueRay Discs and work with MacBook Air and new Netbook.
• BlueRay option on all new Mac notebooks.

That's about it. Everybody else has predicted the rest.

Are Smokers Inherently Litterbugs?

Are smokers inherently litterbugs or do they just consider throwing their cigarette butts on the ground not littering.
As of Monday, Sept. 1, smoking is banned from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center campus. Since 21st Ave and it's sidewalks border VUMC but are not VUMC property smokers are now congregating on the 21st Ave. sidewalks. When they are done they throw their butts in the landscaping which is VUMC property. This ever increasing eyesore is only a month old. The visible amount of smoking trash is no longer blending with the landscaping and is not biodegrading fast enough. While I applaud VUMC's efforts to be a smoke free campus, having the smokers concentrated in a single area where ash containers are available and clean up of refuse is easier may have been the better option. Workers, patients, and visitors taking a smoke break must now go further for their habit and no longer have convenient receptacles for their waste.

Got My iPhone

Finally got my iPhone this week. Having fun playing around with it and getting to know how to use it. I have already used it to post to Twitter about the colision of the train I was riding on with a car.
Typing is not the esiest on this but tons better than my trying to type on my Razr.


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iPhone mania

Yes, I want a new iPhone 3G. But not enough to stand in line for hours. My contract with T-Mobile finally ended and we switched to ATandT. I was really hoping for a 32Gb or larger version and am hoping that maybe in September or October Apple will offer iPhones with more storage. I have a 40GB iPod and it is just fine for the podcasts and music I want to carry everyday. I only use about 16GB and could pare that down but after getting the great apps for the iPhone and wanting to put Video podcasts on it that 16GB will get used up real fast. I can see that a 32GB version would be sufficient. It would also be great if they would offer one with an SD slot (mini, micro, etc.) With the current shortage of iPhones it will be easy to wait awhile but I am not sure I can last until October. Also, depending on my contract with ATandT it might be better if I got it sooner rather than later. I will have to find out some of the impact.

Knee Surgery

At the end of February I had arthroscopic knee surgery to fix a torn meniscus.
Here are some photos that the doc took.