Jan/094
Thank You – Daughter’s Class Wins Document Camera!
Thanks to everyone who responded to my earlier post Help My Daughter’s Class Win A Document Camera. Monday was the deadline and Abby went to school so excited. Apparently mid-afternoon her teacher was called downstairs and found out she had won the contest! Her teacher sent out this email:
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to everyone that registered on the Avermedia site we had 229 referrals and are now the happy owners of a CP300 document camera! As you can imagine we are all VERY excited!
I have no idea how many people signed up after reading my blog post – but for those of you who did – my daughter, her teacher, classmates and I say…
THANK YOU!
Dec/085
Help My Daughter’s Class Win A Document Camera
Document Camera
I usually don’t post stuff like this too often so bear with me…
My daughter’s 4th grade class is trying to win a document camera. Their teacher Mrs. Tuttle is really into technology and has the class using Edublog, VoiceThread, Wordle and doing all sorts of cool stuff with the computers in class.
I am still trying to win that document camera. The next giveaway is January 5. In addition to posting comments in the avermedia forum I can also win through your referrals. The user with the most referrals wins — no random drawing — Anyone can register — so please take a few moments and register — my username is ctuttell and needs to be entered exactly for it to count — please ask anyone you know to register — the winner last month only had 76 referrals : )
Sign up is simple – simply visit the AVerMedia site and click: this link and register on their forum.
All you need to enter is your name, email address and your country. I’ve already registered all my email addresses and so far haven’t got anything back from them.
As mentioned in the blurb above – the important part is the Referred By field…
You need to enter their teachers username: ctuttell
I know email addresses are sacred (spam sucks) so I’ll understand if you don’t want to bother but if you are feeling generous this holiday season could you please sign up and we’ll see if we can win!! :)
Sep/084
Slow Blogging
It’s been slow around here… I know.
A quick run down of what’s going on…
July 1st the company I was working for (Lockheed Martin) lost their contract with NIEHS. Luckily I was picked up by the new contract winner (SRA) but it’s been a bumpy ride so far. Not only did I switch companies but I’ve also changed positions – I’m now a “Configuration Manager”.
Hopefully this is going to mean more Ant, testing, etc. in the future! So stay tuned – things will be picking up around here soon.
Aug/081
Somewhere On A Street In Poland
Jun/081
Zappa Plays Zappa, Raleigh, NC
Sometimes you know a show is going to be special a few minutes into it… When Dweezil and crew took the stage and cranked into “Eye of the Tiger” – I knew it was going to be good.
I had never been to the Lincoln Theatre and was surprised at how tiny it was. It reminded me a lot of the old Cat’s Cradle in Chapel Hill. The show was sold out and soon the place was packed with a mix of old Zappa fans, young kids and several people their with their son/daughter, mother/father.
The music was loud, and I should have had some plugs with me, but it wasn’t obnoxiously so. The mix was great, no one was overbearing and Dweezil had an awesome tone throughout the whole show. They played a great mix of Frank’s tunes. Dweezil joked at the end that they could keep doing this awhile as they “had plenty of material to choose from”. The played some old stuff, they played some classics and several times near the end they seriously jammed, Dweezil throwing his hands up in the air to tell them to ‘keep it going’ which the band did with ease. Dweezil has some awesome musicians backing him up. Frank’s music is challenging and everyone on stage gave an amazing performance.
Dweezil really shone. He was one of the happiest looking musicians I’ve ever seen on stage. Frequently he would be pulling off these amazing riffs while casually looking over at one of the other musicians with this huge shit eatting grin on his face. He just seemed to be soaking up the energy of his father’s music from his bandmates and the crowd. The crowd was feeding off it as well and at one point a pair of panties even made it up onstage!
They played for almost 3 hours only taking a few breaks to tune or fix something. After the show it was nice to see Dweezil out on stage, talking to fans and signing autographs. Usually after most shows I go to the band scurries off to the bus never to be seen again.
Dweezil mentioned that he hopes to keep this show on the road, sharing Frank’s music with old fans and especially introducing new fans to the music.
I hope he comes back to Raleigh again. I’ll be there.
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST… ~ “Packard Goose” (Joe’s Garage)
For more info – including a few good blog posts about the Raleigh show – check out the official Zappa Plays Zappa site.
Mar/083
ZAPPA!
Holy crap!! The Zappa Plays Zappa tour is coming to Raleigh!!!! Usually I have to drive 3-400 miles to see anything remotely decent. I was so bummed when I missed them last year when they played in Asheville.
I am SO there!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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