Delaney became Amelia Earhart for her school’s Great Moments in History project.
Delaney is such a talented little person. I am really proud of her.
More about Amelia Earhart at Wikipedia.
A bit of trivia: Amelia Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross. Delaney’s grandfather (my dad) received the DFC during World War II.
Lots to report this weekend.
On Saturday morning, I shot my first sporting clays competition. There were a few things I didn’t realize before hand. Like that all stations would be at the much harder North Course. And that all shots are doubles. I probably should have done my homework and been aware of these nerves-inducing subtleties in advance, but where’s the fun in that. The bad news is that I shot horribly. The better news is that I still got third in my division. The facts are that I need to practice more and differently. I think I’m going to shoot the tournament at Rio Brazos next weekend. I’d never heard of Rio Brazos before, and I’m not too keen on hunting preserves, but it’s close to Houston, and there aren’t all that many local sporting clays tournaments to choose from.
This afternoon, Cassidy and I went shooting together. She did really well, knocking a bunch of clays down- with her .410. I’m not sure how many I could hit with that small pattern. The only camera I had with me was my iPhone. She hit a bunch of clays, but this is the only shot I got on film.
Yesterday afternoon, we went out to a local Christmas tree farm, and cut our tree.
Delaney had a swim meet at the University of Houston today, and she really brought her A-game. She medaled in the backstroke, and got ribbons in several other events. She also swam the 4×4 and freestyle relays, and, based on the unofficial results, her team (Rice Aquatics) medaled in all of them.
Delaney’s 2nd Swim Meet from Kent Newsome on Vimeo.
(Backstroke heat (win), freestyle heat (win), 4×4 relay (backstroke)
and butterfly heat (blue Rice swimcap)).
Raina and Delaney had to leave before 7:00 for the swim meet and Cassidy spent the night at a friend’s house, so Luke and I got up this morning and went for a dude’s breakfast of bacon, eggs and grits. Then we watched some Little Bear and chilled out on the couch.
My kids rock.
I think Google’s introduction of real time search results is interesting and potentially a step forward in the web search experience. If, for example, I want to search for the latest development in Tiger Woods’ utter and complete implosion, it would be fun to sit back and watch the stories- and new alleged mistresses- float by. In an ideal world, a real time Google search would be like an instantaneous Google Alert, notifying me close to immediately if an article or blog post is published on a topic I am interested in.
What I totally and completely do not get is why whenever people talk about real time, the next word you hear is Twitter. . .
First of all, the large majority of substantive Twitter posts are links to other content. That has been posted somewhere else. Already. So by definition and math, much of what is posted on Twitter is not only not real time. It’s after the fact. Wouldn’t it be better to talk about real time results from the actual source of the content?
Secondly, does anyone without skin in the game really- I mean really- think Twitter is all that informative? To index and serve search results of Twitter posts, in real time or otherwise, is like recording elevator conversations and calling them feature films. I search Twitter from time to time to see who’s talking about topics that interest me (alt. country music, my hometown, etc.). 80% of the results are spam, 15% are other nonsense, 4.9% are things I’ve already seen and .1% are things that might interest me. That’s a really bad success ratio, particularly compared to a regular old Google search that generally gives me relevant results. Or used to.
In sum, there is almost nothing that originates on Twitter that I’d want to see in my search results, real time or otherwise.
Compared to MySpace, however, Twitter is like the New York Times. The fact that Google includes MySpace in any search results makes me actually pull for Bing. Or maybe not.
Seriously, who decided this was a good thing? I feel like everyone talking about this dropped acid while I was chugging Red Bull.
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