Sarasota Livin'

We went to the Florida Folk Festival in White Springs. It was plenty fun except for the rain. One of my new favorite bands was the Peters Road Swamp Blues Band

Here is a sample I found on Youtube

Bike ride Saturday afternoon took me by the Chalk Festival .... really good art. I need to go by today and see the finished artwork... Thanks to all who kept this going in a down year.

I went by for a while ... it was a good crowd with lots of beer ... and a band from last year... AC/DC coverband ... good for all ages.node/2866/track

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for the kids!!!

The battles of Lexington and Concord were fought on April 19, 1775. Reading the account in wikipeda it makes one think about the courage the locals showed ... and wonder why they were so motivated to make change happen ... was it really just taxes? Bet they didn't pay anywhere near what we pay now....

So at last weeks Tea Party Sarasota had a few hundred well healed people out with signs protesting while back then they had over 2,000 people out with guns ready to fight the British.

Certainly times are very different but it's worth reading this account of what happen. They were fighting for personal freedom

PS I am 100% against violence to achieve anything worthwhile ... so I am not advocating a violent revolution.... more of a rEVOLution

I saw this on Creative Loafing's coverage of the "Tea Party" in Sarasota. Most of the pictures were fine -- some of them pretty funny signs.

But I think this one is way out of line.... there is no way we have had 200 years of great government .... and I just don't think President Obama is any worse that the previous occupants of the White House... especially based on the short time he has been there..

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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)

I gave in to a "good deal" -- I got this book free as a "Kindle Edition" - I don't have one of Amazon's cool devices - but I have the Kindle application on my IPhone ... so now I have read most of this very interesting book on the small screen of my phone.

It's really not that bad reading on the IPhone -- if the page were as big as the Kindle I think it would be just fine... but I still like paper books better.

Back to the book.... It's a very interesting story on several levels .. first it is the future story of the exploration / settlement of Mars that's a good story -- the details of the space flight and the surface of Mars are great (I don't have a clue how accurate it is).

Level 2 is the story of the "first one-hundred" this is the group of the original settlers on Mars -- if you lived with 100 people first for months on a ship then years in a very small "town" you would have lots of personal stories... it is well told.

Level 3 is most interesting to me - the political philosophy of the settlers. Think about what type society a small well educated group of scientists would build towards if they were "way out there" - think the colonies and England when it was a month away by boat... This is what I think keeps the story going. Of course it's a trilogy - get the first one free and you have to buy more ... I just ordered the second book -- on paper!!!

"It is not necessary to change.
Survival is not mandatory."
- W.E. Deming