Archive for June, 2007

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Posted June 22nd, 2007 in del.icio.us Links.

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Posted June 21st, 2007 in del.icio.us Links.

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Posted June 20th, 2007 in del.icio.us Links.

You catch more flies with honey …

Here’s an email I got this afternoon, at the end of a really crappy day—not-fun work things, compressed schedules, and several hours of meetings coming after finding out that my maternal grandmother fell, again, yesterday and is in the hospital with a brain bleed—that kinda set me off:

Subject: [Upcoming] (username redacted) sent you a note!

The note reads:

The address:
(address redacted) that’s under the name “Grace Free Evangelical Church is WRONG. The church at that address is my church, which is (church name redacted to protect innocent parishoners). Please get your facts straight, and please correct this. I don’t know why its saying I’m sending this from the email address “(redacted)”. That email has been deactived. Please email me back at (redacted, although I want to subscribe her to a lot of funky porn spam). Thank you.

Ummm … huh? Okay, so I made a mistake. Actually, I copied another person’s mistake—this was a venue for one of the artists for whom I enter data into Upcoming, and apparently, things changed, the address was wrong, or something. But anyway. Two things immediately struck me:

  1. The tone. This young woman was angry that I had the wrong church at the right address. It’s a mistake—simply ask me to correct it and go on with life.
  2. The utter lack of helpfulness. There’s no URL for the venue–and given how Upcoming has gone in the .org–>Yahoo.com transition, it’s a bit harder to search anymore. If given the venue’s URL, I could probably knock this problem out in about 30 seconds. I wasn’t, and after five minutes of fruitless searching, I gave up. [The tone had a lot to do with that.]

Here’s my response:

Would you shoot me the URL to the venue you complained about? That’ll help me get it corrected in the system.

As for the facts, I entered them from an artist’s Web site as to where they indicated that the show would be held. I apologize if you were offended by this error, but I would urge you to look look at it from my end—by being so strident with your response, you give me very little incentive to fix it. That said, I want to get the right address for the actual venue, and while I’m at it, I’ll add in your church so that anyone else who tries to add a venue at that address will get an error in Upcoming’s system.

Ahhh, Christian kindness and charity. [I'm including my response here as a slight reproof for myself, because I certainly could have done a better job in my response.]

Redux, 20 Jun: I got a very polite and contrite reply. I’m satisfied, especially because I’ve lashed out at people unnecessarily, and heck … my OCD nature is to want such things right as well.

Posted June 19th, 2007 in Vignettes.

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Posted June 19th, 2007 in del.icio.us Links.

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Posted June 18th, 2007 in del.icio.us Links.

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Posted June 17th, 2007 in del.icio.us Links.

Geof’s New Music: 17-23 Jun 2007

It’s not every week that a musical instrument I own makes its way into a recording I have, but … this week, it does. :)

Last week:

Posted June 17th, 2007 in Musiclogging.

Geof’s New Music: 10-16 Jun 2007

Not only have I been very busy at work, but then my laziness made for a server exploit that I’ve been working on fixing for the last four hours [and have several more left to go]. :sigh:

Last week wasn’t all that great, to tell the truth:

Posted June 16th, 2007 in Musiclogging.

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Posted June 16th, 2007 in del.icio.us Links.

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Posted June 15th, 2007 in del.icio.us Links.

links for 2007-06-14

Posted June 14th, 2007 in del.icio.us Links.

links for 2007-06-13

Posted June 13th, 2007 in Religion.

Emily Nicole Creekmore




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Originally uploaded by Geof F. Morris

Look at me, being all arty. I sat there while little Emily cried, thinking, “How can I take a cool shot in here?” I finally decided to hop up on the windowsill and shoot past Ashley to Jonathan and Emily. Predictably, I played with the focus so that I could get some of each.

Anyhow, the full set of photos I took is available on Flickr. Go knock yourself out.

I hope Emily’s gotten some rest. She really hadn’t had much uninterrupted sleep since mid-afternoon, so by the time I got there around 1900, she was just inconsolable. Finally, Jon could get her settled down by walking back and forth in the room. Hopefully he’s not going to have to do a ton of that, but if he does, well, I don’t think he’ll have to pick up jogging again—he’s gonna get enough walking in!

So … yay. :D Congrats to the Creekmores. We’ve got us another sweet little girl to watch over in our local brood.

Posted June 12th, 2007 in Photos.

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Posted June 12th, 2007 in del.icio.us Links.

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