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Just LeDoux It


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Flashes fired with ebay remote. Vivitar at 1/16 power from the front and Canon 580 EX II from behind at 1/4 power. A bit of smoke from behind.

Day 311 of 365

More fun with smoke and fog and a t-shirt I designed. Back in March of 2005 Chris LeDoux passed away. For those of you who don’t know who he is, Chris was cowboy in every sense of the word. He was also a singer/songwriter and a mentor of Garth Brooks. They even recorded a song together (Watcha’ Gonna Do With A Cowboy) and he is mentioned in a few of Garth’s songs.

I was lucky enough to have several opportunities to see Chris perform live and meet the man himself before his death. I’m a fan of a lot a singers, but only for Chris would I drive from Maryland to Massachusetts through a hurricane (Floyd) to see him perform live. Not only was he an exceptional singer/songwriter, rodeo champion and real cowboy, but one hell of a nice guy. The trip to North Carolina and the trip to Boston to see him live were well worth it. I just wish I could have seen him a few more times before he passed on.

In 2006 Garth Brooks released a tribute song titled Good Ride Cowboy in which part of the chorus is Just LeDoux It! That line struck me as a good t-shirt slogan so I designed one and had a few printed over at Zazzle. I’ll probably eventually go back and revisit the design. As much as I like it, I think it could be better. I don’t expect regular folks to understand the shirt, but when I’m at the country bar I get comments all the time. Still, I think it could be better.

Today isn’t an anniversary of his death or anything, I just happened to wear the shirt tonight. Once I started typing this description out, I just kept typing. He was a good man and he is missed by those who knew his music.

If you are interested, you can read more about the man himself here.

The lyrics that spawned the idea for the shirt are as follows:

From the hills of Kaycee, Wyoming
Where life’s wooly and wild
There’s a Navy brat in a cowboy hat
And that Copenhagen smile
And from buckin’ broncs to honky tonks
He always sang a cowboy’s song
We were much too young, havin’ too much fun
As we all sang along

When we cross that river Jordan,
With St Peter on the other side
Singin’ Good Ride Cowboy, Good Ride!
Say Good Ride Cowboy, Good Ride!

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Waddya mean it’s the end of the world as we know it!!!!!


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Highest Explore Position #369 ~ On September 10th 2008.

Prairie Dog – Wingham Wildlife Park, Kent, England – Sunday August 10th 2008.
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Yup…apparently it’s the end of the world…ney universe as we know it tomorrow, so this may be my last EVER post….lol…:O))
In a 17 mile lab at CERN on the French/Swiss boarder tomorrow, scientists will attempt to discover the Higgs bolson particle ~ see below ~ apparently…as Oasis once said…"some might say"…that in doing so they will open up a black hole into which we will all disappear..So in which case, what are you going to do with your last day on earth tomorrow???

The Higgs boson or BEH Mechanism, popularised as the "God Particle", is a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics; it is the only Standard Model particle not yet observed. Experimental observation would elucidate how otherwise massless elementary particles nevertheless manage to construct mass in matter. More specifically, the Higgs boson would explain the difference between the massless photon and the relatively massive W and Z bosons. Elementary particle masses, and the differences between electromagnetism (caused by the photon) and the weak force (caused by the W and Z bosons), are critical to many aspects of the structure of microscopic (and hence macroscopic) matter; thus, if it exists, the Higgs boson is an integral and pervasive component of the material world.

As of yet, no experiment has directly detected the existence of the Higgs boson, but this may change as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN produces results. The Higgs mechanism, which gives mass to vector bosons, was theorized in August 1964 by François Englert and Robert Brout ("boson scalaire"), in October of the same year by Peter Higgs, working from the ideas of Philip Anderson, and independently by G. S. Guralnik, C. R. Hagen, and T. W. B. Kibble who worked out the results by the spring of 1963.The three papers written by Higgs, Brout, Englert, Guralnik, Hagen, and Kibble were each recognized as milestone papers by Physical Review Letters 50th anniversary celebration. Higgs proposed that the existence of a massive scalar particle could be a test of the theory, a remark added to his Physical Review letter at the suggestion of the referee. Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam were the first to apply the Higgs mechanism to the electroweak symmetry breaking. The electroweak theory predicts a neutral particle whose mass is not far from the W and Z bosons.

Flower Power Pack it up Small Swap


Image by Julie K in Taiwan
This swap needed something handmade, something to make things with, something to eat or drink, something related to your country or city, something small for beauty or grooming, a note or card written by you. It’s supposed to fit in a prepaid mailer or be under 250g. Taiwan doesn’t have international mailers, and I went a bit over the limit, 320g. Next time I’ll do better!