New Orleans Pt. 1

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Pics and comments from the Great Trip to the Great City of New Orleans!
My visit to New Orleans post Hurricane Bush Katrina… I meant Katrina, really. Anyhow, it’s a mess, but Chris is going to fix everything. No problem. Now the economy… that’s not exactly in his line of work… so, I don’t know about that… I hear they’re taking applications! Ideas… anyone?

Looks like Google Earth down there.

Looks like Google Earth down there.

Chris said, “Here, watch this movie with Denzel Washington about a domestic terrorist guy who blows up a ferry full of little kids and babies.” I did. Then I asked him, “Where are we going now?” He said, “To ride that ferry.” Aaaaaa!

Scary Ferry

Scary Ferry

Scary Voodoo Garden

Scary Voodoo Garden

That’s Big Bro. Best New Orleans tour guide from west of the Pecos.

FEMA Trailer Obama Supporters

FEMA Trailer Obama Supporters

George,

Thanks for everything.

Love,

People of the 9th Ward

One of these things goes up and down.

One of these things goes up and down.

Always willing to give a light... encouraging bad habits.

Always willing to give a light... encouraging bad habits.

Chris took me to Mardi Gras World. That’s where the make floats for the parades and stuff. They also make stuff for Disney World and all kinds of stuff. Everything starts with foam. Then everything get either paper mache or fiber glass. Learned some good techniques for rockets!

Cutting Great Stuff with a razor knife.

Cutting Great Stuff with a razor knife.

Original and really big Genie.

Original and really big Genie.

Mayor of Chocolate City

Mayor of Chocolate City

Sometimes they recycle sculptures. We thought Ray looked slightly Chinese.

Borglund Prototype

Borglund Prototype

Frogman

Frogman

You have to love frogmen. Period.

Save the polar bears... from second hand smoke.

Save the polar bears... from second hand smoke.

Monster looking at Chris1

Monster looking at Chris1

New Orleans Pt. 2

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We decided this place would be a great location for a zombie movie. Help me Iron Man!
Chris is always ready for a zombie attack. Go Chris!
Ready for zombies, but not giant praying mantises. Almost lost him there.
They said that each krewe spends more than a quarter of a million dollars a year on beads and [...]

New Orleans Pt. 3

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This is where we had steaks. Chris also made steaks in the apartment that were just actually little bit better. Watch out Bourbon Street. Chris broiled them in the oven on a super-seasoned iron skillet and then he super-seasoned the steaks with New Orleans-style stuff in a little can. Mmmm! Amy said she was going [...]

Mr. Me Goes to Washington

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Went to our nation’s capitol, Washington D.C. Rode the Birdy all around town. Avoided uncomfortable run-in with G.W. Snapped some pics.

The perfect mode of transport… and a really big cement pond.

Old stone doesn’t match new stone. No one cares. Get over it.

Birdy… lit by the taxpayer. Not bad.

Temporary lodgings.

Permanent resident… patiently awaiting B-Rock.
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Believe the unbelievable!

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In that I am about to graduate from IU East, receiving my BA in Behavioral Social Sciences (an event unbelievable in and of itself), I have decided to move my IU East blog to a new home at brickbike.com. What better way to inaugurate the new site than by celebrating an unbelievable rocket launch? I [...]

IU East Students Brave Treacherous Circumstances

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Monday, in the heroic tradition of the some of the finest post-secondary students in east central Indiana, several undergrads from Dr. Denise Bullock’s S100 Introduction to Sociology section braved a rigorous review session for Exam #1, held by… me. That’s right, I’m spending this semester as a teaching assistant for S100, and I’m taking no [...]

Pondering like the polar bears.

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I was in Chicago last week and went to see the polar bears at the Lincoln Park Zoo. I stood in front of the glass for about 45 minutes, watching the polar bear pair swim in repetitive, looping arcs, round and round, one clockwise, the other counterclockwise (one must have been from the Antarctic). There’s [...]

A House Divided

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Last week, I did two things I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. First, I finished a research paper I’ve been working on for many a fortnight; and second, I went to the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Both experiences reinforced the idea that: in the course of just doing stuff, you [...]

IU East Opens New Library Branch in Evansville!

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No, not really. It’s just my car.

Sometimes, in college, you find yourself studying in some pretty weird places… this was one of those times. My wife is a development officer for a small college in northern Indiana. While she was meeting with an alumnus inside a cool, comfortable, air-conditioned bank, I was outside in my [...]

Hmmm? YouTube Embed?

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This little video should do for a study break on a warm summer day.

Back to the books (see previous post).
10-4,
Barry