You KNOW you're from "Louisville" when...

• You're still bitching that Dillards took over Bacon's.
  You still refer to Bashford Manor Mall and it has been gone for 7 Years.
• Your "International" airport has only one passenger flight that actually leaves the 48 contiguous U.S. States and is also the size of an average mall.
• The in-state sports rivalry is paid more attention to than the national championship.
• You live in an area that occasionally gets considerable snowfalls, floods, and tornadoes... But has no capacity to deal with any of the above.
• You pronounce the name of your city different than anyone else you've heard.

• You think the rest of the people in Kentucky sound like hicks.
  When you think " Kentucky ' you don't automatically think horse racing or fried chicken.
• You ask your doctor for an allergy cure and he tells you to "move"
• You've shoveled 10 plus inches of snow and worn shorts in the same week.
• When people ask what school you went to, they don't mea n Vanderbilt, Yale, or Harvard; they mean Ballard, Male, Manual, Trinity or St. X.
• You know what the Bambi Walk is.
• Your last ten vacations were in Panama City or Destin.
• You make an emergency run to Kroger for bread and milk at the first sighting of a snowflake.
• You've lived here for years, yet somehow you get hopelessly lost each time you attempt a shortcut through Cherokee Park .
• You're convinced turn signals are useless options on a vehicle.
• You've built a shrine to Rick Pitino in your basement.
• You hold up traffic to let a motorist you don't know into your lane.
• You give directions based on landmarks that no longer exist or street names that have changed, but your directions never confuse any of the other Louisvillians
• You have never been to the Derby , but wouldn't miss the Oaks.
• You call in sick to attend the Oaks and spot your boss - who also called in sick - at the next betting window.
• You think all the REAL hicks live in New Albany IN.
• When introduced to another life-long Louisvillian, you spend the first part of the conversation finding out how you are connected. It's never as many as six degrees of separation - usually three will do it.
• You think a pervert is someone who would rather have sex than watch basketball.
• You can read about Rick Pitino in at least three different sections of your newspaper.
• You think the rest of the world knows what Benedictine spread is.
• You think the rest of the world knows what a Hot Brown is.
• You have never eaten fish that wasn't fried.
• You think the whole world puts spaghetti in chili.
• You want another bridge built over the Ohio River , just so long as it doesn't cut through YOUR neighborhood.
• You've experienced a "salt storm" after a two-inch snowfall.
• You think the only thing Southern Indiana is good for is buying pumpkins.
• You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Louisville .

Office life getting you down?

Why not spice things up a little with a round of faceball?

 

 

What? You've never played faceball? You, my good friend* have never lived (at least within the confines of things to do in an office when your brain is about to explode from boredom).

 

What do I need to play?

Two players, two chairs, something to measure ten feet, one inflatable beach ball, one sheet of paper to keep track of scoring and one pen.

I assume there are rules?

Setup the chairs ten feet apart. The two opponents each sit in a chair. Take turns throwing the beachball at your opponents face. Each time you hit your opponents face, you earn one point and the right to throw again. After five rounds, the player with the most points is the winner.

Louisville Area Farmers’ Market Locations

Bardstown Rd Farmers’ Market (Deer Park)
April 5 - Dec. 20. Sat. 8am-Noon
June - Oct., Thurs. 4-6:30pm
Flowers, festivals, prepared foods, produce, meat, cheese, eggs.

1722 Bardstown Rd.
502-287-8206

Beechmont Open Air Market
June 14 - Sept. 29, Sat. 8am-Noon
Vegetables, fruits, cut flowers, herbs and more

Southern Parkway and Wellington Ave.
502-367-2652

California Farmers’ Market
June 2- October, Saturdays Noon-4pm
Produce, meat, eggs, flowers, barbecue

Victory Park, 23rd and Kentucky St.

Crescent Hill Farmers’ Market
June 1 - October, Fridays, 6:30am until sold out
June 16 - October, Mondays, 6:30am until sold out
Fruits, vegetables, plants, cut flowers.

201 S. Peterson Ave. (Frankfort and Peterson)
812-968-3693

Heart of St. Matthews Farmers’ Market
Mid-May until the end of Sept., Sat. 8am-Noon
Produce, eggs, flowers, herbs, baked goods, cheese, bread, plants

Beargrass Christian Church
4100 Shelbyville Rd.
502-896-1161

Jeffersontown Farmers’ Market
May - November 3: Saturdays, 7:30am - Noon, Tuesdays, 2-5pm
Vegetables, fruits, starter and bedding plants.

Jeffersontown Pavilion, near the intersection of Watterson Trail and Taylorsville Road
502-267-1674

Middletown Farmers’ Market
June 3 - September, Saturdays 8:30am-Noon
Produce, bread, eggs

Village Square Shopping Center, 11800 Shelbyville Road.
502-845-2117

Ninth Street Farmers’ Market
May - Christmas Eve, Wednesdays-Saturdays 10am-7pm
Produce, smoked meats, homemade ice cream, flowers

912 W. Chestnut St.
502-561-6370

Old Louisville Farmers’ Market
June 6 - October, Wednesdays 3-6pm
Vegetables, fruits, flowers

Walnut Street Baptist Church parking lot
(Third St. and St. Catherine)

Meadowview/Hikes Point Farmers’ Market
Open Fridays 3-7pm, May 9-October 31

Located in parking lot of Meadowview Presbyterian Church at 2944 Breckinridge Lane

Phoenix Hill Farmers’ Market
April 22 - October 28, Tuesdays 3-6:30pm
Vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, baked goods, plants, and cut flowers

829 E. Market St.
502-583-7133
[updated 4-2-08]

Portland/Shawnee Farmers’ Market
June 10 - October 28, Saturdays 9am-Noon
Vegetables, melons and flowers.

Portland Baptist Church parking lot
(38th and Market St.)

Rainbow Blossom Farmers’ Market
May 20 - October, Sundays, Noon-4pm
Produce, herbs, locally-produced meat, eggs and native plants

3738 Lexington Rd.

Rowan Street Farmers’ Market
June 1 - October 15, Monday - Friday, 8am-4pm
Fruits and vegetables

Corner of 18th and Rowan Street

Smoketown Farmers’ Market
June 9 - October, Saturdays 9am-Noon
Vegetables, melons and flowers

Meyzeek Middle School (corner of Preston St. and Breckinridge St.)

St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church Market
June 2 - October, Saturdays 10am-1pm, Tuesdays 4-6:30pm
Fruits, vegetables, plants and cut flowers, goat milk and honey products.

Wolf Pen Branch Road at US Hwy 42
812-968-3693

St. Matthews Farmers’ Market
Mid-April - October, Thursdays 2-5pm
Late summer - October, Mondays 2-5pm
Fruits, vegetables, plants, and flowers.

330 N. Hubbards Lane
502-222-9504

Temple Farmers’ Market
April - November, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3-7pm
Fruits, vegetables and flowers

5101 US Hwy 42 (corner of Lime Kiln Lane)
502-423-1818
[updated 4-2-08]

Southwest Farmers’ Market
June 7 - Fall, Saturdays 8am-Noon

Valley High School
10200 Dixie Highway
502-649-4970 or 502-569-2344.

Norton Commons Farmers’ Market
Open Saturdays 8:30 am-noon, starting May 17th

Open Thursdays 4-7pm, starting June 7th

Located at the corner of Meeting St. and Norton Commons Blvd.

 

Taken from http://five0two.com/farmers-markets

To be or not to be?

So, first off, what an awesome thing it is to have fun with family*. One of God's true gifts (when everybody's feeling it) is to spend time with those we love.

 

Today was awesome. A truly beautiful day in the Ville. Sunny, cool, nice breeze and an awesome day at the park. I love this town and I love those with whom I get to share it.

Plus, there was the interesting fun of getting to see all sorts of people (and by that I mean ALL) at Hogan's Fountain. Wow, wanna see a slice of the Ville? That's the spot to be.

(yeah, I've been playing with the camera and taking zoom shots)

All in all? What a wonderful spring day! So wonderful that I supplanted what was going to be my post with this green tangent.

Peace

 

*Oh, by the way, my definition of family is pretty broad and covers a lot of people I'm not biologically or legally related to.

How to be pure and faultless, a primer

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world" - James 1:27

What if I were to tell you that right now, in a specific geographic area, there are over 1,600,000 women and children roaming the streets, displaced from their homes and without hope? And, in addition, these women and children are seen every day by American citizens, not just on television, but face-to-face. Yet, in all our church services, where we pray for the safety of the troops, for the wisdom of our leaders, where are our prayers for those who need it more than all?

According to the Red Cross, there are over 2 million internally displaced Iraqis, 82 percent of whom are women and children under the age of 12.

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world" - James 1:27

What saddens me so much is the hypocrisy in the church. We sing "I want to be like Jesus" yet conveniently ignore his commands that make us uncomfortable, that challenge our view of the world.

If the discussion is too hard, if we can't stomach any more arguments over the legitimacy of the war in Iraq, can't we at least ignore that part and focus on the concrete things that we all agree on? The word of God -

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world" - James 1:27

Taken mostly from - http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2008/03/i-never-saw-them-as-human-bein.html

Amazing Times, Part II

Snippets harvested from this article

Gee, it's too bad that the US can't be as up to date on these new medical techniques. Too bad that congress and El Presidente can't get their act together and get a bill passed funding research. (The first is too scattered, the second just vetoes everything)

 

Finnish patient gets new jaw from own stem cells

Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.

Researchers said the breakthrough opened up new ways to treat severe tissue damage and made the prospect of custom-made living spares parts for humans a step closer to reality.

...

She told a news conference the patient was recovering more quickly than he would have if he had received a bone graft from his leg.

...

She said the team used no materials from animals - preventing the risk of transmitting viruses than can be hidden in an animal's DNA, and followed European Union guidelines.

Stem cells are the body's master cells and they can be found throughout the blood and tissues. Researchers have recently found that fat contains stem cells which can be directed to form a variety of different tissues.

The times, they are a-mazin'

Summarized from Science Daily - New Technique Makes Tissues Transparent.

Light scatters as it moves through an object. Even objects like our bodies allow a certain amount of light to pass through. The light is scattered by bumping into things. We're not translucent like jellyfish. Scientists have discovered, however, that if the light that emerges is recorded as it scatters and then sent back through the same pathways in reverse, it bounces back along the same pathways and return to the original source. This is similar to the scattering of pool balls on a table. If you can precisely reverse the path and velocities of the pool balls, you can make them reassemble themselves into a rack.

Hmm, may have to try that at the next Friday night pool

What does this mean? Light activated cancer killing drugs could be injected into diseased tissue. Play back the light path with a strong light source and the drugs would be activated.

Another possible application is using photovoltaic receivers to power implants like pace-makers, shrinking their size significantly.