Thanks to all who have expressed concern. I can not go into all the details of what happened today, but I am still employed. I was offered an option which allows me to continue but it requires relocation to another facility. I will be making my decision over the next week and it is not going to be an easy one.

Right now my heart goes out to all of my other co-workers and friends who were not given this option. I hope all of the talented people who were let go today will find another position quickly at a company who is more employee centric. While I feel fortunate to have a choice I can’t feel anything but anger and remorse that this situation had to happen in the first place.

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Stanley who makes high quality hand tools is having a contest to win an awesome collection of tools that I would love to have in my shop.

Check out http://www.aconcordcarpentercomments.blogspot.com/2010/02/stanley-tool-giveaway.html for information about the giveaway

And

http://www.stanleytools.com to see their complete product offerings

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Discovery channel made a new video, it features FIRST kids, and optimums prime very cool.

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Please bear with me I am trying posterous.com to update all of my social media and I suspect I will be getting double and triple posts in some places. i am going to try and sort this all out.

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A couple of months ago a friend sent me a link to a youtube clip called “auto tune the news” After watching it I needed to have more. Now at semi-regular increments they are doing new ones. The general premise of the videos is that they take clips for relevant news stories, CSPAN, CBS News with Katie Couric, and other sources and run them through and audio processor called “AutoTune.” Auto Tune is traditionally used for after effects smoothing for pop, R&B, and other genres to cover mistakes and to add a level of computer sounds to music. Artists such as Sher, Janet Jackson, and T-Pain made it famous. Recently it has been used as a method to make amateur songs as it can be setup to convert regular speech into something which has a melody. You can read more about Auto tune on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-Tune

A group called “The Gregory Brothers” http://thegregorybrothers.com/ is responsible for them and I hope they keep them up because they are a good laugh every time. At this point there are 7 of them (#5 is my fav). You can view them below and make sure to subscribe to them on youtube to find the new ones. On a side note I wonder if Katie Couric knows about them.

Edit: as it seems the mastermind behind these videos is a guy named Michael Gregory, If you check him out on google you will see he has done a bunch of other parody, autotune, and performances, including an aired audition to American Idol. I may be going out on a limb but he could become the next Weird AL.

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