Ramblings of the Mad Cow

Got me up at sunrise for a photography hike down at Arkabutla Lake on Saturday morning.  It was beautiful!  Check out all the photos on my flickr site.

I loved the parade last night and I got a few shots.

You can view them all over at MidSouth Photos.

Big applause to the Boston PD for having a sense of humor, and not being afraid to show it.

From The Consumerist
Boston Police Department: We Will Let You Know When The Zombies Come

The first surprising part of this story is that the Boston Police Department has a Twitter feed. They use it to post breaking police-type information that’s useful to the public, such as roads closed due to car accidents, crime data, big arrests, etc. Sometimes they also reply to reader questions. And that is how TruTV learned that the Boston police will not hide the zombie invasion from the public.

It all started last night with a mundane “injured officer” report:

INJURED OFFICER: Officer from district 4 transported to Beth Israel Hospital, human bite to arm, suspect in custody.

Twitter user willcady used the opportunity to ask the police a burning question:

@Boston_Police if that was a zombie bite, would you tell us?

The police, setting the gold standard for government transparency, answered him:

@willcady Yes, absolutely

Read the whole kit and caboodle, and the great responses here

Guess who just became in official Ole Miss fan?

From theDMonline.com

UM hockey set for October debut
14 April 2009

By Tyler Bourke
Staff Reporter

With the help of Cody Johnson, team president, and head coach Max Graupner, ice hockey has finally made its way to the University of Mississippi as a sanctioned club sport and will begin its official season in Fall 2009 against Middle Tennessee State University at Nashville on October 2.

The IceRebels are in the Western SEC conference of the American Collegiate Hockey Association, a Division III league. Ole Miss will face off against every SEC school (with the exception of Auburn) in the upcoming season, which may consist of up to 20 games continuing into February.

In the ACHA, both the Western and Eastern division finalists go on to face other conference champions throughout the ACHA in the national competition.

The team has high hopes for their first season and expects to go as far as the SEC Championship. However, Johnson sees teams such as No. 4 Tennessee to be a major obstacle in the upcoming season.

“We have really good players, I feel comfortable that we are going to be one of the best in the SEC,” Graupner said. “We want to have a winning season this year and be a competing team in the SEC with a solid fan base.”

Read the rest of this great news here

Another plea from the Mad Cow asking to help the Mad Calf and others like him.

I know for most of us the typical million dollar insurance cap seems plenty far away, but when you go through tens of thousands of dollars of meds in a month, a million dollars can be reached pretty easily.  So I’m asking you to help out and get insurance caps raised.  If you don’t mind.