http://www.tomslatin.com Writing, Photography, and Website Design Sat, 03 May 2008 03:17:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A long time ago while I was in my first year of college, I learned quite a lot about efficiency as it relates to computer programming and automation.  Since the advent of computers, life as we know it continues to advance in efficiency.  Efficiency is of course, getting what you ... http://www.tomslatin.com/2008/05/02/the-forgotten-ideal-of-efficiency    http://www.tomslatin.com/2008/04/27/forest-sunrise-photography A Murder of One by Counting Crows has become my latest musical obsession.  The last time I had a musical obsession, it was Stolen Car by Beth Orton. What draws me to an obsession about this song is when they sing don't waste your life, the way I waste my life. It ... http://www.tomslatin.com/2008/04/24/a-murder-of-one Not playing by the rules for me, goes far beyond fun and games.  It's a lifestyle I live in which I tend to ignore warnings on products, read the instructions without actually following them, and generally take risks when I can be assured that there is no actual threat of ... http://www.tomslatin.com/2008/04/18/i-dont-always-play-by-the-rules This is a sad photo.  Everything in the abandoned home was completely destroyed, except for this children's shoe, which was left at the front door. I responded to this fire as an EMT / Firefighter.  It was the second biggest of my career, spanning over 10 years in the service.  The ... http://www.tomslatin.com/2008/04/13/the-burned-farmhouse-reveled-a-childs-shoe http://www.tomslatin.com/2008/04/10/the-road-less-traveled-photograph Not too long ago, I wrote about preserving what we have through photography, but never did I think that it would actually come to pass that something I photographed might not exist in the not-too-distant future.  All that changed today, when around three in the afternoon, I responded in the ambulance ... http://www.tomslatin.com/2008/04/08/abandoned-farmhouse-gone I read a lot of blogs.  A lot.  Just check out the list of blogs and websites in my blogroll!  This one post in paticular caught my eye and was extremely entertaining and funny.  I'm going to now give it a shameless plug so that everyone else can enjoy it ... http://www.tomslatin.com/2008/04/05/soapbox-shoutout One of my favorite facts about me in my profile is the one where I state that I like to collect notes and pieces of paper I find on public sidewalks.  It says a lot about me, both as a person, and as a writer.  Perhaps it makes me appear ... http://www.tomslatin.com/2008/04/04/i-collect-notes-and-pieces-of-paper It's really hard to believe, but in the weirdest and most random of places, you can find old relics from the past such as these, that are still somewhat intact.  I found these trains along US-209 in Kingston, New York, and I decided to get a closer view.  (View The ... http://www.tomslatin.com/2008/04/02/ghost-train