Author: Skip@RR

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Neighborhood Church of Redding

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Here’s a Redding Church with a name as unassuming as the architecture of its building. In addition to their east Redding Church facility on Loma Vista, Neighborhood Church of Redding has an extensive website. You can explore their Mission and precepts at the link. They also have videos of their message. I grabbed this one for the title, “Going to My Happy Place.” Neighborhood Church of Redding looks like a happy place indeed.

Happy: Going to My Happy Place from Neighborhood Church of Redding on Vimeo.

“The Bible is God’s text message to you,” says Pastor Bill Giovannetti. I like that idea. Bill dresses like a Redding man for the sermon; he knows his audience. Like his church, unassuming.
neighborhood church in redding caWhile shooting these images, it looks like construction is underway for a new building at their site, to the northeast. I’m looking forward to seeing what emerges there. If I have this right, Neighborhood Church is a member of an evangelical Protestant denomination of Christianity. From all appearances, one of the larger congregations in Redding

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Facebook is the new AOL

That’s the conclusion of this article about Facebook by John Dvorak, a columnist I often agree with. Coincidentally, local blogger Marc Beauchamp brings up the point about how businesses are using Facebook, perhaps to the detriment of the economy. Perhaps even more ominous, Henry Blodget does a good job of pointing out how the US Treasury is blowing up a Facebook valuation bubble via Goldman Sachs, using your money of course. We all know how government sponsored bubbles end.
I use Facebook, because it’s required in my line of work to be out there interacting with people, and if people are on Facebook, so be it. (Friend me!) It’s work related. But every time I log in, I confess to being baffled by the attraction. And I am very disturbed at how easily ordinary people give out so much personal information to a privately held corporation who has repeatedly shown their intent to profit by it. Of course, now if the planned profit doesn’t appear, a “too big to fail” firm will want a bailout from the government. We let this happen. Again.
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Chicks dig Ferraris

Problem: You drive a Chrysler. Solution: Re-badge it as a Ferrari. Problem solved FTW.
ferrari in redding caferrari in north redding ca“Wait, what? I paid good money for this Ferrari! I bought it on Craigslist.” As seen in a north Redding parking lot yesterday. This strategy probably actually works around here. Fake Ferrari, it’s ReallyRedding.

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Music from Redding’s Planetarium past – Set 2

I posted the first set of music from Craig Padilla‘s mid 90’s live show a few days ago here. I believe we called the shows “Impulse-Live from Space,” but I couldn’t find any of our promotional materials. I did find a photograph I took of Craig in the Schreder Planetarium (using film back then!) with the famous horizontal axis mirror ball in the background. Most mirror balls rotate vertically, but for our planetarium shows, lights swirled on the dome from front to back. Pretty intense, as I recall it, heh. Anyway, here’s the second set. About 47 minutes. Captured like a dusty photograph, a slice of time gone by.
Craig Padilla at the schreder planetarium in redding
Planetarium2 by SkipMurphy
Impulse, Live from Space by Craig Padilla. Craig on synths and guitar, Dave Barnett (Montuno Salad) on drums and percussion, Al Mires (Music Max) on electric guitar, and Skip Murphy on more synths, lasers and lighting.

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Images of snowcapped mountains over pastoral Cottonwood

Saturday was dreary in the valley, but Sunday was aptly named, as the sun exposed the mountains above Cottonwood, gleaming in snowy dress. This is looking northwest, toward Igo.
Hayfork BallyShasta BallyMountains over Cottonwood
Cottonwood California is a few miles south of Redding. It’s a loosely defined large region of rural properties along Cottonwood Creek and the Sacramento River. There is a charming old western town near the railroad, and a modern gated community along the river. An altogether lovely place.

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U cold?

This video reminds us why we like Redding. It snowed here, New Year; just a dusting. All melting already. Meanwhile in much of the rest of the nation:

Lovely video, but are you thinking of a new place to live? Think Redding California.

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Crabby New Year!

Buz’s Crab is a Redding institution. We are lucky to live within a reasonable radius of a truck drive to the coast for fresh Dungeness Crab. Buz’s always has fresh plenty of fresh seafood. Consequently, this is a very popular tradition around here, making for a tasty but crabby finish to the old year. Happy New Year from ReallyRedding!

Photos from today, by Skip. Buz’s is on East Street in Redding CA.