Thoughts, ideas, tips, musings, and pontifications. . .not necessarily in that order.
Saturday, July 26th, 2008
By now I’m sure you have heard of the passing of Randy Pausch. I saw his lecture on youtube last October and passed the link on to as many people as I knew. I also told them to have tissues or a hankie nearby. If you have not seen the lecture, please do. If you have not read the book, please do.
Your life will change.
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
How come we choose from two people to run for President & over fifty for Miss America ?
Why is it our children can’t read a Bible in school, but they can in prison?
Why do I have to swear on the Bible in court when the Ten Commandments cannot be displayed outside?
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
I received this as a spam email today. If anyone knows the author, please let me know. Yes I grew up with english, but I wonder what foreigners think when they undertake learning the language?
“We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes, One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice, If the plural of man is always called men, If I speak of my foot and show you my feet, If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, Beware of heard, a dreadful word If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? Reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English:
1) I did not object to the object. You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language And that is just the beginning
But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
Why shouldn’t the plural of pan be called pen?
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
Why shouldn’t the plural of booth be called beeth?
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the
same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
2) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
3) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
4) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
5) The farmer could produce produce.
in which your house can burn up as it burns down,
in which you fill in a form by filling it out,
and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
even though this is the end.”
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Rest in peace George Carlin….$%@&*
Seven Words….. his best know skit and the one that set him on to stardom. Now before you watch, do you know the 7 words you can’t say on television?
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
No not really, but including this blog, I try to manage 3 different weblogs and they have been getting bombarded with “sex spam.” In addition, some robot keeps getting into all my index.php files and adding some scripts into each which makes the blog’s feed invalid. So, readers and subscribers can’t get automatic updates. I’ve been going through each file and clearing out the garbage….times 3. I am recovering, but I also need to “harden” the websites to make them a little tougher to hack. Wish me luck….and thanks for your perseverance by checking in every once in a while.
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
…the first Friday in May is “No Pants Day.” No fooling…check here!
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Albert Hofmann died Tuesday at 102 years of age.
Hofmann’s most famous discovery happened on April 16, 1943. He was researching the synthesis of a lysergic acid compound, LSD-25, when he inadvertently absorbed a bit through his fingertips. Intrigued by the effect it had on his perception, Hofmann decided further exploration was warranted. Three days later, on April 19, he ingested 250 milligrams of LSD, embarking on the first full-fledged acid trip. That day became known among LSD fans as “bicycle day” because Hofmann began experiencing the drug’s intense effects on his bicycle trip home from the lab.
Read all about it at the Telegraph.
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
So what? I don’t care who is using steroids. If someone is willing to shrink up their own genitalia, so be it. What pisses me off is the media overload…it’s on TV, papers, magazine and radio. And why is Congress using my tax money to create their own reality show? Are there not “real” problems our Congress should be working on?
Steroids are bad, never used ‘em, never will. But I also don’t care what others choose to do to their own bodies. Actually, I’m in favor of anything that puts any amount of action into a baseball game 
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Does the national media have any responsibility to not broadcast or print our “in-house” secrets? Watch this report from NBC News that pretty much says, “attention all bad guys….now is the time to mess with us…because we can’t do anything about it, hahaha!”
How does that help anything? How is that news we can use? I’m assuming “we” are not the bad guys.