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Greetings, Quotaholics:
I tried to Tweet but found Twitter was terrible for me. I’m not all that
fond of 140 character sound bites so it proved less useful for any meaningful
connection than I had originally hoped. But I did try.
I believe I would
be considered to be an "adult" by most definitions. I’m over
50 and have had my own AARP card for nearly a decade now (you get one
when a spouse turns 50). I have four lovely grandchildren. I have gray
hair. I’m old enough to play the "remember when" game much to
the dismay of my adult children. Even my baby is over the age of thirty,
an age not to be trusted by the young.
According
to the UPI,
a poll of American adults proved that we "prefer face time to Facebook"
and shun the Internet and social networks. In fact, it is said a large
majority of 90% prefer dealing with people face-to-face rather than via
any technology.
The
survey was done in June and 1,000 adults were polled by Brightkite Inc.
(a social networking service) and GfK Retail and Technology. Of these
1,000 adults (ages not given), half said they don’t use the Internet or
other digital networks.
Women
prefer face-to-face interaction 70 times more than using a social networking
system while men only prefer the human kind of interaction 33 times more,
according to the article.
"Social
networks are a great tool to connect with people, but they don’t replace
the pleasure we get from meeting friends," Brightkite Chief Marketing
Officer Rob Lawson said.
A
second survey of 2,025 adults (also done in June) for LinkedIn Research
Network and done by Harris Interactive showed that 70% of us old coots
don’t know enough about Twitter to make a statement. Being an over achiever,
I’m in the 30% who knew enough to say "I don’t like it."
Perhaps I should
also mention I’m currently reading a book entitled Statistics You Can’t
Trust by Steve Campbell, Ph.D. The subtitle is A Friendly Guide to Clear
Thinking About Statistics in Everyday Life. I’m about half way through
the book. And thinking clearly. I see some flaws.
First
of all, I’m reading secondhand (at least) information in this article.
But even so, there are myriad questions. First of all, what is their definition
of "adult" and who were they talking to? Did they only call
nursing homes and ask to speak to the lucid held within? Even when I worked
in a nursing home (about 8 years ago) they had a computer and the residents
got their e-mail there.
The
other question not answered to my satisfaction is "compared to what?"
My sister came to visit me here this past summer. I just got back from
Florida and saw most of my extended in-law family as my nephew was married
this past weekend. I’ve already seen the pictures of them arriving in
Hawaii and covered in leis. These were all more fun than my social networking
sites. However, I’m back in South Carolina, my in-laws are in Florida
and Ohio, my sisters are in Arizona and Ohio. If I want to talk to them,
I need technology. I can use Facebook or MySpace or even Skype. But I
can’t just hop in the car and meet them for coffee somewhere. This is
better than nothing.
My
children are adults and are very plugged into technology. Perhaps they
meant Senior Citizen or something instead of just adults. But even that
doesn’t seem correct. The people I associate with on a daily basis are
a bunch of grandparents. Even our children are adults. And I mostly talk
to my friends online.
With
a more mobile population, even us old farts aren’t staying in one place
anymore. We have family and friends scattered all over the country – some
even beyond the borders. My brother-in-law (a grandfather) has been on
a "once in a lifetime trip" this summer. He has put over 9,000
miles on his Harley as he toured the country. He has been all over. I
know this because I’ve been following his adventures via Facebook.
Yes, I’m old
and I have a Facebook account. (Sorry, Tim – I know these are rife with
security risks). I only go to MySpace to see my son and daughter-in-law’s
new pictures since they use that instead of Facebook. I tried Tweeting
with Twitter and hated it.
I
have my own web site, two blogs, and I publish via Examiner.com. I’m old
and I use the Internet and social networking sites. And I would love to
meet my old neighbors for a cup of coffee, sitting on the deck like we
used to do. But we are scattered across the Eastern half of the country
now and the best we can do is talk via a social network. It beats nothing.
Do
you use any social networking sites? Can you believe the statistics given
in the article? Do you keep in touch with far flung family and friends
via the electronic world? Are you limited to the old land line phones?
Do you have a cell phone with free minutes after some particular time
of day? Everyone here must have e-mail, that’s how you get the issue.
Do
you have a digital phone? Use Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter or any of
the other myriad places where we can digitally connect? Do you use any
forums as socializing networks? (I use two on a regular basis.) Any other
grandparents here who want to know who in the *&(*^% they were asking
about this stuff?
Technically
speaking,
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“If he was asked at this moment where he would like to be he would probably
have said he would like to be lying on the beach with at least fifty
beautiful women and a small team of experts working out new ways they
could be nice to him.” - Douglas Adams
“There are two types of people–those who come into a room and say,
‘Well, here I am!’ and those who come in and say, ‘Ah, there you are.’”
- Frederick L Collins
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Violin Practice
[Thanks Bonnie]
Little Harold was
practicing the violin in the living room while his father was trying
to read in the den. The family dog was lying in the den, and as the
screeching sounds of little Harold’s violin reached his ears, he began
to howl loudly.
The father listened to the dog and the violin as long as he could.
Finally, when he could take it any longer, he jumped up, and yelled
above the noise, “For Pete’s sake, Harold, can’t you play something
the dog doesn’t know?!”
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“From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.”
“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
“Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.” -
all from Friedrich Engels who died on this date in 1895
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Vampires
The word congers visions of creatures capable of turning into bats to
escape, and back to human so they can feed. But that’s only the movie
version.
In truth, there are a whole lot more creatures that want your blood.
Any given minute holds a creature in ambush hopeful to sneak up on you
and drain you of your life-supporting blood. No, they aren’t like in
the movies. Most of them you may not even see until it is too late.
Let’s start at the top and work our way to the down. About the largest
true vampire is the vampire bat. You will notice these suckers. They
can’t hide well, although they do like using the cover of darkness for
their stealth. They rarely attack humans. Cattle are more plentiful
where they range, so they pretty much stick it to the cattle. Or stick
to cattle. Or both.
Rumor & myth claim vampire birds exist, although all that science
has proven is that carnivorous birds exist, but they are after the meat.
Blood is just a messy result. There are no creatures larger that are
true vampires, except for the mentally challenged humans that make such
claims. What remains are insects.
Mosquitoes are the most abundant of the suckers. We see them almost
every evening in almost every climate. Even in the tundra, when areas
thaw enough to form pools of water, mosquitoes abound. Only the most
arid lands are mosquito free. It is commonly known that the female mosquito
needs blood, or what’s contained in blood, to be able to produce offspring.
Ticks are similar in many ways, although they are ambushers rather than
frontal attackers. Both sense a warm-blooded animal nearby and seek
it out. A mosquito will take it’s meal and be off. But a tick will gorge
itself for a very long time while it’s embedded into your flesh.
There are gnats and mites of various breeds that will feast upon you,
if allowed. "No-See-Ums", a gnat-like creature is so small
that, well, let’s just say they are aptly named. They will eat you alive
as they come in what seems like clouds of them, although they are invisible
clouds. (*scratches head*) Anyway, they do love to slake their thirst
at the expense of people.
One of the worst are chiggers. These ambushers wait in tall grass &
weeds and will join you on your hike. And I do mean join. They crawl
under your skin and stay there, feasting. It looks like a rash, but
it is really VAMPIRES!
Here’s your quiz:
Are you aware of all the potential diseases carried by vampiritic creatures?
Which of these critters are prolific in your area?
Which have you provided a full meal for?
Vampires - More Real Than We Care To Admit
Cliff (the High-Tech
Redneck who doesn’t rate a fancy ’signature pic’) 
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Email Kirsten
“Too
much work, and no vacation,
Deserves at least a small libation.
So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses,
Work’s the curse of the drinking classes. ”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
I love the fact that it is August. It is still officially summer-time,
so a lot of people are away, and the morning commute is a breeze.
The bus is quick, and I can always get a seat on the subway without
a million people trampling all over me in the process. I leave for
work when it is light, and I get home with a couple of hours of daylight
to spare. And now that the summer weather is finally showing signs
of getting off the ground, August means time to enjoy the sun properly.
August is also a time preceding exciting transitions for both of my
boys. My younger son,at the ripe old age of three years and eight
months, will be joining the ranks of school-going children as he heads
off to Junior Kindergarten. He is inordinately excited by this prospect;
the only disappointment for him is that the school is so close to
his daycare that he will, for the time-being at least, miss out on
the opportunity to ride on the school bus. My older son, in the meantime,
is going to be an official First Grader. The transition for him this
year will be extreme - new grade, new teacher, new school, new after-school
daycare, new routine. It is a lot for a regular person to deal with,
never mind a child with autism. But he will take it in his stride.
He may have his challenges, but he’s tough and brave.
Best of all, now that this particular August has started, I can validly
say that I will be going on vacation this month. We are not going
very far afield; we have rented a cottage on the lake about an hour
an a half north of Toronto. It is close enough for us to not require
a second mortgage to cover the gas bill, but far enough for us to
feel that we are getting away. We will also have company: my Mom is
flying out from South Africa to join us and spend time with her grandsons.
This is one of those times when the Internet has made it a lot easier
for us to plan this holiday. When my Mom’s flight dates were firmed
up, I got online and Googled “Ontario cottage rentals”, and came up
with a number of great sites. Because I’m more of a procrastinator
than I’d like to be (translation: I waited until the 99th hour before
looking for a cottage), the pickings were fairly slim. Still, there
were a few nice places available for the timeframe we needed, and
an hour after my initial Google search, I had a decent-looking shortlist.
In the end, I opted for a cottage that is not right on the edge of
the lake. Frankly, the idea of that scares me a little. I don’t see
myself having much of a vacation if I’m permanently chasing the kids
to make sure a water-related tragedy doesn’t happen. So we got a place
that’s a block away from the beach. It also has a fully fenced in
back yard, complete with a play structure for the kids. I have already
started picturing myself sitting out back drinking wine with my Mom
and my husband, while the kids run around having a great time.
This process has led to a somewhat interesting discovery. This weekend,
we decided to take a road trip to see where the cottage is that we
will be staying in. We packed up the kids and a mother-in-law, and
went for a nice drive. We located the cottage, which looks every bit
as nice as the Internet pictures suggest, and we drove around the
neighbourhood. During our travels, we were amazed to discover how
many waterfront properties are for sale. We watch the news, of course,
and we realize that the economic meltdown has forced a lot of people
to sell their “spare” houses, but seeing such blatant evidence of
it was a bit of a shock nonetheless. We looked at these gorgeous houses
as we drove by them, commenting on which ones we would buy if we won
the lottery (or, in my mother-in-law’s case, commenting on which of
the houses Hitler would have lived in - a line of conversation that
my husband and I found both bewildering and hilarious).
But none of us has won the lottery, probably because we never get
around to actually buying a ticket, so we will not be buying any of
the houses anytime soon. We will be content to just stay in one for
two weeks.
That will only happen at the end of August, though. For now, I will
be attempting to write enough articles to fill my space for two weeks
(Mike would give me the time off, but I like to challenge myself and
Mike pays me peanuts as it is). Plus, now that I am a full-time employee
instead of a contractor, there are three words that I can take pleasure
in: Paid Time Off.
Kaleidoscopically yours,
Kirsten
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Today I’m going to talk about a couple of the toys Panda sent me.
If your computer is running slow or acting funny, one of these two
should take care of your problem.
First, there’s
Panda’s SafeCD.
The download is about 130MB, but that’s because it is a disk image.
What you do is download the ZIP file, uncompress it to get the ISO
disk image, and burn that to a CD or USB drive. That creates a bootable
CD/USB. You can then reboot your computer from the CD/USB and whatever
might be infecting your computer doesn’t start. Very often nasties
will either block your antivirus from starting or block it from scanning
the files that are infecting your computer. Since this is actually
a Linux CD/USB, your Windows infection can’t start. Allow it to scan
and clean your computer, then reboot normally.
The second toy
doesn’t work on Vista yet, but will check your Windows PC for rootkits.
Rootkits are really good at hiding themselves. Panda’s Anti-Rootkit
is really good at finding them. It won PC Magazine’s prestigious Editor’s Choice award.
It’s simple to use, just download download the ZIP
file, uncompress it (I put it in my utilities folder c:\util),
and run the PAVARK executable. Click the checkbox for the indepth
scan which requires a reboot, and let it go. You’ll be prompted to
reboot after a few seconds, and when you reboot, the scan starts automatically.
When it’s done,
allow it to clean anything it wants to clean. You’ll probably be asked
to reboot. After that, immediately start a scan with Cloud
Antivirus or the virus solution of your choice. I don’t have any
infections left since Cloud AV took them all out, so you’re on your
own from there.
Be sure to let
me know how it goes, Faithy.
Tim a’Musing
Having a Ball with Friends
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1 tsp. Oregano
1 tsp. Marjoram
1 tsp. Thyme
1 tsp. Basil
1 tsp. Rosemary
1 tsp. Sage
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The advantage to having readers who are smarter
than you is that when you goof up they can catch it for you. I
got the following limerick from E. Cole Aye;
"There
was a young plumber from Lee"
This line is a rerun, you see
So don’t be a goof
I have got the proof
Here’s a bunch written previously. - E. Cole Aye
The
last 5 limericks were the ones he sent. It must have been a good
line. We got lots of submissions! We even brought Lola and
Rick back into the group.
Thanks guys. Sorry for the duplicate line. Let’s try one
that’s a little racy.
Next opening line…
A codgy old whore, named Annie…
Hints:
Here’s a great new rhyming/composition tool. http://www.writerhymes.com/
There’s also a great rhyming dictionary at http://www.rhymezone.com/
Limerick rules. http://freespace.virgin.net/merrick.sheldon/limerickrules.htm
Submit
Opening Line
Submit
Limerick
There
was a young plumber from Lee,
Who wanted to sail on the sea.
But he wasn’t well suited,
And got nightly polluted,
Then would empty his "pipes" nastily. - Lola |
There
was a young plumber from Lee
Who’s butt crack was something to see
It was deep and quite wide
And all hairy inside
And could be seen when he got on his knee. - Rick in Roanoke |
There was
a young plumber from Lee
Whose favorite toilet to use was a tree
But sadly the bloke
Didn’t know poison ivy or oak
Now he’s learned to watch where he pees! - Rebecca in Arizona |
There was
a young plumber from Lee
One day he got down on one knee
He was fixing a clog
But his girlfriend thought wrong
And now she’s his bride-to-be! - Rebecca in Arizona |
There was
a young pumber from Lee
Who charged a very nominal fee
Just don’t make fun
Of the crack in his bum
And he’ll do all your plumbing for free! - Rebecca in Arizona |
There was
a young plumber from Lee…..
No…I’m not him……. not me…….
Burst your water heater………
Please……not Skeeter……..
I’m retired now don’t you see.. - Skeeter |
There was
a young plumber from Lee……..
Who filled the young ladies with glee…..
He had lots of fun……
But was oft forced to run……..
And from irate husbands he’d flee. - Skeeter |
There was
a young plumber from Lee……
Who wouldn’t work for free…….
‘Cept for some honey…….
Who didn’t have money…….
But had a cold glass of tea. - Skeeter |
There was
a young plumber from Lee…….
A fine young lad was he……
He seldom would gripe…….
‘Til he ran out of pipe…….
And couldn’t finish the job for me. - Skeeter |
There was
a young plumber from Lee….
Where in the world could that be…..
Is it South, east or west?
I’ll do my best…
To find that place for thee. - Skeeter |
There was
a young plumber from Lee
Who loved to dance the boogie
He really had a blast
Moving his feet so fast
So fast his feet we could not see! - Anne Onimous |
There was
a young locksmith from Lee
Who loved to sing songs with glee
His boss told him to stop
Singing when in the shop
Because he would always sing off-key. - Anne Onimous |
There was
a young plumber from Lee
Who refused to get down on one knee
Marriage he does oppose.
He will not propose
Why by the cow when you get milk free? - E. Cole Aye |
There once
was a plumber from Lee
Who said, "I spend my cash sparingly.
I hate to be a bore
But the thing I like more
Is when I can get something for free." - E. Cole Aye |
There once
was a plumber from Lee
Who loved to fish, naturally.
Though he caught many fish
Most he would dismiss
The sole kind he kept was the crappie. - E. Cole Aye |
There once
was a plumber from Lee
Who glared and said rather tersely,
"I cleaned out your trap
That was clogged with crap
The least you can now do is pay me." - E. Cole Aye |
There once
was a plumber from Lee
Who with all the girls was friendly
His name they would proclaim
Whenever he came
Until he shared with them an STD. - E. Cole Aye
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There once
was a plumber from Lee
Who badly needed to take a pee
The outhouse line was long
And though he knew it’s wrong
He took a leak behind a tree. - E. Cole Aye |
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Re:
Climate
I
think that there is already a campaign to shade the earth using Chemtrails
- seeding to produce clouds instead of rain. It is hard to separate
out the various things that affect weather but a program like that could
start incrementally, and be tinkered with to produce data.
There isn’t
nearly as much debate about global warming as you might think -the naysayers
have the money to amplify their message. We are having a cool summer
here, after narrowly missing a drought. There might be a lot more hungry
people soon. The spotty cool temperatures and odd weather patterns might
be from still-melting ice, but the unusual lack of solar storms is also
a big factor. For years, it has been pointed out that global warming
won’t be an evenly-distributed thing - the worse effect on agriculture
is from unpredictable new weather patterns.
Cap-and-trade
is just a sop to a marginally-informed public and a new opportunity
to make money. A carbon tax gives a realistic hope for change. I think
we should be busy pulling carbon back out of the air, to avert catastrophe.
See http://www.350.org/ The ancient
coral reef where I had the peak experience of my childhood is almost
dead, mountaintop glaciers which are the source of many major rivers
are shrinking radically, and a freighter is planning to take a short
cut through the Arctic ocean this summer. That’s hot enough for me,
even if I’m not getting any of it here. - Bob of the North
The biggest problem with solving
climate problems is definitely people. Small countries attempt to bring
technology and progress to their people, who also have little idea there
can be a global effect (or don’t care or believe it). Big countries
have financial giants who apparently don’t give a darn whether their
own grandkids grow up or not as long as the money in the bank keeps
growing. Addressing how to lower emissions to some fictional before-man-mechanized
point is about equal to expecting all humans everywhere to agree to
stop making war. War makes a mess, uses up tons of fossil fuels, requires
tools that make jobs available to folks who bar-b-que or go to entertainments
on week-ends and Must Own faster vehicles, bigger TV sets, the latest
dinky phones, and everything else advertised, and where in all this
do you find recycle bins on EVERY home’s curb on collection day or anybody
at all trying to find something better to replace plastics in everything
we eat, wear, breathe and own and get all people in all nations to accept
it? "They" are finally admitting out loud that Microwavable
Plastics mean the plastic won’t melt in the microwave - it just off-gases
into the food chemicals we shouldn’t be consuming but HAVE been eating
and breathing in for a long time - with what physical effects? Retardation,
autism, allergies have all increased globally a lot faster than population
growth.
About the only thing that has actually changed on Earth in the past
couple hundred years is the Fast Track to acquiring Stuff, and more
people in more places doing it. For a good 50 years we have not solved
any problem and made a solution permanent or universal. Reminders are
everywhere. We have never completely eliminated any disease. Polio and
Mumps etc. are lurking out there for those who think they are "gone"
and don’t inoculate their kids. So why should we assume a group of scientists
can control weather and not make an enormous mess of it? You can’t simply
try out an idea that huge and shrug when it doesn’t work. - Nancy L
in Ohio
Seems like mother nature has done her job pretty well for the past 6,000
years (or billions of years, depending on who’s doing the counting).
I really hate to see MAN get involved in it - look at what happens when
he tries to cut open a cocoon or break open an egg ready to hatch -
things just don’t come out right. - Noella
Mike asked: Do you think attempting
to shade the earth sounds like a workable idea?
No. It just sounds like a bad idea.
Would you be
in favor of such an attempt? Heck no. What’s next? Pushing the
moon into a more distant orbit to reduce beach erosion through lessened
tidal action?
Do you think
scientists understand the problem well enough to proceed with plans
like this? No. They don’t understand the climate well enough to
say with any degree of certainty that humanity is actually having a
negative impact and that anything needs fixed. (Rampant rhetoric to
the contrary aside.)
What if some
country attempted this and it had a negative impact on your country?
That’s why we have a stockpile of really big bombs isn’t it – to
prevent things like that from happening? And yes, I’m serious. Any attempt
by any nation to so drastically alter the planet’s climate is a threat
to all nations and should be met without whatever degree of force is
required to prevent such action. - Tammy in Alabama
I think that governments need to take action and not worry weather 
or not they will be re-elected. It should be a decision based on the
best interest of all. Harper is so worried because he has a minority
government that he won’t do anything that might upset the oil industry
and might loose the next elections or worst, get a non confidence vote
before his 4 years are up. But I don’t think we should mess with the
environement other than reduce our carbon emission. We should all try
to do something and not just let our governments be in charge of all
the decisions because we know that they will not on their own do anything.
I would be very upset if any contry tried to shade the earth. What if
the scientist made a mistake and there was too much shading or a volcano
errupted and did a double shading? Scientists should not play God with
the environment, no matter how much we have learned over the centuries,
we’re still not good enough to know the exact outcome. There are too
many unkowns to take such a risk. - Nathalie in Montreal
The arrogance of some “scientists”
is quite amazing. They tell us that the surface temperature of VENUS
is 860 deg F. and go on to say that a 1.3 degree rise in temperature
over one century on this planet will cause catastrophic results. The
credibility of our esteemed “scientists” in the minds of those who don’t
study is staggering. If we were to infuse some type of element into
the stratosphere, do they realize that we would have to cover 794,480,630.427957344256
SQUARE MILES of stratosphere! (based on the calculation of sphere areas
surface area = 4pr2) Has any “scientist” have any clue how big that
number is?
So we look to the “bastion” of accuracy regarding what the hell is going
on in this world, “National Geographic”, who says By
2050 Global Warming Will Doom A Million Species (National Geographic–
2004). No reason to be alarmed by this casual comment by the god
of environmentalists, right? Some sources say we only have 4 to 5 million
species on Earth, so are we to expect that one-fifth will be eradicated
by 2050? Well, hell’s bells, in 2050 they will say, “sorry, we were
wrong”. NO SHIT, SHERLOCK… your ilk have been making catastrophic predictions
since you’ve had the media in your back pocket and on a regular basis
we hear, “the experts were amazed”… well BITE ME, assholes, that’s just
a diplomatic way of saying you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking
about! (OK, I have been told by leadership on this website that I have
a tendency to get a little animated and display marked acrimony in my
responses so I’m going to go downstairs and take some of my blood pressure
medication… (sorry, guys, I’m not being a smart ass… I just I don’t
want to be dispassionate when our country is at risk.))
Alright, I’ve been professionally medicated, so I can continue. Until
1978 I lived in “Kaleeforneeah” and we could grow ANYTHING, with an
average temperature of 70 degrees, now I live in Colorado, where the
yearly mean temp. is somewhere around 49.75 and you can’t grow shit.
I remember harvesting oranges in JANUARY and being able to grow ANY
DAMN THING I WANT ALL YEAR LONG and these dickweeds are saying that
a rise in temperature is a BAD THING?!!! Where the hell are the worshipped
rain forests… near the damned equator, where are kids being taught in
public school that rain forests are being clear-cut so people can cultivate
farms so they won’t STARVE, in the former RAIN-FORESTS, so it seems
that what we need to do is “shit-or-get-of-the-pot”… are WE the top
of the food chain, or do we need to defer to the “Gaia-Principle” enviro-worshipper
people who think that the Earth is God and we are subject to “her” to
the point of extinquishing ourselves to perpetuate a sphere of DRIED
MUD that has no soul or spirit?!
Well, my opinion is to let “nature take her course”, because the old
broad is probably having hot flashes anyway! - Bruce in Colorado
Re: Hallmark Greetings
Uncle Dad - don’t they have those in Arkansas too? - Noella
[I
didn’t write the joke, I just passed it on. But yeah it would
probably apply here too!]
Re: Ernie Pyle
Thanks for the quotes from
Ernie Pyle. He has long been a favorite of mine since I discovered him
while I was in college. He was a favorite columnist of many great people
of his time, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt. I have 2 of
his books. He had a style of writing I have often tried to emulate,
but of which he was the master. He would keep the story simple, and
let the facts speak for themselves. If anyone out in RGQ land has the
chance to read any of his work I highly recommend you do so. You will
not be disappointed. - Kathy
Re: Cliff and Frogs
They ARE louder this year. Strangely, even though I’m almost 65, I’d
never even heard of tree frogs until a few years ago when I was out
riding with my husband, but then I’d never heard the term "pull
my finger" until I met him 6 years ago.
All this time I thought the noise I was hearing was crickets or cicadas
(though I know they come out only every 7 years or so - I just thought
that maybe it was this year’s particular group for their 7 years.
Anyway, we were driving out in the country and as we were driving along,
I noticed a sort of rhythm to the noise - I’d hear the noise, then it’d
be quiet. I’d hear the noise again and then it was quiet again. When
I mentioned it to my husband, he told me about tree frogs, and sure
enough, I listened as we drove. When we came to an area filled with
trees, there was the noise; when we drove by an open field, it was quiet.
I’ve never SEEN a tree frog though, which has to be amazing as there
must be millions of them, at least according to all the noise they make
around here at night. - Noella
[Actually, there
are a few subspecies of cicada that are annual visitors. And there are
cicadas that are cyclic, but are on a different timetable than the others.
Just so’s ya know. - Cliff, the High Tech Redneck]
Re: Cliff and Wood
When in Hong Kong it was amazing
to see that ALL the scaffolding on all the building construction sites,
including the high rises, was made out of bamboo lashed together. At
the time I couldn’t help but think what OSHA would have to say about
that here. Bamboo is amazing stuff. - Lola
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