Inventive advertising isn't it. Authorities though are questioning if they got a permit to paint the fields outside the airport with their ad. I just had a hardy chuckle when I found this on the net.
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Night Funny
Inventive advertising isn't it. Authorities though are questioning if they got a permit to paint the fields outside the airport with their ad. I just had a hardy chuckle when I found this on the net.
Gabrielle
Tropical Storm Gabrielle 'slammed' into the coast of North Carolina today full of bark but no bite. Now if we can escape the rest of hurricane season with any more 'storms' let them be Gabrielle's as well ... no more Hugo's and Floyd's.
Cast Picnic
We had our annual cast picnic today for the returning cast and new cast to meet and greet for the upcoming RenFaire. It was good to see a lot of familiar faces again and it gave the Mrs., a chance to be out and about after her stay in the hospital.
While at this shindig I thought of what one of those internet trolls keeps trying to convince themselves and others of ... that I (along with select others -those who disagree with them), am an old and lonely and bored man and laughed hysterically at the thought ... which in that crowd nobody even raised an eyebrow when I laughed at "nothing" - ok, so a couple of the new cast members had confused looks on their faces until I explained what it was I was laughing about and even they where puzzled as to why the troll would think that ... I am one of the 'lives of the party' and they could tell right away.
With the production of the RenFaire and the Highland Games as well as several 'theater' productions each year, seeing my patients, helping at the butcher shop, working on the farm, writing my books and this and her sister Blog, participating in several internet forums and more, 'bored' isn't a word myself or others who know me would use to describe me, tired, maybe, but not bored!
So much for the cognitive skills of internet trolls!
While at this shindig I thought of what one of those internet trolls keeps trying to convince themselves and others of ... that I (along with select others -those who disagree with them), am an old and lonely and bored man and laughed hysterically at the thought ... which in that crowd nobody even raised an eyebrow when I laughed at "nothing" - ok, so a couple of the new cast members had confused looks on their faces until I explained what it was I was laughing about and even they where puzzled as to why the troll would think that ... I am one of the 'lives of the party' and they could tell right away.
With the production of the RenFaire and the Highland Games as well as several 'theater' productions each year, seeing my patients, helping at the butcher shop, working on the farm, writing my books and this and her sister Blog, participating in several internet forums and more, 'bored' isn't a word myself or others who know me would use to describe me, tired, maybe, but not bored!
So much for the cognitive skills of internet trolls!
Panthers Win
The Carolina Panthers opened the 2007 - 08 season with a win, drubbing the St. Louis Rams 27 to 13.
In a tipping pool I am involved in I am at 80% on my predictions for week one so far ... would be higher but the Packers just pissed a victory out of the horrid game they played that was a gift from the Eagles and the Titans winning - something I saw as possible but went with the Jaguars anyway and of course the 'ain'ts showed up for the second half Thursday night in place of the Saints and where hosed by the Colts would should not win any more this season.
It looks to stay at 80% too; not bad for opening week.
In a tipping pool I am involved in I am at 80% on my predictions for week one so far ... would be higher but the Packers just pissed a victory out of the horrid game they played that was a gift from the Eagles and the Titans winning - something I saw as possible but went with the Jaguars anyway and of course the 'ain'ts showed up for the second half Thursday night in place of the Saints and where hosed by the Colts would should not win any more this season.
It looks to stay at 80% too; not bad for opening week.
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Some profound thoughts!
Found this as I was perusing the Scrutiny Hooligans Blog and thought damn that's some good words there, so I brought them here.
*****
"The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die when you are dead.
To love, to be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to it's lair.
To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power.
Above all, to watch.
To try and understand.
To never look away.
And, never, never forget."
~ Arundhati Roy
And I Quote
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
~ Doug Larson
Creator of "The Far Side" comic strip.
Creator of "The Far Side" comic strip.
Daily Word
Today's Daily Word is:
Valkyr (val' - kir) n - (Norse Theology) One of Odin's nine handmaidens, who conduct the souls of the slain heroes to Valhalla.
Friday, September 7, 2007
Must have hit on something.
Nearly 2200 souls have checked into this Blog and her sister Blog. Not too shabby for a Blog that has been relatively unadvertised and only a few days over two months old. Most are regular readers. Must have hit on something with this Blog and her sister Blog, I must've.
Thanks everybody
Thanks everybody
The Western Is Back
Ah, the days of my youth! Hallelujah, the Western is back!3:10 to Yuma marks the return to the Western of yore reminding me of many Saturday morning sitting in the back row at the 'picture show' as the good guys beat the bad guys and got the girl.
Saddle'em up boys!
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Dinner with Bill
Had dinner with Bill yesterday, hadn't seen him in a bit.
Busy campaigning for his wife these days.
Was like old times and it gave the local neo-cons the shivering fits the fact that he was in town.
Busy campaigning for his wife these days.
Was like old times and it gave the local neo-cons the shivering fits the fact that he was in town.
Home Sweet Home
The Mrs., finally made it home from the hospital today, but still has to have a nurse come by for the next ten days to give her antibiotics by IV - she was a sicker puppy than she knew. Lucky for us it was not the blood clots in her lungs this time, just a massive urinary tact infection and a general body infection.
Bladder and urinary tact infections are more common than people are willing to admit among women ... but the Mrs., will not be stubborn about any future ones - and go to the doctor earlier and tell me about it sooner ... I will be more stubborn about her doing just that!
Bladder and urinary tact infections are more common than people are willing to admit among women ... but the Mrs., will not be stubborn about any future ones - and go to the doctor earlier and tell me about it sooner ... I will be more stubborn about her doing just that!
Microwavers Beware!
Microwavers beware! That hot buttery popcorn you are popping could be giving you lung cancer!A rare form of lung cancer has been linked to the artificial butter and the microwaving process and prolonged exposure leads to contracting the disease.
While this is news and worthy of notice I would like us to admit to ourselves once and for all that "everything" causes cancer ... it is just a matter of 'how much' of whatever it is to make it cause cancer that should be the concern; for example, pure clean water can cause cancer as cancer is naught save an abnormal growth of a cell, however the amount of pure clean water it would take to cause cancer would never be reached by any human - for they would literally explode from the amount of pure clean water taken in and retained by the body long before the level of 'cancer causing' amounts was near.
The 'scare' tactic of such announcements for sale a product, boycott a product, etc., is what is going on with these 'announcements' ... and it works too!.
Goodbye and Ciao
Pavarotti has died at age 71.The world is diminished.
This Tenor did more to make classical and opera a "new" found musical genre than any other singer in the last 100 years.
Goodbye and Ciao Pavarotti.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Caveman
The 'caveman' has come a long way from D. W. Griffith's version in the 1916 film Man's Genesis to Ringo Starr uttering the famous line "Atouk zug zug Tala?" in the 1981 comedy Caveman.
Now thanks to an ad campaign by a low cost auto insurance company the 'caveman' is getting his on TV sitcom . (Not really sure if that's a ascent or a descent, though). ABC will broadcast the show this fall - the trick question is whether a quirky ad campaign can translate into a sitcom will be answered quickly this fall.
More History
History was made the other day and some of you may have missed it.
For the first time in recorded history two hurricanes hit land on the same day from opposite oceans. "Felix" slammed into Honduras from the Atlantic and "Henriette" plowed into Baja California from the Pacific.
This is fascinating stuff ... if you aren't living in Honduras and Baja California that is ... and has the scientific community aflutter when activity - even to the point some of the sellouts to corporate interests are rethinking their positions on global warming because of this phenomena.
For the first time in recorded history two hurricanes hit land on the same day from opposite oceans. "Felix" slammed into Honduras from the Atlantic and "Henriette" plowed into Baja California from the Pacific.
This is fascinating stuff ... if you aren't living in Honduras and Baja California that is ... and has the scientific community aflutter when activity - even to the point some of the sellouts to corporate interests are rethinking their positions on global warming because of this phenomena.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Aviation Adventurer Missing
Steve Fossett - the first man to circle the globe in a balloon solo and the plane he was flying in went missing after taking off from a Nevada airstrip yesterday.
Teams are out in the rugged Nevada terrain looking for the plane as we speak. Hopefully all aboard are well.
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