tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112955672011-07-28T17:54:16.659-05:00Contents may vary under pressure.Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.comBlogger901100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-78305664545454390042009-08-16T13:31:00.000-05:002009-08-16T13:32:51.927-05:00

Just showing Blogs to Killernashville.

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-63605820512143724742008-03-29T12:53:00.003-05:002008-03-29T12:57:16.204-05:00

Sorry gang,This blog is being set adrift. Work and Writing is taking up too much of my time to give a blog the attention it needs to grow, or at least not die.A new blog, work related is coming soon.It will relate, for those who need and care, technology tips for the rest of us.We all see tips show up that involve either for the latest and greatest mega buck technology tools, or the ones that,

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-39157919802252749102008-02-18T22:54:00.002-06:002008-02-18T22:58:52.919-06:00

The February AW Blogchain was/is on the subject of "balance". Somewhere during readingMiss Colby's post in the chain my mind churned up this:On a new pencil, the lead side is 6 1/2 inches long. The eraser is only 1/4 inch.Something about those numbers, I think, means that pencils were designed for first drafts.

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-66821967800395319302008-02-14T21:33:00.004-06:002008-02-15T09:03:16.918-06:00

---OK, granted. You can't blame St. Valentine, or even Cupid. We (meaning people) did it to ourselves. Pick a store, any store. It's been there since before New Year's Eve. You know what I mean. The Valentine's chocolate aisle.Flowers die. Diamonds carry a guilt all their own. Chocolate? Goes with every outfit. Every outfit but that pesky swimsuit, right? So, how to keep the weight

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-68848852702152421222008-02-12T14:28:00.003-06:002008-02-14T21:31:06.313-06:00

I've volunteered to be a part of the AW February Blog Chain. The subject is "Balance".My turn is coming up in a few, in the meantime, Make some time for a word or two from these nice folks?The Unfocused LifeAuria CortesSpontaneous DerivationOrganized ChaosThe Writer's Round-AboutSpynotesWilliebeeEven in a Little ThingSpittin' (out words) Like a LlamaA Thoughtful LifeLife in ScribbletownMy Path

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-46231684052141450162008-02-06T14:02:00.000-06:002008-02-06T14:32:16.145-06:00

Regardless of which side of the ballot you march on, March. Vote. Be Heard.The primaries are just that, primary. The campaigns are a long way from over.Above and beyond that, consider this, please:Then consider this: The speech was given on January 8th.The song and the video were produced and hit the streets in less than a month.Less than a week later it has been seen by more than a million

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-16257335467748754152008-01-31T21:43:00.000-06:002008-01-31T21:50:05.269-06:00

--The Republican Debate this week was interesting, if only for the backdrop. Did you know that Ronald Reagan's Presidential Library has a plane in it?Turns out, yeah. President Reagan had Air Force One completely remodeled while he was in office, and then took it home with him. Now it's on display at his library.They wouldn't let me check it out, though.But turning in the inter-library loan

EldonHugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15354873696259005276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-53345483502617523472008-01-27T02:52:00.000-06:002008-01-27T03:16:16.346-06:00

Technology today continues to scream along at light speed, bouncing through one prism after another, each new beam racing away to find a prism of it's own to multiply and fracture itself through.I was trying to find an example of just how far and how fast personal computing technology has evolved and came across this:It's from Weezer's "Buddy Holly" video. (Yeah, I could have embedded it here in

EldonHugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15354873696259005276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-87660352482113229422008-01-14T12:34:00.000-06:002008-01-14T22:01:46.219-06:00

---Some times dreams just offer a peek at the story waiting around the bend...“There’s no truth to the rumors that Rounder Jon escaped from the clutches of the Sand People,” I said loudly. I’d been listening to the three men at the bar argue and debate the stories and rumors that surrounded the old tide runner for over an hour. “What was that?” The youngest and loudest of them assaulted me

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-66008252370667836492008-01-10T22:56:00.000-06:002008-01-12T23:37:18.063-06:00

---Join me in some light reading?EldonHughes has a new story running over atI Found A Knife:Willie & Frank -- Shakespeare and Chemistry.I also spent part of the week going back to the old school; Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep". It's one of Time's all time 100 Novels, written in 1939.Are you into Film Noir? Open this book, pick any paragraph and read aloud."I was neat, clean, shaved and

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-7066944373260377702008-01-05T18:13:00.000-06:002008-01-05T18:23:41.739-06:00

---Some of the local churches (some, not all are invited...) did a light show in the park again this year. Some of the displays included live animals and people.They depict the scene at the inn, (Joseph and Mary outside the inn. Mary is riding a donkey. A friend of mine provides some of the animals. I think he does it just so he can drive by this scene and say, "Hey you. Get off my ass.")

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-91517898532996686322007-12-10T21:29:00.000-06:002007-12-12T23:24:02.172-06:00

--Jen, who is most definitely a Chic Chick has chucked the mouse my way,so here we go...The AW December Blog chain is almost halfway gone, as is the month of December,("Christmas times a'comin', Christmas times a'comin'!")I wanted to take the topic back to the top, with lists.But only because I wanted to pass on something that happened this last weekend.I was reading Christmas stories to kids

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-11716024341371189692007-09-21T08:47:00.000-05:002007-09-21T08:59:58.098-05:00

Check this out. Read a few paragraphs in.Go find a few more stories on this. Check out the news stories on it.Did Mattel just fold and put their manufacturer ahead of their customers?Am I wrong on this? (hey, it's happened before....)But if I'm right, Mattel's not getting another dime from me. It isn't just the patriotism issue, it's the practicality... the safety.If they, as the customer,

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-24976267560012426692007-09-08T08:28:00.000-05:002007-09-08T08:44:19.848-05:00

---When it comes to news in print (digital or old school) I tend to read the top three paragraphs or so of ongoing stories, and the last couple paragraphs of new ones.With old or ongoing stories there's rarely anything new after the first few 'graphs. So, you can stay up to date just by reading the first couple paragraphs. The rest is regurgitated words from past stories, used to fill the

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-4233295336342544812007-08-27T22:21:00.000-05:002007-08-27T22:32:49.280-05:00

---There's one of those marquee signs on a trailer just south of town. It sits next to an open chain link gate.It reads: Henry's Gifts and DecorWE HAVE LIVE WORMSI don't have anything to add to this. You're on your own.

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-59631731243365831162007-08-25T21:38:00.000-05:002007-08-25T21:46:48.033-05:00

---Dinner ImpossibleTonite's challenge -- You're on a beautiful, picturesque small island in the South Pacific. You've got a box of vanilla wafers, two cans of spray whip creme and a 40 year old Hershey bar. And here are your guests, 300 cannibals. Bon Apetit!

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-2056784747798280432007-08-04T21:34:00.000-05:002007-08-04T21:45:14.313-05:00

-- We've had decades of professional sports figures arrested or investigated (not always both, interestingly enough) for wife beating, drunk driving, dealing, distributing, using drugs, yadda, yadda.A pro quarterback gets busted for dog fighting and the media goes nuts on it.I mean, the only way this should have gotten this kind of press coverage is if he was actually fighting dogs. Lots of

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-89679673948044636682007-07-20T07:36:00.000-05:002007-07-20T07:47:34.256-05:00

--Last week "Elvis" appeared at the local VFW. It was big news in town. The local Walgreens was having a sale on cheesy "E" memorabilia. (What I want to see? A mashup of Elvis and Python memorabilia. Stuff like the "I'm not dead yet." t-shirt would take on a whole different meaning. OR! "I'm not dead yet." on the front, and on the back: "And I am NOT working at your K-Mart!"Anyway, DB is

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-43029414445941942612007-07-03T23:07:00.000-05:002007-07-03T23:14:34.147-05:00

...We had another episode of the monthly (or so) home refrigerator game--Can You Guess What This Was?As with all made up off the top of my head games, there are rules:Rule 1) You must make your guess before whatever it was disappears down the garbage disposal.Rule 2) You only get one look at whatever it was (while it's on its way to said disposal.)Rule 3) The second person guessing is allowed

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-1154662581036632007-06-24T11:48:00.001-05:002007-06-24T11:50:19.588-05:00

...Mrs. Thomas, over to the Farm Bureau? You know, the one with 7 kids and a half dozen grandkids? She had hip replacement last week. She had the doctor put a bear trap in next to where her purse usually hangs. She says the kids still beg for money, but they're taking No a lot more seriously....

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-90847901118507748722007-06-18T17:19:00.000-05:002007-06-18T17:27:39.068-05:00

Standing out in my sun stroked backyard I realized how, with but one small sentence, I could demonstrate the vast gulf that exists between how I am similar to, say Marilyn Monroe and yet, how very, very different. Observe:We might have stood, side by side, and announced: "Oh man, am I hot."We would both have been so right... but Sooo different.

EldonHugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15354873696259005276noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-35822543550555704582007-06-10T00:34:00.000-05:002007-06-10T00:43:22.654-05:00

Lest ye mere mortals have any doubt that our cats are teaching us their language, I offer this:Meh.If you blog, or regularly read blogs, you already know what it means, the ultimate in "yeah, so what?"Call the cat? You get Meh-ow. Offer the cat something she thinks is boring? Meh-ow.Hold the door open with the cat sitting right in front of it, pretending she want's out? Meh-ow.Meh. We're

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-63936529065462068732007-06-08T22:48:00.000-05:002007-06-08T23:42:44.376-05:00

---Chains that find me. Chains that bind me. Chains to make me see.As I said a couple posts ago, I volunteered for the AW Blogchain. Kelly at Organized Chaos just tagged me, so here we go:The Chain started with Courage, and ran from comfort foods to food security, to the amazing conditions that people often elect to live in, in order to live in Alaska. Let's touch on all of that, shall we?

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-1197603866222387972007-06-03T21:36:00.000-05:002007-06-03T21:37:39.735-05:00

--If it's not appropriate to teach a child to smoke, is it child abuse to make them sit in the smoking section of a restaurant?Or, is it just stupid?

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-76445296842945190432007-06-01T20:32:00.000-05:002007-06-01T20:42:48.920-05:00

Every now and then you have to jump with full keyboard into something you've never done before.So, I agreed to participate in the absolutewrite.com current Blogchain, #9. The idea, as I understand it is, one person posts on their blog, then each person in turn creates a post that has something to do with the previous poster's post. Also, pre-post and post-post you are supposed read the posts

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-77515289932817439482007-05-31T19:27:00.000-05:002007-06-08T23:48:02.323-05:00

So a friend gave DB (Darling Bride) an i-Dog the other day. If you haven't seen one, it shakes its head and lights up and the ears move.. in time with the music it hears. Apparently you can hit a button and reset it's personality.(Way ahead of you: Right now I have a dozen science fiction fans and scientists locked in a small room until they figure out how to do this Robert Tilton.)After you

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-13974713525284546112007-05-31T15:43:00.000-05:002007-05-31T15:52:57.624-05:00

This from CNN this morning: Somebody talked someone with more money than sense into creating a Harry Potter theme park.From the story:"In a statement rich in entertainment hyperbole, the builders of "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter" said they planned to "create the world's first immersive Harry Potter themed environment."Ignoring the fact that the LAST BOOK comes out this summer, so the

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-83613590506542815492007-05-19T21:29:00.000-05:002007-05-19T21:33:44.649-05:00

There's a restaurant down the road with a sign out front that reads: Congratulations SeniorsGraduating Class of 2007Server wanted.In my head I'm hearing Green Day--"I hope you had the time of your life...."

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-8997878651514483312007-05-10T03:22:00.001-05:002007-05-10T20:32:53.811-05:00

Can the most joyous thing you've seen in awhile also be one of the saddest? Turns out.. yeah."My Generation"

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-28601566139536839802007-05-08T23:27:00.000-05:002007-05-08T23:36:24.151-05:00

CruiserMel tagged me while I wasn't looking. Figured it had to happen sooner or later., You KNOW how bad she's always wanted to. A - Available or Single? For parties, bar mitzvahs, weddings, Hell, I’d sing for soup.B - Best Friend? DB (Darling Bride) —for 25 years now.C - Cake or Pie? Cake, “I don’t want to be in a pie… I don’t like gravy.”D - Drink of Choice? The next oneE - Essential Item

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-10599916828066304072007-05-01T22:51:00.000-05:002007-05-01T23:03:22.246-05:00

CNN Headlines tonite: New Immigration test reads like Jeopardy. They have a video clip. Son of a gun. It really does. I was a little bit heartened by the fact that most of the U.S. Citizens that they found on the street could answer most of the questions they were asked. I really was expecting it to sound like another Leno bit.Elsewhere, Tom Poston died today. Too Bad. He'd have laughed 'til he

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-53639392472154405352007-04-28T21:24:00.000-05:002007-04-28T21:56:59.056-05:00

---In the last month I've been to the original Hancock Fabrics, in Paducah, KY, and spent the night in one of the very first Howard Johnson's, in Asheville, NC. Dear Lord, I ought to be at least 70.Surprisingly not, though. Not the point.The Point?Spent the day with DB (Darling Bride) and a couple of friends, trying not to get run over by overzealous quilters with sharp needles at the American

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-62584382590865787212007-04-24T22:52:00.000-05:002007-04-24T23:07:00.737-05:00

--Soapbox alert--What happens in Vegas only stays in Vegas if you were the only one there when it happened, but what happens on the Internet stays on the Internet... maybe forever.Don't believe me? Google Vanessa Williams and Playboy. Or, e-mail Alec Baldwin in a couple months... or years.Or, visit the Wayback Machine (Why, that's keen Mr. Peabody!)Now, to hammer it home one more time. Take 75

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-16641457152803226382007-04-15T19:45:00.000-05:002007-04-15T19:50:55.471-05:00

Been watching Planet Earth?Not a lot of TV gets watched around our house, but this we've made time for. Beautiful images, some interesting information. And lots of things eating other things.It's as if something eating something else is scripted into the schedule. (OK, coming up on four minutes with the pretty seals, Cue tape two, bring on the sharks.)So much so that, the catch phrase for the

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-87308680873917462252007-04-13T13:10:00.000-05:002007-04-13T13:18:10.918-05:00

From USATODAY today:"STUDY: Abstinence classes don't stop sex"And, inside the story, this:"The students who participated in abstinence education did so for one to three years. Their average age was 11 to 12 when they entered the programs back in 1999."So, at least a recordable percentage of these kids had sex WHILE enrolled in the abstinence classes?

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-52664517862070756252007-04-12T12:35:00.000-05:002007-04-12T12:39:55.385-05:00

This just in:Nestle is buying Gerber Baby Food . (The company, not mashed carrots and green beans, silly.)Ooooh Chocolate Strained Peas!!!What interested me was that Gerber's previous owner was a drug company -- Novartis.What, we can't grow healthy kids through chemistry, so we're going back to chocolate?Wait.. sign me up.

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-17969445609966869492007-04-10T09:07:00.000-05:002007-04-10T09:14:34.735-05:00

Darn it, I missed it!The 40th anniversary of the CIA's "Acoustic Kitty" project was last month.Apparently, back in March of '67 The CIA got the idea to surgically insert microphones and transmitters into trained cats, with the idea that they would walk around the parks and neighborhoods of subversive characters and "listen in".This from an old Guardian article: "Having wired their first trained

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-58512840878392334722007-04-07T19:45:00.000-05:002007-04-07T22:39:23.553-05:00

Sunday marks the end of the chocolate season.I wrote about this awhile back.Happy Easter, anyway!And then, there's this:If you want one, you can get it from cafepress.com.And, lest we forget, Peeps in Peril. These guys really know how to handle their Peeps.

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-66178467399756735752007-04-01T19:45:00.000-05:002007-04-01T19:56:26.026-05:00

---ICANN has rejected, yet again, the .xxx domain suffix.The proposal was, basically this: Any website that carried adult oriented content, would be given the .xxx suffix. Adult oriented businesses complained, saying that it was a free speech issue, but more realistically because they were going to have to fork over another 10 bucks a year for yet another domain name.Because, let's face it.

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-13938678391949379732007-03-29T10:49:00.000-05:002007-03-29T10:55:22.726-05:00

It's 1 A.M.---You're drunk. You're in a bar full of drunks, several of whom are helping you sing along with the band, into your cell phone, at the top of their lungs.You are singing to someone who, 5 minutes ago, was blissfully dreaming of a lovely, quiet, isolated paradise, probably including a beach, blue water, and nubile, willing beauties of the sex of their choice.And yet, this is going to

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-8781646187204696102007-03-23T12:15:00.000-05:002007-03-23T12:22:56.767-05:00

---You know those guys you get behind in the 10 items or less lane? The ones with their kids with them, and they tell their 8 year old "Here, you take these 8 things, and your little brother can take these 6. And Daddy will take these 10, and we're all ok..."?Ran into another one of those the other day. I hear he's getting his "Handicapped" tag for his mirror next week.

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-80038716651035337692007-03-07T22:49:00.000-06:002007-03-07T23:09:34.184-06:00

---Let me first kiss up by saying that, of the limited choices we have here in "just east of the sticks, Sillynois" Kroger is my choice of grocery store.We also have a super-megalomaniac-mart that I'd rather take a beating than go visit. Between them and the big blue K, they drove the local grocers out of business. (I'm sorry, I tried to prevent it. I can only buy so many cases of canned beets

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-38962054521868162912007-02-19T15:08:00.000-06:002007-02-19T15:36:21.734-06:00

---SCI-FI channel is advertising something called Fire Serpent. Some kind of flaming alien comes to earth thing.Here's the fun part: It's being advertised as coming "From the mind of William Shatner."My first thought was "Hey, Look. And it isn't even sticky!"The second thought was "what the heck is that supposed to mean?" Does it mean that William Shatner actually thought of this and told

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-8753368546954481992007-02-18T16:55:00.000-06:002007-02-18T17:16:34.816-06:00

---This weekend more than a quarter million people have driven to Daytona, Florida. Spectators have arrived from all over the world, travelling in tens of thousands of vehicles: by car, by jet, by ship and boat and train, in order to watch 43 cars drive 500 miles in a circle, just as fast as they can go.Several thousand folks more are involved in maintaining, supporting or reporting on, those 43

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-43501241159895938412007-02-16T00:16:00.000-06:002007-02-16T00:28:19.074-06:00

---Any true chocoholic knows that chocolate is seasonal.The best season is Easter, with Christmas and Valentine's Day in the place and show positions.First off, Easter is guilt free chocolate. If you're a Christian you have an entire holiday telling you that someone already paid the bill. Eat until you croak. Heaven awaits. And if you're not a Christian, then gluttony isn't a sin anyway.

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-29774511935482451952007-02-13T20:18:00.000-06:002007-02-13T20:30:18.504-06:00

---Always thought that phrase was some kind of challenge. Turns out it's a blessing. (My thanks for all the kind thoughts and words.)"I don't need to see you again for six months or so...." the nice Urologist said. Of course, this was shortly after he had his finger up my bum. (I feel so used.)But, no more stones. Oh, and no, I didn't get to keep the beasties I passed. They got sent off

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-12067706708322179292007-02-11T00:05:00.000-06:002007-02-16T00:30:33.932-06:00

---Waking up next to naked in a sterile room with a guy that you recognize as the county coroner, and he has his hands on your balls. Just what is the proper etiquette for this one, Miss Manners?It's a small town. The county coroner also pulls a regular shift at the hospital emergency room. (At least he's not the town mortician, now that would REALLY be a conflict of interest.)Turns out that

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---NEW YORK, Feb 5 (Reuters Life!) - For most women, the choice between sex and a new wardrobe is simple -- they go for the clothes. Women on average say they would be willing to give up sex for 15 months for a closet full of new apparel, with 2 percent ready to abstain from sex for three years in exchange for new duds, according to a new survey of about 1,000 women in 10 U.S. cities.Well that's

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-16715950671374804722007-02-07T22:38:00.000-06:002007-02-07T22:52:04.081-06:00

--OK, not really. They are probably all very nice people.Point is, how hard do they really have to work to get your business? When you think of doing something touristy, most folks naturally wander through a list of locations like Las Vegas, Hawaii, Florida, Paris, yada, yada, yada. Do they really need a heavily staffed tourism and convention bureau?And then there's Nome, Alaska. The Nome

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-43904582158848687402007-02-07T20:07:00.000-06:002007-02-07T17:44:45.770-06:00

---I lost the TV remote, so I can't change channels. But it doesn't matter. It's on the Tube Channel.I can count the number of things on TV that I would readily endorse on one hand; two hands, but folks would think I was flipping them off.But I love me some Tube Channel!Remember when MTV was good? That's the Tube Channel.No VJ's. No "reality shows". No BS. Just music videos. Videos from

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A blogger in Illinois, lonetreeontheprairie, is holding his blog for ransom, for a good cause, Special Olympics. I didn't think of it first; wish I had. (Probably just as well since his gets a lot more viewing than this one does.) So, I'll send you his way, in hopes that you drop a bit of change his way, for the athletes in Illinois.Selah!

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---According to Salon Magazine here in the states, and the Metro site in the UK, women's mannequins are getting bustier. According to one of the articles, with quotes from a mannequin maker guy named Wang (insert your cheap shot here), the mannequins are intended to reflect the increasing number of women who have had breast implants surgery. Haven't met a lot of women who volunteered for the

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---Actually, not so much. (And probably not as much as I'd like to be, but that's a different conversation.)I would, however, probably like to blame what will be on my TV during the Super Bowl on being a humble house hubby. (It's kind of like a house elf, without the black sock. Like Dobby's uncle, the one they don't talk about.)What's going to be on has "Bowl" in it. Does that count?Puppy

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---Softly in the night there comes a tapping,a steady gentle tapping that brings me across the floor.I follow the tippy-tapping and it leads me down the hall.Down the hall into the kitchen toward the source of this mad sound,a tapping, tippy-tapping, now a soft, insistent rapping coming from there inside the door.Shaking fingers reach out for the handle.The rapping beats in time with the

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---Funny how immortality can turn on the addition or subtraction of a word or two. From Classic novel to classified ad--To Kill (and eat) a Mockingbird. Asimov's other fraternity --I, Robot, state your name.Philip K Who? Do Oklahoma Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? And sometimes just a word is enough to show you how wrong a story could have gone. -- Anna Karenina Smith Or take you from

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---So, according to USAToday a molecular scientist from Durham, NC, Doctor Robert Bohannon, has developed something called a "buzz doughnut"; a caffeine enhanced little beasty that is supposed to be the equivalent of TWO cups of coffee.Is nothing sacred?I'm reminded of the line from Jurassic Park. Scientists spend so much time trying to figure out HOW to do something that they don't have time

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-48299791988292045352007-01-25T23:23:00.000-06:002007-01-25T23:37:26.404-06:00

---In the news today, a couple of guys in Florida (?) wandered into a Sam's Price Club and conducted a smash and grab in the jewelry section. According to the report they got away with a necklace worth a reported QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS. .... At a SAM's??I know it's been awhile since I've been in one... But I don't remember any of the folks in line, (like the guy in the ripped, chili stained,

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---Cable channels in the St. Louis area are running an ad for a company called alternatives insurance. Let me say up front, I don't know these folks from anywhere, never met any of them to my knowledge, never done business with them. So, this is NOT meant as an endorsement, and is NOT meant as a denigration. OK? I did go to the website to make sure I read this right on the ad. (By the way, they

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---Here we go again.There's a Nexium ad running during the news that shows some middle-aged guy and his kids. He says his kids call him "the finisher". (ignoring the obvious Bush jokes here.)The ad shows him running around the house talking to the kids, "finish your homework, finish your vegetables", yada yada.... and then talks about how he has all this heartburn.Know what's not in the ad?

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---“Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.”Art Buchwald was one of the most insightful, rational and accurate political commentators in our lifetime. R.I.P. Mr. Buchwald.

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---Not counting about a 15 minute span of of light last Thursday? Yesterday morning brought the first sunshine we've had in almost a month.It was 15 degrees. The wind was up around 15 miles an hour, and I walked to work.My fingers were frozen when I got there, and I didn't take my coat off for a half hour, but I got to spend the morning in the sun.And then the alarm went off. I hit the button

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-56294335477079566142007-01-14T18:38:00.000-06:002007-01-14T18:51:06.508-06:00

Ever script a conversation in your head AND have it actually happenJUST like that in real time? Like this one earlier today:Me, on the cell phone with my Auntie --Auntie: Whatcha doin?Me: Making lunch.Auntie: What are you making?Me: Hang on a sec. (Into the fast food squawk box) I'll have a #1, no cheese, Diet Coke.Auntie: Yeah, That's what I thought.------------------------But sometimes?

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Have you seen the new commercial for Total cereal? Mom loans her old tight comfortable/cool jeans to her daughter. After seeing them on her, Mom eats cereal, loses weight and then asks for the jeans back.Now, that's kinda heartwarming, right?But, while Mom munches down on breakfast cereal, daughter is shown escorting a series of different men/boys back to her room.At the end of the commercial

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See, here's the thing. Is the President right? Is he wrong?I'm not qualified to say.But does it seem stupid to anyone else to:1) Give the world your speech BEFORE you make it, AND still expect people to pay attention to you when you read it to them?2) Not only tell the people you are at war with Yes, we're sending more people with guns; and then tell them, THIS is how many of them we're

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MomoFuku Ando has died.A hero and saviour of college students world wide.There should be an international day of mourning.Or at least 90 seconds (on high).Actually, read the obit. The guy was remarkable.

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The Dallas Museum of Art is closing their Van Gogh exhibition soon. Go see it if you can.One thing though. At the gallery exit is the obligatory gift shop. Now I can understand the usual, prints, posters, postcards, etc. but they have chocolate ears. Really. And Van Gogh finger puppets. and Oh Yeah... a "Van Gogh Action figure" which, my brother pointed out has the wrong ear

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Happy New Year from the Holiday Inn East, in Memphis!Apologies to the late Lewis Grizzard for corrupting his title.I'm stuck in Memphis. Me and apparently several HUNDRED other Northwest passengers.There's 70+ in the hotel I'm in, according to the desk clerk. And, from what I observed at the information counter at the airport, and from talking to many of those travellers in the lobby and

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In Texas for a between holidays visit with the family.Wait, It's my blog, I get to do my joke first.Actually, not a joke at all.West of Fort Worth, near a town called Weatherford (birthplace of Mary Martin, btw) is a large, faded billboard advertising:Rivercrest -A planned residential community and Rattlesnake Ranch.Judging from the ancient, peeling condition of the billboard, I'm not the only

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(with all appropriate apologies to the folks on Sesame Street... wait a second, they have giant freak birds, talking socks and cookie monsters!) Who are the people in your neighborhood?The banker is a person in your neighborhood... The minister is a person in your neighborhood... The postman is a person in your neighborhood.... We don't talk to these folks.

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Hadn't realized how much time had passed.November was tied up with novel writing. I finished. YAY!! December was tied up with being... December.Did manage to write a short piece (500 words) for the monthly writer's challenge. You can pull down a .pdf of it here. And now, Christmastime is here.I remember a time when Christmas meant a jolly fat man was going to come down the chimney and bring

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The high school in a little town near me put on Snow White this year.They had a little...um ... adventure on the way to the stage.The story goes that the young lady playing the title character got suspended the day before the show opened.Seems Snow White punched out a dwarf.Shades of Evening Shade...

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So, I have to take a second and set the stage here:I'm at a small bar listening to one of the local old timers play guitar. That doesn't really do him justice, because the guy is phenomenal on pretty much anything with strings.It's late, the band is done, and there are a half dozen of us sitting around listening to this guy play some jazz. He's been playing for about 20 minutes, moving without

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It's not the cookie. It's the fortune that is, or is not, inside.Ever gotten a fortune cookie that didn't have that little slip of paper inside?Is that lack of a fortune, a fortune in itself?Anyway, here's my favorite fortunes that I or a friend of mine have gotten."The fortune you seek is in another cookie." The restaurant's equivelent of Drink Coke, Play Again. (By the way, ever actually

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Svaha -- Amerindian; the time between seeing the lightning and hearing the thunder; of waiting for promises to be fulfilled.My Mom died about a month ago. She was diagnosed a few months earlier with brain cancer.We all knew it was coming. We were able to gather; one on one and in small groups and say our goodbyes, mend fences, break some new fences, mend them.Since she died we've all been going

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One of the advantages to living in the middle of nowhere is that "anywhere" is a short walk away. My walk to work covers five blocks. It takes almost as long to drive it. One morning starting the car I thought to myself, "It's five blocks. What kind of lazy pig are you?" So, I walked. Besides, we needed the rain that day. I've tried to walk it as much as possible since then. (Sometimes

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That is what a nice lady in Pennsylvania was kind enough to say about my writing. She runs a small publishing house and I sent her my last book, Jazz & The Monkey Man, a couple months ago.. Just got a letter from her today. "Powerful, satisfying..." Whether they choose to publish it or not, I can ride with that for awhile.Yeah, I know I haven't posted here in awhile. Doesn't mean I haven't

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Today's USA TODAY headline reads "Emergency declared in Iraq."?????

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Down the block from me the city recently put up a piece of art. Here's a picture of it.Depending upon what angle you view it from it is a metal command, Georgia Pearson's initials, or a diagram of the I-64 / I-70 traffic snarl near the new stadium in St. Louis. Or maybe its Paul Bunyon's "Quit Smoking" fidget toy.Now, I'm all about art in the city. Beats the heck out of empty lots and

Williebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367139551751552864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295567.post-1144464458593012282006-04-07T21:31:00.000-05:002006-04-07T21:47:38.616-05:00

Sometimes random bits of dialogue fall out of my head. Usually at the oddest times. They'll have no connection to what I'm doing, or what I was thinking about or working on. It's almost as if there is a tv tuner in my head and there's some old guy with his hand on the remote. -- he's about a 12-pack into the day, and he has a twitch.Here's an example: I was taking the trash out tonight...

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The days are too short. The nights are too long.And I'm living my life through my socks.It's that time of year when chores seem to pile up, at work and at home. There's more sunlight and "too cold" is no longer available as an excuse to not work on the house.Something happens to my brain during time changes and I don't sleep much. And when I do the dreams are .... odd.Maybe that explains why

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Some mornings it doesn't matter what time it is. It's still too freakin' early.Ever have one of those mornings where you wake up feeling hung over and don't have a good time to blame it on? Having one of those today. One of those mornings where "Aliens are beating me in my sleep!" Seems as good an explanation as any.This is Dakota the Wonder Mutt on a good day. Dakota was raised by cats.

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"The more seriously you take yourself, the less seriously others will."Oh, and you have to give a snake credit. Say what you will... slimy reptilian, product of sin, whatever. In the morning a snake is a snake. At the end of the day? A snake is still a snake. No games, No pretending. Just another freakin' snake. Which only goes to show that snakes are still better than some academics I've

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While out with some friends last night I took a walk down some old hallways. One of them took me back to a brief time in Dallas when I sold closed-circuit satellite feeds of events like boxing matches to sports bars and topless bars. It didn't last very long. It's not that I didn't enjoy the job. But it didn't go over too well as a "Career Day" presentation to my daughter's third grade

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I wish I could say that I was the first person to uncover that profound little observation, but when I first saw it it was in something written by an eccentric SF genius named Spider Robinson. It is a profound truth. Feelings of anger are a reaction triggered by feelings of fear. Fear that “she doesn't like me anymore”; or “he won't want to see me again”; Fear of losing your job, or if

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To paraphrase (badly) a passage from one of the great John D. MacDonald's books:Overweight people shouldn't run. It is not good for society that they be seen even walking fast. His character, Meyer's, theory was that when you see trim healthy people jogging down a beach or down a sunny street you think “Isn't that wonderful, -- Healthy, exuberant people exercising.” When you see a round, out

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Man, looking back at the first entry, and how long ago it was.... I guess the answer is maybe, but just barely.Quick update. I successfully completed the nanowrimo contest and the book, Jazz & The Monkey Man is off at publishers, probably collecting rejection notices. But, I did it. I is a novelist.Back to My Brain Hurts...Just got back from IL-TCE 2006 , an amazing technology conference for

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I got myself talked into signing up for the National Novel Writer's Month contest. http://www.nanowrimo.org 50,000 words, in 30 days, in November. Works out to like 1,600 words a day.At the end of the contest what you win is that, for better or worse, you have written a novel. dun dun DAHHHHHH! That's it, just the accomplishment. Then you can photocopy it on to Tyvek©, have it made into a suit

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I have this t-shirt that reads "Mad Cow Steakhouse--- We're crazy about the beef." I can't tell you where I got it. It's not that I'm secretive. I just don't remember. It's probably available online somewhere. (I mean, awhile back there was some lady selling tumbleweeds worldwide on e-bay.) Anyway....I wear the t-shirt now and then and, seems everytime I do, somebody reads the shirt and

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First off, I was guilty. No argument there. I came off of I- 24 onto the neverending construction zone that is Briley Parkway and got radared for going about 10 over the posted speed limit (55mph). There wasn't actually construction going on. Seems like there never is, just a bunch of torn up shoulders. But, like I said, guilty as charged. Now it's nine months later, and I get to go to "First

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Maybe I will. Maybe I won't.I wonder how many Blogs get started everyday? Every hour? And how many of those sit empty after the first entry, until the digital street sweepers come along and clear the leavings, like the last entry in a small town parade?Maybe I will. Maybe I won't. We'll see.

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