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Movie Quotes – Day 346

Fozzie: Hey, why don’t you join us?
Gonzo: Where are you going?
Fozzie: We’re following our dream!
Gonzo: Really? I have a dream, too!
Fozzie: Oh?
Gonzo: But you’ll think it’s stupid.
Fozzie: No we won’t, tell us, tell us!
Gonzo: Well, I want to go to Bombay, India and become a movie star.
Fozzie: You don’t go to Bombay to become a movie star! You go where we’re going: Hollywood.
Gonzo: Sure, if you want to do it the *easy* way.

— The Muppet Movie

Sometimes, life gives points for style, albeit rarely.  Doing things the hard way only makes sense if you have already proven that you can do them the easy way, or you are trying to learn how to improve your performance in the easy route.

by daddybear71 on December 12, 2014  •  Permalink
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Today’s Earworm

A little something happy to finish out a long day.

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Movie Quotes – Day 345

But… but maybe he’s only a little crazy like painters or composers or… or some of those men in Washington. — Miracle on 34th Street

Right now, the Republican-led House of Representatives is disregarding the people who put them in power and overwhelmingly voted to increase their majority in the next Congress so that they can make nice with President Obama and get home for Christmas.  The new spending bill fully funds Obamacare, the President’s end-around amnesty, and a plethora of other things that ought to be show stoppers.

Makes me wonder why we bothered to go to the polls in November.  Giving the President and his ilk a drubbing was supposed to give the opposition a back bone and boot them in the ass to stand up to them.  Once again, I’m disappointed and I really don’t know why I expected anything else.

by daddybear71 on December 11, 2014  •  Permalink
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Blogs Roundup

  • Auntielj could use a hug.  She does an awesome job of explaining grief and how it can linger.
  • JayG has a good point.  The facts are not important anymore, and are flexible variables in the scripting of a narrative.
  • Ummmm, no.
  • Mrs. Homegrown is making an early New Year’s resolution.  I need to get a couple new travel mugs and use them when I get my coffee.
  • OldNFO brings back memories of reading Heinlein on our basement steps in Grand Forks, illuminated by the glow of the pennies in the fuse box.
  • BRM discusses magazines and their uses, care, and feeding.
  • I wish this were available in Kentucky.
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Today’s Earworm

I woke up this morning from a dream where my company had sent me to London for a vendor conference.  My excitement was tempered when I checked into the Happiness Hotel.

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Movie Quotes – Day 344

You see? You just can’t trust anyone. The first girl I let into my life and she tries to eat me. — Zombieland

You have to be careful when you’re deciding to drop your defenses for someone.  Once you make yourself vulnerable to someone, not only will you be unprepared for betrayal and attack, but they will also know exactly what weaknesses you have and which buttons to push.  The vetting process should be long and rigorous, but it can’t be insurmountable.

by daddybear71 on December 10, 2014  •  Permalink
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News Roundup

  • From the “Jurisprudence” Department – A court in New York has ruled that chimpanzees do not have the same legal rights as a human being.  However, the court found that they are welcome to continue to run for elected office.
  • From the “Get A Rope” Department – The Navy is investigating a petty officer after he was accused of taping female naval officers undressing and taking showers aboard a ballistic missile submarine. Female officers have been a part of the crews on missile subs for several years, and apparently this guy decided to take advantage of the close quarters to add to his personal creeper collection.  Here’s hoping there’s a yardarm somewhere on a boomer.
  • From the “About Damned Time” Department – The people who were wounded in the 2009 Fort Hood shootings will be awarded Purple Hearts along with related benefits after Congress passed a bill funding the Defense Department.  An amendment to the bill overrides Department of Defense and Obama administration assertions that the shooting was an act of workplace violence, not terrorism, and therefore the people who got shot do not deserve combat awards and benefits.   It’s good to see that occasionally the Congress can do something right.  Now if we can just convince the other two branches of the government to follow their example.
  • From the “Operations” Department – NASA is responding to reports that one of its WB-57 high-altitude planes was spotted in Africa this summer.  No details are forthcoming on what the mission of the aircraft was, but my sources suggest it was related to flying.  Of course,the correct response from NASA is not “No comment”.  Rather, it should be “Plane?  What plane?  I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
  • From the “First You Say It” Department – A family in Austria got a bit of a surprise the other day when something exploded in their wood-burning stove.  It appears that the wood in the stove came from a tree that had grown over and around a World War II era hand grenade, and it exploded in the fire.  This reminds me of the old trick to clean out the stovepipe on a pot-bellied stove by throwing a couple 7.62 blanks into the fire.  No one was harmed in the incident, and the home was undamaged since the cast iron stove contained the explosion.  I want the name of that stove company.  If their product can contain a grenade, they’ll stand up to pretty much anything I can throw at it.
  • From the “Technology” Department – A university in Scotland has developed a tweed fabric that has the scent of whisky embedded in it.  As someone who has lived and worked around Southern women and quit wearing cologne because he got tired of being sniffed and told he smelled good, this needs to stop.  A man who smells of peat and booze will have to learn to run for his life while wearing a stylish jacket.
  • From the “TBone Terror” Department – A Scottish policeman recently ran into difficulty arresting a man when he discovered that the man was in a cow shed.  It appears that Officer Courage has a phobia for cows, and needed backup.   The situation was resolved peacefully, which is surprising considering everyone in this situation, including the cows, was Scottish.
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Musings

  • Nothing says “She really loves me” like coming home from working a night shift to a house that smells like homemade cherry cobbler.
  • Girlie Bear has her first date ever on Saturday night.  I’m fine.  No, really, I’m OK.
  • Derby has made herself at home.  Her favorite sleeping place is the couch, and she has figured out that the soulful eyes routine gets her a treat.
  • It is very hard to eat right when you spend 8 hours a day in a room with a snack table that includes most of your favorite junk foods.
  • Boo read his bedtime story to me the other night.  It’s a good feeling to know he’s gotten to that point, but it’s the last time that will happen to me.
    • Part of having a child later in life is that you get to do all the neat things again. Of course, that means you’re a decade or two older when you have to do the hard things.
  • Work on the second Minivandians book is going well, and an audiobook of the first book is in the works.  Details on that to follow.
  • I think our time with Bluegrass is coming to an end.  She’s started having issues with one of her eyes, and the doctor says that it’s a symptom of some underlying condition.  If she were younger or in better health, we’d be starting aggressive diagnostics and care, but she’s so old and tired that we’d probably only be buying a few months.  We’ll keep her happy and comfortable for as long as we can.
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A Question

For those of you who have read Minivandians, I have a question.  Which part of the book did you like more?

I’m outlining book 2, and where the first was 60/40 in favor of the short vignette’s of daily life, it looks like book 2 is tipping more toward the fictional, longer story.

So, of the two kinds of stories, either fictionalized real life or just plain fiction, which did you all prefer?

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Movie Quotes – Day 343

The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end. — Gladiator

Real talent is self-evident.  It doesn’t require attention, nor does it seek the spotlight.  The more you beat your chest and proclaim your abilities, the more I suspect that you are no more than shadows and dust.

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