Irish Woman, checking her email: Louisville seniors want my business.
Me, half paying attention, and addled by fatigue: Well, honey, you are getting on in years. There’s no harm in being considered a ‘senior’.
Irish Woman: I said Louisville singles, you jerk. I got spam from Louisville Singles. Do I look like a ‘senior’ to you? You’re lucky to be alive after you said that!
Think she’ll tell a sick man to sleep in the yard?
Posted by daddybear71 on March 15, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/03/15/overheard-in-the-house/
We at the height are ready to decline.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, IV.ii.269–276
Posted by daddybear71 on March 15, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/03/15/quote-of-the-day-10/
It’s day 3 of being home sick with Boo. I’ve read every Dr. Seuss book we have at least 3 times, I’ve indulged him in watching the Backyardigans and the Star Wars trilogy several times, and now I’m working through the good Muppet movies.
This brought me to this particular sequence, featuring the genius of Mel Brooks:
That’s some of the best acting of the 20th century right there, friends and neighbors.
By the way, this scene is the reason I say that any weapon that has a select fire capacity has “Der Svitch!”.
Boo seems to be pretty much mended, and I seem to have hit bottom of this flu last night. I’m better than I was yesterday, and I hope to be able to go back to work tomorrow. Irish Woman is taking tomorrow off to take Boo for his follow-up with the doctor, so even if I don’t feel up to work tomorrow, I will be able to get a bit of rest.
Posted by daddybear71 on March 15, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/03/15/mel-brooks-was-robbed-by-the-academy/
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: ‘I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.’ We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. — Speech in the House of Commons, after taking office as Prime Minister (13 May 1940)
Posted by daddybear71 on March 15, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/03/15/30-days-of-churchill-day-13/
I can now officially call the productive part of the year in Kentucky over until about September. My reasons for making this judgement call are:
So for the next few months, I’m going to be frustrated trying to get an entire working group to work all at the same time for more than a couple days in a row. Does anyone else have this happen to them in their area?
Posted by daddybear71 on March 15, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/03/15/its-that-time-of-the-year/
Today is Pi day, but it is also another wonderful day on the American calendar. Since this is a PG-13 blog, we’ll have to play blog pictionary to figure out what it is:
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| Name That Entree! |
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| Name this character from M*A*S*H |
Posted by daddybear71 on March 14, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/03/14/another-reason-to-celebrate-the-day/
Go read something worth your time.
Now, excuse me while I go find something to wipe my eyes with. Must be a side effect of the Tamiflu.
H/T to Blackfive.
Posted by daddybear71 on March 14, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/03/14/what-are-you-doing-here/
It’s been a few weeks since I shut off captcha on comments here, and things seem to be going OK.
I went for a week or so with comment moderation, but shut that off after a while. I have configured the comments now so that moderation is now only necessary on posts that are 3 or more days old.
For the vast majority of spam comments, the built-in filters that Blogger catches them and sends them down the hole. I haven’t had to get rid of but one or two requests for help cashing a check drawn on an African bank or advertisements for dating sites that specialize in Eastern European left-handed redheads.
Thing is, I can see why everyone hates the new captcha, but to me it’s not that big a deal to post a comment on a blog that still uses them. You see, my handwriting isn’t much better than the font Google is using for captcha, and if I can phonetically say the ‘word’ that is being presented, I can usually type it in. Let’s face it, if you can read the hand-written Russian tax receipt given to a Finnish truck driver by a Ukrainian border guard, you can read “thouck mrabiyn” on a computer screen.
That being said, I think I’ll stay with the no-captcha policy for the time being, at least until Google notices that a lot of people have dropped that feature and corrects the issue.
What say y’all?
Posted by daddybear71 on March 14, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/03/14/captcha-update/
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences. — Speech in the House of Commons, November 12, 1936
My Take:
I may be cynical, but every election that’s occurred in my adult life has been the “most important election in our history”, so I won’t say that November 2012 will be THE tipping point in American politics where we have to choose between soaring towards ever higher heights or going down the path to historical oblivion.
But I will say that the time for going along to get along, of compromising our principles, and deferring to the hooting mob of either side of the political spectrum has been over for a long time. It’s time we stood up, set our minds to the task, and got on with the business of being citizens instead of residents or dependents. No matter who you support, you need to get up off the couch, find a way to help your cause, and be counted among those who will not let our history be written by those who take us for granted.
Posted by daddybear71 on March 14, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/03/14/30-days-of-churchill-day-12/
Posted by daddybear71 on March 14, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/03/14/happy-pi-day/
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