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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Tagged !
2.2 billion years ago and the light is just now reaching us here on Earth.
I was tagged by Mike for the following:
Rules:1) Go into your archives. 2) Find your 23rd post. 3) Find the fifth sentence (or closest to it.) 4) Post the text of your sentence in your blog along with these rules. 5) Tag five other people
Only problem is, I have no one I can think of to tag as all the people in my blog link list seem to have been tagged already! :( Maybe I need to find more blog buddies...
P.S. I posted this last night, but for some reason Blogger didn't actually put it up, yet when I checked last night it was there, but not now--strange?!
The pic was the one that went with the line from the post, so I decided to add it here as well.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Unexpected Visitor !
Yesterday a car crashed into my house!
Well, not quite, but it did crash into the house I USED to live in until August of this year. I was at work and two University Police officers, who know me from there & knew I lived in this house,(because it's right across the street from the downtown campus of the college-I work at the uptown campus) stopped by and asked if I knew a car had run into my house. They didn't know I had moved recently.
When I got home I saw the damage the car had done to my former residence, which is right around the corner from where I live now. I moved because the owners wanted to redo that place inside & out. In fact, they had just put an entirely new front on the building, which is the one in the photo. Course, it's not too new-looking now after having a car plunge into it.
The driver of the car was a 20-year old woman who had no driver's license, had a 12-month old baby in the car, and she ALSO hit two people before crashing into the house. Apparently she was an inexperienced driver who stepped on the gas pedal
instead of the brake and lost control of the car. Fortunately, the two people she hit were not seriously hurt, and neither was she nor the baby.
Stange how things sometimes happen like that--if I hadn't moved when I did, I would have ended up with a car in my living room!
By the way, that window on the right is the bedroom window of my current apartment. So if the car had crashed a few feet further to the right, it would have ended up in my bedroom...not the kind of visitor I want there!
Sunday, October 16, 2005
What The Fuyck!
Last Sunday, I was sorta following the Columbus Day parade downtown, taking a few photos of the parade, just to kill time. I stopped at a spot outside Albany's City Hall building where I noticed this plaque, which I'd seen before but never really read. It's a commemorative plaque marking the 300th anniversary of the first settlement here in what would eventually be known as Albany. Albany was originally settled by Dutch colonists. You can click on the pic to enlarge it to make it easier to read.
The one name that caught my eye, though, is the one adopted in 1630 when it was known as The Fuyck. Just what the fuyck kind of a name is that for a town? Maybe those Dutch settlers had a sense of humor or were just really horny. Or maybe they thought the name would attract more settlers to the area. After all, who wouldn't like a good fuyck?
I'm not sure what the word actually means in Dutch, but I did find a store in Holland named De Fuyck Brielle which seems to be a delicatessen in the town of Brielle. I also found this one sentence which seems to imply that fuyck means "hoop" : it was known by the Dutch simply as the ``fuyck'' (hoop), from the curve in the river .
Well, enough of my fuycking around here, I should be in bed by now. Unfortunately, ain't no one to fuyck around with THERE! :(
Friday, October 14, 2005
Duck & Cover!
I came across this little film made back in the 50's about how to protect yourself in case of an atomic bomb attack. Funny thing about it is I remember seeing films like this when I was in the lower grades in school. I started kindergarden in 1961 (yes, I'm THAT old!) and even recall having to practice the "duck & cover" method in the classroom where you would have to get under your desk and cover your head with your hands.
That cheap little wooden desk would surely protect you from a nuclear bomb blast! Of course, the radiation might be a bit of a problem, but maybe the lead paint in the walls would protect you from that as well! And certainly the asbestos in the ceiling would prevent any fires from starting! It sounds a little crazy now but I guess back then some people thought you could survive a nuclear attack that knocked down buildings like they were made of paper, but a small desk would offer plenty of protection...hmmm...maybe the real reason they wanted you to cover your head up was to avoid seeing your friends/classmates vaporized into dust.
These films are pretty funny to watch now but they were serious business back when they were shown in classrooms around the country. The Internet Archive has other old films like this including war propaganda and sex education films, as well as some other pretty interesting items. Check it out sometime when you're web surfing.
So remember, kids, if you see a bright flash, "Duck & Cover" ! , and you'll be safe from that mean old atomic bomb!
That cheap little wooden desk would surely protect you from a nuclear bomb blast! Of course, the radiation might be a bit of a problem, but maybe the lead paint in the walls would protect you from that as well! And certainly the asbestos in the ceiling would prevent any fires from starting! It sounds a little crazy now but I guess back then some people thought you could survive a nuclear attack that knocked down buildings like they were made of paper, but a small desk would offer plenty of protection...hmmm...maybe the real reason they wanted you to cover your head up was to avoid seeing your friends/classmates vaporized into dust.
These films are pretty funny to watch now but they were serious business back when they were shown in classrooms around the country. The Internet Archive has other old films like this including war propaganda and sex education films, as well as some other pretty interesting items. Check it out sometime when you're web surfing.
So remember, kids, if you see a bright flash, "Duck & Cover" ! , and you'll be safe from that mean old atomic bomb!
MonkeySpanking Part 2
Here's a screenshot of one of my attempts at "spanking the monkey". Haven't been able to beat my previous score of 449 (which I failed to screen capture). But I swear--I really did get 449 MPH ! :)
I'll just have to practice more I guess until I can achieve that score again. Who needs a real life when you have such an exciting virtual life?!
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Spank The Monkey
Stumbled upon this site --it's really funny, but I'll bet you can't beat my score of 449 MPH--that's right 449 MPH! Although I have to admit I wasn't using a mouse, but a small trackball device which gave me an edge.
See how good you are at spanking the monkey!
See how good you are at spanking the monkey!
What A Day!
Woke up this morning, felt something wet on my face, thought I had been drooling in my sleep (ewww) but after turning on the light saw that my nose was bleeding! Which kind of freaked me out 'cause I've only had my nose bleed maybe twice before in my life...what was I doing...fighting in my sleep? Took a quick shower & shaved (which I usually do at night, but was so tired Tuesday evening I didn't bother), had a small bowl of cereal and headed out to catch the bus to work. It's raining out, yet again, the bus finally pulls up, the driver opens the door, then as I'm about to get on, he tells me "oh,I'm not picking up anyone-just dropping off". As usual, the bus is full of kids on their way to the high school a few blocks up the street, but there was room enough for me to squeeze on. Anyway, I get off, the bus sits there for about 2 minutes while someone tries to exit through the rear door. The rear door doesn't seem to be working, and the person looking to exit I guess doesn't want to fight their way to the front of the bus through the crowd. Finally the bus pulls off, the person never having gotten off, and I wait for the next one. It comes along a few minutes later, looks like it not going to stop, but then does, as I get on I see the driver has a BIG cup of coffee up to her face, while driving with one hand. I don't think she even saw me standing there at first 'cause that cup was blocking her view.
Work as usual was hectic--I'm used to that but for some reason I felt really down today. I don't like to talk about my feelings, but I had moments today when I felt like a wave of sadness pass over me. Not trying to be dramatic, but lately I have had that happen more than once. Don't know if it's because I haven't been eating or sleeping as much as I should, because I'm fast approaching the big 50th birthday (mid-life crisis perhaps), or just because the emotions I've keep bottled up for so long are finally trying to escape (like a genie trapped in a magic lamp), or maybe I'm just losing my mind (a small loss, I'm sure).
Then tonight I was trying to help a new blog friend with his links (they weren't working properly) and I think I screwed up. I suggested he look at someone's else's blog source code and he copied some links from there to his to see if that would work. It did, but then my new friend got an angry message demanding he take them down. Now I meant no harm and neither did he, and I want to publicly apologize to the parties involved. I'm not mentioning any names on purpose because I don't want to cause any further damage. I will say the other people involved are two guys who I met soon after I got on the internet and they mean a GREAT deal to me. Sorry if I unintentionally caused any problem--no harm was intended.
While I was helping this friend out with his blog, I was IM'ed by another good friend who was really worried that he might get in trouble because earlier he had made a few sexual comments to a woman in a chat room and she threatened to turn him in. Of course he meant no harm and even apologized to her, but he was worried because he is a student here in the U.S. from a foreign country and wasn't sure what might happen. I told him I thought nothing would come of it--after all half the internet is full of sex. And it's not like he was stalking her, he just made a few comments--what's the big deal? By the way, this is a friend I come out to this past summer during an IM chat--he was surprised, to say the least, but cool about it.
What's really strange about all this is I never get phone calls, rarely chat with anyone online and spend most of my free time alone goofing around on this stupid computer. Wait, I better not insult my computer like that--I meant to say "stupendous" computer. (It's been acting a bit odd lately and I don't want to make it angry at me-shhh) Now all of a sudden, I'm helping people and offering advice...has the world gone completely insane, or is it just me? Maybe this day is this a dream and I'll wake up soon.
Speaking of waking up, I'd better get to bed as it's very late and I should have been asleep about 3 hours ago, that's assuming I'm not just dreaming this whole thing. Just hope I don't get into any more "dream-fights" and end up with a bloody nose again!
Work as usual was hectic--I'm used to that but for some reason I felt really down today. I don't like to talk about my feelings, but I had moments today when I felt like a wave of sadness pass over me. Not trying to be dramatic, but lately I have had that happen more than once. Don't know if it's because I haven't been eating or sleeping as much as I should, because I'm fast approaching the big 50th birthday (mid-life crisis perhaps), or just because the emotions I've keep bottled up for so long are finally trying to escape (like a genie trapped in a magic lamp), or maybe I'm just losing my mind (a small loss, I'm sure).
Then tonight I was trying to help a new blog friend with his links (they weren't working properly) and I think I screwed up. I suggested he look at someone's else's blog source code and he copied some links from there to his to see if that would work. It did, but then my new friend got an angry message demanding he take them down. Now I meant no harm and neither did he, and I want to publicly apologize to the parties involved. I'm not mentioning any names on purpose because I don't want to cause any further damage. I will say the other people involved are two guys who I met soon after I got on the internet and they mean a GREAT deal to me. Sorry if I unintentionally caused any problem--no harm was intended.
While I was helping this friend out with his blog, I was IM'ed by another good friend who was really worried that he might get in trouble because earlier he had made a few sexual comments to a woman in a chat room and she threatened to turn him in. Of course he meant no harm and even apologized to her, but he was worried because he is a student here in the U.S. from a foreign country and wasn't sure what might happen. I told him I thought nothing would come of it--after all half the internet is full of sex. And it's not like he was stalking her, he just made a few comments--what's the big deal? By the way, this is a friend I come out to this past summer during an IM chat--he was surprised, to say the least, but cool about it.
What's really strange about all this is I never get phone calls, rarely chat with anyone online and spend most of my free time alone goofing around on this stupid computer. Wait, I better not insult my computer like that--I meant to say "stupendous" computer. (It's been acting a bit odd lately and I don't want to make it angry at me-shhh) Now all of a sudden, I'm helping people and offering advice...has the world gone completely insane, or is it just me? Maybe this day is this a dream and I'll wake up soon.
Speaking of waking up, I'd better get to bed as it's very late and I should have been asleep about 3 hours ago, that's assuming I'm not just dreaming this whole thing. Just hope I don't get into any more "dream-fights" and end up with a bloody nose again!
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
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