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Something about shooting blanks at the fish in the barrel?

epobirs > It's all too easy to forget that today's old people are not the old people from our youths....

This happens to me when I'm driving. I'll be startled to see some 60-something driving like an idiot teenager, and it takes me a moment to recall: that's not the 60-something from when I started driving; it's one of my stupid contemporaries!

Morning Glories! I sure had a great comment composed that got wiped out by a phone call. Cells suck. Mine does, anyway.

I've been reading reading reading from the middle of last night , vintage computer porn fest. Talking about old computets is like the Hollywood stories - I may not recognize all the characters but I know enough I can still enjoy the stories.

Ooh, and my lost comment was something like

THE CALIPHATE IS WHINING THE WAR ON AMERICA

but with more arm-waving and spittle flecking.

Carry on.

Posted by: mindful webworker and the universe of typos at June 17, 2014 03:24 AM (tdLCA)

Love you. Love that. Bless you.

Terrible intermittent connection tonight. But the fan just got to town, so I'll be bowing out shortly.

Slapweasel blasphemous. Heh.

I've been told I'm not a Christian, and by their terms, I'm not. I figure the only opinion that matters on that point is Christ's.

I pray when there's a kitty hasn't shown up for dinner. I pray when my family is on the road. It's an awfully funny thing God asks of us, to accept his presence, all around, and within, to commune with the spirit constantly... and in reply... well, that still, small voice sure can be still & small.

Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
-Mark Twain

are we dissecting Windows, Gates, or both?

Happy Betty is bouncy!

What in the 666 comments is happening?

Mrs & (2 out of 3 grown-up) kits should finally be home from Chicago in 'bout an hour. Back to married life!

(Steals another peek at Betty.)

Speaking of driven by faith…

“At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking, I was raised reading it, memorizing passages from it and being guided by it. I still find it a source of wisdom, comfort and encouragement.”

Hillary Clinton

[Pardon my choking noises]

Some of us read 1984 or Animal Farm as warnings, others apparently see it as inspirations, so, some read the Bible to know God’s Will, but others do so to know… somebody else’s will?

You know about the Muslims who complained about the ice cream swirl logo that insulted Allah, right? When you have a primitive alphabet, you can see it everywhere.

The clawmarks are 666? Seriously? This seems kind-of a stretch …until one thinks that, as far as some folks doing just this kind of thing on purpose, either seriously or thinking it’s funny, it really does happen.

Not different than the long history of advertisers working in little hidden sex cues. Yes, they really do have nothing better to do all day than think up things like that. In fact, they’re highly rewarded for it!

cth > You’re more than welcome to scroll right on past anything that doesn’t interest you and to refrain from making snarky back-handed compliments.

I don’t know if this Jane Dough intended snark or not, but let’s face it, the scriptural-historical-astronomical studies get pretty arcane, like any esoteric knowledge, unless one has been deeply into it and following it all. I want to follow your work, but scroll past more often than I’d like, so much of it remains “arcane,” for me, anyway, for now.

Count yourself lucky. If I read them more deeply, I’d probably be pummeling you with questions or, much worse, my own tsunami of probably only marginally related thoughts!!

And Dough’s certainly right about your Babe Ruth-like record. The “other things” – about common political matters – being more accessible, are easier to repeat, or otherwise pass along.

“Esoteric” is, at least in my meaning, not a valuation per se, but a reference to being inside a complicated system of understanding I haven’t grasped, and I wish I could find a better way to put that. I’ve been deep into a few esoteric thought-systems myself, from religion to computers.

There’s valuable and there’s worthless, too, and sometimes you have to get pretty deep into something to find out which is which, sometimes beyond reason and perception, with only the Spirit of Truth as your guide.

Often, there’s that gem of divine value hidden deep in the biggest pile of… error. Of course, that’s not a great reward system. Makes one keep digging through piles of… error… for such rare gems, when over at the diamond mine everyone else is picking them up off the ground.

(Heh. Like that?)

Mindful webworker:

Some Metallica lyrics are drifting through my head as I look at the pic you posted. Perfect music for the perfect depiction of our utterly useless Moloch-worshiping/enabling president.

ExSnipe > Maybe you can come up with something for this comment I made about Obama, and Sharkman responded to. ... No need to carve his face on Mt. Rushmore. There's a ready made monument to his works at it's base. The huge rubble pile.

Heh, that was an inspiring description, and I was already trying to imagine how to make a graphic of it, other than just sticking a sign in the rubble. I did like the unfinished carving version - also eloquent. I was thinking of maybe using the sand-portrait from the convention.

http://mindfulwebworks.com/radical/president-sandman

Off to real life now fir reels ... probably.

not fan

family

yeesh

a midget Velcro-strapped to each leg like shin pad..

I want to see this animated by the folks who did the gazillion cars bouncing along.

Gazillion is apparently in my spellchecker dictionary.

Fan's coming home tonight; gotta get on with the day.

Morning, Glories!

ExSnipe > What a father did with his two babies.
http://tinyurl.com/odmfahd
Then scroll down in the comments and watch the video of the quads laughing.

Before I click, I had to reply that it sounds like how, after our twins were born, I did this cartoon:

Insomniac Armed Quad Toddlers On Patrol
A big adventure of some little guys
http://mindfulwebworks.com/tales/insomniac-armed-quad-toddlers-on-patrol

Seamus > players ride Segways

I thought, that could be hilarious. And doable. I started thinking of getting a Segway dealer to loan enough units to film a vid of such a thing. Can't help but laugh whenever I see one, ever since I saw a Chicago cop have her Segway get away from her in the park. She was lucky it just hit a wall and not a pedestrian.

Then I read

right wing whippersnapper > Believe it or not, Segway polo is a thing.

Offfffffff course it would be.

right wing whippersnapper > Personally I prefer the real deal, it's waaay easier, and you don't look like a total hipster idiot.

But... see, looking like a total hipster idiot - I thought that was the whole point that made it hilarious.

"Soccer is great when the kiddos are little. It's funny as hell."

HS prep school leagu Soccer in Okla in the late 1960s - in other season's, fullbacks were football players, front line was track. We were hilarious. Lots of action.

One day, Coach put us up against Oral Roberts Univ "B" team. They had S. American & Euro imports. Now, we had a couple of guys who could dribble a ball like they had hands for feet - but these ORU guys were magicians. Think Jr High BB team vs Globe Trotters.

We played as hard as hell, offense and defense. Running, running, passing, passing, thwarted at every move. They kept our goalie busy - but, dear God, Wayne was fast, and smashing his head into a goal post repeatedly didn't phase him - he saved our butts often, but especially that day. Meanwhile, their goalie was smoking a cig (no doubt in violation of ORU rules), leaning against the goal posts, relaxing.

We were exhausted, mangled, and soundly trounced, but we held them to only one goal... alas, that was an own-goal by my buddy Dave heading the ball the wrong way.

We went to the locker room feeling whipped, crushed like the can in kick the can.

We felt a little better when Coach informed us that was really the ORU "A" team. Best internationalsoccer players the miracle healer's money could acquire.

That was fun.

Unbelievable what a boring game it is played "pro."

whew. okay, I'm here. Finally.

hello?

hello?

"Democrats find a new way. By tweeting an incorrect flag for Flag Day. https://twitter.com/...."
-Anna Puma

Dangit! Twit pix don't show for me sometimes on this cell. Do I have to join the twit club?

What's Crank Jr's pix URL? I probably can't see them either.

grumble gripe

#firstworldproblems