Super Bowl L is upon us, except the NFL is abandoning the Roman numerology for this particularly edition. They say the “L” was too difficult to incorporate into a graphic logo, but I think they just wanted unfettered emphasis on the game’s golden anniversary. I did not watch the first Super Bowl. I was wandering in pecan orchards down by the Chattahoochee River with my buddy Marcus, but I do remember the game between Green Bay and Kansas City was being played that day. I have not followed professional football that closely for years, but I will be watching Sunday night. I have heard that a certain fellow graduate of Auburn University will be playing. As for the above classic A&J, it originally appeared in 2013, the very day of the famous “kick six” game. As you love to remind me, a lot of you aren’t sports fans, so if you don’t know what that means, it has its own Wikipedia page. The screaming and ranting that day actually went viral.
196 responses to “Goin’ to Carolina”
Sideburns:
Unless the kids are likely to wander in, my wife would never wear a swimsuit to a hot spa in a private cave.
emb:
Our SIL is dyslexic and laughs about it, even though it caused him and my daughter to miss a flight to London for their honeymoon and cost over a thousand to rebook everything they had prepaid. He’s learned to let her read everything before he signs it and for her to put things into her calendar as well as his.
FWIW, she’s the only daughter (we have 4) who’s not on the autism spectrum.
It may not be PC, but our way of coping with life’s problems is to laugh at them.
Jackie:
Perhaps if you had a shotgun visible (perhaps leaning against a wall or table) while waving at those possibly casing your property they’d choose someone else to bother?
Ghost Rider 6, on the DRT-bag, I guess I was clumsy in saying that a timely application of justice probably kept him from adding to his list of offenses. I get that we don’t know what miracle could have changed his ways. It wasn’t likely that waiting to find out would be healthy for those in the area.
On your discovered treasure, I remember pulling out Supertramp’s _Breakfast_in_America_ one time at college. Inside was a one-page, call me sometime style note from the earlier of two high school girlfriends (unrelated, separated by a summer and a clique). It floored me. I had been convinced she pursued another matter, happily. She didn’t actually say anything out loud when she had ‘returned my stuff’, so I didn’t find it for three years.
Question at large: My laptop, Win7, had a hardware problem, now resolved, that put me in mind of replacement. I had postponed the Windows 10 upgrade until this year to watch the bugs shake out. I think they have, though I hear a lot of Big Brother style talk. My concern is with my metered connection, 4G LTE. My secrets are not so critical that I need constant cloud services to maintain them; and it seems that saving and reloading the same audio files could drive up my data usage. Any opinions on Linux Mint compared to Windows 10?
To color the question further: a few years back I abandoned MS Office Suite for OpenOffice.org. Stronger, more adaptable, not as smooth. But when the development group fell apart, I had to restart the shopping process between LibreOffice and Google. Left me frustrated.
I have a cousin from Central Michigan who was President-Vice of his local dyslexia organization. He thought not getting bogged down in the print left him free to see how people explain things. To him, reading people became much more advantageous.
I don’t exercise as I should, it’s true. I’m more likely to be the driver than pedestrian. But when I wave to the person I changed lanes for, I often see confusion if recognized at all. It may seem rude, but I think it is they are only self-absorbed in their free time away from a world that demands way too much the rest of the time.
Depending on your tastes, Mourphy, I’d suggest either Mint or one of the Ubuntu flavors. The only real difference between them is the Desktop Environment; “under the hood,” they’re all the same. You can easily experiment by creating a LiveUSB and seeing if you like how it works; if not, try a different one because nothing gets changed or installed unless you want it to.
Another cartoonist gone: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/02/cartoonist_who_lent_his_name_t.html#incart_river_home
Sideburns: Thanks, yeah they seem slick and streamlined. Of course, the short trial isn’t loaded down by the weight of application suites, libraries, and months of fragmented files; you know, real life.
You’re last line, “unless you want it to” suggests a frustration I share. But what of my data use concerns? I’d like to avoid a two month trial, and the grief of changing back, if my initial reasoning is not even valid.
To clarify: I foresee the cloud function of save-retrieve-resave-rereretrieve etc. as a burden on traffic limits. I hope to avoid my perceived difficulty by using a different OS. Is my concern valid or unfounded?
Ghost Rider 6: heard a similar story of an Italian merchant willing to part with his last authentic sample of ancient coin, at a very good price. You knew it was authentic because below Julius Caesar’s impressive visage is the date stamped 45 BC.
emb: You have the Italian ladies full and rightful name, if you’ve reviewed several of her famous works you noticed a theme of self-portraiture of a lady. That you so blatantly want me to correct you is confusing.
Side note: 100 years later in her home town Antoni Stradivari opened a shop.
Good night all. So long till tomorrow.
Just dragged in a little while ago. I live too far from a viable town.
Went to deal with having some of my art work reframed. As I find things I love I am hauling it down and giving a lot of stuff fresh mats and frames. The frame lady at Hobby Lobby and I have bonded, she loves my art and she loves I am easy to work with, simply because I understand framing. It is fun working with someone like that. I love copper plate etchings and she had never seen any, now she appreciates them for the richness of the coloration achieved with scratching into the plate, inking and pressing. Well, that’s a simplistic explanation.
Want to come view my etchings? I am hoping to find my gift from Jack Daniel’s distillery which was one of their New Yorker ads, Mrs. Bobo’s Boarding House. Or my beautiful Hawaiian NeNes which are the state bird, a goose unique to the islands.
“Fragmented files?” What are those? Linux doesn’t come with a defrag program because it doesn’t need it. Files rarely get fragmented under Linux, and when they do, the system corrects it as soon as space is available without human intervention.
Good morning Villagers….
Looked at the next few days’ forecast, and it looks like it’s back to Carharts…aaauuuggghhhh!! Carharts and hazmat suits are wearing me out even before I start work.
Mark, by the time I get home, shower, eat, hit the recliner, nap, wake up and go to bed, I don’t read the posts until morning. It’s a great way to start my day.
Jackie, the local Ben Franklin does framing, and they are really good and busy. The owner (I went to high school with her) has done a few things for me and I love matting, especially when it’s overlayed with two.
Speaking of fragmented files, I tried to defrag old Dell here the other morning, when I came home from work that afternoon, it was stuck 3/4 done…..I hit escape. I know, get a laptop.
The last couple of time I have been to $ General, a couple of women have offered to help me load my ‘stuff’ into my Izuzu…..I thought to myself, do I look that haggard? I thanked them politely, and said I think I have it under control. So there is still some kindness out there for haggard old women 🙂
Thanks TR and Mark…we had those steam heaters in my grade school….I can still hear the hissing sound, and also the beating of the chalk board erasers 🙂
Ya’ll have a blessed day…..
Emb, when we got our last flock in at the hen house (two different hatch dates) the sexer let a few roosters get by. I have this beautiful rooster, named Mick, who is colored. His back feathers and face have a reddish gold color. And his tail feathers are different from the other roosters, they are not straight and long, they are a puffy, curl type.
Now if these are genetically engineered bio egg laying machines as Ian (my son) say they are…..how in the world did I get one that is multicolored? Could a gene slip in somewhere? And what breed would that be? A reddish gold rooster that is.
He is so big now at 24 weeks, I don’t even know how we will get him out of the cage door.
Thanks.
Debbe
GR 😉 did ya get sidetracked last night? Like Gal, I thought of James Taylor too with the title of the above retro…….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7RPCFfudmU
Today’s grin:
http://cheezburger.com/8747389696
Emb…the breed of our hens is Hyline….here is a pic (I hope) of a hen. But Mick is more white than the pic….the tail feathers are completely white.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Coq_orpington_fauve.JPG/250px-Coq_orpington_fauve.JPG
Now that, I say, that is a chicken.
I searched for “Sofonisba Anguissola paintings,” not for the artist, and got the usual but skimpy run of reproductions for sale. In response to a post, I just searched ” Sofonisba Anguissola” only, and there she was. Glad to have the info.
Made the usual assumptions / repression of women in past centuries; never occurred to me that the artist was a women. Oxford American D. in my desk defines blatant as “attracting attention in a very obvious way.” Apparently, I qualify. Maybe we all do, now.
Peace, emb
Debbe: Beats me. I know little re chicken genetics. Sorry. emb
Happy birthday, Jackie
emb, there is info on the breed here. Since this is a hybrid breed, I would think it possible for characteristics of the parent breed to pop up sometimes.
https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/buff_orpingtons.html
I had a great time delivering cupcakes on trays to a lot of businesses I go to where the employees are so nice. I used to bake and decorate baked goodies, now I seem lucky to not drop them all upside down when putting them on trays. I got heart shaped trays and filled them with lots of festive Valentine’s cupcakes and surprised people. Tomorrow I go do the same with Cookies to some more people like the bank, send a big tray with Glenn down to the police officers for county, drop off some with city police.
I know, I’m weird, giving gifts makes me happier than getting them.