It’s four months until “Talk Like a Pirate Day,” so I thought it might be a good time for this oldie from ten years ago this spring. I’m back at my desk and easing into the routine again. I’m going to look around and see if I can’t find something different to show you in the next few days. I figure I owe it to you. Meanwhile, at least the doors are open! Come on in.
Personal Touché
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242 responses to “Personal Touché”
hmmm, what would my flag be? I keep getting stuck on something likely unintelligible or meaningless to anyone else
Those paper bags are a rarity these days. I hate those plastic things. I try to take my own (cloth) bags, if I can remember to.
Arrr! Bet I know what Arlo had been listening to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQGTaS0IFOs
My flag? Probably one that would get me a sharply-worded note from the Home Owners Association. HOA’s are notoriously humor-challenged.
exp: Thanks. It’s not every day I get to teach a professor something. 🙂 “Climb(s)(ing) like a homesick angel” is an old aviator’s expression that goes back to at least WWII and likely even further.
Hello, everybody! I hope that you’re all enjoying Liza Doolittle Dai!
Mark in TTown: Just got caught up on comments and was glad to see you mention the Smithsonian transcription project. It does look intriguing and is on my list of things I might do when I retire. That day is in sight – the end of next week!
side: Thanks. Just emailed this to a blind-copy music# group.
It’s ‘Liza Doolittle Dye. How could Warner Bros. be so stupid/shortsighted?
#It’s not that narrow. Mostly folks who are half-way or more into culture of some sort. [Not all sorts.] I think some Villagers are there.
Which reminds me: someone mentioned “Lilyblack” having returned. I didn’t notice; maybe I scrolled too fast.
Peace, emb
Dear emb, no, the troll has not returned, I am certain. One villager is convinced that “she” has, but I have a different opinion.
I am the only one that I am aware of that mentioned her and I do not think that she has returned. I just mentioned that that we had been experiencing some similar silliness. I committed one of my favorite mistakes and posted on the previous thread so here it is again. I can’t think of a better way to start the day. If you care to go back it will make sense. If it doesn’t it will not be explained by me.
If you hung that out today, you’d have NSA all over your case, trying to find out if you were an ISIS sympathizer.
Blackhawk flag hanging outside the front door right now. I couldn’t stay awake for the end last night, someone had to tell me they won.
My flag, http://www.theinquirer.net/IMG/331/193331/google-android-logo-green-black.jpg
Sand, the cartoon is still at my elbow. “Tragically, no one could hear the truck backing up.” Debbe, re your comment yesterday, in 1986 I purchased a previously owned home and began getting calls at 2 am asking for Jimmy. After this happened several times I told my wife that if it happened again I was going to tell them that he had died. A couple of nights later the rang at approximately 2 am and the person asked for Jimmy. I sadly told them that I was sorry but he had died. There was silence on the other end so I hung up. That was the last such call that I received. Coincidently the house turned out to be haunted, but that’s a story for another time.
At 8 pm on June 30 an extra second will be added to the day. Maybe I can get caught up on some of my reading.
“Every time I think I am getting better at this whole airplane thing, a rough flight makes me feel like a scared kid all over again.” Abby Covert
“Something I’ll always remember-when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that’s kinda wild when you think about it.” – Jonathan Winters I remember my great-grandfather who was born at the end of the civil war and I hope that my son sees man land on Mars. Heck, I hope that I do.
The seasonal/special interest flags seem to run in neighborhoods. Not many of my neighbors have them, but I see a lot when I go by BIL & SIL. Wouldn’t you love to hear the conversation that went on when Janis got into the house?
Jerry when are they going to add an extra fifth? New Years’ eve.
I think that if I ever put such a flag out it would look something like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Tux.png partly because I doubt that anybody else in the neighborhood would have the slightest clue about who Tux is or what he stands for.
Sigh. Reposting:
Here. Just lurking. Just now got to catch up on the Village news.
Jerry – I won’t ask, but I am curious.
Souse: Ate it as a kid, not sure I am brave enough now.
Airplanes: I have traveled that way, prefer not. I dislike many people crammed into small spaces. Although it is still preferable to over-crowded venues. I can accept a smaller “personal bubble” for limited lengths of time; however, sensory overload becomes overwhelming. I cannot focus, and can become extremely difficult. Awful for all parties.
My third shift called-off last night. His replacement got robbed at 4:30 this morning. My store was the second one of the morning; another location across town got hit two hours earlier. LEOs believe it was the same team, and they are also the likely suspects in the robbery the other night the next town over. All clerks okay. Off to bed.
. My “flag”
https://fbcdn-photos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-0/390813_10152072126995454_1845993848_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoibCJ9&oh=a11fe6d84828633eb80acb737826d9c0&oe=560A2AF5&__gda__=1442899070_695b28826688fa3e3a22711a65b8f649
Sideburns – I know that penguin shows up when I restart my lotto terminal. If he doesn’t show up, it’s not going good to work. Do I get a half point?
Flag: A simplified but accurate, colored drawing of a pineapple seen from above, with enough of the sides showing to see the geometric pattern, and a contrasting match color for the background. The diamonds on a pineapple’s sides comprise 3 whorls of successive Fibonacci numbers. Whorls of fat leaves of some succulent plants would do as well. A search for ‘Fibonacci numbers in nature’ might provide ideas.
Peace, emb
Flag. Pineapple ,might work better from the side. Also appropriate conifer cones. Flag designers could play with the possibilities. emb
OK sideburns… have to admit, I had to check that image. I haven’t worked with Linux for years and did not remember. You get points!!!
GR6/Mark/Debbe/et al.,
I have decided I need to make my own offset cold smoke generator. There are lost of designs but I think I will first attempt a venturi type. I will still have to wait for a cooler day and possibly add an ice pan to cool things down. The ice pan would have the added benefit of reducing the creosote on the cheese.
I have had deli bought smoked Cheddar, Edam, Gouda, Mozzarella, and more.
Debbe, I was raised with head cheese and blood sausage and I still like them but I don’t find them around here (my home town had a huge German community). You should have seen the looks I got 35 years ago when I tried to find pig tails up here. I miss the butcher shops and farmer’s markets in my home town.
We finished off the last of the pulled pork tonight. It was quite tasty even if it turn out exactly the way I hoped for. My next batch will be MUCH better. Ribs are on the menu for the weekend.
Gary