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Since the subject of home-entertainment technology has come up already this week, I thought I’d share this from 2005. The premise is valid but not entirely correct, not in the age of digital television anyway. In the event of a problem, you can unplug the modem or unplug the router or unplug the cable box or, if you’re living in the dark ages like some of us, unplug the Roku in an attempt to make things right again. After that, Waaaaah!!
I want you to know that this Web site has accounted for about half the money raised so far in the parsonage Kickstarter campaign. That’s pretty remarkable! You should be proud of yourselves. I am! I hope you have an enjoyable weekend.
159 responses to “Do Not Adjust Your Set”
Good morning Villagers….
Indy Mindy, thanks for that bit of info…extended defrost mode, I’ll bring that one up to the farm manager.
The humidity is wrecking havoc on our steel rod conveyor, and we are going to have to sand and wipe it clean…probably in the am…egads….
I will admit my Miss Prissies are a hardy breed, my mortality through this heat wave is staying low.
Mark, that cat story reminds me of the one cat in Japan who also was the mascot for a train station…he passed on just recently.
Ian came in from the hen house yesterday into the packing room and I reminded him of a particular cage with a “floor mat” hen (when they have been overlooked and been in there a few days)….he said “wait a minute, I need to acclimate!? Acclimate, now there’s a $50 word.
Jerry, where did the ‘green’ come from in that pic?
Ya’ll have a cool Monday…..
GR 😉 long straight, strawberry blond…one time my roommate gave me a perm, and I swear I look like Carol King, only different hair color 🙂
just because I wanted to hear this morning, been one year today that Mom left us……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6c9Ejfu-iU
ok, who remembers the neurotic Claude the cat?? This dog style 🙂
http://cheezburger.com/8819938048
GR 😉 the lyrics
Lyrics
Somethin’ filled up
My heart with nothin’,
Someone told me not to cry.
Now that I’m older,
My heart’s colder,
And I can see that it’s a lie.
Children wake up,
Hold your mistake up,
Before they turn the summer into dust.
If the children don’t grow up,
Our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up.
We’re just a million little god’s causin’ rain storms turnin’ every good thing to rust.
I guess we’ll just have to adjust.
With my lightnin’ bolts a glowin’
I can see where I am goin’ to be
When the reaper he reaches and touches my hand.
With my lightnin’ bolts a glowin’
I can see where I am goin’
With my lightnin’ bolts a glowin’
I can see where I am go-goin’
You better look down below.
When I type in or paste in a link it doesn’t turn green until I submit the comment. Then the link turns green. Maybe it doesn’t work for everyone that way?
I just pray it is the correct link it is linking. Prayer and holding my breath until I check it seems to work.
In keeping with that thought, here is a copy of a Facebook post of my new boat that is stuck in Almost Canada and a photo of me after a week of travel getting there. This is for those not on Facebook who have any interest in what Stella Maris and I look like.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/440526479459574/permalink/567638333415054/
Jerry: thanks for explaining the “green” comment. It works that way for me too, probably for everyone.
Let’s try that link again. First it was there, then it vanished.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/440526479459574/permalink/567638333415054/
It comes from the deponent verb whose principal parts are queror, queri, questus sum. If memory serves, a deponent verb is one – in Latin – whose written forms are all in the passive, but whose meanings are all in the active voice. They typically have only 3 principal parts whereas normal verbs have 4 principal parts: sum, esse, fui, futurus or ferro, ferre, tuli, latus, to show two irregular ones.
Rusty, it knows me not! I was an unusual trucker:
– Always wore slacks and a nice shirt.
– Showered daily.
– Clean shaven.
– Didn’t swear.
I had been a technical writer for about 20 years before the tech bubble burst, forcing the career change. I chose to remain myself, in how I dressed and behaved, and it paid off in my being treated better by shippers and receivers than other drivers. I’d be warned by other drivers that the managers at certain locations were especially rude to truckers… and find the folks there just as nice as anywhere else.
Other salesmen always complained that my late husband always looked like he stepped out of a GQ ad and never sweated nor wrinkled even in Texas heat. He didn’t and as Trucker pointed out, neat, polite and courteous pays off in how you are treated. Still does.
If anyone has watched The Intern with Robert DeNiro and Anne Hathaway, I would recommend it. Clean, well dressed with manners (and a handkerchief) almost always wins the day.
I learned in church yesterday that I resemble Mark Wilson who plays the title role in the Father Brown series. He has darker hair (and more of it!) in that role than I do in real life:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/d7yHnLySNeQ/hqdefault.jpg
TruckerRon, this is the Mark Wilson I know from TV. Loved to watch him when I was a kid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wilson_(magician)
10:03, if anyone cares: “fero”, not “ferro”.
Puzzle from a email I just sent my blind-copy biology group. This is what we do for fun.
Corvid [?] on limb near a former G.H. Owl nest, converted to a non-functioning osprey nest, near salt water near Savannah, GA. Not a magpie. Have seen both American and Fish crows there. This plumage is neither, nor is it a magpie’s. Maybe just odd plumage on American or Fish?
https://twitter.com/SavannahOwls/status/757547995198058496/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Peace,
P.S. A corvid is any member of the family Corvidae: crows, jays, magpies, rooks, ravens, jackdaws, choughs. Wiki has info on most of them.
emb: Awkward pose but it looks like a mockingbird to me
I’m with Ruth Anne
Google Image search pegs it as “bird”.
https://birdsandbeyond.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/screenshot-2016-04-01-11-27-47.png?w=640&h=491
for comparison
It is so hot in Oklahoma that the convenience stores can’t get enough ice and it’s being bootlegged.
“From: PAUL K LAGO
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 12:30 PM
To: The Hazards ; “Undisclosed-Recipient:;”@olemiss.edu
Subject: Re: ID this bird.
Dr. Hazard, It’s a mockingbird. Paul”
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Yep, I goofed. Assumed size without evidence, among other things [like not examining plumage carefully]. Paul, whom I may have introduced before, entomologist who knows his birds better than his Ornithology prof does, one of BSU’s distinguished grads, is biology chair at Ole Miss. He’s taught there longer than I taught here, and is about to retire, or has. I must be getting old. Still calls me Dr. Hard to break them of that.
Peace,
Jackie, 77° in Houston.
We will have a respite from hell, temperatires actually will be in 90s but heat index in 100s.