...I was Grade Five...then grade six...
Nixon, Arafat, ghadaffi, come to power. People's Park and the anti-war movement vs Gov Reagan and the National Guard. Vietnam War and the draft lottery comes to a peak. Sirhan Sirhan and James Earl Jones are guilty. Manson Family and the Zodiac killer are a media thriller. The Jets and the Mets are champions. Woodstock and Altimont are a hit, 2 years after the Summer of Love. Apollo lands man on the moon. The 747 and Concord have their first flights. Popular are John and Yoko, Led Zep, The Godfather in print, and the Midnight Cowboy in film. Also Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, True Grit, Easy Rider, Love Bug, and Hello Dolly.. The birth of the Internet [ARAPANET], WalMart, Monty Python, and Sesame Street. Gomer, Peyton Place, the Avengers, and Star Trek is cancelled [boo hoo], replaced by Brady Bunch, Love American Style, Tom Jones, and Johnny Cash. Archie, Scooby, and HR Puff'n'Stuff were silly. Monty Python was...well...
The Year That Changed Everything another video montage on WikiPedia
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
$20
Merry Christmas, Happy Winter Solistice, and New Year! Congratulations on recieving the Gift of Gifts! Really, you don't have to thank me :) Knowing that you don't probably wear or remember getting anything worth less than $20, it wasn't easy.
OK, I didn't know who this would go to. BUT it is something I could go for! Think of it as a Wish List inventory of every gift you could have had and some you would have never used.
In the days of high-tech, low connect items, I hope this brings an occasional smile to you, the family, and whoever you play this with. And always remember the Rule of Acquisition 1B "No returns, no exchanges"
Always (except this Sunday)
Rodney
OK, I didn't know who this would go to. BUT it is something I could go for! Think of it as a Wish List inventory of every gift you could have had and some you would have never used.
In the days of high-tech, low connect items, I hope this brings an occasional smile to you, the family, and whoever you play this with. And always remember the Rule of Acquisition 1B "No returns, no exchanges"
Always (except this Sunday)
Rodney
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Favorite Quotes
Personal Quotes...and a few I stole
No matter where you go, there you are
"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach"
So my Dear, neither going through my pockets nor stabbing me in the back will help you in any way.
"Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you"- Mae West
- The new motto for the TSA
More wisdom from Mae West, George Carlin, Marx, Socrates and nearly eighty others
Now that I have your attention...leave me alone!
I am in complete control of my emotions. It's yours that I have a problem with!
God has a sense of humor, He's a comedian! You just don't get the joke!
The optimist [Erin, A's fan] sees the Colesium as full; Raiders fans see it as half empty.
"The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife. " Ferengi Rules of Acquisition about sales people
"I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!"- Homer Simpson
Ponderables...
Did you know Ponderables is not a word?
Does the little mermaid wear an algaebra?
Why did God give men nipples? [answer *1 below]
If I break the laws of Physics do I go to jail? [*2]
Is laughing stock cattle with a sense of humor?
Does a laughing cow have milk come out its nose?
"I love you more today than yesterday; I'll love you twice as much tomorrow"- Really? Should I be angry that you loved me less yesterday? So you're saying that you're holding back now?
Whose cruel idea was it for the word lisp to have an s in it?
If 7Eleven is open 24 hours a day, why are there locks on the doors?
Why do we play in recitals and recite in plays?
If it's a "no brainer" does it mean it's stupid? or a knee-jerk reaction?
Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak? - Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Why do phone companies give you a number to call if your phone doesn't work? *3
*1 Actually woman was created first, capable of self-insemination. Then men were cloned with a specialized tool.
*2 Yes, banished to another dimension. Can be temporary, as in at warp.
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Scotty: Thank Heavens.
Spock: Mr. Scott, there was no deity involved. It was my cross-circuiting to B that recovered them.
Dr. McCoy: Well, then, thank pitchforks and pointed ears! As long as it worked!
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Phone snippets...
"Thank you for calling Suicide Hotline. Hold please!"
*3 "Sorry I couldn't help you get connected [to the Internet]. You can always go to www.att.net/help."
"If this is not an emegency press 1...[ 4:46 later ] if this is an emegency press star 16. If you would like to hear these options again press star 0."
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AFI Top 100 Another list Star Trek Quotes...see the complete list
No matter where you go, there you are
"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach"
So my Dear, neither going through my pockets nor stabbing me in the back will help you in any way.
"Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you"- Mae West
- The new motto for the TSA
More wisdom from Mae West, George Carlin, Marx, Socrates and nearly eighty others
Now that I have your attention...leave me alone!
I am in complete control of my emotions. It's yours that I have a problem with!
God has a sense of humor, He's a comedian! You just don't get the joke!
The optimist [Erin, A's fan] sees the Colesium as full; Raiders fans see it as half empty.
"The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife. " Ferengi Rules of Acquisition about sales people
"I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!"- Homer Simpson
Ponderables...
Did you know Ponderables is not a word?
Does the little mermaid wear an algaebra?
Why did God give men nipples? [answer *1 below]
If I break the laws of Physics do I go to jail? [*2]
Is laughing stock cattle with a sense of humor?
Does a laughing cow have milk come out its nose?
"I love you more today than yesterday; I'll love you twice as much tomorrow"- Really? Should I be angry that you loved me less yesterday? So you're saying that you're holding back now?
Whose cruel idea was it for the word lisp to have an s in it?
If 7Eleven is open 24 hours a day, why are there locks on the doors?
Why do we play in recitals and recite in plays?
If it's a "no brainer" does it mean it's stupid? or a knee-jerk reaction?
Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak? - Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Why do phone companies give you a number to call if your phone doesn't work? *3
*1 Actually woman was created first, capable of self-insemination. Then men were cloned with a specialized tool.
*2 Yes, banished to another dimension. Can be temporary, as in at warp.
-----------------------------------------------------
Scotty: Thank Heavens.
Spock: Mr. Scott, there was no deity involved. It was my cross-circuiting to B that recovered them.
Dr. McCoy: Well, then, thank pitchforks and pointed ears! As long as it worked!
-----------------------------------------------------
Phone snippets...
"Thank you for calling Suicide Hotline. Hold please!"
*3 "Sorry I couldn't help you get connected [to the Internet]. You can always go to www.att.net/help."
"If this is not an emegency press 1...[ 4:46 later ] if this is an emegency press star 16. If you would like to hear these options again press star 0."
-----------------------------------------------------
AFI Top 100 Another list Star Trek Quotes...see the complete list
Stuck in 1973
1973 Oakland, California to be precise! The McChesney-Oakland High hub. Up and down the Park Blvd, bus 18 route; and later, the new East Bay section of the BART line. Most of my FB posts of the past few months have centered around re-remembering those times with a few "old" classmates. I was born and raised in Oakland, have lived "up" Park Blvd 1963 until 1976. Graduated from OHS early [missed all the good stuff of the Fuorth Year]. In the Philippines for college until late 1983. Lost touch with everyone! Only recently re-connected with Clarice, James, Wayne, Claire, Steve [goes back to Glenview], Steve, Andy, Mayumi, Catherine, and Tom.
Oh, I am back at Park Blvd again this year since living on the Fruitvale side of Dimond Park since 1990. My two kids, Angie 24 and Paul 21, went to the same schools I did.
For those I went to school with in the '70s...Anyone else, you just wouldn't understand
Clap for the Wolfman- Guess Who
For all you students and non-conformist out there! You know who you are!
Smokin In The Boys Room- Mötley Crüe, but originally recorded by Brownsville Station in 1973.
http://www.nutsie.com/top100sradio/1973%20Top%20100%20Songs/2180725 Top Hits
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_in_music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_in_television
- I didn't really go to movies this year. I sooo wanted to watch The Exorcist, but my parents wouldn't let me! I didn't even get to enjoy Jesus Christ Superstar until I was in the Philippines 4 years later!
Oh, I am back at Park Blvd again this year since living on the Fruitvale side of Dimond Park since 1990. My two kids, Angie 24 and Paul 21, went to the same schools I did.
For those I went to school with in the '70s...Anyone else, you just wouldn't understand
Clap for the Wolfman- Guess Who
For all you students and non-conformist out there! You know who you are!
Smokin In The Boys Room- Mötley Crüe, but originally recorded by Brownsville Station in 1973.
http://www.nutsie.com/top100sradio/1973%20Top%20100%20Songs/2180725 Top Hits
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_in_music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_in_television
- I didn't really go to movies this year. I sooo wanted to watch The Exorcist, but my parents wouldn't let me! I didn't even get to enjoy Jesus Christ Superstar until I was in the Philippines 4 years later!
Monday, December 14, 2009
Earth threatened by Humankind
The following is based on fact, rant, and speculations.
FACTS
Civilization as we know it is about 10,000 years old. We are in an "icehouse" effect that started less than 50 million years ago. Dinosaurs were extinct due to an event 650 million years ago. Solar radiation, Earth's surace temperature, and inorganic carbon dioxide will increase...resulting in the loss of water, oxygen, plant, and animal life in about 900 million years. The earth is more than 4 billion years old. "Life" is an abberation!
RANT
Politicians and some groups are arrogant enough to think anything we do will harm the planet. What carbon doixide and pollutants we put out is nothing compared to what is put out by volcanoes and all animal life that farts and decays. Our garbage landfills will last decades. So what! Radioactives will last for centuries. Again so what? Our overpopulated cities are choking the earth. NOT! After we are all dead and gone, the Earth will still be here! George Carlin had it right. We are only helping other species become extinct a little bit faster. The only species we are doing harm to is our own! And a damn good job of it too!
SPECULATIONS
I believe that there was once life and a thriving civilization on what is now Mars. Earth was seeded before that civilization ended, some one billion years ago. By now all traces of life there have been erased with time. What is left is atmospheric carbon dioxide, surface ice, underground water, and no complex molecules. Much like what the earth will be like, one billion years from now. More than a billion years before that, civilization was on a world where there is now an asteroid belt. Was that world destroyed by artificial means? Who's to say!?! Life may have originated on the moons of Jupiter, where evidence of ice and vulcanism is evident today. Our solar system would have been only a billion years old. According to my theory, we still have time to terraform Venus. It is the hothouse that Earth was, before molecules bonded to become life-sustaining.
The Earth was NOT created in seven days, nor will it be destroyed in a movie theater!
FACTS
Civilization as we know it is about 10,000 years old. We are in an "icehouse" effect that started less than 50 million years ago. Dinosaurs were extinct due to an event 650 million years ago. Solar radiation, Earth's surace temperature, and inorganic carbon dioxide will increase...resulting in the loss of water, oxygen, plant, and animal life in about 900 million years. The earth is more than 4 billion years old. "Life" is an abberation!
RANT
Politicians and some groups are arrogant enough to think anything we do will harm the planet. What carbon doixide and pollutants we put out is nothing compared to what is put out by volcanoes and all animal life that farts and decays. Our garbage landfills will last decades. So what! Radioactives will last for centuries. Again so what? Our overpopulated cities are choking the earth. NOT! After we are all dead and gone, the Earth will still be here! George Carlin had it right. We are only helping other species become extinct a little bit faster. The only species we are doing harm to is our own! And a damn good job of it too!
SPECULATIONS
I believe that there was once life and a thriving civilization on what is now Mars. Earth was seeded before that civilization ended, some one billion years ago. By now all traces of life there have been erased with time. What is left is atmospheric carbon dioxide, surface ice, underground water, and no complex molecules. Much like what the earth will be like, one billion years from now. More than a billion years before that, civilization was on a world where there is now an asteroid belt. Was that world destroyed by artificial means? Who's to say!?! Life may have originated on the moons of Jupiter, where evidence of ice and vulcanism is evident today. Our solar system would have been only a billion years old. According to my theory, we still have time to terraform Venus. It is the hothouse that Earth was, before molecules bonded to become life-sustaining.
The Earth was NOT created in seven days, nor will it be destroyed in a movie theater!
Thursday, December 3, 2009
The Earth-Romulan War
Links related to the Earth-Romulan War. See also the books "Kobuyashi Maru" and "Beneath the Raptor's Wing" leading into the War.
http://www.st-minutiae.com/academy/history162/ History of the Earth-Romulan War
http://www.starfleet-museum.org/romulan-war.htm Ships of the Earth-Romulan War
http://www.starfleet-museum.org/...romulan-cruisers.htm Romulan Ships during the Earth-Romulan War
http://www.st-minutiae.com/academy/history162/ History of the Earth-Romulan War
http://www.starfleet-museum.org/romulan-war.htm Ships of the Earth-Romulan War
http://www.starfleet-museum.org/...romulan-cruisers.htm Romulan Ships during the Earth-Romulan War
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