Grand Canyon adventure
Nov. 1st, 2011 09:27 pmHappened to see these guys over at Zion on the way home, right by the entrance:
Memorial Day 2011
May. 30th, 2011 03:22 pmI hadn't thought much about Memorial Day this year, just too busy I guess. Until my mom called (we live in the same state, but a few hours hours apart) and said the cemetary was taken care of. I knew what she meant: the area around my father's grave stone was mowed and flowers placed, along with the small flag and medallion signifying military service.
My father, "Pop" to us kids, spent 25 years in the Army and saw his way through 2 wars on several different continents. He was able to return home, but many of his friends and comrades did not. A lesson that wasn't lost to me as I made my own way through military service in the medical field.
So in the midst of family gatherings and fun in the sun, let's not forget those who gave their lives for our country....either past or present.
Here's Pop. He's the one in the middle of the 2 other officers in trenchcoats. He spent considerable time as a tank commander in his career, among other things. Happy Memorial Day!
Answer: Server Migration Problems
Jan. 24th, 2011 07:37 pmDing, ding! Don Pardo! Tell' er what she's won! Well Alex, she's won a week's worth of lost e-mails, bolloxed suspenses and missing pst folders!
IT Guy: Wellllll, it looks like what you have is some server migration problems. We've been getting these a lot.
Me: Will I recover my e-mails?
IT Guy: Have they come back yet?
Me: No.
IT Guy: Welllllll, it's not looking real good then.
Me:
Found this in the news today:
Twain scholar Alan Gribben, who is working with NewSouth Books in Alabama to publish a combined volume of the books, said the N-word appears 219 times in "Huck Finn" and four times in "Tom Sawyer." He said the word puts the books in danger of joining the list of literary classics that Twain once humorously defined as those "which people praise and don't read."
"It's such a shame that one word should be a barrier between a marvelous reading experience and a lot of readers," Gribben said.
Yet Twain was particular about his words. His letter in 1888 about the right word and the almost right one was "the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."
Another Twain scholar, Professor Stephen Railton at the University of Virginia, said Gribben is well respected, but called the new version "a terrible idea."
The language depicts America's past, Railton said, and the revised book was not being true to the period in which Twain was writing.
~~Why would anyone take an author’s book(s) and sanitize them for today’s world? I don’t buy Gribben’s thoughts that the “N” word would be a barrier to the reader. Really? Gribben obviously has never listened to 50 Cent, or Busta Rhyme or even Eminem. The word is already out there. But to sanitize an author’s work because it contains the same words, set in a historical frame of reference? What’s next? Book burning?
Thanks Professor Gribben, but I’d like to make my own choices about what I want to read, N-words or not. Leave my books alone. Especially my Mark Twain.~~
Just who has the right of way?
Jan. 5th, 2011 08:20 pmSo: Am I supposed to jump off the path into the ditch/mud/rocks (name yer poison) to let them pass?
Common courtesy would say one of them would drop back behind the other to let me (or someone else) pass. But instead, I get the old stink-eye and few rich words because I crowded them. Sheesh. Next time I take my cattle prod *grumble, grumble*.
She's One Year Old!
Dec. 14th, 2010 09:04 pmTried to find a tiara for her, but she wouldn't have it. She's not a girly-girl. Besides, it's a little difficult with the ears and whatnot.
Anyhoo, from puppy to adolescent, in 2 easy pics. Here ya go:
Transition Assistance Program
Nov. 16th, 2010 05:57 pmBut I guess the main thing for me is contemplating a total career and profession change after 22 years of doing the same thing (or versions of it). I think Groucho sums it up about right: