Reminder: This Blog is entitled "Stuff We Learnt Today" - this blog is NOT "Stuff We Learnt Last Week", that is another blog.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Editor's Note
Reminder: This Blog is entitled "Stuff We Learnt Today" - this blog is NOT "Stuff We Learnt Last Week", that is another blog.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
I learnt last week............
there is a reason the dollar store sells oven cleaner for a dollar a can and King Sooper sells it for $6 a can...I messed around trying to clean an oven for 5 hours with the dollar stuff...and ended up getting the real Easy Off and doing the job in about 1/2 hour. This is one of several thing I have found is not a good deal at the dollar store...however the good out weighs the bad down there...and it is next to the ARC..so I will continue to shop the dollar store...selectively.
Friday, October 2, 2009
It's strange-basketball-player-story-Friday!
On Horseback with Nash:
On horseback a young Dirk Nowitzki races teammate Steve Nash down a thin strip of floury sand along the lapping shallows of some sub-tropical sea, the duo’s long hair flapping like matched manes in the wind.
Dirk is clumsy on horseback, Nash skillful. Waiting at the finish line, Nash joshes his friend:
“Howdy,” he says, doffing an invisible Stetson as Dirk’s steed lumbers over the snapped tape.
Dirk chuckles, executes an ungainly dismount. A breeze flutters their similar white riding shirts.
“Steve,” Dirk says later, the two of them sipping electric-blue drinks through complexly-looped pink straws, their horses happily gamboling a little ways down the beach. “What could be better than this, Steve? We’ve got the whole world, don’t we?”
Nash stares out at the giant red sun, dipping into the Pacific.
“Steve?”
On horseback a young Dirk Nowitzki races teammate Steve Nash down a thin strip of floury sand along the lapping shallows of some sub-tropical sea, the duo’s long hair flapping like matched manes in the wind.
Dirk is clumsy on horseback, Nash skillful. Waiting at the finish line, Nash joshes his friend:
“Howdy,” he says, doffing an invisible Stetson as Dirk’s steed lumbers over the snapped tape.
Dirk chuckles, executes an ungainly dismount. A breeze flutters their similar white riding shirts.
“Steve,” Dirk says later, the two of them sipping electric-blue drinks through complexly-looped pink straws, their horses happily gamboling a little ways down the beach. “What could be better than this, Steve? We’ve got the whole world, don’t we?”
Nash stares out at the giant red sun, dipping into the Pacific.
“Steve?”
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Quick Hits ....
www.e-mancipate.net -- yes? no?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/24/swedish_shortage/ - Come again?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/24/swedish_shortage/ - Come again?
Recipe for a Great Birthday...
...a little quikrete, a dash of prestone, some red wine (of course), AND a little HUMPTY (feltch, that is)! Happy Birthday, Ribhard!
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Birthday Toast to Abbzug
Happy Birthday, Abbzug!
(one day late, but that's how I roll)
Hope it was great!
Everyone, let's just continue to join Abbzug in a week-long birthday glass of wine...
Sunday, September 27, 2009
is america great or what?
September 27, 2009
The Net Gun
The Net-2000 Shooting Net Rod uses compressed air to launch a 52 square foot net at criminals, friends, or animals. The net can travels approximately 50 feet, so you can be a safe distance away out of stabbing range anyway and still use the device. They sell for $419, but the net can be reinserted into the device and fired repeatedly, so it's got lots of replay value.
This is probably safer than a Taser Device, but more bulky to carry.
See the You-Tube Video below.....
YouTube Video: Non Lethal Weapon :net gun, CatchingNet, security net launcher (the net gun)
Friday, September 25, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Monkey Face Spider revisited
Last weekend, we had the pleasure of visiting Abbzug and Leopold in their natural habitat. While we proclaimed our interest in visiting them and their newly remodeled home "on our way to a conference" the next day, our hosts were suspicious. Within the first half hour, our astute hosts accused us of having an ulterior motive: a glimpse of the famous, rare "monkey faced spider" (See WTF blog entry, Aug 22). Apparently, the Professor and Ginger are even smarter than they might first appear. In any event, after touring the house (excellent craftsmanship and even more beautiful than pictured in the Woodford Project blog), we proceeded to a tour of the grounds where we managed to snap a picture of the afore-mentioned spider with a telephoto lens. This high tech equipment revealed the reason for the nickname. Double click the photo, and you will understand why this phenomenon was truly worth the 2 hour (or in our case 4 hour) trip.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Fun story on NPR today!!!
http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=113055346&m=113062224
September 22, 2009 - TERRY GROSS, host:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross.
When the economy was on the verge of collapse in 2008, my guest, Matt Latimer, was one of the president's speechwriters, assigned to write a speech for Bush announcing his plan to deal with the crisis. It was, as you can imagine, one of Latimer's toughest assignments.
Matt Latimer dreamed of writing speeches for an American president, but when he got that chance with President Bush, it left him cynical and disillusioned. Latimer has written a memoir called "Speech-less: Tales of a White House Survivor."
It tells a story of how the son of two liberal schoolteachers became a conservative, worked on Capitol Hill, served three years as the chief speechwriter for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and went on to become the deputy director of speechwriting for President Bush. Several quotes from the book have already made news.
September 22, 2009 - TERRY GROSS, host:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross.
When the economy was on the verge of collapse in 2008, my guest, Matt Latimer, was one of the president's speechwriters, assigned to write a speech for Bush announcing his plan to deal with the crisis. It was, as you can imagine, one of Latimer's toughest assignments.
Matt Latimer dreamed of writing speeches for an American president, but when he got that chance with President Bush, it left him cynical and disillusioned. Latimer has written a memoir called "Speech-less: Tales of a White House Survivor."
It tells a story of how the son of two liberal schoolteachers became a conservative, worked on Capitol Hill, served three years as the chief speechwriter for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and went on to become the deputy director of speechwriting for President Bush. Several quotes from the book have already made news.
chicharrones de harina
Chicharrones de Harina
We picked up Chicharrones de Harina at the latin grocery store the other day on the way to Ft. Collins. We called team Ft. Collins to find out exactly what we were buying while at the store (no one spoke English at the grocery store) but the combination of my mobile virgin constant phone static and my inability to read spanish words proved to be a barrier. I have googled them now and find they are made with rendered pork fat and flour apparently. Plou and I have both enjoyed them.....I with Valentina Salsa Picannte Mexican hot sauce extra hot (have you tried the sauce? very good!) and she plain. Have any of yall tried this food ? Just wondering.
We picked up Chicharrones de Harina at the latin grocery store the other day on the way to Ft. Collins. We called team Ft. Collins to find out exactly what we were buying while at the store (no one spoke English at the grocery store) but the combination of my mobile virgin constant phone static and my inability to read spanish words proved to be a barrier. I have googled them now and find they are made with rendered pork fat and flour apparently. Plou and I have both enjoyed them.....I with Valentina Salsa Picannte Mexican hot sauce extra hot (have you tried the sauce? very good!) and she plain. Have any of yall tried this food ? Just wondering.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
learned what it looks like .........
to see a very tall man sleeping on a sorry ass blow up bed that deflates halfway down and he puts pillows under the sorry ass blow up bed to try and sleep............and would probably be better off sleeping on the floor.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
How Bizarre, how bizarre...
Yea, so Ribhard actually awoke from a nap the other day singing in key while still half asleep, "Every time I look around, every time I look around..."
Saturday, August 29, 2009
How Bizarre How Bizarre
Once you get a funky song stuck in your head..you cannot get it out..you start humming it...singing it...thinking about it...looking up Indonesian Youtube versions..lyrics.......till it runs it's course and weeks later slowly fades....
Saturday, August 22, 2009
WTF
Part of me wants to kill it and the other part kind of wants to name it. It is fucking huge, and it is eating stray cats and taking hostages in the corner of our patio. Can you see its fangs? (it's upside down)
Friday, August 21, 2009
Alarming News!!!
As you know, the mighty WindStar van died a few months ago....so we bought this old 98 Subaru Outback a few weeks back. We now have matching old blue subbys. The car came with a keyless entry alarm system. This was all well and good until the alarm began to go off at odd hours....like 2 AM in the morning outside my bedroom window...at the Lowe's parking lot...and sitting in the parking lot at school. I called the local Subaru dealer to see how much it would cost to kill it. They said maybe free and maybe $100....they would need to examine the situation. So I hopped my fat ass down there and slid into the service lane. The service writer...who honest to god looked like Alfred E. {what me worry?) Neuman listens to my tale of woe, calls the service department and Jimmy says it will be a few hours and maybe $210. I did opine that was a bullshit price and burned rubber leaving the service bay. Drove over to the Sound Advice place at Uintah and Circle....Johnny said $50 and will take about an hour. I shook on the deal...walked across the road and strolled up and down the aisles of Cheers Liquor Store....a delightful store with many many types of alcohol. Thought about Valencia and her no pocketbook story....which incidentally made the Gazette the other day.............a tale that needs to be discussed on the blog....anyway..I now have Merlot (5 ltr $12.00 box) and no alarm going off. Life if good.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
no mo sticky mess
Dear Heloise
The cup that comes with the liquid laundry detergent was always a complete sticky mess. I found that if I throw it in with my load of laundry, it gets cleaned with the load. I just need to be sure not to throw it in the dryer. Now my loads are fresh and my cup is free of the sticky mess.
John J. Garland, Flowermound, TX
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