…..Well, at least in the suburbs….. You can now send your dog to Bow-Wow Camp, a summer camp for your pooch located in Moore, OK, which is in South OKC….. The Grand Opening is tomorrow….. They have indoor camp sites with A/C along with outdoor roaming….. Tents with soft doggy sleeping bags and a nightly campfire treat….. Video feeds are provided so you can check on your mutt 24/7 on the Internet….. Ah, it’s a Dog’s Life and it’s all here in Oklahoma…….
Since I’ve returned to work, I’ve been bringing a few CD’s a day and uploading them to my computer using iTunes….. I’m now up to 2251 songs, about 6.2 days, to listen to while I happily go about my business….. The Looney’s (or Loobey’s) at iTunes assign a “Genre” for each song and/or album…… Here’s some of the good one’s: Badfinger’s “Day After Day”, which is a live album of some of their hits is listed under “Alternative and Punk”, whereas “No Dice” and “Straight Up” are listed under “Rock”!…… The studio versions of the songs on “Day After Day” are on them….. Buddy Holly is listed as “Country”….. The Beatle’s “Anthology” albums are listed as “Rock”, all except “Anthology 3”, disc 2, which is listed as “Pop”….. Chuck Berry’s “The Chess Box” – Disc 1 ’55-’58 is listed as “Rock”, disc 2 ’58-’64 and disc 3 ’64-’73 are listed as “Alternative and Punk”…… Must’a been all those drugs and partying he started doing around mid-’58……. Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Roy Orbison come up as “Country”….. Fleetwood Mac’s “Blues Jam in Chicago” is listed as “Rock”….. It goes on and on…… Paul Roger’s “Hendrix Set” is listed as “Blues”….. Zappa’s albums are split between “Alternative and Punk” and “Rock” – Close, but no cigar…… Oh, yeah, Jek, ALL the Yes albums come up as plain ‘ol “Rock”….. Looney iTunes I say……
This old French phrase, “to have some hemp in the pocket”,
means what?
Wow. This just in: The VA is the best. Check out this Time Magazine Article: “How VA Hospitals Became The Best”. It totally makes sense:
Here’s a good bit at the end of the article:
…conservatives fear such an arrangement would be a Trojan horse, setting up an even larger national health-care program and taking more business from the private sector. Congress has no plans to enlarge the scope of veterans’ health care–much less consider it a model for, say, a government-run system serving nonvets. But it’s becoming more and more “ideologically inconvenient for some to have such a stellar health-delivery system being run by the government,” says Margaret O’Kane, president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, which rates health plans for businesses and individuals. If VA health care continues to be the industry leader, it may become more difficult to argue that the market can do better.
Now if they could just figure out how to keep certain roommate patients from pulling their own IVs and flinging blood around, everything would be perfect. (Bring back memories MR?)
……maybe you should stick to your speciality?…..
Sad news from ABC news about TV’s “Crocodile Hunter”: Steve Irwin was videotaped pulling a poisonous stingray barb from his chest in his last moments of life, officials said Tuesday, as tributes poured in for TV’s “Crocodile Hunter.”
Police said there was nothing suspicious about Irwin’s death and no evidence he provoked the animal. Irwin, 44, was stabbed through the heart on Monday while snorkeling with a stingray during filming of a new TV program on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
John Stainton, Irwin’s manager who was among the crew on the reef, said the fatal blow was caught on videotape, and described viewing the footage as having the “terrible” experience of watching a friend die.
“It shows that Steve came over the top of the ray and the tail came up, and spiked him here (in the chest), and he pulled it out and the next minute he’s gone,” Stainton told reporters in Cairns, where Irwin’s body was taken for an autopsy.
Queensland state police were holding the tape as evidence for a coroner’s inquiry a standard procedure in high-profile deaths or those caused by other than natural causes……
What are the odds of something like that happening?….. Talk about your pre-destined time to go…… A sharpshooter sting ray!….. Man, I’m stayin’ clear of the ocean…..
For five points, what is “ABRACADABRA”. Only a complete and precise answer will be accepted but if you get close I may give some points anyway. ( I was laying around not working Sunday and forgot.
So what? )
Everyone needs to go here and sign and forward the link to others.
http://www.petitiononline.com/SS21ZNA9/petition.html
It’s time to nominate and induct Wings into the R&R Hall of Fame.
For five
points, who are the Knights of The Golden Fleece?
To those of you who follow the Educational quizzes:
Last night while enjoying our gracious hospitality, Jek snooped through Quiz Central and uncovered the Big Book, the source for all quizzes.
This gives Jek an unfair advantage and I’m asking what you think should be done. Hanging is too good. Tar and feathers come to mind but I leave it up to you to decide his fate.
Recently, I received a warning regarding the use of the politically incorrect term “towel-heads”. We all need to be more sensitive in our choice of words. I was informed that the Islamic terrorists who hate our guts and want to kill us don’t like being called towel-heads, since the item they wear on their heads is not actually a towel, but in fact, a small folded sheet. Therefore, from this point forward, they should be refered to as little sheet-heads. Thank you for your cooperation on this delicate matter.
On maps and blueprints North is almost always toward the top of the page (in the U. S. of A. anyway)….. Notice I said “almost”….. Yesterday I started a cost estimation on a new building to be built at Edmond Memorial High School ( a suburb of OKC)….. I pulled up the Roof Plan page of the blueprints and became extremely familiar with the layout and “assumed”, without thinking that the North wall was at the top of the page, the East wall was to my right, etc., etc…. Well, I had some questions on how all this tied-in to the construction of the building walls, so I brought-up the Elevations pages and thought “what the Hell”…… The elevations didn’t match the roof plans….. That’s when I noticed that the drawing labeled South Elevation was actually, to me, the North Elevation and the East was the West…. I thought the architect had screwed-up the labeling of the views….. I went back to the roof plan and low and behold the North Indicator was pointing to the bottom of the page!….. So, now, even before the building is off the drawing board, I am turned around….. I can image if we get the job, the problems I’ll have on the jobsite….. Of course, I had the same problem at Jek’s house and it took a long time and concentration to get my brain orientated to the proper directions….. It’s funny how your brain gets “set in concrete” on some things and refuses to change…… (I’m waiting on comments from the Peanut Gallery)…..
I was kinda fond of Pluto….. But, here’s the scoop from ABC News:
Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight.
After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930. The new definition of what is and isn’t a planet fills a centuries-old black hole for scientists who have labored since Copernicus without one.
Although astronomers applauded after the vote, Jocelyn Bell Burnell a specialist in neutron stars from Northern Ireland who oversaw the proceedings urged those who might be “quite disappointed” to look on the bright side.
“It could be argued that we are creating an umbrella called ‘planet’ under which the dwarf planets exist,” she said, drawing laughter by waving a stuffed Pluto of Walt Disney fame beneath a real umbrella.
The decision by the prestigious international group spells out the basic tests that celestial objects will have to meet before they can be considered for admission to the elite cosmic club.
For now, membership will be restricted to the eight “classical” planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Much-maligned Pluto doesn’t make the grade under the new rules for a planet: “a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a … nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.”
Pluto is automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune’s.
It’s not what I learned in school…… Only eight planets?….. Things do change, and on a Universal scale…..
What is on the Column of
Antoninus?
Since the last “Educational Quiz” was geographically based, I saw a story on the news about this couple that visited every city, town, ville, ghost town, and hole-in-the-wall in the state of Oklahoma….. It took them six years and over 32,000 miles to do it….. Why?….. I don’t know…. They were retired, but, have since went back to work…. I think just to get some excitement back into their lives….. No doubt!….. They stated that while their friends were taking vacations all over the US and abroad, they believed touring Oklahoma was a lot more fun….. Doesn’t take much to amuse some people….. I think I’ll take my next vacation to Slapout, Oklahoma – Population – 6……. Anyone want to come along?……
What are the names of the eight states which retain the Indian names of their chief rivers? One
point for each state.