Random Comments/Stream of Consciousness Thread

[Patrick]

Hey, your son is a Cub Scout!

Both my boys are. Pinewood Derby next weekend!

Excellent. My older son just earned his Webelos rank badge and the younger son his Wolf badge.

Good luck next weekend! Our Pinewood Derby is always around tax day.

Edit:

Lesson on how to get my boys to dress nicely on a family holiday: Tell them they can wear their Cub Scout uniforms.

Photo taken this past Thanksgiving:

[Fsmdr]

That little girl of yours is so adorable, Patrick!. I want to reach out and pinch her cheeks!.

[Patrick]

Aw, thanks!

For Juliana: Three Little Yodas

[Merlin1958]

That's one great looking family you got there, Patrick!!!!!!!

Proud Papa!!!! And rightly so!!!!!

[Fsmdr]

Awww....sooooo cute. Thanks for the posting the pictures, Patrick. She's beautiful!.

[Patrick]

Thanks, Bill, although the Yodas are not close relatives.

Thanks, Juliana. She is available to be babysat anytime you're in the neighborhood!

[different_seasons]

My daughter as Josie in Anne of Green Gables. 6th from the right.



and standing, looking at her chalk board in class

[Patrick]

Nice job on the costumes too.

[Fsmdr]

I love Anne of Green Gables!. Nice setup and costumes.

[Merlin1958]

Awesome, Dude. Just awesome!!!!!!!

[herbertwest]

An influential appellate court ruled in 2009 that a consumer could pursue a lawsuit against publisher Simon and Schuster and mobile marketing firm ipsh! for allegedly sending unsolicited SMS ads promoting Stephen King's "Cell."

http://www.mediapost.com/publication...art_aid=145547

[Randall Flagg]

<--------------Did I miss something?
The lawsuit seems to be over spam sent to phones, from/for a loan modification site.
I get the reference to a ruling (June, 2009) regarding possible spam violations promoting Cell.

[herbertwest]

As far as i remember, but i could be wrong, random people recieved a text message for CELL, no?

From 2010 : http://www.textmessageblog.mobi/2010...y-to-nextones/

[herbertwest]

For 2 grands, one can build wings that are wicked!
http://www.korben.info/team-blackshe...ng-zephyr.html

http://www.team-blacksheep.com/products/product:3/

[biomieg]

I posted this in response to a remark about screen settings in the forum view poll thread and I thought some of you might like it:

This made me think of a GREAT little piece of software that I installed on our laptop (download it here: http://stereopsis.com/flux/). It's especially useful when you routinely use your computer in the evening before going to bed. It automatically adjusts your screen settings according to the time of day, based on your location. This makes it a lot easier on your eyes later at night, which in turn enhances sleep quality. It may take a little getting used to but it definitely works (for me and many others).

Similarly, we use a 'wake up light' in the mornings. It's an alarm clock with a light that slowly increases in intensity over the course of thirty minutes, reaching maximum intensity at the moment you want to wake up (then it also starts making some gentle noises). This prepares your brain for waking up and allows you to 'reach the surface' in a natural way instead of abruptly waking in the dark with an awful alarm clock noise and regardless of which sleep phase you were in.

[Randall Flagg]

I hope you voted.

[biomieg]

I did.

[ELazansky]

As an old-time baseball fan of the 1950's and 1960's (even though I was not alive during that era), today's news saddens me:

Hall of Fame center fielder Duke Snider dies at 84


Duke Snider, the Hall of Fame center fielder for the charmed "Boys of Summer" who helped the Dodgers bring their elusive and only World Series crown to Brooklyn, died Sunday. He was 84.

Snider died at the Valle Vista Convalescent Hospital in Escondido, Calif., said the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, which announced the death on behalf of the family. The family said he died of natural causes.

"The Duke of Flatbush" hit .295 with 407 career home runs, played in the World Series six times and won two titles. But the eight-time All-Star was defined by much more than his stats — he was, after all, part of the love affair between the borough of Brooklyn and "Dem Bums" who lived in the local neighborhoods.

Ebbets Field was filled with stars such as Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella and Gil Hodges during that 1955 championship season. Yet it is Snider's name that refrains in the ballpark favorite "Talkin' Baseball."

"Willie, Mickey, and the Duke," the popular song goes.

Snider wore No. 4 in Dodger blue and was often regarded as the third-best center fielder in New York — behind Willie Mays of the Giants and Mickey Mantle of the Yankees — during what many fans considered the city's golden era of baseball.

"The newspapers compared Willie, Mickey and I, and that was their thing," Snider said several years ago. "As a team, we competed with the Giants, and we faced the Yankees in the World Series. So we had a rivalry as a team, that was it. It was an honor to be compared to them, they were both great players."

[carlosdetweiller]

Monday always seems to be the slowest day here at Calvin's Corner. I wonder why that is?

[Mr. Rabbit Trick]

We're all at the Oscars parties. Where were you?

[Randall Flagg]

Monday always seems to be the slowest day here at Calvin's Corner. I wonder why that is?

I think you will have to wait until Tuesday for an answer.

[jhanic]

I think it would be interesting to see how many members:

1. Access mainly from work
2. Access mainly from home
3. Access from both.

I fall into category 2--I'm retired, so I don't go to a job.

John

[Mr. Rabbit Trick]

3. Access from both.

[ELazansky]

I access from home only

[carlosdetweiller]

I access from both.