Call Me Bored

I'm trying. Lord knows I am trying. But Moby Dick is KILLING me.

The idea was to reacquaint myself with great literature in the hopes of said reading affecting my own attempts to write. But Herman Melville spends so much time in the minutia of sailing, sailors, and whales that I am 391 pages into this bloated tome and I am begging for relief.

The central plot is of Captain Ahab and the great white whale. It is their relationship for lack of a better word, that should drive this story. But like a bad Sunday School lesson "what did that mean to you?", Melville throws an early encylopedia of footnotes at the reader. Have nothing to do with the central plot - just knew the info and wanted us to know he knew.

Say - did Melville ever teach at a seminary?

I think I recognize this MO.

And now, the New Hope puppet team presents

I expect no less from our puppet team than this. ;)

Just What We Need :)

from the Sacred Sandwich

Funny, funny site.

Just saying

For all my Apple-holic friends

Oh Noooooooooooooooo!

The parade, the balloons, the Rick Roll.....

Religion? Sorry, We're Out of That

What now?

Now come on, that's just funny. :)

Help me Obamawan, you're my only hope

CNN is using holographic technology tonight in their election coverage (which I'm not watching BTW) and it reminded me of better times watching the first Star Wars with my oldest son Adam (who is an Obama supporter now as well as a Bulldog fan - where did I go wrong?)

Okay Forget the Kazoo Band, Let's Go Organic

Dogs Rule!

That dog always makes me sad. He's chained up in a back yard and no one ever comes to play with him. But despite that, several times he's showed the other animals just what being a dog means.

This time, he saved the life of the zeeba.

Dogs Rule!

So what if we had a New Hope kazoo marching band in the Christmas parade?

If we could get some cool uniforms...












These folks had 5200 people kazooing. (is that a word?)


You may say I'm a dreamer,

but I'm not the only one.

And no, we wouldn't do Amazing Grace. Everybody knows that's a bagpipe song.

I'm thinking "Smoke on the Water"

Okay, "Good Christian Men Rejoice" then.

Or "We Three Kings"

Can't you just hear it?

Before there was "Joe Plumber"...

KnowwhatImean?

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If It Only Came In Huge

This would be perfect for Henley's Howlaween costume.

Hmmm... did subliminal advertising cause me to purchase an Element?

So We're Looking For Movies To Show On Halloween

And naturally the slash and gore ones are out. But Monsters aren't. We might have to put up some warning signs, and if so, I am ready.

Slight Rant At Micro$oft

Listen, I know you don't want to hear this. From what I can tell you guys are taking a lot of heat lately with that Vista thing, so much so you are striking back in a less than good natured way. But I have to let you know

Yes, you have provided us with a lot of tools over the years - not perfect tools, but those of us who have been with you from DOS 2 want you to know that we appreciate the effort it must have taken to get us to this point.

So much progress since then.

Thanks

But I added more RAM to my Thinkpad last night, and now you want me to reactivate Microsoft Office? The copy I bought 7 YEARS ago? Whose CD is uh... somewhere here?

This is why people leave you. This is why Open Office is steadily building share. No it's not Office. But... it's not Micro$oft either. I have been ignoring all the times your product crashes with every single helpful answer being "Upgrade".

However, you are at my tipping point.

If I can find the CD, I'll hang in a while longer. If a thirty minute search doesn't turn it up, then you're toast.

That'd Be A "No"

They Just Don't Make Toys Like They Used To

In 1951, A.C. Gilbert introduced his U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, a radioactive learning set we can only assume was fun for the whole class or family. Gilbert, who was "often compared to Walt Disney for his creative genius," had a dream that nuclear power could capture the imaginations of kids everywhere. For a mere $49.50, the kit came complete with three "low-level" radioactive sources, a Geiger-Mueller radiation counter, a Wilson Cloud Chamber (to see paths of alpha particles), a Spinthariscope (to see "live" radioactive disintegration), four samples of Uranium-bearing ores, and an Electroscope to measure radioactivity. And what nuclear lab for kids would be complete without an Atomic Energy Manual and Learn How Dagwood Splits the Atom book? written with the help of General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project. Junior physicists had everything they needed, except a hazmat suit. Sadly, the toy was only sold for one year... HT: http://www.bgsu.edu/