Raymond Crowe, from Australia, does a hand shadow show to the song “What A Wonderful World” (as performed by Louis Armstrong).
HT: HG.
August 23, 2009
August 14, 2009
Old Time Radio Shows and Music
Radiolovers.com – Free Old Time Radio Shows describes their Website as follows:
We offer hundreds of vintage radio shows for you to listen to online in mp3 format, all for free. Before the days of video games, shopping malls, MTV, and the Internet, families used to sit in their living room each night to listen to radio shows such as Superman, Groucho Marx, The Avenger, Gunsmoke, Sherlock Homes, and many others. When TV become popular in the 1950’s, most of these shows went off the air, but they now live on at websites such as this one and on weekly nostalgia radio broadcasts worldwide. © 2009 All Rights Reserved.
Some of the shows they have are:
Comedies: Amos & Andy | A Date with Judy | Barrel of Fun | Benny Goodman | Bob Hope Show | Blondie | Evening with George Burns | Camel Comedy | More..
Dramas: Avenger | Defense Attorney | Charlie Chan | More..
Mysteries: Boris Karloff | Cloak and Dagger | Dark Venture | More..
Variety: Al Jolson Show | Arthur Godfrey and his talent scouts | Artie Shaw | Authors Playhouse | Big Bands | Eddie Arnold Show | Ernie Ford | More..
Westerns: Hopalong Cassidy| Death Valley Days | Gene Autry | Gunsmoke | More..
SciFi/Superheros: 2000 Plus | Batman | Buck Rogers | More..
© 2009 All Rights Reserved.
August 12, 2009
The “Chocolate Calculator” Reprise
Following the steps we are supposed to go through, we get:
1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate (more than once but less than 10). I’ll pick 3.
2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold). This gives us 6.
3. Add 5. This gives us 11.
4. Multiply it by 50 — I’ll wait while you get the calculator. This gives us 550.
5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1759 …
If you haven’t, add 1758. Let’s pick July 26, 1980. So we add 1759 to 550, to get 2309.6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born. This gives us 2309 – 1980 = 329.
You should have a three digit number. Yup: 329.
The first digit of this was your original number (i.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week). Yes, it is! It’s 3!
The next two numbers are YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!) Yes, again! It’s 29! (This is a hypothetical; I am not 29.)
What’s happening is that we are coming up with 2009 by a round-about, hidden way. We start with 5,
August 10, 2009
The “Chocolate Calculator”
From an email:
1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate (more than once but less than 10).
2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold).
3. Add 5.
4. Multiply it by 50 — I’ll wait while you get the calculator.
5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1759 …
If you haven’t, add 1758.6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.
You should have a three digit number.
The first digit of this was your original number (i.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week).
The next two numbers are YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)
How does it work?? (I’ll post the answer in two days.)
June 24, 2009
Memories From Last Week
Riding Bareback
Nice that the evil horseflies are gone, that they have finished their one-month cycle of attacking animals for blood, so I can ride back in the woods again! Last week, the ride after this pictured ride, I went back out in the woods after a two-week absence. I did not want my horse to have to suffer horsefly attacks. They are horrible (see also URI’s Factsheet): they swarm in groups of 5 or 10 or 25; they cut into animals with knife-like “teeth” instead of sucking blood like mosquitoes; they leave trails of blood a few inches long; they are so bloodthirsty that no amount of flyspray or Deep Woods Off will keep them away. They deserve to die.
But today and Monday I had good two-hour, unmolested rides in the woods. Sunshine, blue sky, green trees, dark shadows, brown earth, my horse, me, and peaceful, pleasant solitude.
June 16, 2009
June 15, 2009
Incredible
Go watch a pair of youngsters (6 and 7 years old) do some dance and acrobatics.
I could not do that in a million years…
April 28, 2009
Creative Puns
I received these in an email from family. I don’t know who thought of these, but they are clever.
1. The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was –
–Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, –
–but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .
3. She was only a whisky maker, –
–but he loved her still.
March 3, 2009
Horseback Riding: Value Rich
Yesterday (3-2-09) was sunny again, cool (upper 50s, lower 60s), low humidity. Perfect for a horseback ride.
After being 27 F or so the night before, my horse just wanted to walk and graze, mostly. He was sneezing a bit and had a slightly runny nose. He trotted and cantered some, when he wanted to.
It felt good to get out and ride. It was good to be out in nature and in the sun, just me and my horse. Horses, being herd animals, make good “friends” to spend time with: they have good dispositions (generally; there are individual differences, of course), they like social interaction, and they like to run and play.
Hear that? (Video requires QuickTime.) Exactly: nothing. Serene silence…how sweet to the mind and consciousness that was…
February 24, 2009
Amy Mossofian “Little Things”
1. It was a beautiful day for a horseback ride — upper 50s to lower 60s; sun shine; blue sky — so I availed myself of the opportunity. I went out into some local woods for an hour and a half of constant activity. I let my horse pick the pace, and he chose to trot almost the entire hour and a half, with some cantering and running thrown in. There were times when I pulled him into a walk because of the terrain or overhanging vines. My horse made the choice to walk a few times, too.
2. I saw two deer while I was out. Nice.
3. We rode down a road we’ve never been on before.
We ran back up a dirt road (my horse always runs up this particular road); at one point we had to go under a fallen tree (from Hurricane Ike last September). The video on my cell was set to cut off at 30 seconds, so the video cut off right as we were going under the tree.
