Can’t afford it!

Check out this witty little Dominic Tocci video – “I Can’t Afford My Gasoline” – over at Atom Films.

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Pearly gates and best friends

This story has been circulating in emails for awhile, but I received it recently and love it enough to post it here too. I haven’t discovered the author’s name.
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A man and his dog were walking along a road. The man was enjoying the scenery, when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead. He [...]

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I broke it

I fell this afternoon, sad tale of a curb, some decorative rocks, and me just putting a foot wrong and falling down, feeling a snap in my right foot. In the metatarsus or whatever you call that thing numbered “4″ in the diagram. Not the ankle, thank goodness; I broke that last [...]

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This just in: bird flu hits Florida!!

From my cousin the veterinarian, by email. Click on small photo above to enlarge.

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Net Neutrality

I’m for it. Read about it at http://www.savethe internet.com and also here.

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When Celebs Go Verrry Strange – in Public

Ok, I never paid a whole lot of attention to Tom Cruise. I saw him in a few movies, yes he’s good-looking but so is everybody in the movies.
I get most of my celeb news in whatever two minute snippets the local teevee stations have for it in their regular news programs. Which [...]

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What an old grouch

That would be me.
Old grouch.
Yep.
Just scroll on down a few posts to this one.
I should really not post about important subjects of public policy too early in the morning.
I regret a few things I wrote. But instead of editing them out, I’ll mull them over out loud right here.

Dani Newsum over at the Denver [...]

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Status Report – Condo Bathing Lawsuit

I’ve blogged here and there – and here too – about the lawsuit filed by a retired couple against their downstairs neighbor in a high-rise condo building. They are suing her for damages because they say she takes baths – or is it showers? – too early in the mornings and it ruins their sleep. [...]

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A Tuesday in Spring

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Originally uploaded by suz-at-large.
The tree outside my window had white flowers all over it last week. This morning it had snow instead.

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Butterfly

My friend Helen took this picture last fall at the Tucson Botanical Gardens’ butterfly exhibit. I like it, and she’s allowed me to share it here. It says “spring” to me.

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Edge of an Urban Dawn

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Originally uploaded by suz-at-large.
Looking west, in the week before Easter, at a big bright full moon just about to set.

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Fantasyland details

In real life, it’s a closeup of brushed aluminum finish on an interior building structural support post. I like the fantasyland thing better.
Reality land:

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Tonka toys for grownups

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Originally uploaded by suz-at-large.
Shiny and yellow and big and strong. With funky arms and bolts and these three holes which may be there for some reason besides the designer’s fond memories of old Buick front side panels. Or maybe not.

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Airport animation

HT to Mamacita, here’s a fun animation, airport, created from airport sign symbols by iain anderson.

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Remembering roots

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Originally uploaded by suz-at-large.
I’ve never picked cotton. But pretty much everyone in the earlier generations of my dad’s family did – including my dad. They were farmers.
The original of this old postcard is framed and hangs on my office wall.
I put it there as a reminder that I [...]

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Happy trio

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Originally uploaded by suz-at-large.

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I can resist anything

Temptation

except temptation*.
Ginger, the cake was great. The group you brought together for lunch was superb. Thank you!
*props to Mae West.

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Where it’s a felony to be an illegal immigrant

. . . that would be the fine nation of Mexico. Yesterday 2500 nominal “students” ditched school here in Denver to march on the State Capitol over immigration reform proposals. Some of their nominal “teachers” took personal days to march with them. (Don’t get me started here, I have to leave for work.)
Note in this [...]

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Don’t try WHAT at home?

“Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.”
Yeah, but that amateur had a pretty good mentor, as I remember the story.

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“Immigration reform” – is it all that impossible?

Cynthia Tucker has a column today in the Atlanta Journal Consitution which suggests, or argues, that Congress could actually do something effective about illegal immigration without radically altering our entire society. These two points have grabbed my attention:
“To understand the inherent and willful contradictions in the laws that govern workers and their legal status, [...]

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Post-Easter Quote of the Day

I love dooce! From yesterday’s blog, this immortal observation on our annual religious-cultural pagan-Christian Sunday known as Easter, just a throwaway line in a longer piece about their household’s egg-dyeing adventures:
“Nothing says “Jesus is risen!” like a festive hard-boiled egg.”
And the picture illustrating that post is very nice too.

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“I’m not crazy, I’m just a little unwell” — a DSM for bloggers

Over at Concurring Opinions, this post by Kaimipono D. Wenger is funny and clever, and naturally some commenters think it’s insensitive toward mental illness. Party poopers, they’re everywhere.
Some excerpts:
Bipolar / manic-depressive. This is the blogger who posts five items and changes his template three times in four hours, then neglects his blog completely for a [...]

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Feel free to feel smugly superior to me

. . . because I’m mailing this tomorrow. And I’m sure you got your whole tax return filed in plenty of time.
That’s OK, I’m glad to serve.
“If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.” – Catherine Aird.
“There is nothing so annoying as a [...]

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Sunny day picture 2

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Originally uploaded by suz-at-large.

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Gloucester Road Station 2002

Originally uploaded by suz-at-large.

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Sunny day picture

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Originally uploaded by suz-at-large.

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Oh, drat, I got the scoop on Verizon wireless

Pooh. Over at Have Opinion, Will Travel, there’s a post from last month, “Verizon, can you hear me now? Good, because, I’m outta here!” that brings me sad news.
I had Verizon wireless service for several years, through I think three different phones. It was a purely personal, non-business, all-at-my-own-expense thing. [...]

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The waiter rule

HT to Waiterrant for this story in USA Today. It’s about the “waiter rule.” CEOs say that you can tell a lot about a person by the way she/he treats the wait staff in a restaurant.
Obviously, subordinates and others are going to be on their respectful best-mannered behavior toward a CEO, [...]

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Thought for today

“Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.”
That was in an email I received from a cousin today, at the end of a string of cute puppy and kitten pics, but with no attribution.
I’d love it if someone knows who should get credit for it.
P.S.: I doubt sincerely [...]

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Suryanamaskar B, or whatever

He’s a hunk, a chunk and enough to make you snort your coffee through your nose onto the keyboard.
Check out GI Joe 8 Inch Commander Duke going through the yoga sun salutation series over at yogabeans! – also known as Your Internet Source for Plastic Action Figures Illustrating Ashtanga Yoga.
HT to dooce for [...]

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