Oddities and Humor

We rescued sparrows when I was a kid. We had fun letting them go after they grew up. One of my greater joys these days is the simple act of tossing the bugs out of the pool skimmer. The birds watch for me and come down to get them. Once, when I was late, they took to swooping in front of me as I walked on the sidewalk.

Some more oddities and humor.

Barefoot Bandit has been captured:



Now, his poem, Well, part of it at least

The Barefoot Boy

Blessings on thee, little man,

Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan!

With thy turned-up pantaloons,

And thy merry whistled tunes;

With thy red lip, redder still

Kissed by strawberries on the hill;

With the sunshine on thy face,

Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace;

From my heart I give thee joy, -

I was once a barefoot boy!

Prince thou art, - the grown-up man

Only is republican.

Let the million-dollared ride!

Barefoot, trudging at his side,

For the entire poem, see John Greenleaf Whittier.

The dog days of summer are here, & the name comes from stars (not dogs)
http://hotword.dictionary.com/?p=671

Well I say these are the big dipper days of summer, because we need to drink a lot of liquids.

I have a thread about this guy. It was not as popular as I had expected.

That makes too much sense EB. That's why it would never catch on with the mainstream public. I'll try and use it and see if I can proselytize my coworkers into using it.

would you be sirius...

Sirius as a heart attack! But given my absent mindedness I'll probably forget about it by tomorrow morning.

I have already forgotten it.

FYI
As of yesterday, Sun, 7-11-10, we now loose 2 minutes each day counting down to fall. Time is a flyin'

Wake me when we get there.

Eleven-year-old Max is like another member of Donna Gardner's family.

You have to know Max, said Donna. He's a very smart dog and he just does things that I don't think a normal dog does all the time.

The chocolate lab proved that a couple weeks ago.

Donna ran an errand and took Max with her.

When she came home a short time later, she went inside the house, forgetting Max was still in the car.

I came in and started cleaning and about an hour later I heard a horn blow, said Donna.

She went outside, but didn't see anybody.

So, I came back in the house and I started cleaning again and the horn blew again, said Donna.

This time, Donna saw Max sitting in her driver's seat.

I rushed over and got him out real fast and he was panting like crazy, said Donna. I brought him in the house and he just dropped to the floor.

Donna gave him water and cooled him down with cold, wet rags.

Her daughter called the vet, who tells us Max was a little weak, a little slow but otherwise okay.

My darn 9 mth old girl gray tabby brought a baby bird into the house today. Too late to bring it to a vet.

A friend posted this on facebook this evening:
Toxic people get upset when you don't allow them to make you feel less than you are. They try and demean you, emphasize your mistakes, and get irritated when you don't react to their tirade. They lose their power. Good! Lol!

better toxic people than toxic waste, edgar.

I had no idea there was a REAL bird of paradise. Always thought it was a flower.



Now the humor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt_NjJk9gM4

Jimmy also did Take an Old Cold Tater and Wait. Loved it when my adviser at UVA asked what a "tater" was.

I have been listening to and loving the little dickens all my life, letty.

Old Spice this week capitalized on the popularity of its recent TV advertisements with a series of YouTube videos in which "Old Spice guy" Isaiah Mustafa answered questions from the Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit communities.

"Today could be just like the other 364 days you log into twitter, or maybe the Old Spice man shows up @OldSpice," the company tweeted on its Twitter feed yesterday.

Users were encouraged to ask Mustafa questions, and he would respond in his "Old Spice guy" character in short, 30-second YouTube videos. Throughout the day, he fielded questions from journalists and celebrities, as well as regular users. He helped orchestrate a proposal, informed Gizmodo that his preferred method of Old Spice body wash application was via a "live Wolverine," and suggested that a man still living at home at age 28 was probably just trying to figure out how to "de-endanger white Bengal tigers."

The effort made its way around the blogosphere, with many people re-tweeting Mustafa's responses, pointing people toward the Old Spice Twitter feed, or posting videos on Facebook.

The campaign caught the attention of Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, who tweeted last night that he was "cracking up" at Mustafa's videos. Later, he noted that the Old Spice channel had 140 YouTube videos. "Does that smell like coincidence or something more powerful?" he wrote.

That has since jumped to 148.

Videos are still being posted. Most recently, Mustafa answered a question from a viewer who wanted the pitchman to adopt him

Ah, I love Old Spice, edgar. Glad the guy is back.

Remember when you were a kid that if you kept digging a hole you would eventually end up in China?



http://www.techsurf.com/2010/07/15/ufo-over-chinese-airport-video-of-ufo-over-china-2010/

I caught a quick glimpse of that story this morning before I had to start to work. Interesting footage. I am not sophisticated enough to know how that was done.

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/dead-horse-flogged-for-euro207k-2261040.html?from=dailynews