Yo Jackie Hensley had a baby!
5 lbs 6 ozs
Isaiah Scott… more later
greg
Month: February 2007 (Page 1 of 2)
We now have a big black Labrador Pup in our home.
The 5?cats we have are not happy. The dog is a new variable they did not address, during their planning for?home conquest.?
The thought process for the dog is “Food, play, poop, play, food, sleep eat, play, bark…”
As for the cats, “What is that, a dog? Are they mad? Have the humans discovered our plan? I must inform the others…”
When the dog encounters a cat face to face, it thinks “What is that? Smells like a cat…Food, play, poop, play, sleep, eat, play, bark…”?
And the cat thinks “I’m dead, take me now. I’ll save the others. I’ll have a statue in the Great Litterbox…”
If?cats could throw a tennis ball, then they could distract the beast long enough to get to higher ground. For now, they will continue to plan, in the garage. They have plenty of time,
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“Greg! Kathy! Get up!”
Ernie, our robot butler, wakes us up… our breakfast already made, and video news showing on our wall screen, our day begins…
My robotic car lets itself out of the garage (it’s programmed to start at 7:45 on the dot), and picks me up at the front door. “I’ll have to stop and get more hydrogen, Greg” softly whispers Sweet Lorraine, my 2008 chinese MG. She puts up the New World Times on my electronic dash reader…
Finally arriving, my car drops me off at work, “see you at 6!” and roars off to park itself… I enter my office and check on my staff of 5 robot mechanics. They’ve been plugged into the Internet all night training on the newest technologies. Things change daily these days and it seems every new car is different than yesterdays model… Last nights training was on the new Ion Drive BMW’s (Barundi Motor Works)… That was a piece of cake next to last weeks Magnetic Repulsion transmission…
Checking the repair orders, which consisted mostly of reprogramming and anti-virus installations, I noticed one that stood out… not Todd again! This guy drives an old Saab, and we all know how Saab guys are… This time he wants his mood lighting changed from blue to green… what a pain! Those old led strips are soldered in, I guess I’ll take care of this one myself…
Time to go home! Lorraine picks me up… “What would you like to listen to?” she purrs. I asked if she knew any new robot alternative bands and she answered “Wanna try Lothar and the Machine People?” Great choice!
Kathy was at the table waiting for me so we could eat dinner together. “I remember the old days” quips Kathy, “I used to have to shop for groceries, cook, do the laundry, clean, and a zillion other things… now I’m on my third book, and the publishers can’t wait to get hold of it!”
Finally, time for bed… with our robot cat Fluffy purring between us, we drift off to sleep thinking of what new bot we are getting tomorrow! Good Night.
greg
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2007/02/06/PM200702065.html
The above link is to a Story on PC Modders and German computer cabinet maker Nicholas Schmidt and some of their gems they have made?
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Then there were these guys from the Austin Modders club..
Bill and Tammy celebrate their 2nd wedding anniversary on 23 April, 2007.
Hopefully, we are in our new home by then….
Most people think that Oswald did the dirty deed on Nov 22 1963, when in reality he was framed by a representitive of the Dreaded Cat Lobby. The DLC agenda included wiping out all the heads of state in the world, throwing human civilization into complete disaray, and taking control of their destiny and catboxes… The cat sniper agent X drug Oswalds unconscous body up into the book depository building, and after the deed was done woke him up. Confused, Oswald looked around and assumed he was a victim of mind control or something and tried to escape. He assumed he was guilty, and confessed…
After the DLC’s first victory, they all got together and had a big party, after which they all fell asleep and promptly forgot about taking over the world….
The End. greg
Ever miss a show that you just have to see… you missed Men in Trees because your husband taped over it or the electricity went out? Not any longer…
I noticed that NBC and ABC are streaming their popular shows over the web for a week after they’ve aired. Free. The downside is you have to sit in front of a computer to watch it… and my 1.5mb download speed limits the size of the picture somewhat. But, things will only get better, right? If this trend keeps up, download speeds will get faster, more channels will be streaming their already aired content, and I can get rid of my cable and watch day old stuff for free!
I’m going to need more chairs for my office…greg
Shortly before October 31st of 2006, some of us RC types attended a birthday celebration for the son of a club member. His wife challenges the men?to build something to throw small pumpkins, and bring it to the Holloween Party. She said the rule was that is had to be?made only of materials available in the early 1800s.
Well, we have never been too big on following rules. We ended up building a Trebuchet, actually a modernized floating arm trebuchet. WIth 500 lbs of counterweight, it heaves a reasonably sized pumpkin a good long ways. it is built on a 5 X 10 trailer. If you ever get down to our place, bring something to heave. Maybe it will even show up at a family reunion. You never know.
Five (5) cats.
1) Cat A uses the litterbox religiously.
2) Cat B and C go out side, even in the rain.
3) Cat D and E just go.
Normally, this would be enough entertainment for any couple.? But no, wait! How about…hmmm. a dog!
Fish? No.?Lizard? Nope. Birds? Not for long. A dog. A Black Lab, dream dog of the middle class.
This may even warrant video. Send your leftover anti-depressants in care of “Mr. Consumed by insanity”.
Bill
Just when you think you’ll never be able to afford a college education, along comes MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and turns all that on it’s head. Mit and it’s Open Courseware project aims to get all it’s courses, including video and audio of lectures, on the web by 2008, and of course, free! I sat thru an electronics lecture last saturday, and it was an eye opening experience.
Sadly this is not a degree program, and you don’t have access to faculty, but what you do have access to is knowledge. This takes libraries to a whole new level. They have a mission statement to the effect that they want to share their knowledge with the world… Just sharing it with me is ok!, but I guess we should include the rest of the world also.
Check it out at:
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
Not only that, but several other institutions are following suit with their own versions of this very same thing… Ck out Berkeley at:
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/ or even on Itunes at:
http://itunes.berkeley.edu/
Well, gotta catch up on my Byzantine history… Greg