Memorial Day (formerly Decoration Day) is observed on the last Monday of May. It commemorates the men and women who died in military service. In observance of the holiday, many people visit cemeteries and memorials, and volunteers place American flags… Read More ›
Month: May 2021
“PAINTED” ORCHIDS
“Painted” Orchids: A Floral Rescue Owen rescued this set of orchids for death by over-watering. She swears she only watered them twice, but it must have been an awful lot of water because they are sodden. I drained all the… Read More ›
MEMORIAL DAY BOUQUET ON MEMORIAL DAY WITH ONE NEW PHOTOGRAPH
FOTD – May 29 – MEMORIAL DAY BOUQUET Garry gave me a perfect holiday bouquet. Red, white, and blue zinnias and a big multicolor Chrysanthemum. I would love to know how they get them to come up in three colors in… Read More ›
NATIONAL “SPEAK IN COMPLETE SENTENCES DAY” AND ALSO WRITING IN COMPLETE SENTENCES
There is a day for everything, but I could not let this one slip by unnoticed. MAY 31st is national speak in complete sentences day. I think this means writing in complete sentences, too. I know I’m a day ahead… Read More ›
NO LONGER WILL THEY COME
AMERICAN SOIL IN A FOREIGN LAND – RICH PASCHALL A few years ago on V.E. Day, Armistice Day for the end of World War II in Europe, I visited the American cemetery at St. Avold. It is the final home… Read More ›
TECHNICOLOR DREAMS WITH GENETIC NIGHTMARES – TOM CURLEY
A few weeks ago my old friend Ben Taylor sent me a very interesting link to a story about archiving technologies . The story was about how all of our storage media eventually degrades. Film, tape, CDs, DVDs, flash drives,… Read More ›
FAVORITE PHOTOS
This is my Favorite Photo that I’ve Ever Taken. Show Us Yours! A mini-challenge from Judy Dykstra-Brown I’ve taken so many pictures, but these are in the top handful of pictures we’ve taken. One is Garry’s I took very similar pictures… Read More ›
FLOWERS OF THE DAY ARE ORCHIDS
FOTD – May 29 – ORCHIDS! The orchids I have grown myself are into their third month of blooming. They are beginning to look a little bit soft, but I think they have a couple of more weeks in them. The… Read More ›
FIBBING FRIDAY? JUST FRIDAY?
FIBBING FRIDAY: BE GRATEFUL THAT IT DOESN’T LAST ALL YEAR! From PCGUY IV comes this charming list of medical terms. Who could resist this marvelous selection? sphincter, phalanges, rectum, varicose, aorta, vein, artery, alveolus, bacteria, virus Great selection! You left… Read More ›
STRANGER PLACES
It was an ordinary day in the suburb of Jerusalem where I managed a weekly English-language newspaper. I had fallen into the job when the previous editor quit after his paycheck bounced. Twice. Me too, but I wanted the paper to succeed. I was… Read More ›
THE BLACK & WHITE CHALLENGE: FIVE MORE!
CBWC: Five times four photos I have a lot of ones and twos, but I couldn’t find any five except for this photograph. So this is it. I could have created something, but it’s late and I’m having trouble breathing…. Read More ›
LIFE’S MOST IMPORTANT LESSON
Fandango’s Provocative Question #119 This is the kind of question that I always want to answer with a joke. It’s so DEEP. Too deep for me. POTENTIAL RESPONSES: Never try to talk to a man watching a sporting event. No human… Read More ›
ONE-LINER WEDNESDAY – ARE YOU OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER?
ONE-LINER WEDNESDAY: DO YOU REMEMBER? Are you old enough to remember needing to find a piece of flint to start a fire after using stone tools to kill a woolly mammoth? I’m reasonably sure I never killed a woolly mammoth…. Read More ›
IF TV HACKERS LIVED IN THE REAL WORLD – TOM CURLEY
I watch a lot of TV. Probably too much. I’m fond of action shows. I’m really fond of all the various comic book shows. The single thing these shows have in common is they all have at least one computer genius…. Read More ›
BOYZ AND GIRLZ
CFFC: Male vs Female This is one of those times where my failure to organize my library by subject really makes a simple job a whole lot harder. It is my own fault. There is no one else to blame, but… Read More ›
RIVER BEND ON MY DESKTOP
Share Your Desktop I know that you are supposed to capture your desktop by pressing the “print” key, but for reasons that may have to do with having Windows 10 Pro rather than regular old Windows 10, it doesn’t work…. Read More ›
SCURRILOUS!
SCURRILOUS! Scurrilous refers to a bad hair day, but unlike regular bad hair days, this can refer to a bad hair day for any kind of haired or furry creature including those from planet outside our planetary system. If you… Read More ›
JUST ABOUT MEMORIAL DAY 2021: IT’S WORLD SHARING TIME
Share Your World — May 25th Photographs: Garry Armstrong It must be the end of May because Memorial Day in just about here. Where did the year go? And why — considering I’ve done nothing much all year — am I… Read More ›
RENOVATE A COMPUTER
I keep thinking this is my new computer, but this was belied by realizing I actually bought it in 2016 — and that my computer is so packed with dog hair and dust, the keys were sticking. The sticking keys… Read More ›
WHY AREN’T MORE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS?? – BY TOM CURLEY
I haven’t written any blogs lately. For the last four years I would just get up, look at the news, start screaming at the world and presto! A blog would pop into my head. Lately though, I read the news… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 