Scary Motorcycle Trail Ride March 8, 2011
Posted by Retired Geezer in Art, Man Laws, Religion.41 comments
Dude… Doooood!
I can’t even imagine walking on this trail, let alone riding a motorcycle on it.
My buddy in Vegas, that I’ve known for 55 years, sent this to me.
I’m pretty sure they are speaking German. Perhaps someone would offer a translation in the comments.
I’m Back Online March 7, 2011
Posted by Retired Geezer in Ducks, Gardening.10 comments
OK, I’m back online after my self-inflicted 24 (actually 36) hour hiatus.
I tried to take a photo each hour to show what I was doing instead of sitting behind the computer.
It’s Very Exciting... Yeah Right.
I learned to Fly and uh, I set a gopher trap. The puppy peed, I gave birth to a big blue ball and I fed Spudder and the horses…
Harder to Kill than Roaches March 6, 2011
Posted by Mrs. Peel in Crime, Ducks, Family, Gardening, Nature Shit, Personal Experiences, Science, Women Ranting, WTF?.66 comments
Will and I have been marveling over Michael and Dave actually attempting to save their palms and banana trees. I have been doing my damnedest to kill mine for years. I’ve done everything that malignant neglect, hurricanes, drought, and hard freezes can do – and they just come back stronger.
Six months before this picture was taken, this corner of our yard was a collection of dried-up stumps. The hard freeze from the 2009-2010 winter, during which we had about 36 hours of sub-zero* weather, left the banana trees drooping and pathetic. I rejoiced at their death even as I tried to save my poor hibiscus, which did recover pretty well last summer but died to the ground again due to another extremely cold winter (2010-2011).
Anyway, this is what those thrice-damned banana trees looked like six months after having apparently finally died.
For scale, I'm just about five feet even.
I can’t believe that (a) y’all are proud of banana trees that are barely 5′ tall or that (b) anyone actually wants these things in their yard. They attract rats, roaches, and who knows what else. And they grow like the weeds they are. KILL THEM! KILL THEM DAID!!!!
And don’t get me started on the sago palm, the elephant ears, or the Chinese holly. Sometimes I want to nuke this place from orbit and then salt the earth…but even that probably wouldn’t kill Chinese holly, or, as I refer to it, “the devil’s plant.”
*It was too sub-zero. Sub-zero Celsius.
Springtime, In Texas, Not Germany March 5, 2011
Posted by daveintexas in Ballistics, Blogroll, Ducks, History, Law, Nature Shit, Personal Experiences, Science, Sex, Sidebar Flag Bullshit, Sitemeter, Sports.77 comments
Had to hack on the frozed up Mexican palm. It might come back. Might not.
We’ll see.
Foreign Aid Exposed March 4, 2011
Posted by Retired Geezer in Stupid shit, WTF?.43 comments
I like this Texas politician’s style.
Representative Ted Poe R-Texas.
How are things in your town?
Not Your Gramma’s Jigsaw Puzzle March 3, 2011
Posted by Retired Geezer in Crime, Family, Sex.72 comments
Since Michael is getting noticeably older, what with the white hair and all, I thought I would help ease him into the world of Geezerhood.
I remember my both my grandmas loved to do jigsaw puzzles, occasionally I would help them. Let’s face it, Jigsaw Puzzles are cheap entertainment for those on a fixed income. Mrs. Geezer received a nice puzzle from her cousins in California. They visited us last week and enjoyed working on it for 3 days but still didn’t finish it. After they left Camp Geezer, I was called in to help with the process. Dang, that puzzle was hard! It took us 5 hours to finish it.
Apparently the new puzzles are not like the old ones that I was familiar with. The new ones brag that they are “Premium Quality – No Two Pieces Alike”. Let’s just take a look at those pieces, shall we?
What twisted mind invented this concept?
Is this a sign of my dementia kicking in?
I know that doing stuff with your brain is supposed to be good for geezers but this is cruel and unusual punishment. I am now forced to sort the pieces by: color, shape, size and religious affiliation.
“Honey, have you seen the burnt umbra/mauve piece that looks like a dinosaur?”
Arrrrrghhh.
Since I’m a glutton for punishment, we opened the other puzzle she got for Christmas.
The more astute among you may notice that this puzzle is about surprise! Horses.
When this one is complete, we can work on the one that I bought at Wal*Mart. I sure hope it’s an Old-School puzzle. Don’t think my brain can handle another abstract cognitive perception trauma.
*note to Cathy: When buying a puzzle for Michael, consider one with less than 500 normal pieces.
This Is Only A Test … March 2, 2011
Posted by BrewFan in Art, Humor.Tags: Fleebaggers Suck!
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So, what is the purpose of this post? Well, I am a professional nerd so I have to keep up with the latest and greatest technological advances of mankind. One such is Windows Live Writer. This is a free tool to help people create quality blog posts. I am not currently in WordPress at all. This editor is really cool and the same editor can be used across various blog hosts. This means people of less, ummm, ability (looks at Michael)
don’t have to learn a different tool for each one! Brilliant!
Update: Once a post is published you might think that you now have to enter WordPressistan to edit. Well, byte breath, you would be wrong!
Scientist, Inventor, Mathematician and Gorgeous March 1, 2011
Posted by Retired Geezer in Gardening, Sports.50 comments
You would be forgiven for thinking this post is about Mrs. Peel. It is, however, about someone whose name is as well-known as hers is, at least by the Innocent Bystander crowd.
How about some clues:
This mystery person was a beautiful actress who was arrested for shoplifting twice.
She appeared nude in films and she was the co-inventor of Spread-Spectrum Frequency-hopping communications. I doubt that there was any correlation between those two events but you never know.
Her name was mentioned in Blazing Saddles.
In 2003, the Boeing corporation ran a series of recruitment ads featuring her as a woman of science.
In 2005, the first Inventors Day in German speaking countries was held in her honor on November 9.
The video game Half-Life has a few references to her.
A date with Her is one of the promises Audrey II tempts Seymour with in the musical Little Shop of Horrors.
The 2010 New York Public Library’s exhibit: “Thirty Years of Photography at the New York Public Library” includes a photo of her, topless.
For several years during the 1990s, the boxes of the current CorelDRAW software suites were graced by a large Corel-drawn image of her in tribute to her pre-computer scientific discoveries.
Her frequency-hopping idea serves as a basis for modern “Spread spectrum” communication technology, such as “COFDM” used in Wi-Fi network connections and “CDMA” used in some cordless and wireless telephones.
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
She enjoyed her biggest success as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille’s (1949 film) Samson and Delilah, the highest-grossing film of 1949, with Victor Mature as the Biblical strongman.
Some of you have guessed her identity by now.
Yep, it’s Hedy Lamarr. – I bet you didn’t know all that stuff about her.
