09:08 – As expected, we sold a lot of biology kits in August, many of them with the prepared slide set option. By the end of that month, I became concerned about our inventory level of prepared slide sets, so I ordered another batch the first of September. Enough, I hoped, to last another year. The vendor informed me that the slides were back-ordered for 90 days, through the end of November. Ruh-roh. All I could do was hope that existing stock would last that long.
So, yesterday morning we got an order for a biology kit with slide set, which was the last slide set we had in stock. Then a second biology kit order came in, this one fortunately not including the slide set. Then a third order came in, and this one included a slide set, taking our inventory to -1. Then a fourth order came in, again with a slide set, taking our inventory to -2. I called the vendor to make sure I’d have more by the end of the month, and they told me the slides were to arrive next week, sooner than expected. So it looks like I’ll be able to ship back-ordered slide sets the week of the 17th, which isn’t too bad. Still, I hate having to tell people that something is back-ordered.
Barbara doesn’t bake, other than stuff like prepared brownie mix, and it’s been a long, long time since I did so much as bake a loaf of bread from scratch. Barbara’s sister, Frances, however, frequently bakes and otherwise cooks from scratch. In fact, Frances has run commercial food service operations. I told Barbara that I needed expert advice on how to turn cases and cases of #10 (institutional-size) cans of dry-packed flour, wheat, oats, beans, sugar and so on into appealing meals. Which spices and seasonings do we need, and how much of each? How much baking soda, baking powder, and yeast? How well does gelatin powder substitute for fresh eggs in baked goods? And so on. So I asked Barbara to invite Frances over for dinner one evening so that I could ask Frances all of these questions and more. I’m looking forward to this.
I’d be interested to know if your slides arrive in good condition, not too many breakages. Was the delay a one-off or will you be re-ordering earlier next time?
I had a cheap microscope when I was 11 or 12. You could switch between 3 different magnifications (don’t recall what they were anymore). However, there was a flaw in the design where with the largest magnification as you were adjusting the focus you could drive the objective into the glass of the slide and break it. I broke MANY slides that way. I also broke several in other ways. They seem to use the cheapest glass for those things. It’s like the window glass from a 19th century barn.
I’ve been wanting to get another microscope. Bob, what was that Microscope you were recommending?
It’s like the window glass from a 19th century barn.
Windows glass from a 19th century barn is probably quite stout and difficult to break. At least the stuff in my barn where I was raised was thick and rather robust. The barn was built in 1899 so I guess that counts as 19th century. We eventually removed all the glass and sold it as antique glass.
The stuff on slides is made as thin as possible for a couple of reasons. The less glass you have the less distortion and the less the slides cost.
I am surprised they don’t at least make some slides out of the same stuff they make polycarbonate glasses. That stuff is quite tough and I guess is optically clear enough although I am not certain as my only experience is the use in lenses for spectacles.
Well, the rule with using high magnification (typically 400X or 1,000X) is that you bring the objective lens into close proximity to the specimen and then turn the focus only in the direction that increases the separation.
As far as recommended microscope models, I’d go with one from one of the good Chinese manufacturers/importers. Good brand names are National Optical, Swift, and Leica (NOT Leitz, which is still made in Germany and costs megabucks). Of course, if you’re willing to spend the money, any of the models made in Germany or Japan is superb. My own microscope is a National Optical Model 161, which costs $575 to $725 depending on your choice of standard, SHC, or Plan objectives, and has both mechanical and optical quality that match a German or Japanese model that sells for at least five times that.
Hey Ray, are you still liking that biturbo V6 Ford truck? What kind of mileage are you getting now? It is a 4×4 crew cab, right?
Ford is putting the ecoboost V6 into the Expedition this year in place of the old 5.4L V8. I’ve got 148K miles on my 2005 Expy and trying to decide if I am going to get a few more things fixed or buy a new one.
My left side heater flap is broken and I am getting constant heat on the driver side from the vents if I do not the A/C on. $40 part and $1,100 labor to replace it (dash removal is required).
Somehow Indiana got a reputation that it condones gunfire to protect one’s property, but here is how things turn out in reality. Portland is less than 50 miles from me, and primarily a rural farm community in the heart of Indiana Amish country near the border with Ohio.
http://www.wthr.com/story/27314088/2014/11/06/indiana-man-sentenced-in-shooting-of-intruder
Now it’s all coming back to me… 🙂
http://www.ttgnet.com/daynotes/2008/2008-10.html#Fri
In that case, he shot and wounded someone who was attempting to flee. I’m surprised they sentenced him to only 60 days in jail. Even strong Castle Doctrine states don’t allow a victim to engage in retribution once the threat has passed.
I consider North Carolina’s Castle law to be rather weak. For one thing, it makes no provision for legally shooting law enforcement personnel, even if they intrude in one’s home. If someone kicks down my door, he’s going to meet a load of buckshot going the other way.
Hey Ray, are you still liking that biturbo V6 Ford truck?
Yes, I am. I am getting 20.5 MPG with mostly highway driving. City driving will drop to about 15 MPG. Towing my boat will drop to about 12 MPG as that add another 6,000 pounds. Even my old F-150 with the V8 dropped mileage like a rock when towing.
I am actually quite surprised at how well the engine runs. It has more power and pulls better than my old F-150 with the 4.6L V8. That was a 1999 model and I am sure they made improvements in the engine since then. I was still surprised what they can do with a V6 that is turbo charged. I had some concern about the turbo charge lag but really have not noticed any. Might if I really put my foot into it. Longevity of the turbo is a concern but turbos have been around a long time and most of the bugs have been resolved.
I do have the crew cab, Platinum edition, so a lot of bells and whistles. Really like the retractable running boards. HID headlights are extremely bright but don’t have enough side spill to my liking. Backup camera is nice when hooking up the boat. Step tailgate is more useful than I thought. The vehicle, at least in my trim, is very quiet for a truck. Seats (heated and cooled) are comfortable and the floor in back is basically almost flat.
Vehicle has an oil life monitor that will tell you when to change the oil. First change for me was at 10K, the maximum recommendation. Next change will be at about 18K as I did some towing and that reduces oil life.
The Ford Sync system has a learning curve and I still sometimes get it wrong. But it does work and seems to do the job. Only thing I don’t like is that everything in the climate control system can be controlled by voice except the heating and cooling of the seats.
And you can change the color the interior LED lighting to any color you like.
I recommend the vehicle.
Re Kim’s employment situation: if she’s mechanically inclined, I think there’s a good market for replacing Kindle/touchpad screens. The screens themselves are cheap, come from China in a couple days (how do they DO that???), instructions online. Done it myself a couple times, piece of cake. 2nd one took less than an hour.
Does rubbing alcohol produces a smokeless flame w/out residue? Need to weld a tiny bit of plastic back together, can’t use glue. Just to make our host and OFD chuckle, it’s the glow-in-the-dark cross on my rosary necklace. LOL, no I’m not a theist, but it reminds me to do the right thing.
After reading about Fred’s FOE email problems on here, I went to read his latest. I missed Black Power which is straight on. I also hear ObuttWad is sending 1,500 more troops to Iraq. Probably via Mexico to pay a visit to Fred. RAAACCCIIISSST!!!! Amazing how the US lets a tiny minority basically rule the country.
“…the glow-in-the-dark cross on my rosary necklace.”
Wow. I have to remember to try to Do the Right Thing, also; it was a motto back in the day at DEC. And I just got done reading a bit about another reminder for us theists; the memento mori, that winged skull, sometimes with crossbones, that you see on medieval and “Early Modern,” i.e., Renaissance, headstones. Basically it’s reminding us that we, too, die, so have a look out to do the right thing while we’re still above ground. I am stipulating that for my slate headstone when I check out; Mrs. OFD has been notified, but I am suspicious that she is not fully on board with it yet. Maybe she thinks I’m kidding.
On that east Indiana cretin; agreed with Dr. Bob; you can’t just blast away at guys who are *fleeing* when they no longer present any lethal threat to you or anybody else there. When I was back on The Job, we did have a rule about being able to shoot fleeing felons, but that was meant mainly for armed and extremely dangerous perps who would most likely have hurt or killed someone else in their fleeing. Dunno if that’s still any kind of rule, but it’s moot, ’cause the default setting now is to fire away, empty magazines, spray and pray all over the landscape.
Also the cretin then made a big show of being sorry and how he never wants to hold a gun again. What a jerk. If I’d been the judge he woulda got 1-3 years at hard labor and been required to pay the med costs for the guy he hit. And then I woulda sentenced that guy for whatever.
Overcast and steady cold drizzle today; a good load of snow visible up on the long ridge above the town and the interstate to our east.
“Amazing how the US lets a tiny minority basically rule the country.”
Yes, our Canadian and Australian correspondents are aghast at this. If only we all got out and voted it would stop, they say. I don’t think they get it yet how bad things are here now.
In any case, a tiny minority has run the country since Day One. Back then it was rich white landowners and merchants; the krew in there now sez ‘it’s our turn!’ Unfortunately they don’t have even a thousandth of the intelligence, wit, and experience of those nasty old white bastards. So now we’re all just circling the bowl of the porcelain altar on our way down the drain.
Rubbing alcohol can be either ethanol or isopropanol. Either burns with no smoke or residue, although the usual 70% stuff doesn’t burn all that well. You want the 91% to 99% stuff that can still be found in some drugstores.
Oh look, the CDC is doing its job! “U.S. CDC boosts national stockpile of Ebola protective gear”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/07/us-health-ebola-usa-gear-idUSKBN0IR1UQ20141107
What is that old saying about closing the barn door after the horse is out?
I do think it’s perfectly legitimate to shoot someone who’s fleeing if he’s carrying away your property.
I didn’t know that about the momento mori, always thought it was just something to remind you of the dead; like the numbered coin the crematorium used on my mother and brother’s ashes. Wikipedia is good for an introduction, neat thought, thanks!
When I go, the body goes to science/organ transplantation (if anything useful remains!)
A few years a go I asked around to whether a non-Jain could get thrown in a pillar and eaten by vultures but sadly, the answer was no.
I think just for sheer irony you should use brimstone to weld that cross.
Apparently I don’t have permission to edit previous comment. Thanks Bob, will try that.
I do think it’s perfectly legitimate to shoot someone who’s fleeing if he’s carrying away your property.
Or your neighbor’s property:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Horn_shooting_controversy
Yeah, obviously shooting someone in the back when they are fleeing has long been considered a cowardly act. But my main point was that we do not have strong immunity in Indiana — if any, actually — for people shooting those who are trying to rob them and their homes. It is that one case that oddly went the other way that was picked up nationally and gave everyone the idea it was the commonplace here. Shoot someone here and you are just as likely to end up in jail as the perp.
Does Indiana still have that law that allows residents to fire at “law enforcement” entities who bust down the doors and charge in, particularly if their weapons are pointed at them or firing and/or no self-identification of such as police? Not that that might matter; serious felon housebreaks can shout “Police” too. I think that was the law that made national news a year or more ago, esp. on the gun forums.
As for bread, what I think you need is not a professional’s advice but a lazy person’s advice. Such as mine:
http://yarchive.net/blog/food/easy_bread.html
It’s a minimal-effort, minimal-technology recipe, which is what one wants in a situation where everything is falling apart.
Of course, the professionals will probably have interesting things to say too.
“I do think it’s perfectly legitimate to shoot someone who’s fleeing if he’s carrying away your property.”
I believe Texas is the only state where the law agrees with you.
The military has a number of guides for field kitchens I believe. You might want to look through the FM’s and ATTP stuff. Older stuff might be less focused on MRE’s and the like. Setup, location, safety and sanitation of a field mess can be a big deal.
In fact, if your book is to include a DVD, some of these might be a good candidate for inclusion.
An overlooked resource books often don’t mention is people – a lot of people have worked food service at one time or another, and know how to set up a chow line (buffet) properly. An Eagle Scout or scout leader who has been to a jamboree has been through this before.eople that have set up a big church picnic.
That gimpy old grandmother you expected to be a dead weight on your group might turn out the best damn biscuits you ever ate.
Couldn’t Obama nominate at least one white male, for, y’know, the diversity?
I have never heard about such a law in Indiana. Maybe Dave B knows more, as I was away from Indiana for 33 years, returning in 2010, and a lot happened in-between.
I do know a couple of cops in greater Indy who are on SWAT teams, and — as you well know from police work — if you are firing at the SWAT guys entering and you do not have a small army with you, you will definitely be ending your existence in this realm in a matter of microseconds, as their small army kills anything and everything that is on the inside trying to shoot at them.
Cops and military are revered in this state. After all, we have had the Army Finance Center from 1953 to 1995, when it then took over all finance operations for the Department of Defense. If you get checks from Uncle Sam’s military, it most likely comes from here. During WWII, every military draftee came first to ‘Ft. Ben’ (Ft. Benjamin Harrison, created by an Act of Congress in 1903), for matriculation before being sent to training or the war zone. The Defense Information School (DINFOS) at Ft. Ben trained all the guys you heard on the military radio and TV outlets in SEA, including Adrian Cronauer, whom Robin Williams immortalized.
You will not find any demonstrations against police here, like what occurred in Ferguson, MO, either. The drunk cop who plowed through those motorcyclists and killed a couple, going on a run he had been instructed NOT to go to (right outside the former Ft. Ben, which has been decommissioned and is now a state park), caused considerable consternation among the population around here, who have always elevated cops to hero status. To think a cop would cause such an accident was unthinkable until it actually happened.
This is not exactly fertile revolution territory. People here will do the will of the enforcers obediently.
Yo, Mr. medium wave; you need to git a ticket on the Clue Train, son; white males are on the way out! Ain’t choo heard? The demographics are dead agin us. By 2050 there will be half a billion peeps in CONUS, and more than half of them will be Other Than Cock-A-Soid.
This is just the beginning. Our grandchildren will be in a definite minority here.
The Egyptians had Orisis, Isis, et. al. The Greeks their Zeus, Aphrodite, Hera, et. al. And the Romans their Mars and Juno.
Followed by Jehovah of the Old Testament, Buddha, Jesus and Mohammed.
The new gods, drum roll, please…
Democracy
Demographics
Diversity
Egalitarianism.
You may now fall to your knees and worship.
While you’re down there don’t mind that whistling noise behind you–it’s only a scimitar.
“People here will do the will of the enforcers obediently.”
This is true of large swaths of CONUS.
It remains to be seen, however, what their reaction will be as martial law kicks in good and hard (national security!) and we have a dead Grid and empty store shelves at the Wall-Mutts and Safeways. We’re not Europeans and haven’t been for very long time, and there is an extremely strong streak of cussedness, violence, independence and of course a billion firearms.
Agreed on the life expectancy of Mr. Average Homeowner when he resists a SWAT invasion. The problem here is, does he go prone and empty-handed and hope for his eventual day in court? Or are they gonna blow him up anyway? If the latter, may as well go out fighting.
“Whoops, wrong address.”
Again.
Lol on the brimstone idea. Wonder how sulfur came by that name, anyway? I asked the super if he had any MEK, but he said he’d just recently thrown it out… damn!
My friend in India is sending me a new one at a cost of 10 Rs, postage 50 Rs. Been wearing the damn thing for over a year and find I really miss it! I am not religious at all, nor am I anti-religious, but found it a source of comfort and focus when faced with an ethical dilemna, major or minor.
Ethics is interesting. Whence springs “the right thing to do”? You’ve got your Koran or bible on the one hand and a kludge like Ayn Rand on the other. OFD you seem versed in such matters; where would a jesuitical mind look for answers? Ignatious himself? Augustine? I’ve read the stoics, but they still can’t cut the mustard or answer the question.
Oh jeezuz, you ought to hear me rail against “Democracy” when I’m in India. It was formed as a republic and is just as quickly deforming itself into a nightmare of socialism, egalitarianism and democracy, PLUS graft and lackadaisical rule of law faster than you can spit.
Not surprisingly, Mr. Romney’s broadcast acquisition, Clear Chanel, now known as iHeart, contributed about $300k to political lobbying or PAC organizations with 23% going to Democrats and 77% going to Republicans. No surprise there.
However Clear Channel Outdoor (billboards) which retains its name, outdid the broadcast guys by a long shot, contributing 3,386,630 in lobbying and PAC donations. Of that, 48% went to Democrats, and 52% to Republicans. Employees gave individually about another 1/10th of what iHeart/Clear Channel contributed.
Now the ridiculous thing is that — since 2008 — iHeart/Clear Channel is not even earning enough income to make the payments on the interest of their massive debt, let alone retire any of it. Yet they give millions to political candidates. In fact they gave more than any other broadcast organization.
Corporate giving to political candidates was very low outside iHeart/Clear Channel, with employees of some broadcast owners being the only givers. No other organization or group gave anywhere near a million to candidates.
On another topic, recent research is finding that direct mail advertising has shot up in effectiveness starting this past summer. No wonder I am getting more junk mail than ever. Advertising research groups are saying this is causing part of the overall drain on radio and TV advertising. Newspaper advertising is now deemed the least effective way to spend advertising dollars.
In yet another industry move, family-owned car dealerships are being bought by conglomerate integrators. Even if your local dealership still carries a family name, chances are better than 50/50 that the family no longer owns or runs it. The conglomerate ownerships are moving advertising to digital (including digital billboards) and abandoning radio and TV. Which explains the recent dramatic drop in radio and TV ads by car companies and dealers. Man, we just can’t escape BIG.
“… OFD you seem versed in such matters; where would a jesuitical mind look for answers? Ignatious himself? Augustine? I’ve read the stoics, but they still can’t cut the mustard or answer the question.”
Ethics for me is summed up quite pithily by the Golden Rule, simply treating others as you would want to be treated. Help those in need when you can. Lay down your life for your friend, spouse, child, parent, brother soldiers, etc. Try not to be a dick.
One could as easily look at Buddhist and even some muslim texts and writers over the centuries, but my background is of course Anglo-Catholic. So for me it’s certain books of the Old Testament plus the New Testament, and the Catechism. Naturally I fall extremely short of any kind of pretense at a moral and ethical life as exemplified by legions of people, including Mrs. OFD, who is very nearly a saint.
That said, I’d point somebody at the four Gospels, Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics,” Augustine’s “Confessions,” and good look at Aquinas; there is a nice “One-Minute Aquinas” by Kevin Vost.
And the signs that once upon a time festooned the prolecube farms at DEC:
“DO THE RIGHT THING”
“…iHeart/Clear Channel is not even earning enough income to make the payments on the interest of their massive debt, let alone retire any of it. Yet they give millions to political candidates.”
Makes one think. If one has a suspicious cast of mind. What if they’re, and a bunch of other failing businesses (on paper), simply front organizations for laundering political campaign money?
Up here the Repubs picked up some ground, but not spectacularly so; this county went mostly Repub and it turns out the local Repub organizations got a huge infusion of national campaign money to give them the big Mo that got them over; turns out also that individual candidates also outspent their Dem opponents, even without the pile of money from Mordor.
So the fix is in this cycle to let the Stupid Half of the War Party run the country, ostensibly. Put on a good show. Make it look good for us rubes, bumpkins and Mundanes out here. That way we’ll be primed well for the next national election. But the cat is outta the bag here; the papers also reported a record LOW voter turnout in this state. Voter numbers continue to dwindle as more folks decide to stay home and not play in the game of charade any longer.
So my best guess is that if by some strange quirk our Lords Temporal allow a Repub to get the WH again, he or she will be “elected” by roughly a third of the eligible voters, or a few millions out of the 330 million.
At this point I’d rather just have the Lords Temporal trot out a genuine dictator and let us all know straight up how things are here now. A gigantic banana republic. An empire in decline.
In local IT nooz, I got my HP 17″ refurbished laptop the other day and have a PC-BSD DVD on the way from the nice folks at bsd.org. It will have the several other flavors of BSD on it for me to run as vm’s and one or another of the GUI desktops if I want.
I gotta recover the hard drives outta the two older laptops that failed here and get the data off them at some point; and I’m thinking about turning the Mint desktop to a CentOS 7 server. Or RH7 with three Scientific Linux vm’s. Dunno yet, but I’m keeping this Windows 8 box as is and the Ubuntu Studio machine likewise.
Still waiting to get a job description and location for the interview I’m set up for on the 17th.
MIL called a while back to tell me that Mrs. OFD couldn’t call me tonight due to crummy cell coverage down in the Grand Canyon. The missus was also told to watch out for snakes and coyotes and as it was getting dark she decided to bail outta there. It ain’t enuff that I gotta worry about her on all the plane rides and cab rides and her medical condition; now I gotta worry about sidewinders, Gila monsters and Coyote.
Thanks OFD. Aquinas and Augustine it is. In fact, I may even have _Confessions_ on a Kindle around here somewhere. BTW, I did read through the Catechism on your recommendation some time back. Thanks.
Bear in mind the question was, “Whence springs ‘the right thing to do?'” and not “what is the right thing to do?”
I was forced to listen to the first half-hour of Limbaugh today. Actually, for once I kind of agree with his assessment of the election. At the lowest voter turnout since 1942 when a good number of men were abroad fighting from trenches, instead of voting, there is no way anyone could claim this election is a “mandate” for anything. But Rush says it is a mandate (I say “message”) to Republicans to ‘stop Ebama’.
I agree it is another chance for them to change some courses, but this goes back farther than this election. Both 2010 and 2012 were the electorate whipping Republicans for not doing the country’s clearly defined bidding. This time they are giving them another chance. LIke Rush says, they had better use it wisely. I suspect the Tea Party is permanently discredited by so many reneging on the promises they made of opposing Ebamacare and voting against raising spending limits to get themselves elected. But I sure hope they stand behind all attempts to change the course of spending, healthcare, and education.
Speaking of education, a school superintendent of clearly failing schools in Evansville, has turned them around by making a kind of game out of progress and advancement. Names are given to different sections of study and kids get points for advancing. They can check their points online. The better they do in each area, the more points they get. Educators are calling the results nothing short of dramatic, as the kids work actively and hard to earn points.
In an interview I heard with the superintendent, he said, ‘The one thing I was convinced we could not do, was to keep doing the same thing. Some people were calling to increase doing more of the same. But one thing I was sure of, was that more of failing methods were not going to change results in the future any more than they had in the past.’
For kids brought up on video games, this sure seems like a great idea: directing incentives to exactly what they understand from all the game-playing.
“Bear in mind the question was, “Whence springs ‘the right thing to do?’” and not “what is the right thing to do?”
I suspect most of us have it innately, from birth, in a primitive form at that stage to be sure. With decent parents, siblings, teachers, neighbors, strangers, and experience of same, it develops. And with instruction and education. I also believe that human nature does not change, and that just about all of us are prone to error and sin, occasionally outright evil, and it takes regular vigilance to avoid those things. Which is also very difficult for most of us.
I am not a scientist or doctor and do not play one on tee-vee but I have read more than once somewhere or other, and heard from several of those folks a few times, that somewhere in our brains there is an altruism buzzer that lights up when the situation calls for it. Some people evidently have it to extremes, and on the other end of the scale, some appear not to have it at all; these we generally call sociopaths.
Oh my, it’s after midnight; time to quickly check the lewrockwell.com site for today’s update and then off to the Land of Nod.
May I have your permission to use this in the book, with a link and credit?
Thanks. Yes, I have a bunch of FM/TMs, many from the WWII/Korea era. I bought a hundred or more different titles at a gunshow back in the 70’s. I think I paid $0.25 each for them.
Like most things, it’s hard-wired into our DNA. Three million+ years of evolution has tuned humans for many instinctive behaviors, just as it’s tuned other animals. Part of that is for cooperative behaviors, which is why it’s not just parents who will risk their lives to save a child, but any adult will risk his or her life to save even a stranger’s child. Or at least any adult worth the air they breathe.
And, interestingly, it’s inter-species with (particularly) dogs. Dogs will risk their lives to save a human child, and vice versa.
I obviously don’t know anything at all about Kim, but maybe this article would be of interest? Turn your passion into a business
Whoa. You won’t want to miss this. Car Talk did a retrospective new show in memory of Tom Magliozzi. A one-hour collection of excerpts of him laughing near continuously and then some. No need to bring your own laugh-track.
What on earth prompted them to do that? It was bad enuff during the run of the show; my rough estimate was that fully a third of each segment was one or both of them laughing their asses off.
RIP, Tom; are you still laughing?
Overcast has just turned to pahtly sunny. A weekend of chores and errands, in the time-honored fashion of the Modern Murkan Male and his Honey-Do List.
Later, we can grill some burgers and dogs, break out the Budweiser, and listen to the ball game.
Tomorrow morning we’ll go to mass and listen to Father Lively wax comedic about his follies of the past week and how it (very tenuously) might relate to today’s Scripture readings. All the while enjoying the treacly and goofy folk songs that pass for sacred music now since the 1970s, with tunes no one in the congregation can carry. Occasionally some visiting old priest will have snuck an older hymn onto the program and wonder of wonders, now the congregation can sing it, and lustily, too! Why does this not dawn on the current crop of clerics? It would take a bile specialist…
Then later we can grill more burgers and dogs and listen to the ball game. Maybe bring the tee-vee out to the patio. Have the neighbors over. Another Pleasant Valley Sunday…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUzs5dlLrm0
Naw. All that chit’s so over now.
The local mass is in Latin again and the music is actually almost always from before 1800. The priest talks about real stuff, not much joking around.
No burgers or dogs. Swordfish with lime salsa and a side of red beans and rice. Listening to Dietrich Buxtehude. No tee-vee. No neighbors.
And the internet and media are lighting up for another possible riot out in Missouri. Fun times ahead, kids!
Sure, go ahead.
I for one found Car Talk to be entertaining, especially the credits.
http://www.cartalk.com/content/staff-credits
Statistician Marge Innovera
And there again, with those credits, they went overboard, just as with the laughter. Funny for a few minutes and then tedious as all git out. Also done with Garrison Keillor’s show, which half the time ain’t funny at all. Especially when he gets into the whining and depressing situations on the Lake Woebegon schtick. The best bits were the sound effects guys, Lives of the Cowboys, Bob the Struggling Artist, and when the main chick on the show, wassername, does all the voices she does.
But, of course, YMMV.
The priest talks about real stuff, not much joking around.
Well, as real as fiction can be. I agree that no church service I have ever been to, could be mistaken for a comedy club.
I have not seen recent figures, but Car Talk was (and I believe still holds the record as) that network’s highest-rated show ever. Somebody likes all that laughing.
Keillor was much, much funnier when he was the morning man on MPR (Minnesota Public Radio). I never did think the weekend stage thing was all that good, but it did expose a lot of local musicians when I lived there in the dark ages (before Keillor was even on national radio and everything he did was local). When the Saturday gig went national, he quit the daily show to devote fulltime to the weekend thing. That did not help it, IMO. To each his own.