Don't pay for expensive online storage systems. Instead, take advantage of gmail's hundreds of megabytes of storage just for you, and mail yourself files.
Really.
I do it, and I'm still only using 0% of my storage space.
The first flower is there. Not open yet, but it is purple. I am so thrilled. Yee Ha A couple stumbleupon pictures then off to bed to read.
I didn't name them. Peace & Love Georgia & Annie
Nite Nite
And I found this instead. I did find the cat and they are beautiful. Hyde Park Concert. yep
It's 3:08 and I just got back from a midnight screening. I have to get up for work in 3 hours, and I'm quite sure that I won't sleep, but man...
This movie is great. Heath Ledger was amazing, the chaos unleashed in Gotham was monumental, and Jim Gordon was really strong. Chicago looked like a lovely lady in it too - quite the travel advertisement.
I was an extra in the funeral scene when they were shooting it, but I'm not visible. Oh well - it was still amazing. And I'm not easily amazed.
The ferry situation nearly had me in tears - the statements made about humanity were scary, true, and ultimately redeeming.
Now to try to sleep...
Oh current reading. Just finished
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Another classic I just received (for the nth time) in my email. But, what a classic! These good old Hollywood Squares folks were The Best!
If you remember the Original Hollywood Squares and its comics, this may bring a tear to your eyes. These great questions and answers are from the days when ' Hollywood Squares' game show responses were spontaneous, not scripted, as they are now. Peter Marshall was the host asking the questions, of course.
Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.
Q. If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be?
A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.
Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years.
A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.
Q. You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?
A. Don Knotts: That's what's been keeping me awake.
Q. According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he's married?
A. Rose Marie: No; wait until morning.
Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.
Q. In Hawaiian, does it take more than three word s to say 'I Love You'?
A. Vincent Price: No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty.
Q. What are 'Do It,' 'I Can Help,' and 'I Can't Get Enough'?
A. George Gobel: I don't know, but it's coming from the next apartment.
Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?
A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I'll give you a gesture you' ll never forget.
Q. Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?
A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.
Q. Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?
A. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I'm too busy growing strawberries.
Q. In bowling, what's a perfect score?
A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.
Q. It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps. One is politics, what is the other?
A. Paul Lynde: Tape measures.
Q. During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?
A. Rose Marie: Unfortunately Peter, I'm always safe in the bedroom.
Q. Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?
A. Marty Allen: Only after lights out.
Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?
A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?
Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?
A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark.
Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?
A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.
Q. It is the most abused and neglected part of your body, what is it?
A. Paul Lynde: Mine may be abused, but it certainly i sn't neglected.
Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?
A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.
Q. Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?
A. Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?
Q. When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for its sex?
A. Charley Weaver: I'll lend him the car, the rest is up to him.
Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?
A. Charley Weaver: His feet.
Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?
A. Paul Lynde: Point and laugh
Do not, I repeat, do NOT ask how my brain ended up here.
For reasons which go unmentioned because I like to be seen as sane, I started wondering how exactly would one go about surviving a zombie apocalypse. What skills would one have to have? Would some personality types be more likely to live? If it continued for months, or years, what problems (aside from Zombies) would one encounter? If one happened in my own hometown of Nowhere Indiana, what would I do?
And... being a list-maker... I made a list:
- Be cynical. People who always believe the best will be the first to be eaten. The ones who think, "oh, Mr. Jones is lurching and drooling, perhaps he needs a kerchief" or "certainly the government will intervene soon, I'll just sit tight"- those people are zombie chum. Being cynical really would pay off in a zombie apocalypse.
- Be a take charge person. People with a herd mentality will inevitably end up dead when all of the shepherds are eaten. People who take care of themselves are far more likely to live.
- Don't mind getting your hands dirty. All of the high-maintenance people who hate getting their hands dirty are doomed. The only way to survive a zombie apocalypse (other than a very, very large panic room) is cleverness and a willingness to get zombie guts under those fingernails.
- Know a variety of self-defense techniques. Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of Tae-Kwon-Do, Karate, or any other self-defense or attack skill will have a better chance of survival. Simply being physically fit is a toss up- zombies aren't known for their speed, so what matters more is what you do when they catch up.
- Be creative. Any number of techniques have been tried with success against zombies. Fires, chainsaws, guns, long poles, collapsing buildings, handmade bombs... Apparently living through a zombie apocalypse has a lot to do with how creative you can get.
- Shelter- No one lives long without a roof over their head. Finding a good and defensible place to live is a must. Somewhere isolated enough that there won't be millions of zombies roaming around, but close enough to civilization that other basic needs can be met as well. That wouldn't be easy.
- Food. Looting stores will work for a start, but it won't be long before those stocks run out. What then?
- Water. Good, clean water. Stored water will become tepid after a while, bottled water could become contaminated, lake water is iffy (I wouldn't want to drink out of Lake Eerie, neither would anyone else who prizes their health) so where would one find water? I think that supplies problems ones and two could be solved by finding an Amish farm not far out of town that still has a working windmill. That would also solve the problem of-
- Heating- most homes aren't even equipped to install a wood-burning stove. So how would you heat your home and cook food?
- Clothing- most items have a life of less than five years if worn regularly- if one is forced to wear the same five things repeatedly, especially without adequate laundry facilities, that number would plummet. So five months in, in the winter, with limited resources, how would one cloth one's self?
And these are just a sampling of the things to consider.
Planning for a zombie apocalypse is hard.
(And yes, this has something to do with a storyline I'm working out, don't worry, no zombie apocalypse being planned on in real life... yet...)
I didn't get a shot of the stir fry, but it was really good over white rice. Some fancy coffee. We had a good time talking and eating. I went out to look at the plants and trees. Got chiggers. damn. Annie is a little perkier today.
It is hot in the 90 range.
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