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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jun 6, 2024 15:18:09 GMT -5
Taking a moment to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landing on Normandy Beach and to honor all those who served or fell on that day. Let us never forget what those who did fought for and died for.
-M
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 6, 2024 16:20:44 GMT -5
Outside of people doing impressions, the only work I really know Webb from is the radio drama "Pat Novak, For Hire", which I like well enough. If you want something different, yet still pure Jack Webb, check out The DI...... He gets it wrong, though; it's a door, not a hatch. Doors go between bulkheads, hatches go between decks. That third recruit... I didn't get guys who enlisted who were in bad shape. My ignorant impression was you'd never make it through boot camp. I thought "You don't join to get yourself in shape, you get yourself in shape to join." But all the out-of-shape guys I knew made it through boot camp (to the best of my recollection), so good for them. Both for the effort and the attitude. You get some, and I wasn't in the best of shape, when I started ROTC. I sucked on the 3 mile run, in the Physical fitness test and at pull ups, because I lacked upper body strength. I had to do Remedial PT sessions, to get my score up, on a couple of occasions, in college. I had been jogging and cycling before indoctrination, but not enough and I had poor dietary habits, both in the types of food and in behaviors, like stress eating. I brought my score up to where I got maximum points for sit-ups, could do about 15 pull ups (with a partial kip-up to get me closer, then muscle my chin above the bar) (20 pull ups was maximum points) and did the 3 mile run in 11:30 (minimum time was 26 minutes). then, we switched to the Navy Physical Fitness Test, after doing the Marine Corps, which was a mile and a half run, sit-ups and push ups and our scores all shot up, as the mile and a half, was a sprint, for us. I fought weight issues during my entire time in service, including attending a rehabilitation center for weight problems, where i went through physical training and counseling for psychological issues related to over-eating. I still fight it today. I gained weight after the military, then got motivated and dropped 80 lbs and was in better shape than in college and met Barb. It took a year and a half to shed the weight and I maintained it for about 3 or 4 more years and met Barb. However, after she moved in with me and I started dealing with both work stress and her mental health issues, I started falling back on bad patterns and gained the weight back and then some, over time. Pvt Lawrence, in Full Metal jacket, is not that far-fetched. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 6, 2024 16:26:12 GMT -5
Taking a moment to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landing on Normandy Beach and to honor all those who served or fell on that day. Let us never forget what those who did fought for and died for. -M Not to mention the innocent civilians who were caught in between. The Battle of Normandy had a high price, including German reprisals for resistance sabotage and delaying activities, including the massacre of the inhabitants of Oradur-sur-Glane.... |
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 10, 2024 19:00:32 GMT -5
Always thought the concept for E-Ink tablets (especially E-Readers) was a cool idea, but now companies are trying to make computer monitors out of the technology
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jun 11, 2024 11:55:00 GMT -5
Just putting this PSA here for those of you who live in areas with coyotes...  |
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 11, 2024 12:19:29 GMT -5
Just putting this PSA here for those of you who live in areas with coyotes...
The small print addition is hilarious.
Thankfully, coyotes are classified as an invasive species in Tennessee, along with feral hogs, armadillos and Asian carp. This means we can use various ACME products against them with impunity. I'm patiently waiting for my shipment of catapults and portable holes at the moment. Oh, and my Bat-Man suit.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 11, 2024 12:23:09 GMT -5
If they only had a road runner...
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 12, 2024 11:28:47 GMT -5
If they only had a road runner... Or a smart-alec rabbit!  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 13, 2024 15:25:33 GMT -5
Get a phone call today. Normally, I don't answer my phone, for an unrecognized number; but, I thought it might have been the closer, at the store (I'm off today) with a question. I answer with "hello" and wait for a response to judge whether to hang up and get a long pause, followed by a "Hello," and a pause, to which I respond, "Yeeeessssss.........." and wait for them to say something. The woman, in a heavy accent then says she is "Kimmy Harris" from the Department of Homeland Security, and asks how I am. I refrain from asking if she is looking for "Moose und Skvirrel" and instead reply, "That depends upon whom you wish to speak...." and then the line goes dead.
You gotta try harder than that, Natasha!
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Post by impulse on Jun 16, 2024 14:53:00 GMT -5
Happy Father's Day to all of my fellow dads around here.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 16, 2024 15:48:40 GMT -5
Happy Father's Day to all of my fellow dads around here. Best job ever. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jun 19, 2024 10:19:08 GMT -5
Commemorating Juneteenth today!  -M |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 19, 2024 13:15:49 GMT -5
I went to school at a time when the public school population in my home town was two-thirds black. We had plenty of black teachers, and my high school's principal was black. We got a remarkably racially balanced education compared to what I've heard from others my age. But I never heard about Juneteenth until about ten years ago. Was it more of a regional holiday before?
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jun 19, 2024 13:22:49 GMT -5
I went to school at a time when the public school population in my home town was two-thirds black. We had plenty of black teachers, and my high school's principal was black. We got a remarkably racially balanced education compared to what I've heard from others my age. But I never heard about Juneteenth until about ten years ago. Was it more of a regional holiday before? There were definite mentions of it and discussions of it 20 years ago when I was teaching in a pilot program on the campus of an HBCU when I first moved out here to Ohio. I remember having a student or two mention/ask me about it in the mid-90s when I was teaching in a minority-majority inner city school system back in CT, and having it be a topic of conversation at a couple of educational conferences/workshops I attended at that time, so it's been on my radar as something of note for 30ish years, but most of my peer group who were not in the educational circles I was in (and even some on those circles) were generally unaware of it at that time. -M |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 19, 2024 14:12:36 GMT -5
You know, there is nothing like driving down a familiar street and realizing the car ahead of you is coming towards you and not away from you!
I was picking up some lunch, driving up the street when I suddenly realized that scenario, that someone was driving in the wrong lane. We aren't talking crossed the center line for a second or a small side street with no lane markings; this was a double-lane main thoroughfare and I was in the right hand lane! Not only were they driving in the oncoming lane, they were as far into the wrong lane as possible. I almost wondered if I had warped space and ended up in Milton Keynes or something.
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