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Dec 30
Winter Solstice and Summer Dreams
I’m not a winter person. But this year, (so far) I’ve done better than many winters before. (I count anything after Halloween as proverbial, if not literal, ‘winter’.) My mood has been helped in large part because I’ve gotten out regularly to hike and imbibe nature in spite of the seasonal gloom. Still, I’m finishing …
Dec 30
November 2019 – Quote of the Month
“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?” ~Epictetus
Nov 30
Catalog
I have 104,403 photos in my photo library catalog. That is the majority, but it isn’t all of them. Invariably, there are a few thousand floating in folders that have not yet been imported. I often ask myself, what good do all of these photographs do? What will become of all of my efforts to …
Nov 30
October 2019 – Quote of the Month
“There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.” ~Robert Brault
Oct 30
Above a Dark Tor
Taken on a recent vacation while staying at the lovely Arenal Kioro Suites & Spa. “There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and …
Oct 17
September 2019 – Quote of the Month
“Change. How do you change yourself?… It’s easy to lose yourself or never find yourself. The older you get, the heavier that baggage becomes that you haven’t sorted through, so you run. I’ve done a lot of that kind of running. I’ve spent 35 years trying learn how to let go of the destructive parts …
Sep 30
Fire Photon Elevators
As I’m want to do, I was watching an old episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show late one evening. The episode was, “Christmas and the Hard-Luck Kid II“. In it, Mary is alone in the news room late on Christmas Eve. Someone has entered the building and she’s frightened, jamming the door with a …
Sep 27
August 2019 – Quote of the Month
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ~Isaac Asimov
Aug 23
Stoned
In February of this year, I visited the local Science Center and was amused by this dispenser, set out-side of the gift shop. Above the dispenser was a sign that these were ‘gems from around the world‘. Clearly, something had happened because the original signage for the dispenser was supplemented after it had gone to …
Aug 20
July 2019 – Quote of the Month
“Here is one way to conceptualize NASA’s heroic era: in 1961, Kennedy gave his “moon speech” to Congress, charging them to put an American on the moon “before the decade is out.” In the eight years that unspooled between Kennedy’s speech and Neil Armstrong’s first historic bootprint, NASA, a newborn government agency, established sites and …
Jul 30
Michael Myers Meets Columbo
As part of my evening ritual to mentally wind down before sleep, I watch old TV shows. Watching an episode of Columbo, “By Dawn’s Early Light” (first airing Oct. 27, 1974), my attention was caught by this visual: This location made me think of this fellow: The reason for the connection is due to the …
Jul 21
June 2019 – Quote of the Month
“Had enough of heartbreak and painI had a little sweet spot for the rainFor the rain and skies of greyHello sunshine, won’t you stay?” ~ Bruce Springsteen
Jun 28
Tautologies Subject to Tautology
Searching for humidifiers on Amazon one day, I came across this very philosphical description of size.
Jun 21
May 2019 – Quote of the Month
“I’ve got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts – you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn’t do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.” ~ D.D. Barant, Dying Bites
May 22
Happy 18th Birthday
GlenGreen.com launched this day, in 2001. Happy birthday website. Now you can vote.
May 17
April 2019 – Quote of the Month
“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” ~ John Keats
Apr 10
March 2019 – Quote of the Month
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mar 31
The Hit and Run Breakfast
The humor in today’s video, speaks, I think, for itself. (But then again: I have a robust, dark sense of humor: so your mileages may vary.) This snippet is from Dragnet, The Hit-and-Run Driver which first aired April 6, 1967. In this snippet, Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and his partner Bill Gannon (Harry Morgan) meet …
Mar 31
February 2019 – Quote of the Month
“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.” ~Elbert Hubbard
Feb 26
Did Peter Make a Peter Joke?
Continuing my observations of watching late night reruns, today I bring you a shocking Brady Bunch double entendre. In this scene, Peter storms in, thinking his brother Greg has taken the girl he wants to date. At first, he only calls Greg a, ‘rat’. After confronting Greg, Peter basically calls his brother a big putz …
Feb 25
January 2019 – Quote of the Month
“How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.” ~Keanu Reeves
Jan 31
Mike Brady’s AT-AT
In my efforts to ease my mind into sleep at night, I like to watch older TV shows. I find little easter eggs in them. Some quasi-historical, most TV trivial, and some musings of my imagination. And it is from the latter, that I bring you an episode (#17) of the Brady Bunch, “Coming Out …
Jan 29
December 2018 – Quote of the Month
“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” ~Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireJ.K. Rowling
Dec 31
Iceland Seascape
The world doesn’t need another Iceland landscape photo. At least: not another unexceptional Iceland landscape photo. But I need a blog post and am out of time and out of sorts to do more than slap up one of the photos I took this year. Ergo: I give you: “Generic, but Lovely Seascape Captured in …
Dec 22
November 2018 – Quote of the Month
“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.” ~ FaramirThe Window on the WestThe Two TowersThe Lord of …
Nov 30
Iceland’s Steinahellir Cave Signs
Along the road, In the south of Iceland, near the Bay of Holtsós is a small cave. The cave is not very deep: little more than an alcove. It is so shallow, in fact that it gets enough light that the entirety of the cave is overgrown with ferns and moss. The small grotto is …
Nov 01
October 2018 – Quote of the Month
“Listen to them — the children of the night. What music they make.” ~ Bram Stoker Dracula
Oct 30
Penny-ante
I shop a lot with Amazon. A lot. – With few exceptions, I go to Amazon for 95% of my non-perishable purchases. But for some things, I still like to have an in-person experience. These things include: TVs and monitors (for first hand viewing of image quality), audio gear (hearing is believing), furniture and vehicles …
Oct 01
September 2018 – Quote of the Month
“Oh, life is like that. Sometimes, at the height of our revelries, when our joy is at its zenith, when all is most right with the world, the most unthinkable disasters descend upon us.” ~ Ralphie (Narrator) A Christmas Story by Jean Shepherd
Sep 26
Carol’s Dating Didn’t Go Well After Mike Brady Left the Family
Things were rough for Carol and the Brady family after Mike Brady left.
Sep 18
August 2018 – Quote of the Month
“I don’t want to hear the specials. If they’re so special, put ’em on the menu.” ~ Jerry Seinfeld
Aug 21
Insect Screens Will Not Stop Children from Falling Out of Windows
I love product warnings about obvious things and I wonder if they’ve ever stopped a single injury. I figure if you’re not smart enough to figure it out on your own, you’re probably not smart enough to heed a warning. – Assuming you’re able to read in the first place. Of course, the reality is that …
Aug 09
July 2018 – Quote of the Month
“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people …
Jul 30
And the Award for Most Wasteful Packaging Goes To…
The chain we use to hang our hammock has gotten tight as the trees have grown. I decided to replace them with webbing. So, along with a number of other items, I ordered two climbing slings at the same time. I received a few boxes including one each for the webbing slings. It was actually …
Jul 13
June 2018 – Quote of the Month
“Thus mystery is made a convenient cover for absurdity.” ~John Adams
Jun 30
Dismembered Drawings
I’ve been doing some significant reorganization which has required combing through lots of stuff I haven’t looked at for ages. Among some of the containers I found old drawings. Here are two that I did – probably when I was in eighth grade. I’m pretty sure that the drawings that I did then would not …
May 22
17 Years of Whistling into the Wind
Happy 17th Anniversary my dear old website. Another year and this website will be the age of consent. They grow up so fast. “I still blog, but I do think blogging will become obsolete, as there are more ways of interacting on the Web with low barriers to entry for people to engage and participate.” …
May 17
April 2018 – Quote of the Month
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” ~Alice Walker
Apr 23
Mayberry STD
I love the little oddities that get uncovered by watching old TV shows. On the treadmill the other day, I was watching an episode of The Andy Griffith Show where Andy has an argument with Peggy and Barney tries to make things better by setting him up with another girl. Naturally, the girl is a train-wreck …
Apr 17
March 2018 – Quote of the Month
“‘Time does not tarry ever,’ he said; ‘but change and growth is not in all things and places alike. For the Elves the world moves, and it moves both very swift and very slow. Swift, because they themselves change little, and all else fleets by: it is a grief to them. Slow, because they do …
Mar 31
The Love Boat Promises Something for Everyone
I like watching old TV shows before I got to bed. Something about them helps me relax. So, I’ve been queuing up random shows in the DVR including Hogan’s Heroes, Columbo, Different Strokes among others. The shows are wonderful time capsules: often with hidden marvels. – Sometimes the shows are remarkably clever, others are so bad that …
Mar 08
February 2018 – Quote of the Month
“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.” ~Oscar Wilde
Feb 28
Nobody Puts Baby in a Box
Doing some more organizing around the house which means more bins and labels! I have to say, this warning label has saved me from a lot of embarrassing situations… Seriously though: every hospital should have to show this label to every parent of a newborn before allowing the parents to take the baby home. The …
Feb 08
January 2018 – Quote of the Month
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” ~Jane Austen
Jan 24
Containers, Label Makers and Severed Heads
Three of my favorite things: organized Sterilite and Hefty containers, my Model PT-D40 Brother Label Maker and Halloween severed heads.
Jan 09
December 2017 – Quote of the Month
“National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.” ~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Dec 30
A Rainbow of Stone
I wanted to write a post expressing my frustration and outrage at the train wreck of modern conservative politics, but I just finished a long post on my password protected Friends and Family section and I’m out of steam. These things need said: flares of distress need sent up. Spotlights of attention must be shone. …
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