Archive for November, 2007

30
Nov

Evel Knievel Crashes for Real - Is Dead - a Spectacular Failure

   Posted by: goinglikesixty    in Baby Boomer

It wasn’t a jump over a fountain, or line of school buses, or in a rocket off a cliff that finally did in the World’s Greatest Daredevil. It was a pretty ordinary death by Evel’s standards. Knievel had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that [...]
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30
Nov

If I Had a Truck with a Trailer Hitch, I’d Have This

   Posted by: goinglikesixty    in Entertainment

Step on brakes and Rudolph’s target lights up and legs wave. Awesome.
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30
Nov

Friday Five - Items with Lead to Keep Away From Kids

   Posted by: goinglikesixty    in Friday Five

The ASPCA has released this list of items imported from China that contain  lots of lead.  Please keep these out of the mouths of your children: Bullets Helicopter Blades Heroine Spoons Christmas  Light Cords Traffic Cones
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29
Nov

We’re Not Gardeners So We’re Not Sure How to Tell it’s Ripe

   Posted by: goinglikesixty    in Family, Health

We’re not good at growing things at our house. We do OK with the indestructible plants, philodendron and cacti and those ones with the big leaves that get real droopy but perk right up when they get water. Now we have something growing that has to ripen. We’re not sure how to know when it’s [...]
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29
Nov

Keep Me In The Dark and Call Me Mushroom

   Posted by: goinglikesixty    in Random

Play this in background as you read. Going for an ambiance here, so humor me. I like dark skies. Only at night however. I like sunlight. But I digress. There is Dark Sky Association. I would have preferred to join the Dark Sky Cult of the Unlighted, but this will do. The Dark Sky Association. Here is their [...]
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29
Nov

It Almost Was A Three Way

   Posted by: goinglikesixty    in Blogging, Empty Nesters, Food, Holy Shit! Lookit This!

I submitted these items over a few weeks time, turns out yesterday and today they all hit the pixelways: Letter to Editor of USA Today Food review for Roadfood.com Travel column for Boomspeak.com Which is worse? Me thinking I have something of value to say? Or the fact that I’m bragging about it? UPDATE: Just found out that SIL knows [...]
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28
Nov

Haiku Challenge - Fewest Total Words?

   Posted by: goinglikesixty    in Baby Boomer

What is the fewest number of words you can use for a Haiku? I want the Haiku, not the number wise guys! You can’t use refrigerator. UPDATE: Here’s my first attempt: gentlemanliness? now discombobulation. misunderstanding! Chris has thrown down a mighty challenge: three word haiku. However, he had to add a qualifier so that it made sense. So Haiku in three words!
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28
Nov

Happy Birthday Polaroid - the Camera That Launched Home Grown Pr##

   Posted by: goinglikesixty    in Baby Boomer, Technology

Sixty years ago today, the morals of America started their distinct downward spiral as Edwin Land introduced the first Polaroid Camera. It was on that day, that guys everywhere decided they needed - wanted - desired - a nekkid photograph of their girlfriend. In 1963, Land invented instant color photographs to better help the fledgling industry [...]
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