Monthly Archive for March, 2010

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My Weakness for Domain Names. It’sAllAbout.me

Published on March 10, 2010 in Baby Boomer. 5 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .


Montenegro is a new country, formed in 2006, declaring their independence from the former Yugoslavia.
Their entire domestic gross national product is wrapped up in the Top Level Domain extension .me

Most domain names end in .com or .net or .org…other countries have their own Top Level Domains.

  • Canada is  .ca
  • Ireland is .ie
  • Dominican Republic .do
  • Russia is .ru
  • American Samoa is .as
  • United Kingdom is .uk or .gb
  • Italy .it

CanadaCanada Ireland Dominican Republic  - Dominican Republic Russia United Kingdom American Samoa Italy? or in layman’s terms:

Caca, that is do-do, are you uck as it? (you think you can do better, give it a go, here’s the list)

(.ca .ie .do .ru .uk .as .it)

Oh that was so vacuous, even I don’t get it.

Yep, (yournamehere).com is no longer good enough. Or you can reserve (yournamehere).com for your serious self.
.me is all about the fun.

I have a weakness for domain names.  I now own fifteen. At one time or another I have owned:

  • DogsWithCones.com
  • AsianWomenHoldingThings.com
  • FourDaysOnly.com
  • SaleEndsSunday.com

(Those were all sold and now link to various spammy ad sites or are back up for sale.)

These domain names redirect back to this page:

  • GoingLikeSixty.net
  • GoingLike60.com
  • BabyBoomerGoingLikeSixty.com

And others are for other blogs including BBQandBourbon.com and a few others that I run covertly.

But my  recent acquisition is perhaps my best.

TheMVPis.me

MVP are the initials I use. My real full name initials would be MLVP, but my underwear monogrammer just goes nuts (pun!) trying to figure out which initial should be larger than the rest. It’s a burden I bear.

That’s pretty cool, right? Here’s what my bedroom monogram would be… except the V part doesn’t represent my middle name.

So now I am having great trouble concentrating on anything… I’m thinking of all the great domain names I should buy. This video is pretty close to how my mind is working.

Bite.me (it’s taken)

Be Careful When You Hire A Woman Who Hasn’t Worked in 20 Years

Published on March 9, 2010 in Baby Boomer. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

Nancy is a whiz on the keyboard. Actually faster in high school on the manual typewriter than she was the electric. We surmise it was because she kept hesitating when the electric would automatically return the carriage. I bet there were times her hand waved over the top of the electric typewriter having missed the carriage return handle that wasn’t there.

She could do 100+ words per minute with no errors.

She still can.

When she is deep into an email, there is a steady clickety-clickety-clickety as her fingers fly over the keyboard.

She’s gotten used to not having a carriage return.

Thanks to BitsandPieces.us for the vid

The Real Oscar Winners 2010

Published on March 7, 2010 in Baby Boomer. 1 Comment Tags: .


No envelopes here.

These are the natural Oscars that everyman has already selected to be winners. You know them, you love them, you voted for them.

May I have the envelope please? What? No envelopes? There have to be envelopes!

Onward.

Best Performance by Fuzz:

  • The Grouch

Best Performance by Meat man:

  • Mayer

Best Performance by a Fake person:

  • Madison

Best Performance by a Dude on drugs:

  • Wilde

Best Performance by a Stud:

  • De La Hoya

Best Performance by the anti-Stud:

  • De La Renta

Best Performance by a Music Man:

  • Hammerstein

Best Performance by a Weird Piano Man:

  • Levant

Best Performance by “The O Train:”

  • Roberston

Thinking about Drowning

Published on March 5, 2010 in Baby Boomer. 1 Comment Tags: , .


The other day  I was thinking about drowning.

I was at the public pool swimming laps. It was a busy day for the pool. There were 20 people doing aerobics, four lap swimmers and a dozen kids taking lessons.

Two lifeguards watched.

Two lifeguards that in a split second have to decide if a swimmer is in trouble and act.

Two lifeguards that together may make $18 an hour. Maybe.

I can’t tell if they were paying attention, because I can’t see squat without my specs. I can see there are people in the lifeguard chairs and that’s about it.

Imagine the responsibility in the hands of those two young people making $7-$9 an hour. No other job requires such immediate life-saving action without any warning.

None.

Firefighters, EMT’s, and cops all have some warning that a life is in danger before they arrive on the scene.

Lifeguards are guarding multiple lives at once.

This was an indoor pool with sparkling clean water so the bottom was easily visible and everyone is swimming in a 25 meter pool. Imagine the job when it involves multiple pools and water slides and water falls – like a resort.

Or the ocean.

OC lifeguards are paid around $15 an hour. But ocean lifeguards have  more skills…

For those who enjoy getting their tan on while working, guarding at an outdoor pool is more than a day at the beach. Pools and beaches are just as different as indoor and outdoor places. Bodies of open water require knowledge of aquatic life, wave size, tide times, etc. and often require a certification beyond a typical lifeguarding one.

Now imagine a lifeguard at a friggin’ water park where there are hundreds of kids running and splashing around and screwing around like deranged Orcas.

I remember seeing an undercover video on lifeguards. Of course, it showed the bad side as well as the good. Bad = watching and flirting with the chicks and dudes. Good = constantly scanning and changing chairs every 15 minutes.

I don’t have a point. I just need to find something else to think about while I’m swimming besides the fact that I may need the help of an under-paid lifeguard.

Can I Ever Get Back the Goofiness?

Published on March 3, 2010 in Baby Boomer. 7 Comments Tags: .


I’ve come across a couple of blogs lately done by young couples in love.

They are at the “goofy-love” stage of their lives. Comfortable enough with each other that all guards are down. They are having fun being goofy.
The first is Crying Wife. This is video shot by a guy of his wife who just gets totally immersed in movie characters and cries at movies – a lot!

Of course, her husband his right there with his trusty video to put it all on Youtube.com. If you visit the site there is lots of reassurance that she is totally OK with him doing this.

The funniest thing to me is when she cries after a movie that most people won’t cry after:   Star Wars, Back to the Future, Lord of the Rings… etc. It’s hysterical to hear her talk about how happy she is for McFly or Frodo! The best part is, she has an amazing sense of humor and laughs at herself when she sees these videos. She knows they’re online and is happy that her quirk can bring people entertainment.

Goofy love.

The second instance of “goofy-love” is from Allie at Hyperbole and a Half. She and Boyfriend celebrated five years together yesterday. She wrote him this “poem”…

Boyfriend
A poem by Allie Brosh

I like you.

Sometimes when you’re sleeping

I watch you

Did you know you make train noises in your sleep?

Probably not.

It would be weird if you knew about that and kept doing it anyway

I’m glad you found the toenail clippers yesterday

I thought you were lying when you said you didn’t move them. I still can’t be sure that you didn’t just plant them there so that you could conveniently “find them” and make me feel stupid for blaming you for their disappearance, but I’ll let it go for now.

Also, thank you for buying me chips yesterday

And for letting me eat parmesan cheese straight out of the container

Do you want to go see Avatar?

The End.

Boyfriend participates from time-to-time through Allie.

Goofy-love. Not that it’s missing from my life, it’s just not as frequent as it used to be.  So we revert to emailing each other funny stuff, like this…

Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock…

Who’s there?

Micheal J. Fox

I guess we are at the “groaner-love” stage of life.