Living In the World, Not on It

Looking for a movie that will not be like any other film you've ever seen? Something that brought a smile to my face in many parts, has great music (even the lead, Mark Duplass, did a bit with a zither - an instrument that looks like a flat, thin guitar, but while stringed, that is as far as it is related to a guitar - that was beautiful. Just beautiful) and has an ending that is totally unexpected? You want this movie. You really, really  want this movie. Luis (naturally) found it on Netflix. I had (naturally) never heard of it. That is usually how we find movies, sad to say. While Luis has greatly widened my tastes in movies, I have brought very little to the table in this particular matter. Anyway, this magazine writer wants to do an article on a guy who put an ad in the paper that reads: WANTED: Someone to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. I have only done this once before. SAFETY NOT GUARANTE...

The Blue Memory Meme, Part Two Welcome back to Sunday Stealing which originated on WTIT: The Blog authored by Bud Weiser. Here we will steal all types of memes from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent memes. You may have heard of the expression, “honor amongst thieves”. In that age-old tradition, we also have our rules. First, we always credit the blog that we stole it from and we will “fess up” to the blog owner where we stole the meme. We also provide a link to the victim's post. (It's our way of saying "Thanks!") We do sometimes edit the original meme, usually to make it more relevant to our global players, to challenge our players, sometimes to select that meme's best questions, or simply to make it less repetitive from either this new meme or recently asked questions from a prior featured meme. Let's go!!! Today we ripped off a blogger and...

No one is more surprised than I am that the Saturday Six has now reached its 400th edition! By my calculations, that represents about 7.6 years, with an asterisk: these 400 editions have only spanned 399 consecutive weeks, because there was one weekend in which I gave readers two different editions on the same day. I’m glad you’re reading this, and I hope you’ll enjoy this week’s set of questions! Be sure to check back this week and click on the links of bloggers who play along in the comments below! It’s a great way to find blogs you may not have visited and keep the conversation going! Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your blog… But don’t forget to leave a link to your blog so that everyone else can visit! Permission is not granted to copy the questions to message boards for the purpose of having members answer and play along there. Enjoy! 1. While going through ...

Last week, I turned the tables on some of you who answered a recent edition of the Sunday Seven . Those who played that week had to come up with questions they’d ask me over dinner. The questions I got were so good, I couldn’t resist using them for the Saturday Six . I’ll answer the questions myself this week, but today, it’s all about you! Thanks for dropping by and I hope you enjoy this week’s set of questions! Be sure to check back this week and click on the links of bloggers who play along in the comments below! It’s a great way to find blogs you may not have visited and keep the conversation going! Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your blog… But don’t forget to leave a link to your blog so that everyone else can visit! Permission is not granted to copy the questions to message boards for the purpose of having members answer and play along there. Enjoy! ...

1) If you were a villain in a movie, what would your catch phrase be? Where do you come up with these questions? I haven't the faintest idea... Um, how about "In these shoes? I doubt you'd survive." 2) Marc and Angel Hack Life recently posted a list of "10 Things To Stop Caring About Today." What is something you care too much about that you wish you didn't? My not working any longer. 3) On Tuesday, NBC announced that it was canceling its new show "Playboy Club," making it the first cancellation of the TV season. What show do you hope is next for cancellation? H8R, New Girl, The Jersey Shore, and so many more. The Jersey Shore should be the first to go, of a certainty. Goodness me, who wants anyone to think that these morons are indicative of real New Jersey or New York people. Quite frankly they are all totally fake. Totally stupid. No one would miss them, any of them. 4) Many media outlets have been asking this question a lot t...

In the new Blogger interface, I discovered that I have 2027 posts. Of these, 2005 are actively visible and 22 are in Drafts, the oldest of which is this one, from (oh my - how embarrasing) 23 October 2008. Goodness me oh my, how did I forget this? Easy. On the old interface, Drafts were only visible if one clicked on the Drafts folder or if one is on that page in Edit Posts that show the dates of the posts. Since this one is what, three and a half years old (actually, closer to four years old), this would not have been effective. So now, with the new interface, there it was: 22 drafted but not completed posts. Groan. I have a need to finish them and post them to the system. I'm just OCD enough that this will keep me awake if I don't do it. So here we go, back in time to 23 October 2008. (I will warn you now that you will be getting short-changed to SOME extent as I cannot recall details that far back. You have been duly warned.) "There is this enormous tome in...

Before posting this week’s edition of the Saturday Six , I took Scotty to the dog park. I figured it would be a good idea to let him burn off some energy before it got too hot. Sure enough, after about forty minutes, he was looking for a cool spot to lie down and rest, so I got him back into the car and back home. He had fun playing with a German Shepherd, a Boxer two Huskies and a howling Beagle. He’s now sprawled out in the middle of the floor with a big smile on his face. With that task done, it’s now time for another set of six questions! Thanks for dropping by! Be sure to check back this week and click on the links of bloggers who play along in the comments below! It’s a great way to find blogs you may not have visited and keep the conversation going! Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your blog… But don’t forget to leave a link to your blog so that everyone else can visit!...

...the 2012 Old Farmer's Almanac! YAY! I always love getting the newest Old Farmer's Almanac, to get the astronomical outlook for the new year and read the articles. I love it. I rely heavily on the almanac for Moon times, astronomy, seasonal changes and other tidbits. I also collect them and have them going back to the early 1800s. This one did not disappoint. The main article this year for astronomy is The Sky is Falling (and this is a good year to catch it) . It covers a few things, not the least of which is the Mayan New Year, which occurs on the winter Solstice and is above all a positive thing. I just don't know where everyone gets this doom and gloom prediction of the world, but it is amusing, none-the-less. However, the Mayan calendar hasn't anything to do with the end of the world or Armageddon. I find people who believe in this crap rather stupid (and if you'd seen the number of posts that mentioned that following yesterday's earthquake, we...

This week’s set of questions focuses on one of those things we all love to hate: social media. You don’t have to be on Twitter, Facebook or any of the others to play. So get your thinking caps on and thanks for stopping by! Be sure to check back this week and click on the links of bloggers who play along in the comments below! It’s a great way to find blogs you may not have visited and keep the conversation going! Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your blog… But don’t forget to leave a link to your blog so that everyone else can visit! Permission is not granted to copy the questions to message boards for the purpose of having members answer and play along there. Enjoy! 1. How many social media networks do you belong to at the moment? Oh, just one is enough. I'm on Facebook. If I joined more than that, it would just be too much work. 2. How many social media networks have you...

It’s really hard to believe that there have been 300 editions of the Sunday Seven . I hope you’ve been reading since the very first one, but even if you haven’t, I’m grateful to you for being here today. This week’s question involves an interesting list: the seven days of creation told in the Book of Genesis. Before I get to the question, here, from Wikipedia, is the day-by-day listing of what God did during “creation week;” First Day: God creates light: the first divine command, “Let there be light.” Light is divided from darkness, and “day” and “night” are named. Second Day: God creates a firmament to divide the waters above from the waters below. This firmament is named “skies.” Third Day: God commands the oceans to gather together so that dry land can appear; God commands the earth to bring forth grass, plants and fruit-bearing trees. Fourth Day: God creates lights in the firmament to separate light from darkness and to mark days, seasons and years. The stars are made. Fi...

There is a lot of fun, weird and interesting facts in this book. Some of it gives me the willies, some of it is fascinating, and some just funny. But as long as I'm learning something, then it is doing what I really want. So here are some interesting facts for you. The Top Third Common Misconception: 'Hitler was an Atheist "We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. W have, therefore, undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out." --Adolf Hitler, Berlin, 1933 Christianity--a religion of peace and tolerance that preaches moral values and love for one's enemies. Well, clearly from a historical perspective, this has certainly not always been the case although it's not so much the religion's fault as the people who attempt to follow it. With over a billion worldwide adherents, is it really probable that everyone who considers themself a Christian is piou...

Welcome to The Queen's Meme 7 Royal Questions on Tuesday (I'm prolific today. There are 9 questions.) It's time for your annual check up! I always say "knowledge is power" when entering the stressful confines of a doctor's office. I take a pen and paper, armed with questions and a medical encyclopedia at my disposal. My doctor is not amused. Let's see how well you do on the medical exam I have prepared for you. The Crazy Medical Meme 1. The smallest bone in the human body is about the size of a grain of rice. What is it? I know it is not the zyphoid process; I'm guessing it is in the ear canal. I don't know the name of it. Let's see if I'm wrong... I'm right! It is called the stirrup. 2. How fast is a sneeze? Good question, I think it is something like 60mph. Wikipedia says... it didn't - but apparently I'm wrong - it is 100mph. Damn! 3. What percentage of the human body is water? Too easy - 97%. I'm not even going ...

Summer telly hits are tough to find, but the channels are slowly coming around to the fact that life in the twenty-first century doesn't involving being out of doors during the off-school weeks. Now those few are realising the cash cow in primo-advertising all year-round. Where Franklin & Bash was a total failure, the new show Suits , on USA, is a hit. It has humour but it is serious, too. Instead of immersing itself in the gutter, it is witty without being crass. Quite frankly, how Franklin & Bash made it on the air is a mystery. As usual, Drop Dead Diva is as great as its last two seasons and promises to get better. I'm looking forward to Eureka although with mixed feelings - last season was not its finest, going too far with one plot line and changing everything moving forward. A show in its third or fourth season should not need to resort to that - it's usually a bad sign when they do. One show that I am enjoying thoroughly, however, is Through the Wo...

I know at some point I mentioned that there are e-mails that I receive once per day outlining all the seismic activity logged around the world. The e-mails are always one week behind. The earthquake must not have been too hard to see coming that created the tsunami that whacked Japan... on this first report dated 9 March, the red is the 7.2 magnitude foreshock that hit the Honshu area after several days of much smaller foreshocks. Here is the e-mail I received for 9 March 2011: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NO. 1-075 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAR 16, 2011 NEIC/WDCS-D QUICK EPICENTER DETERMINATIONS UTC TIME LAT LONG DEP GS MAGS Q SD GAP STA F-E REGION AND COMMENTS HRMNSEC MB Msz USED MAR 09 013034.0* 19.476S 171.700E 81? 4.7 C 1.1 121 28 VANUATU REGION 014749.4 52.880N 160.670E 50 4.5 A 0.9 162 54 OFF E CST KAMCH...