Living In the World, Not on It

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 ...

The Bud is Back Meme 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 named Fireca...

Remember the shot of the sailor kissing the nurse in Times Square on V-J Day in World War II? Or the shot of little John-John salting the casket of his father, President Kennedy, as the funeral procession passed by? Or the shot of the green-eyed woman whose gaze captured the imagination of readers of National Geographic? They are iconic images — some amusing, some tragic — that nearly everyone has seen at one point or another. Can you name what you’d consider to be the most iconic? Here are a few lists that may help you come up with your seven. Note: Some images are graphic and may be disturbing. Follow the links at your own risk. Images That Changed the World 12 of the Most Iconic Photographs Ever Taken 13 Photographs That Changed the World That’s the challenge for this week. 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 vis...

[01] What bad habit would you be willing to give up, if it guaranteed you would live longer? Hmmm. I don't smoke. I don't drink. I don't have sex with anyone without a test being done to ensure I don't pick up anything I can't put down. What does this leave? I suppose I would have to give up NOT eating vegetables.... ugh! [02] If you could have someone else's face, whom would you choose? Oh, too easy! I would love to have Michelle Pfeiffer's face, without a doubt. Whether it was her face of thirty years ago, or her face of today, it is still the most loveliest of them all! [03] Would you want to know the exact day of your death? No, not at all. I would not want that hanging over me like the Sword of Damocles... [04] Do you have any phobias? Just one - arachnophobia. I have no issues with creatures with no legs (snakes are the most amazing creatures ever!), one leg, two legs, six legs, many legs... but eight legs is a problem. When I was a kid, on a natu...

1) Today (Sept. 28) is National Ask A Stupid Question Day. What is the stupidest question you've been asked lately? (Feel free to include one of my meme questions if you so choose. I can handle it.) The stupidest question I've been asked... The Short term disability poeple asked me if I am disabled. No. I'm just seeing if you would take a request and pay me if I'm not disabled... Here's your sign! (I'm quoting Bill Engvall on that last comment, "Here's your sign!") 2) When someone says "We need to talk" to you, what is usually the first thing that runs through your mind? That the topic is not a positive one. Isn't that what runs through everyone's mind? 3) If someone rearranged your living room, what is the first thing you would look for? The remotes: the TiVO, the Samsung surround sound/DVD/Aux and HDMI 2 players, the Mac Mini, and the fireplace remote. This is a sad statement, but it is true. Then I would look for the k...

When is the last time you got to spend $170,000 - of some one else's money? I used to do it every week - when I ran the payroll. And don't kid yourself, that was the best money ever spent. Any company is only as strong as its employees. Money like that is money well spent. I'm doing it again. And like the previous five years, it is the best money I will ever spend and it will save lives. Just as paying employees saves lives. I can't say this is just my effort, but I'm a big part of it and I love every minute of it. I know more about the inner and outer workings of the rigs more than I would ever imagine. There is so much to know - the payload, the electrical load, the safety for the patient, the crew and the town. The continuity for the EMTs, so that we know where everything is. The fuel consumption curve for long standbys. Meeting Triple K requirements. Having duel Whelen sirens and now (and this is the coolest thing!) the Rumbler, a low-sonic add-on...

When I saw Patrick's post, Like Me! No, Really, Like Me!, I had to write about it. And here is the answer I got on 8 September... "Like Me. No, Really, Like Me!" http://www.patrickkphillips.com/2011/09/07/like-me-no-really-like-me/ patricksplace said @Aisl íngeKelloggdeGómez I'll admit it: it IS extra work staying active (and being useful) on multiple social media networks. In terms of referrals, of the three, Twitter brings me the most traffic. Then Facebook. Then Google+. I avoided Twitter because I saw far too much of the "having eggs for breakfast" tweets that made me wonder who could possibly care. But posting links to useful information (on my blog or elsewhere) and the occasional amusing quote can help you build a following and can, as a bonus, bring people to your site. I like Facebook a lot, and have a lot of contacts there. Many of them are people from school who wouldn't have given me the time of day when we ...

This week, I figured I’d go for a set of questions that would apply to anyone, so I made the topic as simple as I could. It’s all about what’s near you now, as you’re reading this post. I hope you enjoy this set 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. Other than your computer or anything connected to it, what object is closest to you now? The Samsung remote for the DVR/DVD player (I have The Four Seasons on, the movie with Alan Alda and Carol...

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...

As usual, People Magazine has found a couple of interesting books... The first one is Inside Scientology , an exposé on what has to be one of the most screwed up ideas of a "religion" to pass muster in who knows how long. L. Ron Hubbard made up this wacky system and then made tons of money on the nutters who actually believed this stuff! I've read bits and pieces on this and really, I want to read this book, since it (hopefully) fills in the gaps about this weirdness and exposes all the fake information that people buy into (and "buying" is the operative word) in the hopes that the government will finally succeed in shutting this cult down. (It is misleading to call it a religion, since it is not mono- or polytheistic; how can it be a religion without a God or Gods/Goddesses?) The other book that looks interesting is Bed . This is about a man whose brother has taken to his bed two decades ago, has ballooned up to 1,400lbs and won't - or can't - get up. ...

The Twenty-Fiver Meme 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 named Reyna Elena fr...

Welcome to the 375th edition of the Saturday Six ! This week, the topic is about the news. Do you still have a newspaper subscription? Do you watch network news these days? Whether you love it or hate it, I suspect you’ll be able to handle these questions with little difficulty! 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 to 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. Where do you get the majority of your news: from the newspaper, the radio, the television or online? From friends and online -...

I'm watchi ng WarGames , which was made in 1983. I was fifteen when this came out. I saw it in the movies with my parents. When they were watching the video of Dr. Stephen Falken, Jennifer (Ally Sheedy) asked if David (Matthew Broderick) could just write to the doctor. He said he couldn't because the doctor was dead. She said he was young, and David said no, he was old. When Jennifer asked how old he was, David said, "Forty-one." Good gods. I'm forty-three. How did that get to be old?! I always find it incensing when people say, "So-and-so was 72? He was young!" Now, let's not get carried away. The average life span of the male human is still 70. The average life span of the human female is still 77. This is NOT young. And it seems that rather than rising, the number is now beginning to drop. Unsurprisingly, a life of drinking alcohol and soda and eating processed foods is taking its toll on the human race. I'm not saying one has to suddenly thro...

When I first left work, I had this puzzle I was working on. At the time I left, I barely had Spring completed. It was creeping along... Notice my blog has been creeping along and suddenly this month I've posted a month's worth in a mere 14 days? That is a LOT of free time. I've actually had a lot of free time over the last three months, but I haven't really felt good about it. I figured with enough time I would reach the "I feel better about this point" and while I might still kinda get down about it, in general, I would start to feel better. (Wow. What a poorly structured sentence that is...!) Well, I have reached that point. Not that I didn't think I would. I just did not know how long it would take. It feels so much better to be more my sunny self again. Like I said, I may get down about it again, but at least it will be temporary. I suspect I'll feel it more in the winter. I thrive on sunlight. We have the longer days now, so I'm thriving. An...