Last night it was a shrimp ring and beer that put me to bed ( Read more... )

If you've never heard of Leo Kottke, you are missing out:

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"I'm the guy who didn't marry
pretty Pamela Brown
Well mannered, well intentioned
good girl in our town;
I wonder where I'd be if she had loved me too,
Probably be driving kids to school."

Out my window this morning:


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Applies to bugletrik , jinxxed , and stillbourne  in particular... we all have August birthdays!

(In drunken party voice:  Happy Birt-Day to US!)

Damn, I'm almost as good as Lee Marvin.   Look the part too...  short a few inches.

Had a strange dream the other night... that Source Telecomputing hired me back, 'cept this time we were all having a good time.

Got arrested on a bogus "warrant" upon return from Thailand, adding "jail-lag" to "Jet-lag" to my tale of woes... Detective Whacker-the-clown claimed he had a warrant from Florida... I was released after 6 days after insisting upon seeing a lawyer.   Wonder how many people "disappear" from Calif. Jails this way ( Read more... )

Excuse me while I get wrecked...

"Isle des Cendres" off the coast of Vietnam has only been in existence since the undersea volcano erupted in 1923, it is now a rocky, volcanic island overgrown with vegetation.   I was there for 10 days of living on rock oysters, snails and bananas until I flagged down a passing Vietnamese fishing vessel.

Recovering ( Read more... )

Survived the crash landing, but broke a rib...

Here I am taking refuge in a Boulder Cave on an Uncharted Island in the Pacific.

This video I took three days ago loses quite a bit in the 'webification' of it ; the bird motions aren't as clear but you can still get the basic idea.

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"It's ok to eat fish because they haven't any fe-ee-lings ( Read more... )

Bernie said it would work, but I didn't believe it ( Read more... )

As popularized in "Pirates of the Caribbean", but known to have been sung long before ( Read more... )

In need of transport, you find a taxi driver who will ferry you about for the sum of $1 per mile ( Read more... )

Trying to figure out what Rudolph Valentino has to do with anything.

Ah, l'amour, I am such a cripple in this respect.

Question yesterday was about Christian Doppler.

The Wikipedia Education, is it better than College?