help with a wee one...

i wasn't sure there were any good samaritans anymore. i mean, i know oklahoma has good people, but this guy was just traveling through. pretty amazing and heartwarming.

senior humor

so have you checked out the blog called 'geezer planet'? it's got some pretty funny things in it. go here, and if the first thing isn't the old guy picking up the computer, you'll have to look through a whole bunch of  posts to find it. but don't worry ... you'll be laughin'.

very popular personage

have you seen this drunk make-up tutorial? the first time i watched it with the sound off. i laughed quite a bit. the second time i watched it with the sound on. i didn't laugh so much. weird. this gal has 3 million viewers and i have to say it must be a generation thing. i watched several of her videos (boys in the bathroom, girls in the bathroom, getting ready for a date)  to see what it was about -- wow. i'm out of touch. some of them were funny but in a VERY unacceptable-to-my-generation way. like i said, out of touch.

many ways to touch someone

if someone you know and care for is in a nursing home and but a shell of their former self, expose them to music and see if it helps them want to be part of the world again. touching video. thanks, husband.

a flaw in the system

okay wait. so this one sleezy mother kills her twin daughters and she's probably going to end up in jail for life. and then this sleezy dad beats his 6-month old baby and renders his blind and brain damaged and he gets eight years.

just what kind of justice is this? yes the mother should be put away for killing the babies. but the father should be castrated at the least. eight years is absolutely no punishment for the horror of what he did to that kid. it's beyond disgusting.

too late for her

i will be simply amazed if this child grows up to be a productive member of society. she is clearly spoiled and probably demented if she's gone this long without discipline or direction. my guess is that she will commit some crime and end up in jail, or become a tough guy's mol and end up being killed. so be it as long as she doesn't come in contact with me and mine.

the midwest rocks!!!

i LOVE stuff like this -- it is so totally and wonderfully American!

faces

this is interesting, but i think the thing i like most about it is the music.

this shot is actually a little more interesting -- going up instead of down.

chalk drawings

you know those street chalk-drawings that are always so cool? well, check this out. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061268/Artist-draws-Chinas-terracotta-army-chalk-street-art-LEGO-men.html i mean, you can see it happening.

the thing you probably cannot see quite as well is the proportions they use. for example, the first picture is the whole. the second one is the history. the third one is the drawing before the coloring.

now, look closely. the corner closest to you is the corner farthest away in the completed drawing. it's the flip (top-to-bottom) of picture four. the little guy on the horse in number four, is the pink elongated sketch in picture three.

the perspective is amazing and probably only good from a very narrow viewpoint.

oh hell i'm going to drown....

this little ole' lady is a kick! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061452/Mary-Lee-Fine-86-drives-car-swimming-pool.html

reminds me of my oklahoma relatives' attitudes! cool!

and this is ....

i love this picture! and the others are pretty darned good! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2059670/Kate-Middleton-mouse-Johnny-Depp-cat-new-Famous-Faces-book.html

you're going after the wrong guy

i really have never understood the idea of punishing those who've been abused, when they strike out at their abuser. the people who think that's the right way to handle things have never been beaten or severely punished or emotionally deprived, and i'd like to see if they'd still feel that way after suffering, themselves, a period of unexpected, unrelenting abuse. like this kid -- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2058700/Did-snap-Star-student-university-standout-accused-beating-stabbing-mother-death-years-abuse.html -- it's just not right.

eight years earlier...

the husband discovered this cover when he was looking through a box which had been stored away. notice the date? prophetic, isn't it?!

off, off, and away

wow -- if speed is your thing, you should probably watch this video. this guy rushes along in the sky at about 120 mph. it's interesting to watch, but when he flies by the guy on the ground, you get a better idea of how fast he's going. faster than i'd want to go. i mean ... mistake? splat!

summer fun

so ... you like taking pictures? or, rather, posing for pictures? leisure diving provides a whole new experience.

twirly, twirly

the husband is absolutely not a fan of beards or mustaches. there are a lot of beards around which i think are unimpressive, but sometimes i see one which looks good.

mustaches can be right (my dad, mr. poirot) or they can be dumb.

this slide presentation shows mustaches and beards which ... well, you'll have to look and see what you think of them. for me, some of them are right. and some of them .....

these drugs don't make you look better

do you know anyone who needs to be warned away from drugs? the multnomah county, oregon sheriff's department has made a new documentary which they're hoping will make an impressions on kids. and believe me, it's yuck. i am soooooooo glad i never wanted to get in on the drug scene. take a look, but not while you eat.

i'm going to do what i want and the heck with everyone else

have you noticed, lately, how many people are rude or downright nasty? when everyone gets tired of being cut out of line, or taken advantage of, or getting a ticket while others whiz on by, then it's really going to get bad.

honestly, whatever happened to decency and goodness and courtesy? there's a lot more of that kind of thing in the midwest (north dakota south to texas and a state or two on either side) than there is in the pacific northwest or the east and southeast.

but the latest thing that caught my eye was ms. huffington who talked on her cell phone the whole time she was on the plane -- takeoff, flight, landing. what about the rules? i, for one, am really sick of people who just decide they don't have to obey the rules. one person gets away with it, and then another, then the whole domino thing happens. and if anyone objects, he is vilified and reviled! all this 'me, me, and only me' is going to bring this country down. damn.

at least the vote showed that most people didn't approve of her display. that's reassuring.

peek-a-boo ...

i know i just posted about makeovers, but really, this site shows how much difference makeup can potentially make. they've got one gal on there twice with completely different looks (i didn't even realize it the first time through!) -- the biggest problem, though, is that SOMEtime the makeup has to come off. so i mainly think of it as deception. i mean, you can't hide forever ....

clever old guy

the husband has a friend who's dying. he's lived a full life -- teacher and priest, among other things. he's never married but has been active in whatever community he's lived in and is well-read and well-spoken.

the husband enjoys speaking with this man and, since he's 84 or so, enjoys listening to him talk about various things. he has a wry sense of humor.

he hadn't been feeling well and was determined to keep out of hospitals, so he hadn't been crazy about seeing the doctor. he finally had the husband take him and found out his kidneys are failing. since the dr. knew he wasn't having any part of any type of medical care, he advised him to go home and reach out to hospice to get the process started.

he's been pretty comfortable with hospice, but a little curious about the questions they asked him when they first came out. he figured they were trying to find out if he was gay. they asked about him never having been married and finally he said, "I know I'm not gay. I know I'm straight, but I've never had a woman interested in me. So I guess I'm kinda in between straight and gay. I'm stray." ...wry sense of humor.