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Archive for March 2009
I’d like to wish ya’ll a…
March 17, 2009 by Hawk.
Hawk (Irish but not drinking, well, maybe a beer…)
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My Car Stereo Un-healed… :(
March 11, 2009 by Hawk.
Well, I guess it was too good to last… too good to be true. Went to the store the other night to stock up again on soda. Radio played the hard-rock station I’d previously mentioned being quite happy at finding. On the way home I stopped off and ran my car through the quicky budget car-wash and drove home. Got a call from the library yesterday that one of the books I’d requested had arrived. Hopped in the car, backed out of the driveway, turned the radio on… static… I hit the seek button. There’s a long pause. Once again I’m listening to the area’s ‘Lite Rock’ vomit station. I checked a couple times. It’s the only station I can get, again. All the stations I found just a few days ago are missing…
I am sad.
Hawk (hates ‘Lite Rock’!)
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What’s IN that?!
March 9, 2009 by Hawk.
The other day, when we were still experiencing some mildly chilly weather for Florida, there were several birds flitting about the bushes out in front of our house. They were no bigger than my thumb and absolutely adorable. I decided to contribute to their diet and proceeded to tear up several slices of Pepperidge Farm Soft Oatmeal Bread and scatter it around the bushes and lawn outside out large kitchen window…
NOTHING ate it!
For three days every piece that I’d thrown into the yard sat exactly where it fell. Birds hopped past them. Lizards scrambled over them. Ants flipped me off for blocking their paths. Three days all that bread sat there untouched and I began to wonder. If nature won’t touch this stuff at all, if the birds and bees disdained my foodly offering… WHAT is in this bread? Is it doing me serious harm? Am I being mutated into some genetic slave beast by Pepperidge Farm? Why would nothing eat their bread?!
Finally, in the dark of night as if embarrassed to be caught eating Pepperidge Farm Soft Oatmeal Bread every single piece disappeared. Something ate it, all of it but only after it sat out in the yard for days! Now we’ve got two mysteries, why wouldn’t the critters eat it and what DID? Maybe it was a van load of ‘cleaners’ from Pepperidge Farm! MAYBE it was Mr. Wolf himself*!
Hawk (bread zombie… “Loafsssssss, baaaaaaaaagelssssss”)
* Give yourself two points for getting the movie reference.
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Your Baby Can Read!
March 2, 2009 by Hawk.
Or so claims the infomercial I saw about a dozen times over the last few nights. The question this brings to mind is ‘Does he or she really NEED to?!’ I realize there are some people who just have to have the brightest kid at Mommy & Me but seriously, potty train them first. All over the place kids are being forced to learn, LEARN, LEARN! Leapfrog toys are nothing but veiled teaching tools masquerading as video games.
I learned to read the old fashioned way. Mom and dad taught me the basics, Kindergarten got me rolling on my ABCs and by the time I hit 6th Grade I was reading on a college level. By the time I hit 8th Grade in Junior High I’d read the entire High School reading list and no one had me playing word recognition games while I was still in diapers. I was a kid and allowed to BE a kid. Let your kids be kids people, They’ll be grown up soon enough.
Hawk (product of the 60’s)
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Random Album Cover Generator
March 1, 2009 by Hawk.
I rarely jump on bandwagons but this one was fun:
CREATE YOUR BAND NAME & ALBUM COVER:
To Do This:
1 - Go to Wikipedia. Hit “random”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to Quotations Page and select “random quotations”
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote on the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 - Use Photoshop or similar to put it all together.
5 - Post it to FB, your blog, whatever/wherever and encourage your friends to create their own cover art.
Hawk (rock on!)
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