How did they get in my brain? Blue Jays Dreams of 2014
Monthly Archives: April 2014
The Floating Luxuriating Machine
Here’s Gill with a few more notes from her vacation. I need to go on a trip like this someday. Sit Back And Relax After visiting the islands we would come back and head up to the ninth deck where there was three pools. One had a huge water slide, the others did not. One …
You Sound A Lot Like Me
This is pretty freakin cool. A company called VocaliD has developed a system to create more natural sounding synthetic voices for people suffering from severe vocal impairments so that they’ll no longer have to sound like a very limited selection of computers. Using the voices of people who can speak normally, a recording studio and …
Take Me Out To The First Ball Game
If you like baseball, history or both, you’ll probably enjoy this long but worth it piece from Mental Floss. Remembering the First Opening Day at Four Iconic Ballparks It looks at the beginnings of Fenway Park, Ebbets Field (the most famous home of the Brooklyn Dodgers), Weeghman Park (now Wrigley Field) and the old Yankee …
Island Hopping Part 1
Gill just got back from what sounds like a pretty sweet vacation apparently having learned a thing or 12 and wanting to tell us all about it. Today my friends, as I haven’t quite gotten back to my version of normal I am going to share with you little histories and cool factors about the …
There’s One Less Banjo In The Duel
Hey, Brother Brad. It’s time to really get on our sister to let you do your banjo thing at her wedding. Tell her that if she won’t do it simply for the sake of your happiness, she should do it for the memory of Arthur Smith, the fellow who wrote Dueling Banjos. He died last …
I Wish I Could Say Nay Nay
It sucks when literally the first thing you hear upon waking up in the morning is crappy news. Well, I guess if we’re being technical the first thing I heard this morning was some guy on Coast to Coast going on and on about the ability of turmeric to shrink cancer cells, but I fell …
It’s Our First Tansiversary!
Har har that was corny. It’s April 6, a day that became special last year. Why? Because it’s Tans and my graduation day. On that day, we officially became a team, and the next day, we came home together. So, Tans has officially lived through a year of my crazy life…and still appears to be …
No Sir, The Announcement Said Children Flying Alone Can Get Help On The Plane, Not Help You Get Off On The Plane
Ok seriously now, what’s the deal with guys groping women on planes? Is it some sort of perceived vulnerability thing? A sense that your victim can’t get away and that fuck it, they can’t arrest me in the sky so I might as well go for it? Whatever the reason it seems like it happens …
What Do They Call The Yoga Pose Where You Rant, Rave, Juggle Your Dice And Throw Dead Animals At Cars?
I’m not sure alcohol is it, but I’m willing to bet some substance or other was a factor in the case of Bill Kachle here. Bill Kachle, 68, was arrested last month after Jared Tyng, a United States Park Police officer, responded to a complaint about a “disorderly male subject” along the Mount Vernon Trail …