Good Tuesday morning. Hope all is well.
Everyone enjoy the cold front that moved through Oklahoma last nite? Kinda odd occurrence. Thin line of storms that stretched from the Red River to Kansas City. I took several photos that you can see by clicking on the button next to "get yours" in the previous post. Still not sure why the slideshow isn't working. It started raining very hard not long after I took those photos.
Yesterday's post mentioned the iphone application for the Bic lighter. Today, I learned about another application. The "Pull My Finger" application. Yup, it's what you think it is. Tired of sitting around with your friends and straining to cut the cheese? Strain no more. Download the application and you, too, can pass gas with the best of them using your cellphone. Best part about this is you don't have to worry about accidentally pooping your pants. Make sure you don't use the Freebird cigarette lighter application immediately after using the Pull My Finger application. How could you explain the need to replace your damaged cellphone because you accidentally lit a virtual fart?
"Can I help you, sir?"
"Yes. I need to replace my phone."
"What happened?"
"It exploded."
"What?"
"It exploded after I used the Freebird application after using the Pull My Finger application. I was just standing there and suddenly, KABAM!!! Look, I burned my fingers."
"Sir, your warranty does not cover cellphone damage caused by accidentally igniting virtual methane with a virtual cigarette lighter. You should know better."
wow. Who knew you could break a windshield and light farts with a cellphone?
Have a good one and be careful how you use your cellphone.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Man, we are getting lazy
Good Monday morning. Looks like a beautiful spring day today. Partly cloudy. Some wind. Temperature in the upper 60's. Hard to believe that about 100 miles northwest of Stillwater they had about 2 feet of snow fall on Friday and Saturday. wow.
When was the last time anyone went to a good rock concert? Back in the good ole days, we'd go to a concert and flick a Bic when a great song like Freebird started playing. Now, if you flick a Bic you might get booted from the venue. Open flames are no longer allowed. Just like drinking from the water hose and using a rotary telephone, gone are the days of carrying a Bic lighter into the concert and showing the band your appreciation for a great song by hoisting aloft a tiny flame with hundreds of other fans. Today you must use the artificial light of your cell phone. But, hey! If you want to simulate the tiny flame, the makers of the iphone have a solution. The MyLighter application can be used to show a photo of a Bic lighter on your iphone screen. Yup, a photo of a Bic lighter. It's called the Freebird. Go figger. What will they think of next? Oh, don't like the Bic lighter photo? What about a glowstick? Attending a memorial ceremony? Use a photo of the candle.
Kinda funny thinking about the stuff we used to do for real and now do on computers or our cell phone. We don't go outside and play tennis anymore. But we do play tennis on Wii. Anyone play a real pickup game of baseball lately? Or wiffle ball? Who wants to go outside and breathe in the pollen when we can stay in the house and play Wii? I don't have Wii, but I still have my Nintendo 64 Ken Griffey home run derby game. When was the last time you wrote a letter to a friend or relative? Not for a while I'd bet. Now we have blogs, Facebook, Myspace and email. I tried to write a letter not long ago. My hand cramped up. Not sure if it was arthritis or I was out of shape. Maybe both. Typing is alot easier than printing or writing in cursive. Call anyone lately just to chat? Or did you just send a text message?
How long will it be before we become the fat people in the Wall-E movie? Computers and robots doing everything for us? We just move from place to place in a chair. I don't want to mow the lawn. Let the automated lawn mower do it for me. Heck, why have grass at all? I don't go outside anyway. Eventually, I'll have a patch of artificial grass in my closet that I can pull out when I'm playing my Ken Griffey home run derby game. You know, that patch of grass that spurts the artificial smell of freshly cut grass when I step on the artificial grass with my virtual ballglove to catch the virtual ball hit by the virtual Ken Griffey. I don't want to walk the dog and clean up the poop. I'll get a holographic image of a German Shepherd instead that will chase virtual balls around the virtual backyard. I can virtually throw the balls with a flick of my wrist using my Wii remote. Whew, I'm tired thinking about all that.
I got the fat part taken care of. Where are the robots? Man, I am getting lazy. hee hee.
There are alot of things we used to do that are now performed using an electronic device of some sort. Very interesting to think about how our lives have changed over the last 30 years. Cable television and hundreds of channels available for us to view practically anything today. It wasn't that long ago that we had just a few channels and needed an antenna. The antenna and foil is gone and hi-def signals are all we have. Well, at least in the very near future. Remote controls to channel surf instead of having one of the kids stand in front of the tv and turn the knob. A knob on the tv? "What the heck are you talking about?"
I still drink out of the water hose on occasion. I remember how to dial a rotary phone. Not sure that's useful knowledge, tho. hee hee. Have a good day.
When was the last time anyone went to a good rock concert? Back in the good ole days, we'd go to a concert and flick a Bic when a great song like Freebird started playing. Now, if you flick a Bic you might get booted from the venue. Open flames are no longer allowed. Just like drinking from the water hose and using a rotary telephone, gone are the days of carrying a Bic lighter into the concert and showing the band your appreciation for a great song by hoisting aloft a tiny flame with hundreds of other fans. Today you must use the artificial light of your cell phone. But, hey! If you want to simulate the tiny flame, the makers of the iphone have a solution. The MyLighter application can be used to show a photo of a Bic lighter on your iphone screen. Yup, a photo of a Bic lighter. It's called the Freebird. Go figger. What will they think of next? Oh, don't like the Bic lighter photo? What about a glowstick? Attending a memorial ceremony? Use a photo of the candle.
Kinda funny thinking about the stuff we used to do for real and now do on computers or our cell phone. We don't go outside and play tennis anymore. But we do play tennis on Wii. Anyone play a real pickup game of baseball lately? Or wiffle ball? Who wants to go outside and breathe in the pollen when we can stay in the house and play Wii? I don't have Wii, but I still have my Nintendo 64 Ken Griffey home run derby game. When was the last time you wrote a letter to a friend or relative? Not for a while I'd bet. Now we have blogs, Facebook, Myspace and email. I tried to write a letter not long ago. My hand cramped up. Not sure if it was arthritis or I was out of shape. Maybe both. Typing is alot easier than printing or writing in cursive. Call anyone lately just to chat? Or did you just send a text message?
How long will it be before we become the fat people in the Wall-E movie? Computers and robots doing everything for us? We just move from place to place in a chair. I don't want to mow the lawn. Let the automated lawn mower do it for me. Heck, why have grass at all? I don't go outside anyway. Eventually, I'll have a patch of artificial grass in my closet that I can pull out when I'm playing my Ken Griffey home run derby game. You know, that patch of grass that spurts the artificial smell of freshly cut grass when I step on the artificial grass with my virtual ballglove to catch the virtual ball hit by the virtual Ken Griffey. I don't want to walk the dog and clean up the poop. I'll get a holographic image of a German Shepherd instead that will chase virtual balls around the virtual backyard. I can virtually throw the balls with a flick of my wrist using my Wii remote. Whew, I'm tired thinking about all that.
I got the fat part taken care of. Where are the robots? Man, I am getting lazy. hee hee.
There are alot of things we used to do that are now performed using an electronic device of some sort. Very interesting to think about how our lives have changed over the last 30 years. Cable television and hundreds of channels available for us to view practically anything today. It wasn't that long ago that we had just a few channels and needed an antenna. The antenna and foil is gone and hi-def signals are all we have. Well, at least in the very near future. Remote controls to channel surf instead of having one of the kids stand in front of the tv and turn the knob. A knob on the tv? "What the heck are you talking about?"
I still drink out of the water hose on occasion. I remember how to dial a rotary phone. Not sure that's useful knowledge, tho. hee hee. Have a good day.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
March snow
The link from photobucket does not appear to be working for some reason. You can view the photos by clicking the button at the right of "get yours" and go to the photobucket site.
We did not get the 6 inches predicted. Maybe an inch. It snowed from about 9:30 am til about 3 pm. By sunset, the majority of the snow had melted. It will be completely gone by the end of today. Not even enough for sliding down hills. Although, some kids were trying hard at the detention pond a block south of the house.
Apparently the snow fell heavily west, north and east of us. About 2 feet northwest of us and about a foot not far north. Heard that Tulsa got several inches.
Have a good Sunday.
We did not get the 6 inches predicted. Maybe an inch. It snowed from about 9:30 am til about 3 pm. By sunset, the majority of the snow had melted. It will be completely gone by the end of today. Not even enough for sliding down hills. Although, some kids were trying hard at the detention pond a block south of the house.
Apparently the snow fell heavily west, north and east of us. About 2 feet northwest of us and about a foot not far north. Heard that Tulsa got several inches.
Have a good Sunday.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Prairie Fire
Last nite on the way home from OKC, we were about half way between Guthrie and the Highway 51 exit off of I-35. For those of you familiar with the drive from OKC to Stillwater along I-35, we could see smoke and flames as we crested a hill just south of the Cimarron River bridge. At that point, we were approximately 10 miles from Highway 51 and about 12 miles from the fires. After we got off of I-35 onto Highway 51, we stopped near a restaurant near the exit and took several photos which are in the slideshow in the previous post. The flames were huge. The photos do not do the blazes justice at all. At that point, we were not sure how far east and south the fire was located. As it turns out, the fire was about 2 miles east and 1-1/2 miles south of where we were taking photos. We drove two miles east and then south along the county road to the fire. Apparently, someone started burning brush piles and the flames spread west and south from near the house and barns in the fourth photo. The last photo shows a flaming brush pile and flames in the background. The fire appeared to have spread about a mile west and south of the house. Most of the big blazes were caused by burning cedar trees. Amazing stuff.
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