Zoo Day
Today we are headed to the Stone Zoo in Massachusetts for fun with all three Granddaughters!!! :-)
Sunday, September 08, 2013
Today we are headed to the Stone Zoo in Massachusetts for fun with all three Granddaughters!!! :-)
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Zounds! And don't hitch your giraffe to a power pole...
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"...the smaller they are, the more deadly they are."
DeleteNapoleon complex, eh?
An excerpt from the West Virginia Blue Book, then run through a text randomizer, then through a virtual electromechanical cipher machine (in this case an Enigma machine): (oops--have to truncate it a bit--but you get the idea)
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The Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly is West Virginia’s and the nation’s oldest central labor organization. It was founded in Aetnaville, Ohio, in 1882, and since 1885 its offices have been in Wheeling. At the peak of its influence, 1890–1920, the assembly consisted of more than 40 locals and almost 40 percent of the state’s union members.
Throughout much of its history, the assembly sanctioned strikes and conducted boycotts and arbitrations. It fathered the state’s first workers compensation bill (1913) and influenced Wheeling city leaders to construct the municipality’s first water filtration plant. The assembly promoted equal pay for men and women, women’s suffrage, the eight-hour workday, immigration
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Donation site, via Jon Stewart:
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--alan
New Stonehenge discoveries. [Click]
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Much hotter today than predicted. Can live without the heat, thank you very much. Likely the Norwegian blood protesting.
ReplyDeleteLate this afternoon we noticed it was smoky outside; evidently it's from the Rim fire, up near Yosemite. It's largely under control, but the wind changed.
ReplyDeleteAt the request of Miyoko's youngest aunt we set out some Princess grapes to make raisins--it's interesting that although they were much bigger than the Thompson Seedless grapes, they turned into raisins faster. HUGE raisins…
I was going to watch a movie tonight--Suspicion, by Alfred Hitchcock, with Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine (1941); but other things intervened, and there isn't time. I will be getting up at 5:30 AM so I can be on the road at 6:30 for the court martial at Lemoore Naval Air Station. (I've never been on that base before, and will have to get a pass, so I need to allow some extra time.) On the way back home I will swing by the lab and give them a couple hours' work.
Got our Canada trip itinerary about half updated. The airline changed our schedule so we have to leave earlier. We also had to arrange a different B&B at one place along the way, but I eliminated a half day at the Ontario Archive (I could get what I needed from there free for the asking), and we pruned away some alternatives.
--Alan
The Two Bums
ReplyDeleteThe bum on the rods is hunted down as an enemy of mankind
The other is driven around to his club, is feted, wined and dined.
And they who curse the bum on the rods as the essence of all that's bad Will greet the other with a willing smile and extend a hand so glad.
The bum on the rods is a social flea who gets an occasional bite
The bum on the plush is a social leech, bloodsucking day and night.
The bum on the rods is a load so light that his weight we scarcely feel
But it takes the labour of dozens of folks to furnish the other a meal.
As long as we sanction the bum on the plush the other will always be there
But rid ourselves of the bum on the plush and the other will disappear.
Then make an intelligent organised kick get rid of the weights that crush Don’t worry about the bum on the rods get rid of the bum on the plush.
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Notes
Utah Phillips writes "This is a poem from George Milburn's book, The Hobo's Hornbook. ...you hear over and over again, "Nobody ought to get something for nothing." I've got to agree. You've got to work to eat. I look at a factory. I see that everybody associated with that factory puts something in and they take something out. The workers put in their sweat and their skill, and they take out wages. The salesmen put in their skill and ability, and they take out commissions. The managers and foremen and people in the offices put in theirs, and take out salaries. But there's one group of people who take out more than they put in, and that more is called profit. I can't think of any other way to define it. That's a bunch of people who are getting something they didn't work for, and it's a whole lot. If we're really concerned about people getting just what they earn, if we're really concerned about people not getting something that they didn't put in time and sweat for, let's start with the major offenders, and get rid of them. Then we'll gradually work our way down to the petty chiselers. It just makes sense."
--Alan
And they who curse the bum on the rods as the essence of all that's bad Will greet the other with a willing smile and extend a hand so glad.
Deleteshould read
And they who curse the bum on the rods as the essence of all that's bad
Will greet the other with a willing smile and extend a hand so glad.
But you knew that...
--Alan
Great poem and associated observation, Alan. May I snitch them to post on my Facebook page?
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