heh

Been reading a lot of eBooks… maybe too many

Why would I say “maybe too many”?

Let me set the scene. Of the computers here, I have this one, the one I do most of my surfing, blogging, etc., on, set up as a kinda “cocoon.” Comfy chair, wireless keyboard, three different pointing devices (cuts down on carpal tunnel, suited to different uses, etc.), one on a lil side table at just the right height to serve as an extended arm rest when I’m semi-reclining in the chair.

OK, I’m sitting, reading a book book (you know, one of those strange things on paper? :-), letting a Beethoven violin concerto kinda wash over me and I reach the bottom of a page. I find myself momentarily flummoxed when the scroll wheel on the mouse my hands resting on doesn’t “turn the page”/scroll further down…

heh

Had to actually turn the darn page… physically!

“To fallen soldiers let us sing… “

We bid farewell to a great man a year ago…

And I have little doubt Ronald Reagan would have deferred the title “fallen soldier” (warning: wav file– download or stream) as belonging rather to those who fell on the field of battle in military service, but he served his country with honor and distinction—most honorably in the face of great opposition as President Ronald Reagan. His faithful and vigorous prosecution of the “70 Years War” with communism’s Evil Empire (for longer than the mere eight year term of his presidency), his humility, kindness and generosity of spirit: all these and more made him arguably one of the greatest, if not the greatest, American president of the 20th Century.
See the tributes at Cao’s Blog, Cathouse Chat and the links they provide for more fitting tributes to the life and service of this great man. But the greatest tribute we can bring in the face of such a life testimony is to continue to fight the good fight for freedom.

What Napoleon Dynamite Character are you?

Found over at Blonde Sagacity

Napoleon
You are Napoleon Dyanamite and a buttload of gangs
are trying to recruit you.

Which Napoleon Dynamite character are you?
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Funny thing… when our daughter brought this quirky movie for us to view with her during one of her all-too-infrequent visits (Aside to Wonderful Daughter: yeh, I know you visit as often as you can and that it’ll necessarily become less frequent as time goes on. That’s life!), I watched it with a growing sense of dejà vu. heh. Nah, apart from the fact *cough* that my autobiography of high school life in the 60s was used as a basis for the film…*cough* I really wasn’t as ‘cool” as Napoleon. I was much less visible, apart from band, chess club and science seminar. And I attended high school in a semi-major metropolitan area, etc. Lotsa differences, but still… yeh, there are similarities—perhaps moreso with the person I am now than then, even. 🙂