Home for Random Thoughts

[oldr_n_wsr]

don t ever fabricate cab supports and floor pans for a rusted out pick up out of stainless steel without the facilities to weld stainless steel.

it s hard

Wood is your friend.

[wesw]

you know you are getting old when you are glad you didn t get snow....

[oldr_n_wsr]

Then I am very young.
I love snow. I love snowdays. I love shoveling and riding the tractor plowing out the driveway (although that is now impossible, something seriously worng with the engine). I'll love my new snowblower as soon as I get it.

More snow I say.

[wesw]

yeah, I love snow too.

pain takes its toll tho. it makes you avoid even the things you love after a while.

[Joe Guy]

One of the most depressing things about searching the internet is that if I do a search on one of my own original thoughts, many times I will find someone else already had that thought.

That's bad enough, but even worse, that makes me wonder if any thought that I've ever had that I thought was original might actually be my subconscious mind remembering something that someone else said.

If I think too much, it sometimes makes me think that I am not myself. I am only a collection of thoughts that have been had by others.

Is that what is meant by being unique just like everyone else? And who was the first to say that? Someone who was repeating what someone else said?

How could that be?

Where did all thoughts begin?

Someone else surely has had these questions before I did.

I'm not going to check Google on this one...

[MajGenl.Meade]

I did - and you are wrong! Only you're not the first...

[Lord Jim]

There is no new thing under the sun...

That thought is original with me...

[oldr_n_wsr]

More snow, on top of ice.
ho hum
It will be a long ride home.
I got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and I'm wearing sunglasses

[MajGenl.Meade]

Why can't I remember if I posted a similar version of this random thought some months ago?

[Crackpot]

A pox on those who were so panicked about getting this change going that I had to work Saturday but are nowhere to be found when they have to make a call about how to proceed.

[MajGenl.Meade]

May all your camels prosper

[Guinevere]

The chef in the café at my office makes the most insanely good Puerto Rican food, and his roasted plantains are to die for!

[oldr_n_wsr]

I haven't had a roasted plantain since I worked in Bed Sty Brooklyn back in the late 70's/early 80's.

[wesw]

when you shovel your sidewalk like a good citizen, your neighbor will invariably decide to move her car off the street in front of your house, thus allowing the snow plough to re-cover the side walk with 5 times more snow than you previously shoveled, and it will all be heavy wet snow

[Econoline]

Why is it that whenever a news story wants to convey someone's wealth or lavish, extravagant lifestyle, they always include "flat-screen televisions"????? Aren't ALL the new televisions sold today "flat-screen"? Aren't the only CRT televisions still around owned by very old people (like my 92-year-old mother) who have owned the same TV for decades?

[MajGenl.Meade]

Haven't we seen that before in a more curved and smaller format?

[BoSoxGal]

Why is it that whenever a news story wants to convey someone's wealth or lavish, extravagant lifestyle, they always include "flat-screen televisions"????? Aren't ALL the new televisions sold today "flat-screen"? Aren't the only CRT televisions still around owned by very old people (like my 92-year-old mother) who have owned the same TV for decades?

Yes, and many are very cheap these days. Hardly evidence of an extravagant lifestyle.

[Crackpot]

But they are still the most visible example of "the latest luxury". And perhaps more to the point it is something that (until recently) cost prohibitive

[oldr_n_wsr]

When did the word "hack" become shorthand for "tricks of the trade" or "easier way to do things".
I was flipping through the channels and came upon a show "hack my life" and they were showing people "hacks" for doing normal things easier or better.

They showed how to tap the top of a soda can before opening it in case it was shook up it wouldn't spew all over you.
Also how if you hold your cars remote unlock to your chin it will increase it's signal (working) distance.
They called them "hacks", I call them "neat tricks"

[Econoline]

oldr - remember "Heloise" and her "hints"?

ETA: OMG, apparently that column's still around!