Happy Anniversary..........................

David Kanigan has been blogging for a year now and the
Intertunnel is all the richer for it.   Do visit his blog regularly.

1963................................

The Village Stompers.............................Washington Square

Too right.....................

An important job, no doubt............

Eat like a man.....................?

Esquire not only posts a cool color map showing fast food restaurants across the U. S. of A., but they also show their bias.  Full post is here.   Bias is here:

"Oddly enough, the states where McDonald's and Burger King don't exactly saturate the market are also associated with higher obesity rates."

No surprise that McDonald's dominates.  What we might forget is the regional dominance of other chains.  One may quibble that Waffle House, without a drive-thru, is not fast food (although if you put a stop watch to a meal there, it's pretty fast), but I'm pretty sure they dominate the South.  Only a third of their restaurants show up on this map. Never had a bad Waffle House experience.

thanks craig

Not the originals.....................

.......but still, fun with dueling.............................

Call it a niche.......................

Our long-suffering daughter..............

.......has a stone-aged cell phone that only works when it feels like it.  She shares her stress with us. Smart move on her part.  We are off to the Apple Emporium this weekend to invest in one of their new (but not the newest) phones.  Be looking for one with an app like this:

A pretty good place to start.............

Who's he calling old.................?

Neil Young................................................Old Man

Maybe our science would be better................

......if scientists drank less coffee.  Scientists top the list of the fifteen professions that drink the most coffee.  Can that possibly be true?   Full post, plus Top 15 list, is here.  Excerpt is here:

"In no way is all of this to say that other professions do not beget similar (if not identical) negative side effects as science; you'll find workaholics in every field of employment on Earth. Nor is it to say that this list of coffee-dependent professions (the results of a small survey, conducted by Dunkin' Donuts, I remind you) corresponds to America's fifteen most demanding jobs. It is merely to say that the correlation between coffee consumption and scientists' tendency to overwork is striking, if not entirely surprising, and reflects a tendency within the scientific community to work oneself to the caffeine-addled bone"

Put that way, I almost feel sorry for them.  Way back in 1977, when I was first licensed to sell real estate by the State of Ohio, sales training seemed mostly theoretical.  I was assigned a mentor who would "show me the ropes."  His favorite method of prospecting for business was to visit about four different coffee shops/eateries/diners per day.  Invariably, while having a cup, or two, of coffee, he would see someone he knew.  A conversation would ensue that inevitably turned towards real estate.  I think he got most of his sales leads -and he was a pretty successful guy - out of those conversations.  After about four days, I figured out I couldn't drink that much coffee. Set my career way back.

Hate it when that happens.................

"I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher;  but I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in."
-Oliver Edwards


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Rules...............................

"Academism results when the reasons for the rule change, but not the rule."
-Igor Stravinsky  (attributed)

image courtesy of these delightful folks

My favorite catalogue arrived in the mail.......

"Would you be shocked if I changed into something more comfortable?
-Jean Harlow

     Said he would be back in a minute.
     Which gives you enough time to change into something that will set the mood.  Fire is blazing in more ways than one.
     More decolletage? Or less?
     Can be arranged.
     What if it, accidentally, opens here?
     Or tied like this?
     You'll give him five more minutes and then text him.
     How long does it take to find a bottle of Louis Roederer Cristal Brut 2002, and a crudites platter with a dip made from a fat-free mixture of yogurt and cottage cheese?
     Vintage Tea Length Nightgown (No. 2801), with lace-trimmed long sleeves.  Lace and fabric rose trim below bodice, continues on hem and front seams.  Eyelets, nylon chiffon rosebuds, and ribbons all strategically placed.  Contrasting fabric ties.  It slips off as easily as it goes on.  100% cotton.


J. Peterman's philosophy includes the phrase, "I think that giant corporations should start asking themselves if the things they make are really, I mean really, better than ordinary."
J. Peterman's catalogue is way better than ordinary.

Worth remembering........................

“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.” 
-William Ralph Inge


Ed. Note:  Yes, the picture doesn't match the quote; but you have to admit they posted a pretty cool picture

More fun with the language....................

Mental_Floss offers a quiz on ten of the lesser forms of punctuation - here.  I was very pleased by my score of 70%.  Not bragging, mind you, just a bunch of good guesses.  After taking the quiz, the McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader was consulted.  Lesser forms indeed.  McGuffey only listed two of the ten (got those right by the way).  Enjoy.

Voted yesterday.................

Took advantage of Ohio's month-long open season........

I'm a Phillies fan.........................

.............which means that most of the baseball season passed by with little notice from me.  There are times, however, when great achievement must be noted and applauded.  This is one of those times.  The Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera won the Triple Crown, leading the league in home runs, runs batted in, and batting average.   The last time the feat was accomplished was in 1967 (Carl Yastrzemski).  As friend Rob would say, "Hail!"

Gold in them hills.................

Marshall Tucker............................Fire on the Mountain

Fixing up....................

My Sweetie and I are hunting for our first house to buy together.  We found a "keeper" that needs a bit of fixing up.  So it was with great interest that I read the Furniture Guy's recent post on "people and their houses."  Full post here.  Rant about "maintenance free" renovation here:

"Everyone searches for a free lunch. But there is no free lunch in a house. Only a direction. Or, more to the point, there are only two directions, better or worse. You are never at rest. Most everything I see touted for installation in a house touts as its prime characteristic that it never need maintenance. That's the "tell." If you ever see the term "never needs maintenance" again, substitute the word "disposable," because that's what it is. It never needs maintenance right up until you throw it away in an angry fit, 100 years before things that need maintenance are getting warmed up."