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Two pictures of my femur:
Bert Higginbotha , scientist, mayor, railroad baron: a man barely alive
Gentlemen we can rebuild him
We have the technology
We have the capability to make the worlds first bionic man
Bert Higginbotha will be that man
Better than he was before
Better, Stronger, Faster
Congratulations and best wishes.
OUCH?I have an artificial right knee. My left leg is 2" shorter than the right because I broke my femur. I walk like Walter Brennan on steroids.
I am a cripple.
Two pictures of my femur:
Good Morning D
Woke up a little early today so I have more relaxing time. Still dark out here but I’m sitting on my front porch enjoying a cup of coffee and reveling in the quiet.
Been a good week so far. I would have been happy no matter what my daughter was having as long as baby was healthy. But have to admit I’m pretty tickled it’s a boy. I can’t wait to meet him and his little girl cousin later this year.
Hope everyone has a good day
Woke up a little early today so I have more relaxing time. Still dark out here but I’m sitting on my front porch enjoying a cup of coffee and reveling in the quiet.
Been a good week so far. I would have been happy no matter what my daughter was having as long as baby was healthy. But have to admit I’m pretty tickled it’s a boy. I can’t wait to meet him and his little girl cousin later this year.
Hope everyone has a good day
Good morning from ATX. Currently 78°F. Expecting another +100°F day.
It's early. Bah.
Good job, Bev.
Y'all behave.
It's early. Bah.
Good job, Bev.
Y'all behave.
Good Morning D
Good morning D League
I trust all have a great day. There is no doubt we are in the middle of our summer weather. It is 75° now and we will be 92° by the afternoon. The sun is brutal if you don't have on a straw hat. Listening to the man on the radio and he is giving out warnings. Do your outdoor work early then cool off in a body of water or just sit down in the shade of the live oak trees. Good advice to wake up to and necessary because so many vacationers don't understand what a Southern sun can do to you. Like fry your brain.
Coffee is good, strong and bold. My wife does not like strong coffee like I make it so she makes her own pot. Flavored with this and that added to it. I just like coffee. She will be headed over to see our daughter today and stay a couple of days so they can get in some shopping. I don't shop so I turn that over to them.
Take care .
I trust all have a great day. There is no doubt we are in the middle of our summer weather. It is 75° now and we will be 92° by the afternoon. The sun is brutal if you don't have on a straw hat. Listening to the man on the radio and he is giving out warnings. Do your outdoor work early then cool off in a body of water or just sit down in the shade of the live oak trees. Good advice to wake up to and necessary because so many vacationers don't understand what a Southern sun can do to you. Like fry your brain.
Coffee is good, strong and bold. My wife does not like strong coffee like I make it so she makes her own pot. Flavored with this and that added to it. I just like coffee. She will be headed over to see our daughter today and stay a couple of days so they can get in some shopping. I don't shop so I turn that over to them.
Take care .
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Morning all.
Going to work shortly and have a half day scheduled. Our office closes at noon on Wednesdays for training. Today is to be team building day so, the boss is taking us to the local lake and we will be getting on her party barge for some team morale building exercises. Alcohol optional, fishing mandatory (well, for me anyways). Fishing report to follow.
Going to work shortly and have a half day scheduled. Our office closes at noon on Wednesdays for training. Today is to be team building day so, the boss is taking us to the local lake and we will be getting on her party barge for some team morale building exercises. Alcohol optional, fishing mandatory (well, for me anyways). Fishing report to follow.
Morning D. Greetings from the shanty.
More coffee...............................................
More coffee...............................................
Good morning D-League.
And congratulations to Beverly on finding out she's having a grandson. As I'm sure many on here can, or have, attested, there is nothing like being a grandparent, especially for the first time. It happened to be four years back.
It is blazing and humid in DC today. But some interesting days ahead as the city goes all-out to celebrate the Moon Walk plus 50.
I went by last night and saw the Saturn 5 rocket projected on the Washington Monument. This video clip is cool but it's one of those things that the scale escapes you til you see it in person. (you may have to click once more to follow the link to Youtube so they can get their ad revenue.) When you see this thing, and imagine the roaring explosions it took to get it off the ground, you realize the level of courage it took just to sit atop it.
We all have our stories from the day of the moon landing. Mine is very ordinary, and I'm sure there'll be a thread to share them on that day. But it is hard to believe 50 years - the span from boy to old man - has passed. I hope it's a good one for all.
And congratulations to Beverly on finding out she's having a grandson. As I'm sure many on here can, or have, attested, there is nothing like being a grandparent, especially for the first time. It happened to be four years back.
It is blazing and humid in DC today. But some interesting days ahead as the city goes all-out to celebrate the Moon Walk plus 50.
I went by last night and saw the Saturn 5 rocket projected on the Washington Monument. This video clip is cool but it's one of those things that the scale escapes you til you see it in person. (you may have to click once more to follow the link to Youtube so they can get their ad revenue.) When you see this thing, and imagine the roaring explosions it took to get it off the ground, you realize the level of courage it took just to sit atop it.
We all have our stories from the day of the moon landing. Mine is very ordinary, and I'm sure there'll be a thread to share them on that day. But it is hard to believe 50 years - the span from boy to old man - has passed. I hope it's a good one for all.
Congrats BKO. Name him Robert, with an emphasis on the last four letters.
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It is 74.5°F and raining. A nice slow rain, so far .38".
I got the yard mowed and edged, yesterday. It ended up being a two shower day again.
Sherry and I went off our diet and had pork chops with gravy and mashed taters. I porked out (pardon the pun).
I got the yard mowed and edged, yesterday. It ended up being a two shower day again.
Sherry and I went off our diet and had pork chops with gravy and mashed taters. I porked out (pardon the pun).
Philosopher: A blind man who walks into a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there - and he finds it.
No one has much of a clue of how many people died as a result of WW2. I've seen estimates from 60 to 100 million. And Russia, by far, bore the heaviest burden in loss of lives. Hitler's goal was not just to defeat Russia but to annihilate everyone there. He hoped to accomplish this mostly by starvation. He considered them sub-human. Russia, with a lot of help of course, was who beat the Nazis - on the Eastern Front. Hitler was only marginally worse than Stalin.
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I've always been fascinated by the Russo-German war of 1941-1945, that began with the launch of Operation Barbarossa and ended with the Soviet Army overrunning Berlin.
The initial German attack with a army of over 3 million combat troops, the massive Soviet losses, in the millions, in the initial stages; the titanic struggle at Stalingrad in 1942, the largest tank battle in history at Kursk in 1943, and on and on. The scale dwarfs all other warfare humans have ever taken part in.
One example: We've just celebrated the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a massive military operation by Western Front standards in World War 2. But the same month - June 1944 - the Soviets launched Operation Bagration, an attack using more than two million soldiers, aimed at wrecking the German Army Group Center and pushing the Eastern Front out of Russia and into Poland. It was a much bigger military undertaking than D-Day, but few in the US have heard of it.
I eat a lot of those.
The only problem with the U.S.S.R. is that they would attack and half of their damned soldiers were unarmed. Stalin was the worst human being ever born. He hated humanity.
Over half of the U.S.S.R. deaths were unnecessary and were because of Stalin.
The person in the hottest part of hell is Stalin. May the s.o.b. burn for a million years.
I see you have mixed feelings about Stalin Bert...
Actually, I couldn't agree more. One of the most imbecilic of all the warped fascinations of American leftists was the infatuation in the 1930s with Stalin and the Soviets. Much of that was propagated by the New York Times' Moscow bureau chief Walter Duranty, who won the Pulitzer, no less, for reporting what can now be said without any doubt to have been flat out lies about Stalin and the Soviets in the 1930s...Of course, the Times has never surrendered his Pulitzer...
https://www.weeklystandard.com/arnold-beichman/pulitzer-winning-lies
Maybe he will burn with Stalin.
Folks tend to forget all the unnecessary deaths that we can lay at the feet of Mao and Stalin over a failed economic and social system.
Now we have a bunch of stupid socialists wanting to make America Communist. I have a bunch of guns, so I will not go down easy.
It’s hot°, it’s muggy, it’s roast in hell summertime.
Carry on.
Carry on.
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The dog days of summer. Doesn't that actually have something to do with astronomy and not dogs?
Yes. It has to do with Sirius the star and ancient Egyptian astronomers . Where the star was located.
The astronomer/priests observed that Sirius rose with the Sun just prior to the annual flooding of the Nile. The appearance of a celestial object at sunrise is known as a heliacel rising. If you can see Sirius from behind the glare of the Sun, you know that the tears of isis are on their way on. As life-giving flood waters.
Now a days it is the dogs sweltering in the sun connotation. Although hot dogs on the grill works also.
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I finally decided to put my important files in the cloud. Mainly music, pics and documents. External hard/flash drives keep dying out and I'm tired of replacing them as backups. The only problem is that it takes a hell of a lot longer time to upload than to download. 32 hours and counting.
Interesting. I had no doubt that you could answer my question. My dog is pleased!
Late to the game but congrats! How exciting!
Good of explanation as any other.
Well, it does have somewhat to do with dogs. Sirius is part of the constellation Canus Major, meaning “greater dog” in Latin and over time was nicknamed the “Dog Star”.But it is the brightest star in the sky which is one reason the Egyptians associated it’s position with the rains that would come to flood the Nile. Part of the whole summer solstice thing. Traditions for tribes in the southern hemisphere see it as the start of Winter and used it for navigation on the southern Pacific Ocean.
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Warm summers evening = Homemade ice cream.
Good morning from ATX. Currently 79°F. Expecting 99°F or so later today.
Instead of hitting the pub tonight, I'll stay home. Plan on fixing a few things.
We'll check back later. Y'all behave.
Instead of hitting the pub tonight, I'll stay home. Plan on fixing a few things.
We'll check back later. Y'all behave.
Morning D
I’m kind of really getting into this getting up a little earlier to enjoy some quiet time before work
Hope all have a wonderful day
I’m kind of really getting into this getting up a little earlier to enjoy some quiet time before work
Hope all have a wonderful day
Well, the fishing was not productive but the team building morale class went good. Ice cold beer, large pontoon party barge, and getting paid to be there, Ahhhhhh.
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