Next Blog

I have been clicking on the Next Blog button above.  It is interesting in that the next blog changes each time I use it from this blog.  There are a lot of picture sites.  Some are very good and thoughtful others are in foreign languages, so they may be good and/or thoughtful but I can't tell.

One thing that enthuses me, is that there are other blogs as bad as this one.  In general the blogs I visit are my kids' blogs which are in general better written and more relevant (especially if you like beer (my son's)).  I like that I get up to date pictures of my grandkids and kids.

A random trip to blogs is fun, try it sometime!

Some quotes from Blogs:


Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”  all Mark Twain


“Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.”
Thomas Sowell


“The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.” George Orwell


“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.”
Thomas Jefferson


blog (n)  a Web site on which an individual or group of users produces an ongoing narrative

ORIGIN a shortening of weblog

Spam

My son's blog had a post on spam.  On our church blog, I had to get rid of some forms since I was only getting spam for various unmentionable items.  Also since I moderate the comments, recently spammers have used the comments as a means of generating emails to the site.

I don't understand the logic of sending spam to a church blog; do they really think that I would actually buy anything from them after the irritation they have caused?

The Rules of Spam: Rule #1: Spammers lie  Rule #2: If a spammer ever appears to be telling the truth, consult Rule #1

Speech is not free when it comes postage due.— Jim Nitchals

Spam is not a technical problem. Spam is a social problem. — John Mozena

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.  Bill Gates

spam (n)  1 ( Spam) trademark a canned meat product made mainly from ham. 2 irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the Internet to a large number of recipients.
(vt) [ trans. ] send the same message indiscriminately to (large numbers of recipients) on the Internet.
ORIGIN 1930s: apparently from sp(iced h)am

Break your Mother's Back

When I was young there was a rhyme "Step on a crack, break your Mother's Back." I find that when I am walking on a sidewalk I still try to avoid the cracks. I wonder if the kids now a days still do that. Did I tell my kids this rhyme? Do they tell their kids? What if you are mad at your mother, do you purposefully step on all the cracks? I show that we watch sometimes is Monk, in his opening credits he is avoiding the cracks on a small rock sidewalk.

This is the 100th. post on this blog. I thought a non-political entry was appropriate!

rhyme (n) correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, esp. when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. • a short poem in which the sound of the word or syllable at the end of each line corresponds with that at the end of another. • poetry or verse marked by such correspondence of sound : the clues were written in rhyme. • a word that has the same sound as another.
ORIGIN Middle English rime, from Old French, from medieval Latin rithmus, via Latin from Greek rhuthmos (see rhythm ). The current spelling was introduced in the early 17th cent. under the influence of rhythm.

GDAD's Playlist

I am amazed at all of the modules that exist for the Google Blogs.  I have added a Playlist.  My list is mainly 1960-70's music, but there are numerous later songs there.  To add it you first go to playlist editor  & add some songs then add it to your blog.

Of course, eventually I might have 100's of neat features & no blog content!

amazed (adj) astonished, thunderstruck, speechless, at a loss for words, dumbstruck; aghast, taken aback; informal bowled over, flabbergasted, blown away