Boy, oh boy, it's Wednesday morning, and that means we're treated to yet another hilarious "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" comic strip, drawn by the venerableStilton Jarlsberg, M.D.
To view a larger version that's easier to read, please click on the comic strip.
I recorded this ceremony using my hand held Kodak "Easy Share" Z710 digital zoom lens camera in video mode, which has a screen resolution of 7.1 megapixels.
For the best effect, please be sure and enjoy watching this DOUBLE FEATURE of the classic Hollywood production of "THE FIGHTING SEABEES" , PLUS, an official United States Navy training film, in "FULL SCREEN" mode.
For an additional treat, after the movie(s), please scroll down the page to view the slide show of my photographs of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport, Mississippi, which, for the best effect, I also recommend you watch in "FULL SCREEN" mode.
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Soooo - - - ,
Gather 'round your young'uns, pop some corn, send out for some pizza, pour some frosty mugs of ice cold root beer, snuggle up on the big comfy couch, dim the lights, and - - - ,
"ROLL 'EM ! ! !"
Pass the popcorn, please.
And, once again - - - ,
CONGRATULATIONS ! ! !
EQUIPMENT OPERATOR FIRST CLASS MATTHEW A. WARD, UNITED STATES NAVY ! ! !
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Here's the "SATURDAY STUMPER" crossword puzzle for today, Saturday 28 July 2012:
For a larger view that's easier to read, please click on the puzzle.
Here's that same "SATURDAY STUMPER" crossword puzzle after I solved it:
For a larger view that's easier to read, please click on the puzzle.
Note how long it took me to solve the puzzle.
I did it entirely by guessing the answers, without using a dictionary and/or searching other web sites.
It's getting more and more difficult to find intellectually challenging crossword puzzles, and the few that I'm lucky enough to find are only published on the weekends.
If it takes me longer than thirty minutes to solve it, then I consider it to be a good puzzle.
You can learn quite a bit from struggling with these crossword puzzles.
For the best effect, please be sure and watch this official government video in "FULL SCREEN" mode.
I find it particularly interesting, and also condescendingly irritating, that this official government video never mentions that in the state of Texas, it is LEGAL for private citizens to wear a concealed firearm, and/or that every private citizen should be encouraged to do so, as being always armed is our civic responsibility and our Christian duty.
If something bad happens, and you're unarmed, then of what use are you, either to your neighbors or to the Lord?
Please click on this automatic Internet LINK to view the "READY, HOUSTON?" web site that is recommended in the video.
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Considering his ethnicity, I suspect he feels slighted whenever he goes to a store that has a sign posted stating, "NO CHECKS", or, "CHECKS NOT ACCEPTED".
So, when next you're shopping and you see a similar sign, boldly inquire of the manager/proprietor, "Why are you discriminating against people from Czechoslovakia?"
Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:
As many of you probably already know (because I've written about it previously), I volunteer my personal computer to assist universities in analyzing raw data collected for scientific research projects.
I just now received an e-mail from one of those research projects informing me thus:
Congratulations! You've been chosen as the Einstein@Home user of the day!
Your profile will be featured on the Einstein@Home website for the next 24 hours.
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Ain't that neat?
And, YOU can do this, too, with YOUR own personal computer!
You may select which projects you'd like to assist, as there are a whole big BUNCH of scientific research projects to choose from.
Once you've enrolled and installed the appropriate software programs, the data analyzing will be done continuously, using only a tiny portion of your computer's hard drive, leaving you free to continue doing other things on your computer (i.e., surfing the web, watching movies, playing games, composing e-mail, instant messaging, chat rooms, et cetera, ad infinitum).
At the moment, I'm participating in two (02) projects, the EINSTEIN PROJECT, which searches for radio pulsars in Outer Space, and the SEARCH for EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE PROJECT (i.e., "S.E.T.I."), which searches throughout Outer Space seeking radio signals indicating intelligent life on distant planets.
In the past few months, EINSTEIN volunteer home computers have discovered NUMEROUS radio pulsars.
However, I'm not a scientist or astro-physicist, so I have no idea what any of that means, or its significance regarding us.
I do know that in 1977, an intelligent radio signal, over thirty (30) times more powerful than anything on Earth, lasting for a little over a minute, was detected by the "Big Ear" radio telescope observatory at Ohio State University, coming from the Sagittarius constellation.
That was the famous "WOW!" signal featured (erroneously) in the famous Hollywood movie, "CONTACT".
The signal was not repeated, and since that moment, no other intelligent radio signals have been discovered.
However, as stated in my profiles for both EINSTEIN and S.E.T.I., my chosen faith, The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints (i.e., the "Mormon" church) teaches us that our Heavenly Father has created MANY worlds just like our own, and those worlds are populated with intelligent beings who look just like us, for according to our Holy Bible, we were all created in the image of our Father, who is in Heaven.
In addition to multiple planets, we must also consider multiple dimensions of our own planet, solar system, galaxy, and/or universe.
Hey, there's just a whole HEAP of stuff we don't yet know!
The following e-mail message was written and posted by me on this web site on Monday 17 November 2008.
I've decided to republish it now, because I want to remind everyone that a really GOOD and truly righteous man once lived on this Earth, and that man was a friend of mine (and of nearly everybody else, too!).
With the passage of time, plus innumerable distractions, I had actually forgotten about this post, but was reminded of it when checking the statistics regarding this blog, and found that a new comment, awaiting my approval, was actually spam, apparently posted by an anonymous web surfer in Ukraine, possibly as an experiment seeking a way to hack into this web site, "OUR ETERNAL STRUGGLE".
By the manner in which he lived and conducted himself, he set a fine example of genuine Christian compassion, charity, and moral virtue for the rest of us to try and emulate, just as my (now deceased) father, Master Sergeant William Vincent Mallernee, United States Army (Retired) also did.
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Monday 17 November 2008
Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:
I was stunned to just now learn of the recent passing of a dear old friend, Major Sid H. Chase, United States Army (Retired), on Thursday 30 October 2008 in Saint Anthony, Idaho.
Here is his obituary, published at the SOUTH FREMONT NEWS AND VIEWS Internet web site (a web site which no longer exists) by my friend, Will Rhea, in which I took the liberty of some slight editing: ____________________________
I lived in the Roxy Theatre, in the apartment above the lobby, and performed in several of the shows, either in stage plays (i.e., THE FOREIGNER), community events, or Cowboy Poets of Idaho programs.
Sid Chase did all the maintenance work, and he and I frequently worked together, either backstage, or on the stage.
He was everywhere, doing everything, perpetually concerned about the welfare of his fellow man, and anxiously engaged in doing good works.
On more than one occasion, he came to my rescue, such as the night I accidentally locked myself out of my car out in the middle of nowhere (I had stopped my car to look at the Hale-Bopp Comet), or the time he brought over a bag of groceries when he learned I was hungry and had no money.
He had a cocker spaniel, but I can't remember the dog's name, or whether the dog eventually passed away.
(I just now remembered - - - , the dog's name was "Toozie")
He had rescued that cocker spaniel when it was lost, sick, and starving.
I wonder what's become of his houseful of kitty cats?
That used to worry me, for I knew he couldn't continue to get away with having far too many kitty cats running loose inside of his house, even though he truly adored them, and always took really good care of them.
I remember when his brother, a retired United States Army warrant officer, passed away.
Enroute to the cemetery, which was out in the country, the hearse broke down, and the casket was transferred to the bed of a pickup truck.
Everybody thought that was kind of appropriate, and that Sid's brother would have particularly enjoyed the humor of the moment.
Sid told me of one of his war memories.
In a battle on one of the Pacific islands during the Second World War, a man near him was killed, and Sid Chase got some of the man's brains in his mouth.
From then on, he retained a vivid recollection of that taste, which he said was sweet, and similar to automobile anti-freeze.
We would march together in the annual parade every Veterans Day.
We had a lot of discussions on just about every subject.
The last time I saw Sid Chase, I briefly visited with him in his home for a few minutes just a few years ago, when a friend and I were passing through Saint Anthony.
NOTE: "My unpopular and controversial personal opinions are independent of my Scottish clan." ____________________________
For the best effect, please enjoy watching in "FULL SCREEN" mode this automated video series, consisting of my homemade amateur video recordings of ME(!), strumming simple chords on my guitar, as in my humble attempt to once more honor the memory of Sid Chase, I sing some (but not all) of the original songs I composed while I was residing in Saint Anthony, Idaho.
The duration of the entire collection , which when started, will automatically play the entire series of videos, one right after the other, is nearly three and one half hours long.
However, you have the option of selecting only a specific video from the list, and for that reason, the most recent and most conclusive video in the collection, held on Tuesday 17 July 2012, has been moved to the beginning of the series.
For the best effect, please be sure and watch the video(s) in "FULL SCREEN" mode.
