How many books have you read?

Okay, I have this friend. He's a great friend. He's been a long-time friend. We just recently visited his family in Florida. We went into his office and he has an entire wall of books. Now, I'm no slouch when it comes to reading. (I average about 2-3 books a month.) So I ask him how many books he has.

"These are not all of them. You see, I keep a list."

"A list of all the books you've ever read?"

"Yeah." he says, like, doesn't everybody?

"I'd really like to see this list." I say. I want to know how many of the books we've read in common. Besides, there may be some books I've missed.

"Sure, I'll send it to you."

So I return home and get in my email this list. It's huge, it's long, it's intimidating. I real quick load it into word, select all text (Ctrl-A), and press the little numbering button in the toolbar. It's 286 books! Yikes.

Now I start looking at some of the titles:

Rise Fall of 3rd Reich/Shirer
The Assassin/Tatum
Protect the President!
Day One: Making of Atom Bomb
Short History of Civil War/Catton
Mozart/Davenport
Alexander the Great
In Memoriam, Sir WS Churchill
J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Great Bridge/McCullough
R E Lee: a Biography/Thomas
US Grant, Soldier President/Perret
Hannibal: One Man Against Rome
Symbols, Signs & Signets
E-mc2/Bodanis
...and on and on and on....

Well, you get the idea. These are NOT romance novels. Humm...E-mc2 looks cool.

...dave
A computer's attention span in only as long as it's extension cord.

Writing Humor

I've become more aware of how bad my writing is after reading several web sites about writing for the web This stuff is scary. I never knew I had such a responsibility to the reading public.

Really though, if the writing at a site I visit is so bad I DON'T KEEP GOING BACK! I guess that would hold the same for here and folks that visit this site.

I'm mostly about entertainment here. I may get serious for a sentence or two, but generally the lighter side is the rule. Well, I TRY to make it the rule. Which brings me to another point about humor. Most people enjoy humor on a web page but not the puny kind. Besides, puns don't translate well for international visitors (if you are gifted enough to draw them that is).

Anyway the REAL point I wanted to make here is that the site went so far as to suggest different TYPES of humor such as: aggressive, cynical, irreverent, nonsense, and physical. I got to thinking, Hey, I should try to use these different types. Yeah, I should be so gifted. Now, what in the world is physical humor on a web site? Slapstick cartoons?

Then I got to thinking, "What kind of humor do I like?" and "What do I generally write?" It's not that I write to be funny it's just that things strike me as humorous and I want to convey that view to others.

...dave
Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone. ~Czeslaw Milosz

Blackberry Blogging

This is the ultimate in mobile blogging. Now I can spout off with a Blackberry post. Type the text, email to blog, presto instant blogs. Blogs without thought, blathering blogs. But won't this dilute the quality of writing? Wait a minute. Quality writing in a blog? Not THIS blog.

...dave
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 now & we have no idea where she is.

Top Down

63 degrees and top down

These days were made for convertibles. What do other people do? How can they stand driving in their cans? I try to keep it under 90 in the turns but sometimes it does get away from me. I went to OfficeDepot to pick up a new work journal for 2005. Coming down a hill the driver from the other direction is blinking his headlights (in broad daylight mind you). This is the signal that coppers are around the bend but I WAS behaving myself, doing 40ish in a 35 so I'm not sweating. Sure 'nuf there they were all buffed up in their bike gear aiming that gun at me. Hey how do I know that thing ain't dangerous? I think it causes brain malfunction because I wanted to gas it just for fun, heh heh.

"Howdy captin."

"Well, I'm no captin."

"You certainly look like a captin to me sir!"

"Keep it moving, keep it moving."

...dave
I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks. Haven't lost a pound. Apparently you have to show up.

Westerdam Cruise

I haven't been here in a while. I'll confess, I've been on the
Westerdam and blogging our adventures. You can check it out at
westerdam.blogspot.com.

Enjoy.
...dave
I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing.

Great Metaphors

angry oil; doused the light; drape with plaudits; an ocean of hate; storm of protest; light of laughter

...dave
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.