Topic: NOTES ON THE HALF SHELL (Read 31841 times)

singdaw · « **Reply #180 on:** September 01, 2007, 01:29:29 PM »

Quote from: Tomovoz on September 01, 2007, 01:28:47 PM

I've read today's posts. Back to bed!

Sorry to have kept you awake!

singdaw · « **Reply #181 on:** September 01, 2007, 01:31:48 PM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on September 01, 2007, 01:29:20 PM

"I WAS NOT SAFE FROM DER BRUCER T-SHIRTS"?

You'd love it...it's a camp classic.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #182 on:** September 01, 2007, 01:46:51 PM »

Quote from: singdaw on September 01, 2007, 01:31:48 PM

You'd love it...it's a camp classic.

Does the back say "RESCUE ME"

der Brucer

Jane · « **Reply #183 on:** September 01, 2007, 01:49:12 PM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on September 01, 2007, 01:26:11 PM

Should I go back to pictures of Ann Coulter?

der Brucer

ROTFLOL!

Matthew · « **Reply #184 on:** September 01, 2007, 02:05:46 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on September 01, 2007, 09:03:45 AM

Well, I should get ready for my matinee (and subsequent evening show). And I will have a better show today. I will have a better show today. I will have a better show today. I will have a better show today. I will have a better show today. Etc., Etc., Etc.,....

Laters...

I don't know what it was in the air last night, but last night's Annie, Get Your Gun rehearsal was pretty much crap. So, Jose, it was on both coasts!! Here's to a great double day for ACL

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #185 on:** September 01, 2007, 02:08:00 PM »

This morning I walked to the church to feed the fish in the fountain, and I saw Trouble, the one who got me into... well, trouble... a few months ago.

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #186 on:** September 01, 2007, 02:12:05 PM »

This morning I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #187 on:** September 01, 2007, 02:14:00 PM »

The International Structural Engineering Grand Prix comes to Baku, Azerbaijan:

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #188 on:** September 01, 2007, 02:14:51 PM »

Quote from: DearReaderLaura on September 01, 2007, 02:08:00 PM

This morning I walked to the church to feed the fish in the fountain, and I saw Trouble, the one who got me into... well, trouble... a few months ago.

Are the fish still in the fountain, or did they get into Trouble?

der Brucer

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #189 on:** September 01, 2007, 02:30:04 PM »

I saw lots of fish, but who knows... some may get into Trouble!

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #190 on:** September 01, 2007, 02:41:16 PM »

Quote from: DearReaderLaura on September 01, 2007, 02:08:00 PM

This morning I walked to the church to feed the fish...

I presume when fattened up, the fish will be used to feed the multitudes?

der Brucer

PS If your short of hungry multitudes, I'm sure DR Ginny can ship you some.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #191 on:** September 01, 2007, 02:44:34 PM »

Here's a thought:

WSJ

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On the Road
BY JOHN SEMMENS

More than 39,000 people were killed and 1.8 million injured in traffic accidents last year. The economic cost of these crashes was approximately $140 billion. A substantial number of the crashes involved drivers -- and vehicles -- that shouldn't have been on the road.
Many solutions to the carnage have been offered over many years. One obvious solution has been avoided. Assign responsibility for vehicle safety inspections and licensing drivers to the one institution with the most to gain from keeping bad drivers and unsafe cars off the road: the insurance industry.

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #192 on:** September 01, 2007, 02:47:26 PM »

AUTOMOBILES VS. THE HORSE!

THE INDEPRNDENT

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On balance, the environment is getting better. Consider the case of transportation. The internal combustion engine is frequently singled out as a prime culprit in the pollution of the environment. Yet, the internal combustion engine vehicle is clearly less polluting than the animal-powered transportation it supplanted. A horse produces 45 pounds of manure per day. This emission, in an urban context, typically generated a horrible smell and mess. Further, it provided a breeding ground for insects, vermin, and the diseases associated with filth. In contrast, the emissions of internal combustion engine powered vehicles pose a much smaller threat to human health.

Neither should the efficiency aspect be ignored. A gasoline powered vehicle can travel farther in one hour than a horse can in a day. Therefore, on an emissions per mile of travel basis, automobiles are less polluting than horses.

Automotive technology has not stood still since supplanting animal-powered travel. Autos last longer, travel faster, and use less fuel per mile now than they did when first invented. In terms of pollution emitted during the operation of autos, noxious emissions per vehicle mile are down 70 percent to 95 percent since 1970. In most cities, the ambient air is cleaner now than it was 20 years ago.

der Brucer

Jane · « **Reply #193 on:** September 01, 2007, 03:12:03 PM »

Trouble looks like trouble. What a cutie.

Matt H. · « **Reply #194 on:** September 01, 2007, 03:20:00 PM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on September 01, 2007, 11:13:21 AM

I wonder if Edisaurus is busy cutting new promos for TNT since they half to pull all the L&O re-runs with Fred Thompson by the end of next week. (Or is TNT management sitting around with their head in the sand waiting for the Government to give them hand-addressed orders!)

der Brucer

I suspect they'll even have to pull the current trailers that show Fred.

They do not have to do that. Those rules involve only network broadcasts, not cable broadcasts. Stupid, I know, but that's how it works.

Matt H. · « **Reply #195 on:** September 01, 2007, 03:22:50 PM »

It's continuing to be cloudy here, and I suspect we'll have some rain during the next hour.

Jane · « **Reply #196 on:** September 01, 2007, 03:23:17 PM »

That could change.

Matt H. · « **Reply #197 on:** September 01, 2007, 03:23:49 PM »

I'll be starting Jim Jarmusch's STRANGER THAN PARADISE when I go back down. I knew I would be busy making lunch and answering the phone so I posted starting it until evening.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #198 on:** September 01, 2007, 03:24:27 PM »

Audience members warming up for NYMF?:

der Brucer

Matt H. · « **Reply #199 on:** September 01, 2007, 03:25:38 PM »

I did run the last two episodes of THE CLOSER's first season while I cooked and ate lunch. I just love those episodes.

Jason O'Mara is such a hunk, and the chemistry he has with Kyra Sedgwick crackles. And of course the BIG surprise of the murderer's true identity makes it my favorite of the Season 1 episodes.

Matt H. · « **Reply #200 on:** September 01, 2007, 03:27:59 PM »

But the season finale runs it a close second. I get really emotional when Brenda bids a semi-goodbye to the squad when her future there remains unclear. And the emotion bubbles to the surface again when she takes their resignations and individually acknowledges each one of them near the end.

Also love her on the phone with her parents when her father wants to come punch someone for giving his daughter trouble. Seeing Barry Corbin playing the part now gives that scene even more meaning when one imagines him on the other end of the phone talking to her.

Jane · « **Reply #201 on:** September 01, 2007, 03:28:15 PM »

This is really crummy of United. Beginning Dec. 31st accounts that have not earned or redeemed miles for the previous 18 months will be deemed inactive.

Matthew · « **Reply #202 on:** September 01, 2007, 03:33:30 PM »

Slow news day here at HHW. So slow, I'm watching "You Light Up My Life" with Didi Cohn on DVD. Exciting day!!!

bk · « **Reply #203 on:** September 01, 2007, 03:38:22 PM »

Back from a looooooong eighty block walk and a Thai dinner. We Thai'd one on, in fact. Everyone liked the food at Pam Real Thai, as did I, but, for me, it wasn't as good as the other jernt in the village.

Academy was a disappointment - not much there, but I did pick up a couple of inexpensive Bossa Nova things and a soundtrack to some French film I saw at the festival a few months ago.

FJL · « **Reply #204 on:** September 01, 2007, 03:42:36 PM »

Didn't Johnny Carson tell a joke about a movie in which two arsonists fall in love, called YOU LIGHT UP MY WAREHOUSE.

Matt H. · « **Reply #205 on:** September 01, 2007, 03:44:10 PM »

Heading down now to get started on the evening's viewing.

WBBL.

FJL · « **Reply #206 on:** September 01, 2007, 03:45:04 PM »

Doesn't YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE feature BK's own Stephen Nathan?

FJL · « **Reply #207 on:** September 01, 2007, 03:46:32 PM »

Didn't YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE's Didi Conn appear in GREASE with BK's own Barry Pearl?

FJL · « **Reply #208 on:** September 01, 2007, 03:47:07 PM »

DIDI AND DOODY - my new reunion show for Didi Conn and Barry Pearl

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #209 on:** September 01, 2007, 03:47:12 PM »

SOMETHING TO MAKE BK HOMESICK!

LA TIMES

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Heat wave settles in for long weekend

About 5,700 residents citywide were without power this afternoon as the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power labored to keep up with demand on Day Five of this year's longest heat wave.

The hot weather is expected to last throughout the Labor Day weekend.

In Eagle Rock, 2,600 residents lost power at 8:30 p.m. Friday, and were still without power as of 1:30 p.m., said DWP spokesman Joe Romallo. He said they hope to have power fully restored to everyone by midafternoon. Forty-one crews were working on the outages, some working throughout the night, Romallo said.

About 125 customers in Sherman Oaks and many others scattered throughout Los Angeles were also without power this afternoon.

"We understand it's a tremendous inconvenience for folks," he said The crews are "out there. They've got the equipment, and they're working as fast as they can."

Temperatures are expected to continue in the triple digits throughout much of Southern California today. Downtown Los Angeles is expected to reach 91; Pasadena, 107; the Coachella Valley, 110; Anaheim, 95; and Burbank and Riverside, 108. Nighttime lows are expected to be in the upper 60s along the coast and about 70 inland.

"As the temperatures remain high at night it puts a lot more strain on the system," Romallo said. "And you don't have a chance to cool down the equipment. It's the equivalent of running a car at 100 mph for 24 hours."

...

der Brucer

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