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Re: The Original Bridge To Nowhere

leron — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:52:29 -0000

Scared? No. I assumed the bridge would stay up. The benefits of being a city kid never end. All those two-hour naps in the back of the car on the GW, coming back from Jersey, broke me in.

But I defy anyone to stand in the middle and look over the edge and NOT contemplate the notion of gravity.

Re: HAPPY DING-A-LING DAY!

leron — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:05:22 -0000

I had a ding-a-ling moment once that involved two fully loaded railroad cars, a loose railroad tie, several hundred yards of sprinting in terror at full speed, a state highway, and a county sheriff with a sense of humor. Love to tell you sometime.

Re: Etiquette Luncheon: ‘Whatever’ is the title of this video.

leron — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:30:11 -0000

You... you have a private vault? That is so alluring.

Re: Missing ‘WIRED’ Journalist Found Eating Pizza

leron — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:04:15 -0000

I think you just created an expletive for the 21st century.

Re: Goodbye Sex Offenders, We’ll Always Have Twitter – The Controverse 54 REMIX

leron — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:07:14 -0000

Which hybrid did you get? I love my 2006 Prius, which incidentally is on camera for 0.3 seconds of Amanda Across America.

Plug-ins?: Eh. At a certain hybrid show in Madison one year I saw an extra battery kit for a standard Prius. It modified the power-sharing system so it would run strictly on electric until the batts got low. Then, like any rationally built hybrid, it continuously recharges by tapping your momentum and braking energy. When I saw that the Volt would not recharge, just plug in at your special parking space downtiwn for the trip home, I knew GM was doomed. I'm glad we own it now. We could not possibly do worse.

Re: What did you do over the tweekend? Stay at home? Music festival? Geocaching?

leron — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:50:11 -0000

I hauled about a ton of used coffee in wheelbarrows and layered it into compost bins and onto long mounds of dirt that house a couple million worms. They love it. Though it does keep them up at night.

I taught my kids how to top off 200 planting pots with topsoil at once. Once you get the "throwing the dirt" motion down, it becomes quite the kung fu exercise.

And I spent time thinking about a very interesting suggestion from a friend.

Re: MJ Inspired Arson & What You Didn’t Know About Fireworks – The Controverse 48 REMIX

leron — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:47:56 -0000

BTW - I don't know of this is now, or ever will be, an issue, but because my honey kept her last name and I kept mine, we slapped the kids with a hyphenation. Some days that confuses the various bureaucrats with which they interact.

Re: MJ Inspired Arson & What You Didn’t Know About Fireworks – The Controverse 48 REMIX

leron — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:21:37 -0000

It's not fireworks that suck. It's the idjits that set them off in the street and blow off their own hands, or burn down the neighbor's house, that suck.

Congrats on the wedding! The reception looked like a lot of fun. Funny, but I didn't see your old boss from RB there anywhere, what's his name again?!?

I got my name in the NY Times exactly once, by marrying a judge's daughter. Not as lucky as my friends who got quoted multiple times for, get this, surviving the Mexico City earthquake in the '80s. (Jealous....)

Are you taking a proper honeymoon? If so, consider the lovely Midwest. Friendly folks, cheap drinks and the sun even comes out once in awhile.

Re: 19 Tips To a Long Marriage

leron — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:20:12 -0000

Give each other the benefit of the doubt, always.

Always move as quickly as you can from "Oh no!" to "Oh, well...."

Take turns washing the dishes.

At least once a year, do something totally unplanned and off-the-wall together.

Never never never separate your passion from your work (man, have I learned that one).

Never take out the frustrations you pick up elsewhere on your spouse.

Don't expect to know where you'll be or what you'll be like in 10 years.

Be on the lookout for the sweetest things in life, which will sneak up on you, like drifting to sleep in your lover's arms and wondering, as you drift, if it's still raining.

Life is too short to drink cheap tequila.

Woo-hoo! Many happy returns.

Re: SD Live: “Best Of SD”

leron — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:06:42 -0000

Bulldozing the cities won't do any good unless you have a real plan for what the land will be used for afterwards. That's the problem with Detroit NOW: It's just sitting there rotting.

There were some nuts a few years back who wanted to turn big swaths of Detroit into pasture land, but theirs was not a vision tethered to the real world.

Detroit is so polluted it is illegal to connect housing to groundwater. Think it'll farm well?

Re: Life Minus Lights – Recession Tip

leron — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:05:10 -0000

you do realize that your iPhone requires electricity....

Re: Sunglasses: Quality, Disposability or Fashion – Amanda on the Street

leron — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:52:39 -0000

I went through pair after pair of $2 sunglasses, usually crushing or losing or snapping them in artistic frustration after a couple of weeks.

I decided to try curing myself of the habit and bought a pair of "certified color-neutral" glasses at an Army post PX for $38. I guess that's important when you're shooting at stuff, or something. They were great shades, they actually provided a clearer view of stuff. I had them for a year or so. I have absolutely no idea what happened to them.

The pair in my jacket pocket right now cost $1. Lesson learned.

Re: Rigor Mortis is for the Living Too

leron — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:52:27 -0000

The only way to get back to normal is rest up a bit, then work your muscles again. I remember one morning after the first soccer practice of the season, helping a friend move a house full of stuff to a barn up the road. I made about 25 trips up and back and each time, I could feel I was a little stronger, a little less sore than the time before.

I'd suggest you stick to the dumbbells for a while and maybe try some machines for heavier weight, which is a great stress antidote in the Election-driven times, and makes it impossible you will drop a barbell on yourself. Your President has been shown on TV benching 190 five times. Make that your first goal to beat. Then you can look down on him even more.

Re: The Controverse 13 LIVE

leron — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:52:23 -0000

Dude, I wouldn't eat a crab out of the Chesapeake at this point for $200.

Besides, haven't you seen "Deadliest Catch"? Those guys deserve every cent they can get.

Enjoy the warm breezes. Here in the Heartland the leaves are starting to turn, and the dark beers are showing up in the micro-taverns in greater numbers. (Though I usually prefer tequila myself.)

leron

Re: Do creeps objectify Amanda online?

leron — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:20:58 -0000

Men are pigs. And hey, some of my best friends are men. But they're still pigs.

I have seen dozens, if not hundreds, of attractive Internet and TV hosts of both genders. Most are interchangeable are rarely missed when they move on. What sets you apart, Amanda, is your intelligence and your wit. (And your willingness to take the occasional Taser hit.)

But the Internets spawn a large audience who are either 14 years old or regress to that state, secure in what they believe is their anonymity behind handles like xxxsexdude@yahoo.com. It is sad but inevitable that they will react in certain ways.

Even more sad, I think they are simply giving voice to feelings that most guys walk around with pretty much all the time but do not dare express.

Chalk it up to genetics, or the coarse culture, or hormones in beef, or whatever. It will be a while before we move forward.

Still, I remain hopeful. We're gonna have a black guy for a president soon. And much of the criticism of Hillary (though certainly not all) focused not on her gender or her wardrobe, but on her policy positions and unscrupulous politicking. A mere 24 years ago Geraldine Ferraro never got past, "Can you make a blueberry muffin?"

Re: Who wants to rock the gay par-tay

leron — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:17:00 -0000

There are moment in life when you think, those folks are among the luckiest on earth.

Re: Dreaming of an Outsider

leron — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:29:03 -0000

Damn. I was in the running until you got to the homeless part. ;-)