In the heart of the mall where I work is a very popular eyebrow threading kiosk. Day in and day out people of all ages sitting in the chairs. I don't get it. You're pressed for time and money it's not on my to do list. What are some social fads you don't get? People with the mini phone things in their ears expecting that all important call walking around like they're contractors. Why not use your cell? Are they gonna climb a utility pole? Smart watches. The point? Can you watch a movie on one? Constantly monitoring your BP with arm or wrist band thingamajigs. Tattoos are more than a fad of course and in some places you're in the minority if you haven't illustrated your body or at least a part. "I've fallen down and I can't get up" I can see. All I need is a meter to let me know I'm running low on the Christian Brothers.
The age of modern gimmicks. I'm still stuck in the last century - don't use cruise control (leave the driving to me) have never had a sip of water from a commericial plastic $$ bottle, think GPS is the Girl Power Society and have trouble finding Gilligan's Island on the back up video in the wife's car. No twitter, facebook, instagram or any e-thing that requires a password.
ReplyDeletePassword- in the Pacific in WWII, the Marines were aware that the Japanese had trouble with their pronunciation of R and L, so they would use passwords like Yellow Lollipop. Halt! and give the password. "Uh Yerrow Rorripop?" 'Yeah, close enough, you can advance" That's why they went to Navajo code talkers. Where was I?
Oh, my eyebrows are fine, but very gray. Should I get them colored?
I absolutely refuse to use cruise control even on a long trip up the Interstate with very little traffic. Don't trust it. Would rather have a tired foot. What happens if a deer or coyote decides to cross the road while you're in that mode?
DeleteTrying to sort out Google E-mail today and the Googly guys sent this
ReplyDeletead-
"Get Gemini Advanced, with our most capable AI models for complex tasks like coding, logical reasoning, following nuanced instructions, and creative collaboration" Are they teaching us to be robotic?
I remember when ai was just science fiction. Now when you text someone there's a menu of premade replies you can click. Leave the answering to me.
DeleteGPS= wife and lady friend were down in Boise a couple years back.
ReplyDeleteThe GPS indicated a favorite Burger place at the next exit. Went off and saw a sign - Fannies Fancy Burgers, 235 miles south in Salt Leke City. If I had GPS, I'd still be stuck in the Yukon Territories someplace. Tired and Googlized.
There are so many stories like yours. I'm old school. Give me a Hagstrom.
DeleteI tried jogging once. That didn't last long.
ReplyDeleteAnother one - selfies. Gotta get my selfie stick. Am I that important?
ReplyDeleteSelfies - sort of silly, but not all that new. A lot of old dead artists painted self-portraits. If I tried that I'd get paint in my eyes.
ReplyDeleteA fair point.
ReplyDeleteComfort support animals- what's the deal? Can I bring my tarantula
ReplyDeleteon the plane? Whatta ya mean, I can't bring my python into the cafe?
Professor daughter had a student that had an emotional support animal she wanted to bring to microbiology lab. What is it? A rabbit.
No, you can't. OK, can I bring my stuffed teddy bear? Always figured
pets had us humans as emotional support, not vice-versa.
Most supermarkets have signs posted no pets only service animals but you'll always see customers with small dogs that don't have the service animal uniform on. Manager looks the other way. Maybe store is underperforming. Remember we discussed those people who are martyrs of principle and do as they please? Rules and laws what rules and laws?
ReplyDeleteUrg the cave man had a tyrannosaurus rex as a service animal. Always
ReplyDeletegot quick great service.
Gotta watch out for the saber-toothed tiger.
ReplyDeleteHere, big tooth kitty, try some tuna.
ReplyDeleteTook your recommendation and bought a non-flavored pipe tobacco. Do I really need a Christian Brothers-flavored tobacco? Anyway more expensive. Early morning pipe it's called with a rooster on the tin. Just like you there is a warning on the back. May cause reproductive harm in California but only in California.
ReplyDeleteNot famlliar with it. The secret is to tamp it in (for new pipes, moisten the bowl and fill it halfway) You need a few strong draws to get most of the surface lit. Then just puff away, tamping a bit as the ash builds.
ReplyDeleteYou'll be part of the elite club - Hemingway, Einstein, JRR Tolkien, Gen Douglas MacArthur, Walter Cronkite, Mark Twain, J. Robert
Oppenheimer, Alexander Graham Bell, Pop Eye the Sailor and
BB Idaho. (you sure that Early Morning Pipe stuff isn't crack
or marijauna?)
Peterson's. $30.95 at a cigar store. Didn't have the Prince Albert stuff. The key is the tamping. The few strong draws (✓). Got the tamper. Only thing I haven't done is tamp as the ash builds.
ReplyDeleteYour bowl gets hot to the touch after awhile or is that over-puffing? An elegant art but stogies are so much simpler.
Filters help or hindrance? You use soft pipe cleaners or the bristly kind? I'm thinking you save money over the long-term as opposed to always having to buy cigars.
ReplyDeleteFilters make it harder to draw. Bristle cleaners- for hard to clean, dipped in Christian Brothers. I get most of my tobacco in cans from
ReplyDeleteBnb Tobacco-
https://www.bnbtobacco.com/collections/pipe-tools-cleaners
where they have a pipe tamper for $1.99. Switching tobacco brands
always seems to result in 'tongue bite', so if you find a mild smooth burning brand, stick with it awhile. Being retired, I usually smoke
5-8 pipes a day and have a rack of 10 pipes in the rotation. If you puff a pipe instead of a cigar only once or twice a day, it is a savings.
Hint- ask nurse nancy if pipes are safer than cigarettes. If she says
NO, blow smoke in her face.
Just as I thought air flow is key and filters go against that. You are a real pipe hobbyist. Co-worker is a big vaper. Used to come in the back with his flavored vapes and took a couple puffs. Nurse Nancy over dramatized and said it was making her sick. Woman I work with banged her arm on the metal corner of the table the other day. Nurse Nancy said that causes arthritis. Who knew?
ReplyDeleteLately I've been seeing people with all kinds of colored hair. Green hair blue hair. Can you go on a job interview like that?
ReplyDeleteOnly if it covers the tattoo on your forehead.
ReplyDeleteWith the caveat don't try this in the State of California had a much better pipe session this afternoon. The tamping is the key.
ReplyDeleteI looked up the Early Morning tin with a rooster on it. It is in the category of English tobacco, made in Denmark and recommended for
ReplyDeletebeginners. Yes, tamping and later re-tamping seem to work well.
I very seldom have to re-light, being a rather continuous puffer. I have smoked cigarettes, cigars, pipes (all drug-free) and even chawed on Indian Head tobacco for awhile. Were I in California,
and have succumbed to horrible death as a teenager. I never inhaled cigar or pipe, as it is a bit stronger than the cigs we had in Jr. High( and came in 2nd in the mile in Army officer training. Hint- I thought I saw a WAC.
For beginners eh? What in heck is advanced pipe smoking? Christian Bros. with a twist of vanilla?
ReplyDeleteGoogled pipe smoking tips couple months back. Your instructions are ten times better.
Back in the day, when there were tobacco cans in every drug store, the cans had deals inside where you could send for great pipes for $5. At this point, my choices are towards thick bowls (cooler) and half-bents where any accumulation of moisture travels less that the straight pipe. Which reminds me of the hookahs, or water pipes which I've never tried because I walk around my big model railroad
ReplyDeletepuffing and tinkering. They say tinkering around, loading, tamping
lighting are part of interest for pipe addicted victims. If you continue, you may want to look into one of those zippo pipe lighters - got a chamber atop, you hold it across the pipe and it draws straight down
(even in the wind). Curious - does Early Morning tobacco even work
at the END of the day?
Butane lighters.
ReplyDeleteEarly morning pipe. Was wondering the same thing. May have to get up at the crack of dawn.
Cigar v Pipe - as I recall, cigars take longer to go through than a pipe.
ReplyDeleteJames Whitmore as Sgt Kinny coming back from the Battle of The Bulge, made them last quite awhile -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDQvYE8sbc8
I can't click the link BB.
ReplyDeleteA pipe will save you money over the long-term but sometimes it's just easier to have a cigar. You don't have to take it apart and clean it. Sometimes you get a bad one with an uneven burn. Not sure but what is a $30 cigar supposed to do for you?
Sorry no longer able to post link. You have to copy and paste it in Google or Firefox or whatever search engine you use. $30 cigar? I'm thinking better than a $0.50 cigar? Pipe cleaning-
DeleteI typically don't do in for a couple months - or it gets plugged with stuff.
Here is another link to copy nd paste-
ReplyDeletehttps://www.holts.com/clubhouse/cigar-101/pipe-vs-cigar-tobacco
Interesting, especially if one smokes both (not simultaneously of course)
Pipe and cigar tobacco
ReplyDeleteAre you suggesting that is e snuff about tobacco?
ReplyDeleteCutting, copying and pasting. I keep thinking of Elmer's Glue and a crayon.
ReplyDeleteWould make for a messy tablet phone.
ReplyDeleteI just recently learned how to do this believe it or not. Never had the need. Good to know.
ReplyDeleteEver go on tech forums where they're talking about some issue? Never understand a word they're saying.
I was reading a bunch of comments on pasting video URLs into blogger
ReplyDeletecomments. Apparently "new and improved" updates have made it impossible unless you are a friend of Bill Gates
I go to those tech forums quite a bit. Always have a bottle of Tylenol at hand.
ReplyDeleteBill Gates has also branched out into other endeavors. Farmland, vaccines, fake meat, blocking the sun. He's a real Renaissance man.
ReplyDeleteDesiderius Erasmus was a Renaissance man. Bill's just another Big Biz
ReplyDeletedude.
During covid people at work were asking me is Bill Gates a doctor. I also get my medical advice from Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
ReplyDeleteBreaking News: Travis Kelce reportedly withdraws from Taylor Swift. Does this deserve a separate post?
ReplyDeleteTaylor Kelce and Travis Swift did WHAT?
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly what my phone said. I didn't realize the entendre.
ReplyDeleteI understand that Apple is introducing some sort of AI for mail and search. Like you type in Asian snakes and it says, "No you can't, we
ReplyDeletesuggest recipes for blueberries. Neat.
I once used the ai feature on my banking app to request a debit card. Got an ATM card in the mail instead then had to call customer service which I should have done in the first place.
ReplyDeleteSo if you want to get a real mother of a headache BB look up custom ROMS and also unlocking the bootloader. For added fun dive into unlocking the bootloader without a PC. As I recall soapie liked to root his devices. I just learned to copy and paste. Worlds apart.
ReplyDeleteAs I remember, Soapie was an IT guy for a law firm. Possibly proving that educated lawyers are computer illiterate...like most of us.
ReplyDeleteThey know more about cracks in sidewalks than code.
ReplyDeleteOld lawyer joke - How do you tell a catfish from a lawyer?
ReplyDeleteOne's a fish, the other's a bottom feeder.
A thousand lawyer jokes. Should we google?
ReplyDeleteFor the record I never lived or worked at Camp Lejeune.
ReplyDeleteThat is why you are in good health.
ReplyDeleteFor the record, Dr. Sanjay Gupta says 'Prevagen' doesn't work. Several years back I figured the same. It is based on a Jelly Fish protein and
ReplyDeletethey are dumber than dirt.
Worked with initiating explosives for 29 years. Never once did they have a 'Bring your kids to work Day'.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Omega XL? Any good?
ReplyDeleteDepends - the active ingredient is an oil extract from the New Zealand green-lipped mussel. Supposedly like good fatty acids. Probably 3 responses: works for some, don't work for others and the placebo group. Some claim Vitamin E which you can get from almonds, others claim virgin olive oil, which is rare because so few olives are virgins. I modestly defer to Nurse Nancy.
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ReplyDeleteWhen I was in cosmetics chemestry Vitamin E was a big seller. Made your hair and skin look young again. BS. The company had cans and labels made up ready to go, but no Vitamin E (from Japanese placenta extract). They ignored tech advice and filled with no E in the hairspray. The harried purchasing agent mistakenly ordered 100 Kg instead of 1 Kg, costing the company close to half a million and he his job. Free Market - makes ya wonder.
The big thing now is hyaluronic acid. Eva Longoria.
ReplyDeleteAll my life I've focused on Vitamins C and D. I knew of E's existence but always downplayed it. Sorry E.
ReplyDeleteThe vitamin B-complex is pretty critical...B1 - B 12 for metabolism, cell repair etc. Big seller at Health Stores, but also abundantly available in
ReplyDeletea whole bunch of different foods. BB is all about B.
Don't hear much about A.
ReplyDeleteIt's a source of beta-carotene. Recall the old adage, eat more carrots
ReplyDeletethey are good for vision, you never see a rabbit in glasses.
Isn't there a Vitamin K? Don't hear much.
ReplyDeleteI guess so, you are the health store guy. After years of study, there are a whole host of vitamins, minerals etc that we are supposed to need. Most of them are in common food. Some are bizarre - Selenium, said to be necessary for some vital life functions. Also toxic, used to be in Head And Shoulders shampoo, until they had to remove it. Maybe Nurse Nancy can verify.
ReplyDeleteTried selenium fairly recently. Gave it up because the pills have a horrible smell. Supposed to be good for you. Hey Mikey hates it.
ReplyDeleteDid a quick google on K. Says an incredibly important nutrient. Apparently they're all important just to continue existing. Make it easy for ya. Get a spare drawer and just line it up with ABCDEK. Am I missing anybody?
They say a well balanced diet pretty well contains all the vitamins a
ReplyDeleteperson needs. I doubt my food pyramid is adequate.
My friend said to me once we're paying the price for having an unbalanced diet. Most people eat the same kind of food everyday. I don't demonize McDonald's but whenever I go there I always get the impression some of these people go there everyday.
ReplyDeleteWonder if cows have a tiny little food pyramid. Grass, chew, more grass. Keeps them happy and healthy.
ReplyDeleteStill on cows - they say they have four stomachs, but cowologists claim it is one divided into four parts. So would a bovine gastroenterologist
ReplyDeletediagnose gas in section one, diarrhea in two, constipation in 3 and infection in four? I'll defer to Nurse Nancy.
Must be hard being a cattle vet.
ReplyDeleteHad a brother-in-law that was an artificial inseminator for dairy farms for awhile. Lucky for him it was artificial. He moved on to being a
ReplyDeletebuilding inspector.