tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230377522024-03-22T00:10:52.137-04:00Years in the FieldI will go far to find the possibilities which can change the commonplace into the wonderful.
Are you with me?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-2053040807352853202008-07-11T15:22:00.001-04:002008-07-11T15:22:47.335-04:00Join In!<embed class="xg_slideshow" src="http://static.ning.com/networkcreators/widgets/photo/slideshowplayer/slideshowplayer.swf?v=4916" quality="high" bgcolor="" width="300" height="253" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" wmode="transparent" scale="noscale" FlashVars="feed_url=http%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.shoottheday.com%2Fphoto%2Fphoto%2FslideshowFeed%3F%26x%3DOFYDKP3hZZP5ta7gaB5vbGFZfkYjZ3RY%26photo_width%3D300%26photo_height%3D230&config_url=http%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.shoottheday.com%2Fphoto%2Fphoto%2FshowPlayerConfig%3Fx%3DOFYDKP3hZZP5ta7gaB5vbGFZfkYjZ3RY\&layout=external_site&noPhotosMessage=This person doesn't have any photos yet.&slideshow_title= &fullsize_url=http%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.shoottheday.com%2Fphoto%2Fphoto%2Fslideshow%3Ffeed_url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fcommunity.shoottheday.com%252Fphoto%252Fphoto%252FslideshowFeed%253F" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed> <br /><small style="font-size: 12px;"><a target="_blank" href="http://community.shoottheday.com">Find more photos like this on <em>Shoot! 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Your eyes can be challenged by shine and glimmer everywhere. First this object wants your attention; then that object wants your attention. A spot of hot light breaks through a dark alley, what has it landed on? Inquiring eyes want to know.<br />However, take your average overcast day and it seems that Nothing is more important than Anything Else. Actually, it could have a slight calming effect. What do you think?<br /><br /><strong><em>On another topic, stay tuned for my pictures of "I.B.O.P.'s"</em></strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-1169564076938190172007-01-23T09:29:00.000-05:002007-02-13T22:39:58.956-05:00"Honey, Don't Forget to Shut Off the Electric Toothbrush Before You Leave the House!"<div align="center">Funny, but I did almost walk away from one while it was still vibrating on the sink counter. But maybe that is because of the <em>odd experience</em> just before that.<br /><br /><strong><em>The Odd Experience</em></strong><br />In preparation for shaving my face, I was (wastefully I guess, sorry AL G.)running the water to allow it to get hot. Grabbed the can of shaving cream and gave it a couple of shakes. Placed it back on the counter, yawned and vigorously scratched my very dry head of hair.I then reached down under the tap to test the temperature and...wow...zap!...received an electric shock, spark and all, from the water.<br />I guess it makes sense, with the dry hair rub and all. I can remember rubbing inflated balloons on my shirt and amazing the uninitiated by having the balloon adhere to a wall.<br /><br />Okay,so I guess this post is an add-on to an earlier one <a href="http://yearsinthefield.blogspot.com/2006/11/static-electricity-is-gonna-get-you.html">(see "Static Electricity is Gonna Get You" 11/29/06)</a> about the "car door spark shock". </div><div align="center">Talk to you soon.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-1168047915469560452007-01-05T20:36:00.000-05:002007-01-19T22:09:00.286-05:00"He Married a Polish Girl<div align="left"><strong><em><span style="font-family:arial;">So There'll be Kilbasi at the Wedding"</span></em></strong></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">So this aquaintance revealed this info to me and I started thinking...</div><div align="left">oh, my God!</div><div align="left">What if an Italian, for instance, enjoyed Irish food or and Irishman enjoyed Italian food. Would they be disgraced? oR A POLISHMAN ENJOYED aSIAN FOOD AND AN aSIAN ENJOYED kILBASI...OH, MY gOD, EVEN THE UPPER-LOWER CASE IS UPSET!!!</div><div align="left">Someone help me here. Is this a possible revolutionary change like the weather?</div><div align="left">Why do we think we all must have our ethnicity be our tatoo? Can we drift over into other camps and still be human?</div><div align="left">I'm vegetarian...can I dabble into some vegan fair and still be who I am?</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-1167845099553963082007-01-03T12:22:00.000-05:002007-01-03T12:24:59.573-05:00Plaid Toaster is CoolMy site was part of a contest on the Plaidtoaster.com website.<br />Didn't win, but you always enjoy the exposure!<br />Thanx Plaid Toaster,<br />CarlUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-1166728772570057282006-12-21T14:19:00.000-05:002006-12-27T03:24:11.033-05:00Add-on to 12/19 postI've been browsing the "World Question Centre" at edge.org, the website for thinking folk with time on their hands. The 2005 Edge question is a good one:<br /><strong> "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?"...</strong><br /><strong></strong><br />Ian McEwan makes a telling point. "What I believe but cannot prove," he says, "is that no part of my consciousness will survive my death." His enlightened fellow Edge contributors will take this as a given, but they may not appreciate its significance, which is that<strong><em> belief in an afterlife "divides the world crucially, and much damage has been done to thought as well as to persons by those who are certain that there is a life, a better, more important life, elsewhere."</em></strong><br /><br /><strong><em><span style="font-size:130%;">The natural gift of consciousness should be treasured all the more for its transience.</span></em></strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-1166560081862015822006-12-19T15:21:00.000-05:002006-12-22T12:13:26.326-05:00Just Like Rainy Days and Mondays...I know it is said we need religion to give us moral direction in life.<br />It sounds like it makes sense. But there seems to be two major things in life that actually cause the opposite effect of what they propose.<br />One is religion, the other, sports.<br />Sometimes we need them like a rainy Monday.<br />People are so "gung ho" regarding sects, regarding teams, that it just seems more devisive than anything else. Is there an alternative?<br />What do you think? Let me know when you get a chance.<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0879759291?ie=UTF8&tag=cfa-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0879759291">In the meantime, check this out!</a><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0879759291?ie=UTF8&tag=cfa-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0879759291"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-1165588352719478852006-12-08T09:09:00.000-05:002006-12-08T14:42:38.766-05:00Couples and Cameras and CLICK HERE for a Moving Holiday Favorite (wait for the 30 sec ad to finish, then close your eyes and listen)On another "note"-We need to get out there and standby to assist couples ,with or without their children, who need to<em><strong> all get in "the shot"</strong></em> in front of an outdoor holiday tree.<br />Why just last night I volunteered to assist two families struggling to all have the same background. Do they know about self-timers? Probably not. That's where we come in.<br />So bundle up and keep a sharp eye out for those young happy families from out of town who need to show the world and themselves that they posed by the "Tree with 3,000 Lights" in 2006!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-1165403213082263552006-12-06T06:01:00.000-05:002006-12-06T06:06:53.133-05:00Trans Fats and SeatbeltsSo I was thinking how odd it is that to protect ourselves from ourselves we made a law to require us to wear seatbelts.<br />So I was thinking how odd it is that to protect ourselves from ourselves we made a law to require us to smoke outside of buildings.<br />So I was thinking how odd it is that to protect ourselves from ourselves we made a law to require us to eliminate trans fattys from our restaurants.<br /><strong><em><span style="color:#990000;">So I was thinking what have I forgotten? What is next?</span></em></strong><br /><strong><em><span style="color:#990000;">Does anyone out there have a clue?</span></em></strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-1164988821228844382006-12-01T10:44:00.000-05:002007-01-26T17:05:32.053-05:00The Pulse Right NowAs I mentioned yesterday, I present to you today my <strong>first 5 findings</strong><br />as a result of clicking the "Next Blog" link on our eBlogger pages:<br /><br /><br />Posted: Thurs Nov 30, 2006 on <a href="http://syncsoundcinema.blogspot.com/">"Sync.sound.cinema"<br /></a><strong><em>Wilhelm the Ubiquitous</em></strong><br />YouTube insert of the most famous scream in movie sound history.<br /><br />Posted: Fri Dec 1, 2006 on <a href="http://the-malaysian.blogspot.com">"The Malaysian"<br /></a><em><strong>Remove Racists from the Education Department</strong></em><br />Concerning the Malaysian Education ministry's policy of inculcating integration in national schools.<br /><br />Posted: Thurs Nov 30, 2006 on <a href="http://mimiwrites.blogspot.com">"Mimi Writes......."<br /></a><strong><em>Christmas Song Meme, Cuddles and other Such Nonsense</em></strong><br />Mimi lists her top 5 favorite Christmas songs.<br /><br />Posted: Thurs Nov 30, 2006 on "Postcards from the Edge" (lost the link, sorry)<br /><strong><em>Barking Seals in Finland</em></strong><br />Language is awkward for an English speaking woman visiting Helsinki, Finland and an imaginary group of Finnish speaking people can sound like the barking seal noise.<br /><br />Posted: Thurs Nov 30, 2006 on <a href="http://www.randomandodd.com/">"Random and Odd"</a><br /><strong><em>Stuff Portrait Fridays</em></strong><br />Kristine Stone's Friday Photography challenge to capture 3 topics:<br />1. Something that makes you go "hmmmm"<br />2. Something sweet<br />3. Something retroUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-1164954512107157072006-12-01T01:21:00.000-05:002006-12-01T01:28:32.116-05:00Okay, it's been pretty mild up to now.So what topic would you like to rip open?<br />Dare I offer suggestions?<br />Dare I not? with such an invitation?<br />Okay, I tell you what, all of you bloglovers. I will go peruse a few blogsites for topicality and get back to you with what I feel is the pulse right now.<br />Stand(sit)by,as I am about to click the "Next Blog" link in the upper right hand corner!<br />Later...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-1164783269907052212006-11-29T01:33:00.000-05:002006-11-29T01:56:28.156-05:00Static Electricity is Gonna Get You<a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Get-out-of-a-Car-Without-Getting-Shocked-by-Static-Electricity"></a>Yelping every time you exit a car? With the dryness of winter comes tha static electricity assaults. <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Get-out-of-a-Car-Without-Getting-Shocked-by-Static-Electricity">Here is some advise on how to combat even the peskiest of those shocking surprises.<br /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-1164737276148634622006-11-28T12:58:00.000-05:002006-11-28T19:13:37.600-05:00Just Back From Alaska Counting Wolverines with my Uncle<img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/346/2354/320/blogger%20copy.jpg" border="0" /> <strong><em><span style="font-family:Courier New;">This isn't my uncle...it is me.</span></em><br /></strong><br />I'm having trouble placing the image into my profile so I'm testing it here.<br />As for the wolverines, I spotted 2.<br />It is a pretty sad state of affairs when the only person you are left to<br />speak with is a Napoleon Dynamite doll when you push his red button.<br />Him and his uncle actually were shooting the wolverines. I was only counting.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-1163712947494450762006-11-16T16:30:00.000-05:002006-11-16T16:55:45.453-05:00Hybrid Cars are like Fat Free Milk...We're Still Using the Milk!<center><a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06270/725225-109.stm">Hydrogen can show us the way out.<br> Click here to read more and find out how.</a></center><br /><br />"Today, alternative fuel vehicles are ready, or fast becoming ready, to roll out en masse. If fleet managers adopted a Green Fleet Initiative that put the purchase of hydrogen cars first, fully electric cars second and natural gas cars third, the race would be on among truck and heavy-vehicle manufacturers to be the first to fulfill those orders. Volume purchasing would multiply and accelerate the technology, bring down costs and migrate such vehicles swiftly from commercial fleets to average consumers."<br><br><br /> <strong><em><right>Edwin Black spoke at Carnegie Mellon University and Hill House yesterday about his book, "Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives," published by St. Martins Press <a href="mailto:icinquiry@edwinblack.com">icinquiry@edwinblack.com</a></em></strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-1162348176407388952006-10-31T21:23:00.000-05:002006-10-31T21:29:36.426-05:00Lest We Forget<a href="http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/American_Revolution.html">Just about every resource to aid in understanding the reasons why we in America should never forget about the liberty we have in this country</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-1161486977367576042006-10-21T23:16:00.000-04:002006-10-21T23:16:17.373-04:00<b>sparklers</b><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.com/v/YPETTQOhtHc"></param><embed src="http://youtube.com/v/YPETTQOhtHc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-1161486258335609752006-10-21T23:01:00.000-04:002006-11-28T19:31:36.130-05:00I Once Knew a Sparkledrop<p><em></em></p><br /><p align="left"><img src="http://www.freewebs.com/sparkledrop/sparkledrop%203-small.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><p align="left">It probably would never happen for someone else as it happened</p><p align="left">for me, just then.</p><p align="left">The car I was in was speeding at about seventy.</p><p align="left">The night had already begun.</p><p align="left">The view from the windows revealed mostly open fields.</p><p align="left">Small cold-like clouds slept stubbornly only yards above the earth.</p><p align="left">The black from the night part of night was not black yet, </p><p align="left">but a mellowing deep, far off blue.</p><p align="left">And then I, and I believe, I alone, saw this small child</p><p align="left">run a few steps in a field, and stop </p><p align="left">to throw a lighted sparkler into the blackening</p><p align="left">blueness of the sky.</p><p align="left">It glowered happily, and yet desparately;</p><p align="left">and yet desparately,</p><p align="left">for it would never return to the earth as the same</p><p align="left">bright stick of joyousness as it is now.</p><p align="left">The last gleeful sparkledrops painted the child's </p><p align="left">attentive face with a friendly, but departing,</p><p align="left">orange goodbye.</p><p align="left">The image of the streak from the child's</p><p align="left">run and throw now was taken in by the nearest mother cloud.</p><p align="left">I remember it now-</p><p align="left">still as if those seconds are still occurring as a full length movie.</p><p align="left">The child smiling up, along with the sparkler;</p><p align="left">the fading contrail evolving from white to a soft blue and slowly </p><p align="left">melting into the air.</p><p align="left">And then I could see no more.</p><p align="left">A one act performance.</p><p align="left">So fast. So very, very long.</p><p align="left">Aug. '69</p><br /><p align="right"></p><br /><p align="left"></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-1161403956667519892006-10-21T00:11:00.000-04:002006-10-21T00:12:36.683-04:00Test Your Cultural LiteracyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-1161190692228671532006-10-18T12:56:00.000-04:002006-10-18T12:58:12.246-04:00Subscribe to Carl Santoro - photoblog<p><a title="Subscribe to my feed, Carl Santoro - photoblog" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CarlSantoro-Photoblog" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate">Subscribe to Carl Santoro - photoblog</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-1160107980668969132006-10-06T00:13:00.000-04:002006-10-06T00:13:00.676-04:00<b>Better Together - Nick & Nora</b><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.com/v/yIIdECnu8lM"></param><embed src="http://youtube.com/v/yIIdECnu8lM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br>See one Thin Man and you'll be back for more!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23037752.post-1160107650832300762006-10-06T00:07:00.000-04:002006-10-06T00:07:31.033-04:00<b>The Thin Man (1934)</b><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.com/v/FjPMOQKiJ3w"></param><embed src="http://youtube.com/v/FjPMOQKiJ3w" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br>We meet the notorious Nick and Nora,<br />martini swilling sleuths!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0