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Tuesday, July 6. 2010

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How To Put On A Bra...

...while busy fending off three bad guys?



Shades Of Monty Python

From an Aussie talk show, here's a wonderfully Pythonesque skit.





Winner's Circle

This is a comedian by the name of Louis C.K.  To note here is the big difference between laughter and applause.  Laughter is always nice, but when the audience actually breaks into spontaneous applause because a clever remark has touched a deeper truth, that says something.



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Funny you should post that Louis C.K. bit. I was out on LIS today testing some new Lowrance and Garmin GPS - fishfinder - chartplotters at the invitation of the manufacturers representatives. As we were putting around trying out different units, I mentioned to the boat's skipper that we've come a long way from dots on the screen of a sonar CRT to depth flashers to paper tape recorders to LCD screens to...well, what we have today. A lot of "remember when" went under the boat as we tried our best to find fault with the various units.

As I traveled back homeI started thinking about what was "new" and "hot" when I first started noticing the world around me. FM for instance was "new". TV was "new".
Satellite communication didn't exist. As I traveled along thinking about all this, I received a cell call - from my oldest who is in Germany attending an oncology seminar. Which brought me to one of my favorite memories - just got my General ticket in the mail in 1963 and I had built a Heathkit 10 meter "lunchbox". I was working at the time for the local TV repair shop and was in the delivery van. I had hooked up the CB antenna to the lunchbox and was listening around while driving - heard a CQ from DL6KT - answered it and that was my very first voice QSO - on a 5 watt radio with mismatched antenna. I thought I was the master of technology. Then the other day, I'm floating around off Watch Hill fishing and reading Maggie's on my cell phone. :>)

Things change - technology advances. I like it and if I get a little impatient with the Innertubes or a lack of a cell signal, that's the price you pay for living in the space age. :>)

PS: I gotta tell you - the Lowrance HDS series plotters/fishfinders are...well simply amazing. The Garmin units were great too, but I'm kind of brand loyal to Lowrance. The side scan sonar is incredible - once you get used to the orientation of the picture, the bottom becomes incredibly detailed. The image/chart overlay is also something to see. I gotta get me a couple of these for the boats.
#1 Tom Francis on 2010-07-06 18:00 (Reply)
I finally saw the first video. What a Playtex commercial that would make! And it never quite showed anything more than a bikini would show. Nice pice of cinematography.
#2 Geoff Brown on 2010-07-08 09:16 (Reply)
I thought the music also added a lot. It's a strange clip, in the sense that you wouldn't be surprised to see "Playtex -- the (keeps you) living bra" at the end, but it's in letterbox format, which would indicate it came from a movie. Might be a good flick, too. The babe's both hot and cool.
#3 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2010-07-08 09:24 (Reply)

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