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Wayne Gary

David,

I may have but I don't remember.  The link I posted is the 69min pilot.  Only 25min  part of it was aired as episode 1.  I  vaugley remember seeing episode 1 but I don't remember it being shown very often.  It was good to see the TV start. 

If you have not watched you will find out the history between Kemo Sabe and Tonto and how the name came about.  Also how The Lone Ranger got Silver and how he chose to to become The Lone Ranger and the story behind the mask.

Ron Knight

Lowell and Steve

Lowell, thanks for the picture of Mr Chicken's Cadillac. That place was a landmark! And yes it was in far upper Greenville Av. In fact at the point that could be called Vickery Park.

And that reminds me of the Vickery Park swimming pool. That thing was huge. And Dueback's Skating Rink with the wooden floors and getting wooden nickels from there. I think I still have one.

Does anyone remember playing minature golf at Wee Saint Andrews in Oak Cliff just across the Houston Street Viaduct from Reunion Station?

All of this reminds me of KLIF radio and their studios downtown Dallas. And of course, Ron Chapman as part of Charley and Harrigan. Then late at night was DJ, Russ Knight aka "The Weird Beard".

Was it KLIF that had the flag pole guy living atop a flag pole at the Gemini Drive In Theater??

Man, what a brain fart this has been!!!

Steve Keene

Ron,

Remember when we were headed out on a date and put on Hai Karate!

Jerry May

Ellen and I stumbled on an episode of this the other day. Brings back a lot of memories.

Wayne Gary

Jerry,

The Rifleman is on ME TV ch 21.2 in Dallas Monday thru Saterday.

Lowell Tuttle

I have no problems with Ted Cruz escaping to Cancun and Ken Paxton going to Utah during the storm last week.   I do have a problem with Texas letting them back in.

Bob Davidson

My brother-in-law the philosophy professor reminded me of something that's easy for me to forget:  this isn't the time God is maddest at us.
 

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Clint Eastwood said:

Participating in a gun buyback program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.

David Cordell

Lowell -- Good one.

Wayne -- I got a Rifleman rifle for Christmas when I was 7. I broke it on Christmas Day. Still hurts.

Different topic: See below. Out of 5 tries, my best was age 20. [Edit: Tried 3 more times and got one 18 and one below 18 (.282 milliseconds).]

Have fun with this!

This simulates you in the driver's seat of a car.

You're driving down a road, when you see a big red hand flash in front of you.

You have to put on the brakes.

Then, the Reaction Time Test tells you how old you are, when it comes to driving.

The test is based on reaction times of 2,000 people ages 18 and over.

The Reaction Time Test plotted their reaction times by age; it matches your reaction time to those averages.

Some of their results may surprise you

The Reaction Time Test found that left-handed people and men have slightly better reaction times than the average person .

 

Click on me

Bet you try it more 

Lowell Tuttle

23   21   20    space bar...

David Cordell

Well, Lowell, maybe they tested the test group during happy hour.

Steve Keene

David,

Bitcoin dropped to a low not seen in weeks at 12:03 a.m.  I had fallen asleep in my chair and awoke and checked the price before I went to the restroom.  I bought more bitcoin, did you?   My reaction time was qucker than a 17 year old dreaming about Melinda Nelson or Cindy Moi.  I bet your reaction time was older than 100.

Steve Keene

Lowell,

Have you been contacted for the booster shot trials for other strains for the Pfizer vaccine?

David Cordell

Steve, 

Only 100???

You seem to be the epitome of the wildcatter -- a speculator by nature. Boom or bust. Feast or famine. I'm not -- at least in this stage of my life. I have accumulated what I need, and and my goal is achieve a moderate amount of growth -- enough to maintain the annual payout I need, adjusted annually for inflation, until age 100. You're the hare; I'm the tortoise.  

I have watched a couple of webinars on Bitcoin and blockchain sponsored by financial service organizations, and I still don't see what the big deal is. I understand the benefit of blockchain tecnology, and I see lots of big companies "investing" in Bitcoin, but I think a lot of it is FOMO -- fear of missing out. Jumping on the bandwagon.

The big guys don't want to be accused by their peers of being too conservative, like me, except that I don't mind. I take my risks in other ways. Example -- a few years ago, I was driving on a long stretch of a two-lane highway in West Texas and pulled into the opposing lane to pass two cars at the same time!!!

By the way, are you familiar with Tulip Mania?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

Lowell Tuttle

Steve, patients of Houston Methodist, hospital, specialists, lab, outpatients, pcp's, etc...who are over 65 are contacted by email or text when a time is ready for them to come in.   You have to choose a facility and time from a menu of options.   Susie (who worked there 31 years,) chose Methodist Willowbrook and is scheduled for #2 in the next few days.   I was contacted, but my choice of the local Willowbrook unit was way into the future so I went downtown by the Astrodome and did it.  It was quite amazing procedure.  I did no chasing, though, I did have to remember my "My Chart" user name and password.

A friend commented to me I was part of "white establishment priveledged processing,"  but my imagery was a very diverse crowd, perhaps a little better off than the average citizen, but very diverse.

Last night on the news here, Methodist announced there were starting 50-65 age groups with some sort of minimal health issue.   Biden will smile.

I got pfizer.

Now I realize your booster comment was an attempt at humor.  I missed the boat on that one...still trying to figure it out.

I did see my electric bill analysis for the next month estimated at 275.00 up from 225.00 in January and 175.00 in December.   My buds who own Boomer exploration getting gas from two wells in the Louisiana toe were happy the $$ were coming in again...at a million a piece they have a ways to go...but they were draggin about 25,000 a month out before Covid.

David Cordell

In another milestone for gender equality (or equity??), there is a bill in the California legislature to make it illegal for stores to have separate sections for boys toys and girls toys.

Next up -- no separate sections for men's and women's undergarments. Two side benefits. 1) men won't feel like pervs when they walk past the bras, and 2) men will have more choices for their man-bras.

Wayne Gary

Steve

I am in the Maderna trial and I got  both shots of my vaccine in August and Sept.  At this time no mention of a booster.  I may find out more when I go in for my next visit in on Mar 8. My trial goes for 27 months.

David Cordell

US citizenship test for immigrants.

My grandfather Vito Sparacio teased me when I was a boy about the fact that he had to pass a test to become a citizen, and all I had to do was to be born.

During the Trump administration, some idiot decided to remove any citizenship test questions referring to the first amendment to the Constitution. Huh?? Freedom of the press? Freedom of religion?

I became curious.

There is a pool of 128 multiple choice questions, and they are available to the public with answers. The test consists of up to 20 questions drawn from the pool. You only have to be correct on 12 of them. (I guess they stop as soon as you answer 12 correctly.) So, 60 is a passing score on a set of questions, the answers to to which are readily available in a list online.

All 128 potential questions with answers: https://civicsquestions.com/new-citizenship-test/

Oh and if you are 65 or older and have been a legal resident for 20 years, you only need to be correct on 6 of 20 fill-in-the-blank questions. Here is one, with acceptable answers.

• George Washington is famous for many things. Name one.

  • “Father of Our Country”
  • First president of the United States
  • General of the Continental Army
  • President of the Constitutional Convention

I suspect that the Biden administration will add "Slave holder" and either delete "Father of Our Country" or change it to "Parent of Our Country".

There is a reading test also. You have to be able to read one out of three sentences correctly. They give you almost all the words that will be in the sentences, and you can't be failed because of your accent, which obviously gives a lot of latitude to the person giving the test.  Here are some sample sentences:

Sample Reading Sentences:

• Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.

• Alaska is the largest U.S. state.

• Citizens can vote.

• George Washington was the first president.

• Lincoln was the President during the Civil War.

• The President lives in the White House.

• The President of the United States is elected by the people.

• The White House is in Washington D.C.

• There are 100 senators in the US Senate.

• Washington is on the dollar bill.

• Washington is the father of our Nation.

I suspect that the Biden administration will add these:

• Donald Trump is evil.
• Anyone who voted for Donald Trump should be disenfranchised.
• All conservatives and Republicans are bad people who deserve to be ostracized from society.

They might have to find synonyms for disenfranchised and ostracized.

Check out this prep page. https://civicsquestions.com/new-citizenship-test/

The reading test with vocabulary: https://civicsquestions.com/reading/

I had always thought that the typical naturalized citizen improved the U.S. gene pool. Now I think they can be even stupider than the average native-born American. But since most will become Democrats, at least they will raise the average IQ of Democrats! (That's a version of an old Aggie joke that I couldn't resist!)

TAKE A SAMPLE TEST

The Washington Times published a set of questions so you can test yourself. (And remember that the article was written last year.) https://www.washingtontimes.com/quiz/2015/feb/19/us-citizenship-test-part-two/

By the way, I got the last laugh on my grandfather. As I have mentioned, I am also a dual citizen with Italy because Grandpa Vito was still an Italian citizen when my mother was born. So, she was an Italian citizen when she was born, so I was an Italian citizen when I was born. So all I had to do to become an Italian citizen was to be born!

As Warren Beatty said in Bonnie and Clyde, "Ain't life a grin?"

Steve Keene

Lowell,

I wasn't being humoruos, I just confused you with Wayne being in the test cases.  Well, you may think that is humorous.

Wayne Gary

Steve,

How do you "make think"?

David Cordell

Wayne, way to give Steve some of his own!

My second dose was supposed to be March 2, but they postponed to March 9 because of weather, reduced supply, sun spots, or something. Unfortunately, or fortunately, I will be in the Bahamas on March 9. It took several tries, but I was able to pospone my second dose to March 19. Then I'm scheduled for a colonoscopy four days later! If I have to something enter my body (aside from food, drink, candy, and pills), I think I'd choose a hypodermic needle over a colonoscope!

Wayne Gary

Steve

You confused me with Lowell!  How funny. I think I am better looking.  I have a curent picture of me instead of a high school picture posted.

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Hi Lance,

It sounds like you are in a cheerful mood as you post today!

I enjoyed the paintings from the art gallery selections.  Such fine work!  I wish I could paint like that!  My favorite painting was the little girl lying in the field, enjoying the fresh air and nature's lovliness drifting by overhead.  How wonderful that would be---just experiencing the peacefulness, bird's twitterings, floating clouds and fragrances!  I remember doing similar things when we lived in our first house on the edge of town.  I was around 5 or 6 years old, and there was a large field of tall grass across the street from our house.  My friends and I would walk out into that field and press down the grass until we had formed little rooms of our 'house.'  Then we would sit in one 'room' and pretend to cook with our little pots and pans, we would lay in another 'room' with doll blankets and our dolls beside us, looking up at the clouds and waving 'wheat colored grass/straw,' then we would go out the front pathway to our bikes, to ride down the gravel edge of the street, to the grocery store for our 'groceries,' or so we pretended.  We had to stay on the gravel to avoid riding in the street, which was verboten!  Those days are great memories to have!  Days with no worries...other than staying on the gravel!

Hope your healing incisions are feeling much less annoying.  Spring is on the way soon!

David Cordell

Lance said: Hope you both have a sunny time while in the Bahamas next week!  Will you be visiting Atlantis on Paradise Island?

David responds:

I don't think so. We're visiting the family of Martha's nephew -- brother of the one who died with COVID-19. They live in St Petersburg, FL, but they own a home on Green Turtle Cay, which seems to be very isolated. We'll snorkle and fish. Mostly, I think we'll look at the ocean and relax. I've never snorkled, and I have hardly ever fished. Not sure what else we'll do, other than worry about whether our son is taking good care of the house and Becky the Dog.

The nephew rents out the bottom half of the house on VRBO. The listing below only shows photos of the bottom half.

https://www.vrbo.com/1196277?adultsCount=2&arrival=2021-08-07&departure=2021-08-14&unitId=1747037

David Cordell

Documentary on Clarence Thomas during Black History Month supposedly on Amazon Prime.

Note the box under the five stars: "This video is currently unavailable in your location."

To paraphrase, I'm shocked! Shocked!