Once upon a time,
(All good stories start like that)
my Winger (Navy Buddy that looks after you when you're incapable) & I had a 60 oz bottle of Captain Crazy (Captain Morgan Black Rum), and we were out of mix. We'd already run out of Root Beer (it's actually very good in BR) and Kool Aid (Gross 🤢, but we were too zooed to care) , and couldn't drive (way beyond legal, into comatose) so we decided to walk a mile and get Pop (soda). I wore my Dutch Wooden shoes.. .. cont /2
If you know don't tell everyone, just tell me you know. 😉
A good Boy Scout probably carried one in his wallet, because 'you never know?' #Guess Can you still get these ? #TBT
I only grew a beard briefly on two occasions in the Navy.
If you grow one, you have to keep it, since your ID has to be changed.
So, on trips, we did this, but this one I was the only one I kept.. for a year
A year later, I started getting seasick and dizzy in heights. The next 16 years were hell, at sea.
This is Toshiko Yuasa (1909-1980). She was the first woman physicist from Japan. It's 1940 & with her science prospects at home blocked by gender prejudice, she'd managed to get into wartime Paris to do physics research...
This is groundbreaking botanist & cytogeneticist, E.K. Janaki Ammal (1897-1984).
She was the 10th of 19 children in a mixed race family in Kerala, India, with caste adding to the discrimination she faced in life. Ammal chose a life of science over a planned marriage.
"My work is what will survive", she said. She was right. Her achievements are awesome....
Today is #ThrowBackThursday, so here's one from the past.. 40+ years back. While waiting on a weekly flight, I rented a van and drove to Karlsruhe. I had nothing to do for 6 days, Supertramp was playing in concert.. with Joe Cocker and Chris de Burgh.
33°C, they hosed the crowd to cool them. I was alone, and no one knew I was there. In retrospect, this was scary.
I was today years old when I realized these sprites that create route borders in the generation 1 Pokémon games are not giant boulders and are, in fact, shrubs.
My reality has been shattered, I am unwell. Words of encouragement would be appreciated in these trying times.
The band I was in back in college. I just realized that that was taken forty years ago in October. Jesus fuck I’m old (and that’s okay, btw). That’s me in the Dr. Johnny Fever aviator glasses on the left. #TBT
in 1947, when there were shortages of soap, Mrs W. Cockman 😆 of #Kitchener Ontario (Soap Capitol now 😆) sent in this photo of Mrs Sam Rohr who made 65 lbs of soap, 4 times a year
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;