Stories's Log |
This log represents the Life and Times of the Las Vegas Dude. |
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06/28/2009 16:21:40 jim Natural History Displays | Sun |||||||||||||||||||
06/28/2009 16:03:28 jim Pittsburgh - Museum of Natural History | Sun |||||||||||||||||||
06/28/2009 15:55:30 jim Natural History Museum | Sun |||||||||||||||||||
06/26/2009 20:23:50 jim Mt Pleasant, Pa - Evergreen Drive In | Fri |||||||||||||||||||
06/26/2009 07:17:40 jim Michael Jackson Dies at 50 | Fri |||||||||||||||||||
He preached music, love and peace. His performances rocked the world. Michael Jackson Dies at 50. BTW - He was found innocent in court of child molestation, and he did pay out $20 million to quiet the whole thing. Money is a strong motivation. After being on a grand jury, I don't believe most of the news |
06/26/2009 07:13:46 jim Farrah Fawcett dies at 62 | Fri |||||||||||||||||||
06/24/2009 18:37:12 jim Wexford, PA - Car Show | Wed |||||||||||||||||||
06/24/2009 07:13:01 jim Its Beautiful | Wed |||||||||||||||||||
I see natures overwhelming technology. It is more profound than a cell phone, a plasma TV, or a computer. I see harmony. All the living things seem to know their tasks, and they do them very well. I see love in the animals, mostly amoung their own species, but sometimes they share their love with me. Sometimes, I walk on the soft grass with my bare feet, and I feel like everything here was made just for my pleasure. But that is a mistake. All things are given the choice of whether to love or hate their lives. What I am saying is, Heaven and Hell isn't something we experience after we die. It is something we create while we are alive. It is our choice to see what we want to see. I used to want to live forever, but that would be greedy. There are many others waiting to take my place. And I hope when they come, they will see this life as I do. For me, when the beautiy of life seems distant, when life becomes about bills, work, chores, and responsibilities, I look at my sweet Becky sleeping, then walk outside. I hear the birds singing, smell the honeysuckle, feel the moist breeze, and see another day begin. -- It is Beautiful -- |
06/22/2009 20:27:32 jim Pittsburgh Skies | Mon |||||||||||||||||||
06/22/2009 20:15:40 jim Duquesne Incline | Mon |||||||||||||||||||
06/22/2009 20:02:44 jim Duquesne Incline Area | Mon |||||||||||||||||||
06/22/2009 20:02:12 jim Pittsburgh View | Mon |||||||||||||||||||
06/22/2009 09:59:14 jim Pittsburgh - Becky-n-Jen | Mon |||||||||||||||||||
06/20/2009 21:04:38 jim Lake Erie, Pa | Sat |||||||||||||||||||
06/20/2009 18:34:24 jim Niagra Park | Sat |||||||||||||||||||
06/20/2009 18:30:54 jim Niagara Falls Park - 2 | Sat |||||||||||||||||||
06/20/2009 18:16:08 jim Niagara River | Sat |||||||||||||||||||
06/20/2009 18:13:34 jim Toronto Canada | Sat |||||||||||||||||||
06/20/2009 18:07:00 jim Niagra Park | Sat |||||||||||||||||||
06/20/2009 17:23:58 jim Buffalo, Ny | Sat |||||||||||||||||||
06/19/2009 19:00:02 jim Wexford - Cabana Bar | Fri |||||||||||||||||||
It's not easy finding the Cabana Bar in Wexford. It's not easy to find it on the internet either. What it offers is a very large athletic club, fine dining, and a Californian styled Cabana out back. The foods is good, but the idea is GREAT!
I love it!!! I think it gets most of its publicity via word of mouth. |
06/18/2009 18:35:12 jim Westview, Pa - Bella Rias | Thu |||||||||||||||||||
06/13/2009 20:54:30 jim Sparta Nascar Race | Sat |||||||||||||||||||
06/13/2009 19:17:02 jim Nascar Race Intro | Sat |||||||||||||||||||
06/13/2009 18:44:08 jim Pat Green Concert | Sat |||||||||||||||||||
06/13/2009 16:26:22 jim Nascar Group | Sat |||||||||||||||||||
06/13/2009 13:16:26 jim Sparta Girls | Sat |||||||||||||||||||
06/13/2009 11:44:36 jim Sparta Campsite | Sat |||||||||||||||||||
06/13/2009 08:01:44 jim Bam | Sat |||||||||||||||||||
I usually don't tell stories, but this one touched my heart. This one is about a deer named Bam. She was found alone in the woods, assumed to be orphaned from her mother during hunting season. My wife took her in, went to the feed store, bought some cow nipples and powdered milk, and we nursed her. We called her Bam. Bam loved playing with our kids and she became as much a member of the family as any of us, but Bam was growing fast. There came a time one spring, Bam was out in the barn, just going crazy to get out. I told my wife, you have to let her go. You'll have to believe she'll come back, but you have to let her go. My wife, with tears in her eyes, opened the door, and Bam ran off into the woods without looking back. Weeks had gone by. We weren't sure if they'd ever see Bam again, but my wife would go out everyday calling "Bam, Bam!" while holding two full bottles of milk. It was on a beautiful spring day, a day much like today, she went out and called out to Bam. The bushes rustled and Bam came running out of the woods with her little tail wiggling. Bam hadn't forgotten us. Everyone came out, Bam drank both bottles and we all played. She was such a pleasure. That was years ago. The kids have all gone now. Bam would continue to pop in from time to time, and we'd have our bottles waiting for her in the fridge. We haven't seen Bam for quite some time, but every now and then, we'll see a fawn, up on the hill side, looking down at us, and we'll smile. And that, is my story of a much missed fawn named Bam. - Told by a retired couple at the campround in Sparta Kentucky. |
06/13/2009 00:07:30 jim Nascar Campsite - Night | Sat |||||||||||||||||||
06/12/2009 19:26:14 jim Sparta, Ky - Skies | Fri |||||||||||||||||||
06/11/2009 00:00:00 jim Camping near Cincinatti | Thu |||||||||||||||||||
06/11/2009 00:00:00 SAE (Reply).Camping near Cincinatti | Thu |||||||||||||||||||
NO, please tell me it ain't so.... Car racing is scum.... Cars are transportation, not toys. Dale Earnhart, for example. |
06/08/2009 20:32:30 jim Down by the Creek | Mon |||||||||||||||||||
06/08/2009 06:14:30 jim Dealing with a bad brain | Mon |||||||||||||||||||
I don't remember when my memory went bad. har har All I know is, I've always had to struggle with ways remember things all of my life. Take for example: when I was a waiter at Mgm. I worked the Exec Station. That meant that I couldn't refer to Clint Eastwood as 'Mr'. I had to say, 'Good evening, Mr Eastwood. May I offer you something to drink?'. I remember Seigfried sat on my station once singing Framptons "I'm in You, You're in me". I had to think about that one for awhile. I also had the floor execs. One was Mr Green who was white, another was Mr White who was black. So, Mr White was black and Mr Green was white. That seemed like a memory grabber. Then there were the show people: they would cram 8 in a booth designed for 3. They'd order their hearts of lettuce salads, their tea with the bag on the side, and so forth. They never tipped more than 50 cents. I guess in England, food servers don't get tipped. We were lowly scullions. But that was okay because occassionaly I'd date one of the show girls. I remember, I offered a showgirl a nickel for her thoughts, and she ripped me off. She had NO thoughts, I mean NONE, but the girl sure could dance. See now, I forgot what I was talking about. Oh yes, memory. These days I have an IPhone. I can just take someone's picture, then email it to myself with their name. And if someone is talking about something I know nothing about, I google it. If someone is throwing abbreviations around, I can look that up too. Take for instance, my title these days. I'm a CE in BISD representing ADI for FI. I can't find those in Google, but I can ask and take notes on my IPhone for these things. I think it's pretty cool. In the current world, you don't need a good brain, all you need is an IPhone. |
06/07/2009 14:29:37 jim Check out my Yatzee Game | Sun |||||||||||||||||||
Look down on the bottom right. It took about 8 hours to write a Yatzee game from scratch. I love programming. It's a passion of mine. I used four langauges to create it. I would have liked to use just one, but thats the way things have become of the last decade. We were talking about new languages that have cropped up over the last 10 years or so. I'd think most of them are passing fads. Many new languages promise to ease programming woes. They hope to eliminate programmers. All systems are simple in the beginning. Enhancements make them become complex. When a new language is adopted, the systems have to be rewritten. Its not the language that makes them simpler, its the rethinking about changes done after decades of time. And it doesn't matter what language the systems are written in, ALL systems become complex. Programming isn't about knowing a language (I know quite a few). Programming is about thinking logicially. To create a system you must be able to hold a line of thought. So I have to laugh at the people who more-or-less run to Best Buy and purchase packages that promise to eliminate programming ! Imagine how that might work: A manager clicks a picture of an ATM and drags it over to a new Bank, and the programming is done. Maybe that will work someday. LOL! Imagine now that the manager wants to trade stocks on the ATM, or add a donation, or whatever, and there isn't an option for it in his package. Its the same old story. You can't update the package by simply hiring a programmer. EVERYTHING has to be written from scratch, or the manager will have to pay extraordinary amounts of money to get the package enhanced. What I'm saying is, you can't create a system without thinking. A lot of places I've contracted with have off the shelf packages that they've forced on their workers. We may deal with 10 packages, just to accomplish a simple task, like adding time to our time sheets. And I think this may be where America has gone wrong. Greatness doesn't happen by simply throwing money at something. You have to plan and you don't need a plan for how to plan. You simply have to think. |
06/02/2009 18:30:23 jim Cranberry Fun Center | Tue |||||||||||||||||||
06/01/2009 20:07:14 jim Brusters Ice Cream... | Mon |||||||||||||||||||
06/01/2009 20:03:40 jim Allegheny | Mon |||||||||||||||||||
One of the things that really fascinates me about West Allegheny is that it has the second best view of downtown Pittsburgh, and the buildings are falling apart. I'm surprised the wealthy people haven't discovered its vista and rebuilt this area into something very spectacular. I saw people sitting two couches suited for the dump, houses falling apart, and the only business seemed to be a place to buy lottery tickets. |
06/01/2009 18:57:38 jim Allegheny Tavern | Mon |||||||||||||||||||
05/27/2009 09:56:38 jim Life in the Jungle | Wed |||||||||||||||||||
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