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Alan C. Baird
- Location
- Mesa, Arizona, USA, Earth
- Bio
- Alan lives just a stone's throw from Phoenix... which is fine and dandy, until the stones are thrown back.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Do not go gentle into that
good night.
February 01, 2012 07:00AM - Ring Of Fire.
January 28, 2012 02:21PM - Thank you! More, please?
January 17, 2012 12:49PM - Blake sayeth.
January 07, 2012 05:53AM - Funniest videos about
Facebook.
January 06, 2012 09:16AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Kathy, I'm glad you
recognize my inherent
superiority.
Now
genuflect.”
April 12, 2011 04:19PM - “Good point,
Walter.
I just deleted a
half-dozen really nasty
comments from
other
O…”
October 09, 2010 05:33AM - “Let's bring back the
carnage!”
September 21, 2010 09:02AM - “My pleasure, David! Hope
you get a chance to see
it.”
August 17, 2010 03:56PM - “Thanks for your comment,
Gary! We all have our anvils
to
bear... ;-)”
July 07, 2010 09:09AM
Alan C. Baird's Links
FEBRUARY 1, 2012 7:00AM
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave
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JANUARY 28, 2012 2:21PM
Ring Of Fire.
Sunday, May 20, 2012: a "ring of fire" annular solar eclipse is coming to OR, CA, NV, UT, AZ, CO, NM, TX. It's the first one in the USA in almost 18 years.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YX2blo1eRk
More details: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/27jan_annulareclip… Read full post »
JANUARY 17, 2012 12:49PM
Thank you! More, please?
ANNIE (Malin Akerman): About a year ago, I was in this cab, and the cab driver - this Indian guy - started telling me... he started telling me all sorts of stuff. He was just looking at me in the rear-view mirror and he said, "Bliss. Bliss is your birthright." And
…
JANUARY 7, 2012 5:53AM
Blake sayeth.
Blake would say, "The naked woman's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man." (Iron John: A Book About Men, by Robert Bly, 1990)
Blake actually said:
"The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of… Read full post »
JANUARY 6, 2012 9:16AM
Funniest videos about Facebook.
Facebook Manners And You:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iROYzrm5SBM
The Social Network Teaser 3 (Spoof):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5o4UzfZsZI
10 Reasons Why We Hate Facebook:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flRg9Q1d3kY
Robert Frost Checks His Facebook Account:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/7b33dbb0… Read full post »
JANUARY 1, 2012 7:21AM
NEWS FLASH:
Archaeologists have discovered the Mayan Calendar, Part Deux.
It starts in 2012, and even includes the last three months of 2011.
JANUARY 1, 2012 3:34AM
Who's On First?
DECEMBER 31, 2011 5:24AM
Come to the edge.
by Christopher Logue (23 Nov 1926 - 2 Dec 2011)
(written in 1968 for a festival in honor of the 50th anniversary of the death of the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire)
Come to the edge.
"We might fall."
Come to the edge.
"It's too high!"
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came,
and we pushed,
And they... flew.
DECEMBER 31, 2011 4:54AM
The Road Not Taken (1915), by Robert Frost (1874-1963).
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though
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DECEMBER 25, 2011 2:57AM
Inexcusable liberties with the milkmaids.
![The Twelve Days of Christmas [Correspondence]: John Julius Norwich, 1996](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/031220163X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
DECEMBER 24, 2011 5:08AM
Bush Highway (Arizona).
Just wrote this for Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Highway_(Arizona)
The Bush Highway begins at the northern end of Power Road in Mesa, Arizona and extends northeasterly through the Tonto National Forest, over the Arizona Canal, past the Granite Reef Dam, along the Salt River near its con
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DECEMBER 23, 2011 7:31AM
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev.
We
Didn't Start The Fire [annotations]
[video]Written by Billy Joel
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom/…
DECEMBER 12, 2011 8:10AM
Eleven Thousand Virgins screenplay.
Read/review/collaborate
@ Amazon Studios:http://studios.amazon.com/scripts/11952
[107-page feature screenplay: Writers Network semifinalist]
Log line: "Field of Dreams" with medieval chant music in place of baseball.
Synopsis: Alex Barnett has a comfortable life in Los Angeles and San F
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DECEMBER 11, 2011 9:50PM
Screenwright(R) screenplay formatting template.
After designing
an award-winning screenplay formatter in 2008, I went ahead and
added nine others (sitcom, radio, theater and AV, plus A4 versions)
in 2009.They were all available on OpenOffice.org's Extensions and Templates websites, but those URLs have been very unreliable during the last si
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DECEMBER 8, 2011 4:27PM
Rudolph's Revenge.
Rudolph's Revenge by Leigh Rubin:
http://www.rubescartoons.com/prints.html
See also: White Christmas: Berlin/McPhatter/Held.
NOVEMBER 26, 2011 7:57PM
Walmart. Save money. Live better. Get injured.
NOVEMBER 10, 2011 3:41PM
Shovels and rakes and implements of destruction.
So
there I am, cruisin' down the Superstition Freeway (US60), slaloming
around the other cars like they're pylons.That's when I notice my path is blocked by a gardener's truck, towing a mesh-cage trailer that contains shovels and rakes and implements of destruction.
Crap. The slowdown is bummin
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NOVEMBER 4, 2011 7:53PM
Daylight Saving Time is ending.
Turn back your clocks Saturday night and be thankful you don't live in Tuba City, Arizona.
You see, most Arizonans take exception (the "Arizona Exception") to the Daylight Saving Time ("DST") observed by the rest of America.
But then there's the Navajo Rejection of the Arizona Exception: the northeast
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OCTOBER 16, 2011 7:19AM
Occupy Phoenix.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2011 5:02PM
Chupacabra Macarena.
[click
image to listen]Eh, Chupacabraaaaaa...
Some people say they have seen the Chupacabra
After some tequila, he was dancing the lambada
He doesn't know where he has come from
Making all the Mexicanas looking like a dum-dum
They say that he's a monkey
I think the whole story is just a little funky
…
SEPTEMBER 5, 2011 8:38AM
John A. Weiser (12 Oct 1948 - 30 Jun 2011).
John A.
WeiserJohn A. Weiser, age 62, passed away on June 30, 2011 in Indio, Calif. He is survived by his wife of 18 years, Cathie Riddle-Weiser; his mother, Cecelia Weiser; his aunt, Elizabeth Rosenfeld; cousins, Tina Artz and George Rosenfeld; as well as extended family. John was born in Ger
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SEPTEMBER 3, 2011 6:29AM
Self-fulfilling prophecy.
The
Cover of the Rolling Stone (released 1973)Written by: Shel Silverstein
Performed by: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
Well we're big rock singers, we got golden fingers
And we're loved everywhere we go
We sing about beauty and we sing about truth
At ten thousand dollars a show
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AUGUST 22, 2011 9:07AM
Setting up author pages at Amazon's international sites.
If you're an author with books listed on Amazon, chances are good that your books are also listed on Amazon's international sites. And if you join Author Central:
http://authorcentral.amazon.com
, you can collect all your books in one place, and provide readers with a bio, like this:
http://www.am… Read full post »
AUGUST 4, 2011 11:00PM
An Imaginary Conversation About A Thieving Soda Machine.
ME: That &@#%* soda machine stole 12 bucks from me.
HIM: TWELVE BUCKS?! But a soda costs only 75 cents!
ME: Yeah, but the machine stole from me 16 times.
HIM: SIXTEEN TIMES?! This week?!
ME: Over the last 14 months.
HIM: Why did you keep trying to buy from it?
ME: Co-workers kept showing me tricks
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AUGUST 1, 2011 4:00AM
Heat stroke.
Here are some videos for Blast-Furnace season (Phoenix dipped under 100°F/37.8°C only one day in July):
Bananarama - Cruel Summer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fdEKMCHvtQ
The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYuVPGmw3D4
Jerry Reed - When You're Hot, You're Hot http… Read full post »
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