Bayou Renaissance Man

The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Try playing this game by hand!

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It's nice to see companies get creative with their advertising.  Caterpillar has just done that by playing a giant-size game of Jenga ...
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Monday, April 21, 2014

A veteran strikes back

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There seems to be a trend among certain politicians to decry veterans of military service as 'never having held a job', or somethin...
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"Spring Break" = "Debauchery Central"?

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As a teen I never took part in anything resembling ' Spring Break ' here in the USA.  I've read reports about it since coming t...
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Doofus Of The Day #764

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Former Mayor Bloomberg of New York City has committed $50 million to opposing the National Rifle Association and fomenting opposition to fi...
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Verily, the mind doth boggle . . .

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I haven't encountered much in the way of ' cosplay ', where individuals dress up (sometimes very elaborately) in imitation of f...
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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Around The Blogs 2014-04-20

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Lots of good stuff in the blogosphere over the past week or so. # # # I linked to Captain Tightpants' essay 'I think I broke ...
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Captain Tightpants nails it

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I'm sure many of my readers are also readers of Captain Tightpants .  He's been AWOL from the blogosphere for a few months, but ret...
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Saturday, April 19, 2014

The hardest separation

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Brigid, dear friend to Miss D. and myself, lost her big brother yesterday.  He'd fought cancer for many months, but the disease finall...
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Seeing sounds

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I was interested to find this video from NPR on YouTube.  It shows how sound waves can be photographed using special techniques, so that on...
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Friday, April 18, 2014

Squeeee!

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I'm in the process of sorting out a large number of boxes of possessions that I brought with me from Louisiana when I came to Tennessee...
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A video feast for the eyes

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There's great news for history and video buffs.  British Pathé has uploaded its entire library of historic 'moving images' to Y...
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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Reorganizing the gun safe

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I've been hard at work on a lot of domestic tasks that have been neglected for too long.  One of them was to reorganize my gun safe. ...
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A smokescreen as home security device?

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I'm sure many readers have heard about smoke generators used as anti-theft devices in some stores.  Here are a couple of video clips to...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Why our economy is as screwed as our politics

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I know this article from CNS News has been highlighted on the Drudge Report today, and mentioned on a number of blogs, but I think it'...
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More fallout from the Nevada standoff

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I'd like to recommend two articles to your attention.  Both have been spreading around the blogosphere today. The first is a long, bu...
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Doofus Of The Day #763

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This one's courtesy of Autoblog .  The video is self-explanatory. If that's how they tried to get it out , would anyone care...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

The 'last wishes' of a venerable VW vehicle

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I'm sure many of my readers have driven (or been driven in) a VW Kombi , or Microbus, or van, or whatever it was called in their countr...
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"When Los Angeles was a rustic village"

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That's the title of a photo essay in the Telegraph, featuring images dating back to the 19th century.  Here are a couple of them to wh...
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Special price on "Take The Star Road" - two days only!

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If any of my readers haven't tried my novels yet, and would like to, I'm currently running a promotion through Amazon's Kindle ...

Too cute for words!

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Here's an utterly charming video, compiled from numerous clips, of youngsters recognizing their fathers as they come home from work.  I...
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