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!

Thursday, May 22, 2014

A new personal best

›
Today I produced over 8,000 words for my latest book - about two thousand more than my previous personal daily 'best'.  It's fl...
1 comment:

Politics, defined visually

›
Courtesy of CenTexTim , from whom I shamelessly stole borrowed this image : Yep.  That just about says it all.  However, with Disne...
6 comments:
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

"A terrorist storm is heading for the West"

›
That's the alarming headline in the Telegraph, which reports : At the Daily Beast, Eli Lake is reporting that more than 100 American...
4 comments:

A piece of aviation history I've actually seen

›
C. W. Swanson put up a picture on his blog of a heavy-lift helicopter recovering the fuselage of a Canadian-built Catalina flying-boat.  ...
2 comments:

Quote of the day

›
From bestselling indie author Joe Konrath : The only one who can make you feel bad about yourself is you. So get over yourself. One of l...

Go bulls!

›
I've never been able to reconcile bullfighting with the notion of 'sport' - just as, for that matter, boxing, wrestling and oth...
8 comments:
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

The Ukraine: ancient history redux

›
I've been watching ongoing developments in Ukraine with considerable interest.  One of my long-standing interests has been the developm...
9 comments:

Doofus Of The Day #773

›
Today's award goes to whoever loaded this AR-15 magazine : The comment thread at the picture's Imgur page is worth reading,...
5 comments:

The perils of interplanetary parcel delivery

›
Here's a fun video animation about an interplanetary parcel delivery man.  Having seen some seriously wacky delivery drivers, all I can...
1 comment:

My LibertyCon schedule is up

›
For those who'll be attending LibertyCon in Chattanooga, TN over the last weekend in June, the schedule has just been announced.  It...
4 comments:
Monday, May 19, 2014

King of the swamp!

›
Some cats just don't have much give-up in them. Peter
4 comments:

A sorry state of academic affairs

›
If you want to know why US undergraduate (and even some graduate) degrees are increasingly regarded with scorn by overseas universities, lo...
8 comments:

OK, I need these!

›
Through a link at the Lonely Libertarian, I was introduced to 'Get The Hint' tags .  They're mostly rude, crude and Not Safe F...

Coral reefs as you've never seen them before

›
Here's a fascinating time-lapse video of the slowest underwater life, speeded up to show its movement and activities. The author...
1 comment:
Sunday, May 18, 2014

Around The Blogs 2014-05-18

›
Still working my trousers to the bone writing the new novel, but I had some time to browse the blogosphere now and then.  Here's this w...
2 comments:

I hate Mondays . . .

›
. . . especially when they include things like this. Peter
6 comments:
Saturday, May 17, 2014

Another Japanese game show

›
I posed a number of clips from weird Japanese game shows in years past, although I haven't done so recently.  I came across this one to...
2 comments:

Just when you thought it was safe to be a vegetarian . . .

›
Reader J. M. sent me these two photographs.  Their origin is unknown, but he says that some years ago an artist created an image of the ...
1 comment:

Sales pitch of the day

›
Overheard this morning at the Tennessee Renaissance Festival , a loud call from a jewelry stallholder to a passing couple: "My Lord...
1 comment:
Friday, May 16, 2014

A five-year-long suspended joke?

›
This made me laugh. Fans of the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show got a treat when a Twitter user pulled off a joke especiall...
2 comments:
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me & Contact Info

  • On a Wing and a Whim
  • Peter
Powered by Blogger.