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!

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Around The Blogs 2014-07-20, Part 2

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Here are the rest of my links from the past couple of weeks.  I put up most of them in Part 1 of this article this morning. # # # Cen...
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Around The Blogs 2014-07-20, Part 1

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Having missed an Around The Blogs entry last weekend, there are a lot of links to be included today;  so I'm going to do it in two part...
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Saturday, July 19, 2014

Musings on Windows 8.1 and writing

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I used to be quite the computer fundi .  I worked on mainframe systems in my much younger days, everything from operating them, to programm...
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Lawdog at his finest . . .

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I have a little collection of blog posts by (and, in some cases, about) a few of my friends.  A leading light among them is Lawdog , who al...
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I wonder if I could train our cat to help like this?

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It'd certainly relieve us of some housework . . . Peter
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Friday, July 18, 2014

Dinner with Old NFO

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Miss D. and myself had a most enjoyable evening with Old NFO , who's passing through town on his way back home after a couple of weeks...
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A most intriguing man

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Now and again one comes across someone whose life and works are so out of the ordinary, so far beyond the norm, that one's eyebrows ris...
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Packaging shenanigans . . .

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Ever wondered why shipping charges are sometimes so inordinately high?  Check out how this lone photographic battery charger was packed for...
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Thursday, July 17, 2014

"10 things no one tells you before you take up golf"

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That's the title of a very amusing article in the Telegraph today.  Here's an excerpt. 2.  Don't wait to hear 'fore...
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Yesterday, Russian rifles - tomorrow, Russian ammo?

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As an afterthought to my previous post about the apparent shooting down of a Malaysian Airlines flight over the Donetsk region of Ukraine,...
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

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We're watching a tragedy unfurl in the far east of Ukraine as news becomes available of the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.  It a...
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Love . . . saying it with animals

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The first video below I discovered at random while searching YouTube on a completely unrelated topic.  The second was linked on the first v...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Digitized film footage of World War I

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The Telegraph reports : [The Imperial War Museum ] has released newly restored archive footage as part of a project to digitise its film...
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"I think I have a hummingbird problem"

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That's what the person who put up this video said about it.  After viewing it, what can one do but agree with her?  I've never seen...
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In Memoriam: Allyson Hendrickson

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Readers of my regular 'Around The Blogs' feature may recall that in March, I posted this : Another longstanding blogging buddy, ...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Fever dreams . . .

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I woke up in the small hours of this morning running a fever - no idea how high, but I was shivering like crazy.  Miss D. wrapped me up war...
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Working up India's new aircraft carrier

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We examined India's "new" aircraft carrier, the INS Vikramaditya , in Weekend Warships #2 back in 2011.  After many delays a...
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Monday, July 14, 2014

Elephants in the rain

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I enjoyed this video clip of elephants at the Save Elephant Foundation 's reserve in Chiang Mai , Thailand.  They're Asian elephant...
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Some interesting reactions to my books

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I've been interested, honored, and highly amused (respectively) by three reactions to my books over the past few days. First, a few d...
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Official photographer for the Thunderbirds

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Here's a fascinating video for aircraft enthusiasts and photography buffs.  It depicts USAF cameraman Sergeant Larry Reid Jr. and his w...
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