Exciting news for Bronze fans everywhere.

I do look forward to these and I just hope the film project is both good and successful. This is exciting news for ‘pulp’ fans and Doc fans alike. There seems to be a revival of ’pulp’ activity coming and I hope new fans can jump aboard for the excitement the danger and the resolve to tackle the unknown.

Doc Savage HERE

This has been out for a while…

but I decided to share it here. You just have to accept the awesomeness of Capt. Kirk!

Adventures in Grandpa’s back yard.

Lets go see Grandpa.

He has lots of fun stuff to see.

 

Check this out, a bird.

What’s back here?

 

Look, I haz a great grandma.

She made a face!

 

All done exploring, where is my cookie?

The Poetry of Reality (Symphony of Science)

There are six of you now. I want the best for each of you. There is nothing that you can not do if you desire to do it. Be a scientist, be a poet. Color your world without worrying about the lines. Be happy in your quest for knowledge. Learn to read, learn to write, learn to explore, question and be happy. Do not waste time and be prepared to accept your truth. There are many undiscovered things out there, do not be timid.

skinput: a better tomorrow or another mark of the beast?

I tend to try and look ahead to the world my grandkids will be a part of. I, like a lot of us, have always wanted a better jet pack.

With almost every blink of the eye, there are amazing announcements of a better tomorrow. Take one example. The e-book reader. Already, we are seeing signs of a second generation. Think Sony > Kindle > iPad. Just yesterday I wanted a reader. This morning I ‘had to have’ a Kindle. Wait a second, one moment. (Think HAL 9000) There is now the iPad.

Hummmm, did you know my laptop does recognize the .pdf format?

Tomorrow is clobbering you right in the jaw. Right now. It’s not a slap; it’s a punch.

I can just imaging what my grandkids will say:

“Ha, remember how excited crazy ol’ granddad was about that Kindel he got?”

“Yeah, he was so funny. If only he knew what we have now. Just think, I heard him say there was a time before something called a fax machine and oh yeah, his first modem was only 300 baud.”

“Modem? what is that?”

I truly think and hope mankind will live in a better tomorrow. I just hope and pray ‘we’ are wise enough to use it for the betterment of all.

Amazing what some rain does.

Today was sunny and nice for a change. Decided to venture into the back yard for lunch and a look around.

Grandma has a burger and some cool refreshment from the old #88!

Looking around, I’ll be darn if there isn’t some green.

Very rare in the ‘Old Pueblo’.

Mom enjoyed the sun and eat all of her lunch. A good day, such as it us.

A look at PKD’s last years in the OC

Ran across this article about Philip, the up-coming ‘A PHANTOM LAND’ which is based on his ‘Radio Free Albemuth’; and some interesting thoughts on his last decade in the land of Disney.

Jump here

Upon turning fifty-five

 

I have not given a lot of worrisome thought to turning fifty five today. Wow, it looks strange when you spell it out. Falls into that debate of do you say two thousand and ten or twenty ten? Sadly, in the end; just not all that important.

I have often said that I was indeed, born old. Yes. I do believe that.

Samuel Clemens was book ended in his birth and death by the arrival of Halley’s Comet. I had no such celestial herald. Both my coming and I am sure my going will have governance by the Lord to be nothing extraordinary nor vivacious. I have, for the entirety of my existence been void of any frolicsome adolescents.

When I was born, Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34^th President of the United States. Just eight days after my birth, he sent the first advisors into South Vietnam. For a while, Winston Churchill was still Prime Minister of Great Britain.

TV was only available in limited areas and came in various shades of two colors: black and white. If, you got all the channels available; you got three.

On April 18^th of that year, Albert Einstein passed away and actor James Dean was killed in a car crash. He was twenty four.

This one is of interest to me: on July 17^th of the year I was born, Disneyland was opened in Anaheim, California.

The very first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published, in London. Elvis is caught on film for the first time in Cleveland, Ohio.

In December Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person, and the national civil rights movement begins. The Salk polio vaccine was approved.

There was of course a whole years worth of events, but those were some of the more interesting ones.

Oh, almost forgot; there were only 48 stars on the American Flag.

Told you….I’m old.

And Phil says…

Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil Sees Shadow--And Long Winter

A Black and White Day

I wanted to share some of the pictures I took last Monday. While i was doing this was when the “ *&^%& ” (read as pukes) broke into my house. Oh well, here are some memories. :

I seem to be taking a lot of shadow shots lately.

Some leaves.

See, it does snow here; just on the mountain.

For my friend who likes B/W pictures of trees.

Another one.

Ouch, that probably doesn’t feel all that good to her.

A beautiful and clear day in the ‘ Old Pueblo ‘.

To bad, it turned to crap right after I took this picture.