What did we do before air conditioning? I grew up without it and after moving to Maryland, my wife and I did not have it for a number of years. Yet. we survived. In fact, as a teen-ager working at the New Bedford YMCA.. my working area was always over 90 degrees, and I liked it. Outside, it seldom made it into the 90's. If it was 83, that was a heat wave. Here in Maryland, one year, we experienced 45 days when the temperature was over 90 degrees. Everywhere we drove, we ran over melting tar in the road and saw heat mirages on the street ahead.
Hackers Hack Again
I was surprised today to learn that I had over 200 new comments on some of my old blog entries. Now, who would subject themselves to reading and commenting on all those blogs in a 24 hour period? Why, a hacker of course. Each one of the comments is a list of computer locations. I suppose that the hacker gets "points" or money for putting some business' information onto the Internet, so, this clown has learned how to do that. Probably some teen-ager with a lot of time on his hands... school doesn't reopen for a few weeks and it's too hot to go out looking for Pokémon-Go's.
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me
On today's show, there was mention of a great German crossword fan: supposedly, at a German museum, one of the modern art displays was of a crossword puzzle and bore the instruction that the viewer was supposed to fill in the blank words. So, this elderly lady had a ballpoint pen, and did so.... and got arrested for defacing an art work.
Now, as an uncrowned expert on German crossword puzzles...I would predict that the art work was of an American type puzzle, since the German ones would not lend themselves to such an artwork... in my humble opinion.
Tomato Time
I heard that to combat the problem that tomatoes shipped across the country sometimes go rotten before going on sale, growers are adding fish genes to their tomato seeds, thus creating FISHMATOS. The fish genes keep the tomato from rotting so fast... thereby the growers can make more money. (Sounds a little fishy to me.)
Speaking of rotten tomatoes.. our only red ones so far have "bottom end rot." They look nice when they are green, so, if I can't cure this problem, we will be enjoying "Fried Green Tomatoes."
Open Carry for Christians
Chuck Shepherd writes in the Funny Paper for August 2016 about the custom at a Pennsylvania Church. Congregants place Bibles on the pews where they plan to sit during the service. However, recently another congregant violated that tradition and got into a confrontation. The argument ended when one of these clowns shot and killed the other.
Once, when we were visiting our friends in South Carolina, we went with them to an Easter Catholic service... a full house. We saw empty seats and when we sat down, we were accosted by some mean looking people who said that we were in their seats. Luckily, "open carry" was not a law then and we all survived.
Australian Beer Must be Good
Chuck Shepherd also tells about an Australian man who likes to swim with his pet carpet python. The Aussie throws the snake a few feet ahead of him and the snake comes back to him each time, while the Aussie slugs some more beer from the can in his hand. (Does he give beer to the snake as a reward?)
Chuck also reports on another Aussie stopped by the Highway Patrol. His "several" children, including an infant, were bouncing around unrestrained because he had used all the seat restraints to hold his cases of beer.
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