Here's a funny thing:
Having installed Windows 10 on the laptop many weeks ago, I decided for some unknown reason to try out Microsoft Edge, the new "I'm-Not-Windows-Exploder" web browser. Meh. Then I tried to import bookmarks from Chrome.
The good news I guess is that the bookmarks did, technically, move from Chrome to Edge. The bad news is that all my bookmarks in Edge are upside down. Inverted. Sorted precisely backward from where they were in Chrome.
Careful, Microsoft, or somebody might think you suck and you hate us.
9/13/2015
9/02/2015
JAPAN SURRENDERS!
Seventy years ago, the formal articles of the unconditional surrender of Japan were signed aboard USS Missouri (BB-63).
"It's V-J Day! Go kiss a sailor!," as my mother used to say. (Dad, of course, was in the Navy!)
"It's V-J Day! Go kiss a sailor!," as my mother used to say. (Dad, of course, was in the Navy!)
9/01/2015
Those compressed garbage trucks... kind trucks!
I get junk email at work. This one actually makes more sense than many do. You have to grab all the humor you can wherever you can find it!
Dear manager.
Good morning, glad to meet you. Thanks a lot that you had read my E-mail.
We are a manufacturer. We design and supply different non-standard hydraulic cylinder for compressed garbage trucks, dump trucks, arm-swing trucks and swill collectiong trucks. Hope that we will have a chance to contact more about your cylinders for these kind trucks, thanks.
Please keep in touch.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Have a nice day and best regards,
Lena
Int'l Sales Manager
8/06/2015
Hiroshima Day
The atomic bombs made my life possible. At the time Truman gave the go-ahead, my father was on an LST in the Pacific, preparing for the invasion of the Japanese home islands.
The use of the atomic bombs saved lives, compared to anticipated casualties from the planned invasion.
The tyranny of the government of Imperial Japan was the cause of so much suffering.
Yes those photos are ghastly. But every time Hiroshima Day rolls around I thank the One True God® that the bombs were used and the surrender was secured.
The use of the atomic bombs saved lives, compared to anticipated casualties from the planned invasion.
The tyranny of the government of Imperial Japan was the cause of so much suffering.
Yes those photos are ghastly. But every time Hiroshima Day rolls around I thank the One True God® that the bombs were used and the surrender was secured.
7/16/2015
Korean War Martyr
U.S. Army 19th Infantry troops had been in action along the Kum River through 16 July 1950. They intended to disengage but their retreat was blocked by Communist forces.
Quotes below are from the wikipedia article:
"U.S. troops from the 19th Infantry, desperate to move around the roadblock to obtain supplies and care for wounded, began moving through the surrounding hills. One tank was able to make it through the roadblock to evacuate the 19th Infantry's wounded commander, but by 19:00 commanders ordered the regiment to move its wounded along the ridges to the east of the roadblock."
"...At 21:00, about 100 men of the 19th Infantry moved into the hills to the east of the town. They carried with them about 30 wounded, including several litter-bound patients too seriously wounded to walk. Some of the group of 100 were ordered to carry these men, but many of them separated from the group in the mountains. By the time they reached the top of the mountain, officers decided some of the seriously wounded could not be carried any further, as their carriers were exhausted.
"The regimental medical officer, Captain Linton J. Buttrey, and Chaplain [Franciscan Roman Catholic priest] Herman G. Felhoelter remained behind with the wounded, intending to move them when another group of troops came through who could carry them."
The chaplain urged the medical officer to escape. Buttrey was wounded but survived.
"...[O]bservers from the 19th Infantry's regimental Headquarters and Headquarters Company watched through binoculars from a distance as a patrol of young-looking and possibly untrained North Korean troops approached the site of the wounded. The troops were armed with Soviet-made rifles and PPSh-41 "burp guns". As Felhoelter knelt to pray over the wounded U.S. soldiers, the North Korean troops shot him in the head and back. They then proceeded to shoot and kill all of the 30 critically wounded soldiers with their automatic weapons before withdrawing into the wilderness."
Father Felhoelter had received the Bronze Star as a chaplain in World War II. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously.
Quotes below are from the wikipedia article:
"U.S. troops from the 19th Infantry, desperate to move around the roadblock to obtain supplies and care for wounded, began moving through the surrounding hills. One tank was able to make it through the roadblock to evacuate the 19th Infantry's wounded commander, but by 19:00 commanders ordered the regiment to move its wounded along the ridges to the east of the roadblock."
"...At 21:00, about 100 men of the 19th Infantry moved into the hills to the east of the town. They carried with them about 30 wounded, including several litter-bound patients too seriously wounded to walk. Some of the group of 100 were ordered to carry these men, but many of them separated from the group in the mountains. By the time they reached the top of the mountain, officers decided some of the seriously wounded could not be carried any further, as their carriers were exhausted.
"The regimental medical officer, Captain Linton J. Buttrey, and Chaplain [Franciscan Roman Catholic priest] Herman G. Felhoelter remained behind with the wounded, intending to move them when another group of troops came through who could carry them."
The chaplain urged the medical officer to escape. Buttrey was wounded but survived.
"...[O]bservers from the 19th Infantry's regimental Headquarters and Headquarters Company watched through binoculars from a distance as a patrol of young-looking and possibly untrained North Korean troops approached the site of the wounded. The troops were armed with Soviet-made rifles and PPSh-41 "burp guns". As Felhoelter knelt to pray over the wounded U.S. soldiers, the North Korean troops shot him in the head and back. They then proceeded to shoot and kill all of the 30 critically wounded soldiers with their automatic weapons before withdrawing into the wilderness."
Father Felhoelter had received the Bronze Star as a chaplain in World War II. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously.
6/20/2015
Midsummer walk
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| Elderberries getting ripe |
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| My little buckeye |
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| Sweet Pea blooming on pea vine hill |
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| Huge midsummer sun bow - the black dots are swallows |
Had a little midsummer eve walkies and saw some things.
6/14/2015
Tanka for June 13, 2015
Nearly midsummer
Bare stalks with round bead-like seeds
All along the path
Under warm scent of laurel
Pinhole pictures of the sun
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| Base of Mount Wanda trail |
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| Indian Soap going to seed |
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| Acorn Woodpecker work -- but where are the acorns? |
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