Hey, you! » Blog news http://oldsillybear.com You live and learn. At any rate, you live. ~Douglas Adams Fri, 14 May 2010 19:11:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Mirror, mirror http://oldsillybear.com/2010/03/09/mirror-mirror/ http://oldsillybear.com/2010/03/09/mirror-mirror/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:17:09 +0000 Ben http://oldsillybear.com/?p=4460 Sorry, not the classic episode of Star Trek.

There’s a quote, and of course I can’t find it at the moment, something along the lines of “if you keep having problems with everyone and everything, maybe it’s really you.”

yeah, it’s me, so now what?

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Squirrel!

]]> http://oldsillybear.com/2010/03/09/mirror-mirror/feed/ 2 Is it a destiny, a destiny? http://oldsillybear.com/2010/02/16/is-it-a-destiny-a-destiny/ http://oldsillybear.com/2010/02/16/is-it-a-destiny-a-destiny/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:24:29 +0000 Ben http://oldsillybear.com/?p=4452 This is a little slice of my childhood.

I bought the album, ‘Get the Knack,’ on 8-track from the bargin bin at Target. (I’ll wait here if you want to google that, or ask your parents, or whatever). It had the classic, My Sharona, along with another of my faves, Good Girls Don’t (we always sang loudest on the ‘but I do’ part).

One of our favorite things to do was turn this up really, really loud and dance around on our patio like idiots. Thank God Al Gore hadn’t invented Youtube yet, or there would be actual evidence.

Being a bargain 8-track and not having google back in the day (we were lucky if the mastadons didn’t knock out the power, ya know?) I had no idea that this song was about an actual girl named Sharona and that she was about my age, even though the singer / writer was clearly older because he had a hit song and everything. In fact I never even bothered to find out in all these years. It turns out Sharona was at his side this weekend.

R.I.P. Doug.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Doug Fieger, lead singer for The Knack and co-writer of My Sharona, passed away on Sunday at the age of 57.

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Created by Oatmeal

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  1. Omelette :: broken eggs
  2. Classic :: Rock
  3. Thrifty :: car rental
  4. Search :: google
  5. Fan :: ceiling
  6. Fussy :: Pants
  7. I am not :: going there
  8. Indulge :: ice cream
  9. Poor :: Man
  10. Manicure :: pedicure
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Go ahead, laugh.

Bay Bridge

Originally uploaded by MikeHorn.

]]> http://oldsillybear.com/2009/09/09/nerdgasm/feed/ 0 He had it right http://oldsillybear.com/2009/09/03/he-had-it-right/ http://oldsillybear.com/2009/09/03/he-had-it-right/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:01:39 +0000 Ben http://oldsillybear.com/?p=4414 Douglas Adams wrote this 10 years ago, a wonderful little discussion about how people were reacting to this new thing called the internet.

It’s all good (read the full text here) but I especially like this bit:

I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this:

1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;

2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;

3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

Apply this list to movies, rock music, word processors and mobile phones to work out how old you are.

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So, here’s some mutterings, haven’t done one in a while:

  1. Delayed :: gratification
  2. Irresponsible :: journalism
  3. Stupendous :: Barney TBPD
  4. Barcelona :: Spain, also Freddie Mercury tune I heard yesterday
  5. Solution :: Precipitate
  6. Simplify :: simplify, simplify
  7. Crumble :: apple pie topping
  8. Podcast :: apple
  9. Conversation :: starter
  10. Homepage :: I had one on Geocities
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Originally uploaded by silly old bear.

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Originally uploaded by silly old bear.

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Originally uploaded by silly old bear.

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