The blog of Luther M. Siler, teacher, author and local curmudgeon
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This feels a bit more like a Twitter thing than a blog post, but it’s a bit too complicated for Twitter to handle, so you get it instead.
John Kerry broke his leg while cycling in France today, and it got me wondering: What level of bodyguarding/security do we provide people like upper-level Cabinet members and members of Congress when they go overseas? The article mentions Kerry’s motorcade but doesn’t give any indication of who was in it. Does the Secret Service handle stuff like that, or do they just work with the President and VP?
Yes I know I could Google this. I’d rather ask y’all; somebody out there knows.
Later today: Saleswanking!
I asked this last night on the Twoodle and only got one response, so I’m trying again here: if you’re reading this, and you’ve written a book (or, preferably, more than one) how many copies of your books do you have lying around in your house? Not “I’m going to sell these sooner or later” copies, but actual shelf copies that you are more or less keeping permanently.
Just curious.
…beyond the fact that I can never remember how to spell “embarrassing.”
So the new Mad Max movie is getting hella good reviews. I startled myself after the first trailer when I realized I wanted to see it, because, and this hurts to say, because as a proud geek this shouldn’t be true, but I’ve never seen any of the Mad Max movies. I don’t even think I’ve seen parts of any of them. I have a hazy awareness that Tina Turner is in the third one but that’s it.
My wife feels that this cannot be allowed to stand.
I know I’m not the only one of my people out there. What have you not seen, or not read, that you really ought to have seen or read by your advanced age?
(Here’s the trailer. This looks good! I am surprised.)
I’m guessing you’d need to be at least 30-35 for your answer to this question to matter to me– old enough that you spent your life on analog/wired phones, and that you bought *yourself* your first cell phone. Two questions:
1) Do you actually remember getting your first cell phone? Like, was it an Event? Can you describe the phone, or nail down what year it was that you bought it?
2) Can you remember sending or receiving your first text message? (Preferably, for the purposes of this question, these two events did not occur on the same day– in other words, you had a cell phone before text messages were a Thing.)
Just curious. And, for the record, I’m just as interested in the “no” answers as the “Yes, this is when it was” answers, so if you don’t remember one of the two, let me know. Thanks.
I’m gonna need a couple of beta readers for something in, oh, an hour or so. I just need you to read a short manuscript (maaaaybe 3000-3500 words) and answer a single question that can be answered with either “yes” or “no,” with possibly some explanation of why if your answer is “no.”
Anybody in? Just leave a comment– WP will give me your email address automatically, obviously. I’d need an answer by this evening.
Thanks.
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