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  1. Hercule

    What missed opportunities do you regret?

    Sadly no. I'm in my early 50s and am too busy trying to make up for the failed career in the field I did go into. Complicate that with family concerns and everything is just peachy, but, I'm working on it.
  2. Hercule

    What missed opportunities do you regret?

    Back 36 some-odd years ago when I was in junior high going into high school I developed an interest in mechanical drawing/architecture that I've always regretted not pursuing. Oh how life would have been different...
  3. Hercule

    Humphrey Bogart is Really Dead

    While I can appreciate Borge's humor and talent, I'm afraid I have a jaundiced view of him otherwise. Many many years ago I stage managed one of his concerts at a summer music festival. After the show there was a long line for autographs, so I dutifully stayed at the end of the line, seeing as...
  4. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I hear ya about the cheese business. You should hear what I have to go through to get a proper milk shake - it would seem that a glass crammed full of soft-serve ice cream is a milk shake around here. Anymore when I go out I simply expect to be disappointed and try to order accordingly. But...
  5. Hercule

    Humphrey Bogart is Really Dead

    Re Liberace - His talent was actually quite real, and say what you will about his marketing of himself (for lack of a better term), it was quite successful. I actually visited the Liberace Museum in Vegas many many years ago and was kind of sad to learn that it had closed. At the time I was...
  7. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    You obviously have never encountered my wife. She has strict protocols as to how sandwiches are cut. Grilled cheese are to be cut so as to have points (diagonal) where as BLTs (actually, she insist they be LTBs otherise they'll taste disgusting) are cut in half evenly, north and south. I have...
  8. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It is a very long tradition in German culture to do just that. One may also find it in other European cultures and, indeed, in 19th century America.
  9. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    What a timely comment. Just yesterday my wife and I had bit of a row over my son's shorts (he's 9 and this week he's in a science/nature field camp). She insisted on having him wear casual "gym" shorts and I preferred that he wear real shorts (actual pants material, with a real waist band and...
  10. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Several times now in as many weeks, I been in family type restaurants where someone at a nearby table has been watching TV or something on their phone or tablet with the volume turned up enough to be heard well across the room. Imagine the joy of being submitted to the tinny speakers of a mobile...
  11. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Don't see so much of that with people, but drivers all the time - Cars dutifully lining up ahead of a merge only to have someone zing on up ahead in the empty lane and try to nose in at the head of the line.
  13. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    You should see what passes for street legal here in Ohio. No wonder duct tape has their headquarters here.
  14. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    People who don't drive up close enough to use the drive-up ATM from their car window. The funniest is when they are too close to open the door yet too far away to reach through the window.
  15. Hercule

    Making a panama

    Even better, thanks.
  16. Hercule

    I love the Fed IV!!

    I've found, both in my own hat and from what I've seen of others, the hat band tends to be about an eighth of an inch too high. Anybody else notice this?
  17. Hercule

    What's For Breakfast...

    Unfortunately, it wasn't. It was a store bought tomato that showed signs of starting on it's way to being squishy, and i wanted to use it before it headed too far in that direction. Tasted great nonetheless.
  19. Hercule

    Making a panama

    For those who may have never seen a Panama in the making, the Permanent Style blog entry for August 4th has an image of a Panama being woven: http://www.permanentstyle.co.uk/ I can't even imagine the patience needed to do such a thing! Sure makes you appreciate the cost of true craftsmanship.
  20. Hercule

    What's For Breakfast...

    A tomato sandwich
  21. Hercule

    What Are You Reading

    As always, several going at a time: The 40s : the story of a decade / The New Yorker ; edited by Henry Finder with Giles Harvey The sun kings : the unexpected tragedy of Richard Carrington and the tale of how modern astronomy began / Stuart Clark Saving Mona Lisa : the battle to protect the...
  22. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Seriously?!! You must be retired. Once you leave the house in the morning, you're at the mercy of a myriad of unforseen factors working against you. While I regularly leave early only to get to work late, I have on several occasions, believe it or not, left late and got to work early!
  23. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    You are to be applauded for actually obeying the traffic laws. Here it is very very very rare for bicyclists to stop at red lights unless there is a car coming.

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