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  1. JimWagner

    the morning routine

    Up at 6 a.m. Perform morning self-sacrifice (shave). Hit the shower. Get dressed. Retrieve keys and wallet from their usual place. Pause a minute or two trying to remember what I was supposed to remember from the night before. Kiss the wife. Out the door by 6:30 a.m. Drive to work. Now I...
  2. JimWagner

    Aftershave : That nostalgic true masculine smell!

    :arated:
  3. JimWagner

    Going to the doctor in the "Golden Era"?

    I've always felt that the combination of fear of dying coupled with the amount of money insurance companies are willing to fork over combine to make dying big business, with big business being the larger part. Today we have to have Living Trusts to prevent big medicine from milking our dying...
  4. JimWagner

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Cowboys & Aliens. Decent special effects, some quite good in fact, but no surprises in the plot at all. Very predictable.
  5. JimWagner

    Aftershave : That nostalgic true masculine smell!

    Just put it on your face after you shave. The parts that you shave, that is. It'll sting for a moment.
  7. JimWagner

    Childhood TV kiddie shows...

    I watched Howdy Doody Time and The Adventures of Rin Tin when I was a kid. But I'll throw out a quote and see if anyone remembers what kid's show this came from - "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy." No fair Googling the answer.
  8. JimWagner

    50 Unexplainable Photos

    So, the Coneheads have been around since the Golden Age. Who knew?
  9. JimWagner

    Whisker Wars!!

    I've had a beard for most of my adult life and the few times I've cut it off my wife has made it known that I should grow it back asap. The first time my daughter saw me without a beard, I think she was three years old at the time, she cried. Her daughter, who is three now, has never seen me...
  10. JimWagner

    Castle

    One of my and my wife's favorite shows.
  11. JimWagner

    "Battleship"

    What's next? Tic-Tac-Toe?
  13. JimWagner

    Your favorite toys as a kid?

    My favorite toy was a Tom Corbett space academy set. Lots of little space men with removable bubble helmets, rocket launchers that fired little plastic rockets. Flying saucers and BEMs (bug eyed monsters). If you can find one of these sets today that's mostly all there they sell for a small...
  14. JimWagner

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Went to see Larry Crowne a couple of weeks ago. An eminently forgettable movie. I do remember having some popcorn.
  15. JimWagner

    Your mid-life crisis

    Well, I'm looking to retire inside of the next 6 months, with luck maybe even 2 months from now. I plan to have my mid life crisis then since I seem to have missed it when I was 40. ;)
  16. JimWagner

    Favorite Historic Buildings or Places

    This past weekend my wife and I visited Hamlet, NC to see the restored Seaboard Airline RR station there. It was built around 1900 and has been beautifully restored inside and out. Shows just what can be done when people put their minds to it. It still serves two Amtrak trains a day.
  17. JimWagner

    The general decline in standards today

    Some people are honest and a lot aren't. It's certainly nothing new though. What's new is that you can certainly find more stories about it on the internet. I really believe that skews people's perceptions. Before the internet you just wouldn't likely have heard about that piggy bank incident...
  19. JimWagner

    Lounge Downtime

    Thanks, Nathan. Looks good now.
  20. JimWagner

    1888 Recording Discovered: Edison Talking Doll

    Very interesting. More interesting to me is the scanning and programming that allowed the recovery of the audio without having to actually further degrade the recording media. That technology opens the door to recovering many old recordings too fragile to play on the original equipment and...
  21. JimWagner

    Why Don't We Have "Heroes" Today?

    Except on "reality" shows, where it's all the thing. ;)
  22. JimWagner

    Why Don't We Have "Heroes" Today?

    Instant reporting is certainly part of it, but today the news (and I use the term loosely) media really delight in playing up dirt where the mainstream media tended to be more discrete when it came to important public figures in the past. For example JFK while he was president. There have...
  23. JimWagner

    Why Don't We Have "Heroes" Today?

    People are a lot more cynical today about "heroes", particularly as it seems more often than not it's only a matter of time before the so called hero is discovered to be drugged to the eyeballs (sports), or has the morals of an ally cat (fill in your favorite politician).

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