Pete Drake Forever and Laryngitis

No, Pete Drake is not a duck (drake) named Pete.Pete Drake is famous for playing steel guitars especially talking ones. 

I tried to make my mom's piano talk once by lifting off the top and yelling at top of my lungs "hello"  hoping the strings inside the piano will vibrate back "hello" which I kept up for some time it did not work. 

Not only this annoyed my parents, I myself wound up with laryngitis and had to see a doctor.Fortunely, in the 1960's doctors still made house calls.In any event don't try it.

On Pete Drake's talking steel guitar there is a plastic tube connected to a speaker and is some how ampifed many times which in turn vibrates the strings.

Pete Drake only has to whisper into this tube using his normal voice ,and since he doesn't have to shout, he does not wind up with laryngitis.

Below is a video of Pete Drake with his talking steel guitar playing the  song "Forever"
              click here to see "Forever"

Below  12 songs of Pete Drake not all of them have a talking steel guitar and In my opinion the beautiful song "Melody Of Love"  a talking steel guitar seems way out of place.

                    12 Pete Drake Songs--click here

It's a scam

Anymore if a telemarker calls you it's a scam  (even if they mention your name) ; Don't answer any questions, they will record your "yes" and apply it to something else. People now- a -days do not call back any unrecogniziable numbers ,which is why scammers will spoof  legit numbers on your caller ID. Even their websites are fake like collection agencies for example.Best bet don't answer your phone.As for legit billing business numbers remember you call them, they don't call you. 

If they give you a choice of numbers to press for example "Press 3 to get on their do not call list now" press no buttons at all just hang up.Never press any buttons on telemarket calls.

If sellspeople are coming at your door it is a scam even if they have company names  sewn on their shirts. Remember, they are only looking out for their own interest and not yours and never sign any papers right on the spot and/or if they are in a hurry for you to make a phone call.Best bet lie, tell them you're already sign up on it.

If you get emails from unknown sources it's a scam. Click only the emails from companies or people you know personally.

The two mistakes sellspeople made at my door. First one was a man supposedly from an electric company that told me about windmills we have in town and that is how we save you  big money. The thing is we have no windmills in town maybe a few on top of barns but no strings of them any where stretch along our roads.

Second one a man supposedly from my phone company he even has my phone company's name sewn on his shirt. His mistake?  He asked me if I was sign up on "his" company's internet. See the mistake here?  If he is actually was from my phone company they would already have known if I was signed up or not.

Phone companies do have computers inside their vans to check things out,but in this case I haven't seen any vans or cars in sight.I told him I'm satisfied with my cable internet. He said "okay" and left.

If they call you it's a scam.
If they email you it's a scam.
if they come to your door it's a scam.

Only sellspeople I trust coming at my door are the girlscotts selling cookies "Chocolate-mint cookies please" that's my only exception.

                        sample of robotic call. click here

                                               example of a scam afoot--click here  Have your $2.95 handy for shipping and handling those gift cards are extremely heavy ??!--lol

Putting The Two Together

In the 1940's the most popular films were monster movies and Abbott and Costello so what did the Univeral International  do ?They put them both together in some of their films e.g:"Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein" and more from there. The actors who played the monsters in these movies played their parts serious and straight.

In 1974  Warner Brothers and 20th Century fox  were making dissaster movies each one about tall building catching on fire.The problem was both movies were similar ,so Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox decided to team up and make only one movie titled "The Flaming Inferno". I have seen this movie it was more like the building was under attack rather than having accidental fires.

Nearing the 1980's  the most popular film genres were science fiction and horror.So 20th Century Fox decided to put these two genres together in a film called "Alien" 

In the 1980's  comic book readers sent requests to see Spider-man and Superman together. So DC (Detective comics) and Marvel got together and made two giant comic books (taller and wider than the average size comic book at a price of $2.50 each)

And finally in the 2000's the most popular Nickelodean shows were iCarly and Victorious, so what did the producers do?  You guess it they combine the two shows together in one episode titled  "iParty with Victorious"  which is considered as an iCarly episode due to the "i" (the small "i" means internet so iCarly means internet Carly.) 

click here to watch iParty With Victorious

*Other comedy-horror movies I can think of are Gremlins and The Little Shop of Horrors (Hey, you're just a plant I do not have to feed or water you. You just stay in your darken corner and die--lol)

Never Slash My Bicycle Tires. (small claims court)

                NEVER SLASH MY BICYCLE TIRES

One day I rode my bicycle to subway when I was inside ordering my sandwiches a guy walked up to my bicycle and slash both of my bicycle tires also the intertubes. It was $20 worth of damage.
Fortunely I already  knew the guy's name and where he lives.

Instead of going to his house to ask him for $20 and to repair my tires I decided to sue him instead. In my county if the amount is $20 or more a person can be sued.

So I got a copy of the security footage and headed for court ,yep the guy was there ,and he was ordered by the judge to give me the $20 after I got my $20 the judge also ordered him  to pay $100 in court cost.

"$100 in court cost ?!  You mean Stanley plop down $100 just to get $20 back ?!"  "Yes,seems so" said the judge, "Since Stanley won the case he gets his $100 of the  court cost  money back!, If it is not paid at a certain date there will be jail time and/or community service !"

What would happen if that guy never showed up for court?  Well, in my county if  a defendant does not show up for his/hers court date the plainiff automatically wins.  :)
           Long story short:  DON'T MESS WITH ME !--LOL

Presently, I perfer coaster bikes the ones with coaster brakes on the back wheel. Why? On multi-speed bicycles it cost more money to replace their multiple parts. e.g: gears,handbrakes etc.

NOW I'VE HEARD EVERYTHING

Now I heard everything. One day I visited a female friend and after she got off the phone she said her sister  is making pies for dead people. Whaaattt? She's making pies for dead people. Dead people cannot eat pies.What in the heck is she talking about ? It will be the mourners that will eat the pies and not their dearly departed --geeze.

   She then told me  that her sister makes pies for dead people for the funeral home I assume she meant that her sister makes pies for the mourners at the funeral home for the wake.*

By the way there are some people who pose as relatives/friends  of the deceased  or even relatives /friends of a bride  or groom at their weddings to get free meals and that is highly illegal ( heafy fine and jail time.)

*a wake is a ceremony after the funeral usually just talking and eating snacks and drinking beverages .
           click here for ghosts throw pies

My Temporary Fix

On Sunday July 27 2014 at 8 PM  I had entered my bedroom and tought I had to get an new 110 volt 15 amp air conditioner, but I also notice that I wasn't getting any power to my answering machine. Only half my room had power. The cause a worn out outlet.

Fortunely the weather was cool due to below average tempertures and I had wire nuts on hand and made a temporary fix until I can buy an another outlet.

The outlet I was working on gets it power from a piggy backed outlet and the outlet I was working on had an another outlet connect to it.

Now I only buy outlets that are UL (United Laboratories) even tough they may cost three times much more than the cheapy ones, and I buy wall plates with UL listing as well.UL test products to make sure they are safe.

Now an outlet is not an outlet ,a person must read the amps stamped on the outlet to see if they are  15 amps or 20 amps. 20 amps are for use in the kitchen. 15 amps bedroom and living room.

The hot wire (red,blue or black) must be connected to the small slots of an outlet (usually copper screws) and the neutral (white) to the long slots (usually silver screws), and the ground (bare wire or green) must be connected to the ground screw that is either on top or bottom.

Now sometimes on an outlet it may have copper screws on both sides so what do we do ?  We look for the ground screw (top and bottom)  or look for the side that has the longer slots on the front of the outlet , that will be the side where we connect the neutral (white) wire.

Now I take my time when it comes to wiring outlets if it takes an hour  or more, it takes an hour and more,and I always make sure the power to the room is turn off or I may turn off my main power and turn my whole house off until my work is done.Food in refridgerators will keep for 24 hours as long no one opens the refridegerator door. 

Sometimes wires on the old outlet may have to be snip off for easy removal and make wires inside the outlet box too short.
In this case we connect extra wires to the new outlet first then twist them to the wires inside the electrical box then use wire nuts that we twist on until tight. 

Just because an outlet is working does not mean it is wired right. Notice the long and short slots of this outlet and the ground. 

One with the small slots should always be connected to  hot wire(s). Large slots netural wire(s)  and the ground (bottom). 
Do not defeat  any of these safety features.>>>>

This is the tester I use after I had wired outlets if just two yellow lights are on it means the outlet(s) (is/are) correctly wired. Basically  if the red light is not on it is wired correct.

Now this tester will use red and yellow light codes to tell you why the outlet is wired wrong which can be read on top of the tester.(5 basic mistakes)

And finally here is my temporary fix  which I can add an outlet later. Notice the four wires that is because it is piggy backed to other outlets going to and from.

These are a bag of electrical wire nuts I fortunely had on hand.


                

Here is how the outlet looks now. August 1 st. 2014. I started at 11:30 am and had the job done at 12:37 PM.

Notice the two yellow lights are on and no red light meaning the outlet is wired correctly.
Job done :) .

Most homes in the U.S.A use wire size 14 with ground for their "inside only"  15 amp wiring. Different  amps use different wire sizes.Smaller the wire number bigger the wire. 

Producer/Director and Starlett giving me a hard time.

In 2000-2001  I had something called a web unit that let users connect to the internet without a computer. I had visited some chatrooms and one chatroom I had visited started to flash on and off and next thing I knew every chatter in the room was giving me a hardtime until I realize I was in a fake chatroom.

Also it was easy for other people to pose as each other's usernames and I had no choice but to leave the chatroom and let him/her use my username until he/she got caught.

One day I went to an Excite chatroom where my username was surfman and I got instant messages to quit being so rude and dirty because I supposely was instant messaging the owner. I was kick out of the room and had no idea what I did.

Four hours later I went back to the Exicite chatroom and the owner apologised because he was still getting instant messages after I have been kicked out.He said they come into the chatrooms invisable and use other peoples' usernames.

Now I follow famous people on twitter and one is a favorite female star.  The producer/director tweeted "People who say they are not like that are usually are !"  and the tweet reply from the starlet was "You said it"  but I knew it wasn't really them. With millions of people on twitter why would they single just me out.

Don't have too much trouble with my facebook and twitter accounts except for some "followers" who want me led to a pron site or/and over use of the big "F" which I will always block. Talk right geeze! and while you're at it get an education.

I had one follower called Grumpy Cat which is full on profany , negative comments and downgrading. If that person did not "unfollow" me . I would block him/her anyway.

I am  on a window 8 laptop now which is very secure and on my twitter account even tough I do not have a clickable varified green arrow my twitter account is varified with my "personal" Facebook and email account, not only that twitter encrypts all tweets  now and is unencrypted when it gets to the "tweetee"  that prevents bad guys from changing your tweets in mid-flight.>>>>>>>

It is like seeing most contract forms which have a line drawn across it and saying "There should be nothing written below this line and the back should be completely blank" any text below the signature  lines will be ignored or should be ignored.

Firefly Trying To Mate With My Outside Window.

First let it be known there are about 170 species of fireflies not only that but each individual male firefly has its own light pattern ,and that is use to find a female that reponses back with the same pattern sometimes the firefly will mistake his  reflection in a window for his mate due to matching light patterns even tough both were done at exactly at the same time.

Of course when a male firefly heads for the female they'll mate. However, if the female realizes it is not a firefly from her own species the male firefly gets ate.

The fireflies flying in the air are usually the males. The females stay usually on the ground in the grass, on top of leaves or other bottom plants.

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The male firefly above has a repeating light pattern of three shorts and two longs and mistakes his reflection of the window for his mate since his reflection "reponsed" with three shorts and two longs also.

What is 20 minutes or 45 minutes anyway? Saving money

I am talking about rice here regradless if it is brown rice or white rice only difference between the two is that brown rice has their hulls still on them but unlike white rice brown rice has an almondly flavor to it.

Also, I am not talking about instant rice here, in fact a person can save a lot of money just cooking regular rice. 

The ration of  rice is 2:1 in other words 2 cups of water to 1 cup of rice.

The way I "cook"  mine is  below:

Pour 2 cups of water in a saucepan once it starts to boil turn your stove down to simmer and add 1 cup of rice stir and cover it with the saucepan's lid. 

Remember it is the steam that "cooks " the rice, 
20 minutes for white rice
45 minutes for brown rice
then it's ready ,unless you want fluffer rice in which case keep the saucepan covered for an extra 10 minutes but away from the heat.

Your rice is ready to have stuff added to it, like stew tomatoes with red and green peppers, garlic, cooked chilli beans and cooked hamburger or ground chuck meat. My version of Spainish rice or is it Spainish-Chilly rice?  In either case Yummy!

Or maybe add fat free/sugar free vanilla pudding for rice pudding or add chush pineapple for pineapple-rice puddling.Basically throw in what ever you want. :)
   

              

                                        ^Spainish Rice ^

^Pineapple Rice Pudding^

By the way did you know that rice is a member of the grass family (grains) others are corn,barley, wheat, oats. In other words we're eating grass for breakfast but we also drink beans--lol :) 

What's on the other side? Conflicting titles.

In the 50-60's era lot of people were buying 45 RPM records but did you ever notice the song titles?  They can be conflicting.

For example there is an old 60's song called "Don't Cross Over (to my side of the street)"  sung by Linda Brannon, and  what is the song title on the other side of that 45 RPM?  A song titled "Don't Separate Us"--also song by Linda Brannon.

Don't Cross Over song --click here

The song below is titled "Gonna Get Along Without You Now" sung by Skeeter Davis and what is the song title on the other side of that 45 RPM ?  It's a song titled "Now That You're Gone" also sung by Skeeter Davis.

Click for Gonna Get Along Without You Now song.

And I still don't know why boxes on a plane or ship are called a cargo ?  Or why boxes in a truck or car are called a shipment. ???!! Ahhh!

By the way, the dog's name on the RCA record label is Nipper usually they have "His Master's Voice" below their trademark.

                                               FINIS

MY NDK PICTURES ON LINE ??!!

What would you do is someone said they're posting your nudie pictures on-line?  I believe you can sue them for posting those pictures without permission. 

 If they were going to blackmail you with them and then ask for a large amount of money.I would say "I don't care !"  that way that person or persons would have no hold on me , and  I'll just wait until it all blows over.

And of course we can always say that those pictures were "doctored" . Don't believe anymore that pictures do not lie .with the equipment we have today they certainly can.Lot of people are good at "doctoring" pictures including me. It takes an expert to tell real from fake.

I do not do nudie pictures I don't want anybody throwing up :) nor do I go to certain sites that show pictures/videos of women with Adam apples.Sites like that can be filled with viruses.

It  may also be a  site where men dress like a women with a dubbed female voices.What's with the neck bracelet ? Why are you covering your throat and hiding your Adam's apple?