LIKE MIKE TYPE CAPS

You Are a Ski Cap

You are a comfortable, low maintenance, and even practical person. You use fashion to look good, and you don't stray too far from the mainstream. You are friendly and accepting. You don't really judge other people for their fashion choices. You enjoy clothes and accessories as much as the next person, but you're not superficial about it!

What Winter Hat Are You?

I love sock caps, especially during the winter and most especially since I've been shaving my head. When I had hair I liked them, but my hair is so thin and fine it would practically tie in knots under the cap.

Back when I was a kid, there was a TV show called "Then Came Bronson" which starred Michael Parks who often wore a sock cap.



He wasn't a bad singer, either. I remember my big sister having this album:



I specifically remember "Long, Lonesome Highway" from the television show, plus he did a great version of "Oklahoma Hills".

Here's a couple of clips I found on YouTube:

Opening sequence



Closing Credits



Michael Nesmith of The Monkees (mentioned in a recent post) was another Mike who wore sock caps:

The British Invasion

Noticed that this blog was getting quite a few hits in a short period of time, most from places in the U.K. Went and checked and sure 'nuff, the movie "Cast Away" was just on BBC 1 (think it was) A few have found this site via searches and others by a link I left at IMDB.

Welcome to ToTG!

Wonder if I could make money by selling authentic dirt from the intersection?

Brrrr

Coldest Places on Earth

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Life At Negative 78 Degrees In Alaska

2 Google Searches = 1 Cuppa

From the UK Times Online:

Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches

Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross says that performing two Google searches uses up as much energy as boiling the kettle for a cup of tea

Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new research.

While millions of people tap into Google without considering the environment, a typical search generates about 7g of CO2. Boiling a kettle generates about 15g. “Google operates huge data centres around the world that consume a great deal of power,” said Alex Wissner-Gross, a Harvard University physicist whose research on the environmental impact of computing is due out soon. “A Google search has a definite environmental impact.”

Shoot, I use Google so much it's probably the daily equivalent of making a barrel of tea. It wouldn't surprise me to find that my computer habits waste the energy it takes to broil a cow. Come to think of it, I drink a couple cups of tea per Google search anyway, so I'm doubly dangerous to the environment.

Good Grief.

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EDIT: Anytime "tea" is mentioned is the time for my tea joke:

Didja hear about the Indian chief who drank a hundred cups of tea?

They found him dead the next morning, drowned in his tepee.

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EDIT: Also read where there was "outrage" over Prince Harry's recent remarks. My callous and insensitive joke above where I referred to Native Americans as "Indians" made me realize that I'm just as bigoted as "the spare".

Good.

God Bless Harry, God Save the Queen, God Bless the U.K., God Bless us one and all except for the ragheads who want to kill us.

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Just saw this:

STRANGE AND GOOFY HOUSES! - TEA CUP?

Aermotor Windmills

From Texas Country Reporter (YouTube Channel)

The location is quite a bit south of here, not really in the Panhandle, but certainly could be in regards to the landscape and particularly the wind.



My sister's in-laws used to be haying & fencing contractors and one summer hired a couple of young men who stayed with the family. One guy had a beautiful old pickup and had under the dash the only record player "deck" I have ever seen. It very seldom skipped, only when he hit a pothole.

The other guy was pretty much a greenhorn and I remember something very funny he said to one of the family "Sure are a lot of air motors around here." "Air Motors"??? The mystery was solved when he pointed to a windmill with "Aermotor" stenciled on the vane.

I certainly did not know Aermotor was the sole windmill manufacturer in the United States.

There's a lovely old wooden windmill about five/six miles out of town and I'd love to photograph it in the morning because there's nothing behind it to the east and I think it would make a fantastic shot with the sun rising in the background.

The only problem is that I'd have to pretty much be on the farmer's porch when the sun came up!

EDIT: Poking around the windmill vids at YT, I found this one:

What I Learned From Windmills

The End of the World - Skeeter Davis