November 14, 2006
The Mic Is on and We’re Going Exploring!
ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 7:00 pm
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It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME
The rules are simple — be nice.
There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.
Tonight it’s we’re going exploring!
We might also talk about
- goining exploring as a kid
- space the new frontier
- time traveling
- famouns explorers
AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey, and Milton the Moose.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Trisha said
Is Dora going to be here tonight?
ME Strauss said
Hi Trisha!
How are you! Are you feeling better?
I can’t say about Dora. Maybe Joe knows.
Trisha said
I’m better, but not completely back. I finished my physical therapy for my neck problem, then a couple days later I injured a rotator cuff muscle.
Trisha said
Dora is a pretty good explorer – but of course of the time traveling explorers – I’d have to pick The Doctor as my favorite.
ME Strauss said
Oh ow!! That must have put a real wrench in your gardening. I’m so sorry that happened.
bj said
Hey, it’s gal’s night so far! Cool. Doubt it’ll stay that way for long.
Sorry to hear about your physical stuff, Trisha. Awful when you can’t get comfortable.
ME Strauss said
Hey bj,
This is Trisha. She was around all of the time until her neck went. That was right before we met you.
Trisha said
Luckily gardening season was pretty much over here by the time I hurt myself.
How has everyone here been?
bj said
Hey, Liz! Glad you feel up to making it back, Trisha!
Time travel, huh? I dunno. It would be tough to go backward and live without the internet, so I choose to go forward into the future . . .
ME Strauss said
So Trisha
Did you get lots of butterflies?
Service Untitled - Douglas said
Evening Liz! We actually launched today!
seanrox said
Hello everyone. Sorry I’m a few minutes late. I’m working on a super top secret project for Liz, so I’ll be sporadic in open mic tonight.
As for what I’m bringing with me… I’ve got many 12 foot long sandwiches with everyone’s favorites on them… even veggie sandwiches for the non meat lovers.
Ok… talk to everyone through out the night…
ME Strauss said
Congratulations, Doug!
I’ve already left two comments on Pimp Your Work! It looks great!
katiebird said
Hi Liz,
And Trisha & bj and Service Untitled. Trisha I’m sorry about your neck and rotator cuff muscle. I hope you can get some relief soon.
ME Strauss said
Bj,
I’m with you I think future travel for me at least for the start of this evening.
ME Strauss said
Thanks for the food SeanRox,
You’re a superMAN!
Renée said
Hello everyone,
I reckon this is going to be an intereesting topic–time travel.
I wonder traveling forward will overnumber traveling back in time.
I like to hear what others have in mind. Yummy topic, Liz!
Trisha said
Hello bj!
I had quite a few butterflies this year, but I didn’t spend as much time outside this year compared to the last 2 years.
Robert Bruce said
Hey.
I’ve wanted in on one of these for a long time Liz…
Time travel definitely. Though I’d have been dead by 3 days old from disease, late 1800′s American frontier. You know, Smith and Wesson on the hip, 12 gauge on the saddle.
Only a few minutes here, but thanks for the invite.
katiebird said
Oh dear, that wasn’t Service Untitled! That was Douglas!! I’m so sorry I goofed…
bj said
Hey, katiebird! Hey, Douglas! Hey seanrox!
Oh, Liz, forgot to drop this link for you to add to the Net Neutrality page. Very cogent analysis of what we can expect from the new Congress from Harold Feld of Wetmachine.
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/635
ME Strauss said
Hi Robert!
How weird I was just reading the poem I wrote for you in July. Someone asked for a bit of my poetry and I sent that along.
Does that count as time travel???
Welcome!!
ME Strauss said
Renée
Yeah I wonder too, where we’ll all be traveling . . . past or future. There’s a few in the past I’d like to meet, too.
bj said
Funny how life changes things. Five years ago I would have chosen the past. I was doing a lot more ebaying then and a lot less webdesign!
ME Strauss said
Katie!
I hope this means that your workload is easing a bit or so . . . glad you’re here again!
katiebird said
bj, thanks for reminding me. Liz that’s so cool that you posted a link from Matt Stoller — he’s one of my blogger heros.
seanrox said
Oh and when you get the chance, check out this shining movie spoof which they made it look like a heart-warming father-son story.
Service Untitled - Douglas said
Thanks Liz! We’re hoping to get another 7 up and running within a week or so.
Scot is doing very well at PYW. Thanks for referring me to him.
Service Untitled - Douglas said
I told Mark Evans to come by – haven’t heard from him since earlier today, though. He may actually be taking a few hours off. *gasp*
katiebird said
Actually, it’s busy, busy, busy — but I had to drop in to say hi. I couldn’t let two Tuesdays in a row go by without a visit.
mister’s telling me to stretch out on the couch and rest (and who could argue with that?) so I might disappear for a little while.
Somehow at work we’ve come up with exciting concepts for each of the biggest 3 sections of our site. (that’s what’s been keeping me so busy)
I’d like to travel to the future as long as I could come back here to visit….
Trisha said
Traveling to the past to visit would be fun, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
katiebird said
Trisha, (giggle)
bj said
Re that “The Shining” spoof trailer, geez that looks like the kind of spin the Politicos (especially one certain party) has been putting on things . . .
Joe said
Hey guys and gals,
I’ll just jump in and say “Space the Final Frontier” Not New…
Gotta go catch up & be right back…
Char said
I don’t think I could go back too many years in time – what would I do with out the Internet?
ME Strauss said
Hey, I’m with you Trisha . . .
This is travel only — no relocations. So be careful to not start any love stories that you can’t finish!
Service Untitled - Douglas said
Phew – just sent out of my thank you notes to all involved.
ME Strauss said
Hey, Joe,
Welcome,
How many comments does it take to read 36 comments?
Trisha said
I’d have a hard time without the internet too.
I’d also really miss indoor toilets and air conditioning.
ME Strauss said
Doug,
Thanks for inviting Mark. Your thank yous are done . . . Now you can party!!
Rick Cockrum said
Hi everyone!
Losing computers wouldn’t be all bad. Worse would be losing toilet paper and toothpaste, and various other things we take for granted.
I would rather hit the future.
A famous explorer I”ve admired was Alexandra David-Neel, famous for her explorations of Tibet in the late nineteenth century. There’s a short biography here and a picture here .
ME Strauss said
bj
That Shining Spoof sounds too funny.
Joe said
This many Liz…
ME Strauss said
Rick,
I feel the same about computers, EXCEPT that’s how I met all of you!
Renée said
Traveling back in time, I think will be like stressful compare to the future.
Since we already know what gadgets to enhance our lives (which they didn’t have, ie. microwave). We might be able to capitalize on those items.
As to the future, it might be scary to be so behind time using advance technology, however if we can bring back something of value, again we might able to strike gold!
Just my crazy thought!
bj said
Re Tibet, I’d rather visit Dharamsala now. The Dalai Lama has declared the Internet to be a very Buddhist Concept, and they’re wifi-ing the whole area, using the Temple Spires for antennas and using solar and wind power to power it!
ME Strauss said
Renée
What would you do if you met your great grandmother?
Joe said
How bout this bout time?
Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity predicted that time does not flow at a fixed rate: moving clocks appear to tick more slowly relative to their …
archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/GenRelativity.html
Google Search…
seanrox said
I’m always traveling. You know me, Have Laptop Will Travel
ME Strauss said
Joe,
It’s great to see you taking over where AdLib left off.
Joe said
Hope that made sense, it did when I read it.
Service Untitled - Douglas said
Liz; just sent you an email.
Trisha said
Thanks Joe, I’ll have to read that.
seanrox said
Hey Liz, indeed the shining spoof is really good, take a look for yourself.
ME Strauss said
Aw, SeanRox,
You’re going for the easy one! Tsk tsk.
Joe said
Another paradox…
If you go back in time and cause your Grandfathers death before your father was born, could you actually make the trip because you Never Would Have Been Born.
Trisha said
Bye everyone! House is going to be coming on in a few minutes and I have to watch. I’ll try to stop by next week, but my computer time is still limited for a while.
ME Strauss said
I think I’d like to meet Peter the Great of Russia!
bj said
My bedroom has been taken over by aliens. I collect vintage SciFi. I think I have every time travel paradox that exists ensconsed on one of my bookshelves.
bj said
‘Night Trisha! Good to meet you!
Renée said
OMG, Liz!
This is what exactly what I wanted to share earlier but fear it might be too boring for others.
The first place/people I want to go is my maternal great grandma era. Because of my mix culture and race (kinda diluted after so many mix marriages), I never really know my roots. I was told by my moms and aunts that our great grandma come from a high society group. Saw a few picture of theirs — my great grandma was so pose and elegant.
I would like spent a few months with her, learn those skills she had cultivated.
Joe said
Nite Trisha…
bj, got an answer to the Grandfather Paradox?
That was the premise for the Terminator coming back to the 1980′s to kill Sara Connor…
Rick Cockrum said
One of my favorite SF time travel stories is Heinlein’s By His Bootstraps.
Terry Starbucker said
Hello fellow Open Mic Nighters! Nice to be here tonight (I actually have 30 minutes today). So you want to talk about traveling….I might know a little about that!
ME Strauss said
Good Night Trisha!
Enjoy House tonight!
ME Strauss said
Bj
We should try to include all of the time travel paradoxes in the conversation tonight. What if one sci-fi film included all of them?!!!
ME Strauss said
Renée
Now I want to go meet your grandmother too. It sounds like a wonderful thing to wish for.
Rick Cockrum said
Good night, Trisha.
Starbucker said
Liz, it says my comment is “awaiting moderation” – did I do something wrong?
Renée said
Liz, I will bring you along with me if only we have that time machine.
Even if there is a language barrier (myself included), at least we get to enjoy their lifestyle–having servants to fuss over us! =p
Ben Yoskovitz said
Evenin’ folks!
I’m on a train traveling from Toronto to Montreal enjoying so-so wifi connectivity. I’m almost home – about 20 minutes away from getting off the train.
Hope everyone is doing well!
Char said
I would like to go back in time and hang out with my mom when she was a kid. She is not a very open person and getting her to tell me stories of her childhood is like pulling teeth.
I don’t know if I’d really want to go to the future – isn’t that kind of like ruining a surprise?
Oh, and Seanrox – your soup recipe looks awesome – may need to make it tomorrow.
Rick Cockrum said
I go with the Many Worlds Theory, Joe, so I think you already did it and it created another world. Look at that! You get to be a murderer and a god at the same time.
ME Strauss said
No, Starbucker, I think it was just that you changed your name and I that I wasn’t paying attention to the second screen that I usually watch.
Starbucker said
I figured it out – the first time I tried I put “terry starbucker” as my name; then I tried just “starbucker” and it went right through. Anyhow, how’s everybody doing?
seanrox said
If you get hungry in all your time travels and the sandwiches are not enough, be sure to stop by my place for some baked potato chowder soup which is always a crowd pleaser.
Rick Cockrum said
Hi Ben! Hi Starbucker!
Your great-grandma sounds neat, Renee. Mine was poor and in the Alabama. Not a time I would want to go back to. I would like to meet up with my ancestors who first came to the U.S., though. Did they leave for adventure, new sights, open vistas, to get away from the law, or because they didn’t get away from the law?
ME Strauss said
Starbucker!
Either name you are always welcome here. It’s just that sometimes the door sticks.
Joe said
Hey, anybody see Carolyn Manning?
She keeps stopping by my blog and I keep inviting her for Tuesday Nights.
Hopefully, she shows, if not you can visit her here and let her know she will be among friends.
BTW, she likes The Doctor and Monty Python, so she will fit right in…
ME Strauss said
Hey Ben,
I sure hope you have time for a comment before your train stops at your station.
Ben Yoskovitz said
Hey Rick — good to see the gang and more here this evening. I think the train is slowing down and heading into the station…
Time for me to sign-off … (another too-quick visit I’m afraid!)
bj said
Re paradoxes, I think one of my recent reads had time police keeping people from blundering into situations that would wipe a world. Of course, there were anarchists, human nature being what it is.
Starbucker said
Boy, there are so many places in time I could go – hard to choose one. How about a musical one – when the Beatles were on the Ed Sullivan show. All those screaming kids -wow.
Joe said
Hey Liz,
Could you put a space between her and here please?
Rick Cockrum said
Have a good night, Ben.
I saw her earlier to day, Joe.
bj: Go anarchists!
ME Strauss said
A musical moment in time WOODSTOCK
Starbucker said
See ya Ben!
bj said
Um, the anarchists could conceivably also be self-annihilists . . . because of those same paradoxes.
Or worse. What about a timeline where Hitler escaped?
Starbucker said
Woodstock is a good one – or Elvis on Ed Sullivan too. The Band’s Last Waltz. Dylan going electric.
ME Strauss said
Okay, bj,
What if Jesus recovered from the crucifixion?
bj said
Oh well, time for me to split out and get away from the screen for awhile, 13 hours is TOO long. See y’all soon!
Joe said
Ben, sorry I didn’t get to say hi before you left.
(Terry)Starbucker, Hey…
Rick, I saw her today too, and we talked bout Monty.
Is seanrox still here, meant to say hi.
Renée said
Hi Rick,
It’s not because of the wealthy lifestyle I adore but was rather how her father insisted that all daughters of his must be educated (which was something very “forbidden” to do considering daughter is a liablity rather than an asset).
The girls then not only learn what the boys are learning but they even get to attend special schools for dancing, etiquette classes, drawing etc (like fine arts).
Poor isn’t a bad thing though, is what value you can learn from it. I’m very sure our ancestors have more values to give to us than we can anticipate.
I call this priceless!
ME Strauss said
Nite bj,
Thanks for coming . . . let your eyes do something more fun!
Rick Cockrum said
Good night bj. Think about other options, though. Maybe Hitler was never born, or he stayed out of politics. Would that make things better or worse today?
Service Untitled - Douglas said
I also must head off. Lots of work to do tomorrow.
Catch everyone next week!
ME Strauss said
Good night, Doug!
Congratulations again!
cat said
Apologies for coming in late. I broke my toe last night and for some reason it’s getting in the way of my working.
Recipe for toe breaking:
1) buy pair of rain drums
2) replace coffee table (wooden trunk filling in for table) with said drums
3) move wooden truck around the corner
4) neglect to turn on lights when moving swiftly down hall for glass of water
5) ram toe into trunk where dead air used to be
6) take drugs
7) do NOT, I repeat, do NOT repeat steps 1 through 5. Go straight to 6.
Starbucker said
Deep stuff here tonight – I’ll stick to the music time travel, or how about sports? That’s easy for me – the “Ice Bowl”, 1967, Packers vs. Cowboys. Even if it was 13 below zero!
Renée said
Good night, Douglas and bj. Sorry that I didn’t get to chat with you more.
Renée said
Hi Cat, love that recipe of yours
ME Strauss said
Ouch! Cat,
You’re just having a time of it lately.
I think you need to come over here so that we can protect you from computers, coups, and coffee table replacements.
Meikah Delid said
Hi Liz, hi everyone!
Time travel is very interesting. I’d love to be able to go back in time… sounds so romantic. Also, I would like to explore this past life thing. Wonder who I was in my past life? 
Joe said
Why does everyone want to go into the past?
I would rather be “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century”.
So many more things to explore, worlds to see, unknown to be known.
Rick Cockrum said
Renee: Oh, I’m not knocking the poor part, or admiring the rich part.I’m knocking the back-breaking manual labor part and admiring the unusual circumstances and opportunities your great-grandmother had for the time period.
Ann: OW!
ME Strauss said
Hey Meikah!
ooooh Past lives . . . I wonder who were the folks in mine that made me claustrophobic!
ME Strauss said
Yeah, but Joe,
You have an alien friend telling you what it’s like out there!
Renée said
Hi Meikah,
I was told my past life was a nun (a naughty one) and my next life will be a playboy!
I definitely can see the resemblance — past or future.
Starbucker said
Hey Joe, as much as I love peering into the future I’m doing it virtually non-stop lately at work, preparing our 2007 budgets. I love this crystal ball stuff……not!
On the other hand, if I could just jump a year ahead and know what we’re going to do, that would save a lot of time now!
Renée said
Rick: Sorry that I misunderstood you!
Meikah Delid said
Joe, to me the past is more exciting. You know, finding out the things you missed out on doing and why? hehehe… the future is yet to come, and its unfolding before your very eyes is already amazing as it is.
hahaha..Renee that’s interesting eh. You get to be naughty and nice.
Liz, maybe you were over protected as a child?
Rick Cockrum said
The closest I’ve had to time travel was a dream I had once of riding a triceratops. That was great.
Joe said
I guess I look so much to the future because I can’t trace my past any further than my Grandfather.
I found Hauckes in a 16th century England census, and a couple in between in Germany, but no connection to anyone in the present.
I can’t find a past, so I look to the Future.
Starbucker said
Well, my 30 minutes are up – time to get some snuggle time with my wife; BTW, it’s our 16th wedding anniversary on Friday, so I’m trying to be really good this week – which probably means a little less blogging. Anyhow, my very best to all of you, and have a great rest of the week!
Char said
How many of you remember going exploring as a kid? Taking off on your bicycle and riding until dark? This was one of my favorite things to do as a kid.
Rick Cockrum said
Good night, Starbucker. Tell your wife I said Happy Anniversary! to you and her. Beside every great man is a great woman.
ME Strauss said
Meikah,
Protected as a child! That’s too funny! I was a bashful kid. They didn’t need to protect me. I was afraid of grass.
ME Strauss said
Good night, Starbucker!
Happy Anniversary!
Renée said
Congratulation, Starbucker! Happy 16th wedding anniversary in advance!
Joe said
Happy Anniversary, Starbucker and Mrs Starbucker… Many Happy Returns.
ME Strauss said
Char,
In my neighborhood, ‘sploring was 90% of what we did!
Mike said
Hey Joe,
The future is where it’s at, after the present of course! Having lived my whole life in the past, I can say with some surety that it’s overrated.
Mike
Rick Cockrum said
I was in the Scouts. When I was 15 my parents sent me to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico for a month. That, and going through caves in Alabama were some of the best times I had.
Meikah Delid said
Congratulations, too, Starbucker! 16years, wow! Keep on counting!
Joe said
Mike,
I think we all live in the past to some extent, my parents still watch Lawrence Welk…
I watch reruns of Monty Python, M*A*S*H, and during the holidays, all of the goofy little animated Christmas specials.
Probably what happens as we get older.
Meikah Delid said
Liz hehehe…so where’d the claustrophobia come from?
ME Strauss said
Hey Mike!
If we didn’t think of the past, now wouldn’t make any sense.
Joe said
Rick,
We used to go to Treasure Island (on the Delaware River). We had some great adventures there. That’s where I got inducted into the “Order of the Arrow” –>
ME Strauss said
I think I was buried alive or locked in a closet or something like that in a past life.
Mike said
Liz,
The past IS there to give us context for today and tomorrow. I was just kidding about the past being overrated. I was lucky to have the family, friends, and experiences I did. But my destiny is in the future, and I explore my way to it in the present. This conversation is an exploration, right? (I took Liz’s advice and didn’t read the whole thread. I hope that point hasn’t been made in 38 of the 127 responses so far).
Mike
ME Strauss said
It hasn’t, Mike, but it’d be okay if it had.
We don’t have rules like that here.
Mike said
Joe,
Links to the past are tremendously important. If I don’t get to watch the Muppet Christmas Carol directly after finishing the Thanksgiving dishes I feel roundly cheated out of a treasured moment in the year!
Mike
Char said
Yes, and I remember being terrified by the Wizard of Oz on a 13″ black and white TV year after year after year. I still don’t like that movie.
Mike said
Liz,
I’m not concerned about rules, but I want to at least be interesting. So here’s a thought experiment in exploration that I’ll throw out to the group. What one decision have you made that you always wondered what would happen if you’d gone down the road not traveled? What do you think would have happened in your life if you’d made that choice?
Mike
Rick Cockrum said
I was inducted in Illinois, Joe.
Hi Mike, and (with a chagrined look) hi Meikah.
I must have been drowned as a sailor, then. The thought of an ocean cruise scares me spitless.
I’m actually with Joe. I get pretty upset sometimes we don’t have the future we looked forward to with the science fiction we read as kids.
Joe said
I don’t think I would like to go into the past without knowing things I know now.
I would rather be a Connecticut (read Philly) Yankee in King Arthurs Court than be a plain old peasant from the era.
Color me spoiled, but I’d rather be able to survive knowing a shower is a good thing instead of thinking that the devil was the cause of disease.
ME Strauss said
Mike,
Whew! This venue goes kind of fast for a questions that’s so deep, but I’d have to say that I don’t really have regrets beyone that I couldn’t say “yes” to EVERYTHING.
ME Strauss said
Char,
You had the Wizard of OZ. I had the Shirley Temple version of Heidi — no kidding.
Meikah Delid said
Rick, what’s the chagrined look for? (._.)
Mike, good question. I guess, if I had taken the other road, I’d be more successful in my career but a failure in my marriage. With the road, I’m on now, I’ve a happy marriage, and a so-so career. And I’m happy with that.
Joe said
Rick, I wish I remembered the secret password.
Rick Cockrum said
Be Jewish, Joe. Hygiene was good.
I can’t think of anything I would really change, either, except for throwing frogs in the air. That was mean.
Joe said
Although, I DO remember the Secret Handshake…
Chris Cree said
I just want to get away for a while. A cruise would do fine, I think. On anything not painted gray.
Anyone want a Klondike bar?
Mike said
Liz,
I didn’t mean it as something you regretted. For instance, when I went into exile here in Arizona, I had an option to take a much better job in Manitowoc, WI. I don’t regret the decision (especially since I’m still walking out to get the paper in the morning in bare feet in November), but it’s a fun thought experiment to see if I can imagine what the other path would be like.
Mike
Rick Cockrum said
Because I didn’t say hi earlier, Meikah.
I can’t remember it either, Joe. But I still have my sash and arrowhead.
Mike said
Meikah,
Good for you! Turns out I chose the desert because my family preferred that to the frozen tundra. But can you imagine a scenario where the other path turned out better than where you are? We’re just imagining, here. No exams.
Mike
Chris Cree said
Um… Hello?…
Klondike bars?…
*mumbles something about stupid header graphics making him late…*
Mike said
Liz,
I’ll keep it light from now on.
Mike
Char said
I’ll take a Klondike bar…
ME Strauss said
Hey Chris!
Klondike bars . . . hmmmm Never wondered before. Is that product placement?
I’ll paint you a pink cruise ship.
Mike said
I’d do a backflip for a Klondike bar!
Meikah Delid said
Ooh hi, too, Rick
!
Right, Mike, we go where our family goes. Yes, I can imagine that scenario. After all, we are the master of our “universe.”
Joe said
Uh, Hi Chris,
Sorry I missed you coming in.
Were you a Boy Scout and inducted into the Order of the Arrow like me and Rick.
BTW Rick, mom has mine.
Rick Cockrum said
Are they the Klondike bars with the crunchies on the outside Chris? I’ll take one.
Mike said
Okay, so a lighter scenario. You can go anywhere, anytime past, present or future, for 15 minutes. Where do you go?
Chris Cree said
Pink’s better’n gray. Fewer weapons. Besides, it would match my SaraLee, Strawberry Cheesecake Klondike bars tonight!
{Tosses one to Char.} Here you go!
Meikah Delid said
Mike, I’d be going to Florence, Italy!!!
Chris Cree said
{Then opens his ears and starts passing K-bars all around} Tonight the crunchies are on the inside, Rick!
Mike said
Meikah,
What specifically is there that you’d see and do? I’ve never been.
Mike
ME Strauss said
I’d go to Sydney and sit by the harbor.
Char said
They have Strawberry Cheesecake ones? There is a reason I walk right past that aisle in the grocery store!
If I could go anywhere in time for 15 min. I would probably go back to my 21st birthday and give myself a good talkin’ to!
Chris Cree said
Forgot that pesky tag again. Oops!
No, Joe. I quit when they started calling me a Webelo (however that’s spelled.)
Chris Cree said
Close, dang it!
Mike said
Liz,
What’s in the harbor besides a bridge, the Opera House and some talking fish?
Mike
P.S. And are they out of their bags, yet?
Chris Cree said
Liz, Help! I’m stuck in italics from up in # 158!
Rick Cockrum said
I would love to see the signing of the Magna Carta and Paul’s epiphany.
Joe said
Liz…
Please don’t say PINK.
K picked the paint for the Living area walls, it was supposed to be burnt something or other, IT’S PINK…
We bought 5 gallons of it…
I hope it dries darker.
Mike said
Char,
That’s a good one! I think if I went back to my 21st birthday the former me would probably have a few choice words for ME about staying true to my ideals and dreams of that day.
Mike
ME Strauss said
Joe,
I understand. Pink is one of my least favorite colors.
Meikah Delid said
What about you Mike, where would you go?
Liz, you like to stare into the ocean eh. I used to do that when I was single. I would wind down and sit by a boulevard and stare into the ocean for hours!
Char said
That’s interesting – I think my 21 year old body would have a few choice words for me now, too.
ME Strauss said
Mike
http://lettingmebe.blogspot.com/2005/10/australian-coffee-and-australian-wine.html
Mike said
Rick,
Paul’s epiphany! I’ve thought about that one myself. Talk about having world turned upside down!
Mike
ME Strauss said
Yes, Meikah,
I like looking at the water. I’m a writer. That’s great fodder for getting something to write about.
Joe said
I don’t know ’bout you guys, but My 21 year old body was Indestructible…
(at 53, different story).
But the Mind is still sharp as a… a… a… tack.
Meikah Delid said
Wow, so you had a ready answer for that question, Liz.
Sounds like a lot of fun! So when are you going?
ME Strauss said
Joe,
You’re going on attack?
Rick Cockrum said
You almost talk me out of my fantasy of moving to Australia, Liz. I lived in Tampa for five years. During most of that time I lived on the tip of the bay. One of my favorite pasttimes was watching thunderstorms coming in over the bay. I movd back north because I was finally bored with it, missing hills, seasons, and people who weren’t from somewhere else.
ME Strauss said
Meikah,
I don’t know when I’ll go back to Australia again, but I wear a boomerang around my neck. They say it means I’ll return one day. I sure miss my friends there.
Meikah Delid said
Liz, that’s cool! I agree, you are one prolific writer…:) Keep at it! Which reminds me, if I were to go back in time, I would want to go into creative writing.
Char said
I love the water too. My favorite place in the whole world is Oysterhaven on the southern coast of Ireland. The views of the bay from there are beautiful. Further down the coast, the ocean is breathtaking.
Chris Cree said
I think I’d like to go have a chat with some of the American revolutionaries. Talk about a collection great minds with tremendous character. I’d let them know what a wondrous thing they started, that their little band of misfits has grown into.
ME Strauss said
Rick,
Everyone I know in Australia has lived there all of their life. I didn’t meet anyone who wasn’t from there. There was plenty of scenery and variety of it. I saw the most magnificent sunset.
Meikah Delid said
Char, I’d have to agree, the ocean is a breathtaking site.
Rick Cockrum said
Joe, are you making fun of those of us who lose our words?
Joe said
Sorry Liz, I don’t normally studder.
Rick, I have been from Key West to Montreal and everything in between, but Pennsylvania is the best I’ve ever seen.
Mike said
Liz,
Sublime.
Meikah,
Too hard to pick just one. I’d start with being in the crowd for the Sermon on the Mount. Can you imagine the love radiating out of Christ into the crowd and reflected back to Him? What other experience would match that?
ME Strauss said
Meikah,
What would you write about?
(I’d be making music videos.)
Chris Cree said
Australia is the one place in the world I haven’t yet been that I’ve always wanted to go to. Ironically it’s one of the few overseas places my wife has been to. Go figure.
Char said
My best friend live in Australia as a child for about 5 years.
Chris Cree said
Mike, I think I’d like to have a chat with Pilate and Caiaphas after the resurrection. “Bet you didn’t see that one coming, did you?”
Meikah Delid said
Wow, Mike! That’s sublime (too). Tell you what, would be really interesting to be in one of those events happening in the Bible, don’t you think so?
Liz, I have this life-long wish to be able to write stories for children.
I’ve started a few, but they are not ready for public consumption yet. 
Mike said
Liz,
The most magnificent sunsets are here in the Valley of the Sun. They often look completely otherworldly.
Mike
ME Strauss said
Meikah,
Most folks think writing for kids is easier, but it’s actually much harder. I have faith in you. You go girl!
Meikah Delid said
And with that, I hate to see me go, but time for me to go out for a meeting. Bye everyone, this has been an experience, as usual. Good work, Liz! See you next time…
Rick Cockrum said
Good night, Meikah. It’s never too late to write!
Mike said
Chris,
Or “Gaul, here we come!”
Mike
Char said
It is time for me to call it a night too
Mike said
Cheers, Meikah!
Nighty, night, Char!
Rick Cockrum said
G’night, Char.
I have to say bye, too. Thank you, Liz. See you all in the future!
ME Strauss said
Good Night, Meikah!
Thanks for being with us!
Chris Cree said
Mike, I’ll take on the world (as long as I don’t have to eat haggis along the way – even with the confectioner’s sugar.)
ME Strauss said
Bye Char!
It was so nice seeing you tonight!
Mike said
Chris,
Touche!
Mike
Too perfect!!! LOL
seanrox said
Well this is my last appearance for this evening. My work is cut out for me tonight and I have some client deadlines to get finalized.
I leave you with deal or no deal.
Good night everyone.
Chris Cree said
‘night Seanrox. Don’t work too hard.
Leon said
Hi Liz, I followed some links in various blogs and ended up here one night. I am still finding my way around but I already have found your blog useful. I linked to ‘Blogging Tips’ and cited your blog. Thanks for the help.
Leon
PS: I like the idea of an ‘Open Mic’
ME Strauss said
Good night, SeanRox,
You work too much!
ME Strauss said
Hi Leon!
Welcome. We’re just talking about traveling through time. Well, sort of, time seems to stretch the topic a little bit!
seanrox said
Indeed Liz, I work really hard… you slave driver
ME Strauss said
Why SeanRox,
I’m the nice one.
Leon said
Time travel in blog comments can be fun. Especially when the different comments get mixed up. of course any mixups make good writing material.
Joe said
One thing I have found
Through out the night
Is flights of fancey
Will come to light
When Liz has started
The thoughts a Blazin’
No matter the time
or what the hazin’
All will have the time
for everything under the sun
to enjoy open mic night
and have some really great fun.
Berma Shave
Nite Liz
Nite All
Mike said
So Leon,
What’s the weather like in BC these days? And if you could spend 15 minutes any time in history, anywhere, what would it be and why?
Mike
Chris Cree said
‘Night Joe!
Leon said
It is rainy in Victoria – as usual – but not as windy as it was. i here there is s***w (bad word) up near the Yukon border.
15 mins in time? how about with the Lunar Lander on at the first landing. it was the first thing that popped inmy head and it must have been an awesome experience.
ME Strauss said
Good night Joe!
Sleepy swell.
ME Strauss said
Leon, the Lunar Lander does sound like an experience. I’m not sure I’d like the reverse claustrophobia of being in all of that space with no atmosphere around me, though.
Mike said
Leon,
Lunar lander would be incredible! Then again, it seems like the guys in the later lunar missions had more fun, having realized that the way to get around on the moon was to hop like a kangaroo.
Mike
Leon said
Mmm, I might have trouble if I was spacewalking over the earth. Being on the ‘cround’ would be okay.
How long do you usual hang around here?
Mike said
Since this is my first visit, as long as things stay interesting!
ME Strauss said
We’re probably closing down about now. It’s looking like everyone’s tuckered out. I know that I’m starting to yawn.
Leon said
Mike, you’re right. Those guys could sure move. Incredible videos.
Mike said
And the crowd seems to be thinning…
ME Strauss said
You guys can stay as long as you like. Sometimes folks drop by around midnight (which wuold be in about an hour. Lots of times people show up in the wee hours of the a.m. and tomorrow morning.
Mike said
Well Liz, then I’ll call it a night.
Leon, great to meet you!
Chris, if you’re still out there, I could show up every Tuesday night for the next 10 years and not write a line as good as yours tonight. I bow to your ingeniousness!!
Adios, amigos!
Leon said
Liz – I’ll mention open mic in one of my blogs. it will be a first experince for many. Mike – nice chatting with you. I’ll check out your blog.
bye all.
Carolyn Manning said
Hi,
Am I too late?
ME Strauss said
Hi Carolyn,
I think you got here just in time to say “good night.”
But, my manners.
You know that I’m glad to see you!
Carolyn Manning said
Ok, then, good night it is. I’m setting my alarm to make it on time next week.
Carolyn
Chris Cree said
That’s me, Mike. Show up, half paying attention, and make someone’s night just by being me. I wish I knew how I did that so I could make it happen more often. Sort of an “on demand” type of thing.
Oh, well. Glad to get a laugh!
Enjoy!
I’m off to bed. I can’t believe I’m up after midnight. Again.
‘Night all!
ME Strauss said
Yea! Carolyn, That will be such fun!
Good night, Chris.
Good night all!
Delaney Kirk said
Looks like I missed tonight’s party…just got home from the Aussie Pink Floyd concert…talk about your time travel! Have a great week everyone.
Ah Pek said
Aww….. shucks! I’m not that great an explorer after all. Went exploring the wrong cave, I mean, post!
Hans said
Hi Liz. It’s the first time I join in. I don’t know exactly how this works but I’ll try hanging around
I don’t know many explorers but would bloggers be explorers.
Hans said
Hey Liz, I saw back diving into those mic night that we can share links…. ok I’ll spam one may I ?
I went exploring the territory of reviews and tried doing my first one. I don’t exactly know whether it’s a good one but if it makes people laugh after trying the things there, then I can say my job’s been done
Hans said
tok! tok! is there somebody? oh I see probably everybody sleeping at 2 a.m hahaaaa……
cat said
I’m here. But that’s because it’s early afternoon. Not am.
Hans said
@ cat
ahh wouldn’t you be in America then? I don’t know
I just saw the time in the comments that’s why I thought it was a.m
cat said
Nope, I’m in Bangkok.
Where are you located?
Apologies, but I’m only keeping half an eye on the conversation.
Hans said
@ cat
as for me, I’m in Mauritius. Do you know?
haha that’s why I left my gmail open so that I may know when there’s something moving here
cat said
I know where it is, but have never had the pleasure.
Hans said
@ cat
consider paying yourself a visit when you’re on vacation, you won’t be regretting any moment of it. but actually here it doesn’t snow, it’s sunshine every time so I don’t whether you would be loving to end a year here. Would you?
btw Bangkok is also a beautiful place, many Mauritians go there specially for trade but I didn’t get much info whether it’s a rejoicing place for vacation
cat said
Bangkok is also ‘sunshine every time’ as it’s in the tropics.
Someday I’d love to visit your country, but not in the near future. I generally travel a great deal and I’m booked until Xmas, ’07.
Hans said
@ cat
that’s a long time then
what would you be traveling for? holidays or business purposes ?
cat said
Up until recent it was for work, but as of the new year I’ll be able to smile and say ‘pleasure’.
Next year has some milestones. My father inlaw turns 90. Myself and hubby turning equally (um) notable ages.
Hans said
*wow*
your in-law must be knowing lots of life then. What would he be telling you when hearing about blogs and you in here into some funky nights like this sharing the mic?
cat said
My father inlaw knows what blogging is, but he doesn’t understand blog culture.
As for my staying up nights blogging, I don’t. Tuesday Mic night is early Wednesday morning out here.
Hans said
haha wouldn’t that be cheating? I mean it’s also shiny day for me and hear the party is supposed to welcome people for a night show
hihi
yeah, I myself don’t probably understand much about it even if I’m a teen
how about you? why are blogging?
Hans said
I’m getting offline now. I was hanging around while polishing another review on Review.Me.com and publishing it. Done and dusted.
Would anyone be using such service here?
ME Strauss said
Hi Delaney,
Sorry I missed you by so little. But Pink Floyd –WAY COOL!!!
ME Strauss said
Hans and Cat,
How wonderful that two of my most favorite people got to meet in my comment box. You both are great example of people who know that we’re made of the same stuff as stars.
ME Strauss said
Hans,
You should come to Seattle next May and you can meet both Cat and me . . . It’s time you saw the United States!
ME Strauss said
Ah Pek,
Your comment is excellent. I’m laughing this Wednesday morning. Thank you!
cat said
Liz,
on the subject of Seattle … I picked up my tickets yesterday.
Due to the Memorial Day holiday, we are now making arrangements for accommodation.
I’m running across some decent condos that are in a reasonable price range. Give me a holler if you’d like to grab a space.
ps: we are separating out those who smoke from those who snore …
cat said
Liz,
I received your email but I’m having difficulties responding. Not to you or the message, but something to do with my email.
I’ll get to you tomorrow, k?
cat said
Liz …
(shaking head)
ME Strauss said
Cat,
My email was only to make you laugh.
I hope your email illness improves quickly.
cat said
Liz, I was laughing. Off my couch
When you meet me you’ll know. Oh, yes, You’ll know, lol!
ME Strauss said
I might not know everything now, but, young lady, I suspect . . .
cat said
LOL! You lead … you lead …
ME Strauss said
Sure . . . sure . . .
That’s what they always say, “That Cat, she’s a follower!”
cat said
Hah! I’m laughing so hard me toe is throbbing.
You and I are going to do just fine in Seattle.
Which, btw, I’m already starting to get sorted. Accommodation, parties, bits of fun, etc.
Yeah, I lead, I lead
ME Strauss said
Of course you do. Haven’t you looked at the number of things you do and run listed in your email signature lately?
Which, btw, I’m already starting to get sorted. Accommodation, parties, bits of fun, etc –
Are you inviting the guy with the blackbelt in Chocolate? It is your birthday celebration after all. I bet everyone would be willing to pitch in for a room etc. to be part of his audience. Do I need to look up his name?
cat said
The guy with the black belt in chocolate? Is he in Seattle? I do know they’ve brought lap dancing back in, but that’s a man thing.
Btw – as soon as I get this drat email sorted I’ll send you the accommodation I’ve come across. All condos. Some are penthouse. Not too shabby.
Hans said
hah woke up Liz
how do you do this morning? Seattle is way very far from home 
my mom who still takes care of me wouldn’t even consider this idea : letting me go away from Mauritius. Even for university she seems a bit hesitant and keep insisting I study in Mauritius itself.
What’s there in Seattle by the way? Have I missed any info on any gathering there?
ME Strauss said
Hi Cat,
I found the chocolate man. He’s in NYC, but he travels http://www.wowcacao.com/
It would be too cool.
ME Strauss said
Hans,
I don’t blame your mom. I’d be the same way about my own son.
ME Strauss said
Cat,
Yes or no — do you have Skype?
cat said
Morning Liz. Drat, it’s almost 4am and I’m awake …
Chocolate man – I’m hungry
Skype – I sure do. It’s how I can work overseas without breaking the bank.
ME Strauss said
I’m putting you on Blogger a Day list. We’re gonna talk.
cat said
I’d like that. I avoided putting my name forward because I didn’t know of you skyped or not.
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