And the players for the Vikings and in Green Bay are doing what? Sitting under palm trees, drinking pina coladas? Chicago is known as the windy city. What, a few Lake Effect snowflakes is worse those -20 windchills?
Once again Buffalo, where it’s been in the 40-50s more int the past two weeks than below 32, and flooding is more of a problem than drifting, we’re the victims again of this unjustified stereotype. Continue Reading…
We’re tired. It’s pouring rain, and it’s a long walk to the parking lot from the building we just left, but we couldn’t be happier.
Eleven hours earlier, we had arrived, a bit late, but still in time to hear the National Anthems for the United States and Canada sung at opening ceremonies. It was the third and last day of the FIRST Robotics Fingerlakes Regional Robotics Competition at RIT in Rochester NY.
I had ridden there the previous two days in a school bus, getting up at 6:00 am to meet it. We left one night about 7:30 pm and felt good to get out early on Friday by 5… The extra hour or so of sleep on Saturday felt good, but it wasn’t enough.
It’s hard keeping up with these kids. I’m 55 and my mind says it wants to do the things they do, but my body is always vetoing that idea. My feet are sore, my back aches and my joints complain whenever I work in an awkward position. But I wouldn’t miss it. These kids keep me feeling a little younger than I might if I just stayed home and vegetated. Continue Reading…
4 Mar, 2009
by Albert Gritzmacher
in Humour, WNY Comments off
This past weekend was the annual Olcott (NY) Lions Club Polar Bear Swim. Although it’s been going on for 40 years, I’ve never gone to it. And I like cold weather. But I hear it’s a great time.
Olcott’s got nothing on this polar bear escapade, though. These people seem to be enjoying a sunny day in Sosnovka, Kyrgystan, while a religous leader performs a baptism.
Representatives of the radical religous group, Westboro Baptist Church[Wikipedia link, I won’t give them the honor of a link to thier own website.] came to the area to protest the memorials of the victims of the Flight 3407 crash. When they arrived, all three of them, they were shown for what they were, a fringe minority.
They were greeted with WNY hospitality, a non-violent presence where local activists just overwhelmed them with a larger, more respectful group.
I guess the WBC people just gave up and went away after they didn’t get all the attention, like they wanted. Y’all don’t come back now, hear?
A while back, I saw a group called I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House and they played this song, which expresses what I think is a suitable sentiment for these so-called-religious zealots.
[dewplayer:http://gritzmacher.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/i-can-lick-any-sonofabitch-in-the-house-live-at-dantes-05-westboro-baptist-church.mp3] [Caution: audio not suitable for children or an office environment, or if your Mother is listening.]
Sometimes, you just have to balance one kind of hate with another…
