2007/5/14 birdie99 on 43things believes that when one can no longer communicate one must hang up the phone.
birdie99 experimented with disconnection during the final days of her mothers life due to the fact that the phone so disturbed trula vicki aka vicki valrae crotty.
birdie99 knows that the telephone and the automobile were genuine artifacts of her library museum and that the automobile went on 2006/9/25.
tagged as a nuisance 2006/9/19 unisured since 2005/8/19 and very very old, the oldsmobile had been symbolic of the life of the driver. excellent maintenance in younger years propelled both car and driver well into the future. but on the tenth of july 1996 a fire.
birdie99 feels that car bodies and human bodies have a lot in common considering that one is alive and one is not alive.
birdie99 knows pixar has some of these same thoughts about cars because she saw the dvd.
2006/6/9 theatrical release of cars the movie. could it be that pixar understands the big picture that no longer includes route 66 and happy motoring. remember dinah shore and see the usa in your chevrolet? your ford your pontiac your oldsmobile.
birdie99 hopes there is still hope for the horse and the people who care for them.
2008 the spanish riding school comes to the west coast. this is huge. disney told about the wonderful white stallions in a movie available at amazon.com 4 years ago
2007/5/14 birdie99 on 43things has never thought of anything new. indeed she doubts there is any thing new under the sun. but since she knows she will not have tomorrow, she wants to be an expert on yesterdays on 43things.com
birdie99 recalls that her mom wanted to go home. although her mom had lived in several homes over the years, she most wanted to revisit the home she was born in and grew up in.
birdie99 thought this would be a good use for the holodeck of star trek the next generation.
birdie99 loved star trek the original and realized the genius of gene roddenberry belonged to him and not the actors in his plays.
roddenberry was shakespeare reincarnated. shatner was a shakespearean trained actor from canada and star of B sci-fi movies before becoming james tiberius kirk.
hospice heritage tours would be tailored to create virtual visits to actual places and actual visits to virtual places. theme parks maybe.
birdie99 seeks the vessel in which to make the voyages.
ah hah! there it is now.
myers motors dot com has the corbinsparrow aka sparrow_ev. 4 years ago
2007/5/14 birdie99 on 43things was greeted this morning with news that daimler chrysler is being sold.
birdie99 hears that today the cost of mailing one letter by first class mail is forty one cents.
birdie99 fears that industrial america is vanishing.
birdie99 knows that math can take you places but the place she most fears is the shelter for homeless people.
birdie99 remembers six flags over texas. her graduating class went there all night back in may of 1963.
birdie99 remembers Disneyland.
john crotty took his wife and two daughters there the summer of 1962. people were sleeping every where as birdie99 recalls.
automobiles that run on fossil fuel have had a long run. not as long as the horses they replaced though. amish people never gave up their horses. amish people still know how to live close to nature.
birdie99 will make her film about henry ford and how he disliked horses. henry ford and how he was interested in soy beans. henry ford and the way he continued to counsel with thomas edison as the plans for the quadricycle went forward. henry ford and his assembly line. henry ford and his sense of his own place in history.
birdie99 will also look at howard hughes and aviation. 4 years ago
2007/5/13 birdie99 on 43things offers a unique perspective.
birdie99 wants to see central intelligence agency from bay of pigs to valerie plame.
birdie99 wants to see fbi from j edgar hoover to discovery of the plot to attack soldiers at fort dix.
birdie99 wants to know what citizens can know about the nsa national security adm.
birdie99 thinks that not since the vision of gill robb wilson has anybody realized that the average citizen can be better prepared to protect his own neighborhood than the police or the military.
birdie99 hopes she lives to see the new CCC. the old CCC was better known as FDR and his tree army. the new CCC will be the civillian communications corps and it will add 21st century technology to that available as of 1941/12/1 with the cap.
civil air patrol. 4 years ago
2007/5/13 birdie99 on 43things believes there is no finer way to win the Oscar than with a documentary of horses and humans that love them.
birdie99 believes that men who breed and train horses are knights whether they themselves will admit it or not. breeding horses and training them to perform is a high calling.
birdie99 recalls that once the military had a branch that was called the Cavalry.
birdie99 recalls that each machine that developed after the car and the airplane eventually found its way to the battlefield.
birdie99 recalls that bob woodruff sustained his head injury while embedded with troops to cover the war.
birdie99 recalls that bob hope flew on military planes and rode in military jeeps while on his uso missions to raise the morale of troops.
birdie99 recalls that laughter is the best medicine for war.
birdie99 recalls that tack for iraq allowed american horse fanciers to reach out to the veterinarians that were caring for saddams stables and the horses that survived.
birdie99 predicts that there will be electronic tack for robotic horses in the very
near future. 4 years ago
2007/5/13 birdie99 on 43things
believes the connect with kids project can work any where.
birdie99 envisioned something like the after school projects started in the early seventies by the black panthers.
birdie99 believes that tv and radio and satellite communications can make things once thought impossible possible and even probable.
birdie99 believes most independent school districts are just too independent. so
birdie99 suggests inter-dependent school districts that identify all learners. life long learners.
groups of grown ups whose commitment to education is unquestioned and whose loyalty to the united states of America is demonstrated every day with the pledge of allegiance and the singing of the national anthem. 4 years ago
2007/5/13 birdie99 on 43things believes you will find the time line fascinating.
1958 it begins.
1958/4/16 two souls went to heaven or where ever souls go.
1963/11/22 two souls went to heaven or where ever souls go.
birdie99 will not name the people she is referring to.
2007/4/16 33 souls went to heaven or where ever souls go.
Ghost was a movie starring patrick swayze and dimi moore and whoopi goldberg and in it
several characters died in violent ways. when the souls separated from the bodies,
they looked back at the bodies lying lifeless behind them.
birdie99 thinks this was good death theatre and predicts that in future it may be used in therapy for survivors.
propanalol is a drug some doctors have used to treat post traumatic stress.
birdie99 thinks nacirema tribes people use chemicals too much to cure thoughts.
birdie99 thinks the magnetic resonance imaging machine and the 4D ultrasound offer hope.
maybe the drugs can be developed as well but the war on drugs has worked no better than prohibition did. 4 years ago
2007/5/13 birdie99 on 43things wishes to see technology that reverses the age of humans.
not actually but virtually by image manipulation.
birdie99 has a 21 year old son and she can look at him asleep and see clearly the 21 day old infant he used to be.
birdie99 thinks crimes are committed by babies who have grown older on the outside without growing up on the inside. juveniles commit crimes an infant might commit if suddenly overnight the 21 day old infant grew to age 21 years on the outside.
image manipulation was in its infancy when Forrest Gump won the academy award.
birdie99 wonders what the state of the art will be when jcalegacygrp goes to Oscars 87
about seven years from now. 4 years ago
2007/5/13 birdie99 on 43things wishes to thank pbs dot org for the story of barnes wallis and his bouncing bombs.
birdie99 wonders why no one has created bouncing bomb detonators that could precede the humvees and set off the bombs harmlessly instead of allowing our soldiers to just drive around Baghdad Fallujah or Tikrit waiting to get blown up.
birdie99 read the 911 report where it was shown that first responders did not have a reliable radio spectrum.
birdie99 noted that when hurricane katrina hit the third coast, first responders lagged behind the television networks in reaching the survivors. no reliable radio spectrum still?
ham radio has been operating in the public sector for years
and yet relative to the whole population of the united states relatively few know all about the invisible spectrum.
a rainbow represents the visible and yet compared to radio and television and x-ray and gamma ray and ultraviolet and infrared, the rainbow is just a small slice.
ham radio operators are a small but vital slice of our defense. defenselink.mil may interest you and arrl.org
american radio relay league.
radio waves are what make our remote control devices work and our cell phones so they can hardly be irrelevant.
1957/10/4 russians launched the satellite named Sputnik.
in russian sputnik translates to travelling companion.
since 1957 a travelling companion has been orbitting the earth at intervals. the apollo missions at nasa.gov and the marsrovers at jpl.nasa.gov have come along since 1957. you might say all math and science has been learned by students since 1957
when hit the fever of 57.
you can learn more about the fever at pauldicksonbooks.com 4 years ago
2007/5/13 birdie99 on 43things wants to see if relatives of the recently departed would be interested in sharing their memories of loved ones.
birdie99 learned of the aspirations of some of the fallen at virginia tech and they had lofty goals.
birdie99 wonders if the fallen
soldiers like casey sheehan and michael marzano might have also had some dreams worth sharing with survivors.
if you are reading this then you are a survivor. but for how long will you and i survive?
we are aware of our mortality as jfk once was on 1963/6/10 when he addressed a graduating class.
national geographic made a photo story book of president kennedy and his family.
national geographic takes the lead in anthropology even being the first to release images of fetuses created by the use of 4D ultrasound. 4 years ago
2007/5/13 birdie99 on 43things knows that without her visa identity she would have no
amazon shoppers identity.
birdie99 sees clearly that most of the gains in technology center around matters financial.
birdie99 calls her bank.
birdie99 calls her visa.
birdie99 calls her hope.
telephone booths have vanished
along with the pay phone and the model A ford.
movies enshrine what even the extensive collections at the Smithsonian and other museums cannot. relationships and behaviors. you can see the objects that were present but to see them operate and to see their operators, you must see a film.
box office.
admit one.
a ticket.
purchase your ticket by phone at ticketmaster.
purchase your books and movies
and toys and thousands of items at amazon.com, a book store.
banks contain not only records of financial dealings but also provide safe deposit boxes.
a depositor at a bank can place valuables in a box at a bank but he or she cannot gain access without proper identification and authority.
sometimes safe deposit boxes are left abandoned and never reclaimed.
safe deposit boxes tell stories about families.
for hundreds of years in America some families owned nothing. nothing except that one thing yet to be discovered
and that one thing was DNA. 4 years ago
2007/5/13 birdie99 on 43things believes the age of video validation is just beginning.
behold the surveillance cam.
behold the cam in court.
behold the cam held by a 13 year old boy recording his father and mother engaged in character stripping, verbal abuse and psychological assault. 2006/10/27 abcnews.
today Pete J Costello pleads guilty to faking retardation to obtain social security disability payments since age 8. rosie costello it seems had a son and daughter she coached to act retarded in social security interviews.
when Pete got a traffic ticket
he tried to fight it but the cameras caught him acting perfectly normal in court.
these two instances are just the tip of the ice berg. birdie99 sees video such as the david hasselhoff one and voice mail such as the alex baldwin one playing a bigger and bigger role in therapy. 4 years ago
2007/4/24 during world war 2 women stepped into the jobs left vacant by men. during world war 3 which started in march 2003 (following the 911 attack of arabs on America) i submit to you there are jobs that could be filled by the disabled and the distaff. the living leadership will refuse to mobilize this population; therefore, we suggest ghost captains such as C W Mays. 4 years ago
