take the long walk home with ramona on tv

2008/3/30 birdie99 heard that att.com will dump 65,000 pay phones.

i dont know about you but the pay phone is something i hate to see go. i remember when calls were one quarter. before that i am told they were as cheap as a dime. in this day and age of speedpass rfid gadgets, i wonder if kids even know what pocket change is.

i remember my penny bank and i remember saving them up in rolls to carry to the bank.

i remember trips with my mom to the safe deposit box.

i remember trips with my dad to the camera shop.

i remember trips on saturdays to the local movie theatre. they had a pay phone there. all us kids used it to call for a ride. of course, most of the time, our moms showed up on time unbidden when the show was over.

i remember taking my child to day care and to school and during the summer vacation,
to the ridglea pool assn.

i remember when my parents seriously considered placing a shelter in our back yard. it was during the missile crisis.

i remember when all the parents were supposed to pick up each others kids at school.
we had this drill because ft worth was hometown to the bomber plant. pierre van paassen refers to them as bombing planes. rockets and missiles were elsewhere. but we had carswell afb and con vair or general dynamics and were considered prime targets.

this is about all i recall about the cold war. sputnik caused educators to fly into a flurry of activity. boys did, i think, receive a lot of attention as possible pilots and rocket scientists and astronomers. we girls took
home economics and languages.

2008/3/12 wednesday miercoles at park villas apts ridgmar.

birdie99 received correspondence.

birdie99 noted that the letter came from the tarrant county jail.

birdie99 recalls that in 1983
randy rhone was released from tarrant county jail.

birdie99 hopes that a prison ministry is in her future.

birdie99 hopes that virtual telepresentz and fakespace make such a ministry safe.

birdie99 notes that paparazzi are about to be reined in.

drphil.com features dr phil now wrestling with problems.

webtv lacks min sys req for there and for usps.gov.

2008/3/12 birdie99 was not yet born when john denver and other 43things were born.

birdie99 recalls 1978 when her job began and she received mentoring from Dorothy.

birdie99 recalls 1987 when she was tricked by a policyholder into helping to defraud her company. giving a deposition may have been the hardest mental exercise of her life.

birdie99 is the grand child of a judge admitted to the bar way back when. gran was born 1862/11/27 and was orphaned by the civil war. its ironic that his great grand son has been orphaned by a custody battle.

2002/11/27 a 911 commission was formed to see why and how our defenses failed on the 11th of september 2001.

1964/3/11 creator of star trek gene roddenberry completed the written concept of his crowning achievement.

2008/3/11 creator of a new sci-fi project withdraws to cyber space beyond portal J.

2008/3/11 it is interesting that stargate ark of truth came out today and that the space shuttle blasted off.

running neck and neck are science fiction and science fact. how does the Cold War figure in our understanding of the race to space? why should everyone see the nasa version and the paul dickson version of the story of sputnik?

nova: sputnik declassified.
paul: sputnik shock of the century. the movie is aptly named Sputnik Mania.

2008/3/11 thomas edison was noted for his determination.

instead of saying he had a large number of failures when seeking the right material to act as a filament in his light bulb, he counted each test as successful in finding out what would not work.

sparrownauts aspire to bring about a sea-change in the worlds of communications and transportaion. teleportation may have been dreamed by others, we wont quibble, but only star trek showed us images of away teams beaming down to the planet.

star trek gave us a lingo. most of all star trek gave us ideas and ideals at a time when our generation needed it.

2008/3/11 tuesday el martes at parkvillasapts.com ridgmar.

add your city fort worth.
add your county tarrant.
add your state texas.

houser ramona utti left behind a recording at 817 644 0600 and birdie99 hopes and prays that voice recording stays.

shut-in jean rhone spoke on the phone to encourage her friend.

shut-in jim grey had done the same for her. buddy adams held the key to jim greys mobility.

still me, a biography by christopher reeve gives some insight into paralysis and what it means to a young man.

1969/12/26 was jims injury.
1995/5/27 was chris reeves.
1973/12/7 was randy rhones.

2008/3/11 tuesday el martes at park villas apts ridgmar.

1991/10/24 gene roddenberry ended his life on earth. but his creation lives on.

2008/4/10 washington dc will be the scene of an evening event celebrating darpa.

2008/3/14 is the theatrical release of sputnik mania. now birdie99 already tried and failed to log on to sputnik mania blog, but perhaps you, the reader can boldly go where my webtv classic set top box cannot.

2008/3/11 stargate the ark of truth comes out on dvd today.

for sparrownauts, its important to remember the creator of star trek today.

hiram percy maxim can be for all of us. his two words can guide the autistic and the spastic. unselfishess and organization. dot org and give. goodsearch.com.

thehungersite.com genome.gov.
smokefree.gov ftc.gov fcc.gov,
and best of all ed.gov.

2008/3/11 tuesday el martes and the anniversary of the birth of star trek.

readers of the biography of the creator of star trek, by david alexander, will learn many things.

perhaps the most interesting to this reader was the date
that the concept came together on paper. 16 pages of paper.

yesterday on nightline the pope told us of two more deadly sins.

1 has to do with conservation.
2 has to do with the genome.

since the catholic church had since the 6th century had a list of seven, this makes 8 and 9.

sparrownauts thank the pope.

2008/3/10 birdie99 is reminded of this time of year 2000.

inside the book published by george magazine and random house, 250 ways to make america better, one of the contributors was an expert on the subject of adolescent pregnancy.

1999/9/1 the baby moses law became effective in Texas. Dr John Richardson worked long and hard for this law intended to protect newborns from their own parents.

2000/3/14 or thereabouts, a young girl gave birth to a son, and what followed was a real tragedy. she placed the living child in a trash bag with the household garbage and placed it in a dumpster. we do not know if she stayed to watch, but we know the living child was retrieved from the dumpster by james dunham.

nurses at cook childrens hospital named the baby patrick. baby patrick survived and was placed by cps with a family who lived outside of Texas. baby patrick dob/mar/00.

lajuana dione horne had an attorney who was unable to obtain any mercy from the court. for all i know she is still serving time for attempted capital murder.

its for cases like this that john crotty associates will pursue the proper tools for video validation.

2006/10/27 abcnews prime time video validation of victim. an abused wife did not even realize that the video would help her. her abuser was so delusional that he thought his mistreatment of his wife was justified. the judge in new york sentenced him to 24 years in prison.
in prison what happens?
in guantanamo what happens?
in abu gharib what happens?
in huntsville texas what ?

perhaps some of us in 2009 ought to visit some prisons.
have video cam will travel.