WADDLE IMPROVED

photo by Craig Murphy

Okay, the Craigslist sold printer story left a sour taste in your mouth, right?  I know.  Let's leave on a high note regarding printers, okay?  What if printers can make wittle ducky feet?  Feel better?  
Using a 3D printer, Wisconsin middle school teacher Jason Jischke and his class, took "six weeks of trial and error," but were able to make prosthetic feet just right, for a duck that had lost its feet to frostbite.     story      

Principle in the type:  "You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago."      Unknown

GET THE LED OUT

photo by Satry Bacchus

The face off in court between Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" and American band Spirit's "Taurus" (which you can listen to here), continues.  Did the Zepp rip the rift?  Nah, says music expert Lawrence Ferrara.  That same chord progression "musical element was used 300 years ago, as well as in many pop songs since then."    Some melodies make for a Good foundation, obvi. 

Principle in the type:  " . . . with all his or her power, nourish that which is good.    L. Tom Perry

DAD

photo by Claudia Heidelberger

What can I say?  Happy Father's Day, dudes!  We all really need you - our heroes!!    (Cutie commercial below.)




                                 

Principle in the type:  "A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time.  It is a calling for both time and eternity."     Ezra Taft Benson

                                                                                         Happy Weekend FamBams!

SOLD!

photo by Marc Sheffner

Sell a printer on Craigslist, get $40, and then find yourself "liable for about $30,000 in damages."  (Because the buyer accuses you of false advertising and selling a "malfunctioning printer with missing parts.")   And pay a lawyer about $12,000 to dig out of the mess.  Or don't.  It's a crap-shoot.        story                 

Principle in the type:  "Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life."    Prince

THE ROAD TO SUCCESS IS PAVED WITH SIGNED SHOES

photo by Keith Allison

Like, I know there is an important basketball game tonight.  LeBron and Curry will both be there.  And all that.  But let's talk about Nike dropping the ball (lol - pun - metaphor) and not keeping megastar Steph Curry in their line-up.  "Nike hit him with a pitch meeting ... hastily thrown together ... " with Curry's name spelled wrong and Kevin Durant's name still on presentation slides.   The consensus is Nike blew it and Under Armor won with Curry signed through 2024.    Anywhooo . . .      story     

Principle in the type:  "Still, accomplishment is unreliable.  'Succeeding,' whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it), and there's the very real danger that 'succeeding' will take you your whole life, while the big questions go untended."    George Saunders

BEARLY

photo by Dazeys supply

Oh My Gosh I have so many videos in queue Always for your entertainment!  What's a blogger to do?   Well this weekend, I'm pairing Wednesday's "black bear" wandering into a "La Canada Flintridge," California "neighborhood and"  cooling  "off in a swimming pool," with last year's same-neck-of-the-woods video of, well, you'll see.  I mean this is good stuff to us urbanites!   Big city news~        news



                                 

Principle in the type:  "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."   Yogi Berra

                                                                                       Happy Weekend Wildlife Lovers!

PAGING DR. HEIMLICH

photo by WmJR

Last week 96-year-old retired surgeon Dr. Henry Heimlich (credited with developing the namesake Heimlich maneuver), saved Patty Ris--who was choking on her food--using, you know, the same said maneuver.   Ris is a co-resident at the same Cincinnati senior living center Heimlich lives in.     news               

Principle in the type:  "Each new day is an opportunity to bind ourselves to act according to what we know."     Jo N. Jepsen