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Capsule
Monday, September 23, 2019
Elizabeth L. Gardner (1921–2011) was an American pilot during World War II who served as a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).
This often-reproduced photograph was taken when she was about 22 and became emblematic of the place of women in the service of their country.
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Lead Picture (Thumbnail Story below in Thumbnail section)
Monday, September 23, 2019
Photograph credit: United States Department of the Air Force; restored by Hohum and Bammesk
Read more on the blog www.existentialautotrip.com
The blog? A daily three to four-minute excursion into photos and short texts to regale the curious with an ever-changing and diverting view of a world rich in gastronomy, visual art, ideas, chuckles, stories, people, diversions, science, homespun, and enlightenment.
Observing with wit and wisdom, Dom Capossela, an experienced leader, guides his team of contributors and followers through that world, an amusing and edifying conversation to join.
Note that the blog is also the first place that posts the "Hey, Dom!" videos.
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Commentary
Monday, September 23, 2019
What I’m hoping.
That the videos now being regularly posted develop a viewership.
That by the time we celebrate our second anniversary our thousand blog visitors will be matched by 10,000 video viewers.
That some small percentage of this new audience for our content splash over to the blog.
What I’m hoping.
That (with the personal training that Microsoft stores offer all their customers) having developed a great MS Excel Master Sheet for storing and making calculations shaping the gathered stats into an analytic useful to our endeavors, we can, indeed, intelligently gather the basic viewing numbers across the social media.
What I’m hoping.
Is that we can conform our posts to the requirements of each of the major social media and intelligently file the links so they’re easy to find.
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News re: existentialautotrip
Monday, September 23, 2019
Another breakthrough in my quest to track the analytics of the videos: I’ve learned to navigate Excel to the extent that allows me to track the number of views of the videos.
I just have to familiarize myself with the program.
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Saturday’s Dinner posted on
Monday, September 23, 2019
Today I had a delicious Slow-Roast Sirloin.
With vegetables and frites.
All delicious.
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Chuckle of the day:
Monday, September 23, 2019
How to clean your cat and the toilet bowl at the same time, and not get soaked yourself.
1. Put both lids of the toilet up and add 1/8 cup of pet shampoo to the water in the bowl.
2. Pick up the cat and soothe him while you carry him towards the bathroom.
3. In one smooth movement, put the cat in the toilet and close both lids. You may need to stand on the lid.
4. The cat will self-agitate and make ample suds. Ignore the noises – the cat actually is enjoying this.
5. Flush the toilet three or four times, the power wash and rinse.
6. Have someone open the front door of your home. Be sure that there are no people between the bathroom and the front door.
7. Stand behind the toilet as far as you can and quickly lift both lids.
8. The cat will rocket out of the toilet , streak through the bathroom, and run outside where he will dry himself off.
9. Both the commode and the cat will be sparkling clean.
Sincerely,
The Dog
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A “Hey, Dom!” video.
Monday, September 23, 2019
Beer can vasectomy
When you can’t afford the very best
Length: 2.03
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Monday, September 23, 2019
Here’s a communication from Sally C regarding how she came to write one of her books:
The Flag on the Great Man’s Breast.
On the Fourth of July in 2008, I performed in three parades.
Come evening, I was some tuckered out.
After the evening’s cookout, my husband Phillip told stories to his visiting sisters about Lincoln, whom he portrays professionally.
He related Lincoln’s long wait for permanent burial, thirty-six years after his assassination.
By 1901 they had finally built a tomb that would eliminate any further threats or attempts to kidnap the body for ransom.
Before encasing the casket in concrete, those who had guarded the president for all those years wisely decided to open the coffin to ensure that Lincoln’s body was still within.
In death, Lincoln looked much as he had in life, his preservation guaranteed by daily re-embalming for nearly three weeks, the duration of his body’s journey from Washington back to Illinois.
On his chest were scattered tiny bits of red, white, and blue fabric.
No doubt, during one of the public viewings, someone had placed on Lincoln’s chest a small flag that had disintegrated over the years.
This image got caught in the cobwebs of my punch-drunk-tired brain. I thought, “Gee! What would those little bits of flag would say if they could talk?”
I immediately sank into sleep that night, but my slumber did not remain undisturbed.
About an hour later, those little bits of flag rapped on the inside of my skull. “Wake up! You have to write this down!”
I staggered awake and wrote a few notes.
Dropped back onto the pillow, out like a light.
Not much later, the story pounded at me again. “Write more!”
This went on all night.
The story didn’t ask to be written, it demanded.
It wasn’t in the least bit polite.
It grabbed me by the throat and wouldn’t let me be until in the dim light of dawn, by which time I had completed its skeleton.
I worked for two days to fill in the factual details.
The result is a Lincoln biography narrated by a ghost flag that lives at the top of the flagpole at Lincoln’s Tomb.
Web Meister’s Response: Nice, Sally. Thank you.
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Today’s Thumbnail
Monday, September 23, 2019
Elizabeth L. Gardner (1921–2011) was an American pilot during World War II who served as a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).
Our lead picture shows Gardner sitting in the pilot's seat of a Martin B-26 Marauder at Harlingen Army Airfield, Texas.
She was born in Rockford, Illinois, and graduated from Rockford High School in 1939.
She was a mother and housewife before the war started.
After she married, she took the last name Remba.
Upon enlisting as a WASP member, Gardner "had two days of training under Lieutenant Col. Paul Tibbets, who later commanded the B-29 that dropped the first atom bomb on Hiroshima".
She flew Martin B-26 Marauder medium bombers, including the AT-23 trainer version of the bomber.
One of her stations was in Dodge City, Kansas.
She was trained as a test pilot and flight instructor, and she also flew aircraft that towed aerial targets.
After years of fighting for recognition of their military service, the 300 surviving WASP pilots were recognized with the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.
So many American women soldiers, going back to the American Revolution and patriotic women as spies.
A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924
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Acknowledgements
Monday, September 23, 2019
Thanks to Sally C for sharing one of her creative moments with us.
And to the Jokes Warehouse for the chuckle today.
Thanks to the Microsoft team at the Prudential Center for their unflagging availability to help with a constant flow of technological problems.
Always thanks to Wikipedia, the Lead and the Thumbnail sections of the Blog very often shaped from stories taken from that amazing website. They are truly worthy of public support.
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Good Morning on this Monday, September 23, 2019
More women on my heroes’ list.
Love it!
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your Taeyeon