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Watching this video, I had a weird feeling I was seeing what buckshot does with his spare time.

ME TOO! I was just coming in to post a link but you beat me to it.

Someone needs to poke him in here to watch it and tell us if that's him.

At the zoo today, I felt a weird twinge of conscience when I told Atty "Look at the monkeys!" when we were watching apes.

Did you say "Look at the lions" when you're at the tiger cage?

No! I said, "Look at the big kitty-cats!"

Tonight's episode of Jeopardy had the category "Chicago the Beautiful" and it reminds me of Alea, as anything Chicago does!

Miss you, m'dear!

Apparently a lot of things remind me of Alea.

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I want to live in a world where that is not random and confusing to passersby. That was awesome.

Hey Elf n Thoughtreader! I have seen it and yes I have to admit to having a few homebuilt oddball machines at the homeplace. I can't figure what keeps that tractor from rolling over, any of you who have ever driven a little wheel tractor know well that the steering on the best of them have a lot of play. That guy is fearless or crazy. I have this real joke of a rig here made from mostly a Big Bud brand articulated tractor ( with a joint in the middle using 2 big hyd cyls to steer with powered with a really big cat diesel marine engine) and parts from just about everything else ever on the place even the diesel out of a smallish tugboat topped off with the cab from a favorite old combines cab and controls. Just to prove my lack of good judgement I hooked it up to a dying blue spruce in my son in law's front drive with a 200 ft 1 inch cable and when I locked both diff-locks and got those huge 8 tires turning I went right through the black top on the county road and turned it to gravel. Oh and the tree flattened the grandkids swing set up thing I got lucky and the county had a sense of humor about the road top. Just to prove it has power my pard Tim and I hooked the beast up to two of the biggest plows in this part of the country a 9 and 10 bottom 22 in moldboard plows . and it just went . I have no idea what it would do or what use it would have but I have had a lot of guys looking at it wanting to put it to work. A couple of logging outfits up north are interested in using it as a giant skidder in the woods but I have too much blood and knuckle in it I doubt I would ever sell it , maybe I'll use it for a sign along the hiway for our feed mill.

Hey Elf n Thoughtreader! I have seen it and yes I have to admit to having a few homebuilt oddball machines at the homeplace. I can't figure what keeps that tractor from rolling over, any of you who have ever driven a little wheel tractor know well that the steering on the best of them have a lot of play. That guy is fearless or crazy. I have this real joke of a rig here made from mostly a Big Bud brand articulated tractor ( with a joint in the middle using 2 big hyd cyls to steer with powered with a really big cat diesel marine engine) and parts from just about everything else ever on the place even the diesel out of a smallish tugboat topped off with the cab from a favorite old combines cab and controls. Just to prove my lack of good judgement I hooked it up to a dying blue spruce in my son in law's front drive with a 200 ft 1 inch cable and when I locked both diff-locks and got those huge 8 tires turning I went right through the black top on the county road and turned it to gravel. Oh and the tree flattened the grandkids swing set up thing I got lucky and the county had a sense of humor about the road top. Just to prove it has power my pard Tim and I hooked the beast up to two of the biggest plows in this part of the country a 9 and 10 bottom 22 in moldboard plows . and it just went . I have no idea what it would do or what use it would have but I have had a lot of guys looking at it wanting to put it to work. A couple of logging outfits up north are interested in using it as a giant skidder in the woods but I have too much blood and knuckle in it I doubt I would ever sell it , maybe I'll use it for a sign along the hiway for our feed mill.

Buckshot you always make my day

Yesterday, I saw an 8 week old German Shepherd puppy named Ender. His owner and.I spent.several minutes talking about EG and the movie. It was great!

I want to live in a world where that is not random and confusing to passersby. That was awesome.

I don't have the moves but I'll do similar the first chance I get if you do.

One of the writers of a sports blog that I read was doing an end of the year mailbag type of post. And the last question was what he was looking forward to in 2013. He started with a bunch of sports stuff, then went into some personal stuff and then he finished with... the Ender's Game movie! I thought that was pretty awesome and it also reminded me that I have been severely neglecting this place.

I'm looking at trivets, saw this and thought of Kelly:

I've been playing Assassin's Creed 3, which is mostly set in Boston and NYC, and man, now I feel bad that I only thought of Kelly, like, once.

Plus I've been learning so much about Boston. Did you know there's this hill? With a beacon on it? And they call it Beacon Hill?

Which reminds me, I saw this last week and it reminded me of Kelly.

Just linked to because of a naughty word.

New York vs Boston

To continue with the Boston theme, it is my hope to finally go there sometime this year. I've been wanting to for years on end and with no major trips planned for the year so far, not even to AZ, I just might be able to do it.

I'll meet up with you!

Log into Facebook - first post in my feed: "Has anyone read the Ender Wiggin saga?"

Why yes, yes I have, thank you so much for asking

I was riding the MAX on tuesday and pulled Ruins (I swear I will finish it this week) out of my back pack to read. The young man sitting across from me asked about it and we had a great OSC/Ender conversation. He had read most of his recent main works but I told him about Treason, Song master, and a few of his non series titles that I really enjoyed .

I told him about Treason, Song master, and a few of his non series titles that I really enjoyed .

That is good to know. zero recently gifted me with Treason, Song Master and Maps in a Mirror, none of which I've read.

I told him about Treason, Song master, and a few of his non series titles that I really enjoyed .

That is good to know. zero recently gifted me with Treason, Song Master and Maps in a Mirror, none of which I've read.

I know you already know this, but he is totally a keeper!

I told him about Treason, Song master, and a few of his non series titles that I really enjoyed .

That is good to know. zero recently gifted me with Treason, Song Master and Maps in a Mirror, none of which I've read.

I know you already know this, but he is totally a keeper!

This! And also, good god woman, get to reading! Songmaster and Maps are some of my favorite OSC books. Also, have you read Pastwatch?

I know we have a thread specifically for this but I don't care. Here's what I've read of OSC:

The Ender saga
Ender's Game (1985)
Speaker for the Dead (1986)
Xenocide (1991)
Children of the Mind (1996)
First Meetings (2002)
"Mazer in Prison" (2005)
"Pretty Boy" (2006)
"Cheater" (2006)
"A Young Man with Prospects" (2007)
"The Gold Bug" (2007)
"Ender's Stocking" (2007)
"Ender's Homecoming" (2008)
"Ender in Flight" (2008)
A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)
Ender in Exile (2008)
Earth Unaware (2012)

The Shadow saga
Ender's Shadow (1999)
Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)
Shadow Puppets (2002)
Shadow of the Giant (2005)
Shadows in Flight (January 2012)

The Ender/Shadow Saga Comics
Ender's Game: Battle School #1-5
Ender's Game: Command School #1-5
Ender's Shadow: Battle School #1-5
Ender's Shadow: Command School #1-5
Ender in Exile #1-5
Speaker for the Dead #1-5
Formic Wars: Burning Earth #1-7
Formic Wars: Silent Strike #1-5
Recruiting Valentine
War of Gifts
Mazer in Prison
The League War
Gold Bug

The Tales of Alvin Maker
Seventh Son (1987)
Red Prophet (1988)
Prentice Alvin (1989)
Alvin Journeyman (1995)
Heartfire (1998)
The Crystal City (2003)


The Homecoming Saga
The Memory of Earth (1992)
The Call of Earth (1992)
The Ships of Earth (1994)
Earthfall (1995)


Pastwatch series
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

Mithermages series
The Lost Gate (2011)
The Gate Thief (March 19, 2013) - on hold, will read

The Worthing series
The Worthing Saga (1990)

The Empire series
Empire (2006)

Pathfinder series
Pathfinder (2010)
Ruins (October 2012)

Laddertop series
Laddertop (2011)

Miscellaneous novels
Enchantment (1999)


Anthologies edited by Card
Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show (2008)
Ender's World (2013)

Well, more of a Pweb, Jr. Reading "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" to Atty reminded me of Ginny. And that reminded me to do voices.

The Italian reporter who scooped everyone else on the Pope's resignation because she understood Latin makes me think of Ali!

Hm. I didn't know the Pope could resign. Does he get to join in selecting the next Pope? Is he kicked out of the Vatican?

Edit: reading one article answered all those questions. Just ignore me.

The first thing I thought when I heard about this is, "I MUST share this with Pweb!"

Humans can enter the Third Life!

(I realize this article is nearly 2 years old, so sorry if this is old news)

The first thing I thought when I heard about this is, "I MUST share this with Pweb!"

Humans can enter the Third Life!

(I realize this article is nearly 2 years old, so sorry if this is old news)

This is so cool. Every time I see an article that reminds me of Ender's Game I wanna write about it. Maybe I should start a new news category "Ender in Real Life" or "Ender-esque" idk I'm pretty terrible with titles.

"Beyond Fiction" is a good title. Cool first article to put up too.

It's not that random. But I'll be in Chicago again in two weeks and Chicago always reminds me of Alea.

It's not that random. But I'll be in Chicago again in two weeks and Chicago always reminds me of Alea.

If it's not for work and/or your time isn't already all spoken for, let me know! I'd love to meet up for lunch or something if I can. :)

It is for work! I should be getting my itinerary soon.. or so I am told. I'm there March 8-10th, I know the 8th and 9th everything is planned out unless you would want to go out late at night but in that case you would have to escort me everywhere because I am definitely not comfortable walking around by myself at night there. I might have some free time the afternoon of the 10th! I'll know when I get my schedule and let you know. =] I know I could have just responded on Facebook, but I wanted a reason to come back and catch up more here.

I work that weekend but would be willing to escort you around at night for a bit if you're comfortable with that. Change that lunch to dessert or warm drink, if you're so inclined.

Snowstorm In Chicago Delays Hundreds Of Morning Murders

CHICAGO—The city of Chicago is steadily recovering from an overnight snowstorm that delayed hundreds of murders on Friday morning and will likely continue to push numerous homicides across the city drastically behind schedule, public authorities announced. “As we speak, maintenance crews are working diligently to restore public transportation, de-ice roads, and clear back alleyways so that Chicagoans can quickly resume murdering again,” Department of Streets and Sanitation spokesman Dave Michelson said of the heavy blizzard, which caused numerous homicide cancellations this morning at peak murder times. “Unfortunately, we’re backed up by about 35 deadly shootings at the moment, but we hope to restore regular death tolls as soon as possible. We apologize to anyone forced to postpone shootings or other killings today and assure concerned murderers that they will be able to resume slayings by the early afternoon.” At press time, authorities reported that murders were up and running in many parts of the city, with four teenagers already gunned down on Chicago’s South Side.