I love living in Denver. What passes for a respectable bike ride in many places (40 miles) is kind of pathetic around here. Especially when you run into a fellow cyclist that’s simply on his way from Boulder CO to visit him mom in Monument CO (75 miles). I have trouble taking the train from Philly to Lancaster to see mine (just kidding).

Here’s my running list: “flip side”, “read you loud and clear”, “dialed in”, “jumping on the bandwagon”.

Original Post: As I’ve surpassed my “demi centenarian” mark (would prefer to be a primo centurion) I’ve started to be more and more sensitive to my outdated speech patterns. I glommed onto this recently when I was talking about “jumping on the bandwagon”. There hasn’t been a goddam bandwagon for 70 years in this country. I wondered what might replace this (I proffered “find the rave” but that’s probably so 90s). I read there was this interesting post somewhere out there on this topic but couldn’t find it. I think I’ll keep digging…

I want to amend this a bit. I’m not trying to be hip - although I think that phrase right there is outdated. Nor am I trying to find the latest word for cool - because for some reason we still don’t have to. No, I’m just trying to listen to what I say and identify everyday phrases that are just not quite so everyday anymore. Things like “dialed in”. Who uses a dial anymore? I “read you loud and clear”. Read me? What do you mean, read me? Read my posts?

The thing that’s interesting me are phrases that came up in the past century to describe human situations and conditions that were borrowed from technologies that no longer exist or are rapidly fading away. Most of my examples come from forms of transportation and communication.

Oh well, looks like the only permalink structure that works with my favorite theme on this site is the standard structure.

Couple of new posts at Seeing Forests…

Simultaneously.

Oh why am I getting these 404 Errors on everything but the home page? Is it my theme? My hacking of my theme? No, can’t be me…

The whole conspiracy theory the right keeps bringing up, led by buffoons like Glenn Beck, is honestly starting to get a little weird. If it wasn’t deeply disturbed it would be pretty funny. For example, Becky posts an Onion Article
that’s a joke about an Obama murder as if it’s actual news. The illiterarti that read his blog won’t know the difference. I’ve been kind of ignoring it until recently. This looks like it’s becoming a real problem. Thank god when Obama finally establishes a New World Order, Becky will be at the head of the line on the way into the re-education camps.

Hare and Tortoise?

So, I was asked for directions to my house for an Easter dinner I’m hosting. I wasn’t quite in the mood to go into detail explaining this and the next thing I knew I just typed Michael Bauer in Google Maps in Denver. My name was top of the list with marker A at my house and a street view showing my car parked out front. I’m not that worried as I have a full-time security team on the premises but I’m beginning to wonder if that’s enough. I did take the time to write a stunning review on myself.

Ignore this.