Harpo’s House of Haphazard Happenings, Humorous Hilarity, and Heartfelt Hodgepodge

  • Quote of the Day - "Do your job" ~ Bill Belichick

Here's an interesting historical oddity: Present at the assassination/shooting of President Garfield was Robert Todd Lincoln, the oldest son of Abraham Lincoln. Additionally, Robert Todd Lincoln was at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York in September 1901 ~ at the invitation of President McKinley, no less ~ when President William McKinley was also assassinated/shot; although, Robert Todd Lincoln was not directly present in the Temple of Music concert hall.

(However, there is absolutely no truth to the fact that Robert Todd Lincoln was anywhere near the grassy knoll in Dallas, Texas in November 1963.)
 
Open letter to Harposf on Photography

When I was a kid growing up in Wisconsin, a pool hall owner next to my family's Chinese restaurant was a great outstanding photographer who had a photo lab in his office. He would demonstrate me how a photo
is being developed.

I had several cameras I owned a lifetime. From Kojak to a digital camera.
I have so many photos that are paper. I have jpgs photos from a digital camera.

Why is that whenever I use my cell phone to take pictures so much that I feel guilty and not feeling good about it whenever I remember the old days of taking pictures and a 3x5 inch photos are printed?

Fast forward to today I have so many photos on my mobile phone.

Humans don't even realize what a photograph really means.
 
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I swear to God that in San Francisco Costco place has San Francisco sports teams gear.
 
fromcal said:
Open letter to Harposf on Photography

When I was a kid growing up in Wisconsin, a pool hall owner next to my family's Chinese restaurant was a great outstanding photographer who had a photo lab in his office. He would demonstrate me how a photo
is being developed.

I had several cameras I owned a lifetime. From Kojak to a digital camera.
I have so many photos that are paper. I have jpgs photos from a digital camera.

Why is that whenever I use my cell phone to take pictures so much that I feel guilty and not feeling good about it whenever I remember the old days of taking pictures and a 3x5 inch photos are printed?

Fast forward to today I have so many photos on my mobile phone.

Humans don't even realize what a photograph really means.
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I am so glad for the advent of digital photography. I can take as many cr*ppy photos as I want and only keep the best (in my case, the best of the worst... I just tell people I was practicing bokeh for my photos). I used to have to wait a week or so to get the rolls of film developed to see how many bad photos I took.
 
fromcal said:
How much rain did you get?
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Yesterday afternoon... just before I was getting ready to head home from work... the rain came down in a deluge. There was six inches of water at most street corners.

Luckily, I only have to walk two blocks to the bus station to get home. Of course, by the time the bus got in my neighbourhood the rain had stopped a bit for the afternoon/evening.

Supposably, today and tomorrow are going to be rain-free... we shall see.
 
fromcal said:
I swear to God that in San Francisco Costco place has San Francisco sports teams gear.
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I really can not remember the last time I was even inside a Costco. It had to be at least three years ago or more, and it was when I was visiting my family in Massachusetts, too.
 
Just for the h*ck of it, here is another little-known Cliff Clavinist fact:

"The" is the most commonly used word in the English language, accounting for 7% of all words.

(Actually, in the above sentence, "the" accounts for 17.6% of it.)*

*(And, in that last parenthetical sentence, "the" accounted for 18.2% of the total words. Well, you get the "the" idea.)
 
fromcal said:
You don't take Uber in San Francisco.
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No. I abhor both Uber and Lyft (and do not even get me started on the whole creepy Waymo fad)! Why the h*ck does "Uber" feel that they do not need to use the correct Germanic diacritical mark over the "Ü"?! And if "Lyft" thinks mispelink their corporate name is cutesy in any way, they can just byte me!

Sure, real taxis may cost more, but at least the drivers are licensed with the cities. St*pid "Uber" and "Lyft" drivers can be any old creep with a valid drivers license. No thank you!

(Besides, in order to use any of these st*pid faux taxi services, one must own a mobular device... of which, I abhor even more.)



(I wonder if Joni Mitchell would ever do a remake, calling it "Big Yellow 'Uber'"... )
 
HarpoSF said:
No. I abhor both Uber and Lyft (and do not even get me started on the whole creepy Waymo fad)! Why the h*ck does "Uber" feel that they do not need to use the correct Germanic diacritical mark over the "Ü"?! And if "Lyft" thinks mispelink their corporate name is cutesy in any way, they can just byte me!

Sure, real taxis may cost more, but at least the drivers are licensed with the cities. St*pid "Uber" and "Lyft" drivers can be any old creep with a valid drivers license. No thank you!

(Besides, in order to use any of these st*pid faux taxi services, one must own a mobular device... of which, I abhor even more.)



(I wonder if Joni Mitchell would ever do a remake, calling it "Big Yellow 'Uber'"... )
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Taxis charge less. And they take cash like my sis says.
 
How was the dim sum restaurants looking from the outside in San Francisco (Richmond district and Chinatown SF) crowded on Christmas day like?
 
fromcal said:
How many hoodies/sweatshirts do you have?
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Too many to actually stop and count. But I figure anywhere from 10-12 (or more).

Of course, in San Francisco, the Summer attire requires at least a hoodie or a sweatshirt.
 
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How was the dim sum restaurants looking from the outside in San Francisco (Richmond district and Chinatown SF) crowded on Christmas day like?
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Good question. I did not leave my apartment on Christmas day as the weather was dreary and rainy all day.

I had thought about going to a local Chinese restaurant in my neighbourhood (of which there are many, many, many from which to choose) for dinner; however, the weather kept me inside instead. This would have been my homage to "A Christmas Story", just sans any smiling dead ducks.
 
Completely Unsolicited St*pid, Useless Cunning Linguist Pointer of the Day


Yeah, so maybe I was bored once again on a (for a change) sunny Saturday afternoon and got to a-thinkin’ (never a good thing) about the word “Hodgepodge” (as in the titular heading to this thread).

“Hodgepodge” (and, alternatively, “hodge-podge” or “hotchpotch”) describes a confused and/or disorderly mass and/or collection of things; a "mess" or a "jumble". (Yup. Sounds ‘bout right for the title of a thread dedicated to that id*ot looser Harpo… )

Now, I could go into a whole ‘nuther “st*pid, useless cunning linguist pointer of the day” here of my own wordage, but the friendly folk at WikipediA have already done so for me and it is just easier to steal… er… borrow their etymological explanation.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hodgepodge
 
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