Comments by Bobby Tony | Eastern North Carolina Now

Reviewing the article after posting, I had some trouble with the time line. I was 5 years old in 1950 so I doubt that I was able to read the book at that time. As with most things involving memory of your childhood we have a tendency to compress dates into an illogical time line. I assure you I was not a reading prodigy at 5 years old. After some research, I found what I think is plausible explanation for my confusion.

"One of the first Disney movies to be shown on television, this was first telecast in January 1955, as part of the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1954) television program. It was the first Disney live-action film to be shown complete on television, in two one-hour installments shown a week apart, rather than having the entire film on a single evening. It was broadcast again in the 1960s, in the same format, after the series had changed its name to "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" and the show had moved to NBC." IDMB

So, before you award me the Black Spot, I think my narrative is still intact with some allowance for slight embellishments. For those who don't remember the Black Spot, it was enough to kill the Pirate Billy Bones when the blind man gave it to him.

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Commented: Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 @ 8:07 am By: Bobby Tony

I have the made the same mistake as well as getting in a fight because I mistook shut up for stand up.

Commented: Thursday, April 26th, 2018 @ 11:15 am By: Bobby Tony

Caveat:

While it is not technically correct, I use carat and karat interchangeably as do most non-jewelers.

The Karat is a gold unit for purity, and Carat is a unit for mass which is used for measuring the weight of gemstones and pearls (1 carat is equal to 200mg).

Commented: Thursday, April 26th, 2018 @ 11:00 am By: Bobby Tony

I’m not to sure that the Green Moon is too far fetched. After all, ELVIS once saw a BLUE MOON over Kentucky.

youtu.be

Commented: Tuesday, April 24th, 2018 @ 7:24 pm By: Bobby Tony

Without looking it up, who played the TV version of Little Beaver?

Commented: Monday, April 23rd, 2018 @ 1:33 pm By: Bobby Tony

That was a subtle hint that nothing you say on Facebook is Private.

If you look closely at the Label you may notice that the T-Shirt has a hidden meaning that only the wearer would know.

Commented: Sunday, April 22nd, 2018 @ 5:37 pm By: Bobby Tony

I agree with your final statement. If a technology is to be successful it must be economically viable. Competing technologies often improve the overall system.

However the Solar people need to hurry up as there are other alternatives in the wings.

"Lockheed Martin has quietly obtained a patent associated with its design for a potentially revolutionary compact fusion reactor, or CFR. If this project has been progressing on schedule, the company could debut a prototype system that size of shipping container, but capable of powering a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier or 80,000 homes, sometime in the next year or so."

www.thedrive.com

Commented: Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 @ 8:46 am By: Bobby Tony

I was initially referring to Dave Ramsey's 7 Baby Steps to Financial Peace, but could not resist the Bill Murray take off on the technique. I guess most things in life come from incremental success or failure.

It is like the Paratroop instructor told the young recruit.

"Don't worry after the first step it is all downhill."

Baby Step 1: $1,000 cash in a beginner emergency fund
Baby Step 2: Use the debt snowball to pay off all your debt but the house
Baby Step 3: A fully funded emergency fund of 3 to 6 months of expenses
Baby Step 4: Invest 15% of your household income into retirement
Baby Step 5: Start saving for college
Baby Step 6: Pay off your home early
Baby Step 7: Build wealth and give generously

www.daveramsey.com

Commented: Sunday, April 8th, 2018 @ 11:04 am By: Bobby Tony

We both are old enough to remember when drugstores had tube testers for the public. During my Soda Jerk years at Dunaire Pharmacy we had one right up front and the vendor trained us on how to use it but the instructions were fairly simple. Look up your tube number, and it gave you the socket number and setting. Insert the tube and wait for pass or fail light.

Commented: Saturday, March 31st, 2018 @ 1:48 pm By: Bobby Tony

I doubt that Andy Warhol understood the technology would invalidate his statement that "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." It is still true today but with the addition of the ability to store everything in a silicon chip, we can all be famous several times over and over for our 15 minutes. Just ask any politician who has tripped over his own words when they are repeated back to him in crystal clarity.

I dusted off an old article on technology at your suggestion. It is in the queue.

Commented: Wednesday, March 28th, 2018 @ 8:50 am By: Bobby Tony

We should all be so lucky. I don't begrudge him the success as a private company but I do think that the premise should be more transparent. I constantly click on "don't want to see this again" in my Facebook timeline. As a result most of my time line is from 'Friends' and I have unfollowed those that overly post political etc. I check back with them about once a month to see if anything of interest to me is posted on their time line.

I agree with your assessment of Local Advertisement. I was not clear enough on the over use of mass ads targeted to me. The one thing the whole social media has brought is the quick scan without applying thought. That is what is currently going on with the political debate. We have devolved into the Shoot out at the Meme Corral.

Commented: Monday, March 26th, 2018 @ 7:53 pm By: Bobby Tony

I hate to use another boat analogy, but just like the canoe, my biggest fear is that it only takes one lard a$$ to tip the whole canoe and we all get wet. I don't have a problem with someone rocking the boat, but a boat's stability is based largely on a low center of gravity. The constitution used to provide that for us.

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Commented: Sunday, March 25th, 2018 @ 8:27 pm By: Bobby Tony

I probably should have included the pay off of the sermon but I was striving for brevity. Jesus had faith that his father would provide for all his needs and therefore we should not put our trust for salvation in man or money but in God. He was perhaps not advocating putting thieves as the treasurer but demonstrating that his faith transcended both man and money.

As a layman I probably should stay away from preaching, but our resident Pastor has left the stage.

I kept contemporaneous notes of our pastor's sermons. When he left Candler Park (2003), I subscribed to his written sermon blogs. Here is a bit more about John Ballenger

preachermusings.wordpress.com

Commented: Sunday, March 18th, 2018 @ 8:32 pm By: Bobby Tony

My tendency (some call it an obsession) is to always follow the money and look at the details. A quick unverified check would indicate that McCabe's punishment would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,000,000 over the rest of his life. In keeping with the going market for tell all books (Look for Comey's new book) I doubt that Andrew McCabe will be hurting from a finical standpoint. I am sure someone will be willing to pay him a healthy book advance to cove his short fall in pension income. He might even be able to self finance his wife's next run for office.

"On Sunday, McCabe will be 50 years old (qualifying him for an FBI pension) and will have served 21 years with the FBI.
So, his annual pension is $56,000.
1st 20 years
1.7% x 20 = 34%
34% x $160,000 = $54, 400
21st year
1% x $160,000 = $1,600
All 21 years
$54,400 + $1,600 = $56,000
With an average life expectancy of, say, 85 … McCabe’s aggregate expected pension will be almost $2 million."

kenhoma.wordpress.com

Commented: Sunday, March 18th, 2018 @ 1:31 pm By: Bobby Tony

There's an old expression, called Greener's Law: "Never argue with a man that buys ink by the barrel."

That all began to change with spread of personal computers. We now have the modern equivalent of barrels of ink residing in small silicon chips of sand available to all.

The power of ink
Started to sink
When words took flight
On screens of light. (unknown)

No one likes to relinquish power and the "media" is merely experiencing the transition that occurred with the replacement of the old horse and buggy, mule and plow, the monk and quill, the Guttenberg press and now the keyboard and world wide web.

Fake news has been around since two cave men tried to explain to their wives where they had been for so long. All that has changed is the method of transmission. I agree that President Trump has upped the ante with his Tweaks in 280 characters or less. He even found out how to use the ... to make two Tweaks seem like one.

Liberals like CONTROL! It makes no difference if it is WORDS OR GUNS it is all about CONTROL.

Commented: Tuesday, March 13th, 2018 @ 11:42 am By: Bobby Tony

Hats are made on demand, but the toboggan i think was a limited quantity run.

Commented: Friday, March 9th, 2018 @ 4:44 pm By: Bobby Tony

I am working on my new minimalist methodology and the Navaho Code did not make the cut.

But if you insist:

Commented: Thursday, March 8th, 2018 @ 9:40 am By: Bobby Tony