Feral Gifter

Five Ballpark Promotions That Went Wrong

Found on Neatorama

Baseball parks are always looking for a way to sell more tickets, but sometimes a great idea turns out to be a disaster, often because of overwhelming response, sometimes because of unforeseen consequences.

Read about five of the worst at Mental Floss. Link

Update To HP Reacting To Emotional Upset

Remember the HP that needed calming down in a Previous Posting?

First is the old pictures of it, go down to the second picture for a picture now.  You can see the before picture is yellowed, cracked and cloudy.  The picture after wearing it for a couple of months and boosting it shows it healing.  It does not have cracks in it.  The yellow is almost gone and the resin is much more clear.

Bivouac of the Dead

The muffled drum’s sad roll has beat
The soldier’s last tattoo;
No more on life’s parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few.
On Fame’s eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And Glory guards, with solemn round,
The bivouac of the dead.

No rumor of the foe’s advance
Now swells upon the wind;
Nor troubled thought at midnight haunts
Of loved ones left behind;
No vision of the morrow’s strife
The warrior’s dream alarms;
No braying horn nor screaming fife
At dawn shall call to arms.

Their shriveled swords are red with rust,
Their plumed heads are bowed,
Their haughty banner, trailed in dust,
Is now their martial shroud.
And plenteous funeral tears have washed
The red stains from each brow,
And the proud forms, by battle gashed
Are free from anguish now.

The neighing troop, the flashing blade,
The bugle’s stirring blast,
The charge, the dreadful cannonade,
The din and shout, are past;
Nor war’s wild note nor glory’s peal
Shall thrill with fierce delight
Those breasts that nevermore may feel
The rapture of the fight.

Like the fierce northern hurricane
That sweeps the great plateau,
Flushed with the triumph yet to gain,
Came down the serried foe,
Who heard the thunder of the fray
Break o’er the field beneath,
Knew well the watchword of that day
Was "Victory or death!"

Long had the doubtful conflict raged
O’er all that stricken plain,
For never fiercer fight had waged
The vengeful blood of Spain;
And still the storm of battle blew,
Still swelled the gory tide;
Not long, our stout old chieftain knew,
Such odds his strength could bide.

Twas in that hour his stern command
Called to a martyr’s grave
The flower of his beloved land,
The nation’s flag to save.
By rivers of their father’s gore
His first-born laurels grew,
And well he deemed the sons would pour
Their lives for glory too.

For many a mother’s breath has swept
O’er Angostura’s plain —
And long the pitying sky has wept
Above its moldered slain.
The raven’s scream, or eagle’s flight,
Or shepherd’s pensive lay,
Alone awakes each sullen height
That frowned o’er that dread fray.

Sons of the Dark and Bloody Ground
Ye must not slumber there,
Where stranger steps and tongues resound
Along the heedless air.
Your own proud land’s heroic soil
Shall be your fitter grave;
She claims from war his richest spoil —
The ashes of her brave.

Thus ‘neath their parent turf they rest,
Far from the gory field,
Borne to a Spartan mother’s breast
On many a bloody shield;
The sunshine of their native sky
Smiles sadly on them here,
And kindred eyes and hearts watch by
The heroes sepulcher.

Rest on embalmed and sainted dead!
Dear as the blood ye gave;
No impious footstep shall here tread
The herbage of your grave;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While fame her records keeps,
Or Honor points the hallowed spot
Where Valor proudly sleeps.

Yon marble minstrel’s voiceless stone
In deathless song shall tell,
When many a vanquished ago has flown,
The story how ye fell;
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter’s blight,
Nor Time’s remorseless doom,
Shall dim one ray of glory’s light
That gilds your deathless tomb.

–Theodore O’Hara

Theodore O’Hara’s elegiac poem, “Bivouac of the Dead”

Memorial Day at Davis Virtual Market

U.S. Memorial Day

VA’s Memorial Day

Memorial Day from Wikipedia

Prosopagnosia

Scary at times.  Nice to see some resources.

Boing Boing: Chronicles of Narnia is a good movie for folks with faceblindness

Chronicles of Narnia is a good movie for folks with faceblindness Prosopagnosia is the scientific term for faceblindness. As Beware of the Blog’s Iowa Firecracker describes it, "for some reason, my fusiform gyrus isn’t hooked up properly and I can’t recognize human faces." Link posted by Mark Frauenfelder

Obesity and Orgonite

About six months ago I traded my meds for orgonite that Donna made for me.  Now for the first time since the early 80’s my blood work is normal across the board.

Just sometime to consider as I was wondering if anyone else had noticed any change in their health from orgonite.

LiveScience.com - Vets Wage War Against Obesity

The Department of Veterans Affairs says that of the 7.5 million veterans receiving its health benefits, more than 70 percent are overweight and 20 percent have diabetes, which can lead to blindness, amputations, kidney failure and heart problems.

Saved the Whale

A nice read.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Critters (Saved the Whale)

Saved the Whale Claim: Newspaper article describes an ensnared whale who seemingly thanked her rescuers.
Status: True.
Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2006]

When the whale realized it was free, it began swimming around in circles, according to the rescuers. Moskito said it swam to each diver, nuzzled him and then swam to the next one.

Lenticular Cloud Pictures

Some beautiful Lenticular Cloud Pictures

Lenticular Clouds

Some believe that these cloud formations resemble UFO’s and camouflage spacecraft. They do not move along as most clouds do but tend to linger in one place for hours.

This Potato is Very, Very Special

Watercooler Article: "This Potato is Very, Very Special"

Orgonite Helping Drug Addicts

Inge on Warrior Matrix wrote about helping Drug Addicts with orgonite.  It is really cool and worth a read.    

In short the one that accepted the orgonite gift recovered, the one that rejected it, did not.

Gifting Norway ?

Some time ago i received 3 starburst from Donna www.ozarkorgonite.com A week or so after that i was visited by 2 friends who unfortunately are addicted to drugs. I talked a bit about orgonite and showed them the starbursts. 

Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation

Why some jobs suck after six months or a year.  This might help if you are so depressed working that you are not even able to pour orgonite.  After six months, all the challenge is gone for me and it just turns into a boring and mindless existence.

So help yourself, help your employees or help yourself as an employee.  Happy people gift more!

One thing not in this read is that the people I have gifted at work are happier without anything else changing.

Remember to gift as you can.  Not all of us have rich boys supplying our resin, just do the best you can.

Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation : HBS Working Knowledge

Business literature is packed with advice about worker motivation—but sometimes managers are the problem, not the inspiration. Here are seven practices to fire up the troops. From Harvard Management Update.