To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
I don’t care who you are or where you’re from, but if you’re from Wisconsin, you idolize Vince Lombardi, or you’re a heretic.
Followed closely by:
He coached the Green Bay Packers, the small-market blue collar National Football League (fútbol norteamericano, not soccer, you international readers) and led them to something like 14 annual championships in 8 years. He was that good.
Both from my other review of Run To Daylight, entitled "Management Lessons from Vince Lombardi".
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Hey, shoot me your APO or FPO address and get a free copy of my novel John Donnelly’s Gold.
stlbrianjathotmaildotcom.
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New at Found Bookmarks: Recovery at Texas City! Article Reprint.
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I’ve been kicking around the idea of starting a blog dedicated to the objects I find in books as bookmarks used by the previous owners, where I can muse on what the objects might mean. Some of them will be very curious, as they’ve laid dormant in books for decades.
I’ve started it, sort of. The first post is Kansas City Royals Ticket Stub. It is not as quaint as some of the other things I’ve found, but it’s a start.
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If I’m not on the first page for Google results for Firefly Hands of Dillon-Blue Christmas?
I mean, I get a lot of hits for this Dillon-Blue Christmas ad, and I get a lot of hits for this Hands of Blue post.
Is it too much to ask that Skynet Google recognize my efforts?
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No, this is all about the Wilsons.
Wilsons, of course, refers to the $100,000 bill, which briefly depicted Woodrow Wilson.
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“Vonnegut-sniffing dogs.” Read about it at 24th State.
I thought I’d coined a phrase yesterday, “the fêted swamp of Washington, D.C.“, but it turns out I found (via Google) that others before me had turned that particular intersection-of-Lovecraft-and-French phrase before.
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Over at Legal Insurrection, Prof. Jacobson posts a bumper sticker spotted at my local Walmart.
It’s strange to find I’m not the only one in Greene County who reads his blog.
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Then: “Play ‘Free Bird’!”
Now: “Play Angry Birds!”
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A correspondent of Jerry Pournelle and Instapundit have read Larry Niven’s Ringworld books and have noticed the resemblance of the president to the Hindmost.
Independently riffing off of the Krauthammer column. Remember, I called him the Hindmost in February, before the Krauthammer column.
I am clever. LOOK AT ME!
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Nothing new here so far today, but I did post some of my usual anti-taxing district boilerplate at 24th State.
So if you need some Noggle, there you go.
Also, you are freed from your duty to absquatulate with my radio on Monday. Thank you, that is all.
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Behold, I have begun video blog posts for QA Hates You.
That was more fun putting together than another blog post about how our government, abetted by a random collection of 50.005% of voter turnout on winter and spring ballot dates, are continuing to crush individual citizens.
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April 5 does mark the fifth anniversary of Musings from Brian J. Noggle.
Thanks for reading.
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I don’t know why Andrew Hicks’s name popped into my mind tonight. But there it was.
Back in the late 1997s, I encountered his “A Year in the Life of a Nerd” series of posts where he talked about being a teenager in a western St. Louis suburb and then going to Mizzou. As fast as a 14,400 BPS modem and an AOL account would let me, I ran through the whole set to that point.
So once his name popped into my head, I did an Internet search, and lo! The Andrew Hicks World Wide Web Extravaganza, those years in the life of a nerd, have been republished as a blog, by a fan no less. Frankly, I don’t think any of you would do the same for me.
Meanwhile, now over 30, Andrew Hicks is a daddy blogger in Springfield…. Illinois.
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Actually, it’s a Christmas redirect. Here’s a link to a short story entitled “Die Hard MDCXCII: Die Really, Really, REALLY Hard” that I originally posted 6 years ago, which is approximately 49 in Internet years.
The story is from 1990 and represents some obvious wish fulfillment. But the guys at the grocery store where I worked and that is depicted therein thought it was a hoot. Hopefully, you’ll be slightly amused in places, too.
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Nothing new today, sorry. All I did was port over my Atari Party pages from blogspot.
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Bungalow Bill offers two stories this morning, one right after the other:
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Look whom I refound: the only blogger on the Internet I’ve ever actually caught violating my copyright. Appropriately, Harvey’s blog is still called Bad Example.
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A couple of weeks ago, a writer for the Daily Caller contacted me about my obsessive-compulsive, kinda creepy behavior.
The resulting article is here.
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Musings from Brian J. Noggle, as seen in 417 magazine.
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