Icewind's Ramblings

Having a grand daughter in the house has given me plenty of time lately to consider possibilities . . . One is this . . . Four words I never thought I would yell at my age . . . “STOP LICKING THE TELEVISION ! ! ! ! ” Edit – A few people have emailed me so to give the explanation for the above post. My grand daughter was watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on DVD. Ice

Tonight I have no time to post so I’ll continue this series. Here is Condoms part 3 If M & M’s Made Condoms Ice

After all these years it's disconcerting to once again encounter another myth about Alaska . That brings up another one. I've been holding this in for months, but I finally have to say it: There are NO Penguins in Alaska ! The only penguin in the northern hemisphere is an occasional lost Humboldt penguin that strayed too far from his Galapagos Islands base. Coca Cola and Madison Avenue have created an urban legend that polar bears won't eat penguins at Christmas time if they can have a coke instead. Unfortunately polar bears don't live in the southern hemisphere where all the penguins are. That reminds me of a punch line from a southern USA joke, “It’s a trick General Sherman . . . there’s two of em”. Now I was born and raised in Atlanta , the world headquarters for Coca Cola and I have had more than my share of Cokes in my lifetime . . . but for the last several years we have had those commercials. They are great in the simplicity and are beautif...

In an informal discussion between friends, never worry about the topic . . . Chances are that . . . within 5 minutes . . . everyone forgot what they . . . were talking about in the first place. Ice

It’s snowing today and as I sit here deciding what I wanted to write about I hit my play button on my computers Windows Media Player. I sat here for awhile listening to songs from my past and enjoying the beat and different styles I have enjoyed for many years now. I started thinking about how music has changed since the 60’s as I grew up and became aware of how much music is integrated into our brains multilayered memory. We remember things by what song or music was playing in the background in the events of our lives. That first kiss or maybe when you graduated from high school or college. What tunes were associated to those events in your life? Events of our times that burned into our conscientious like the first moon walk or the tragedy of 9/11 are held in our memories by music or video clips from our past. Things have changed over the last 50 years and in our headlong rush to go digital, much of our past are becoming just meaningless code of 0's and 1...