I KNOW YOU ARE TIRED OF HEARING ABOUT GOOGLE CHROME – BUT

I never had a problem loading pictures and videos to my blog on Google Chrome before a week ago.   I have two computers (actually one is my wife’s) and I am unable to load pics and vids on either computer when I am using Chrome as my search engine.  I am now posting my blog using Explorer and it works fine.   I am using Chrome for my search engine otherwise. 

When I am in Chrome and I click the little icon for Insert Video or Insert Image and a blank page comes up and the little rotating circle rotates – nothing else happens – I have to select the home icon to get off the blank page with the circle.

Like I noted – it worked fine up until about a week ago – and it is bugging the fuck out of me.   Yesterday I uninstalled and reinstalled Chrome on my computer and no difference. 

I can still post with chrome – just no pics or vids.

Sorry for bitching  (I never thought of it, but is bitching a sexist term?)

O’B 

One more note:  I just opened plain Google (not chrome) and was able to download pics and vids with no problem - my problem is only on Chrome.

COUNTRY FRIED BUZZARD #1

COOKING WITH GEORGE

I just left a comment on a blog that posted about the George Foreman grill. I do a lot of cooking at the Buzzards nest because I enjoy it – I don’t like making salads so my wife handles that job. I also must acknowledge that I cook under supervision – my wife doesn’t abide me cooking the greasy good tasty foods I grew up with (when the adult male life expectancy was sixty.)


Anyway, I thought I might post some Ol’Buzzard cooking tips from time to time, and title them COUNTRY FRIED BUZZARD.

I love the George Forman Grill. The trick to good tender meat is thin cuts (I don’t mean lean) no more than an inch thick. Most meats cook in five minutes and fish in four. It is easy to over cook with George. There is no use buying lean meat when cooking with George as the fat runs off into the catch pan. To me lean meat cooks tough and tasteless: a nice marbled steak or chop with some fat on it adds the flavor I like - and the fat cooks off



I don’t cook with salt. I make up an all purpose substitute (or rub if you like.) I use it on all meats and it is especially good on salmon. I make up enough to keep on hand in a salt shaker.


• 1 tbsp granulated garlic

• 1 tbsp granulated onion

• 1 tbsp ground lemon peal

• 1 tbsp dill

• 2 tsp course ground pepper

If you buy the ingredients in bulk packages at a health food store they are a hell of a lot cheaper than buying them in little bottles from the super market.

This mixture is great on baked potatoes and most vegetables

As a disclaimer: I still use salt, pepper and a dollop of mayonnaise on fresh tomatoes (everything goes better with mayonnaise – put mayonnaise on it and I will probably eat it.)

the Ol’Buzzard

I SPENT MY SCHOOL YEARS IN MISSISSIPPI - TEN YEARS

I spent my school years in Mississippi - ten years.   The only good memories I have of that time is Mississippi Delta blues.  There were two worlds down there when I was growing up: the white world and the black world.   I wonder how much of that has changed?

There seemed to be a phoniness - a pretension in the white world - a strong belief in values that weren't real.

The black world was grounded - they were dealing with life under real terms.  They seemed more real - more true. 

As a white kid I couldn't cross the color line, but I think I envied them. 

the Ol'Buzzard

More on Google Chrome SNAFU

I can't seem to download images or videos into my blog on google chrome.   it works fine on internet explorer, but slower.

I uninstalled chrome and reinstalled it - still the same problem...

Is this my bad or is anyone else having the same problem?

the Ol'Buzzard

WE SHOULD NOT BELIEVE ONLY WHAT WE FIND PLEASING

QUESTION EVERYTHING

(A Buddhist principle)

I have always told my students not to accept everything they read in the history books as definitive.   History books are written with a cultural and geographic bias: the same event chronicled in an American history book might be a totally different story from an English, Russian or Japanese historic account; also, the winners of war often get to write and define human history.

I have just finished reading the novel Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.   It is a historic fiction taking place in the court of Henry VIII.    In a historic fiction the historic accounts are presented factually, based on recorded history, but liberty is taken in the dialog and interaction of the principal players.  

The second in the series by Hilary Mantel is Bring Up the Bodies.  It is the story of the fall of Thomas Cromwell and events leading up to the execution of Anne Boleyn.   

It has always been my contention that all current history is to some degree historic fiction.  

The New York Review of Books, for the last few issues, has been running a series of commentaries on Bring Up the Bodies.   In the August 16^th issue the review was by Stanley Wells, and in his review he makes a case for historic inaccuracies more concisely and definitive than I have ever been able.  

The following is an excerpt from In the Court of a Monster - a review by Stanley Wells of Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies”

“History had no plot.   It happens randomly, goes beyond human control.   People plot, but things go amiss.   The desire to capture the past is unquenchable but fruitless.   A historian, whether of recent or long-past events, tries to tell it how it was, but the attempt is vain.   History books have to have beginnings, middles, and ends.   Whether consciously or not, their authors tell stories from particular perspectives; they choose who and what to write about; they select from the multifariousness of human experience, imposing order on randomness, seeing what they choose to see or what their subconscious minds put before them, setting their stories within a frame of their devising, revealing subjectively even as they seek to convey an impression of objectivity.”

In an era where the content of high school history books is the product of the Texas Board of Education we should make it a point to impress on our students to research beyond and always retain a skeptic reserve for any recorded account of human history.  We should never believe only what we find pleasing.

  

the Ol’Buzzard

MY GOD IS THE GOD OF TITS AND WINE.

The lord of light wants his enemies burned.
The drowned god wants them drowned.
Why are all the gods such vicious cunts?
Where is the god of tits and wine?

  

After an afternoon of love making with my beautiful wife

We lay naked in bed together cooled by a breeze from the ceiling fan.

She is snuggled up to me and her breathing is shallow and relaxed

But I lie awake – I can’t sleep – my mind moves from pointless image to pointless image.

Though age does not necessarily make me wiser it has sharpened my focus.

I no longer plan for some distant future; I no longer trouble myself by things I can’t effect.

I have distilled my life to the basics with a goal to enjoy what I can.

Does that sound egocentric?  We are born alone and we die alone – what happens in between is tainted by want, lust and striving for achievement.  Petty goals and acquired possessions drive us – work and obligations to others fill our days.  Our ideas of pleasure are hurried, hollow and contrived, and ego drives our waking moments. 

Our time here on earth is short, and mine is drastically shorter. 

Careers, adventures and love affairs – politics, wars and social issues now all take a backward step in urgency.

Here on earth – the now is what I have; and before the sickness, the aches and pains and rot that will take me away I owe it to myself to enjoy this and every day.   Our lives can still have meaning in the things that bring us pleasure. 

We can make the departing more acceptable by the things we do each day.

See friends when they are companionable and family when they are loving, but avoid outrageous fate.  

There is no heaven or hell – there is no sky fairy to influence the outcome of the football game.  

  

At some point as you age you need to reset priorities and find a new god.

MY GOD IS DEFINITELY THE GOD OF TITS AND WINE.

the Ol’Buzzard

SHOOTING AT EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

Another fucking shooting?  You've got to be kidding me.
Is this Second Amendment rights in action?
the Ol'Buzzard