About a week ago, I put this on my blog, then the video went blank. So I took it down. At the time, I thought that it was that the video host site crashed because the video was going viral and, now….well, I guess that I am going stick with that theory. And maybe help it along.
When I was young and something big was coming up, we would tell people in an, sort of informal, verbal off handed manner. Then, as I got older, people started sending out Save the Date Cards.
Now it is Save the Date Videos and, I must say, some of them are very impressive. Here is a great Save the Date Vid.
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Formula One
Formula One is the most over the top car racing ever conceived of by man. No, really. It is what happens when guys with unlimited budgets race cars. It is nuts! And, for me at least, hugely fun to follow.
This week about half the F1 teams started their winter testing. A big deal for us fans – sort of like baseball's spring training, I guess.
When I was a teenager, Formula One cars looked like this and one of the great drivers was Sterling Moss – shown here driving a Mercedes Benz W-196 in 1955. Moss was one of my real heroes, so much so that I had a picture of him on my wall.
Fifty five years later, the cars have become insanely fast and they have become so complicated that the steering wheels look like this.(Double click on the image for more detail and check out the windshield.)
Instead of a short sleeve polo shirt and lightweight helmet, the drivers wear fireproof long underwear, a fireproof driving suit, and a helmet that covers their whole head including their face. For the first time since 1955, Mercedes is back with their own Formula One car. Their number one (I guess I should say die nummer ein) driver is Michael Schumacher – probably the best driver ever, I am somewhat reluctant to admit – who came out of retirement to drive for Mercedes.
I can hardly wait for the season to start in March.
Another political ad….
It is hard to watch this ad from the Carly Fiorina campaign and not think that it is, on purpose, a joke.
Maybe done by Jon Stewart. Not only is it completely, goofily, over the top; but it is 100% negative, and, most improbable of all, it presents the good guys (good republicans that it) as sheep.
This is a person supposedly running for Senator and this is her idea of a good ad. This, presumably, is her idea of smart thinking. Not so surprisingly, HP – who fired her – is contributing to the Boxer campaign.
During the last six months, or so, I have talked to several people, mostly George Bush conservatives, who think Carly Fiornina would make a fine senator.I just don't get it – I mean she was fired from her job at Hewlett Packard.
The sun comes out
Well, that may be a bit extreme. But, on Saturday, it didn't rain for the first time in a couple of weeks and everybody went outside. Michele and I decided to go for a walk in the Arastradero Preserve.
And we were not the only ones:
Everywhere, everything is starting to turn bright green or budding up:
The early wildflowers are starting to bloom.
Maybe the long nightmare of winter is finally over.
Now here is a great political ad.
I had no idea that the job of coroner is an elective job in New Orleans. It sure does open the door to great political ads.