from Gaping Void

Will be held at Valley View Church

6630 FM 1516 N, Converse, TX

at 2 pm on Wednesday, March 1

Here is his obituary:

William Russell Whipple of Converse, Texas passed away on February 25, 2006 at the age of 46. He is survived by his mother Ann Pattillo and father John Leslie Whipple; children Tiffany and Daniel; sisters Renee Whipple and Deirdre Pattillo; and brother John Leslie Whipple, Jr. A memorial service will be held on March 1, 2006 at 2:00 pm at Valley View Church, 6630 FM 1516 North .

With Ya’ll in our hearts we are praying for you and all the family.

Love,

The Wickham’s

Can’t help but to post this. It’s just too damn funny!!! One of my favorite blogs… other than Whippleworld, of course.

http://www.wordpress.tokyotimes.org/?p=778

Here’s another I used to read, unfortunately he has stopped writing them now.

http://www.cynicaltravel.com/blog/index.php?paged=3

We were watching a movie and we invited them all in to sit with us. They didn’t like the movie and so they made a sleeping puppydog rug in the middle of the living room. Silly is the word for these ridiculous animals. Rin-Tin-Tin never did this stuff.

The guitar is supposed to be like a door and a chimeny. The design might also be the logo for Parke’s Sunday House record label so it has to be recognizable even when it’s tiny on the back of a CD. That always makes it hard. I inherited a love for the pea and ochre and umbre range of organic colors from Granny and Granddad. Granddad always had big tubes of burnt umbre that he mixed with primary colors as one way to get the muted tones he painted with. So say anything, but I’m pretty sold on the split pea soup green. See, the door leads into the kitchen where the soup is cooking.

Jacek Yerka

what do you say to a military officer after he gets out of the restroom?….

you have been relieved of your doody.

TOP THAT!!!

USATODAY.com - Visitor trips over shoelace at British museum, shatters Chinese vases.
I guess that’s why the gaurds follow me around.

recommend a plant, it’d be a good one…. but this guy is crazy cool. I’m going to check with them about how to divide it because it’s growing so fast it’s crowding the basket. And also little details like “what in the hell is it?”. I got it from them at Brunella’s plant show based solely on their suggestion and it’s a member of the family now. We’ve always made a poor man’s greenhouse each year - plastic over the kids’ swingset kind of thing but this year we made one that you can walk into with shelves and everything. I know now that I need a greenhouse for more than just keeping plants alive during a freeze. My plants are going nuts in there. Pat and Ken Taylor gave us the frame for a real one and we’re going to build it this year.

do you recognize the little green tree frog from the header? Actually, I think that’s “son of green tree frog”.

We moved it up on the deck so we can admire it while it’s blooming. It’s in the shadows here but it looks pretty cool.

J-Mac’s Big Game

video from Cnn

Johnny Eck

Johnny Eckhardt was born on August 27th 1911 at his parents home in Baltimore, Md. He was one of two twins. The other brother, Robert, was born a normal, healthy child. Johnny, though healthy, was born with no lower half. His body stopped just below the ribs. “Oh my lord, he’s a broken doll.” cried one of the midwives as Johnny came out.

However, in his 79 years on this earth Johnny Eck (his name was shortened by his first manager) accomplished more than most people with legs. He was a sideshow performer, artist, photographer, magician, Punch and Judy operator, expert model maker, race car driver, swimmer, gymnist, actor, train conductor, traveler and all around Renaissance man…

All that and he only reached a height of 18 inces tall!

Yes, the last one was supposed to be the last one. But this one is going to be different. That’s so lame… it’s going to be basicly the same. It was an incremental, slippery path that lead to complete caving. Long story. But, like for the past 10 years, you can have all the tickets you want to come be a drunken sardine.

Caia Coopman

The National Transportation Safety Board divulged that it had covertly funded a project with the U.S. auto makers for the past 5 years, whereby the auto makers were installing black box voice recorders in four-wheel drive pickup trucks and SUVs in an effort to determine, in fatal accidents, the circumstances in the last 15 seconds before the crash.

They were surprised to find in 41 of the 50 states the recorded last words of drivers in 61.2 percent of fatal crashes were, “Oh Sh*t!” Only the states of Oklahoma, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia and Texas were different, where 89.3 percent of the final words were: “Hold my beer, I’m gonna try somethin.”

Great Pictures of Jumping Cats.

BBC NEWS: Husband eats 50-year-old chicken in celebration of his anniversary.

Yuck!

Mitch found this early 40’s Gibson J series acoustic guitar. It had had rats living in it. He sent it to a luthier in Dallas that specializes in this kind of rare guitar complete restoration and when the guy saw it he said, without clarifaction, as if he was talking to himself… “This may be THE ONE”. This guy who has seen lots of rare vintage pre World War II guitars spent the month taking it all apart and putting it back together better than new. And making measurements so that he could build himself a copy. I know why, I played it for a few minutes on Sunday and it’s pure magic. Mitch knows what’s cool.

the Nada Chair

Uyzn! From his top-secret Whippleworld lab in Singapore, China he installed this major 2.0 upgrade overnight without us even feeling it. I hope no test animals had to be killed in the process. I think you can tell from reading his comments here that he’s a nice person but he’s also very, very smart. And not just technically smart but he has an unusual amount of common sense for a college age guy. We’re very lucky to count him as a friend. On top of that, he’s like the blog’s guardian angel.

PBS Previews | Monty Python’s Personal Best

Because I’m thinking that any doctor who performs in-vitro fertilization on a 62 year old woman who already has 11 children should have his license revoked?