http://whippleworld.com Home of the Whippleworld extended family free-for-all Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:56:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en check the new passport card. From inside your wallet it sends a signal that the government can read. If you're walking up to a Texas/Mexico border crossing it would trigger your "file" and pop it up on their computer screens. Not being all black helicopter here just saying that that's ... http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/23/whoa-3/ if this pops up on the blog, it works just like it always did. http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/23/testing-the-emailing-in-feature-2/ This is the first time I've done an upgrade. Renee has done it, Uzyn has done it... I was always way too scared. This was a wild one because to catch up it was a jump of several major and several minor revisions of the software. Sure enough, at one ... http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/23/successfully-upgraded-to-wordpress-26/ This Swiss goop ("Cyber Clean") is a viscous slime that you roll around on your keyboard, so that all the food particles and fingernail parings are swept away, while the germicidal surface de-germifies your icky, filthy, disgusting keyboard. from BoingBoing http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/23/we-need-this/ The more information you have and the less risk you take that may extend your life. You can get a small container of nitroglycerin pills to carry on your key chain for a few bucks. I have used mine twice over the last 10 years and who knows I may ... http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/23/warn-water-heart-attack-information/ He picked out where he wanted to work, walked in and he got hired right on the spot. The Grist Mill. He has a lot of history in Gruene and now he works there. It's nice to live in a moderately small town - the guy looked at his application ... http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/22/taylor-got-the-job-he-was-looking-for-today/ http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/22/fonts/ Yesterday my mom sent this photo from her Braniff days. I actually have the skirt she's wearing, this was their Pucci outfit which they used varieties of till 1977 when they switched to the Halston uniforms which were cream and brown polyester that had tiny little "H"s all over ... http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/22/the-flying-colors-in-1973/ Modify your keys to fit in a leatherman. Great idea. http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/22/how-to/ and maybe not tomatoes after all. Nobody around here got sick I guess because San Antonians have been eating questionably fertilized chillies from Mexico since the 1800's, we're immune. http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/21/turns-out-it-was-the-jalapenos/ This is certainly Art For The Day. We all wanted to go see Townes Van Zandt, this is the guy Townes Van Zandt wanted to go see. A little finger picking was going around at Riley's last night, Casey's been practicing her guitar lately and was listening for who was ... http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/21/doc-watson-2/ click here! http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/20/viva-la-seniors/ He buys books with every dollar he can get his hands on. He and I are kicking off a project to collect hard covers, maybe it'll be the seed that grows into a library he keeps forever. He truly appreciates suggestions - one of my favorite things about Evan is ... http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/20/evans-a-big-reader/ How what you do effects your children and their children, just like the bible said. "For humans perhaps the most important finding of epigenetics is that we are not owners of our genes but their guardian. If we drink heavily, take drugs, get fat or wait too long to reproduce, then ... http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/20/thats-so-epigenetic/ must read the blog because he jumped in the pool today. Actually got a little shove but he went in and climbed right up on Loretta's float. http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/19/more-pups-in-the-pool/ Jimmie and I were listening to all her songs on MySpace this morning and really enjoying it, she's such a natural singer. I haven't heard her do this one in a long time, it's one of my favorites. http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/19/casey-singing-angel/ This is similar to fireworks timed to music. Again, maybe the Internet is the new Ed Sullivan Show. :) http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/18/isnt-juggling-hypnotic/ do you miss the Ed Sullivan Show? The Internet is the new Ed Sullivan Show. http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/18/ukulele-blues/ Texas Theatres http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/18/check-our-this-great-flickr-pool/ Evan took this picture yesterday. You can tell it's a hot summer day when Loretta spends so much time relaxing in the pool. Whenever she feels like it she jumps in, climbs up on her float and the water carries her around in laps. She takes long floats five or ... http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/18/cool-dog-in-the-pool/ http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/17/5-dangerous-things-you-should-let-your-kids-do/ Maybe as Mitch convalesces he can be on the phone working radio. I was going to bring him this cool electric hospital bed that Dad has but Mitch got wind of it - Hillary warned that if we didn't get it there and set up before he found out then ... http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/16/the-lonely-kind-hit-1-on-the-most-requested-chart/ got an email and Hillary says he's on his cell phone if you want to call him. This is Wednesday so don't plan on going to the hospital after today. Hillary says that other than the pain, he's doing good. http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/16/mitch-is-coming-home-today/ PEOPLE ARE STRANGE (REMI GAILLARD)Uploaded by nqtv http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/15/people-are-strange/ Hillary called Jimmie and Jimmie just called me. She says he did fine. I'm looking forward to seeing him. http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/15/mitch-is-out-of-surgery/ We are very excited about the show tonight. We understand that Mitch will be in hospital; so sorry to hear about this. Also Glenn and Kim, good luck on your open mic at Casbeers Church. Cassell and Craig, hope you can listen in from the U.K. Becky, Tom, Jimmie, John, ... http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/15/webb-family-friends-broadcast/ right now somewhere between San Antonio, Texas and Silver City, New Mexico. http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/15/mother-and-grace-are-on-a-train/ is the software that runs the blog - they also just had their 5th Anniversary and celebrated by releasing this new version 2.6. I was talking to Renee on the phone this morning and I think we might want to use Whippleworld's 5th as a reason to update to ... http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/15/wordpress/ Mitch and family and friends were down at Guadalupe State park and he jumped off a rock into the river. Unfortunately he jumped onto another rock under the water and broke two bones in one of his legs. He was in the hospital all night and will stay for surgery ... http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/14/uncle-mitchy-boo-boo/ as a main part of Jimmie's company picnic on Saturday. Jimmie had to be in for sure because everybody at work knows she sings and Taylor entered specifically to try to beat his mom. Jimmie sang first and got the whole place going crazy - when she finished the judge ... http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/14/there-was-a-karaoke-contest/ You have to give it up, these photos make it look like the most beautiful of sports. http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/14/tour-de-fance-photo-taken-yesterday/ How small was small? How Big was Big? http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/14/1946-doodlrbug-and-9-years-old-great-combination/ "The Associates for International Research released this comparison of gasoline prices. Here is a sample of the data on what a gallon of gas costs: * Oslo, Norway $9.85 * London, England $8.96 * Paris, France $9.43 * ... http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/13/gas-prices/ God relishes surprise. We want lives of simple, predictable ease — smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see — but God likes to go off-road. He provokes us with twists and turns. He places us in predicaments that seem to defy our endurance and comprehension — and ... http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/13/god-likes-to-go-off-road/ I think my scooter has become a part of the family. . . . I like it better every day! Check out the this link This is only a hand full of scooters of my time. . . . check em' out! scooter.lst1090.org/link2 http://whippleworld.com/2008/07/12/if-anything-was-ever-good-once-it-will-be-good-again/