Thursday, October 18, 2012

MIR Birthday 3

The Installer's Rant is furtive but clean. (sort of)
And must be kept in close quarantine. (court order)
Or it sneaks to the slums. (code for uptown)
And promptly becomes. (maybe)
Disorderly, drunk, and obscene. (isn't that tippling?)

The rant is now three years old. In dog years, that means it is now twenty-one and can now legally drink. We should all be very afraid.

It's been a good, and busy year for the rant. Five videos, and five cartoons were added to the blogs YouTube channel. This was also my second year as a NMEA technology award judge, a task I truly enjoy doing.

Some structural changes have been made also. The first was a suggestion by my friend Dick Reston that I intermix picture sizes in the posts, which I have done. This makes for some additional mucking around with HTML to make it work, but it's worth it. I also added a complete alphabetical list of all posts at the bottom of the sidebar. Additional links to other good sites have been added, and more are yet to come.

The highlight of the year was winning third place in the "Original Online Content" category in the Boaters Writers International annual writing contest. I also received the very rare and highly coveted Panbo cap at the award ceremony. I will wear it proudly at the Ft Lauderdale boat show this weekend.

Many many thanks to all that read, advise and help.

"I have not yet begun to write." W. B. Bishop

The decorations around the blog's birthday cake were provided by Carla's "Instant Party in a Bag" planning company.

That is the Russian MIR space station on the cake. I need to be a bit more clear about these things when I order the next cake.

Digital oil self portrait by self.







2 comments:

  1. Congrats Mr B. a much deserved milestone, and a very enjoyable read.You do have a future in this. Gets better and better each and every story. Oh , and just a reminder, please get back on "TOOLS", a great story that has not even begun yet, the what if's are killing me, the things, and the knowledge that is so far away from us, i've got to know! Great seeing you and Mrs B, we'll try not to be strangers, Love you both, Mr & Mrs Keith. One more thing, Where the hell are my "TOOLS". LOL!!!!!

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  2. Congratulations! Great blog - have been enjoying it for like five years. Oh, it's only been three?

    Keith Pleas

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