tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630697179170176412024-02-19T17:52:15.246-05:00A Smallish Smackeral of SomethingOdds and ends that are alone, ordinary, perhaps not even noteworthy, but together, maybe something more...Michael Stuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02122241511458626463noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63069717917017641.post-84577857088521465702009-05-20T09:30:00.005-04:002009-05-20T09:44:16.596-04:00To boldly split infinitivesFrom blogsI have tried my best not to get too excited about it.Ever since I heard about this new Star Trek movie, I've been telling myself, "They're gonna mess it up. It will be another one of those typical summer-blockbuster mentality movies: All whiz-bang and no substance."Well, I've been nurturing a some nerds of my own for the last 10 years in preparation for the movie event of their Michael Stuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02122241511458626463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63069717917017641.post-33462853376172641432009-04-16T15:49:00.005-04:002009-04-16T16:02:11.503-04:00Rare findOn Monday I took the girls to Virginia Beach to look for seashells. Since it was in the low fifties with a chance of rain all day, I made a weak attempt to talk them out of it."Girls, it's going to feel very cold at the beach today. Are you sure you want to go?""Yes daddy. If we go to the beach before it's hot, we might find some really good seashells before everyone else goes down there and Michael Stuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02122241511458626463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63069717917017641.post-60684768513640386702008-08-20T13:20:00.003-04:002008-08-20T13:35:55.024-04:00Free to CommentI find it troubling when intelligent discussion is stifled by emotions.We're all human and often victims to the irrationality of our own inner voices, but that doesn't mean we should stop communicating. I don't know anyone that *wants* to be wrong, but we can't all be right either.So if you feel that your voice isn't being given a fair hearing somewhere else, then feel free to express yourself Michael Stuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02122241511458626463noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63069717917017641.post-5778570168250658822008-07-03T09:09:00.005-04:002009-06-10T08:05:46.263-04:0010 Acre WoodsWhat do you do when you have 10-acres of wooded land, two little girls that love the outdoors, and a guy that's never going to grow up (if he can help it)?You play.When I was child, that is - before I started looking like an adult, I dreamt of treehouses in the woods where I could hide, read, play, and just sit and think. When I purchased this land many years ago, one of the prerequisite Michael Stuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02122241511458626463noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63069717917017641.post-49638174599615628802008-06-05T15:58:00.001-04:002008-06-05T15:59:31.689-04:00A warm videoMichael Stuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02122241511458626463noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63069717917017641.post-66286729864574241412008-06-03T15:35:00.008-04:002008-06-04T09:37:34.680-04:00Dobble-U's SurpriseI have a good friend from Argentina whose name is Walter Ruggieri.Have you ever met someone who can travel to a foreign country and after a few days is able to imitate the accent well enough to be mistaken for a native (or perhaps even a peculiar native with a slight speech impediment)? Well, Walter is not that kind of person. Even if he didn't speak, you'd have to suppress a compulsion to say Michael Stuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02122241511458626463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63069717917017641.post-30029029292743531032008-05-22T15:23:00.001-04:002009-06-10T08:08:41.027-04:00How are you, anyway?A dear friend asked me today how I was doing. It's the kind of question that a person is asked far more often than the answer is relevant or even desired, but in this particular case, my dear friend really did care.The answer was worth posting here, so here it goes:Me? Little ole' me?Well, health-wise, apart from some sneeze attacks and itchy eyes (which are typical maladies for me this time of Michael Stuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02122241511458626463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63069717917017641.post-27988405623552361592008-05-16T14:21:00.001-04:002008-05-22T15:36:32.061-04:00Here it is...My first post on my own blog. It's a smallish smackeral of something, but small can be good.Michael Stuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02122241511458626463noreply@blogger.com0