Small thought; Names.

How is it that in world of several billion people, you get names like April,
names like may.
names like June,
names like July.
names like Saturday,
Sunday,
Friday.
names like dawn,
names like dusk.
How is it with names like tha, That no-one,
No-one, is named; Mid-Afternoon. Or Four-Of-The-Clock. Seems silly, really. I mean, most people name their children after minor charecters in some religious text or another. Why not perfectly pleasant times of day?

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#STOP Telegram ended. Posted from my iPhone.

Sir Jacob D. Fredrickson Esq.

Chief Executive Officer of Early Bird Industries, Inc.

New Temporary Theme

I Have redesigned the blog for Halloween!

Don't worry kids, that's not blood ;-) {Smiling face} It's paint. honest. Oh, yes, I almost forgot, if you liked the other theme better, it will be back after Halloween.

Feedback? Comment!

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Sir Jacob D. Fredrickson Esq.

Chief Executive Officer of Early Bird Industries, Inc.

The Continuing Weekly Adventures Of Dr. Zachary Smith H.M.O.

This Weeks Episode:

Episode #39:  Jeeves' Story. 

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Last Week, as you recall, Dr. Smith had found Jeeves in Dr. Smith's yard, literally fading fast. This Is His Story.

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"WELL DR. SMITH, IT WAS LIKE THIS, ONCE YOU LEFT THE HOUSE FOR THE R.L.B.S., ALL THE DIALS INDICATING THE CURRENT LIFTING POWER STARTED TO FLICKER AND POINT TO ZERO.  SO, BEING A CONSCIENTIOUS AND *1011011* OH, EXCUSE ME.  BIT OF A COUGH THERE.  I NAVIGATED THE HOUSE  BACK DOWN THE HOLE AND FLEW IT TOWARDS YOUR BASEMENT, IN THE HOPE OF ARRIVING AT THE LOT BEFORE #17 RON DEVUE DR. LOST ALL ITS LIFTING POWER.  I JUST MADE IT BEFORE THE GAUGES SHOWED ALL THE LIFTING POWER WAS GONE.  WHEN I GOT HERE EVERYTHING WAS PERFECTLY NORMAL, THE RIGHT COLORS AND EVERYTHING.

THEN I HEARD THAT YOU HAD ARRIVED BEFORE ME.

I WAS OF COURSE CURIOUS, SIR, TO SEE HOW YOU COULD HAVE MADE IT OUT OF THE R.L.B.S. SO QUICKLY!  I FOUND OUT THAT YOU WERE AT THE OLD GAS STATION, SELLING OFF ONE OF YOUR INVENTIONS.  THAT WAS WHEN I FIRST STARTED TO SUSPECT, SIR, BUT I WENT ANYWAY.  IT WAS HORRIBLE.  SIR.

-=fig. 187: Something was Very Wrong=-
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SOMETHING WAS VERY WRONG, SIR. BUT I COULDN'T PUT MY FINGER ON IT, SO I JUST WATCHED AS ALL THE PEOPLE BOUGHT UP ALL THE GRAY BOXES.  AND WHEN SOMEBODY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY? YOU JUST GAVE IT AWAY, SIR. THAT WAS WHEN I KNEW THAT IS WASN'T YOU, SIR.  NOBODY WOULD HAVE HAD TO PAY ANY MONEY IN THE FIRST PLACE. YOU MADE THOSE BOXES SOUND SO GOOD!  NO ONE SUSPECTED A THING, AND WHO WOULD? IT'S THE GREAT DR. SMITH, INVENTOR EXTRAORDINAIRE!  THE HERO OF RON DEVUE DRIVE!  THE TROUBLE STARTED ONCE EVERYONE IN LEGOPOLIS HAD A BOX.  EVERYONE STARTED GETTING SO SAD, AND MOVING SO SLOW.  IT WAS ALMOST AS IF THEIR COLORS WERE FADING.

-=fig. 188: Fading away=-
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EVERYONE GOT SO DEPRESSED THAT THEY COULDN'T EVEN MOVE!  THEY JUST STOOD THERE, FADING AWAY.  THINGS GOT WORSE WHEN THE PSYCHO TRANSYLVANIAN AND HIS TOP-HATTED ARMY SHOWED UP.  AH! I SEE YOU KNOW THEM, SIR.  WELL, ONCE THEY SHOWED UP, THINGS TOOK A TURN FOR THE WORSE, THEY HAD MORE OF THOSE GRAY BOXES, BUT THESE LOOKED MORE POTENT.  THE MEN IN TOP-HATS HELD THESE NEW BOXES UP TO THE BUILDINGS, AND–

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–THEY STOLE THE COLORS SIR,  STOLE THEM!  RIGHT OFF THE BUILDINGS!  I WAS AMAZED, AND INTRIGUED, FOR I KNEW THAT YOU WOULD BE INTERESTED TO KNOW HOW THIS WORKED, BUT I COULDN'T SEE ANY OBVIOUS MEANS WITH WHICH THEY COULD TAKE THE COLORS, NO WIRES, NO GEARS.   ONCE ALL THE COLORS WERE GONE FROM THE BUILDINGS, THEY TURNED TO THE SKY.  AND WHEN THAT WAS DONE, THEY TOOK THE GRAY BOXES AND PUT THEM IN CRATES.  ODDLY, THE GRAY BOXES WERE NO LONGER GRAY, THEY WERE ALL THE COLORS OF THE RAINBOW.

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THE COLOR HAD A SORT OF LIQUID QUALITY, I COULD SEE IT SPILLING OUT OF THE STURDY CRATES THAT THE TOP-HATTED MEN HAD BROUGHT."  "What Happened next?" asks Dr. Smith, breaking the silence.  "I DIDN'T SEE… THE GRAY HAS AN INFECTIOUS QUALITY THAT SPREADS LIKE WATER IN A PLATE.  THE TOP-HATTED MEN NEVER SAW ME, I THINK.  AND THEY MISSED THE BACK YARD AND INSIDE OF YOUR HOUSE, SIR, ENTIRELY.  BUT THE GRAY WAS SEEPING THROUGH THE WALLS, SO I CALLED A COUPLE OF FRIENDS OF MINE TO STAND IN THE KITCHEN,"  "The Robots we saw?"  "YES, WELL, YOU SAW WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM."  Dr. Smith Turned To Capt. Brown, who was standing next to him.  "James, we need to get Jeeves out of here, help me with his foot would you?"  "Ungh, what did you make him out of, Zachary?  Lead?" "Not Entirely," Dr. Smith says with a smile, "The outer coating is Titanium-Steel alloy.  The Inner Coating is an inch of lead, to prevent against radiation."  "And the black-and-white got through all that?"  "It would appear so."  Capt. Brown looks worried, and yells over his shoulder, "The I.R.S. is Coming! Scramble!"  The Rooftop Police, {Or L.C.R.P} being a motley crew of reformed Æther Pirates, smugglers, and small business owners, they respond well to this form of retreat message, forming an orderly retreat back to the hole in Reality.

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The Universe, Being an orderly place at heart, doesn't stand with unsightly holes popping up all over the place.  Really.  One Would Think reality was falling apart or something.   " 'URRY HUP!" shouts one of the more grammatically challenged of the L.C.R.P, referring {Of Course} to the frightening rate at which the only mode of egress from this dismal city {The Hole In reality} was closing. "Let's Put a bit of Speed on, James!"  "Capital Idea Zachary old boy!" Grinning from ear to ear, they both speed up considerably, just making it through before the hole closed.
Still grinning, Capt. Brown claps Dr. Smith on the back, saying "Just like old times, eh?"  An officer of the L.C.R.P.  overhearing the last bit of the conversation says "This has happened Before?" Dr. Smith, seeing that Capt. Brown was about to…Embellish the story…somewhat, jumps in and says:  "Well, sort of.  Of course it wasn't reality that was closing in, it was the police of five counties.  And of course, they weren't chasing me, it was the good captain here, as I would never have gotten caught for such a–"–Here Dr. Smith Turns To Capt. Brown, scolding him– "stupid thing,"–He turns back to the hapless officer–"but yeah, pretty much the same."  "Good Times." Says Capt. Brown, nodding.  The poor officer, knowing better than to ask what the 'stupid thing' actually was, wandered back to the majority of the crew, who were busy making a fire. Suddenly the R.L.B.S started to flicker, and fade. "What's Going On?" Shouts one of the L.C.R.P., running around with his hands in the air, the picture of a scared person. The rest of the crew, too sensible to be scared, calmly {But quickly} form a ring around Dr. Smith And Capt. Brown, bristling with weapons. Dr. Smith, laughing nervously, says; "Well done old Chaps, but I'm afraid that won't do you any good, as we appear to be traveling out of the R.L.B.S.  whether we like it or not." One gray-haired. 'Old Chap' rumbles out a reply in a deep baritone, "Not all of us are 'Old', Doctor, but I get the point."
 The Rather Large Blank Spot continues to fade as the real world shines through…

Join us Next Week for our Next Exciting Episode:
South By Southwest

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Sir Jacob D. Fredrickson Esq.

Chief Executive Officer of Early Bird Industries, Inc.

umbrella

In Addition to my new pocket-watch, I have also aquired this umbrella

from, of all places, "Target"

Would you Believe?  I have looked far and wide, in thrift stores everywhere, nothing.  And then one day, I go to target, and there it is. Waiting for me.

It is a black umbrella with wood handle, and wood shaft. I would have preferred a Metalshaft, but hey, you take what you can get.

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Sir Jacob D. Fredrickson Esq.

Chief Executive Officer of Early Bird Industries, Inc.

Pocket-Watch

I Have Recently acquired an awesome Pocket-Watch.  It works, so that's good, But it has a bit of mystery attached. Here is the back of the watch:

But here is the mysterious bit:

I popped the back off with my leatherman, and found these weird symbols. Now, I beseech you, the reader {Yes You} for information about these words.  Do you have an uncle that owns a watch shop? Buy alot of watches yourself? Just happen to know what these words mean?  For those of you that can't read the picture for one reason or another this is the tranliteration:
ADVANCE WATCH CO., LTD.
CHINA
AWCLTWY

What is it that I want you ask? Any Information Regarding the advance Watch Co., Ltd. {Point me to a website if you want, If it's relevant, it's not spam} And any guesses as to what AWCLTWY means.

Thanks!

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Sir Jacob D. Fredrickson Esq.

Chief Executive Officer of Early Bird Industries, Inc.

The Caffiene has worn…off…zzz

Well, This is a new day. sorry about the lack of punctuation on my earlier posts, the combination of three shots of espresso, {As opposed to my usual…one.} And the limitations of typing on an iPhone seriously hindered my blogging ability! I wanted to say that the awesomeness that is FARMbloomington {Not just FARM} has a website!

http://www.farm-bloomington.com/index.html

After Brunch {Breakfast-Lunch} I left the crew to their own devices and wandered down the sidewalk, I found a really neat men's clothing shop {Suits and such} and they sold Bow ties! But they didn't know how to tie them, so I think I helped them figure out how to do it, but if you know how to tie a bow tie, and are in Bloomington Indiana some time, visit Andrew Davis Mens Wear‎ {Google Maps Link}  and help them further.  Or just make sure about their Bow tying skills {Skillz} I think that the Two guys who were working there at the time got the hang of it, but you never can be sure.  It took me ages to tie my Bow-Tie the first time!

Also, the next shop down the road was a kitchen store, and the guy working There drank Six Shots of espresso every morning! And I thought I was Wired.

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Sir Jacob D. Fredrickson Esq.

Chief Executive Officer of Early Bird Industries, Inc.

Three shots

At FARM I had a "rooster in th hen house" three shots of expresso and a hint of hazelnut.

I barely am retaining my sanity!!!

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Sir Jacob D. Fredrickson Esq.

Chief Executive Officer of Early Bird Industries, Inc.

Bloomington restaraunt: Farm.

The crew and I were wandering around Bloomington Indiana, nobody was hungry, but there was this restaraunt called "FARM" not "the farm" just "FARM" this was my food I ordered the "Hoosier Benedict" it was awesome! Full of fat, but still awesome! It had local eggs, and Really good kinda spicy sausage. I couldn't finish it, but I really wanted too! if you are ever in Bloomington, remember "FARM" all local ingredients, lots of fat, awesome food.

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Sir Jacob D. Fredrickson Esq.

Chief Executive Officer of Early Bird Industries, Inc.

Small thought-The Tweety-Bird

Or, as you kids call it "the Twitter".

Back when I was Young, we had these things called "Telegrams" it was sort of like a twitter, but you weren't constrained to 140 characters.  You were however, limited by how much you could afford.  you see the whole thing was transmitted by Morse code over an actual wire someplace, and since even the simplest of messages had to be put into Morse Code–a difficult and complicated alphabet–it cost more money for every letter that you used.  Exempli Gratia, {e.g} If I was away on business, and I suddenly Found out that, Darn it, that my Steamer across the Atlantic was to be delayed by what? Four Days?! I would have to send a message to my dog-sitter back home saying that I was to be late and not to expect me for four days, I would have to phrase it like this:

To:DogSitter  From: Sir.

Message: Boat Delayed STOP Will be Four Days Late STOP Expect Bonus STOP Thanks STOP Sir Jacob STOP

Because, even though that was an incredibly short letter, it would have to be transmitted across the wire by skilled Morse Code technicians, and as it went it would look like this:

- --- ---... -.. --- --. ... .. - - . .-. / ..-. .-. --- -- ---... / ... .. .-. .-.-.- / -- . ... ... .- --. . ---... / -... --- .- - / -.. . .-.. .- -.-- . -.. / ... - --- .--. / .-- .. .-.. .-.. / -... . / ..-. --- ..- .-. / -.. .- -.-- ... / .-.. .- - . / ... - --- .--. / . -..- .--. . -.-. - / -... --- -. ..- ... / ... - --- .--. / - .... .- -. -.- ... / ... - --- .--. / ... .. .-. / .--- .- -.-. --- -... / ... - --- .--.

And someone on the other side would have to translate it as it goes by one, maybe two times, type that up on a different piece of paper and get someone to locate DogSitter and Give her the message.

A very Expensive Process.  Now, with all this useless technology, people can send these twitters {EDIT: Sorry, Tweets} from their phones to the twitter website.  But they can only go as high as 140 characters, I don't remember Telegrams ever having such a violent limit to how much you could send, unless of course you were quite short on cash.

Oh yes, the point, I suggest that if anyone out there that reads this blog uses the twitter, put the hashtag at the end of your tweets:  #STOP  and show your support for the days gone by!

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Sir Jacob D. Fredrickson Esq.

Chief Executive Officer of Early Bird Industries, Inc.

First Review: Sky Burger and Scoops

         





Scoops:                                          

Skyburger:

Disclaimer:

This Reviewer did get these two iPhone apps for free, but I wasn't paid to review them. The reason This Reviewer didn't have to pay for his iPhone Apps was because of a crazy deal on the App Store. {100% off, for one day only} Nimblebit probably doesn't  even have any idea This Reviewer {or this website, for that matter} even exists. 

 Review:

         First off, this Reviewer would like to Apologize for the terrible formatting of this post.  It's really hard to format things in the Blogger Post editor.  This Reviewer would also like some sort of offline editor, or some way to plug in a

.pages or .word document, but Blogger probably isn't even listening to this Reviewer whinge. So enough of that, down to the review.  First: 

Scoops:

The Idea is to catch all the scoops of iced cream while avoiding the vegetables. Sounds simple right? Well, It is.  And in the greatest tradition of really fun games, it's easy to learn, but really hard to master. You move your stack from side-to-side by tilting your iPhone {or iPod touch} or you could choose to turn on the touch option, but that's a bit clunky. For every Vegetable you catch, you lose a star. You can regain stars {and stave off failure} by catching these special starred "Scoops".  For your each"Scoop" you catch, you get Points, along this table:


Scoops----Points
1st≈50
2nd≈150
3rd≈427
4th≈610
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But for every scoop you miss you lose points

Scoops----Points
1st=80
2nd=80
3rd=80
4th=80
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You don't lose points for catching Vegetables, you lose stars, When all the stars are gone, you lose. now this all sounds very complicated, but it isn't really. When this reviewer was playing "Scoops" he didn't even notice any of that stuff, no, he noticed how the background changes the higher you go.  Oh? you thought it stopped once you got to the top of the screen?


Oh No, none of that.


First you come to the city,

Then the sky

Space;

 

Then Mars, then Jupiter, which is the highest I've This Reviewer has gotten, but for this test this reviewer could only get as high as the moon.

Result:

"Scoops" is a great little game, easy to learn, hard to master. It has a great visual style, and it'll keep you coming back to it for just a couple of minutes, waiting in line and such. And If you have to take a call, or your order is up, it'll save your spot so that when you come back you haven't lost all you hard work.

 

Company: Nimblebit.com 

Price:1.99$USD

Recommendation: Don't buy it right away,  wait until a deal presents itself. Unless of course if you have two extra dollars.

SkyBurger

 

Built along the same lines as "Scoops" this neat little game also by Nimblebit sets you up as an entry-level employee of the MacDonalds-esqe HamBurger place. 

You start out every "Level" with an new "Order" this tells you which ingredients you should catch.

Catch every ingredient and you get a hefty tip, catch a wrong ingredient and you lose one percent of said hefty tip. when all your ingredient are caught grab a top bun, and you win that burger.  Symbolically, of course. All you really get is a better "Paycheck" which is just another way to say "points".   If you catch a top bun before the Burger is done, however, you start back at burger one. usually a different burger one each time, but still a burger one.  In the background you can see the burger joint you own, it starts out as a cart, and this Reviewer has only gotten as far as a building. it changes up with every succession of rank.  This Reviewer started out as a rank 1  {junior burger-flipper," and now he is on rank 3 {asst. Manager} It stands to reason that the background changes the higher you go, but This reviewer has only gotten as far as the tops of the buildings. Every once in awhile you get a "SkyBurger" which is basically a free play.  The higher your rank the more free plays in a row you get. {Exempli Gratia, "Jake" is Rank 3, so he gets three free plays in a row}

 Result:

"SkyBurger" Is a great little game, like "Scoops" it's a casual game that is easy to learn hard to master and quite hard to put down.  

 

Company: Nimblebit.com 

Price: 1.99 USD

Recommendation: If you liked "Scoops" but want a bit more detailed gameplay? then Pick up Sky burger.

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