Timmersomethings Blog Of Random Stuff

As a rabid pinball fanatic I love Farsight Studio's Pinball Arcade . This app allows you to play arcade quality reproductions of classic and rare pinball machines. Classics sic as Pin Bot and Whirlwind and rare finds such as Ripley 's Believe It Or Not and Central Park. Over the next few posts I will give short reviews of all 52 tables available for this awesome app in alphabetical order. Attack From Mars This pinball classic once thought to be linked to the movie Mars Attacks centers around alien invaders from Mars and how you Must defeat them. This game features include a video mode and a UFO that must be hit multiple times in order to complete certain missions. I played this several times at a local bowling alley. I love this game and give it five stars. Big Shot This billiards themed table from the 60s is a classic. All you have to do is hit the targets for all 15 balls including the 8 ball. You can score extra balls and specials by doing so. You can also choose betwee...

*---- Quotes For The Week ----* Be thankful for everyone who comes into your life...even the difficult ones. You can learn something from every situation. --Zig Ziglar No one seems to me more unhappy than the man whom no misfortune has ever befallen. --Seneca: On Providence A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. --Henry David Thoreau **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** You only live once but if you do it right, once is enough. See at the bottom for the answer. *---- More Quotes for the Week ----* I do admit that at any moment we are prisoners caught in the framework of our theories; our expectations; our past experiences; our language. But we are prisoners in the Pickwickian sense: if we try, we can break out of our framework at any time. Admittedly, we shall find ourselves again in a framework, but it will be a better and a roomier one; and we can at any moment break out of it again. --Karl Popper Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You...

How do you get your husband interested in oral sex? Douche with beer. What do you call a gay gentleman from the Deep South? A homo-sex-y'all. What's the most active muscle in a woman? The penis. How can you tell if a woman really likes oral sex? She hikes up her skirt every time someone yawns. How do you get a woman off during sex? Push her. Three guys are discussing women. "I like to watch a woman's tits best, " the first guy says. "I just love the way they bounce." The second says "I like to look at a woman's ass. I love the way it jiggles." He asks the third guy, "What about you?" "Me? I prefer to see the top of her head." [I know this is an old one, but this joke cracks me up...] A murder has been committed. Police are called to an apartment and find a man holding a 5-iron in his hands, standing over the lifeless body of a woman on the ground. The detective asks, "Sir, is that your wife?" ...

WHO SAID IT? QUOTE: "My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your plate." HINT: (1897-1975), American writer of innovative plays and novels. RANDOM TIDBITS Americans are the No. 1 consumers of ice cream worldwide, eating 48 pints of ice cream per person every year on average. Immigrants at Ellis Island were served ice cream as part of the welcoming to America. About nine percent of all the milk produced by U.S. dairy farmers is used to produce ice cream. Vanilla is the most popular flavor, accounting for 20-29% of overall sales of ice cream with chocolate coming in a distant second. The Library of Congress possesses a copy of a recipe for vanilla ice cream used by Thomas Jefferson written in Jefferson’s own hand. President George Washington allocated a total of $200 on ice cream purchases during the hot summer of 1790. Charles E. Minches of St. Louis, Missouri is said to have invented the ice cream cone in 190...

Voting in Greece is mandatory for all Greek citizens, although there are rarely sanctions for citizens that do not vote. Currently, Greek men must serve from one year to 18 months in any branch of the armed forces. According to Greek mythology, Athena and Poseidon agreed that whoever gave the city the best gift would become guardian over the city. Though Poseidon gave the gift of water, Athena's gift of an olive tree was deemed by the other gods to be more valuable. The world's third leading producer of olives, the Greeks have cultivated olive trees since ancient times. Some olive trees planted in the thirteenth century are still producing olives. The United States of America is divided into 12 Federal Reserve Districts (Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, and San Francisco). Additionally, typically 12 people are appointed to sit on a jury for felony trials, twelve men have walked on the moon and A...

*---- Quotes For The Week ----* It is not your opinion that will make or break you, but how you express your opinion.--Nassim Taleb Simplicity is the key to brilliance.-- Bruce Lee It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.--Seneca **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** The belief in the possibility of a rule of law, of equal justice, of fundamental rights and a free society can easily survive the recognition that judges are not omniscient and may make mistakes about facts... But the belief in the possibility of a rule of law, of justice, and of freedom, can hardly survive the acceptance of an epistemology which teaches that there are no objective facts. See at the bottom for the answer *---- More Quotes for the Week ----* At the end of the game, the king and the pawn all go back in the same box.--Italian Proverb [From Tom Cunniff] Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective informa...

I hereby apologize for not publishing much in recent months. I've been very busy this past year and posting stuff here was pushed to the back burner. It really is nice getting back to the old routine. Will post more frequently from now on. Yours Truly: Timmersomething.