just...plain...Out of my Mind...
Introductory note to the 2010 incarnation of the Blue Plate Special: Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner used the Out-of-my-Mind as an introduction for catch-alls for about seven decades of columns. It appears here with attribution and respect
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Here's a couple of things you won't see a lot of, as the Vancouver Olympics near and some "Squaw Valley VIII Winter Games" redux starts popping up. The plate, (Blue, natch!) to the left was assigned to Ed Pine, Sr., and I borrowed it from his son Jack to include on the website (with an attendant death threat if I didn't get it back.)
To the right is my own Olympic parka, color-coded red for the press. Click on it to read a column I wrote about those Olympics
Sunday, January 10, 2010
The work on this column starts in earnest later today and during the week; right now we're just watching NFL and setting up pages and links. Were I a betting man, I'd say come back once a week and you'll usually find something to read
Sample of what you might find on the Out-of-my-Mind page: We all remember my smoke alarm with the five-minute snooze-switch, to allow a homeowner to wake up, get the cobwebs out and put his contact lenses in, then deal with the smoke when it went off again. It was brilliance; we made a fortune (someone read of it in the RGJ column and actually went to AnswerMan hardware store on Peckham Lane to buy one. They called the paper. The paper called me. I had to recall the comment to keep everybody happy.)
Now, in 2010, the latest Blue Plate Special brainstorm: an amalgamation of the TSA full-body scan with advanced medical X-ray technology, to enable a simultaneous airport scan and a mammogram
You read of it here first
(Actually, we're just building a web page to hold future stuff but had to populate it with something...)
a new feature: on any page, click on the Blue Plate to return to the home page
