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Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

Paul B

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How times have changed.

I was just reading a Sharper Image Catalog and now they sell so many things that we didn't have when I was a kid. Did you ever look through one of those catalogs?

We used to play this game where you got a ball and you threw it at the other person to see if you could hit him. Now I see they got this thing where each of you get this stick looking thing and you can shoot real lightning bolts at each other.

They also have this little drone helocopter thing that you can fly right into your neighbors window and see what they are having for dinner. I would imagine the thing can also steal a drumstick right off their table. How much fun would that be! I am sure your neighbors would really like that.

Then you can walk around with this virtual reality thing on your head so you never have to visit the real world. You can have a virtual reality girlfriend, go to a virtual movie, drive a virtual car and I would imagine you could eat all your meals virtually. I amnot sure if it comes with a virtual doctor for when you starve to death. There is even a program where you can watch yourself watching a virtually reality show of yourself doing nothing.

There is virtual ping pong where you hit a ball of light. That seems really good for your muscle tone and overall fitness. I mean you probably have to change the batteries every so often and if you lift a lot of those AA batteries it can get exhausting.

Of course they have a few radios that you can listen to in your shower. Like, how long do you stand in the shower, are you really that filthy that you can't miss one version of Lady GaGa's Papparazi.

There is this Hover board thing that costs $300.00 and it goes 3 1/2mph. Isn't that walking speed? Why would anybody spend $300.00 to go as fast as you can walk? Maybe it's me!

I don't know how many nose hair clippers there are but apparently this is very important. Just last night I woke up from a dream where I was on a tropical Island sipping a Pina Colada with all 12 apostles, Leonardo DiVinci and 2 of the Radio City Rockettes and I realized I didn't clip my nose hairs. Today these things are so powerful that you can put it up your nose and it will clip your ear hairs at the same time. You can't make this stuff up.

Oh this is something I can't live without, right here on page 25. For just $100.00 you can order your own personalized bobble head doll, with your head on it. Wow, how great would that be. You stop at a light and your head nods up and down like you are some sort of an alien nerd weirdo. I can't wait to order that. I wonder if I can get one with hair on it.

This can save you some time, There is this Lady's hair drier that is so powerful that if you open your window while you are using it, it will melt up to 6" of snow on your sidewalk. I am not kidding.

Some of the things seem to stretch the truth just a little like this car vacuum that is so powerful you need to wear earplugs, not because of the noise, but because it may pull the wax right out of your ears and God Forbid if you are wearing earings, or worse, a nose ring.

I really can't see much value in this one. You hang this thing over your toilet bowl, and it lights up the water. I won't comment on that as I don't want to go there and if I saw that in someone's house, I would go to the bathroom in their neighbors house. Wierd.

But my absolute favorite if this refrigerator for a lonely bachelor who wants to feel he is married. Every time you pass it, it says,

"HEY LAZY, THROW OUT THE GARBAGE. TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES. DON'T DRINK OUT OF THE MILK CONTAINER. TAKE OUT THE DOG. FILL MY CAR WITH GAS. RUB MY FEET. GET ME A BEER".

These are all things you can buy now. We didn't have toys and stuff like this when I was a Kid. I remember asking my Dad once to get me a toy and he came out with a piece of wood, a couple of nails and a hammer. I played with that until I got married. Now I can get rid of that talking refrigerator.
 

MadReefer

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We did this with small bottle rockets -
"We used to play this game where you got a ball and you threw it at the other person to see if you could hit him. Now I see they got this thing where each of you get this stick looking thing and you can shoot real lightning bolts at each other."

If this AAA batteries might be interested smaller than AA.....LOL - "There is virtual ping pong where you hit a ball of light. That seems really good for your muscle tone and overall fitness. I mean you probably have to change the batteries every so often and if you lift a lot of those AA batteries it can get exhausting."
 

diana a

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"We used to play this game where you got a ball and you threw it at the other person to see if you could hit him."

Do you know that kids are not allowed to play Dodgeball at school. They are afraid someone will get hurt :rolleyes:

Love reading your posts :D
 

Paul B

NJRC Member
They probably don't have to go to school if it's raining, if rain is predicted, forget snow. If the news is bad, If someone sees a cicada, if there is a chance of rain next Tuesday, if it's foggy or if the teacher thinks she may get a headache or is having a bad hair day. :rolleyes:
 

Paul B

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Beautiful beach walk this morning. We were out late last night and I wasn't sure I was going to go but salt water is in my veins, so I had to go.

(doctors can't understand that seawater thing but they won't let me give blood because the amphipods clog up their catheter. )

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This must be an old beach because I often find Neanderthal items that wash up from 10,000 years ago.

For instance this morning I came across this ceremonial stick formation. It is amazing how good condition it was in.

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Not far from there I found this piece of cave art that must have chipped off a cave as the Neanderthal was making axe heads.

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Looks like some sort of Prehistoric cicada which this being was probably going to have for lunch.

As I walked I surmised that this fellow lived near a Walmart.

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Paul B

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My wife had an almost brand new, $600.00 I phone so she decides to buy a "Waterproof" cell phone case made in China.

She went swimming with it.
Short story. We have to buy a new $600.00 cell phone.
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Paul B

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Beach walk this beautiful morning.
I walked the beach as I do almost every morning and came upon this hat. I doubt it was from one of Columbus ships because it says something about a goat and Long Island and he would have called it The West Indies or Columbus Ohio. :rolleyes:

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This Horseshoe crab was beyond saving but I know some people would have dipped it, then soaked it in coppersafe and methylene blue while trying to feed it store bought Tiger Pods then quarantine it for two months. All that you would have is a very smelly crab.

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It's amazing how fast trees grow on the beach. This wasn't here yesterday.

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I don't remember what I did last night but I missed this party.

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And someone is missing a piece of their dock and bouy

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That's the most unusual set of beach photos I have seen in a long time. It's something quite a bit different.

As for the neon gobies, great fish, but like many gobies they like to hide. I had several different species of gobies in my tank at one time and they all hid. I'd see them, but if I was showing the tank off to someone else they never saw them. I had a similar experience with killifish in my FW tank. Looks like an empty tank at first glance. After experiences like that, I made sure to always have at least a few fish the liked to be out in the open and people could see them.
 

Paul B

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Dave, Mine right now could also double as a produce stand. :D

Mine is 125 gallons,, 6' long
 
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Paul B

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On my morning beach walk/amphipod walking expedition I didn't get many amphipods, but I rescued this guy. I don't know how he ended up on the sand but he was only a few feet from the water and minutes from becoming Sea Gull breakfast.

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Paul B

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I figured these neon gobies were eaten or took a trip as I haven't seen the two of them since I added them a week or two ago. It seems at night, like here, they are all over the place.

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