Smoke 'em if you got 'em

That gunshot detection program is old news to me, Mr. Beagles, and I don't remember if I mentioned it to your guys or not.  Maybe not, because it seemed a bit dodgy to me; sounds good on paper but may not be very practical.  The efficacy of such gee-whiz ideas are problematic but who knows?  It seems to me that using sophisticated technology to solve what are basically cultural problems is a waste of time and money but that's a rabbit hole I'm going to avoid for the time being.

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We all build our own prisons, it's the same for me and you.
We build them out of deeds we've done and deeds we meant to do.

I had to do some digging but I found this lyric of Mr. Beagles from a song he wrote about his time pulling guard duty in Germany.  It ages well and I'm glad I found it.  I bring this up because I remember Mr. Beagles mentioning his folk singing days, if that's the correct term for it, and one of the news aggregators I read reminded me of him.  Way back when, in the early 60s, there was a group of guys in Minneapolis who were influential in the folk/blues genre but I've never heard of them except for one of the members, "Spider" John Koerner.  I have one of his CDs, bought many years ago and I can't remember what prompted me to get it.  I enjoy it a lot, and maybe Mr. Beagles will enjoy it, too.  More info on those guys is here and I'm looking forward to seeing the documentary.

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Those posts about cigarette smoking are pretty good, Uncle Ken.  Were they recently written?  I like them more than that stuff you wrote years ago, the writing quality is better in my opinion.

The first cigarettes that I smoked on a regular basis were English Ovals, oddly shaped smokes, no filter, but they came in a dandy little box.  At the time I liked pipes and pipe tobacco a lot more; stale pipe smoke wasn't as nasty as stale cigarette (or cigar) smoke, but I was only 16 so what did I know?  Now it's getting on to three years since I quit smoking and I really miss that nicotine; maybe it's a psychological issue and it's time I did some research on the matter.  I even tried chewing tobacco back in the day but the taste isn't very good and the constant need to spit is unappealing to me.  In the words of that great New Wave band, Bohemia, "I wanna cigarette."