"Swordfish"

Remember that word!

A blogger friend of mine is a German itinerate attorney who travels the world posting pictures and stories on his blog and does enough lawyering to make ends meet but not a bit more than that. Must be nice, huh?

I help support my friend’s vagabond ways by sending him $10 a month when I remember to click the link on his blog, and he sends me a handwritten post card from his travels when he remembers to do so. I love those postcards! Who gets a postcard anymore, right? It’s worth the ten bucks, I think.

Once my blogger friend even helped me locate the little village in what used to be Ruthenia (now modern-day Ukraine) from where my mother’s parents had emigrated to the United States at the end of the 19th century. How cool is that!

My friend’s name is Andreas Moser who blogs at The Happy Hermit, and today’s post was a departure from his usual offerings with a little observation about the grief in our lives from too many passwords for everything we need to do on our computers:

If you have ever been on the internet, you probably have plenty of passwords. Sometimes, the web pages prompt us to change them, and then, if we don’t use them on a daily basis, we forget about them and are locked out of our accounts.

The Marx Brothers already foresaw that problem in their 1932 movie “Horse Feathers”.

I told my friend that I was stealing his Marx Brothers clip for my own readership.

Andreas,

Thank you for this post.

God, how I needed a bit of levity with all the apocalyptic politics that we’re drowning in over here!

I’m stealing your Marx Bros. clip for my own post today. I’ll link your post as the origin of my lighthearted offering for my 53 subscribers because doing so will make me appear more cosmopolitan. Then I’ll paste my post in your comments section, and you can come comment on my post and make my blog appear to be well read.

Deal?

-Mark

Anyway . . . ENJOY!