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Originally posted by fenistil
Maybe so. But every new process node shrink for, say, x86 or ARM processors or DRAM or whatever brings a bunch of new stuff and isn't just exactly the same as the previous except smaller. We don't really know how far they'll be able to extend NAND flash before it becomes impractical to shrink it any further. Nor do we know if or when phase change memory or memristors or whatever will become a commercially viable replacement. OLED monitors have been just around the corner for quite a while. Voice recognition was almost good enough 15 years ago, has come a long way since then, and is still... almost good enough. Stereoscopic 3D has been the wave of the future since the 1950s.
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Originally posted by Quizzical
I know that's why I said I am not bad-mouthing SSD's and that I am not against SSD and that I am going to buy one myself soon.
Still it is known already that it is not only SLC -> MLC and not TLC that affect reliabliity and propably 'life lenght' of NAND.
Smaller process nodes ALSO decrease it dramatically.
We also know that in DRAM and some of other technologies smaller process nodes don't affect it that dramatically. Of course that does not mean it might not start to affect it in future - but afaik there are no technological or physic reasons that it should. At least not as dramatically how it affect NAND cells.
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I worked on implementing a voice recognition system from an "industry leader" about 15 years ago. Maybe a little less than 15 years ago, but whatever. 15 years ago, they were garbage. We were lucky to be able to use the system as a standard call manager. If I understood how the internet worked back then, I would have kept the recordings of all the people who completely lost their s**t trying to get anything useful out of that system. The other day, I used such a system for something...banking maybe? Don't remember. Anyway, it actually worked. The problem isn't the system understanding what I'm saying any longer, the problem is the people who give the system dumb things to say or provide useless menu options. I still don't think the voice systems will catch on with users. They are good enough, but it's just weird talking to a machine. It's even weirder for me, because I know there are probably a few people clustered around a speaker listening to me talking to the machine.
So...that's the long way around to saying I think you're right. Progress for the sake of progress can be made, but that doesn't mean something is going to be a product that people will want to buy.
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My prediction for near universal SSD adoption will be when you can buy a 256GB drive for $100 retail. I know zip about any technical details that would bring things to that point, but I think that's the point when people can have their OS and most of the apps they'll use on a single drive, and $100 seems to be the price point for wide scale hard drive adoption.
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Not voice recognition and a diffrent but a technology in same area.
Well kinda,depends on how you categorize there things.
Text-to-speech. How far that went in last 10 years.
Propably best text-to-speech on market: http://www.ivona.com/en/
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I like this Text to Speech better - http://www.xtranormal.com/, but not because it's good. :-)
Here's a sample of what it can do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQsaUlBQITI&feature=related
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I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
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The only thing I would add to this thread is this: People who make predictions about storage devices rarely take into account the fact the programs grow in size too. In fact they have a tendancy to grow in size at a rate that is similar to what hardrives/storage devices can hold.
Putting it another way - Just because you only need 200 or 300 gigs of storage today to run the OS and your main programs does not mean that will hold true even 2 or 3 years from now. As an example - MMOS - Age of Conan the download was something like 5 gigs If I remember right - and everyone crapped in their pants that a game could be so big. It was unheard of. Now a typical game is 20 or 30 gigs and growing.
Putting that aside, it seems that SSD's might perhaps be large enough for some mainstream usage as a performance booster. At the current rate of growth though they will not replace actual Hardrives for a long time to come as people still have movies, half a dozen games, pictures, sound files etc to store and they need a lot of storage capacity to do this. Soon movies and shows are going to transition from HD quality to 3D quality - yet another huge jump in file size.
The last point being - most people dont need the performance that an SSD drive can give and therefore will stick with platter technology which is cheaper, more reliable(long term) and holds significantly more. I do see that SSD drives will start to make their way into the market as an addition to the platter drive in much the same way RAM was added as a cache etc. Not so much as a cache per se but as a place to run the OS and such things as quizzical described earlier, however, the average user doesnt have a clue how to set something like that up - so even those uses will be only a small segment of the population I think.
Originally posted by Maelkor
Except that your entire argument isn't true. Vanguard launched around the start of 2007 and required 20 GB. If sizes had doubled every two years since then, we should be looking at games far over 100 GB today. I'm not aware of any games that are anywhere near that.
If you go back further, I used to have Red Alert, which came on two CDs and launched in 1996. I don't know exactly how much space it took, but presumably more than would fit on one CD. So let's call it 1 GB. If you double size every two years, you'd be looking at games taking well over 200 GB today. Do they?
In 1998, I bought a computer with an 8 GB hard drive. I think I used somewhere around half of that capacity. If my capacity needs doubled every two years, then I should need around 1 TB today. Windows reports that I actually have 74.3 GB in use.
But that's just the empirical data. There are theoretical reasons why sizes shouldn't increase so fast in the future, too. In the case of Red Alert, most of the CDs was filled by videos that it would play at various points in missions. Other games did similar things. Most of the size of Civilization II was videos that it would play when you completed a wonder. Most of Age of Empires was an intro video that it would play when you launched the game.
Such cut scenes in games actually take less space now than they did then. If you've got a bunch of 3D assets already made, then it's much easier to simply run a cut scene showing this character here and that one there than it is to create a new video from scratch. Reusing your existing 3D assets also takes virtually no space.
It's not just cut scenes in games. Many things have stopped scaling. Suppose that you bought a 3 TB hard drive today and could somehow magically to the drive everything typed by all of humanity, from forum posts on forums you'll never hear about to text messages and e-mails written by random strangers you'll never have any contact with. How long would it take to fill up the drive? At least several hours, and possibly more than a day.
The actual amount of text that makes its way to your hard drive is such an infinitessimally small fraction of that as to constitute a rounding error in the storage it takes--even as compared to current SSD storage capacities. Anything that is roughly proportional to text typed likewise takes virtually no space--and this includes compiled executable files. Most programs today take essentially no space. The same is true of documents, whether made by a word processor, a spreadsheet, or whatever. Twenty years ago, such things took a substantial amount of space.
It used to be pretty easy to fill up a hard drive with pirated music. Today, only the most zealous pirates can manage a collection that amounts to much more than a rounding error. 1000 hours of .mp3 files adds up to maybe 50 GB, which is still significant on an SSD but basically a rounding error on a hard drive. You could say about the same of pictures: they used to take a ton of space, but now you'd need to be a really zealous photographer to fill much hard drive space with them.
What's left that actually takes a lot of space? Videos still do if recorded rather than procedurally generated (so movies do and cut scenes in games don't) and texture files used by games still do. And that's about it for consumer use. There are still some enterprise or scientific applications that need to store massive amounts of data, but those are irrelevant to most people deciding whether an SSD is enough.
And even videos and game textures won't scale forever. There's no sense in having Blu-Ray movies shot in higher definitions than televisions can show. You mention stereoscopic 3D, but that's a one-time doubling (or less, if they can compress it)--assuming it even catches on, which is unlikely. HD video takes about 5-6 GB per hour, so 500 hours of HD video would fill a 3 TB hard drive. But that will scale in the next decade much like how .mp3s did in the past. 3 TB is a lot today, but a decade from now, it may well be basically a rounding error on a hard drive and substantial but manageable on an SSD. And that's assuming that you actually need 500 GB of HD videos, which most people don't.
As for game textures, you can make arbitrarily high definition textures, but this has sharply diminishing returns. Most of the game, a game doesn't even use the full texture; it mipmaps it down to use a much lower resolution version. Only when an object is up close do you see the full resolution. And only when it's close enough to magnify the texture substantially would a higher resolution actually be used.
You can also make more textures for a game, with each the same resolution as before. But that means more work to create the game. If you want to have twice as many textures, it costs twice as much to make them. That can't double every two years for long.
Both game texture resolutions and video resolutions can make good use of scaling as monitor and television resolutions increase. But this happens very slowly. Let's estimate very high and assume that 2560x1600 is the standard resolution today. If you want to use 1920x1080 instead, cut all the subsequent numbers of pixels in half. If it scaled by something analogus to Moore's Law, then 1280x800 would have been the standard four years ago. But that was tiny four years ago. Eight years ago, 640x400 would have been the standard. I'm not sure if Windows XP is even usable at that low of resolutions. Go back in time 24 years and you'd have a resolution of 40x25. For comparison, the NES that launched years earlier used a resolution of 256x240. Go back to when the Atari 2600 launched in 1977, and it "should" have had a resolution a little smaller than 6x4, as opposed to the 192x160 that it had in the real world.
Capacities needed do tend to increase a little as time passes. Much of it is due to people finding creative ways to be less efficient, but some of the bloat does get worthwhile uses. But the needed capacities increase a lot more slowly than hard drive and SSD capacities are increasing.
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^- thats an insane amount of text lol but im kinda curious if you think SSD will become the new HDD for pcs or if HDD will last until its replaced by a more flash driven system outside of the SSD chain?
oh and RA1 took about 400mbs of space. (if you try to install it on win7 you have to manually copy it off the cd lol </3 installer)
and games like The Sims can get up to 100gbs of space after you install every single pack for it and start adding in mods. which is why i kinda wonder if its more prudent to focus on SSD for pc replacements or still rely on the old HDD (i personally still use HDD as SSD was not as main stream or cheap as it is now when i built my pc)
i see SSD more of a tablet/cellphone tech system then really PC based though, i know OS usage is better on a SDD over hdd but gaming is better on hdd is it not? or has that changed in the last few years that SDD has evolved??
Programs and data get bigger - true.
But compression also gets better. Audio used to be very large, in .WAV or raw format. MP3 drastically reduced the file size (without drastically affecting audio quality). H.264/MP4 are doing the same thing for video now. Many games are recording cutscenes as in-game rendered, rather than CGI, which cuts down dramatically on the size of those files.
So far, it's been relatively stagnate in the past 6-7 years, which is unusual across computing history (particularly when looking at Moore's Law), but there have been some external influences to data size rather than just available storage space - mainly the fact that more and more data is being streamed dynamically now than being statically stored.
The real driver for this, however, isn't so much storage space. Storage space is cheap, even relatively so on SSDs. The real driver is transmission, and the rise in cloud/online services, which have really driven the push to continue to minimize data size. If a music/video/data file is XXX T/G/M/kbytes, and XXX thousand people download it, or XXX thousand people per day stream it - that bandwidth adds up fast, and unlike storage space, isn't always cached locally or permanently.
SSD's aren't necessarily PC's future, but then again, PC's are necessarily the future of computing.
There will always be a niche for a desktop PC - be it SOHO servers or workstations or PC gaming rigs or whatever. And some of those PC's will always be better served by traditional hard drives (mainly those requiring larger-than-typical amounts of storage). But I think most PC's would be best served by an SSD (especially when paired with a traditional hard drive as a bulk storage device), and that applies to most PC's sold or used today.
There was a big push early in computing history to go with diskless computing and dumb terminals (large companies had main frames, and they wanted dumb terminals just to connect up to those big expensive computers). That notion comes back every now and then (Windows Terminal Services/Remote Desktop back in late 90's/early 2k's, "Cloud Computing" and virtualization now). These types of computers don't necessarily require any local storage at all - they can run entirely off the network, including network booting - and that technology has been around for decades.
So I don't think that hard drive technology is necessarily a driver of PC futures. SSDs are a very nice advance in computing hardware, and probably the single most impactful piece of technology to come along in the past 10 years in terms of difference it makes on the computing experience. But I dont think it will define what anyone is capable of doing with a PC - at least not in the way that some things like bitmapping, the GUI, internet access, or mouse have.
Originally posted by Ridelynn
Many games are recording cutscenes as in-game rendered, rather than CGI, which cuts down dramatically on the size of those files.
Yeah, but that's not that important anymore. With current compression methods for video files, size of storage and that cinematics are short - it does not play as big role as in past.
In past cinematics were sometimes bigger that rest or game. Nowadays? You much FULL HD CGi is gonna take?
Let'e evan assume that combined lenght of all CGI's are 10 minutes, which almost never happen. How much h264 or even divx/xvid 10 minute CGI even with relatively high bit rate and in full hd gonna take? 500 mb? Hell make it even 1gb.
Considering most so called 'big' titles nowadays take 10-25 gb, that's not much.
Besides games used in-game rendered cutscenes almost since beggining. There was a game called Flashback and it's intro was made on game engine using many of in-game assets. It is very old game.
Some other newer but still old games? Baldur's Gate. Ok it had CGI intro, but almos all in-game cutscenes are on in-game engine.
Warcraft 3 ? Same thing. Many CGI but even more in-game engine cutscenes. so on so on
It is not new thing.
Let's say you have a 10 min CGI in an MMO. And lets say it's 1G in size.
Your user downloads that from the patch server. You have 100,000 users that do so.
That's 100,000 x 1G = 100T of bandwidth you just had to pay for.
Now lets say that same 10min cutscene is done using the in-game engine. Now it's down to 10M of procedural calls using the remainder of models and textures that are already packaged with the game for gameplay.
That's two orders of magnitude less. That's a big deal.
The amount of storage space on your hard drive - I argue that is more or less inconsequential. Rather you take up an extra 990M or not, in the day of 1T+ hard drives, is neither here nor there. It's not even that relevent on more limiting SSDs. But you can see in streaming/patch servers/bandwidth, with digital distribution and streaming becoming the norm rather than the exception, that it makes a huge deal.
It doesn't have to be a new technology to be good. CGI cutscenes make a big splash back when most people didn't have dedicated 3D cards, and they looked fantastic compared to in-game rendered material (FF VII comes to mind), and the only real limit was file storage space (how much room we had on the distribution media). Now, we have 3D capability that rivals what CG renders can perform, in real time. So we've come back around.
Originally posted by Ridelynn
The 146GB Cheetas were about 90US, today they cost less than 60...
Here's the cheapest SAS 15k Cheetah I can find new on Newegg.
If your going to tout the benefits of 1G of RAM on your RAID controller, then it becomes relevant to the discussion. Onboard RAID controllers are mostly software, and rarely have dedicated cache.
The 15K.5 are around 50-60US today :)
Originally posted by DOGMA1138
The small capacity ones are going to be small platters, and that means poor sequential performance. They'd likely lose badly in sequential read and write performance to even a simple 7200 RPM hard drive of modern platter capacities. The 15K hard drives would probably still get you good IOPS for a hard drive, but they're on clearance for a reason.
nope just an older gen, most if not all of the 15K.7 models these days come with encryption/fips level encryption built in thats why their price tag is what it is.
For simmilar capcities they use the same number of plates with the same density, the 7th gen just goes upto higher capacities.
Originally posted by DOGMA1138
That's not how it works. You can't get a 74 GB drive from an integer number of 500 GB platters.
The platters that they make today have much larger capacities than those they made several years ago. That means that you pass over much more data in a single revolution of a platter. Sequential read and write speeds are just rotation speed times how much data you get per rotation.
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Re Quizzical response - rather than replying to that lenghty reply and huge wall of text ...
I am not totally disagreeing with what you are saying. My main point is only that we can not predict too far into the future what will happen technology wise. We have a pretty good idea 2 to 3 years out as the development cycle takes a while to ramp things up from research to production, however, unless something works today in an economical fashion I do not try to extrapolate that refinement will automatically make that same techonology the next generation technology that finnaly replaces what currently exists. It might do so - but it might not if something else comes along( Either a new tech or the old tech has a new breakthrough making it cheap enough and fast enough to keep going as the mainstay).
I am not sure if what I am saying is making sense but it boils down to this - If a particular setup works for me today - in price versus performance and what I can actually afford then I buy it (kind of obvious I know) - otherwise I buy whatever has the best price versus performance that I can afford at that given moment in time. I do not worry about what might happen a year from now or two years from now techonologically. I only consider if something new is right around the corner(1 to 3 months) that might affect that equation.
In short - one year ago the cost of SSD drives versus the performance and the size of the drives and what they could do just didnt balance out. You could pay large amounts of money for very little actual performance gain ( a few seconds faster OS load time - perhaps slightly higher framerate in games etc). I have not looked specifically at the drives today - however - the descriptions in this thread make me think it might be worth it to get an inexpensive drive as the OS partition with perhaps a few heavily used programs and still use a platter drive for the main data storage - especially as my income has increased significantly over the last few years.
I do not believe however, that these drives will replace my platter based drives completely for the forseeable future. I just dont think they will come down in price per gigabyte enough to compete for raw data storage over a fast platter drive. Then again with cloud computing and storage - who knows. We might end up with our cell phone as a dockable unit that handles all of our local functions allowing us to connect to the cloud and dock to a full screen/keyboard type setup. Then again we could see glasses which project a 3d image for us to interact with and most of the computing taking place again in cloud servers.
There are so many possibilities and directions that computing could go from this point that trying to predict things too far out is just not possible - So I only worry about what is actually available today - right now and if I need to upgrade or want to upgrade I base my decision only on that. I figure I upgrade every two to three years in any case so - if I miss a technology today I will get it the next go around.
Anyways this thread has been a good read all the way around.
Whether to ditch your hard drive in favor of an SSD-only setup depends tremendously on how much storage you need. If 120 GB is plenty for you, then there's not much reason to get a hard drive. If you need 1 TB, then you'll probably still need a hard drive for years to come.
Also, returning to the original point, the SSD in question is officially rated for only 1000 write cycles. That's down from about 3000-5000 for most other recent SSDs, and 10000 for a lot of older ones.
On the one hand, double the capacity makes up for half as many write cycles per cell, giving you the same total lifetime writes. And controllers have certainly gotten better about write amplification. On the other, a product whose write endurance for consumer use may be more naturally measured in years rather than decades may give some people pause.


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The Summer of 2013 was a very busy summer for the scouts of Troop 2 "The Deuce" chartered by Knightsville Baptist Church. On May 1st a contingent of scouts traveled to the Statehouse in Columbia, SC to receive a resolution declaring May 2013 as Bladder Cancer Awareness month throughout South Carolina. Local legislators, at the urging of Scout Joe Justis, introduced the resolution in honor of Joe's late grandmother who died of the disease in January. Later that week the scouts held a Bladder Cancer Awareness rally and BBQ, raising funds for Bladder Cancer research and troop supplies. Several weeks later, a small group of scouts travelled to Awendaw, SC and hiked 20 miles of the Palmetto trail in one day as an effort to "scout out" the trail for a future planned 50 mile hike at the end of the year.
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Southern Vermont College student recognized for involvementMay 07,2013SVC student wins award
BENNINGTON Southern Vermont College student Hanifah Presley received the Engaged Student Award from the Vermont Campus Compact at the 2013 Engaged Campus Forum last month.
The campus compact is a consortium of Vermonts colleges and universities committed to civic engagement.
Presley, of Brooklyn, N.Y., received the award after a significant investment of time and energy in activities that promote and support engagement at Southern Vermont among her peers.
Since 2011, Presley has been active in MooseCorps, a community service club that provides service opportunities for the entire college community, worked many hours at One World Conservation Center in Bennington and sold Candy Grams to raise funds for the American Heart Association.
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I think time may be running out on the Dalton era.
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Dunlap has been great today
Nice play by Burfict.
Choo got it, dude.
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When Dalton overthrows it, boy does he ever.
Choo got it, dude.
Green gave up on that route. Not sure what's going on but he hasn't seemed like himself this year.
Still can't believe we got Gilberry for next to nothing.
Choo got it, dude.
Offsides but we got to Brady. Keep hitting him and it gets in his head.
Explosive run by Bernard there. He needs to see more of the ball.
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Nice throw by Dalton followed by a good burst by Gio. I wish they would keep it rolling and go some no huddle. This team needs to play fast.
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Huge throw followed by a big run. Nice!
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EAST BEND - Forbush fell behind early to a veteran West Stokes squad and dropped its home opener Friday night in East Bend.
The Wildcats jumped out to a quick 8-1 lead less than two minutes into the contest and cruised to an 85-48 victory to spoil the Falcons' first home game of the year.
"They're good, they're real good. I was looking to see if we could get better individually and as a team," head coach Jeff Weisner said. "They do all the little things so well, that's where want to be. We want to do those little things like they do. Playing teams like that is the only way we can get better heading into conference."
The athletic Wildcats pushed the lead out to 14-4 at the 5:31 mark and never looked back. West extended the advantage out to 27-11 after one quarter of play and lead 47-27 at the break.
While the game was getting out of reach, Weisner challenged his team to keep playing and not give up, something that doomed Falcons at the Mt. Airy Thanksgiving Tournament last weekend.
"The message was after playing at Mt. Airy last week was about effort and not quitting; you have to play for 32 minutes no matter the score," he explained. "We're still a young team and we're trying to get better."
Forbush responded and hung tough in the second half, despite what the scoreboard read.
Sharpshooter Mason Doub led the charge, knocking down a trey in each quarter and finishing with 16 points on the night. Doub added four blocks, including a rejection on a dunk attempt. Barrett Hennings added 13 points on the night, while Todd Patterson tacked on 10 points in the paint.
"I hate losing, but we can take away some good things for this game," Weisner added.
After a brutal non-conference schedule, Forbush kicks off Mountain Valley Conference play Tuesday night against East Wilkes in Ronda.
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Since 1996 more than 8,000 parents in Charleston County have enrolled their children in the classes. The Junior Cotillion makes a positive impact on the Charleston community socially and economically as the children graduate from the program as ambassadors and beneficiaries of good manners.
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Photo By Carlos Antonio Rios/Houston ChronicleTexas leads the nation's death penalty states in executions. Look back at notorious death penalty cases from the Houston area.
Photo By AFP/Getty ImagesEdgar Tamayo Arias, 46, was put to death on Jan. 22 for the 1994 murder of Houston police officer Guy Gaddis. The Mexican man's case rallied supporters in his homeland and the U.S. Advocates say his right to contact his consulate was violated.
Photo By HOPDKimberly McCarthy was convicted in the 1997 robbery and killing of her elderly neighbor. In June, she became Texas' 500th execution since the state resumed capital punishment in 1982.
Photo By APIn this Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, photo, George Rivas speaks about his part in the crime rampage by the Texas Seven from death row in the Allan Polunsky Unit prison in Livingston, Texas. On Dec. 13, 2000, Rivas' gang overpowered workers at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Connally Unit prison in Kenedy and stolThe leader of the fugitive gang known as the "Texas 7" was executed February 29, 2012 for killing a suburban Dallas police officer during a robbery 11 years before after organizing and pulling off Texas' biggest prison break.
Last words: "Yes, I do. First of all for the Aubrey Hawkins family, I do apologize for everything that happened. Not because I am here, but for closure in your hearts. I really believe that you deserve that. To my wife, Cheri, I am so grateful you're in my life. I love you so dearly. Thank you to my sister and dear friend Katherine Cox, my son and family, friends and family. I love you so dearly. To my friends, all the guys on the row, you have my courtesy and respect. Thank you to the people involved and to the courtesy of the officers. I am grateful for everything in my life. To my wife, take care of yourself. I will be waiting for you. I love you. God Bless. I am ready to go"
Photo By Ben DeSoto/Houston ChronicleCantu was described as the leader of small gang known as the Black and Whites. On June 24, 1993, the group was conducting a fight-filled initiation ceremony for a prospective member across from T.C. Jester Park when Ertman, 14, and Pena, 16, crossed their paths while taking a shortcut home. The girls were hurrying along railroad tracks in the dark in order to get home by their curfew. They were spotted by the group, pulled off the tracks and taken into nearby woods where they were sexually assaulted. When the attackers were finished, the girls were taken deeper into the woods where, at Cantu's urging, they were beaten, strangled and stomped to death. This offender declined to make a last statement.
Photo By Bruce W. Moore/For the ChronicleAt about 2 a.m. Sept. 5, 1990, Rodriguez and his cousin, James Gonzales, 17, wanted to live out "some of that movie stuff." As they drove around, another motorist somehow angered Rodriguez and he fired several rounds at his car. By the time they pulled beside Gee's Honda at a Meyerland-area intersection, James Gonzales' Oldsmobile was almost out of gas. Gee was alone in her car — an ideal target. Gonzales leaned back in his passenger seat as Rodriguez pointed his stepfather's rifle at the woman. He meant to shoot her shoulder, but shot her in the temple, he said in his confession. Rodriguez shoved Gee's body onto the street and sped away in her car, which was covered in blood and brain matter. Last words: "First of all, you have every right to hate me and every right to want to see this. To you and to my family, you don't deserve to see this. I wasn't going to apologize by letter, I wanted to apologize face to face. None of this should have happened. It is the right thing to do. I have a good family, just like you are a good family. I hope that any bitterness that you have because of what I did, I hope you can learn to forgive. I asked my family to contact you, because they did no wrong. I am responsible and I am sorry to you all. Thank you all my Jefe (dad), my brothers, Maria and my Grandfather. Thank you, we will see each other again. Thank you, Lord Jesus receive my spirit."
Photo By Ben DeSoto/Houston ChronicleOn June 24, 1993, O'Brien took part in the brutal gang rapes and murders of Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Peña, 16, after the girls stumbled into a drunken midnight gang initiation rite in T.C. Jester Park.
Last words: "I do. I am sorry. I have always been sorry. It is the worst mistake that I ever made in my whole life. Not because I am here, but because of what I did and I hurt a lot of people - you, and my family. I am sorry; I have always been sorry. I am sorry. You look after each other. I love you all. Be there for one another. Alright. But I am sorry; very sorry. I love you too. Alright."
Photo By D Fahleson/Houston ChronicleAngel Maturino Resendiz, the serial killer who claimed he was half-man, half-angel and could not be killed, was executed for the December 1998 murder of West University Place physician Claudia Benton. Maturino Resendiz, 46, who killed as many as 14 people as he criss-crossed the nation by rail and in the process came to be known as the "Railroad Killer" was the 13th person to be executed in Texas this year.
Last words: "Yes sir. I want to ask if it is in your heart to forgive me. You don't have to. I know I allowed the devil to rule my life. I just ask you to forgive me and ask the Lord to forgive me for allowing the devil to deceive me. I thank God for having patience with me. I don't deserve to cause you pain. You did not deserve this. I deserve what I am getting."
Photo By Carlos Javier Sanchez/Houston ChronicleGreen was executed for the shooting deaths of Helen O'Sullivan, 63, and Edward Perry Haden, 72.
Last words: "Yes I do. To my family, to my friends, and people who have accepted me for being the person that I am. To the Sullivan and Hayden families, I do not come here with the intention to make myself out to be a person that I am not. I never claimed to be the best person. I am not the best father, the best son, or the best friend in the world. I did the best I could with what I had. I come with no hate in my heart or bitterness. To my family and to you people, I can only apologize for all the pain I caused you. May God forgive us on this day. I am ready when you are."
Photo By AnonymousCameron Todd Willingham, 36, was executed in 2004, convicted of murdering the youngsters in a deliberately set 1991 Christmas-season fire at his Corsicana home. Willingham consistently protested his innocence, however, and three expert reviews of fire investigations that contributed to his conviction agreed that evidence at the gutted house was misinterpreted.
Last words: "Yeah. The only statement I want to make is that I am an innocent man - convicted of a crime I did not commit. I have been persecuted for 12 years for something I did not do. From God's dust I came and to dust I will return - so the earth shall become my throne. I gotta go, road dog. I love you Gabby. (Remaining portion of statement omitted due to profanity.)"
Photo By Mike Graczyk/APRecruited by a middle man, Janecka was the "hit man" who erased Markham Duff-Smith's four immediate family members in return for a few thousand dollars, according to testimony. The scheme was designed for Duff-Smith, an investor, to inherit the bulk of his family's $800,000 estate.
Last words: "First of all, I want to say God bless everyone here today. For many years I have done things my way, which caused a lot of pain to me, my family and many others. Today I have come to realize that for peace and happiness, one has to do things God's way. I want to thank my family for their support. I love you. I am taking you with me. You all stay strong. I love you. I also want to say thanks to the Chaplains who I have met through the years and who have brought me a long way. And I cherish you as my family and at this time...oh, Ken, my little son, I am coming to see you. Oh Lord, into your hands I commit my spirit. Thy will be done."
Photo By unknownOn July 20, 1992, hours after being fired from the latest in a string of failed jobs, he stabbed and slashed 7-year-old Kynara Carreiro 23 times, five times in the face. Kristin Wiley, her 10-year-old friend, was stabbed 18 times. Both were stabbed in the eyes. Neither girl was sexually assaulted. Mays, who sometimes entertained children as Uh-Oh the Clown, blamed his actions on a bad day.
Last words: "I would like to say a final prayer: Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you today, Lord, and thank You for this opportunity to be with You in paradise. I ask You for forgiveness for the ones that need to be forgiven. Dear Lord, deliver us from evil and give us the comfort and peace and joy that we need. Dear Lord, I ask You right now to be with each of the witnesses and lift them up and be on solid ground. Let them know what has gone on and may we all see each other again. Amen. I would like to thank each witness: Ms. Cox, Whiteside, Reed, Scott, and Chad. I am going to go and see Jesus tonight and reserve a special place for each one of you. You all have been there when no one else was. Thank you for all of your love and support. Just know that I am ready to go. You all know what I've gone through. I am going to a better place with the Lord. I'm mad for one reason, that I'm leaving you behind, when I am going to a better place. Y'all still have to go through this hell on earth. Just remember the good things and not the bad. You are all loved and respected. Warden, just give me parole and let me go home to be with the Lord."
Photo By D. Fahleson/HOUSTON CHRONICLEFive bodies -- an entire family save one -- lay inside the modest Spring Branch home, killed by fire and human hand. Each was bound with plastic zip cords, the same used to tie down hoses or handcuff prisoners. Their heads were covered with plastic trash bags taped tightly around the neck. Two were fortunate enough to die before the fire began to rage. Three were not.
Last words: "I'm innocent. I had nothing to do with my family's murders. I want to thank everyone who has supported me. I hope they continue to fight. You know who you are. That's all. Thank you, Warden."
Photo By APGary Graham, also known as Shaka Sankofa, who was executed June 22, 2000 for robbing and killing a man in 1981.
Last words: "I would like to say that I did not kill Bobby Lambert. That I'm an innocent black man that is being murdered. This is a lynching that is happening in America tonight. There's overwhelming and compelling evidence of my defense that has never been heard in any court of America. What is happening here is an outrage for any civilized country to anybody anywhere to look at what's happening here is wrong. I thank all of the people that have rallied to my cause. They've been standing in support of me. Who have finished with me. I say to Mr. Lambert's family, I did not kill Bobby Lambert. You are pursuing the execution of an innocent man. I want to express my sincere thanks to all of ya'll. We must continue to move forward and do everything we can to outlaw legal lynching in America. We must continue to stay strong all around the world, and people must come together to stop the systematic killing of poor and innocent black people. We must continue to stand together in unity and to demand a moratorium on all executions. We must not let this murder/lynching be forgotten tonight, my brothers. We must take it to the nation. We must keep our faith. We must go forward. We recognize that many leaders have died. Malcom X, Martin Luther King, and others who stood up for what was right. They stood up for what was just. We must, you must brothers, that's why I have called you today. You must carry on that condition. What is here is just a lynching that is taking place. But they're going to keep on lynching us for the next 100 years, if you do not carry on that tradition, and that period of resistance. We will prevail. We may loose this battle, but we will win the war. This death, this lynching will be avenged. It will be avenged, it must be avenged. The people must avenge this murder. So my brothers, all of ya'll stay strong."
Photo By APKarla Faye Tucker was executed for the 1983 pick-ax slaying of a Houston man.
Last words: "Yes sir, I would like to say to all of you – the Thornton family and Jerry Dean's family that I am so sorry. I hope God will give you peace with this. Baby, I love you. Ron, give Peggy a hug for me. Everybody has been so good to me. I love all of you very much. I am going to be face to face with Jesus now. Warden Baggett, thank all of you so much. You have been so good to me. I love all of you very much. I will see you all when you get there. I will wait for you."
Photo By ED KOLENOVSKY/APTimothy O'Bryan, and 8-year-old Deer Park boy, died Oct. 31, 1974, after eating trick-or-treat candy laced with cyanide. Within days, his father, Ronald Clark O'Bryan, stood accused of staging the crime as part of a life insurance scheme. The case horrified parents and helped usher in an era in which carefree costumed trick-or-treating has given way to X-rayed candy bags and tightly controlled Halloween parties and festivals.
Last words: "What is about to transpire in a few moments is wrong! However, we as human beings do make mistakes and errors. This execution is one of those wrongs yet doesn't mean our whole system of justice is wrong. Therefore, I would forgive all who have taken part in any way in my death. Also, to anyone I have offended in any way during my 39 years, I pray and ask your forgiveness, just as I forgive anyone who offended me in any way. And I pray and ask God's forgiveness for all of us respectively as human beings. To my loved ones, I extend my undying love. To those close to me, know in your hearts I love you one and all. God bless you all and may God's best blessings be always yours. Ronald C. O'Bryan P.S. During my time here, I have been treated well by all T.D.C. personnel."
AUSTIN - Two condemned Texas killers on Tuesday filed suit in Houston federal court seeking to block their upcoming executions, arguing that state officials' refusal to disclose details about the lethal drugs violates their constitutional rights.
In the suit, Tommy Lynn Sells and Ramiro Hernandez Llanas argued that prison officials last week stalled the disclosure of the drug information - including the names of suppliers, lot numbers and information about testing for purity, among other details - in refusing to comply with a Travis County state district court's decision that the information should made available to the convict's attorneys under a confidentiality order, but not made public.
Prison officials quickly asked the 3rd Court of Appeals to block that order and, when they refused, the state appealed to the Texas Supreme Court.
In the new filing, Houston attorney Jonathan Ross and Philadelphia attorney Maurie Levin said several courts and rulings by the Texas attorney general have previously determined that details about the execution drugs the state uses have to be made public. The state is now using so-called "compounding" pharmacies to manufacture the lethal drugs, and those pharmacies are not regulated as closely as other drug-manufacturing plants.
In other states, executions carried out with compounded drugs have had problems and the Texas convicts have the right to know the purity and other details of the drugs being used, the suit alleges.
Sells is scheduled to be executed Thursday, and Llanas is slated for execution April 9.
Sells, 49, a drifter originally from Tennessee, faces execution for the December 1999 stabbing death of 13-year-old Kaylene Harris in Del Rio. He was suspected of killing at least eight other people in New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Kentucky and Texas between 1980 and 1999.
Llanas, 44, a Mexican citizen, was sentenced to death for the October 1997 beating death of Kerrville rancher Glen Lich, who was killed with a crowbar. Authorities said Llanas had worked for Lich. Prison records show Hernandez also fatally stabbed a jailer while awaiting trial.
No hearing has been set yet in the Houston suit.


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Goalie Cole Kaestner took a slap shot to the head a week before Christmas during a practice session with his youth team Compuware.
The concussion forced Cole, 14, to take it easy over the holidays, but with enough rest he should be up and playing for his only home game Jan. 4 at the Winter Chill Outdoor Hockey Festival, said his mother, Sarah Kaestner of Whitehouse.
"It was horrible. He couldn't do much of anything. It affected his vision," his mom said of the hit Cole took on Dec. 20. "After a week with no symptoms, he should be good to go."
Cole's team is one of more than 100 teams who will participate during two weekends – Jan. 3-5 and 10-12 – in the fifth annual hockey tournament at the outdoor Ottawa Park Ice Rink in Toledo.
"This event is so popular for our client base, we've been sold out since July," said organizer David Austin of Playmaker Sports USA. "We have 58 games scheduled over the two weekends and over 100 different teams from Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and West Pennsylvania. This year, it's pretty amazing.
"With an average roster of 15 to 18 players on a team, that's 1,800 kids [ages 10-18] coming to Toledo for no other reason than to play a hockey game."
That number doesn't include parents, siblings and other spectators. Austin estimated that more than 10,000 people "coming and going" will crowd the rink over the two-weekend event.
"Teams come early. Teams stay late. They tailgate," Austin said. "It's a wonderful atmosphere. There might be 200 people (at a time) watching the game."
Teams typically pay $350-400 to play a game, Austin said, most of which goes toward infrastructure. Playmaker Sports will erect tents for 10 outdoor, heated locker rooms because Ottawa Park rink has only one locker room.
Teams are matched up based on skill level for a competitive balance, Austin said. The match-ups have produced some "neat" pairings like a Southern Ohio team competing against a Western Michigan team, Austin said.
A few local teams are competing, including the Toledo Cherokee and Sylvania North Stars.
Mike Bugert, the manager of a Sylvania North Stars bantam team for 13-year-olds, said his team is paired up with Compuware team out of Plymouth, Mich., for what should be a great nighttime game.
"Over the years we've played [Compuware]," Bugert said. "It will be a good match-up."
The outdoor ice rink at 2200 W. Bancroft St. is the only open air ice rink in Northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan, according to its website. It has a "chiller," a Zamboni and lights for nighttime skating. Spectators can sit outside or inside and buy food and drink from a concession stand.
"This festival will celebrate hockey in its purest form: outside, in the elements, with plenty of fun and memories for the players," Austin's website states. "Teams can sign up to play one game or two on the regulation-size outdoor rink, complete with boards, glass and lights."
The outdoor rink provides a more traditional form of hockey that parents, players and organizers alike say is more enjoyable than indoor hockey.
"It's cool because the kids have a good time with [the tournament] and the setting is more intimate," Sarah Kaestner said. "We are right on top of the players. We can hear them talking. It was pretty cool, to be outside…the hot chocolate… the cold…it's really cool."
"It's definitely a different experience to play outdoors," Bugert said. "It's just really a lot of fun."
Austin said the outdoor experience brings him back to his childhood. Youth players today are more structured in their play, he said, and he wants to give them the outdoor experience he had with the ice beneath their skates, the wind in their face and the sky overhead.
"The greatest thing about this event is watching the faces of kids who come off the ice," Austin said. "Their looks are exactly the same, like, that was the coolest thing ever. They love every minute of it. Teams are there every single year who wouldn't miss it."
Playing outdoors does pose some risks. Last year, a warming trend cut down the event to one weekend, Austin said.
"This is something we love to do but at same time it's our biggest headache because the one thing we cannot control is the weather," he said. "If we get a warm trend — high 40s to low 50s — then we can't play and have to disappoint a lot of people."
This year, a weather forecast for the Jan. 3-5 weekend shows an average temperature of 24 degrees, low enough to keep everyone happy.
As coaches and players prepared for the tournament, many said their eyes would be turned to Ann Arbor's Big House, where the Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs faced off in the NHL's annual outdoor game on Jan. 1.
"It's a huge hockey day," Austin said.
"I'm sure we'll be watching," Bugert said.
"We'll absolutely be watching," Sarah Kaestner said. "It's our family's New Year's day tradition."
A few days after the accident, Cole said he was feeling better – a few more days of rest and he would be ready to hit the ice.
"You just get more excited [to play in the tournament]," Cole said. "You look forward to it. It's different. You only get to do it once a year."
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A blue straggler is a star that has an anomalous blue color and appears to be disconnected from those stars that surround it.
But this is not a story about astronomy.
Bailey Miller is "disconnected" from the cluster of her rural south Texas family. She has never quite fit in and now in her early 30s, she finds herself struggling with inner turmoil and a series of bad choices in her life.
Bailey's drinking too much (even for a member of her family), has a penchant to eat spoonfuls of Cool Whip, works in a job that bores her beyond description and can't keep a relationship longer than it takes for milk to expire in her fridge.
Even with the help of her two outspoken friends, Texas gal Idamarie and her quirky college pal Rudy, she's having a hard time.
So she packs up her Honda and heads out of Texas in search of herself and answers to secrets from her great-grandmother's past. The novel takes readers on a journey from San Antonio, Texas, to a small mountain town in Colorado and back again, as Bailey uncovers not only the secrets of her great-grandmother's life, but also some painful secrets of her own. All while finding love along the way.
If you have ever wondered why you got stuck with the family you did, what you are doing with your job and your life, or had a sudden desire to run off to the mountains, sit back and join Bailey for this laugh-out-loud, yet poignant ride.
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Excerpt from Blue Straggler:
Chapter 1
On my kitchen wall hangs a framed photograph of my brother and me astride a black mechanical bull at Gilley's near Houston. I'm twelve and wearing pigtails; Mike's just turned eight. Our lips are stained deep purple from sno-cones my father bought roadside on Interstate 10. Mike's grinning for the camera, of course, and holding an empty beer bottle he picked up like a souvenir. I'm trying my best to follow my mother's orders—no blinking, pretend we like each other, sit up straight on Mr. Bull. But despite my extra-wide-open eyes and fixed smile, my right hand rests on my hip, impatient. The other's discreetly tugging at the edge of my yellow terrycloth shorts.
For many of my adult years, I have believed several things are evident from this picture. Apparently, awareness of sufficient thigh coverage begins at an early age in my family, as does the penchant to have at least one beer bottle in our hands at all times. It also seems my parents considered a famous redneck bar a viable summer vacation option, and the mechanical bull a pleasant alternative to Six Flags. All of which has led me to understand my family might be a few steps to the left of normal. Or, as my wise friend Idamarie puts it, several cups of sugar short of a pitcher of iced tea.
These days, though, I often speculate that a more perceptive person than me might've long ago examined the photo with greater care, looking beyond the bull, so to speak, and studying the image as a kind of strange South Texas anthropology artifact. Cracking it open like a Hill Country pecan and picking apart its meaning. Separating the nut from the broken bits of shell.
And perhaps that same individual, after the thorough analysis, might've even had the foresight to look me right in the eye and say, "Bailey, honey—that's how perceptive people talk in Texas—you're gonna wake up one day, sometime after your 30th birthday, still in possession of at least two items of unfashionable terrycloth clothing and a Gilley's keychain, and wonder just who you are, how you got here, and where the hell you're headed."
But I swear on the Alamo, and that's fairly sacred here, it's all been a huge surprise to me.
The truth is, my present storm of high-quality inner turmoil essentially snuck up on me one day a few months ago, for reasons I've yet to determine. (I did, however, blame a rather greasy order of jalapeno-chili-cheese fries for a short period of time.)
Ever since then I've been knee-deep in a state of mind I like to compare on a grander scale to what my grandmother must feel as she's waiting for her bingo numbers to be called. Entire hours of monotony, crossbred with anxiety. And not in a good way.
Idamarie tells me the bingo analogy is wearing about as thin as her dead husband's handkerchiefs she still uses for dusting. I no longer question her on issues such as this, mostly because she's got a temper and 40 years on me.
So, in lieu of bingo references, I recently decided to jump head-first into psychotherapy and grant my condition a separate identity all its own. Thereby distancing it from my true self. This concept was suggested by my therapist, who I should also mention fell asleep during one of my appointments and who believes his poodle is the reincarnation of Liberace.
I've met the poodle, by the way. He does have a definite flamboyance to him.
Regardless of how unconventional it may sound, I gave the identity idea some real thought. Not entirely sober thought, I'll admit, but that's not important here.
Her name?
Short for Recurring, Obstinate Dread and Anguish.
My mother and various other people can accuse me of exaggeration all they want. It feels right. Plus, I now enjoy making statements like, "Sorry, RODA's feeling testy today." Or, "RODA fancies the lights off, please." My other good friend Rudy hums the theme song to Mary Tyler Moore when I mention her. Not many people our age know that song.
Unfortunately, RODA's with me again this morning as I begin my day much like I have every other for some time now—sitting at my favorite table in Idamarie's downtown San Antonio café and searching for relief, or deep personal insight, or a smidgen of both. Yesterday I read Self-Hypnosis for Dummies. Today I'm creating a hand-drawn replica of the Gilley's photo on a paper placemat. I choose to take a few liberties, though, such as adding stylish cowgirl boots to my attire and portraying my brother's head as large and alien-like. Some things deserve a revisionist perspective.
Idamarie squeezes past me with two plates of eggs, sausage and gravy for a nearby table, and the smell of fresh sage and real butter fills the small dining area. I take a sip from my second cup of coffee and decide to give up on my artwork. A mechanical bull is not an easy thing to illustrate with stick figures.
I begin to hunt for the horoscope section of the Express-News while chewing the chipped bronze polish off my pointer finger. My horoscope, once I find it, isn't the least bit encouraging. It appears I'll need to use my feminine wiles to get through the day, and I'm afraid my wiles have been on strike for some time. I should've known they'd eventually unionize to demand more favorable conditions. I grab a compact mirror from the bottom of my purse and subsequently grimace at my much-too-pale face and straight hair, which I just realize is similar in color to wheat toast. I'm not talking the dark, multi-grain kind either. Bargain wheat bread.
I stick out my tongue to inspect it, fully realizing that may not be a routine thing to do over breakfast. But a magazine article I read last week claims you can tell if your chi is out of alignment with one glance at your tongue. From what I'm seeing, at least two of my chakras could be clogged. I'm seriously in need of Chakra Drano.
"For the last time, put that mirror—and your tongue—away. You're scaring my customers," Idamarie says, adjusting her bifocals and tugging on the fabric of her gold silk blouse. She moves to straighten the sign in the café's front window, the one that reads "Free Orange Juice." She'll serve at least twenty-five glasses of the stuff every day to some of the city's homeless, thinking she's solely responsible for San Antonio's underground immune system.
She's been doing this for as long as I've known her, since Rudy and I began meeting here our first year out of college. We were both new to the working world back then and new to living in the city. Idamarie, obviously not using her common sense at the time, took us in. Or at least tolerated us. And still does.
"Well," she says, making it sound like more than one syllable, "give it to me straight. Am I gonna live or die today?" She wipes off the table next to me then peers over my shoulder at the open horoscope section.
I take a bite of my warm cinnamon roll and scan for Aries. "I think you'll survive, but you should avoid new business ventures."
"Considering the way this one's going, that's pretty good advice."
I smile; Idamarie always complains about business. But the proof is in the number of people who frequent her black Formica and chrome tables, the ones who know the menu by heart. Some afternoons the sounds from the kitchen—pots clanging and dishes knocking against each other—make the whole place seem nervous. That's why I prefer mornings here, when I can settle in and not feel as though I'm using some of her much-needed space.
Idamarie pulls up a chair and places a glass coffee pot on my table so I can help myself. Her scent today is sweet cornbread and musky Revlon perfume, and like the fourth-generation Texas woman she is, her white hair is styled high on her head. Everyone always comments she looks years younger than her real age. Her secret, she says, is a steady application of superior makeup at all times and a nip of peach schnapps on Sundays.
I actually joined her one Sunday for the schnapps treatment. Two hours later we ended up dancing in the living room with our blouses tied up around our boobs—not a first-rate look, incidentally, no matter what your age—and singing Loretta Lynn's "You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man." We meant every word, too. Only neither of us has anything resembling a man in our lives, unless you count Rudy. And I think we both would classify Rudy as more like an amusing but necessary accessory.
Idamarie breaks off a piece of my sweet roll, then winks at a customer who's waving goodbye. I shake my head and laugh a little, out of pure admiration. "I'd give my left arm and three toes if I could flirt like that. It's completely and utterly natural for you."
"I wouldn't call it natural, honey. I'd call it strategic." She pulls her dairy order list from her front jeans pocket and adds an item to it with a ballpoint pen. "And don't forget I've got some day-old, half-and-half in the back for that varmint of yours."
The varmint she's referring to is my cat, Weasel. It should be noted she named him without my consent—although she claims it was merely an observation and not a title. She's also the one who made me take him home when he showed up at the café three years ago.
"Now, Idamarie," I mock her robust accent, which is far worse than mine. "You know as well as I do that gifts of dairy aren't going to help my situation with Weasel." I drop the accent because I can tell she's not all that impressed. "Besides, I live in constant fear that not only will he pounce on my head when I'm sleeping but that he's secretly planning to have me committed."
"I don't think the cat's all that smart, honey." She clicks off her pen and watches me pile empty sugar packets, one on top of the other like a flimsy deck of cards. "And I wish you'd stop playing you're your food."
I feel the need to clarify the difference between food packaging versus actual food, but she interrupts me.
"Speaking of what the cat drug in …" She nods to the café door and gets up to hold it open for Rudy. His hands are full of disassembled newspaper pages, library books, science journals, a day planner and his blue coffee thermos.
" `Ello, me ladies," he says, in a moderately awful British-Renaissance dialect. His rectangular, Buddy-Holly framed glasses are crooked, and he's wearing his lucky t-shirt, the one with Curious George on the front.
"Morning, Rudolph," Idamarie says. "You need a separate table for all that crap, or you wanna sit here with the Princess of Darkness?"
"I'll take royalty, I believe. Even if it is somewhat depressed and misguided royalty." He plunks down his pile, and my coffee sloshes right out of its cup. "Did you know, dearest friends, that when an adult whale dives, his heart can slow down to about three beats per minute?" he asks.
"Fascinating, I'm sure," Idamarie says, handing him a silverware set before seating another customer. We both try to ignore Rudy's factoids as much as possible. He works as a freelance writer and researcher for science magazines and through fact-checking often discovers things most people don't know. Of course, most people don't care either.
As he gets settled I observe him, organizing his books and refolding his newspaper the way my father does. Hard folds, front page on top. Both would deny any similarity, hands-down.
I still remember the first time my dad met Rudy, in all his strangeness. I'd brought him home for Thanksgiving; his parents had decided on a last-minute cruise to the Bahamas. After Mom served the pumpkin pie, Dad pulled me aside and said, "That boy seems squirrelly to me." Not intended as flattery by any means.
Rudy's not squirrelly. He is, however, thin and tall, with ears nearly pointed, under orange-red hair. He also consistently wears loose cargo pants, and some days he uses every pocket. He's looked exactly this same way since I met him in a freshman honors history course at Texas A&M. I like to say he attached himself to me that semester and never let go. He strongly asserts it was the other way around. Rudy would not be Rudy if he isn't strongly asserting something.
Idamarie argued with me for months after meeting him that he was gay. I explained that indeed Rudy was odd, and perhaps even more incompetent than me when it comes to dating. But I've witnessed far too many genuine displays of lust for scantily-clad women in our years of friendship. She didn't believe me until she asked him herself, point blank over an order of her famous garlic-cheese mashed potatoes. He asked for roast beef, a salad and dessert before answering. The man is not dumb. And not gay either.
He props his elbows on my table, then scrutinizes my Gilley's drawing, turning it upside down and back. "Good God, Bailey. This could be the very worst depiction of an automated, bucking bovine I've ever seen."
I yank the paper back from him and look at it again. "If you must know, I was hoping to recreate a time from my childhood that might explain …"
He lets out a sigh. "Sweet, Sweet Bay Leaf. I'm afraid there is no one day, one event." He pours coffee from the pot Idamarie left behind into his thermos. "So I take it you and RODA aren't any better this morning?" he asks.
I pick the remaining flakes of nail polish off my bottom lip as I talk, so I sound like I have a speech impediment. "Lasth night I paced tho much I made twracks in my carpet."
He raises one eyebrow. This is a facial effect he rehearses. I know this because I've seen him practice in my car's passenger-side vanity mirror on road trips.
Reaching over, he removes a final flake of polish from my chin. "So you need new floor coverings and possibly some speech rehabilitation. We've known both for some time." He adds cream to his thermos. "I had sincerely hoped you were making some progress," he says. "Perhaps we should review."
I'd rather not.
"Have you, or have you not, addressed your addiction to Cool Whip, eaten with large cooking utensils, right from the container?"
"I beg your pardon. I use a soup spoon."
"Still enjoying bottles of wine during Letterman?"
"Glasses. Glasses of wine during Letterman." I say. "And I keep telling you, it really helps the opening monologue."
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