I have not checked email for several days which means I will have angry emails and a back log that could have me doing nothing but email all day.
Month: October 2006
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iTunes Visualization Cheat Sheet
For you iTunes junkies out there. Play with your visualizations.
Have fun! There are 11475 form/effect combinations, and 734400 form/effect/color combinations. It would take over 1000 hours to try them all out! And of course you’ll want to try out your favorite ones with different types of music. And if you’re still bored, you can try to experiment with favorite transitions – which should keep you busy for the next 100000 years or so… [Source]
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They are more important
I am so stressed over my work that my head feels like it is going to crack. Noah wants to make blueberry muffins. I can’t argue with that. I love blueberry muffins. However, poor Noah needs guidance. Lots of guidance. He gets priority.
If you haven’t had a 10 year old boy yet, their brains don’t work.
The cooking lessons are fun. I enjoy watching him go through discovery. This morning I have had questions like:
"What’s a muffin pan?"
"Where’s our can opener? How do I use it?"
After getting the mixing bowl, "Where can I get a bowl to put in the ingredients?"I had no doubt that one or two of the eggs would splat on the floor. One did. Learning to crack and egg is scary. I feel bad for him. He will have to go to school before these are done. This child moves in slow motion!
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Fading Light
My Joy cannot beat Misery
Our Stress weighs too heavy
Stealing away the Happy.
Our Days are filled with constant pleasures
Like firecrackers, numerous, small, quick.
The Suck is like a Nuke
And evaporates all positive energy.
It is all Wrong.
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Bionic Mother-in-Law moved
Cathy and I helped move her mother from rehab to home. One mocha later she was very happy to be back in the real world but wishes the laundry lady would have come with her. New knees, less pain. We returned home heavy one skeleton and one dracula both of which remain buckled into our backseat.
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Lower the bar!
I have to quit taking on the impossible projects.
What am I doing now? My current contract is to allow a user to enter a single product id or a list of product ids then go out to a government website and download the 17 or so pages of pdfs for each product. Then I combine the multiple pages of pdf documents into a single pdf document and present it to the user for download to their local machine. I may end up inserting footer information into each page of the pdf. I have to do this for 4 different countries. Then I have to convert the code from php 4.4.4 to php 4.0.0.
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Hypothetical Question
If you got called into jury duty selection on a Monday, and you knew your wife was getting out of rehabilitation from double knee replacement surgery on Tuesday, what would you say to the judge? Apparently, nothing is the correct answer.
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Today’s Irony – Let’s Burn Fahrenheit 451
A Houston parent wants Ray Bradbury’s 1953 classic "Fahrenheit 451
" banned from his daughter’s high school. Here is the best sentence from the article:
"It’s just all kinds of filth," said Alton Verm, adding that he had not read "Fahrenheit 451." [Source]
Uh, hello?! Don’t you have to read a book to pass judgement upon it? These are the same people that are making it illegal for you to buy sex toys. His rationale for the reconsideration of curriculum:
He looked through the book and found the following things wrong with the book: discussion of being drunk, smoking cigarettes, violence, "dirty talk," references to the Bible and using God’s name in vain. He said the book’s material goes against their religions beliefs. [Source]
Incase you have not read it or have forgotten, Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper burns. Firemen no longer fight fires but burn books.
"Fahrenheit 451" is a science fiction piece that poses a warning to society about the preservation and passing on of knowledge as well as asks the question about whether the government should do the thinking for the people… Other themes include conformity vs. individuality, freedom of speech and the consequences of losing it, the importance of remembering and understanding history and technology as help to humans and as hindrances to humans… [Source]
Coincidentally, we just passed banned book week which is celebrated the last week of September of every year.
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Why consider impeachment?
Personnally, I am not certain impeachment would lead to any better situation than we have now. I think Foley and friends are doing a better job than impeachment. I just can’t wait until 2008 but my fear is that this administration will have done such damage that whoever wins in 2008 will have a doomed 4 years. Their job will be to clean up the mess and this mess is going to take decades to correct. So, Bush Co. will create a law that will allow presidents to serve 16 years instead of 8; perhaps it will come in the form of "an ex-president can return to office for a maximum of another 2 four year terms." (I saw a reference that a senator has quietly started just such a bill but now I can’t find it) After the citizentry has a great disappointment in the 2008-2012 term since the expectations of that president will be totally unachievable, GW Bush will return to office from 2012-2020 or longer.
The reasons for impeachment given by impeachforpeace.org:
- Illegal war
- Illegal spying
- Illegal breaking of Geneva Conventions
- Illegal detention
- Illegal release of classified information
Looks like the revolution begins on October 5th.
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Pressure
The walls are closing in.
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Contact Harrison Ford – Amish School Shootout
On a serious side, there was a shiooting at an Amish school in Pennsylvania with a number of fatalities.
The callous side of me wants to point out that no rail guns were used.
The personal connection side of me wants to point out that in high school I sold flowers outside an Amish market and the Amish are some of the nicest, down to earth people I have ever met.
The Harrison Ford reference for those that missed it.
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The Flaming Cat Is Out To Get Me
If your cat looks like this, you might be schizophrenic.
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MMMMmmmmm Java!
I haven’t had coffee in several weeks. I bought Cathy a Caramel Hot Cider at Starbucks today and did not have the will power to withstand ordering a house coffee. Life is good.
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Driving Topless!
I love the Internet! The Jeep has been sitting in the driveway with a bad water pump. Relatively speaking, a water pump is a pretty straightforward repair. Unfortunately, my Haynes manual was a little vague on the details of the repair. Fortunately, a simple search gives wonderful details that I would have missed. (like 3 additional bolts that needed loosening) Good thing I couldn’t find that crow bar!
The Jeep went back together with relative ease and no apparent leaks. Next task is a radiator flush but I’ll leave that to the shop. Before it gets too much colder I need to reattach the metal bar to the top of the windshield that holds the roof. Then go to ebay and buy a top.