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Randomness….

I’ve got a headache…
Nivea just said hi, for some reason…
Taron’s running around in circles…
Niv’s pushing a crate around…
I’m outta cigarettes, and my dip is in the van…
The coffee is cold…
I’m hungry…
Niv just said bye…
Taron’s pushing the crate now…
I have a nice sized cavity in one of my wisdom teeth… It’s the one that came in sideways, and points outward, towards my cheek. I hate my teeth. I hate my smile. There’s only one other part of my body I dislike, other than my smile…
…bleh.
this is growing old, so i think i’ll actually write something….
I went to the office this morning, and spent a grand portion of the day there, playing around with the computers. I had a little snag here, at home before I left, involving Diana’s mp3 player–I couldn’t get the computer to recognize it, or so I thought. Turns out that the computer kept assigning it a drive letter I had reserved for a web-folder. I didn’t figure this out until I opened the device manager, and saw that the computer was loading the generic mass storage drivers. Following that I loaded the disk management console and saw that the device was assigned the wrong letter. Problem solved.
Now, I’ve got another problem going on at the office. Herb’s computer is having issues, which can easily be fixed by a quick re-install of windows, but I have no idea where the disc is… I may just save all his docs and put something else on there if I can’t find the stupid restore CD. He won’t care, and probably won’t notice. All he uses the thing for is email and the occasional use of word.
Dad’s notebook is pretty nice–similar to the one I have in pawn. I put pcAnywhere on it, and his primary office computer, so that he can connect to everything from home. It works great through a broadband connection, we’ll see about dialup… Oh, get this, his primary pc doesn’t have a modem. That pissed me off. I was planning to set the sucker up so he could dial into it. Oh, well. Internet connection works. Took a bit to figure out how to do it (meaning I actually had to read the instructions), but it was pretty easy…
I need to clean the van. Hell, I need to clean the car, for that matter. It’s just the van looks a bit worse now–a clean exterior and a messy interior. Yeah, we had to wash the thing the other day. Sunday, actually. We awoke to find that the poor thing had fallen victim to a drive-by paint-balling in the night. Savages. I felt better when the cop told us that we weren’t the only one–it seems that someone (or a group) had shot several cars on Pike Street. I hadn’t checked the records in the Democrat to see if the report was published. Probably not. Most likely be in next weeks paper.
I missed out on listening to Coffeebreak this morning. Sorry. No updates for Coffeebreak. I know. You’re deeply saddened. Well, I didn’t get a chance to tell you about Thursday’s show… Rick interviewed Joe Joe. They spoke about the homecoming stuff – it’s been rescheduled for October 24th. That’s pretty much it.
No other news to speak of. Unless you wanna know about what’s going on in scannerland… Obie’s stumbling down River Road.
There were two fires earlier today. A house in Connersville, and a grass fire in Berry. Charlie bitched about people not reading the paper. It seems that the grassfire was caused by a controlled burn – and burning has been banned until further notice due to the dry conditions.
Well, the kids are at my elbows now, so I think I’d better go play….

Do Not Call Listings to Expire in 2008

Do Not Call Listings to Expire in 2008
Ant writes “Yahoo! News report that the cherished dinner hour void of telemarketers could vanish next year for millions of people when phone numbers begin dropping off the national/United States (U.S.)’s Do Not Call list. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which oversees the list, says there is a simple fix. But some lawmakers think it is a hassle to expect people to re-register their phone numbers every five years. Numbers placed on the registry, begun in June 2003, are valid for five years. For the millions of people who signed onto the list in its early days, their numbers will automatically drop off beginning next June if they do not enroll again.”

MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport

MIT Student Arrested For Wearing ‘Tech Art’ Shirt At Airport

SuperBanana writes “According to a report by the Boston Globe, MIT Student Star Simpson was nearly shot by Logan Airport police who thought she was armed with a bomb. She approached an airline employee wearing a prototyping board with electronic components, crudely attached to the front of her sweatshirt and holding ‘putty’ in her hand. She asked about an incoming flight, and did not respond when asked about the device. Armed police responded. ‘Simpson was charged with possessing a hoax device and was arraigned today East Boston Municipal Court. She was held on $750 cash bail and ordered to return to court Oct. 29. “Thankfully because she followed our instructions, she ended up in our cell instead of a morgue,” Pare said. “Again, this is a serious offense … I’m shocked and appalled that somebody would wear this type of device to an airport.”‘”

Baby Cribs Recalled After Three Children Die From Entrapment

Baby Cribs Recalled After Three Children Die From Entrapment
About 1 million Simplicity and Graco cribs are being recalled after three children became entrapped in their cribs and died of suffocation, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Friday.

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M.C. Escher's "Relativity"

I saw this almost three weeks ago…
I thought it was awesome…
It’s available for digging…
I just wonder how long it took to make it…
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Olbermann to Bush: ‘Your hypocrisy is so vast’

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Special comment: Bush’s hypocrisy for condemning Petraeus ad
Sept. 20: Keith Olbermann comments on President Bush’s news conference this morning, where he condemned Moveon.org’s Petraeus ad.

MoveOn.org – General Petraeus/Betray Us

The New York Times ran an ad by MoveOn.org in their paper some ten days ago. Today, President Bush commented on the ad
The final question asked of the President at a pressconference this morning was in reference to the ad. The President responded. The following is a transcription of that question and the response, taken from http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/09/20070920-2.html:

Q What is your reaction to the MoveOn.org ad that mocked General Petraeus as General “Betrayus,” and said that he cooked the books on Iraq? And secondly, would you like to see Democrats, including presidential candidates, repudiate that ad?

THE PRESIDENT: I thought the ad was disgusting. I felt like the ad was an attack not only on General Petraeus, but on the U.S. military. And I was disappointed that not more leaders in the Democrat Party spoke out strongly against that kind of ad. And that leads me to come to this conclusion: that most Democrats are afraid of irritating a left-wing group like MoveOn.org — or more afraid of irritating them than they are of irritating the United States military. That was a sorry deal. It’s one thing to attack me; it’s another thing to attack somebody like General Petraeus.

In response to this morning’s statement, Keith Olbermann will be delivering a special comment on tonight’s edition of Countdown.
I can’t wait to see it.

worried about dad

So, my dad’s going in for a heart cath next week. I know that I really don’t need to worry a whole lot, because it is a simple procedure, and things will most likely go without a hitch, but I just can’t help but be a bit afraid.
I’m gonna be heading over to the office tomorrow, so that I can help him out with the notebook he just purchased for work. He was given the okay to purchase a notebook so that he will be able to perform work from home for he won’t be able to return to the office for about two weeks, and even then he might not be able to traverse the stairs up to his office.
I dunno. I’m just worried.

Housing Inspection

Well, today was the day for our housing inspection. I have been spending a lot of time this week cleaning the place up, and making sure that every single little thing was clean and operational.
…and we passed ! Yay!
Now I can go back to being a slob… lmao…

TransUnion to Offer Credit Freezes Nationwide

TransUnion to Offer Credit Freezes Nationwide
An anonymous reader writes “In a little-noticed press release issued Tuesday, credit reporting bureau TransUnion said it would begin offering credit freezes to all Americans, a change the belies the credit industry’s oft-uttered claim that doing so would be too expensive and burdensome. The program takes effect Oct. 15, 2007, will cost $10 each to place and to remove, and request and must be filed by certified mail. As The Washington Post reports, the move comes as some 39 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws entitling their residents to credit freeze rights. The new right may have little benefit unless the other two major credit reporting bureaus follow suit, and both companies are staying mum about any plans to do so. In May, Slashdot examined a related story on the credit bureaus’ traditional resistance to freeze laws.”