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 Topic: Hodge Podge (Miscellaneous)The new items published under this topic are as follows.
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If you haven't noticed, I'm in the middle of an upgrade to the software that runs MyFrontier. In the past few months the site was subject to several robot attacks that would post messages with hundreds of links in them. The version of Post-Nuke I was using was a bit old, so I took the plunge and upgraded. In the process, I lost some of the formatting in my custom theme. So if things look slightly different, that is why. Hopefully I'll get that all fixed in the next week or so.
On another front, If you noticed, my slideshows for the cross country trip only made it to day 12. That is because I stupidly deleted my nearly complete draft versions of days 13-17. Sigh..it was unintentional, I had attempted to resize my Parallels virtual machine on my new MAC, but accidentally delete the entire virtual machine. I didn't have a backup.
Fortunately, I didn't lose any photos or movies, but only the slideshows. I'll be working on those and posting the last few days of our trip, as well as one final "Summary" slideshow summarizing the whole trip.
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...that whenever a government officials claims something is "government at its best" (such as Treasury Secretary John Snow said regarding his warrantless surveillance of the financial transactions of Americans) that it is usually not.
...that Gumbo is probably my favorite type of soup
...that I have to send my Palm Treo back to the shop to replace the earpiece speaker
...that we've postponed our river rafting trip until Monday
...that Mythbusters is a fabulous TV show
...that Ray Charles' music is remarkably simple and plain, yet it evokes deep and rich complex emotions
...that my wife and I took 340 digital photographs this June, a record number for us.
...that the political state of affairs in America is now such that government can invoke the terrorist threat just about anytime it wants public support to exempt itself from statutory restraints.
...that for the past several years I've acquired all my desktop wallpapers from here http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/
Regards,
-Lance
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...that McDonald's uses way too much tartar sauce on their fish sandwiches.
...that Solzhenitsyn's observation that to be arrested by the Soviets you didn't have to be an "actual threat" to the state but only a "possible threat" sounded eerily similar to some language coming from the statesmen of the right in America.
...that clouds are far more beautiful when viewed from above them than when viewed from below them.
...that I take more than I give :(
...that it's time to start thinking about my Fantasy Football team again.
...that gambling in a casino is not very fun
...that my Avalanche is my favorite automobile that I've ever owned.
...that Republicans and Democrats are 2 sides of the same coin
...that I'm about to thrown my Palm Treo 700W off of the top of the Sears Tower Building.
...that of all the places I've been in this country, the only places that would make me consider moving out of Maryland are either Northern California or the Foothills of the Colorado Rockies.
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...that the walk down Wacker Drive in Chicago is the most beautiful urban walk of any city I've been in, and I've been in a lot of them.
...that Bono was right, the heart *is* a bloom that shoots up through the stony ground.
...that I locked my hotel key in my room
...that music is a drug...enhances the senses, and better yet, you can't O.D. on it.
...that TV is a strong drink...dulls the senses, and you CAN O.D. on it.
...that Chess is a brilliant (and humbling) game.
...that man has the power to reject God.
...that U2 sometimes sounds remarkably similar to Sting from the 80's
...that this is the just plain wrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x20v9F-sWHQ&feature=MostReferred&page=1&t=t&f=b
...that government is more concerned with its own privacy than with ours.
...that Superman is not so super.
...that the designers of power cords w/transformers could use a lesson in how to design them so they don't cover up 2 additional outlets in a power strip.
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...that cellphone users have replaced smokers outside office doors everywhere
(will cellphones ever work inside buildings?)
...that most microbrews at *chic* restaurants taste like Sam Adams
...that even the driest and most sealed basement has problems with 13" of rain
in 5 days.
...that melting glaciers are what convinced me Global Warming is real
...that the Sears Tower doesn't look all that big from up close
...that the best Disney Villian is without question Frollo
...that our Family Lewis and Clark Trip is set for 9/8 - 9/24
...that bluetooth earpieces are the coolest invention and as close to StarTrek
communicators as we've seen.
...that Southwest Airlines Rocks!
...that I've got to get myself to one of these: http://www.moosefest.org/index.html
...that you don't potty train puppies...they potty train you.
...that I'm going river rafting this weekend and I fear with all the rain I'll
be facing Cat 5 rapids!
...that Chicago has the noisiest trains of any city anywhere.
...that iTunes should allow you to associate a song to more than one album
...that I can hardly believe it but Johnny Depp and Leonardo Decaprio really are two of my favorite actors?
regards,
-Lance
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