These are archived copies of the Periodic E-Mails
entitled "Compendium of Stuff".
Rather than
re-distribute ever piece of goodies that comes my way which would
take a lot of time and space on the Net and possibly bore some, now I
try to find each of them out there someplace on the giant WEB and
include their URLs in these monthy messages so everyone can select
those specific ones which sound like they might be of interest.
My
apologies for some of the links' no-longer being hot (you'll need to
copy & paste) and for the need to scroll to the right for some
UN-folded text.
Also for some of the links' no-longer being in
existance (you'll need to use your imagination).
Any links that
fail to pages at ...
http://home.earthlink.net/~dhoskins/
are probably at the same
relative location at ...
http://www.popcornpot.com/
2009.01
Jan ** Happy New Year
2009.02 Feb
2009.03 Mar
2009.04 Apr
2009.05 May
2009.06
June
2009.07 July ** Hurrah for the 4-th
of July
2009.08 Aug
2009.09
Sept
2009.10 Oct
2009.11
Nov ** Happy Thanksgiving
2009.12 Dec **
Merry Christmas
Stuff Seekers, All:
*** Compendium of Stuff 2009.01 - Happy New
Year
ISCers -
Would appreciate any good E-addresses for
Jon Fullinwider.
Just in case that you can't remember the long URL
to my WebPage which points to some ISC items and especially to
others' pages of even more items, you can now use ...
http://tinyurl.com/ISCGRADS
and with some better browsers, like FireFox, you only need
to enter
tinyurl/ISCGRADS
also it is case
InDepEndeNt.
Downeyites - the former large home of Reno
Sirrine at the dead end of Garnish Drive at Gallatin Rd. was torn
down a long while back and the lot has stood vacant for years; it is
irregular, has 12 sides, is about 36,000 sqft., and sold for 0.5
million 10 yrs ago. Drove by recently and discovered a HUGE mansion's
being built on it. WOW. Hope that they have the funding to complete
it. There are plenty of home construction jobs which have been quite
idle for MANY months -- dating back to before things hit the
fan.
DUHS-Vikings - The time of year is now upon us for making
nominations to the School's Hall-of-Fame, as see the following
article ...
http://www.thedowneypatriot.net/view_full.php?article=0000049380
DOWNEYﾭ
Downey High School is now accepting
nominations for its Hall of Fame in the areas of arts, athletics,
business, community/government, education and professional.
The
Hall of Fame was formed in 1999 and currently has 62 members.
Distinguished alumni include Dr. Robert Ballard, discoverer of the
Titanic; entertainers Karen and Richard Carpenter; international
figure skaters JoJo Starbuck and Ken Shelley; musician George Pajon,
Jr. of the Black Eyed Peas; and James Hetfield, lead singer of
Metallica.
To nominate a graduate, call Downey High School
Assistant Principal John Baker at (562) 869-7301, ext. 5524, for an
application.
hh.note -
his email is "Baker,John -AP" <jbaker@dusd.net>
The
class of DUHS'52 has added a bulletin board to their WebSite at
...
http://www.duhs1952.com
suggest that you visit them, and leave a comment.
(Also
note the plans for the Cruise by the ClassOf'54)
This is all the
good work of Bill "Pygmy" Overmeier/Gast.
Things to
consider for a better New Year ...
http://61.152.202.92/cmjyoblog/u/20906/2008122693447.html
Plagiarized
from an incoming email; thanks, Jon ...
A Wish for You in 2009
May
peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts.
May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet of $100 bills. May love
stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips!
May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires and may
happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of
joy. May problems forget your home address!
In simple
words . . . May 2009 be the best year of your life!
An
Australian's view of how to identify an American can be found at
...
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=25914184795&topic=6078
http://www.smallerindiana.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1736855%3ABlogPost%3A192748
http://inmycorner.blogspot.com/2009/01/to-kill-american-you-probably-missed.html
How're
your bicycle riding skills? Check out the exhibition at ...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8867862777896510907&hl=en
[ that sign on the far wall says "semester abschluss" ]
then read what others have to say about it at ...
http://m.digg.com/other_sports/Lady_On_Bike?offset=130
If
you've ever wanted to create and/or manipulate -.PDF files, then you
might consider "Nitro PDF Professional"; it seems to work
better than many at tinkering with the files and includes a pseudo
printer driver, so that you can specify it as your target printer and
thus save the printout from (almost) any program as a file in PDF. It
will even drive your scanner to gather multiple pages into one file;
dunno how it would handle one with an AutoDocFeeder, as I don't have
one.
The price may be high, but there are sometimes bargain sales
available - especially from Fry's.
There are similarly (that's a
relative term) featured free programS available at...
http://www.pdfforge.org/
http://pdfill.com/
http://www.download.com/PDFill-PDF-Tools-Free/3000-2075_4-10435051.html?part=dl-6257556&subj=dl&tag=button&cdlPid=10893686
Recently
I heard someone say the word "impossible" and it sorta
resonated with me to the extent that I see/hear YulBrynner in my mind
standing tall and saying it in song in "The King and I",
but the only references that I can find point to the FairyGodmother
in Cinderella.
Would appreciate any help in reconciling this
conflict: e.g., (1) Yul says a different word with similar emphasis,
(2) Yul says it, but I just can't find it, (3) I'm simply mistaken
and overcome with mis-da-ja-vue.
First there was "Dennis
the Short"; then came Archbishop Usher; for their contributions
to modern life, see at ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_Exiguus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ussher
but
it really started from the beginning as noted in the very first
paragraph at ..
http://marcandmelanie.com/script.php
We
enjoyed our Norwegian fjords cruise, but did NOT participate in the
sport shown at ...
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1778399&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen
If
you do travel much, then you might find some interest in some or all
of ...
http://www.uptake.com/
http://www.medjetassist.com/
If
you've ever wanted the lyrics for some music, then you might (some
are better than others) find what you seek at ...
http://www.allmusicals.com/lyrics/
http://www.stlyrics.com/
http://www.lyricsondemand.com/
The
next time that you get stuck in traffic, be thankful that you don't
have to put up with the situation shown at ...
http://www.sharenator.com/Roads_of_Russia/
see even more at ...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/361603/A-Russian-highway
Then
there is the Trigonometry problem ...
Given:
Two
squares with sides of 10 inches placed adjacent left-to-right
forming a rectangle.
In the rectangle there are 3 equal
circles;
two of them are tangent to the lower
outside corners and the third
one of them is
tangent to the top edge and to the other 2 circles.
.
To find: The radius of the circles. (hint: it is not
1.41699)
If your contemplating needing a reasonably-priced
hotel room anywhere, then there might be some good advice in the item
at ...
http://www.usaweekend.com/09_issues/090111/090111thinksmart-travel-hotel.html
If
you ever get to Redding, then you might find the "Sundial
Bridge" interesting, as at ...
http://www.visitredding.org/sundial.cfm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sundial+bridge
Yes,
there people posing as police officers for UN-good purposes.
Yes,
there is some good advice about how to deal with them.
BUT,
there is also some SUB-optimal hoax-ish advice about a first
reaction.
For some thoughts on the several aspects of the
matter, see at ...
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/fakecop.asp
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_cellphone_677.htm
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/lauren-677.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081012173211AAA21w8
http://www.ncic.com/Star-77.html
AND
depending on the geography, there are a LOT of different ways to
reach REAL authorities, and even then they only work in a few places,
as noted in the above.
For a poignant and timely story about
Kurtis and Brenda ...
http://www.inspirevillage.com/extraordinary/kurtis.html
http://investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb=3666&mid=6509737&pt=msg
http://sbynews.blogspot.com/2009/01/kurtis-stock-boy-and-brenda-checkout.html
Picked
up this quote recently ...
"Popularity is
the Hallmark of Mediocrity"
Its validity is not
diminished just because it is from the Niles Crane character in a
re-run of Frazier.
Likely it's slanted, and maybe it's lacking
in some areas, but there's a well written mid-East piece at ...
http://digilander.libero.it/asdfghj2/dossier/The%20Myth%20Of%20The%20Palestinian%20People.htm
For
an activity which might allow for venting off some pent-up anxiety at
home or the world over, see the latest at ...
http://current.newsweek.com/budgettravel/2009/01/gladiator_fights_to_return_to.html?wpisrc=newsletter
Is
there media bias as claimed at ...
http://www.ozarkregionalonline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=58893
Or
maybe there's not, as per ...
http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/01/apples_vs_orchards_comparing_i.php
You
be the judge.
Have gotten a lot of messages lately regarding a
change of E-Mail address.To all of you who have just made a change or
who might contemplate such in the future, would suggest that you get
a GMAIL account and then you well NEVER have to change the address
regardless of where you move and what ISP you might be using wherever
you might be in the world.
See more at ...
http://home.earthlink.net/~dhoskins/hughspen/emailing.htm#addrchg
Just
helped a friend who had a very sluggish E-Mail processing
application. Emptying the program's Trash-Bin and then compacting all
of its Mailboxes improved the performance so much that it surprised
me.
#### -- Happy New Year
Until Next
Month ...
Happy Surfing,, /s/ Hugh
Hello, Everyone:
This system will be OFF THE AIR from Mon 2
Mar thru Mon 9 Mar July inclusive.
Your cooperation would be
appreciated in ...
A. NOT sending any messages, except small
ones of the GREATEST importance.
B. understanding that any
which you might send could ...
1. be rejected
by my ISP if the allotted space fills-up.
2. be
lost among the spam - as I perhaps carelessly delete such messages on
my return.
3. cause some more important
messages to suffer one the fates mentioned above.
Meanwhile,
please understand that any lack of a reply does not indicate a lack
of interest on my part.
Thanks for your
cooperation.
DOWNEYites:
Please let me know of any addition
or corrections that you feel should be made to the info at ...
http://mysite.verizon.net/dowhist/chrono1a.htm
http://mysite.verizon.net/dowhist/thingnot.htm
Any
recollections that you might have of Downey from "your day"
or earlier would be welcomed by the Downey Historical Society, either
mailed or hand-delivered as per the addresses noted at ...
http://mysite.verizon.net/dowhist/
or emailed to
dowhist@verizon.net
with
a copy to me.
The Society also welcomes your membership (dues are
"Cheap"er than a subscription to Mad-Magazine) and your
support in the form of attendance at meetings and donation of funds
or of historical items.
For one good reason for the 2-nd
Amendment, see at
...
http://www.freedomradio.us/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4091&Itemid=44
Those of you who may be concerned about your rights to own
guns, might be interested in the info on the site at ...
http://www.nraila.org/legislation/read.aspx?id=4094
especially
as relates to bullets.
Someone asked the other day why the
message that they sent to me was rejected. As it turns out, the space
allotted for my E-Mail at my ISP had gotten filled by several HUGE
incoming attachments. Then I thought that a recap/comparison of
memory space (in bytes) might be interesting to some new-comers to
the arena ...
16,000 The 1st computer that I ever touched (1961; size of 1
refrig.)
8,000 The 1st IBM machine that I used
('61; size of 2 refrigs.)
16,000 My first computer here at home (Radio Shack Mod-1,
Level-2)
640,000
My first IBM-PC (they said no one should ever need more)
100,000,000 The mailbox at my ISP.
650,000,000 A data-CD (the latest Windows release will not fit
on one)
1,500,000,000 My PC today
2,000,000,000 The memory stick that I carry in by pocket
3,000,000,000 The laptop that I bought a year ago for the History
Center
4,700,000,000 A data-DVD
7,291,000,000 The mailbox at GMAIL.COM available free to
anyone.
500,000,000,000 My auto backup storage
hard-drive
The more storage that can be put into a machine,
the larger that the programs for it will get become.
At
first, they just expand to fit the available space,
then they overflow it and force the expansion of technology.
Some
iceberg pictures floating (pardon the pun) around the InterNet are
Hoaxes, but there are some REAL ones at ...
-->
http://www.blogcatalog.com/search.frame.php?term=striped%20icebergs&id=9ca565ae0bc0db404e3bb395d81661ba
-->
http://www.blogcatalog.com/search.frame.php?term=striped%20icebergs&id=5b831988d409a8ecac79031db546c73d
-->
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-536928/Revealed-The-Antarctic-iceberg-looks-like-giant-humbug.html
Like
so many other groups there are bad bikers and good ones, too, as see
at ...
http://www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1335571
http://www.nj.com/forums/mercer/index.ssf?artid=20257
http://andysredneckramblings.blogspot.com/2008/11/gotta-love-those-white-trash-bikers.html
You
owe it your friends to touch them the way that the guy did at ...
http://www.soon.org.uk/stories/friends.htm
http://www.bedavaingilizce.com/reading/smallgesture.htm
Given
any 2 whole positive numbers A & B, where A<B;
set R= 2*A*B, S= B**2 - A**2,
T= A**2 + B**2
what can be said about the useful significant
uniqueness of R, S, & T?
Julia Ward Howe, would indeed be
proud of the HighSchool kids performing as at ...
http://www.greatdanepromilitary.com/Battle%20Hymn/index.htm
You might think twice or several more times about buying
anything from H-P after reading the two very-long pages at ...
http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=44611
and
its continuation at
...
http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?s=74ee6df20f7d27f03cf88d0f3cbed31c&t=44611&page=2
yes,
I know that this discussion is about a specific printer model, but
such customer-(UN)friendliness and fleece-the-buyer philosophy seem
to pervade their products.
Then, too, there are other
approaches to some printer ink problems, as see at ...
http://www.4shared.com/file/78883393/eccbf7e3/Printer_Ink_Secret_Revealed.html
http://www.flixya.com/video/1496923/Printer_Ink_Secret,_Revealed!_
If
you'd like to keep your inkjet printer in TOP shape, then use it
often enough that the ink doesn't dry-up in the cartridge and/or
heads. It's the word "often" that is a big variable; most
recommend to print all colors at least ONCE a WEEK.
As a test
case you might consider simply printing the file at ...
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hthoskins/IMAGSET1/TPAT11C1.jpg
Really
liked a recent 2-pane cartoon showing a guy with a quizzical facial
expression observing a sign which said "Watch For Falling
Onomatopoeia".
In the next pane he is struck on the head by
the pressed-together letters "KLUNK". A picture is worth
more, as see ...
http://www.creators.com/comics/rubes/29733.html
http://www.creators.com/comics/rubes/archive.html?DATE_START=2009-02-08
(bottom)
And the list goes on and on and on ad nauseum at
...
http://www.aleeya.net/word-play/onomatopoeia/onomatopoeia/aleeya/
Not
all PDF viewers are created equal ...
.- some are slow -
eg. like Adobe
.- some are faster - eg. FoxIt
.- some have more features - eg. Nitro-Professional
.- some
have a hard time enabling FINDing and/or highlight/copying text.
.- some will not allow certain documents to be nicely printed
If
at first one won't perform a needed task, then try another.
Maybe
I'm nearly the last to discover this, but it IS possible to search
for text in all the -.PDF files on a drive or in a sub-directory by
using the "Find" feature in Adobe Reader. Just use the drop
down menu adjacent to the "Find" field and select "Full
Reader Search" (Shift+Ctrl+F), then specify the drive or browse
to a folder.
If you are concerned about malicious software's
having crept onto you system, then consider taking the advice in the
item at ...
http://www.mytechsupport.ca/content/view/95/347/
by
downloading and running the HIHACKTHIS tool, reading its log, taking
appropriate/recommended action(s), and sending the log for further
expert analysis to the forum at ...
http://www.mytechsupport.ca/forums/index.php?board=27.0
Also,
running SPYBOT and ADAWARE could help.
Ever since
Windows-Vista was released, it seems to have been met with more
negative discussion than I can ever recall about such an item; so
much in fact that some new PCs are now optionally available with the
prior version installed, ie. Win-XP, just to avoid the problems with
Vista. Apparently from what I hear, the hardware drivers for all
peripheral gear need to be upgraded and many are NOT available.
Microsoft is not admitting to anything, but there is another new
version rumored to be coming out sooner than usual (Win-7, formerly
codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna).
It seems that with each release,
there are MANY added features -- most of which are wanted only by a
small percentage of users, and with them comes a vast assortment of
problems which impact features in the prior release on which many
users were dependent. Interestingly, there is a new book out entitled
"Windows Vista Annoyances". It has a lot of good advice
about Vista and makes good reading even if you have XP.
There is
some good discussion in its performance chapter (ch.6) about
hard-drive management, replacement, and partitioning. My favorite
part is where is says "the only way .. was to use .. Partition
Magic, but Symantec bought (it) and ruined it, the best choice is now
Acronis ...". Which essentially indicates that there are other
software companies which make mistakes too. Personally, I loved
Partition Magic and thought that I was perhaps in a minority when I
tried to use the latest release and failed to find its previously
friendly user interface; now my choice is the prior version.
Symantec's primary offering of the Norton products seems to now come
in more flavors than Baskins-Robbins and gets similar negative
comments on bulletin boards -- especially relative to its impact on
systems (because of excessive resource consumption) and difficulty in
disabling/re-enabling and uninstalling.
Recommendations:
.-
Steer clear of Vista if you can.
.- If you can't, then get the
HomePremium or (preferrably) Business version,
and the book mentioned above (and check your local library for many
others).
.- Steer clear of Symantec, especially their internet
security packages;
there are
plenty of others out there, some are free, some are cheap,
some are not very useful; be careful. Consider the reviews at
...
http://internet-security-suite-review.toptenreviews.com/
For
a AMAZING look at REAL technology take a peek at the photo and
process at ...
-->
http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c
Then
pan and zoom and see how many faces you can identify in the crowd.
Near center stage you should be able to spot Clarence Thomas
seemingly asleep, Dick Cheney in his wheelchair, Clinton, Gore, Bush
41 and even Dan Quayle! Scalia is sitting there looking like the
Grand Inquisitor. The clarity is amazing!The technology is truly
amazing- and it's un-classified! Imagine what our spy agencies
can see with classified technology!!! See and read more at ...
http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=15374&snapshot_id=45275
(watch the zoom)
http://www.nikon-digital.ca/forums/showthread.php?p=6425
http://boards.eonline.com/Insider/Boards/thread.jspa?messageID=2505754
It
is NOT quite up to par with an Agatha Christie story, but much
shorter, as see at ...
http://www.websitement-tm.com/Darwin/Content/xq/asp/qx/Murder_At_Krogers.htm
Are
you smarter than a 4-year-old?? Find out by slowly taking the test at
...
http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=58318
For
some super outdoor scenic images, see at ...
http://www.jimmychinphotography.com/
http://www.jimmychinphotography.com/published/000370.htm
http://www.jimmychinphotography.com/published/000077.htm
have
NO idea what camera he used for any of these, but with any modest
camera or better, the weak link in producing an image is most likely
the monitor or printer.
Recently had occasion to help a friend
with a PC in which BOTH of the optical drives were non-functional
(one more-so than the other). Turned out that the least functional
one was NG and prevented the other one from becoming fully
functional. Disconnecting the former allowed the latter to run right;
then just replaced the NG one, and all was OK.
The very latest
engineering dimensional units of measure from the International
Standards folks will be found at ...
http://www.csrstds.com/humor.html
E-Mail
and UPPER or lower or MiXeD case ---
Unless your E-Mail account is
with some special/weird provider, then the address that others can
use to send to you can be in any combination of mixed case.
The
address that you use to identify yourself to your provider may be
another story.
If you use Yahoo for E-Mail, then you can sign-in
with the syntax ..
samtheman@yahoo.com
SaMThEmAn@yahoo.com
samtheman@yahoo.CoM
SaMThEmAn@yahoo.cOm
BUT the
yahoo part MUST be in lower case;
this is required by the sub-optimal code at Yahoo.
In ALL
cases the password must MATCH the case that you initially
specified.
Web Browsing and UPPER or lower or MiXeD case
---
Unless the target site has taken extra-ordinary effort, all of
the characters BEFORE the first slash ("/") in a URL may be
in UPPER or lower or MiXeD case; the characters AFTER that first
slash ("/") most-likely must EXACTLY match the case with
which the site developers named the files, which means that XXX.htm
and xxx.HTM can be different files, as is the case (pardon the pun)
with these samples at ...
http://home.earthlink.net/~dhoskins/hughspen/L2case.htm
OK
http://home.earthlink.net/~dhoskins/hughspen/L2CASE.HTM
OK
http://home.earthlink.net/~dhoskins/hughspen/L2cAsE.hTm
OK
http://home.earthlink.net/~dhoskins/hughspen/L2CASE.htm
not there
then, too, note ...
http://TiNyUrL.CoM/hughspen/L2CASE.HTM
Ya
just never know what can happen with a small child in a short time
that no one thinks to test for in the ER, as at ...
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp
There
are some old LosAngeles photos at ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ludlowbrown/sets/72157612242783169/
http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,16664670~start=160
READ
the MANUAL FIRST, or else ...
http://treebeard31.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/the-tale-of-a-flight-crew/
CONTRARY
to some articles in supermarket checkout rack tabloids, my den does
NOT contain the material at
...
http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/player.swf?b=10&l=197&u=ILLUMllSOOAvIF//P_LxP92A42lCHCeeWCejXnHAS/c
but
some things do look familiar and cause reminisces.
For some
superb photos of and from the Space Shuttle, see the PowerPoint file
at ...
http://www.slideshare.net/Almeida/space-shuttle-210600
or
a bigger version at ...
http://www.the-amt.com/upload/attachment.php?attachmentid=45&stc=1&d=122090928 Try to imagine just why we elect such folks as those described at ... http://delftsman.mu.nu/archives/181567.php http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/t/travelagent.htm http://forums.gunbroker.com/post.asp?method=TopicQuote&TOPIC_ID=347883&FORUM_ID=5
Drink WARM water -- OR ELSE.! see why at ..
http://www.healthoma.com/a-glass-of-hot-water-after-meals-reduces-cancer-risk/
.-
http://www.blogcatalog.com/search.frame.php?term=drink%20warm%20water%20after%20meal?&id=4287c08e0ea8f8eae87b0a66fefc07dd
.-
http://www.blogcatalog.com/search.frame.php?term=drink%20warm%20water%20after%20meal?&id=ceeb6ded1988d2940bb577410f94eee3
.-
http://www.blogcatalog.com/search.frame.php?term=drink%20warm%20water%20after%20meal?&id=dce6b8bd8f12cbb97cd51791d463f144
If
you'd like to view old maps, consider the site at ...
http://www.davidrumsey.com/
e.g.,
http://www.davidrumsey.com/directory/what/State+Atlas/where/Indiana/
As
you might recall, we were in Norway in the summer of 2008 so we saw
nothing like the great beauty that it has
in the winter-time, as seen at ...
http://dc109.4shared.com/download/72120535/20b07f27/Noruega_en_invierno.pps?tsid=20090223-133555-fd50ff75 Have oft-times touted GMAIL for handling E-Mail. It seems soooo much better engineered, more user-friendly and intuitive than any other free email servers, but recently my faith was shaken a bit. Although I seldom access my G-mail via a POP3 server connection, when I recently attempted to do so, then GMAIL gave an error message that my username and password could not be processed. But it had worked many times in the past and was still accessible via a web browser. Eventually this was traced to GMAIL's having locked my POP3 access and was now requiring special effort to get it UNlocked, even though there was NO evidence of this condition in any of the displays via the web relative to the management and settings of my account. Our group at Rockwell used to make the comment about a couple of our internal customers that whenever they described a problem, the only thing that was clear was that there was a problem of some kind, somewhere, at some point in time and we had to actually sort thru all of their gobblety-gook to learn the real specifics of the actual problem before we could take care of the situation. Based on the clarity of error messages respecting PCs and the Web, those two guys must have found a second calling. But I still recommend GMAIL. The FBI will NOT email you, no matter what, but there must be enough fools who fall for big scams/spams/spoofs to make it profitable for frauds to bother sending stuff like the one described at ... http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977606501&grpId=3659174697241980&nav=Groupspace&memberId=21742 Some interesting info about almost any drug might be found at ... http://www.consumerreports.org/health/best-buy-drugs/reports-by-drugNames.htm thanks, Don. If you like to attempt do-it-yourself projects, then there just might be something useful at ... http://fixitnow.com/ Having never had an interest in the site, so have stayed away from reunion.com; then my interest got VERY NEGATIVE after reading about their scamming/spamming/spoofing as noted at ...
HTTP://consumerist.com/380751/reunioncom-will-scrape-your-address-book-then-spam-your-contactsFor
nearly 6-min of good old-fashioned comedy, see at ...
http://www.thefunnystuff.net/viewmovie.php?id=976
Have
been using Adobe PhotoShop for many years very successfully. Today
when I went to use it some of the program and supporting data files
were MISSING. Checking the disk with CHKDSK and the recycle bin
showed nothing about the situation, so rather than going through a
laborious reinstall, I restored in from my backup files and all runs
fine again.
Suspect: Sinister force. Moral: good backups are
essential.
Happy Surfing
/s/ Hugh
p.s.-
speaking of surfing, there are almost 10-million pics linked from
...
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=surfing
but
only about 100-thousand with the "slab" keyword ...
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=surfing+slab
Stuff Seekers, All:
PC-Users: BE DEFINITELY AWARE OF AN
IMPENDING MALICIOUS SOFTWARE ATTACK ON 4/1; AND THAT AIN'T AN APRIL
FOOL JOKE. This thing is called "Conflicker" and has been
distributed far an wide for the last SEVERAL months and is lying
dormant in many systems world-wide just waiting for instructions from
the author to perform some unknown task. See more at ...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Conflicker
KEEP
YOUR SHIELDS UP AND UP-TO-DATE.
Hope that you'll still be
on-the-air next month.
Downey-ites: Check the Page-2 at
http://tinyurl/dowhist
ISCers:
Please note the details of Nelson Slagle's
reunion of Tues 21 Apr'09 at ...
http://www.slagshouseofstats.com/Reunions/Reunion4-21-09MasterA.htm
and
the list of attendees so far at ...
http://www.slagshouseofstats.com/Reunions/Reunion4-21-2009AttendeesE.htm
See
some questionably noteworthy images at ...
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hthoskins/IMAGSET1/
this months' fav --
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hthoskins/IMAGSET1/tvcomp.jpg
For
a view of storage the way it used to be, see at ...
http://blogs.netapp.com/in_randombytes/2009/02/adventures-of-t.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/technology_enl_1158142314/html/1.stm
There
are 7 wonders of the old world and 8 giant holes in the new world as
at ...
http://www.stockhouse.com/Blogs/ViewDetailedPost.aspx?p=88695
If
there are still a lot of places on your "Bucket List", then
instead of enduring the hassles of traveling, just do it from your
arm-chair via ...
http://www.tripfilms.com/
For
a look at some Jack Webb and Johnny Carson chat which is a TRULY
CLASSIC exchange of humor, see at ...
http://good-times.webshots.com/video/3019231800102471420KwUiXL
http://www.badongo.com/vid/844726
Based on a hard-copy newspaper article on eagle-counting like
the one at ...
http://www.pe.com/localnews/hemet/stories/PE_News_Local_W_eagles07.4885f58.html
we
took an interest in the endeavor and then became part of the group
mentioned in the news item at ...
http://www.kesq.com/global/story.asp?S=10008451
it
was interesting, but not exactly with spectacular sights;
but
we did learn that there is better viewing online at ...
http://www.iws.org/
by
following the path - Interactive|EagleNestCam and selecting
one, e.g. ...
http://www.iws.org/bald_eagles/pelicanharborcam.htm
where
you can actually watch what's going on in the nest of a family of
eagles.
Afterward we continued on to the east and took-in the
...
http://www.codstreetfair.com/
Speaking
of maps, guess what the building cluster is at the location spotted
by
...
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=41.8549060821,++-124.1498208045&sll=37.771008,-122.41175&sspn=0.008057,0.013819&g=37.771008,+-122.41175&ie=UTF8&ll=41.854955,-124.157996&spn=0.015183,0.043945&t=h&z=15
The
warmest spot in the barnyard many also be the cutest, as see ...
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hTT0B4AcD5I/ScLRKJyKamI/AAAAAAAApbE/XATxEZgZoek/s1600-h/securedownload-1.jpeg
For
an inexpensive home security system, the following seems worth
consideration ...
http://www.greenpassion.org/f38/low-tech-security-system-run-leo-run-6270/
http://notes4theusualsuspects.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-install-home-security-system.html
Q.
What unique characteristic do the following words have in
common?...
Banana Dresser
Grammar Potato Revive Uneven Assess
For the answer, see at ...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Banana++Dresser++Grammar++Potato++Revive++Uneven++Assess
Anybody
considering the need to change an E-Mail Address because of a change
of an ISP might find some interesting info at ...
http://home.earthlink.net/~dhoskins/hughspen/emailing.htm#addrchg
A.K.A.
http://tinyurl/hughspen/emailing.htm#addrchg
Happy
Surfing (Guess it's been a slow month) ...
/s/ Hugh
Stuff Seekers, All:
Regarding the current flu topic, by now
there may have been too much said on the subject or too little, but
the following might be helpful ...
http://blog.medjet.com/?p=128
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=disinfecting+hand+wipes
http://www.doctordepotonline.com/mall/Page106WipesAndTowelettes2.asp
http://www.greenlightoffice.com/office/stationery/819300969-unimed-midwest-sani-hands-alc-disinfectant-hand-wipe-cleaning-wipe-100-sheets-per-box-5-x-8-white.html
Downeyites:
Would apreciate hearing from any of you who
might have known of a family with the last name of Spencer living in
Downey, especially in the vicinity of Verdura Ave, near Gardendale
just west of Lakewood Blvd.
The activities of a truly
dedicated Marine are shown in the story at ...
http://www.americanprofile.com/veterans/article/19684.html
relative
to some guys from my high-school, a few class years before mine.
It
is a real manifestation of the "Semper Fi" motto of the
U.S.M.C.
For some excellent pics of birds(osprey) catching
fish (sometimes 2-at-a-time), there's a real photo treat awaiting at
...
http://www.miguellasa.com/photos/sspopup.mg?AlbumID=1001578
if
this is all the same bird, then he's sure one hungry fellow.
Whoever
Mary Hunt is, she makes good sense in these tough economic times, as
at ...
http://www.crosswalk.com/finances/11600828/
http://www.creators.com/lifestylefeatures/everyday-cheapskate/out-of-the-dark-tunnel-and-into-the-sunshine.html
For
a really well done reminiscence of the 1960's, check it at ...
http://moreoldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm
The
MainFrame and/or PC buffs might find interesting reading at all of
the following ...
http://tinyurl.com/d3fwga
http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/eager.html
There have been a LOT of dumb things said, as see ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=RGSW2cl0ykYC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0
Some
sobering thoughts about change are noted at ...
http://chasingdown.blogspot.com/2009/03/politicians-changed-that.html
Would
be glad to make recommendations to any of you in the greater-LA area
who might be interested in a good general, A/C, roofing, rain-gutter,
or tree-triming contractor.
It's Spring-Time and
we've recently had good experiences with competent crews.
Print
your own money; it's not illegal; many are doing it; as see ...
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=printing%20own%20money
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=printing+own+money
Its
backing might be in question, and others need to believe in its
value,
but heck the government is doing it right now as you
read this.
For more on "value" see at ...
http://home.earthlink.net/~dhoskins/hughspen/quotsay.htm#value
Am
seeking suggestions as to how to rig a desktop icon so that
double-left-clicking on it will cause a -.JPG file to be printed,
without having to click too many times in some intermediate
application to do the printing --- the fewer clicks the
better.
For the 1-st grade view of old philosophers' sayings,
consider ...
http://gundamseedplus.blogspot.com/2007/10/6-year-old-versions-of-famous-sayings.html
For
the best magic trick that I've encountered, see at ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERyYzha4J8E
http://s173.photobucket.com/albums/w60/ericfin/?action=view¤t=WorldsBestTrick.flv
then there's other stuff at ...
http://www.metacafe.com/tags/worlds_best_trick/
See
a super nerdy cartoon at ...
http://www.gocomics.com/features/66/feature_items/422646
be
sure to read the comments.
For an explanation of goose pimples
and the medical name of their mechanism, see at ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrector_pili
Maybe
it's an over-simplification of economics, but ...
.-whereas
it is not necessary to put money back into the ground to take out
water, iron-ore, diamonds, gold, etc.,
.-therefore it seems
to me that all costs go to labor, interest, greed, and bribes. Now if
we could just reduce those latter items, then there'd be more for
most of us.
P.T. Barnum said that there's one born every
minute, so check out the sales pitch at ...
http://www.electricity4gas.com/?hop=t0daysale
Some
memories were recently brought back by the nostalgic images and
stories at ...
http://www.ominous-valve.com/
http://www.ominous-valve.com/tubes.html
http://www.ominous-valve.com/ba-mfrs.html
http://www.ominous-valve.com/burstein_applebee.html
NO,
the name on the top page is not me.
For a "different"
kind of clock, see several at ...
http://beeks.eu/swf/handclock.swf
http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf
http://beeks.eu/swf/timeline.swf
and
even more linked from ...
http://insertmonkey.com/search/0/clock
more
on the subject is at ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock
If
you would like for your electric rates to remain as low as possible,
then be concerned; be VERY concerned as see 4400+ hits at ...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="electricity+rates+would+necessarily+skyrocket"
Bikers
and Hikers BE FORE-WARNED: Look BEFORE you Venture to follow the
signs ...
http://skirmisher.org/snaps/that-sign-on-the-road/
http://s2.buzzfeed.com/static/imagebuzz/web02/2009/2/16/23/move-to-the-side-ohh-hell-no-25100-1234845009-1.jpg
http://rainbowhill.tumblr.com/post/97025292/darwin-road-sign-hikers-and-bikers-move-to-the
Labor
saving machines are at work everywhere, as see at ...
http://edwardsnyder.com/where-did-all-the-timber-worke
and
there's lots more where that came from at ...
http://www.afm-forest.fi/
http://www.afm-forest.fi/MOVIES/OPERATIONS/2_THINNINGS/TRACKED_HARVESTERS/afm60-mht-low.wmv
and
even still more at ...
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=afm-forest#
this
is why there are fewer people needed to work in the logging
business.
Someday perhaps the only real jobs will be for
those people designing, building,
and repairing the
machines which then will do all the other tasks.
The State of
Calif is seriously considering controlling your viewing pleasure, as
see at ...
http://www.electronichouse.com/article/calif_considers_ban_on_big_screen_tvs/C157
See
from where the past has brought us and where the future might take us
...
(turn DOWN the volume, just
view the presentation)
http://www.flixxy.com/technology-and-education-2008.htm
Can
some blindness be cured by stem-cells?
Will cataracts be next on
that list? - - Followed by ?-?_?/
Would Pfizer stock
be a good investment?
Decide for yourself as per the item at
...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article6122757.ece
There
are several rumor de-bunking sites, like URBANLEGENDS,
TRUTHORFICTION, and SNOPES.COM, but the latter might not be all that
you would expect of a "truth squad", as see at ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes.com
and it bibliography
http://www.google.com/search?&q=snopes
for more
There is an interesting Canadian perspective on the
happenings in the USA at ...
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/28/Canadians-Conclude-Americans-Largely-Silent-as-Their-Nation-is-Systematically-Destroyed.aspx
Sometimes
foreigners see our troubles much better than we do close-up.
There
have been rantings in this space before about Symantec/Norton, but I
recently UNinstalled it (and its associated LiveUpDate) from a
friend's PC with the ControlPanel|AddRemovePrograms; since that is
known to not do a complete job, then followed-up with the special
down-loadable Norton removal tools.
If you should ever attempt any
such thing, then please note ...
.- write down the precise name
and version number of what you are trying to
remove, because the version of removal tool is dependent on the what
you
are trying to remove. One tool
does NOT remove everything.
.- the removal tool will likely run
for a VERY LONG time, with little-to-no sign
that it is doing anything; but after a few hours it will perhaps
quit.
That system runs much better now.
Happy Surfing --
Remember: Your Mileage May Vary.
/s/ Hugh
Stuff Seekers, All:
Another Stonehenge, but with some
documentation, is described at ...
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_guidestones?currentPage=all
An
Email Suggestion: Have a heart and send everything as PLAIN
text.
Using fancy things and sending -.DOC or -.PDF files just
takes up extra electrons, bandwidth, time, and space.
Maybe
Al-Gore is right about global warming, or maybe he's just trying to
make a living shouting that the sky is falling; but for the other
side, see at ...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10783
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=don+easterbrook+western+washington+university+global
There
seem to be two sides to the global warming "facts", but one
thing is for sure: as you drive faster on the highway, your kinetic
energy is exponentially greater; at 2-times the speed, the energy is
4-times as great. The only place that the energy goes when you stop
is into heat, either the air, the tires on the road, or the brakes
pads on the drums/rotors. Going slower consumes less fuel, generates
less heat, and causes less anxiety; it's a win-win situation, but
watch out for that BIG TRUCK.
Q. What do the following have in
common: Aberdeen, Albany, Akron, Algiers, Angola, Augusta, Brazil,
Cairo, China, Cincinnati, Cuba, Delaware, Denver, Dublin, Florence,
Geneva, Georgia, Holland, Houston, Ireland, Lisbon, London,
Manhattan, Memphis, Mexico, Miami, Nashville, Nebraska, Nevada,
Paris, Peru, Philadelphia, Reno, Rome, Santa Fe, Scotland, Vermont,
Vienna, Warsaw, Washington?
If you like Google, then you
should REALLY like ...
http://www.truthout.org/050409O?n
wonder what'll happen to the price of Google stock shares.
For
the latest and greatest awards in construction, see at ...
http://www.thescoopnewspaper.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1817&Itemid=762
http://thechatpage.com/Archive/The2008ContractorsAwards/zwxkp/post.htm
http://www.emailvariety.com/2009/04/02/2008-contractor-awards/
Be
wary of good-sounding intentions, as at ...
http://www.fast351.com/firearms/our2ndmatters.htm
http://www.spotsygop.com/2009/03/brittish-are-coming-future-step-to-take.html
In
the good old "dark ages", government employees (eg.,
clerks, police, teachers) usually got sub-market wages, but they got
over-market retirement deals.
In these "enlightened"
days, some of them have joined unions and now get market (or higher)
wages with still over-over-market retirement deals, possibly due to
the unions' campaign contributions to the policy-setting
lawmakers/politicians.
If you'd like to check on the super deals
that some California retired government employees are receiving, see
at ...
http://www.californiapensionreform.com/CalPERS/database_results.asp
just
enter a name, or select a city, or both; it can be very
enlightening.
If you don't like it, then vote for someone who will
change the situation at the next election -- if you can find
one.
For relief from the headaches of the current crises (w/
apologies to Bernstein and Rivera), see at ...
http://www.newsday.com/media/flash/2009-04/46217527.swf
Sometimes
family photos don't always get captioned as you might prefer, as at
...
http://www.plaintruth.com/the_plain_truth/2009/05/my-family-photo.html
http://file.walagata.com/w/radiogandy/FamilyPhoto.pps
try to ignore the expletive; just go to page 2.
Sometimes
it's hard to tell whether a video is real or just
Computer-Generated-Images (CGI). Regardless of the technique, there
was a great deal of SKILL shown by the team who produced the one at
...
http://marthagracious.multiply.com/video/item/3
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7639046578163194993
it's well worth the 120 seconds.
Speaking of time - in
medieval days, the smallest period of time imaginable was defined as
1/376-th of a minute (0.00265958-min. or apx 160-millisec).
Would
appreciate any lead as to how who made that determination.
Possibly
their technique would have made Michelson's job easier, as see at
...
www.mtsd.k12.nj.us/6459125928124512/lib/6459125928124512/_files/14_L1_reading2_speed_of_light.doc
and later refined, as at ...
http://oisc.net/Speed_of_Light.htm
and
there is soooo much more, as at each of ...
http://www.wonderquest.com/calculate-speed-of-light.htm
http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/lectures/spedlite.html
http://skullsinthestars.com/2008/03/21/relativity-measuring-the-speed-of-light/
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=michelson+speed+of+light
"Support
Bacteria! It's The Only Culture Some People Have", as see at
...
http://shop.neatorama.com/product-info.php?support-bacteria-culture-pid256.html
Some excellent pics from the Hubble telescope will be seen at
...
http://www.fileqube.com/file/xgWhilWr180022
(French)
still trying to find the English version, but the
value is in the pics anyway.
also
http://www.4shared.com/file/10047277/27a6cb98/Hubble.html
not the same
http://www.esnips.com/doc/e13024a8-2846-4781-be61-559c5a6f690b/Hubble
still different
Harnick and Block wrote about
"Politics-and-Poker" in the musical Fiorello.
For all
about Politics-and-Cows, see at ...
http://lakjer.dk/mikkel/cows.shtml
http://my.opera.com/Ravo/blog/show.dml/2708100
As
you might travel in a car on vacation, be careful of dark and rainy
nights, lest ...
http://www.unwind.com/jokes-funnies/holidayjokes/hills.shtml
http://www.jokefile.co.uk/numerical_order/1131.html
Long
ago in a time and land far away -- let's reminisce a bit at ...
http://www.rense.com/general81/memories.htm
http://geeks.pirillo.com/profiles/blogs/smile-in-the-land-that-made
For
a news item relative (pun) to our granddaughter's 3-rd cousin
(forwarded by the subject's proud grandpa), see at
http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20090515/NEWS01/905160324/
On
other planets there may be life as we know it or strangely different;
the Hubble Telescope doesn't tell us about such things yet, but see
what's closer and rather strange, at ...
http://amazingphotos4all.blogspot.com/2009/04/socotra-beautiful-island.html
http://binagupta.sulekha.com/blog/post/2009/04/socotra-island-on-a-different-planet-unesco-s.htm
The
current Wall-E movie robot seems to me to bear a great resemblance to
the one in the Short-Circuit movies from the mid-1980s.
Is it
just a glitch in my memory or did they re-use some old hardware?
The
area earthquake on the evening of Sunday 17 May, has given rise to
some publishing of facts on the history of such events, as see at
...
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/facts.php
and
then there are some preparedness tips at ...
http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/earthquakes.shtm
but
when they strike, it's not always easy to remember to act
accordingly.
The cluster of marks at the Missouri-Tennessee
border area is often forgotten.
In case of trouble getting a
good wireless connection, then re-booting the router/access-point by
powering it off/on has been known to correct the problem.
The
follically/follicularly-challenged might find some relief and humor
in the products at ,,,
http://www.flairhair.com/products.php
less
expensive knock-offs are available at some swap-meets and street
fairs.
Life for each of us is our own unique individual partial
derivative
of the complex function of the Universe as
defined by that
Supreme Intelligence which pervades
all nature. -- S. O. Teric
Can you
spot the latest addition to the group at ...
http://home.earthlink.net/~dhoskins/hughspen/puonetic.htm
aka
http://tinyurl.com/hughspen/puonetic.htm
aka
tinyurl/hughspen/puonetic.htm
Would appreciate any leads to
some utility that could be run on request to make a simple text file
listing the program names and cpu times of the running processes
which Windows-Task-Manager|Performance nicely lists on the screen on
request. Thanks.
Anyone, especially some folks of a "certain
age", might find something useful in the stuff at ...
http://www.coloncleansereport.net/
You be the judge; tread carefully.
Just in case you were
wondering: NO, this has nothing to do with me.
Maybe
it's just a bunch of dooms-day conspiracy theorists talking or there
may be some truth to the government's confiscation of everybody's
individual retirement accounts, as noted at ...
http://www.personalliberty.com/bob-livingston/who-wants-to-confiscate-your-401k-and-ira/
read it and judge for yourself.
Some folks are concerned about
...
.- the government's quietly building facilities which
could be temporary
in case of disaster
or perhaps more have more sinister uses, see at ...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=fema+detention+facilities
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=eed74d9d44c30493706fe03f4c9b3a77
.-
the government's building underground bunker locations, as per ...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=government+building+secret+underground
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread61324/pg1
.-
the Homeland Security Dept's mentioning that returning troops might
be
a risk, as see ...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=homeland+security+returning+military
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=94803
.-
what the government might have in mind as analyzed in the piece at
...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uuWVHT1WUY
Considering
some of these things could help prepare for the future or just allow
for fertile minds to script a new TV series.
Mentioned without
prejudice; you be the judge.
Just in case that I'm not the
last one to learn that besides "real" books, there are also
"Fake" books, then see at ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_book
http://www.dizswift.btinternet.co.uk/anderson/
For
some old time remembrances, consider the links from ...
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=broderick+crawford+2150
Some
of you are likely accustomed to designing signs and greeting cards
with your PCs and then producing them on paper loaded into a
printer.
BUT if you've ever wanted to carve stuff onto a wooden
1x12 plank inserted into your HP-Laser Jet, then you just gotta see
the CarveWright demo at ...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-216696872011597761&hl=en
It's
easy to imagine waterfalls which drop over cliffs into the air, like
Niagara or Igaussu or Victoria, but try to imagine a waterfall that
is actually already UNDERWATER.
See more at ...
http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_761599222/giant_ocean_cataracts.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/english/phenomena/underwaterwater.shtml
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=underwater+ocean+cataract
Happy
Surfing,, /s/ Hugh
Stuff Seekers, All:
REAL VIRUS WARNING...
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/ups.asp
If
you're a fan of planes and the AirForce, then you might enjoy as I
did the video at ...
http://www.greatdanepromilitary.com/SR-71/index.htm
There
are many other allied items linked from ...
http://www.greatdanepromilitary.com/
For
some really strange/unusual aircraft pics, see at ...
www.mae.ufl.edu/~sforza/EAS4700/Unusual_Aircraft.pps
would
sure like to know the whys, wherefores, and purposes of many of
them
Just recently observed that HP is now offering some of
its paper wrapped at 750 sheets per package instead of the usual 500
sheets (an increase of 50%) and put-up at 6 packages per case instead
of the usual 10 (a decrease of 40%). You do the math, but this
figures to 4500 sheets instead of the usual 5000 (10% less) per case.
And they are advertised as 50% more free, with a note to RUSH to the
store floor. Guess it's just a sign of the times, with merchandising
trying to triumph over consumers to manifest Barnum's old adage about
the fool born every minute. Caveat emptor. After years of success at
ripping off the consumers with cheap printers and expensive
consumables, this is another tack.
To learn a little about
how much sugar you're REALLY getting, see at ...
http://www.righthealth.com/topic/How_Much_Sugar/Images
Never
ceases to amaze me as to the quality of images of far-away places
such as on the site at ...
http://photo.photojpl.com/tour/08toureiffel/08toureiffel.html
With
so many people working from home and other remote locations and
having video conferences over their PCs, causing a decrease in
business travel, applying such technology to this sort of "vacation
coverage" might reduce leisure travel too. Now if we could only
get the taste of apple pie, the odor of fresh-cut grain, and the
splash of the waterfalls, then we'd have a 5 senses
covered.
Reference is often made to large things as
being "a real MOOSE of a ..", and the reason would likely
be manifest in the one shown at ...
(NO; just in case you're
wondering, the caption in the first URL was NOT named after me;
believe they just mis-spelled huge.)
http://maineliveslarge.blogspot.com/2009/01/hugh-moose-on-loose.html
http://www.wyomingoutdoorsradio.com/big%20moose%20ready.jpg
http://www.wyomingoutdoorsradio.com/big%20moose%201ready.jpg
http://www.lakestatefishing.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=25803&forum=52&post_id=195630
For
some Funny Money, see at ...
http://www.slick.com/
you
can even get some with your own picture on it, but they're not
cheap.
Failing to "call before you dig" can be very
hazardous, but other things can go wrong underground as well, as see
at ...
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/dial-before-you-dig-explosion.shtml
If
you have had sad experiences communicating with corporate customer
service(?) representatives in foreign countries, then there might be
of some help in the info at ...
http://bostonlegalsass.blogspot.com/2009/06/email-of-day-hablas-ingles.html
http://forums.hsn.com/hsn_postst11903_Customer-Service-doesnt-speak-English--Try-This.aspx
For
a nice experience with German manufacturing engineering, see at
...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd5WGLWNllA
maybe
Detroit could benefit by adopting some such operational ideas.
For
a look at an awesome 91-year-old photo of True Patriots, see at
...
http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1208952812/1
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977533679
In
the "List" or "Details" view of a sub-directory
in Windows-Explorer,
there is a small teensy miniature icon placed
to the left of each file name.
Would like to learn how to suppress
the icon in either/both of these 2 views.
We nearly never
watch the TV show, but received a link to a superb acrobatic act in
the excerpt at ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viAVIGpw1xc
If
you'd like to get a preview of a lot of the sights on planet Earth
BEFORE you go there yourself, then there will likely be something of
interest for you at ...
http://stoodthere.com/
but
NO-FAIR just looking and then staying home - ya gotta get up and
go.
For a view of how some large moving operations are
conducted, see at ...
http://tugaleres.free.fr/blagues/L-art_du_chargement.pps
or
maybe try some of the links from ...
http://www.google.com/search?q=L-art_du_chargement
Am
indebted to Jo4hn for the most recent pun input, which can be found
with DIFFERENT associated items at the following ... (see
each for complete set)
http://possumsal.homestead.com/Random/Linoleum.html
http://www.sufficientfortoday.com/2009/06/i-dont-think-of-it-as-high-fructose.html
Happy
Surfing,, /s/ Hugh
Hello, Everyone:
This system will be OFF THE AIR from Sun
12 July thru Mon 3 Aug inclusive.
Your cooperation would be
appreciated in ...
A. NOT sending any messages, except small
ones of the GREATEST importance.
B. understanding that any
messages which you might send could ...
1. be
rejected by my ISP if the allotted space fills-up.
2. be lost among the spam - as I perhaps carelessly delete such
messages on my return.
3. cause some more
important messages to suffer one the fates mentioned
above.
Meanwhile, please understand that any lack of a reply does
not indicate a lack of interest on my part.
Thanks for your
cooperation.
_____________________
Stuff Seekers,
All:
WOWIEE.!.! For a demo of some super technology in
photo animation,
just run you cursor slowly up and down (notice
the time shown in the cursor) the picture at ...
http://61226.com/share/hk.swf
[thanks to Lois for this neat fwd]
For a really touching story
about Shay, a baseball game, and a pitcher wise beyond his age, see
at ...
http://www.arizona-heaters.com/goodstory.htm
http://www.bylinc.org/story_about_youth_sports.htm
http://sunnebnkwrtr.blogspot.com/2009/04/two-choices-at-fundraising-dinner-for.html
On
some versions of some operating systems on some computers, NOT all
USB ports are equally useful for all intents and purposes, even if
all are rated for the same speed.
Case in point: If the Linksys
WUSB54G wireless USB adapter support software is installed and the
unit plugged into one of the USB ports, then the adapter will not
necessarily operate properly if it is moved to another USB port.
Even
though the DeviceManager|(device)|Properties|General may say that
"This device is working properly", it still may be
NON-operational.
The only cure know at this time is to UNinstall
and REinstall the software.
Then the unit will operate in the new
port which is used first, but not in any of the others.
Would
appreciate learning any other schemes to allow port changing without
UN-/RE-installing the software.
If you have to pay to park at
your local Zoo, then check out ...
http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/squiffy2/review/33477255/
http://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_us/articles.php?boardId=88685&articleId=1102199&func=6&channel=People+Connection&filterRead=false&filterHidden=true&filterUnhidden=false
Some
cartoonists often show people painting themselves into corners, but
then there is a guy who does it MUCH BETTER, as at ...
http://www.wayn.com/waynphotos.html?wci=photo&photo_key=28409972&folder=457792
http://patron4u.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/another-street-artist-even-more-sophisticated-than-the-previous-one/
If
you've got some frivolous discretionary spendable income lying
around, then you might amaze your friends by some special photo
processing, as at ...
http://www.photoshowercurtain.com/
http://www.fotobed.com/
Protect
your SSN, but why(?) ...
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/predictingssn/
http://www.thedailyjournal.com/article/20090707/NEWS01/907070306/Identity-theft-not-so-difficult--researchers-discover?FORM=ZZNR
http://www.sctimes.com/article/20090707/NEWS01/107070020/0/OPINION/Web-identity-theft-loophole-found
http://www.newsrunner.com/display-article/?eUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fconsumerist.com%2F5308927%2Fsome-ssns-can-be-guessed-using-birthdate-and-location-say-researchers&eSrc=The+Consumerist&eTitle=Some+SSNs+Can+Be+Guessed+Using+Birthdate+And+Location%2C+Say+Researchers+[Not+So+Futureproof]
Extra
Extra read all about it. REALLY old book can now be yours, as at
....
http://www.codexsinaiticus.org
http://www.codex-sinaiticus.net
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-big-question-what-is-the-codex-sinaiticus-and-what-does-it-reveal-about-the-bible-1734439.html
And
not to be outdone, there's also ...
http://www.kb.se/codex-gigas
Once
Upon a time long ago, I worked for North American Aviation in the
main manufacturing building (Bldg-1); this was essentially ON the
grounds of whst is now the LAX Airport at the n.w. corner of Aviation
and Imperial adjacent to the RR tracks. Recently I asked a group of
ex-co-workers as to within what city's boundaries the building was
located. I got 3 different answers.
There's an interesting
comparison of Wash.D.C., Iraq, and Guns at ...
http://opencarry.mywowbb.com/forum55/27808.html
http://www.usacarry.com/forums/general-firearm-discussion/8615-australian-shooter-magazine.html
http://www.casinomeister.com/forums/jokes/17034-interesting-letter-australian-shooter-magazine-week.html
Happy
Surfing,, /s/ Hugh
Stuff Seekers, All:
To those of you who heeded my request
not to send big unimportant messages while this system was off the
air, let me extend my sincere thanks.
The others out there managed
to overflow my mailbox several times; for shame.
We had a
great time on our vacation to Alaska. The weather was good, but not
excellent. We DID get to see most of Glacier-Bay, a satisfying part
of Mt.McKinley, and some good Kenai Peninsula scenery. The Copper
River was area was a ho-hum. The Denali Highway (closed in winter)
was sorta interesting, but definitely skippable (perhaps it'd been
better on a clear day when you could see forever - apologies to
Burton Lane). The scenery from Homer was surprisingly good, but we
did encounter some rain. The view from the McDonald's in Homer has to
be the best from any fast-food anywhere.
Found it interesting to
notice the following businesses ...
http://www.borders.com/online/store/StoreDetailView_88
http://www.dimondcenter.com/index2.htm
http://www.yelp.com/biz/nordstrom-anchorage
http://www.simon.com/mall/print_floorplan.aspx?ID=231
http://worthingtonford.dealerconnection.com/?lang=en
http://www.judysbook.com/cities/ketchikan/Uncategorized/26805583/Wal_Mart.htm
And then there is a construction project that has been
in-work for 127 years, as see at ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia
Whether
or not you care to listen to the likes of LouDobbs or GlennBeck,
the
discussion on the government's potential intrusion into your PC
makes
interesting reading (you can ignore the video)
at ...
http://mediamatters.org/research/200908070044
http://taralynnthompson.blogspot.com/2009/08/yikes-government-taking-over-your.html
especially the part which reads ...
Have heard that the language may have been changed, but just
the thought that the Feds put it out in the first place should be
cause for concern.
Speaking of marketing, there's now "a
work of engineering genius from the China coast". For $300 +S&H
you can get a fan with a built-in holder for the included blocks of
encased water which you can freeze in your refrigerator.
You just
have to keep running to the kitchen to swap and re-freeze the blocks;
see more at ...
http://www.coolsurge.com/default.cfm
The
first widely-read PC magazine, Byte, was published from 1975 to 1998
when it was bought out and killed.
The widely-read "PC
Magazine" was begun in 1985 and killed in 2009.
To me, the
best mag surviving is PC-World, as at ...
http://www.pcworld.com/
if
you give them my name whenever that you might subscribe, then it will
not help either you or me except by continuing to get a good magazine
every month about the state of the industry. E.g., see the next item
- - -
-=
For a really super-duper map of the space on your
hard-drive, checkout the neat free tool at ...
http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html
It
will give a map ON-screen and save it as text.
You can Right-Click
on files and select "Delete" to get rid of UNwanted
stuff.
If you like it as much as I do, then consider contributing
to its development team -- although their appearance does seem a bit
kookie.
If you're concerned about your privacy on FaceBook,
Twitter, MySpace, Flickr, Geni, LinkedIn, etc., ad nauseam, then see
at ...
http://tech.msn.com/products/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=20589731
For
another tack, consider ...
[[ it
reads a little funny 'cause somebody scanned it and posted it here
http://www.blogcatalog.com/search.frame.php?term=checking+out+the+boss&id=3c7f9f350eb1717f18fdae2694669a52
the
following copy is better to some extent but gotta ignore the
environment...
http://fikrahmadani.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-your-boss-knows-could-hurt-you.html
If
you are not already involved with enough Social Networks, then you
might consider reviewing the list at ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
Take
a look at the fine photographic work of Ryan Pyle at ...
http://www.ryanpyle.com/
BE
AWARE - Have heard about some PC connectable devices with pre-loaded
viruses, but just stumbled upon something almost as sinister.
Bought
a NEW SanDisk USB thumb-drive/memory-stick. It came with a "feature"
for password protection (called U3). When first inserted, then it
immediately caused some files to be added to the system WITHOUT EVER
ASKING FOR PERMISSION.
Then it appeared to add TWO(2) lettered
drives to my system - neither of them were useful; when I removed the
stick, then I got the blue-screen-of-death (BSOD), whereupon I
restored my system to the prior day's checkpoint.
When I returned
the device to Staples, then technician seemed to know about this
"feature"'s installing software and suggested that my
system was buggy; but I was cooperatively given a refund.
My
position is that SanDisk's code should have asked wether I wanted any
of the device's special "features" before installing
them.
Apparently, if a PC system can tolerate/accommodate the
device, then it still takes up 2 drive letters.
CAUTIONS:
.-
Before using any new software or hardware, be sure to establish a
restore point; I was just dumb-lucky.
.- Be aware of the potential
for such plugin device's automatically installing things that you
might not want.
Have had some other problems with
USB-mem-sticks' getting bad drive letters.
Have downloaded two
keen utils (USBDLM.EXE and DriveCleanUp.exe) from ...
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
which
correct the problem. See the discussion there about the
situation.
NO, we are not relocating, but the address sounds
interesting at ...
http://www.movoto.com/real-estate/homes-for-sale/MD/Poolesville/16906-Hoskinson-Rd-310_MC6648041.htm
WARNING
WILL ROBINSON - -
How the government works ... (somewhat
different ...)
http://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_us/articles.php?boardId=455943&articleId=766656&func=5&channel=News
http://www.creditboards.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t710.html
http://www.indiancinemafans.com/board/upload/jokes/45659-how-does-government-work.html
The
difference between politicians and the rest of us is neatly noted at
...
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics/msg/c886cd1c9c392e00
http://forum.baby-gaga.com/about675962.html
http://poorbuthappy.com/yourthing/post/haircut/
Some
revealing substantive points about the proposed health care bill will
be found at ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2300451/posts
This
is a few years old, and the subtitles are in French, but a LOT about
this little girl's grasp of knowledge and the language is revealed by
the audio in the item at ...
http://prayerpartner2.multiply.com/video/item/12/babygirlonJaylenoshow.wmv
Sort
of seems as though Congress and the Administration are beginning to
blow smoke as was done in the olden times as noted at ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema
To
get even with an annoying passenger in the next seat (on a bus,
train, plane), consider the following ....
.- Connect your laptop
to the Internet.
.- Close your eyes for a brief moment, open them
again, turn your
gaze upwards to the skies as
if in prayer.
.- Take a deep breath and open the site at ...
http://www.myit-media.de/the_end.html
If
you think you might not have InterNet access in your seat,
then
you can copy this page to your laptop (anytime -- like now) and open
it whenever/wherever (eg., like on your next ride
somewhere)
For a really great example of how things get
distorted when passed along, see the write-up at ...
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/Swift.html
Some
don't walk in the rain; others do and get "washed" as at
...
http://wildcatterrie2.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9904643A17C4BE6F!778.entry
http://moralsandethics.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/need-washing-2/
http://www.ghanadot.com/fyi.yomoeh.rain.080409.html
The
latest Consumer Reports discusses several aspects of patient/hospital
relationships and then refers for further info and comparisons to
several websites ...
http://www.talkingquality.gov/
http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov
http://whynotthebest.org/
http://qualitycheck.org/
http://www.leapfroggroup.org/
http://usnews.com/
http://health.usnews.com/health
http://www.consumerreports.org/health
perhaps you might find them more helpful, but my attempts at
learning anything
salient about comparative patient care and
satisfaction were an exercise in futility.
For an optical
illusion keenly designed, see at ...
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/17-05/st_alphageek
http://www.123opticalillusions.com/pages/albert-einstein-marilyn-monroe.php
http://www.mancouch.com/705283308/optical-illusion-can-you-see-marilyn-monroe/
Have
finally succeeded in getting a program to read all of the pages in my
HP7100's automatic-document-feeder into a single -.PDF document. It's
called NitroPDF/Professional and it does a LOT of neat things with
PDFs, which includes its acting as a pseudo-printer from any standard
Windows-Ap which needs to print.
But my successful version is
6.0.1.5 which is still in Beta-testing, so you might want to wait a
while for the real thing; maybe in October.
Sometimes products
made in the USA may be cheaper and/or better and nearly always help
our economy, as see ...
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/pol/1336296526.html
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/21645/
In
a metaphor on America manifest in the age-old battle between eagles
and ducks, see the survival at ...
http://www.enotes.com/blogs/english-teacher-blog/2009-07/great-metaphor/
http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_mar2009/EagleCollision.htm
http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/aerial-combat-over-lake-tapps/comment-page-1/
Happy
Surfing,, /s/ Hugh
Stuff Seekers, All:
DOWNEYITES:
Two images of Downey's
Uncle Gabriel's Log Cabin Cafe will be found at ...
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hthoskins/IMAGSET1/UNCGAB02.jpg
-- the whole scene
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hthoskins/IMAGSET1/UNCGAB03.jpg
-- just the people
The Cafe stood on the w.side of Paramount just
n.of Brookmill Lane.
The photo was recently given to the Downey
Historical Society, with no names or date.
PLEASE let me know if
you can identify anyone shown or guess at a date.
Wonder what
the stock availability levels mean at ...
http://www.shootnhunt.com/ammunition/handgun/index.html
Wonder if the production is down.
Wonder if the hoarding is
beginning.
Wonder if purchases are being made before there
is more control.
Here's a first-hand statement from a friend
(retired from a US Company) now residing in Canada about the
health-care there. ...
"" Our personal health
here pretty is good. I have had two hip replacements and a
fractured femur, all on the right leg but I'm still walking with some
assist from a cane. Driving is no prob, standing for any length
of time difficult.
We get our medical/dental care just
across the Int'l Bridge in Sault Ste Marie, MI, about a 1ﾽ
hr drive from here. I am on
Medicare with an AARP supplement, My wife is still on my old Company
plan, she will not be eligible for Medicare for a couple of yrs.
Most of our Canadian friends do not like their medical
care at all. Waits can be as much as three years for many
procedures. Many travel to MI for their care. One friend
was being sent to Sudbury, about three hrs East of here twice a week
with an overnight each time for some dermititus condition that was
eventually solved in two visits to a Dr. in Potosky, MI. ""
For an animation of the Space Station's coming together, see
at ...
http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss_timeline/flash.htm
It
seems strange that with so many more airplane passengers these days,
there are actually many fewer airports than in prior
years
For the low-down on many of those from yesterday, see
at ...
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/index.htm
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA.htm
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_E.htm
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_E.htm#bellflower
which
homes in on those 'round here.
Regarding the first woman on
the moon, see at ...
http://www.cojoweb.com/Tofwisdom.html#FIRST_PERSON_ON_THE_MOON
Many
years ago the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) became the National
Institute of Science and Technology (NIST). One of their services is
the CORRECT time, as see at ...
http://www.time.gov/
http://tf.nist.gov/
http://tf.nist.gov/service/its.htm
http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/general/faq.htm
And
for a good reason to have such stuff available from the NIST,
consider the item noted at ...
http://prehensile.vox.com/library/post/something-thought-provoking-i-came-across.html
HOWEVER,
for a reason to doubt at least some what the government says
(or maybe more), consider the item at ...
http://imjeffp.blogspot.com/2009/02/cold-winter.html
It
might be another cold winter this year.
When I get a
suspicious E-Mail, then I put a little of the text into Google to see
what I find; this time discovered that it was likely a phishing
expedition for a fraud, as at ...
http://antifraudintl.org/showthread.php?t=27900
(mine had a few different particulars but most words were the
same)
MY GOODNESS, NOW I CAN'T TRUST EMAILS.
Be sure
to eat pineapple daily -- well, maybe not a WHOLE one, but see
at ...
http://www.naturalnews.com/pineapple.html
You
might consider adding your response to the over 3-million entries on
the subject at ...
http://js.polls.yahoo.com/quiz/quiziframe.php?poll_id=46067
Change
happens, but certain elements aren't always for the better as at
...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ie7Yqxqs97M/SrgEK8HCdmI/AAAAAAAAARQ/O5cJFtO6rqI/s1600-h/Gathering+Storm.jpg
http://www.stealthfusion.com/forum/fusion-playpen/3794-gathering-storm.html#post10655
So
now the electric utility company is beginning to install smart meters
which will enable residential electricity to be turned on and off
from Headquarters
and by any hacker who figures our how
to imitate the signal, as at ...
http://www.smartmeters.com/the-news/632-southern-california-edison-begins-installing-smart-meters.html
(
bet that George Orwell is laughing )
Happy Surfing,, /s/
Hughhh
