Going Camping

We’ll be going camping starting tomorrow morning. You can expect blogging to be extremely light during that period unless I am able to send smoke signals to the Internet, or I can use rocks, some trees and some tin foil to construct a basic CPU and find some open network out in the woods to post entries with. Of course I’ll need to find something for a display…

Axitude

Yesterday morning after her swimming lessons Abby came in and said, “Daddy, I have an axitude.”

Which is totally right, if you don’t go the Abby way, she cuts you off 🙂 Apparently she’s been using an ax the whole time.

Bird: Feeders and Poop

So we got a bird feeder a couple weeks ago and the birds didn’t touch it. Mostly because we got a song bird feeder and the song birds apparently run the same circuit and our house was not on the map. Then one day a bird, who was lost and didn’t want to go home anyway, found our bird feeder. He and a few of his buddies, being the kind of gluttonous birds that birds can be, started singing songs in our neck of the woods for food.

So we bought more bird feeders.

Dumb.

Now there is bird poop all around the feeders and I have to ask the birds to keep their language clean so that Abby doesn’t pick up any fowl mouth stuff**.

** I so crack me up.

I Agree!

How many times have you had to click some checkbox somewhere that confirms that you agree to the end user license agreement (EULA)? Well, Sony, in an act of sheer brilliance has done something that I hope evey single software vendor will do:
They’ve turned the ‘Next’ button into the Agree button.

Witness the screen shot of their cell phone SDK installer:
I Agree
I have reduced the size of the image but overlayed the button row for higher legibility

Lord, Forgive My Fleshly Desire for This Video Recorder

It may be a couple years until this is in my price range, but this little device will rock the consumer cam-corder market: JVC Introduces Hard Disk Camcorders. This will make transferring video from your computer to DVD or the Internet nearly instantaneous since the clips are stored as seperate files (one for each recording session), they’re stored in MPEG-2 format, which is the typical DVD format – and when you translate them into Quicktime or Windows Media format they’ll have a quality starting format.

This is on the top of my Christmas wishlist for 2010, when they’re cheap enough.

Realer Mexican Food Found Near Denver

Since moving from Texas, where Tex-Mex is so prevalent that quality is a must if you want to stay in business, we have found the Denver area to be deficient of what we would call ‘Mexican Food.’ However, thanks to the keen taste buds of my Chiropractor (and her mom!) we found Los Dos Potrillos (Flash Encrusted Web Site with Authentic Mexican background music). The service was a bit lacking, but I think the gal who was serving us was a bit overwhelmed. The food was good and I finally tasted something that resembled Mexican food, again. There is hope for us here after all 😉

It’s My United States of… Whatever

The title of this post comes from an Liam Lynch number. It’s odd, but so is Lynch. I like it. However, this post is about the phrase “Bush’s America.” I’m tired of reading it and hearing it and tasting it and feeling it. Google Search: Bush’s America. There’s over 19,000,000 references to said term.

Yuck. It’s my United States of America. America is a contenent, and it doesn’t belong to Bush. Nor does it belong to any one person or nation. Lets stop calling it that silly, short sited name shall we? When Clinton was in Office politically right winged folks said that he and Hillary were going to pull some coup and never leave power until they, or their clones, died. Now, left leaning folks are calling this Bush’s America and saying Bush has some secret plan to do the same.

Stop! I’m ready to get off this ride and realize that the political system of this Democratic-Republic is not a simple system to break up and destroy. If Bush were to pull some scheme you can bet that all sorts of chaos would erupt. Much worse than if Michael Jackson had been found guilty 🙂

OK, I’m done.

ACLU and Spammers Join Forces to Stop Blacklists

The American Civil Liberty Union has joined forces with various spammers around the United States to try to close down various so called ‘blacklisting services.’ Attorney M. Jackson, Esq. was quoted as saying, ”This is outrageous that bigotry against people of color and people who send emails is tolerated in this country. Especially since this technology has been developed after the civil rights movement, much of it within the last five to ten years! We will stop these propagators of racism and bring freedom to email senders as well.” An un-named representative of the spammers, going by the pseudonym 5p@//.//.R has publicly released a statement on aclyou-and-spammers-untie.valium4all.ebay.phishingscam.com stating:

“Why do system admins have to be haterz? We just want to make money like everyone else. We are joining forces with the ACLU to help stop racism and bl@cklisting as a whole.”

Links to other sites from that page included ‘Asian women’, ‘Black Teens’ and various other sexually oriented content involving various races and live stock. Apparently this is to show support for the people of color in the nation that the ACLU is promoting as well as the spammer’s bank accounts.

Representatives of the blacklisting sites were unable to reply due to DOS attacks coming from IP addresses in the China and zombie AOL user machines.