FUN: My six word memoir

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Injineer. Frau. Jobs. It’s a life!

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Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 2:00 PM
Subject: Twitter Contest and New Features

Hello Twitter-ers!

This email comes with a special treat from Twitter and Smith
Magazine: The Six-Word Memoir Challenge! Twitter your own memoir in exactly six words and you could win a free iPod!

HOW TO ENTER

1. Make smithmag a friend: http://twitter.com/smithmag 2. Preface your six-word entry with “smithmag” like this:

smithmag He wore dresses. This caused messes.

ABOUT THE SIX-WORD MEMOIR CHALLENGE

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in six words. The result was “For sale: baby shoes, never used.” More recently, Wired Magazine revived the challenge and author Margaret Atwood came up with this short but funny beauty:
“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”

We realize November is National Novel Writing Month but 50,000 words in 30 days? That seems heavy considering genius may surface in just six words. The folks over at Smith Magazine think everyone has a story and they want to reward you for yours.
For more information visit: http://smithmag.net/sixwords/

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RANT: How dumb can people be?

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4690294?source=rss

Discounts on gas add fuel to fools’ ire
By David Harsanyi
Denver Post Staff Columnist
Article Last Updated:11/19/2006 11:44:53 PM MST

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This month, King Soopers and City Market (both owned by Kroger) were forced by a federal jury decision to cut out a program called Buy Groceries/Get Gas — which offered consumers modest savings on gas purchases.

Two “independent” gasoline stations in Montrose brought the suit and were awarded $1.4 million in damages. The jury found the big stores had violated Colorado’s Unfair Practices Act, illegally selling gas below cost.

Yes, King Soopers was selling gasoline too cheap. It’s illegal.

So let’s quickly review an old economics adage: Charge too much and you’re price gouging. Charge too little and you’re predatory pricing. Charge the same as your competitor and you’re in collusion.

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You have to admit that the gubamint skools (aka: political reeducation camps) have done a superb job of making the new citizens of Amerika stupider than tree stumps! Without the collective brains of a box of rocks!

Minimum prices, minimum wages, price supports, price floors, … … …, and anything else of this ilk that you think of are just taxes in a transparent disguise.

You can’t sell something for below your cost?

Tell it to WalMart, and all the other discount store that use a loss leader!

How stupid were the people on this jury? How stupid were the prosecutors for filing this case in the first place? How stupid were the legislators who passed this absurdity?

How stupid are we for tolerating it?

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XPFails – homebase – gotomypc can’t see home

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Arghhh!

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XPfails – luggable – seems slow

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Will try a reboot.

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PRODUCTIVITY: Using GMAIL to avoid phishing

Monday, November 20, 2006

GMAIL has an interesting plus feature. If you think of email address syntax as user@provider.xxx, then you can put anything you want after a plus sign. So it’s user+string@gmail.com. You can use that feature to protect yourself from phishing attacks.

For example, create a random string for your “Mammoth Big Bank” bank (e.g., D3BCA3846CB5). Assume your email id is user@gmail.com. Then you tell your bank that your email address is user+D3BCA3846CB5@gmail.com! Anything purportedly coming from Mammoth Big Bank has to come with your secret code or you’ll ignore it. You can trash anything coming from Mammoth Big Bank that does NOT have your secret code.

If you’re like me and have lots of dedicated email address, then you can actually set a GMAIL label and filter to discard email that doesn’t authenticate with the secret code.

It’s simple and easy to protect against phishing.

Just don’t forget the D3BCA3846CB5! ;-)

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LIBERTY: Education dumbs the children down; which is right where gubamint wants them!

Monday, November 20, 2006

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/
article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53034

http://tinyurl.com/yfqeoo

Running with the turtles
Posted: November 20, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

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Two of the basic assumptions that underlie public schooling is that mass education is beneficial to society and that group education does not inhibit the intellectual development of the individual student.

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My war cry against big oppressive intrusive government, aka the gubamint, is: honest money, private education, and stop the dole!

This article supports the second of that troika!

It seems that, when the Communists have reeducation camps for adults and children, every one sees immediately that it’s terrible. YET, when it’s done right under their very nose in their neighborhood, they can’t see it.

These local “reeducation camps” teach the government agenda, which includes all sorts of strange things! One of which is that the government is God! It’s the answer to every problem: popular problems, perceived problems, ones that the gubbamint wants us to fixate on, but never ever the real one — gubamint!

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TECHNOLOGY: XDRIVE just doesn’t work

Monday, November 20, 2006

I’d suggest that you avoid it completely!

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TECHNOLOGY: Writeboard aka a one page wiki?

Sunday, November 19, 2006

http://writeboard.com/

Writeboard

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Writeboard is completely free. You can create as many writeboards as you’d like and invite as many people to collaborate on the writeboards. There are no limits. However, if you’d like to keep all your writeboards in one place so you don’t have to bookmark URLs and remember passwords, you should check out our Backpack organizer product. It lets you neatly organize to-do lists, notes, photos, files, and writeboards online. Backpack was recently named a “Best of the Web 2005” tool by BusinessWeek.

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Seems interesting to me.

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LIBERTY: Fight the power!

Sunday, November 19, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/y66rr5

http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTP2/
UPDATES/Update2006-11-18.htm

November 18, 2006
“V” Makes A Mark In DC
Worldwide Interest in RTP Stirred

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It’s working.

We are making good use of the powerful concept of en masse activist resistance used in the movie, “V for Vendetta.”

“V” is helping us as we build support for the unalienable Right to a Response from Government to our Petitions for Redress of Grievances regarding the Government’s violation of the war powers, tax, privacy and money clauses of the Constitution.

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Fight the power!

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GUNS: You don’t really have a choice

Sunday, November 19, 2006

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Nov-19-Sun-2006/opinion/10713125.html

Nov. 19, 2006
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: Giving way to the twenty-something spendthrifts

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You cannot bestow upon your children or grandchildren a world without guns. Your two choices are: a world in which they are trusted and encouraged to own guns and keep them ready to hand and know how and when to use them, or a world in which they are disarmed and the guns are in the hands of some other class or race of people who tell them what to do.

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You have to like how he can distill it to a simple principle. There’s a big difference between the Law of Gravity and any law passed by tyrants.

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