MACBOOKAIR: Ready for the shop tomorrow

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Well, at least, I think I am.

Have alternate platform that will allow me to do email and Jasper Jottings, CHECK!

Have complete backup of McBa, CHECK!

Have complete data backups at CARBONITE, CHECK!

Have documents backed up at DROPBOX, CHECK!

OK!

Monday, if all goes well with Frau Reinke at the lab, then I’m off to the Apple Store: (1) missing sound; suspect hardware; (2) failure to sync; suspect OSX os; (3) intermittent slowdowns; suspect OSX networking.

Best outcome: all three fixed

Worst outcome: completely wiped “repaired” machine.

Somewhere in the middle: a permanent replacement “new but old model” mcba machine or one of the new macbookairs.

I should have keep a book on how much time and effort this has cost me.

Argh!

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ADMINISTRIVIA: WordPress iPad app ng

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Tried the iPad app for word press. Doesn’t work so well. And there are no shortened.

Also the iPad autocorrect is a PIA!

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RANT: Election Results

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

With all the angst leading up to the election, and the same old characters are reelected over and over again. You can’t beat the system. You an’t change the system. The only choice is to leave the system!

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ADMINISTRIVIA: Do you have B- blood in the Winstom Salem NC area?

Thursday, October 21, 2010

I know a baby who needs some blood. Can’t offer you anything much more than “thanks”. Young parent are going nuts. The grandparents are my old friends. Drop me a email or call me.

fjohn68

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FUN: Expert in eckynumbics

Friday, October 15, 2010

The Tonight Show With Jay Leno

The Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to three economists. Should we have even given one out this year? If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past two years, it’s that there’s no such thing as an expert in economics.

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PLINKY: If I Could Invent Anything

Thursday, October 14, 2010

… an obvious one fmpov!

Donate Blood (p6180505)

A device, that given a a drop of a patient's blood, it would produce 100% identical blood in whatever quantity needed.

My wife has a unknown blood problem that presents as an dramatic quick disappearance of red blood cells. A "blood xerox" machine would give the docs

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RANT: Some folks are !!!

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Parents: Dying Girl Kathleen Edward Taunted By Neighbors In Trenton
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/the…

A Trenton (Michigan) family with a dying 7-year-old daughter says they are being harassed by a neighborhood couple. And those accused neighbors aren’t disagreeing. Go inside the the story to watch a video report from FOX 2’s Ron Savage.

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I find it hard to imagine any feud with my neighbors that would cause me to do anything to upset a dying child or their family. If I had a way I’d submit this to O’Reilly for a “pinhead” award! Or, worse I’d call them !!!

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TECHNOLOGY: Hospital clocks are out of sync

Monday, October 4, 2010

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Clock in this room is five minutes slow as measured by my notebook and Verizon wireless phone.

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So how can evidence of time be introduced in any court say in a medical malpractice suit?

If a nurse documents something using one of the many different clocks, then transcribes it to the computer, what time is it.

It adds an element of uncertainty and distrust. AND, if they are so sloppy in this very simple matter, what makes one think that it would be different in stuff that we don’t see, depend upon, and could be life threatening.

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INSPIRATIONAL: No mosque at Ground Zero

Thursday, September 30, 2010

“I’m against building mosques, churches, synagogues, temples anywhere, because I’m an atheist and I think these are places that perpetuate mass delusion.”
— Comedian / Political Commentator Bill Maher September 14, 2010 Larry King Live

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POLITICAL: Anti-war, not anti-D or anti R

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

http://counterpunch.org/jacobs09272010.html

September 27, 2010
We’ve Been Here Before
The FBI Raids in Context
By RON JACOBS

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In short, the government is attempting to criminalize the organizing of antiwar protests. Furthermore, it wants to make opposition to the the government’s assistance in repressing struggles for self-determination illegal. Other repressive actions by law enforcement against US citizens, including the sentencing of a videographer to 300 days in jail for trespass after he tried to film an unauthorized talk in Chicago and the acknowledgement (sic) by the Pittsburgh FBI office that it had spied on peace activists and used a private agency to help out, makes it clear that the PATRIOT Act and its excesses are alive and well under the Obama administration. Repression is a bipartisan activity, especially when it comes to the repression of the left.

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I remember the anti-war left that was taken over by the D’s. Of course, as soon as a D was in the White House, that ended the anti-war protests.

Now, older and wiser, I see.

Both the D’s and R’s have no problem with “war” as long as they are in the White House and control of Congress to profit from it.

If we can’t end the warfare /welfare state, then we’ll have to divide and conquer.

Secession!

Just like what happened to the USSR.

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