Watched a dumb movie “Men Staring At Goats”. How dumb!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234548/
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NOTRECOMMENDED: “Men Staring At Goats”
Monday, May 17, 2010
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SERVICE: 750 WORDS site; make everyone a writer.
Saturday, May 15, 2010http://emilychang.com/ehub/app/750-words
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750 Words
By Kim Lau
— May 12, 2010 at 10:02 am
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Motivate your writing by committing to 750 words a day. Log in with Facebook Connect, Google or Yahoo, and earn points and badges the more you write.
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We’ll see if it helps.
RECOMMENDED!
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SERVICE: Back up your FACEBOOK data (FREE)
Sunday, May 9, 2010Give Me My Data helps you reclaim and reuse your Facebook data.
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Give Me My Data is a Facebook application designed to give users the ability to export their data out of Facebook for any purpose they see fit. This could include making artwork, archiving and deleting your account, or circumventing the interface Facebook provides. Data can be exported in CSV, XML, and other common formats. Give Me My Data is currently in public-beta.
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RECOMMENDED!
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SERVICE: TABZON — not recommended
Thursday, May 6, 2010*** begin quote ***
The best little in-out board for your office.
Tabzon is a free online in-out board designed to help you keep track of your co-workers’ whereabouts.
* Centralised Team
* One-Click Updates
* Quick Contact Lookup
* No Software
* Safe, Private, & Secure
* Completely Free!
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I tried it to solve a person problem. I learned about it on blog. (Unfortunately, I forgot which one.)
I thought it would be like a public bulletin board that who show anybody status. It only shows if you have defined users. So it’s a closed community that you have to “invite”. Argh! I didn’t get that from the description. It doesn’t have the granularity of control.
I gave them other feedback as I worked with it.
“You need to declare what it costs on first screen. Always will be free? Freemium? Something else?” (Addressed!)
“Email address restrictions should be up front. Not after you wipe out all the input I did. Argh!” (Don’t know.)
“Your activation email goes directly into spam folders. Unlike what others do. Something needs fixing.” (Don’t know.)
I was trying to use it as a bulletin board for family to know when to call my wife.
Yes, realized. And, yes. It appears to “reset” to unavailable for no apparent reason.
On May 5, 2010, at 12:07 AM
>Hi again,
>Nice to see your finding the idea useful in a way we handn’t intended.
>This behaviour is odd indeed. Just a couple of things to confirm :
It’s always showing “unavailable”. I’ll try and find another solution. Argh! Sorry. It looked good.
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RECOMMENDED: “The Invention of Lying”; just to true
Thursday, March 18, 2010
The first lie ever told: “$800”!
Theology on two pizza boxes?
Stephanie March demanding sex. (Every boy’s dream?) “When he tests his discovery of lying by telling a woman that the world will end unless she has sex with him at that very moment but backs out at the last minute by claiming to have a phone call from NASA telling him the world is not going to end now.” ROFL!
“Let me know if you’ve lowered your standards.” (Too hot for me?)
“Man In The Sky forbid!”
Unfortunately, it’s a law of Nature that “hot” girls look down on fat old white guys with or without a “snub nose”. Sigh!
Hey, for a $1 from redbox and two hours of my life, recommended.
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RECOMMENDED: “Love Happens” An Aniston chick flick
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Hmmm!
Sweet and the bird steals the show.
Seriously, was it debunking self-help gurus (i.e.: the guru’s realization that he practices none of the principles he teaches)? Tony Robbins came to mind.
Hey for a dollar from redbox. How bad could it be?
I found it funny.
And, took a good message away. “A-OK”?
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NOTRECOMMENDED: UPS fails
Saturday, February 27, 2010Trying to track the old lady’s new drug. UPS let us down. I can understand that that the weather causes problems.
BUT, there’s always a big BUTT!
First we get a call that says: “Delivery requires signature today”.
That night: “Cant be completed”
Later: “On its way”
Later that night: “Cant be completed”
Today: “Cant be completed”
And, there is no way to get a live person on the phone!
Argh!
Even some one in a third world country wouldn’t be as frustrating.
Argh!
FedEx’s tracking was much better. And, they had live people!
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NOTRECOMMENDED: O’Reilly and Beck Bold and Fresh; not live!
Sunday, January 31, 2010
OK, maybe I’m a sucker. I went to the movies last night. Yes, it was a (poor quality) movie. Not the live remote performance that I was expecting. I felt suckered. The previous night, I went to the Senior Showcase, EB Vo Tech, where aspiring high school seniors displayed their talent. One of their presentations was a better quality than the “professional” one I watched last night.
Now, I understand that weather in Norfolk prevented the live performance. But I felt cheated. It was supposed to be “live”!
The film was obviously edited. I paid for the full performance and I think some of the good stuff was left on the cutting room floor. And, if it was edited, why is there a twenty minute “intermission”. Sorry, that could have been cut. Maybe it was for the old folks to tap a kidney. But, I suspect it was to allow the theater to push some over-priced “refreshments”.
On to the content, I was again disappointed:
* Beck spent to much time mocking Nancy Pelosi’s physical characteristics. At first it was funny, but after a while it got boring.
* O’Reilly was “abbreviated”. He got in some great points about was NOT in Obama’s SOTU, but it seemed like, in his head, the TV timing bell went off and he’d truncate his thought.
The audience was obnoxious. It addition to being mostly old and lilly white. The guy next to us was a fidgeter; guy behind us dropped a big tub of popcorn; and the old lady behind us kept commenting to her party about what the guys were saying. Argh! A chorus of cellphone conversations would have been less distracting.
(18 seats per row, 50 rows, pretty much sold out, 900, time 25$, 225 * 100, 22500$ per theater, times 200 theaters, !!!4,500,0 00!!!, over a million a piece for two hours of work? Hmmm!)
As far as the content was concerned, I had the following observations:
* Beck is NOT a libertarian. No self-respecting libertarian would have a demonstration planned for 8/8/10 in from of the LINCOLN memorial.
* O’Reilly is an interesting amalgam of professed small government but pro-war guy. Interesting, but dangerous. He did correctly identify that OBH44 ignored the Iran threat in the SOTU and has potentially by ignoring them made the world a more dangerous place. If israel has to take Iran on, we are in a world of hurt.
* O’Reilly pointed out that in the SOTU address OBH44 avoided the whole “War” topic. (And, neither mentioned OBH44’s failure to praise the troops. I can’t imagine any President missing that point.)
* Beck makes a good case that the Progressives are the problem.
* O’Reilly was funny in his description of how the folks will wake up and right the ship. Hope he’s right. I’m not so sure.
* Beck portrayed OBH44 as evil; O’Reilly characterized him as an inexperienced unprepared Chicago corrupt politician. (O’Reilly was especially on point with his: comparison of Chicago’s South Side with Haiti; Reverend Wright’s 2M$ mansion in a all-white suburb, AND the KSM terror trial in NYC. He reminded me of Judge Judy when she says “If it doesn’t make sense, it’s not true”, when O’Reilly says that the “folks” can feel when the politician isn’t telling the truth. (Like when their lips move!)
Sorry, but I can’t recommend this.
I shoulda went to see Avatar; it’d been cheaper.
Yeah I know, violating my own dictum, “Shouldas, wouldas, and couldas” will kill you.
It was: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Desi and Lucy, and probably more physically accurate Abbot and Costello or Laurel and Hardy.
But not as timeless, or not as funny.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/01/the_beckoreilly_bold_fresh_tou.html
“15 minute intermission” live in Tampa
Why was ours 20 minutes?
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RECOMMENDED: Donate to the crazies trying to roll back the MA sales tax; tax revolt now!
Tuesday, October 13, 2009Carla Howell and Michael Cloud
Alliance to Roll Back Taxes
Small Government News
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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Just Do the Signature Drive With Volunteers?”
Virtually every statewide political campaign in Massachusetts hires petitioners to collect signatures.
Senator Kennedy, Senator Kerry, Governor Deval Patrick, former Governor Romney, former Governor Cellucci, and the rest paid for signatures. For at least the last 40 years.
Why?
Because the petitioning requirements have been made so hard, the time for petitioning so short, the ability of opponents to block petitioning, and the ease of removing valid voters signatures from the ballot.
But it gets worse. Massachusetts requires 6-1/2 times as many signatures for Ballot Initiatives as they do for U.S. Senate and Governor candidates – and they give us 1/3 less time to collect them.
We have to collect over 96,000 signatures in 49 days. In the fall, when rainstorms or snowstorms can and do prevent petitioning for 1 day or 3 or 7 days — or more. Cutting petition time by 10% or 20%.
We have to print 351 DIFFERENT petitions for our initiative — one for each town and city in Massachusetts.
Our petitioners have to carry dozens of DIFFERENT petitions at each petitioning location – a mall, a store, etc – to make sure that we have the right petition for that voter.
If a voter mistakenly signs the Natick petition, while living in Framingham, his signature is disqualified.
If a signer or petitioner accidentally makes a “stray mark on a petition”, every one of the valid 12 or 15 voter signatures on that petition are disqualified.
Then we need to sort and separate the petitions into the 351 towns and cities, pre-validate 10% to 20% of the signatures, deliver them to 351 different town clerks all across Massachusetts – many town clerks offices are only open part time; if you can’t show up them…too bad for you. The town clerks physically check each petition signature against the each voter’s signature. Many are conscientious. Some are sloppy and disqualify valid signatures.
Next, we have a 7-day window to collect 351 petitions from the 351 towns — when clerks’ offices are open.
Then, if the town clerks have validated enough signatures to move us toward the ballot, we have to deliver the signatures to the Secretary of State’s Office — where the signatures are tallied.
While this is going on, the Teachers Unions and Government Employees Unions can challenge any or all of the validated signatures for any of a dozen different legal reasons.
This is why virtually all statewide political campaigns and ballot initiatives hire paid petitioners. So they can get on the ballot.
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In the Pepuls Republik of Taxachusetts, there is a band of crazies that are trying to repeal the tax law.
(Regardless of where you live, if they succeed, it will help everyone. You may want to consider sending them a few bucks. Would you have sent money for munitions to the Militiamen at Lexington or Concord? Repealing the sales tax in MA would be modern day equivalent of “the shot heard round the world”! https://www.fbs.net/csg/RBTdonate.html)
It interesting to see how the political elite have insulated them selves from the peons. Why bother have petitions at all? You can’t practically impact the politicians.
Argh!
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RECOMMENDED: Julie & Julia
Friday, August 7, 2009http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135503/
Julie & Julia
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Julia Child (Meryl Streep) and Julie Powell (Amy Adams) are featured in writer-director Nora Ephron’s adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme. Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends…until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible. Written by Columbia Pictures
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It was “funny peculiar”; not “funny haha”.
Maybe it resonated so well for the mid-life crisis aspect.
Not a chick flick, it had a poignant tone to it. Sadly funny.
I liked it; Frau didn’t. YMMV
p.s., especially funny; who would ever write a 700 page book? rofl!
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