Monday, July 31, 2006
Friday, July 28, 2006
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Sad if True
Tour De France Winner Flunks Drug Test
I hope it was just an error or can be explained by some other means than doping.
I hope it was just an error or can be explained by some other means than doping.
In the mood to gouge your eyes out?
Hillary Clinton's "Sexual Power" Captured in a Presidential Bust
Never mind the fact that she has never been (and IMO never will be) President of the United States... Ewwwwwwwwwwww
Never mind the fact that she has never been (and IMO never will be) President of the United States... Ewwwwwwwwwwww
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Monday, July 24, 2006
Back to work
After almost 3 weeks off I'm back to work. That alarm clock wasn't very nice this morning.
On the other hand I had a bonus check and the Winternals Administrators Pack waiting for me!
On the other hand I had a bonus check and the Winternals Administrators Pack waiting for me!
AMD and ATI merging?
Interesting. What will Nvidia do as there NForce4 chipset for AMD is what you want to run.
A little bit more at Extended64.
A little bit more at Extended64.
- Update:More at AMD
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Side effects
Thing1 and I love adding on our own side effects when a drug commercial is on TV. Not as good as FloraFlor but we're getting there.
We were watching the Miss Universe contest during the swimsuit event (Go USA, Sweden, and Denmark!) and there was a commercial on for a sleep aid. One of the side effects was drowsiness.
Duh!
We were watching the Miss Universe contest during the swimsuit event (Go USA, Sweden, and Denmark!) and there was a commercial on for a sleep aid. One of the side effects was drowsiness.
Duh!
Bad Movies
We've all seen at least one. A movie that was either so bad that you couldn't make it the whole way through or you watched the whole thing waiting for something good to happen.
SarahK, who's now over the hill, has a post about a movie her sister-in-law worked on.
That led me to think of my list of bad movies. In no particular order:
Reds
The Thin Red Line
Chicago
Moulon Rouge
Lethal Weapon 4
Napolen Dynamite
I'm sure more will come to me later.
SarahK, who's now over the hill, has a post about a movie her sister-in-law worked on.
That led me to think of my list of bad movies. In no particular order:
Reds
The Thin Red Line
Chicago
Moulon Rouge
Lethal Weapon 4
Napolen Dynamite
I'm sure more will come to me later.
Where do those stairs go?
They go up!
Watching Ghostbusters. First saw it in 1984 at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles after a wedding. Such fun!
Watching Ghostbusters. First saw it in 1984 at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles after a wedding. Such fun!
Clueless
Watching the start of the Pennsylvania 500 on TNT. There is a flight of A-10 Warthogs doing the flyover. The graphic states they are from Davis Monthan AFB in New Mexico. The wife starts to laugh. When she was in college in Tucson, Arizona they were in the landing pattern for Davis Monthan. Close TNT but not quite right.
Saturday, July 22, 2006
A Little Storm
The wife and Thing2 were at a wedding shower at Church. Thing1 was sitting there watching the CFL and I was just doing nothing. Had a little thunder and then some big drops. The wife and Thing2 walk in and the hail starts. And lots of rain. The hail was only pea sized but it stuck for a while.
The rain came down really fast. Water was flowing down our street to the main street and overflowing the storm drain. Cars drove through - some slow
And some not so slow.
The wave must be 8 to 10 feet tall. Somewhere under there is a car.
And it wasn't supposed to rain today...
The rain came down really fast. Water was flowing down our street to the main street and overflowing the storm drain. Cars drove through - some slow
And some not so slow.
The wave must be 8 to 10 feet tall. Somewhere under there is a car.
And it wasn't supposed to rain today...
An evening at the Fair
The wife decided a few weeks back that we should go to the fair. Ok - I've never been to a county fair and I was still on vacation so off we went.
There was the usual chickens and roosters, pigs and cows, horses and elephants.
Yes - elephants. A African and a Indian. Very well mannered and trained.
Couldn't talk Thing2 into a ride after this.
There was a real reason we were here. His name was Trace Adkins. Both the wife and her sister are huge fans so the wife bought tickets (8th row) for all of us. My sister-in-law drove up from Hammond with her husband just for the show. Nice thing about the field we were in - it was mud. We've gotten a lot of rain the past few days so the fair organizers had put mulch down to that were aisles to walk in. Didn't help the seating that much.
Trace puts on a pretty good show. Mixes it up quite a bit tossing in some blues and classic rock tunes (imagine songs from Foreigner). The crowd got real quiet during Arlington. Very powerful song. He followed that up with a new song that is just as patriotic.
Everyone (even Thing1 and 2) seemed to like it. This was part of a bargain for Thing2 - she and the wife are going to see Jesse McCartney next weekend at the DuPage County Fair. Me and Thing1? We'll be eating pizza.
Wisdom Teeth
Thing1 had the two on his left side removed yesterday. He has learned the value of Vicodin. He's being a pretty good patient. So far...
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Books
One of the nice things about traveling by car (outside of seeing things off the beaten path that others just fly over) is catching up on my reading. Nothing work related at all. Started off with Warlord by Ilario Pantano. Excellent story. I didn't really follow the story when it broke but the writing was well done and gripping. Read this book.
The second book was We Were Soldiers. And Young Once. by Lt. General Hal Moore and Joe Galloway. While I thought the movie was excellent the book, admittily slow at times, continued the story after the movie ends. The batallion that relieved the 1st of the 7th had their own problems on to the way to their extraction. Interestingly enough the Big and Rich song "8th of November" which is about a battle the 173rd Airborne endurred happened just before the battles described in We Were Soldiers. Three battles with heavy losses in the first 3 weeks of November 1965.
Next up was The Devils Banker by Christopher Reich. The story started out like a good thriller but the ending just blew.
Finally I read Day of Reckoning by John Katzenbach. Another good story ruined by firearm related errors. If you ignore those it's a decent read.
The last 3 were from the paperback exchange at our local library. Free is good!
The second book was We Were Soldiers. And Young Once. by Lt. General Hal Moore and Joe Galloway. While I thought the movie was excellent the book, admittily slow at times, continued the story after the movie ends. The batallion that relieved the 1st of the 7th had their own problems on to the way to their extraction. Interestingly enough the Big and Rich song "8th of November" which is about a battle the 173rd Airborne endurred happened just before the battles described in We Were Soldiers. Three battles with heavy losses in the first 3 weeks of November 1965.
Next up was The Devils Banker by Christopher Reich. The story started out like a good thriller but the ending just blew.
Finally I read Day of Reckoning by John Katzenbach. Another good story ruined by firearm related errors. If you ignore those it's a decent read.
The last 3 were from the paperback exchange at our local library. Free is good!
Vacation - Day 12 - July 18th - Home
Took off and headed home. Tried to time around the Hammond traffic snarl but it didn't work out. However traffic moved nicely and we were home by 6:15pm.
After 2100 miles the only traffic accident occurred was 15 minutes from home.
We were on the exit ramp from 290 to Thorndale Avenue. Two lanes turning left. We were in the left lane second from the light. Turns green and after a few seconds we start to move. The car in the right lane and first at the light gets hit by someone running the light. This was 3 or 4 seconds after we got the green.
Made it home, ordered some pizza, and collapsed.
No place like home.
After 2100 miles the only traffic accident occurred was 15 minutes from home.
We were on the exit ramp from 290 to Thorndale Avenue. Two lanes turning left. We were in the left lane second from the light. Turns green and after a few seconds we start to move. The car in the right lane and first at the light gets hit by someone running the light. This was 3 or 4 seconds after we got the green.
Made it home, ordered some pizza, and collapsed.
No place like home.
Vacation - Day 11 - July 17th - Youngstown, Ohio
Took off from NYC about 9:30am. Pain getting out of the hotel as the elevator was jammed every time we needed it. The parking garage got the van pretty quickly. Once we were loaded we were out of the city in ~10 minutes. Cruised through New Jersey and Pennyslvania. Stopped in Youngstown for dinner at the Waffle House and found some cheap (for today) gas.
According to some locals this area always has the cheapest gas in the country.
Stopped at a Country Inn for the night. Nice place. The wife had something interesting happen.
First some background. The wife attended high school and college in Arizona. One of the people she knew from there lives in East Stroudsburg, PA which wasn't far from the resort we were staying in. She tried calling the number listed for his parents and got his mom. He wasn't home (on vacation with his family) so she left a message. Well at the hotel in Youngstown she saw someone she thought she recognized. Turns out if was her friend and his family. However the friends wife wouldn't let them talk. Bummer for both of them.
According to some locals this area always has the cheapest gas in the country.
Stopped at a Country Inn for the night. Nice place. The wife had something interesting happen.
First some background. The wife attended high school and college in Arizona. One of the people she knew from there lives in East Stroudsburg, PA which wasn't far from the resort we were staying in. She tried calling the number listed for his parents and got his mom. He wasn't home (on vacation with his family) so she left a message. Well at the hotel in Youngstown she saw someone she thought she recognized. Turns out if was her friend and his family. However the friends wife wouldn't let them talk. Bummer for both of them.
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