11.13.01

Ralph Nader on Corporate Patriotism

Posted in General at 12 pm

Amy forwarded an essay by Ralph Nader regarding corporate raiding that I was afraid that was going on. I can’t confirm his facts and figures, but it’s consistant with other sources I’ve seen.

Amy also said that the Common Dreams site has lots of interesting stuff, but I haven’t checked it out yet myself.

This is the first time I’ve used the Extended Entry option in GreyMatter, so let’s see what happens. Looks like I needed to enable a View the whole thing link.
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11.12.01

Updates Needed

Posted in General at 11 am

Bo, and Bob and all the old BBS’ers in the Grants Pass area:

This list is so very wrong when it comes to Rogue Valley area BBS’s. Let’s get it updated.

http://bbslist.textfiles.com/503/

11.09.01

Friday Office Humour

Posted in General at 6 pm

Definitions that were left out of the Dictionary:

1. Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightie.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n.), an olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.) the emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified demeanor assumed by a proctologist immediately before he examines you.
13. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions.
14. Circumvent (n.), the opening in the front of boxer shorts.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Pokemon (n), A Jamaican proctologist.

11.08.01

To the Rescue

Posted in General at 1 pm

So Amy and I had our first anniversary on Halloween. We went out to a nice dinner and had a realy nice night. Our individual days hadn’t gone quite as well as one might hope, but it was as nice as it could have been considering the stress of the world at large.

One of the gifts that we got was a package from my parents. Quite large, but strangely light. It contained the proper gift for the first year: Paper.

Napkins and Paper Towels to be exact. (More to come later.)

11.06.01

Sorry Bo

Posted in General at 11 pm

Sorry Bo, I really hate discussion forums that require a logon. Hell I just about gagged when Apple started requiring a logon for the Knowledge base. Anyway, *if* I were to post to the discussion board attached to your journal, I would say something like…

Okay, you weren’t supposed to point out that it took me 6 weeks to read your e-mail… 🙂

I’ve generally avoided using service like this because it requires that someone else has my journal entries. I would worry about the site suddenly shutting down and losing all that work. At least with Greymatter I can tar up and burn a disc of my archives.

As for the Picture, it was a blast from the past. I hadn’t done any photos using that technique for a long time, but I always thought that yours came out really well because of the glasses. I think it’s a great ‘semi-private’ portrait to use in a forum like this.

…Ross…

PS, I went back through some of your archives, and saw that ‘The last time they would ever be all together’ photo. Considering I met nearly all of those people, I should remember their names. Can you add a caption, left to right?

(I hope nothing happened to anyone. The way you put it, I would have thought someone died…) 🙁

But I wouldn’t post that, so forget it.

11.05.01

Weblogs by friends

Posted in General at 11 pm

To Paraphrase:

“I just found out today that my [friend] has been [writting a weblog] since Sept 12. -anoyed-“

Come on Bo! You gotta let me know when you do these things. 🙂 An just where is my credit for the photoshopped portrait? I believe I made that…

Then again, another friend, Paul, started a weblog as well. (All links will open in a new window.)

It's nice / home.net

Posted in General at 9 pm

It’s always nice to see posts to other people’s weblogs like this: http://nu-produkt.net/. Be sure to check out the alt tag as well.

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After last weekend’s adventure getting my B&W G3 upgraded to MacOS 9.1, I upgraded the 6400 to it as well. Now we’ve got all three ‘live’ machines running it and pretty smoothly as well. Now that it’s all in place, I’ve got the HP DeskJet shared off of the 6400 to both of our machines. It went pretty well. I just had to enable the USB Printer Sharing control panel on the 6400, then connect to it from each of the others. In fact I just now printed out a web receipt from the my Mac. Nice and easy.

Now if I can just find that SCSI -> FireWire adapter that we bought for the scanner…

11.04.01

Humourous Security Alert

Posted in General at 10 am

Subject: Security Alert
To: All employees

We’ve just been notified by Security that there have been 6 suspected terrorists working out of this building. Five of the six have been apprehended: Bin Sleepin, Bin Loafin, Bin Goofin, Bin Playin, and Bin Drinkin have been taken into custody.

Security has advised us that they could find no one fitting the description of the sixth cell member, Bin Workin, in our office. Security is confident that anyone who looks like he’s Bin Workin will be very easy to spot. There is currently no one fitting that description.

Thank you.
The Management

11.03.01

More Afghan Humor

Posted in General at 11 am

HELLO MULLAH, HELLO FATAH (CAMP OSAMA)
Tune: “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (Camp Granada)”
[which was to the tune, “Dance of the Hours”]

Hello Mullah,
Hello Fatah,
Here I am at
Camp Osama.
Camp is very
Entertaining,
And they say we’ll have some fun in basic training.

I went bombing
With Mohammed.
He blew up like
Halley’s comet.
No use going
To the surgeons,
There were parts of him enough for sixty virgins.

All the Sunnis
Hate the Saudis,
And the innies
Hate the outies,
But there’s one thing
We agree on:
All the beds are awful hard to get to sleep on.

Camp looks nothing
Like the pictures
They showed us at
The recruiter’s.
And the food is
Pretty rotten.
Guess it looks like I’ve been lied to by bin Laden.

Take me home,
Oh Mullah, Fatah!
Take me home,
I hate Osama.
Don’t leave me
Out in Afghanistan
To find my ashes in a can.

Take me home,
I promise I won’t
Pierce my ears
Or look at girls like
Britney Spears.
Oh, please don’t make me stay,
I’ve been here one whole day.

I hear airplanes,
They’re approaching…
All our bases
Are exploding!
There’s no hiding
From a bomber–
Must close quick now ’cause I’m leaving Camp Osama!

Sixty maidens,
And they’re virgin,
But a slightly
Different version:
They all look like
Janet Reno!
Mullah, Fatah, this is hell but how did we know?

( Written By Charlie Henrickson, Copyright 2001 )

10.29.01

Upgrade of the OS

Posted in General at 12 pm

I’ve finally made the upgrade. It took me a while to plan it out and get comfortable, but step-by-step I went through and got my machine prepared and organized, got everything in just the right place s that if I hit a critica problem, I could switch back at a moment’s notice.

It took the better part of both weekend mornings, but I finally got my Blue and White G3, up and running with its new operating sytem.

That’s right. I’ve gone all the way from MacOS 8.6 to MacOS 9.1 (nearly the final paragraph).

Oh yes, we’re talking cutting edge here. 🙂 I think most people would expect me to have MacOS X installed and running full time or the latest gadget and software and hardware, but that’s really not my style. I let things settle in and have other people work out the issues and I wait for the slings and arrows to die down. Then I’ll peek around at the new stuff and bring it up online on a machine that I actually need to use. Other machines, I could give a rip about. But my main Mac — that’s something I’m careful about.

And now I’m setup to get Mac OS X as soon as I feel that it’s good for me. I will certianly be waiting out 10.1 — my G3 has hardware-based DVD playback which 10.1 doesn’t support. It sounds like it will be coming however, and that’s when I think I’ll pounce.

Of course by then I may have an iBook, so it will be okay to hold off on upgrading the G3…