Meet my spellchecker. On the left is Pat M with her husband Brian. They moved out to the Left Coast a few years ago and we don’t keep in touch that much but every once and a while Pat logs in and corrects my spelling.
Love you and miss you. Keep up the good work.
Personal note:
I’m mainly playing at Peel Village these days. Met up with a few guys a few years ago and we get out every weekend dark and early. I break 95 semi-consistenly (sp?) and still play a lot of corporate golf as well.
Jan is doing well and we still spend far too much time at Jake’s but it’s like a second home.
Drop us a line at eyeno1 (at) gmail dot com (figure it out, got to keep the spammers off my trail) That’s eyeno and the number one. When you coming out again?
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Some guy or girl working as an assistant gets stuck with selling baby clothes on eBay for the boss’s wife. Is this person gonna take this quietly? Hell no.
Auction ends in a few days so hurry on over and place a bid.
Since the seller has a BA in theatre arts, he or she is graciously including an interesting fact for every item posted.
What are the odds that a better job is in the offing?
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Bush’s own words from his 2003 State Of The Nation speech juxtaposed with images that give them new meaning.
A blatant pro Kerry production but interesting all the same.
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No golf this morning.
Raining so hard that I expected to see the animals lining up 2 by 2.
Oh well, guess I’ll catch up on a few chores before the sun shows up and the temperature skyrockets like they’ve been promising.
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Elvis Presley
“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.”
That explains a whole lot.
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Seems the Italian ambassador got upset with this poster trying to convince people not to bring strong smelling foods in to the London Underground. It’s since been pulled.
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In the news:
“Why don’t they get new jobs if they’re unhappy — or go on Prozac?” said Susan Sheybani, an assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt.
The comment was apparently directed to a colleague who was transferring a phone call from a reporter asking about job quality, and who overheard the remark.
Adam Felber over at Fanatical Apathy has a great take on this item that in itself would have been funny if it wasn’t such a scary vision into the thinking in the Bush camp.
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Those inventive Swiss are at it again. A Swiss Army Knife with a built in USB storage device.
The impressive specs are here.
(Via Kottke’s Remaindered Links)
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Caught a little bit of Kerry’s acceptance speech last night and this morning. The image of him saluting is everywhere in the papers today. Cox and Forkum who are as right wing as they come have a little fun with the Democrats with this cartoon.
Love the dove’s expression.
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Today, July 30, is the 5th annual System Administrators Day. Time to recognize those people who keep things like the intraweb humming.
I’m blessed to have a couple of great ones working for me. Take a bow Benny, Andrew and Mark.
The official page for Sysadmin day is here.
Buy ‘em a box of Krispy Kremes or a couple of cans of Red Bull.
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A long weekend is at hand. Some made up excuse for a 3 day weekend in August means I get to decompress a little after a few weeks of budget preparation, budget discussion, budget changes, more budget discussion, more changes and finally presentation.
The administrative part of my job is the part I really hate. I’ve probably got 2 more presentations to make before acceptance.
Today, I get to meet with auditors and continue to justify my exsistence as well as the 16 people that report to me. *sigh*
Anyway this afternoon I get to put all that behind me and get some R&R. Of course, that means golf, golf and maybe some more golf. The weather looks iffy tonight and tomorrow morning but after that it’s sunshine and heat.
I’ll be blogging from club patio (our back yard).
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Bill Vaughan
“If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.”
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Not the same thing as what we did in the 60s but Canadian teens are deserting broadcast radio in droves according to this article out of Vancouver.
I can’t agree with them more. If I want music, I go to Whole Wheat Radio.
About the only reason I listen to broadcast radio anymore is for Howard Stern (one of my guilty pleasures) or local sports or talk station.
Babba Booey.
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Bill Biggart was on scene when the World Trade Centre towers were hit on September 11, 2001. His pictures of the destruction and the collapse of the first tower are some of the finest taken that horrible day. Biggart never got any pictures of the fall of the second tower because he was killed when it collapsed.
His widow, Wendy, gave Chip East the mangled contents of his camera bag and East managed to salvage shots from the compact flash card from Baggert’s Canon D30 digital camera. The images are stark, haunting and just that much more compelling knowing that the photographer gave his life in pursuit of his art.
Read the story and see the images here.
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Lacking HTML and PHP skills (I know I am). Fear not. Welcome to the hand drawn website.
Be sure to visit the porn section.
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Everybody and his brother has blogged about Krispy Kreme releasing a liquid version of their yummy secret donut taste.
Finally, we have one man’s review of this eagerly awaited refreshment. Did he like it? Not really.
“It was one of the most unpleasant gustatory experiences I’ve endured, and this from a man who ate nine chocolate iced kreme filled at one sitting. Imagine a cup of powdered non-dairy creamer forcibly united with a flavorless slushee, and you pretty much have the idea.”
We only have a couple of KKs in Canada and one of them is about 15 minutes drive from where I work. Far enough that I don’t go out of my way to grab a box but I’ve been known to pounce if someone brings a dozen into the office.
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Transcript of Barack Obama, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from Illinois, speech as prepared for delivery at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
I’m not American but if I were, this speech would be reason enough to vote for John Kerry. I watched him deliver this the other night and it struck me with the same force as speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy. The power of Obama’s oration was inspiring.
A few quotes:
+ “If there’s a child on the south side of Chicago who can’t read, that matters to me, even if it’s not my child. If there’s a senior citizen somewhere who can’t pay for her prescription and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it’s not my grandmother. If there’s an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties. It’s that fundamental belief — I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper — that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family. “E pluribus unum.” Out of many, one.”
+ ” The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation; the belief in things not seen; the belief that there are better days ahead. I believe we can give our middle class relief and provide working families with a road to opportunity. I believe we can provide jobs to the jobless, homes to the homeless, and reclaim young people in cities across America from violence and despair. I believe that as we stand on the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices, and meet the challenges that face us.”
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Remember the Deathstar in the Star Wars movies?
Well NASA’s Cassini probe has found it and it’s a little too close to the Earth for my liking.
It’s been masquerading as one of Saturn’s moons Mimas.
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Back in the 50s and 60s we were so sure that the future was going to be filled with flying cars and robots to do all our menial chores. That future seems to be a bit slow in coming and other things came that weren’t in the futurists’ vision.
The University of California Berkeley has put together images from those heady days here for us to enjoy.
(Via Boing Boing)
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President George W. Bush demonstrates once again that simple tasks, like riding a bike or eating a pretzel, are too much for his motor skills.
This man has his finger on the nuclear button?
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