Our Government…Arlen says we need to approve health care bill FAST…I hope not!

Posted in Politics - blah on 2009/08/03 by Ron

This crowd is pretty smart.

Yeah, the poor little congress has a lot to do so push it fast…yeah right and then we have even larger problems.

I speak as one who is getting ripped most everyday by the currently faulty healh care system.  So we want this approved fast without much real study on it.

NOT ME!

New Favorite TV Show, Warehouse 13

Posted in Entertainment, Video on 2009/08/02 by Ron

I highly recommend this one…so far at least.  I found this on Hulu.com, since I don’t get the SyFy Channel.  I liked it as it seems to be a combo of, “Indiana Jones”, “National Treasure”, “Moonlighting” (for us older folks) and one of any other cop show over the past 15 years.

You can also get it at the new SyFy.com site but I’m partial to Hulu.

Here is the link since I can’t seem to get the player to work here…drat.

Hmm, which President do you think Baseball likes best?

Posted in Politics - blah on 2009/07/23 by Ron

And just think, they booed Obama before his healthcare garbage hit the news.  Now I guess they would through rotten tomatoes.

Skyline Drive and a free park admission what more could you ask for…?

Posted in Day to Day on 2009/07/19 by Ron

Well OK, Robin with me, the top down on the Mustang all day and a great cigar.  And I had all those today.  What a great day!!!

Sorry you couldn’t have come along to enjoy it to.

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Notice the southern beginning of Massanutten Mountains diagonally left at the top of the sign and the Alleghenies are hazy to the left of it.

Sorry for the poor pic from my phone but hey, a BlackBerry is really for email and calls.

These Skating Babies have it all over the Dancin’ One from years ago

Posted in Entertainment, Video on 2009/07/14 by Ron

What a hoot … an ad for Evian water but hilarious non-the-less.

 

Paul’s thoughts on Office 2010

Posted in Software with tags , , , on 2009/07/13 by Ron

 

Paul Thurott’s preview of Microsoft Office 2010

Another great review by Paul Thurott (WinSuperSite.com) with regard to the real Office 2010, not the movie shown here recently.

I agree with all of what he says and especially, “How, exactly, do you improve on a product line that is as mature and full-featured as Office?”

Microsoft Office 2010, The Movie

Posted in Day to Day, Entertainment, Software, Video with tags , , on 2009/07/09 by Ron

What a hoot!  Why doesn’t Redmond put this stuff on TV. I know it is supposed to be for an online ad campaign but this would even put Apple to shame.

 

What do you think about, “We the People Stimulus Package”?

Posted in Day to Day, Politics - blah, Video on 2009/07/02 by Ron

This guy (supposedly Thomas Paine) has some interesting points and suggestions.

Interesting, very interesting.

Donald Trump Fires Miss California USA

Posted in Day to Day, Entertainment, Politics - blah, The Bible on 2009/06/11 by Ron

By John Rogers, Associated Press

Los Angeles (AP) – Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, who stirred up a hornet’s nest of controversy when she expressed her opinion that gays shouldn’t be allowed to marry, got the word from pageant poobah Donald Trump on Wednesday: "You’re fired."

Carrie Prejean Trump and other pageant leaders said Prejean was being sacked not because of her controversial remarks but because she hadn’t been holding up her end of the agreement she signed when she entered the pageant.

"This was a decision based solely on contract violations, including Ms. Prejean’s unwillingness to make appearances on behalf of the Miss California USA organization," the California pageant’s executive director, Keith Lewis, said in a statement.

Lewis had complained at a news conference last month that Prejean was skipping Miss California USA events while speaking out against gay marriage at unsanctioned appearances.

There are two sides to every story though?

English language gets its one millionth word

Posted in Day to Day with tags , , on 2009/06/11 by Ron

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The English language, which has more words than any other language in the history of the world, today added its one millionth word or phrase, according to the site Global Language Monitor. Several phrases were in the running, including “Jai Ho,” “Slumdog,” (terms popularized by the Oscar-winning movie “Slumdog Millionaire) and “N00b,” a derogatory name for an amateur video-game player.

But the winner was “Web 2.0,” a phrase usually applied to social networking sites such as Facebook, and Twitter. (The Global Language Monitor, somewhat stiffly, calls “[Web 2.0] a technical term meaning the next generation of World Wide Web products and services. It has crossed from technical jargon into far wider circulation in the last six months.”) Since 2008, the Global Language Monitor, which is based in Texas, has been counting down its “Million Word March.”

According to the site, a new English word or phrase is created about every 98 minutes, for an average of…

[Not to be picky but wouldn’t “Web 2.0” be the 1,000,000 & 1,000,001?]