Monthly Archive for October, 2007

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Bill Gates Is Killin’ Me, Just Killin’ Me

Published on October 29, 2007 in Blogging and Technology. 2 Comments


I blog a lot with my laptop in front of the TV. I can sit there and buzz through RSS feeds and get ideas, make notes, even write posts and pre-publish them.

Gates decided he didn’t want me to so that anymore.

I spent a lot of time yesterday and all this evening checking settings, restarting, shutting completely down, unplugging from router, plugging back in router.

The little icon says I am connected to the innerwebs, but I can’t access anything. Firefox or IE. I think I will get an AOL disk and sign up for dial up. We don’t use the landlines for anything anymore.

We can’t get DSL our neighborhood, only cable. I’m not paying for two cable modems.

Bill Gates is a Prick.

I may be making a trip to Seattle.

UPDATE: Thou Shalt Not Steal Thy Neighbor’s Signal

FIVE HOURS on the phone with Netgear. Out of those five hours, only 30 minutes was waiting on hold, primarily while the good people of Bangalore huddled and tried to figure out my problem

I was deep into the bowels of Bill Gates Private Hell he calls and OS. Starting, restarting, plugging, unplugging, pinging, this IP address, that IP address, this window, that window, desktop, laptop, this person, that person, that person’s supervisor.

After literally five hours of non stop chattering, we hit the miraculous combination.

Occassionally when I couldn’t log on to my network at the speed I wanted, I would bip over and check my neighbors. It never was better, so I would bip back to mine.

The Man in Bangalore says that “sometimes this causes confusion. I would recommend you not do that.”

BTW: Netgear has a helluva service contract. I tried to get the Geek Squad and boy am I glad I didn’t. Can you imagine them spending five hours here? Never happen. Highest rating to the Netgear GearHead Support.

Five Things You Already Knew About M & M’s

Published on October 29, 2007 in M & Ms. 4 Comments

If you are a regular reader, I have covered all these topics before. But for a review, Mental_floss has restated them.

Please Recommend One New Blogger to Me

Published on October 29, 2007 in Blogging. 5 Comments

I’m looking for a few good excellent blogs. Everybody on my blogroll has earned their way there and will remain (except for those that don’t.) Some have cut down quantity of postings because of life changes. Therefore, I would like to add some new ones. I’m not very picky, that’s why I’m asking you. If you had good taste you wouldn’t be here.

Please look at your blogroll and recommend one of your favorite bloggers. If you want to email me so you don’t hack off the others, that’s OK too.

Here are my criteria:

  • Not an A lister.
  • Posts at least daily.
  • Witty/funny. Profane and/or smutty witty/funny is OK.
  • No politics (or rarely.)
  • I don’t what to have to think too much.

Thank you for your support.

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Porter Wagoner (Mr. Dolly Parton) is Dead

Published on October 29, 2007 in Baby Boomer and Entertainment. 3 Comments

The man who invented Dolly Parton is dead from lung cancer.

Porter Wayne Wagoner was born August 12, 1927 of Irish-German heritage in the Ozarks of Missouri near the Arkansas border. In 1949, Porter visited Nashville and witnessed Hank Williams singing “Lovesick Blues” at the Grand Ole Opry.

By 1950, he was working in Vaughn’s butcher shop on the town square and singing (and reading commercials) on a 15-minute early morning show over local radio KWPM in his hometown. Executives from Springfield, Missouri’s KWTO radio station then recruited him for their station in September 1951. In 1952, Porter found himself recording his first RCA release, Williams’ “Settin’ The Woods On Fire”. 1953 brought Porter his first songwriting success with the Carl Smith hit, “Trademark”. During this time the Porter Wagoner Trio, with Don Warden (steel guitar) and Herschel “Speedy” Haworth (electric guitar) was formed and began touring. 1954 brought Porter his first top 10 hit with “Company’s Comin’”. “A Satisfied Mind” came next and went to number one for 4 weeks and stayed on the charts for over 8 months. In 1954, Porter became a part of the “Ozark Jubilee” and on February 23, 1957 he joined the “Grand Ole Opry” where he remains one of its most popular stars.

Television has also been a major part of Porter’s time in the public eye. He started the syndicated “Porter Wagoner Show” in 1960 and it remained on the air for an amazing 21 years airing in close to two hundred markets and seen by an estimated 3.5 million viewers. The “Porter Wagoner Show” was a key factor in popularizing country and gospel music across the United States. Throughout the 1960’s, there were lots of hit recordings and television work. In 1967, after seven magical years together, Pretty Miss Norma Jean left Porter’s show to get married. Early September of that year brought a fledging female singer named Dolly Parton as Norma’s replacement.

Grossest Places I Have Been…So Far

Published on October 28, 2007 in Baby Boomer. 7 Comments
  • A rendering plant. (Edit: per Catcher In the Wry) In the old days: When farm animals died, and the farmer is responsible, they weren’t buried. The farmer called a local rendering plant and they send a truck to pick up the animal. They also picked up grease from restaurants, and butcher shop trimming. My dad made feed for farm animals and one of the recipes called for meat scraps. Guess who got to go to the rendering plant to pick it up. First time I was there, I walked into the door that employees use – which was on the rendering floor. I saw a pile of dead cows, pigs and horses, being gutted and then dragged into a vat. Still in existence
  • US Army Physical Exam Urine Collection. Back when there was a draft, I was called to get an Army physical exam in Detroit, Michigan. Literally was in urine an inch deep. I guess when the guys peed in the cup, they figured they would show their rebellion and piss on the floor. Base is closed
  • NYC Subway in the 1960′s. Pervs walking around with their dicks out, smell of crap, filth everywhere. Never been back, is it better?
  • More places on the web that I care to admit.