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Live, Firefox, Live

Published on July 31, 2009 in Blogging and Technology. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

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I’m not celebrating, I’m just okay with the fact that another 999,999,999 computers have Firefox installed and hopefully are using that instead of Internet Explorer.
Bill Gates is a Prick.

You’re probably like me, you have at least two browsers installed, and maybe four or five or none.

And, if you are like me, you get totally honked off at Firefox and switch to another browser just to teach it a lesson.

3.5 was a nightmare for me. Constant crashes. then 3.5.1 came out and ’tis alrighty.

Sometimes I write Die Firefox Die. But it won’t and another version is released and it’s OK for a while.

So Live, Firefox, Live.

Conan Interprets Sarah Palin: Shatner Delivers

Published on July 28, 2009 in Baby Boomer, Blogging, Education, Entertainment and Politics. 1 Comment Tags: , , , .

Sarah Palin is a poet.
She don’t know it,
her feet don’t show it.
But they sure are Longfellows.

(How old IS that ditty?)

Here is William Shatner delivering Sarah Palin’s speech in poetic mode as dictated by Conan.

…soaring through nature’s finest show.
Denali, the great one, soaring under the midnight sun.
And then the extremes. In the winter time it’s the frozen road
that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty,
the cold though, doesn’t it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs?
And then in the summertime such extreme
summertime
about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter
than just some months ago, than just some months from now,
with fireweed blooming along the frost heaves and merciless rivers that are rushing and carving and reminding us that here,
Mother Nature wins. It is as throughout all Alaska that big wild good life
teeming along the road that is north to the future.

I Just Quit the Sunday Stealing Meme

Published on July 19, 2009 in Blogging and Entertainment. 0 Comments Tags: .


Sunday Stealing: The Heretic Meme

I shouldn’t be doing this because I’m not a baptized Catholic. So I am incapable of heresy. I RAWK.

1. Who was the last person of the opposite sex you lay in a bed with? Nancy

2. Where was the last place you went out to eat? El Mazatlan, which Varley referred to as El Mazoltov.

3. What was the last alcoholic beverage you consumed? Marguerita, unless you count the Dr Pepper and Rum I’m drinking now, which isn’t consumed, so never mind.

4. Which do you prefer – eyes or lips? Lips. Hard of hearing people always prefer lips.

5. Medicine, fine arts, or law? Fine Arts, are there Unfine Arts, would these called Larry Fine arts? nyuk nyuk nyuk

6. Best kind of pizza? What are you having? Last one we had was pineapple, grilled chicken and pepperoni. Anything but fish on my pizza is fine.

7. What is in store for your future? Cake or Death. Or Apple Pie.

8. Who was the last band you saw live? The band that played for Legally Blonde stage production.

9. Do you take care of your friends while they are sick? No.

10. How many songs are on your iPod? I don’t own an iPod.

11. Where is the last place you drove to? Le Club du Golfe this morning.

12. Where did your last kiss take place? Under a tree.

13. What were you doing at 11:59 PM on Monday night? Snoozing

14. Are you a quitter? If this meme doesn’t improve, yes.

15. Who was the last person you had in your house? In the Biblical sense? I’m guessing “no” so that would be Pat

15. What do you think about people who party a lot? How DO they DO it?

16. Does talking about sex make you uncomfortable? It depends on with whom I am discussing it and how specific I can get.

17. What was the last CD you purchased? Mamma Mia

18. What are two bands or singers that you will always love? Pfbbt. Close to becoming a quitter…

19. Which of the seven deadly sins are you guilty of? I can’t name them, but of the ones I can think of, all of them.

20. How is your last ex doing? None. I quit.

It’s the Rhymes-with-Meme Meme

Published on July 19, 2009 in Blogging and Writing. 0 Comments Tags: .

I’ll give you a word that rhymes with meme and you finish the phrase – and THIS IS IMPORTANT… you must elaborate. No one word responses allowed. I will look you up if you don’t explain.

Answer on your own blog or facebook and gimme dem links!

  1. Jim Beam and… (explain)
  2. Cream is best with …(always explain!)
  3. Dream about….
  4. Downstream you’ll find…
  5. Extreme can be…
  6. Gleem is…
  7. Gleaming because…
  8. Meme’s are…
  9. Screaming about…
  10. Scheming because…
  11. Steamed at…
  12. Streams are…
  13. Team up for…
  14. Seems kind of…
  15. Theme for tonight is…

Blaming Canada Led Me to Write Poorly, Badly, Ungoodly.

Published on July 1, 2009 in Blogging, Education and Technology. 6 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

This writer dude is giving me tech support advice. Isn’t that kind of like a painter giving me cooking tips?

Not really. There is a story. Always a story, isn’t there?

I read this post about blaming Canada. (Happy Canada Day!) Since I know a couple people in Canada via blogs and somebody tweeted they are vacationing in Canada, and another blogger is on her way home from Quebec City, I thought I would read why I should blame Canada.

In other  words, it was a helluva headline.

It was written by a writer dude from Men With Pens (which I always read as Men With Penis.)

James Chartrand is an unrepentant Canuck who survives exclusively on maple syrup, poutine, and beer. He is unfailingly polite and helps entrepreneurs and freelancers earn a decent living online at Men with Pens (dot CA, of course).

I ended up at Men with Pens and saw this:
cleartype

Dump Dump (the Law and Order dramatic music interlude)

Digression: Here is a great video of dog howling to the Law and Order theme song.

Back on topic: It was not the content that caught my eye.

It was the raggedy-ass font display that caught my eye.  As I am wont to do, I found the “contact” button and sent them a note saying their site looked like shit. Actually  I said it much nicer, but that was what I was really thinking.

Info from Men With Pens wrote back:

Thanks for that – have you tried turning on ClearType if you’re on a PC?

Huh?

ClearType? I have never heard of ClearType. I’ve heard of TrueType, but never ClearType.

So I responded:

I know nothing of ClearType.  …
I probably won’t bother with ClearType since I know nothing, and will be reading in RSS.
Observation: your designers made a site that requires a system tweak? ahem.

Info said:

Actually, no, Mark. Microsoft makes our site require a system tweak. View the site in Apple and it’s smooth and slick. This is a fault with Microsoft – not our site.

I instantly took a liking to Info.

He called me Mark, said view the site “in Apple” and blamed Microsoft. Those who read me regularly can all chime in with me…

Bill Gates is a Prick

and I told Info that.

He “heheh’d” and said:

Hm. Just had a look myself. Smooth as a whistle, and I’m running  the latest Firefox on a Win XP PC. So… I’d say you need to turn on your ClearType, yes.

I responded…
I need one of those start>control panel>thingy>dealy>ClearType>options>activate> Restart emails.
Just sayin’…
Thanks for being so kind. I’m REALLY joking now. I will Bing it to see how to do get ClearType started. It would be good for me.

Yes, I wrote to Info at Men With Pens, a professional writer’s blog with thousands of regular readers, and actually wrote “how to do get ClearType.”

I haven’t heard back from Info, so I’m thinking that he is a techie and the only thing he writes is code.

Whew, that could have been really embarrassing.

Note: there inevitably will be a typo or error in grammar in this post. It’s there on purpose.