Way below normal… briefly

Way below normal… briefly

Free calls home from Gmail for all U.S. service members - Official Gmail Blog

Free calls home from Gmail for all U.S. service members - Official Gmail Blog

iMap Weather for Android

I would recommend iMap Weather for the Droid. Like some others, learning its navigation logic takes a while. It's worth it primarily because the map section shows lightning strikes with time stamps. The privately owned lightning detection network is usually a paid feature.

"I" Overload

Information overload and interruption overload thresholds seem to be inversely related. The more information coming in, the less interruption can be tolerated. The more interruption occurring, the less information can be absorbed. The convergence of these thresholds is half of the communications equation. When observing a person's communications stream, a marked decrease in outgoing could indicate that the person's incoming thresholds are approaching.

Crockpot Melange

Multiple food items have gone into the crock pot. Hillshire Farm beef Polska Kielbasa, Klement's spicy Andouille sausage, Progresso zesty chicken gumbo soup, Del Monte petite cut diced tomatoes w/ zesty jalapenos, Mrs. Grimes dark red kidney beans, whole kernel sweet corn, and Campbell's chicken noodle soup.

As much money as I put out on communications and connectivity, why do I keep washing those cheap "disposable" food storage containers?  "Penny wise, and pound foolish."  

Thanks to @safetyguy1656

The Nonconforming Sparrow

Once upon a time, there was a nonconforming sparrow who decided not to fly south for the winter. However, soon the weather turned so cold that he reluctantly started to fly south. In a short time ice began to form on his wings and he fell to earth in a barnyard, almost frozen. A cow passed by and crapped on the little sparrow. The sparrow thought it was the end. But, the manure warmed him and defrosted his wings. Warm and happy, able to breathe, he started to sing. Just then a large cat came by and hearing the chirping, investigated the sounds.
The cat cleared away the manure, found the chirping bird and promptly ate him.

----The moral of the story----

1. Everyone who craps on you is not necessarily your enemy.
   
2. Everyone who gets you out of the crap is not necessarily your friend.
   
3. And, if you're warm and happy in a pile of crap, keep your mouth shut.
   

You Are Here

If you have time for a couple of thoughts, this composite photo might lead to a couple more ...

Current Weather Conditions

This is a simple, quick-loading place to start for current weather conditions: http://weather.noaa.gov/index.html

Flying Penguins

If you can log in to Twitter, you may have seen my post.
Or, even to get a glimpse of my image: http://twitter.com/bemyax
I just now realized where I saw the flock of flying penguins. At Quotably!

Tethered htc 6800 - grandfathered Midwest Wireless data plan.

Deep in Thought

The year was 1970. Arab guerrillas blew up three hijacked Western airliners in the Jordan desert. One of the largest brush fires in California's history raged through mountain canyons, forcing 50,000 persons in nearby San Diego to flee from their homes. President Nixon signed a bill outlawing cigarette commercials on radio and television. Four students were killed at Kent State University in Ohio as National Guard men fired their M-1 rifles into a group of antiwar demonstrators. (And now we lock the place down when someone sends a text message threatening to bring a handgun halfway across the state.)

Shucks, some things never change. If we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it.

Here's the clue:

• Chicken Breast with Ribmeat
  
• Enriched Wheat Flour
  
• Water
  
• Wheat Flour
  
• Salt
  
• Flavor
  
• Sodium Phosphate
  
• Leavening
  
• Bleached Wheat Flour
  
• Cayenne Pepper Sauce Powder
  
• Spices including Paprika
  
• Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour
• Partially Hydrogenated Soybean and/or Cottonseed Oil
  
• Salt
  
• Sodium Diaceate
  
• Vinegar Powder
  
• Spice Extractives
  
• Malic Acid
  
• Extractives of Paprika
  
• Corn Starch
  
• Sodium Alginate
• Vinegar Powder
  
• Vinegar Powder
  
• Oleoresin Paprika
  
• Yellow Corn Flour
  
• Wheat Gluten
  
• Dried Egg Whites
  
• Buttermilk Solids
• Dextrose
  
• Calcium Carbonate
  
• Lactic Acid
  
• Calcium Lactate
  
• Natural Flavor with Extractives of Paprika
  
• Guar Gum
  
• Methylcellulose
• Extractives of Turmeric

And the correct question is:
What is Casey's "Spicy Boneless Chicken Drummies"?

xaymeb's day out

11:20am fuel Fletcher
1:00pm pit stop Marshalltown
2:20pm excellent Java Ridge coffee on Douglas Ave. (someone made it full strength, worth a drive across town)
3:05pm shopping Windsor Heights
5:55pm fuel and coffee on Douglas Ave. (brewed the recommended two-thirds strength, not worth the effort, guys)
6:26pm meal in Altoona, fun to watch the aquarium while consuming fish sandwich
10:33pm coffee in Iowa City
12:14am shopping in Cedar Rapids
12:59am coffee in Center Point
1:42am at the house, ready for a nap

Creating Alltel Connection

If you are a Midwest Wireless customer with an Audiovox 6600, you may have trouble authenticating for data when roaming on Sprint. Follow these instructions for creating a new Alltel connection.

Start/Settings/Connections
Tap the Connections applet
Tap Manage existing connections
Tap the New... button
Enter a name for the connection "Alltel 3g"
Leave modem at Cellular Line
Tap Next
Enter #777 as the dialed number
Tap Next
In User name: (yourtendigitphonenumber)@alltel.net
In Password: alltel
Click Finish

The radio button should be selected next to Alltel 3g in the resulting control panel. To test it press on this line and choose Connect from the pop up menu. It also seems to allow authentication on Verizon Wireless. (credit to greenlime812)

Happy surfing!

Spike Sends Jessica to Dirt Nap

In Spike's thoughtful soliloquy, last week, he bid adieu to his bride.

"Oh, Baby. You know what? I never really saw myself as a married man, you know, with a wife, kiddies. But after I blackmailed you into marrying me, and this is gonna' sound really dumb, but I used to have this fantasy all the time, you know. About how life could be for us some day. You know, it's the usual.

"You know. Little house. White picket fence. Huh. Then you coming home after doin' a few easy tricks, give me a big fat kiss, then goin' to make dinner. Then in the summer time, when it was still light outside, I'd take the little kids out and teach them how to pick pockets and shoot their first guns.

"Then, of course, we put those little monsters to bed and we have it out in the bedroom like never before, Honey. Get wasted, of course, and watch porn.

Yeah, Baby, that's the American Dream. But that dream is dead now, Honey. And that's too bad."

Passions on NBC, week of June 19, 2007

Could Orb Be Infected?

I use Orb version 1, since version 2 refuses to operate for me. This morning my firewall notified me that Orb had changed. However, I was not notified, or requested, to do an update. I was just leaving for work, so I did not write anything down, but the details indicated the source of the change had yahoo in its domain name. This is too suspicious, so now I don't feel like I can let Orb run, or get out of my system because it may have been infected. I hear that messaging programs are being used as a conduit for exploits, and that yahoo messenger had an urgent security update. Should I do an Add/Remove on Orb and reinstall?

dspam reveals spam levels

I didn't realize how much spam I get until I saw this graph.