The walking tour teaches visitors about ‘real hauntings’ in the historic parts of the city. Continue reading 6788 – New ghost tour is in spirit of Fort Lauderdale
6787 Mango / Spyware / Pi Approximation / Look out.
Dang. It’s obviously mango season again. They’re hanging fat on any tree that hasn’t been harvested yet. I imagine every office in the city has someone bringing in grocery bags full of ’em, pulled of before they can be allowed to rot on the ground…They have been known to make the local birds and other small animals drunk when the fruit is consumed after fermenting in the sun for a few days.
That puts me in the mood for a tropical fruit salad… maybe some mango/banana/lime/coconut.
I won’t go into what a raging mango is. Them that know, know.
New Tech seems ok, so far. Intelligent, but I worry that along with that comes a fundamental laziness. He reminds me a bit of my old buddy ramscan, in that he’s quiet and laid back, but once you open him up, he seems nice, and likely lot deeper than you might see on the surface.
My good deed of the day – (figured I’d share, after helping 3 people pull if off systems yesterday.)
Instructions on how to remove Mysearch, aka Mywebsearch, My Search Bar, My Way Speedbar:
To uninstall Mysearch first close all open browser windows. Then click ‘Start’ menu, then select ‘Control Panel’ and open the ‘Add/Remove Programs’ option. Find “My Search Bar” in the list of programs, and click ‘Change/Remove’ and follow the prompts to remove them. Other components to look for and remove are:
My Way Speedbar (Smiley Central or other FWP as applicable)
My Way Speedbar (AOL and Yahoo Messengers) (beta users only)
My Way Speedbar (Outlook, Outlook Express, and IncrediMail)
Search Assistant – My Way
My Web Search (Smiley Central or FWP product as applicable)
This procedure should completely remove Mysearch. If you have any problems or to be certain all its components have been removed, scan your system with an adware removal utility.
Sure, March 14th is Pi day… but today is Pi approximation day, (22/7 if you record it euro-style.)
1 year ago – Ghosts, Pirates of the Caribbean, Church Factoid, Idi Amin
2 years ago – dreams, sounds, guns, action comics #1, hello kitty stress test, bike named, infinity
3 years ago – Cohort, fwap, morning speech quiz, coloring game, kitty cookies, sunflower bread, web indexes, English language, Olestra conspiracy
4 years ago – X-men with Dan, Robb’s Radio, went to Hops, April reading my LJ
current mood: I want to get out of work, and just relax at the movies, already.
current music: Common People – William Shatner with Joe Jackson (Pulp Cover) (via)
6786 – politics, monsters, training
Brother, can you spare a job? A cartoon in classic old style, featuring narrative audio by GWB.
Want to know where I currently stand, politically, dear journal? Well, it’s like this.
The “anyone but Bush” mindset is one I can’t support. I know that I certainly don’t much care for the man… But is Kerry any better? Every time I hear him speak, my opinion of him drops. His only selling point to my mind right now is “well, he’s not Bush”. That’s not valid enough. Is he going to do anything for the environment? I haven’t heard. Stance on big business? I don’t know, for sure. Is he really the lesser of two evils… I don’t have enough quantitative evidence to know. If I played the odds and was forced to pick, it’s *likely* that Kerry’s a better guy, just because Bush’s policies are horrid to my mind… but likely isn’t good enough. I’d like to know one way or the other.
All I’ve seen so far is “Nyah-nyah” crap debate, and it makes me unhappy with any choice that can be made.
Will I vote? Oh yeah. Will I adore who I vote for? Oh, no.
New Citizens Say GOP Took Away Their Right To Choose
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Dario Cruz has lived in the United States for 16 years, but just became a citizen last week as he and about 200 other immigrants were naturalized.
One of the things he had always wanted to was register to vote, but when he was offered the chance to do that right outside the ceremony, he knew something wasn’t right — the place on the form where you’re asked to choose Democrat, Republican or independent was already filled out. Continue reading 6786 – politics, monsters, training
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Made plans set in sand (if not stone) to go see I, Robot with Dan on Thursday… I’m going to go in, with Asimov-free bias. I just want a fun sci-fi / action movie with robots. I think Will Smith can pull that off. If I want Asimov-tight story, I’ll watch Bicentennial Man.
It surprises me how aggressive women can be to other women, watching a dynamic where the people are primarily female gives an interesting vantage. Cliques, backstabbing, and political friendships pop up much more quickly from what I’ve seen. I’ve observed this once prior, when I worked at the library, ages ago.
60 years ago today, Operation Valkyrie was attempted. (An assassination plot against Hitler via a time bomb.) I wonder how things would’ve turned out if it had succeeded?
It’s also the 35th anniversary of the moon landing… I also wonder how things might’ve turned out if that failed?
6784 – cliche dueling
My counter to “the squeaky wheel gets the grease” is “the nail that sticks out gets hammered down”.
One of my techs needs to watch their step and mouth… too much flapping lip and attitude.
Got something to say? Fair enough. Make yourself heard in a proper venue and suggestion area! If the idea’s a thought to be a good one and presented well, it’ll probably get implemented.
If it’s *not* considered to be a good idea, and you’re given perfectly valid reasons why… shut yer piehole, and be done with it. Please don’t piss and moan about it, and don’t keep resubmitting the idea once it’s been shot down multiple times.
6783 – Meat hook dangling
MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) — Law enforcement officials in the Florida Keys are mystified by a bizarre new pastime — young people dangling themselves from meat hooks on a popular sandbar.
Continue reading 6783 – Meat hook dangling
Protected: 6782 – php rant
6781 – Amber Alert links up to Web Monday
The nation’s Amber Alert system will be connected to the Web starting today, a major technological boost that users say should make it easier for the system to thwart child abductions by transmitting messages over pagers, cell phones and BlackBerrys.
6780 – Some remainder wildlife.
Assorted Wildlife, in the middle of Miami. I’m not sure where I want to go on my next trip.
Home of Ol’ Flipper.
Scottobear’s Blogspot
Scottobear's Blogspot
6779 – more pictures – Miami rails
It’s amazing that I managed to stay mostly un-rained on all day long.
6778 – Yawn a more Roman way!
Nice Trip to the Seaquarium Yesterday.
Some snapshots, more to follow as I clean ’em up.