…you hear traffic reports in the morning like this:
(courtesy of traffic.tbo.com)
Incident cleared on HILLSBOROUGH AV West and DOUBLE BRANCH RD
Impact: Medium
6:29 AM
HILLSBOROUGH – INCIDENT CLEARED: WB HILLSBOROUGH AV AT DOUBLE BRANCH RD . GATOR IN ROADWAY…..BETWEEN COUNTRY WAY AND RACE TRACK……8 FOOT GATOR…..LEFT OUTSIDE LANE GETTING BY ()
Oh boy!
(courtesy of On This Day a la reference.com)
Fact of the Day: bowdlerize
British medical doctor, Thomas Bowdler, gave up his practice in 1754 and undertook the “cleansing” of Shakespeare’s works – removing all words and expressions he considered to be indecent. In 1818, he published his edition of Shakespeare’s works intended for “families.” His name became synonymous with self-righteous expurgation and the word bowdlerize has become familiar in the English language.
Also, let it be known that I’m about two bites away from adding Wal-Mart’s pink-frosted sugar cookies to my Almost Better Than Sex List.
A la Conan O’Brien, “In the year 2000, Nestle’s Toll House cookies will become so moist and delicious that people will no longer fear death…”
LOL – GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons has a blog now…and apparently he’s pissing quite a few people off…
CLICK: the controversial post
CLICK: the rest of his blog
Apparently the word on the street is that people in high places aren’t allowed to publicly voice their opinions, for fear of losing their business. Sorry, but I’ve registered through GoDaddy for years and I’m not about to go through the hassles of transferring to another registrar simply because their founder and I don’t share beliefs. Why, that’d be as crazy as moving to another country because you didn’t like what the President had to…uh, nevermind… 😛
Ever since my last Windows Update, my desktop lags like crazy whenever I’m downloading from the Internet. Regular network traffic is unaffected, however anything coming from the ‘net – whether it be via Internet Explorer, Google Earth, Bittorrent or whatever – slows my machine down to a point where I can barely even switch between windows…cursor barely moves at all. And it doesn’t matter if files are coming in at 15 k/s or 500 k/s…but until the download completes, I’m stuck twiddling my thumbs.
Has anybody else had this problem or otherwise know how to fix it??? (I believe this would’ve been in the June updates, but I don’t recall which one specifically.) Why can’t I roll back updates like I can drivers, etc…? Maybe I’d have been better off continuing to ignore that little bubble in the corner… :<
Arlo Gutherie was born today in 1947…
If you’ve got broadband and you’re NOT playing with this right now, I just don’t know what to say to you! They took a great product…which isn’t even out of beta yet…and kicked it up to a whole new level. Finally a worthwhile excuse for having high speed Internet access that’s legal…
Go play!!!
“Excellent.”
http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/13/400fictional.html
Notable mentions also include Bruce Wayne and Scrooge McDuck…
“What good is money if you can’t inspire terror in your fellow man?”
(courtesy of On This Day a la reference.com)
Fact of the Day: bikini
The bikini debuted at a Paris fashion show on July 5, 1946. The skimpy two-piece bathing suit was designed by Louis Reard. It was named after an atoll in the Pacific Ocean where the world’s first peacetime atomic-weapons test was conducted at Bikini on July 1, 1946.
* Just got home…now watching fireworks out my office window as I write up a review for Star Wars – Episode 3…hoping that my neighbors don’t catch their building on fire and, if they do, that it doesn’t spread over to my own… * 😛
Happy 4th of July!!!