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[Click the picture to return to the current postings.]ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.comBlogger185125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-30418950042013969982022-07-20T10:57:00.001-05:002022-07-20T10:57:16.149-05:00DanReams good morning!<div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.3pt;font-family:sans-serif'>DanReams<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.3pt;font-family:sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:15.4pt;font-family:sans-serif'><a href="https://bit.ly/3IPjnXD">https://www.google.com/search?q=ebaleytherogue.midwestexpress@blogger.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:19.2pt;font-family:sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:19.2pt;font-family:sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:19.2pt;font-family:sans-serif'><o:p> 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<br>Dan Reamsebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-17110727403699062972014-04-03T03:44:00.001-06:002014-04-03T03:44:24.603-06:00I have moved this blog...<div dir="ltr">...to WordPress at <a href="http://ebaleytherogue.wordpress.com/">http://ebaleytherogue.wordpress.com/</a> .</div> ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-65064057882358926182013-07-26T04:02:00.000-05:002013-07-26T04:03:00.154-05:00Why did I switch from RoboForm to LastPass?<div dir="ltr"><div>Some of you asked me why I switched from RoboForm to LastPass, over a year ago. It is due to its (LastPass') support of duel authentication via Google Authenticator. In English, this means I use the Google Authenticator app, on my phone, to generate a key that I have to enter, along with my password, to access my secure online password vault. This means that my account cannot be hacked unless someone knows or can hack my password AND they have access to my phone, all simultaneously.</div> <div><br></div><div>It was simple to switch from RoboForm, as I was able to export my existing passwords and safe notes. They have import options for several other password vaults too.</div><div><br></div><div>Give it a try! <a href="https://lastpass.com/f?2246786">https://lastpass.com/f?2246786</a> </div> <div><br></div><div>For more information on Google Authenticator app, see <a href="http://goo.gl/sbBxn">http://goo.gl/sbBxn</a> . It also supports Google logins (of course) as well as Dropbox logins.</div></div> ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-45777746195307675602013-02-26T13:08:00.000-06:002013-02-26T13:11:14.490-06:00"Not A Problem" is an Uppity Response<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">More tolerable is saying "No problem" or "Not a problem" after receiving direction, but it still annoys me. Example:<br /><br /><b>Boss</b>: "I need you to have your re-writes done by Tuesday."<br /><br /><b>Employee</b>: "Not a problem."<br /><br />While the employee might be accurate, that performing their job duty is not an undue stress on them, the boss typically has that consideration low on her list. She simply wants her document completed and turned in so she can move it forward. The employee is not doing the boss a favor. He is doing his job.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">In both scenarios above, I am seeing a tendency to be less respectful to others, less thankful, less responsible for one's actions, in favor of using diffusing language. Perhaps it is an attempt to remove oneself from the moment, or perhaps it is just dynamic dialect in action.</span></span><br />
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ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-33295733320439857132013-02-16T12:53:00.001-06:002013-02-16T12:53:51.399-06:00Google Talk, Google Voice, Google Chat - Differences and Uses Explained<div dir="ltr"><div class="" style="color:rgb(73,73,73);font-size:medium;font-weight:bold;padding:10px 10px 0px;font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.8007148518227041" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:24px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Google Talk and Google Chat - </span><a href="http://www.google.com/talk/"><span style="font-size:24px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.google.com/talk/</span></a></b><br> </div><div class="" style="padding:10px"><p style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px">These two services have effectively merged over the years, and even Google's documents intermingle the documentation of the two.</p> <p style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><strong><br>Google Chat:</strong> This specifically refers to the Jabber protocol compatible text chat portion of the service, as near as I can tell. Thus, one can use Spark, PSI, Trillian, to use the service, or simply use the chat feature from within Gmail itself (which is what most people will do).<strong><br> <br></strong><strong>Google Talk:</strong> This adds the audio and video components.<strong><br>Install it as either a browser plug-in or desktop software.</strong></p><p style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px"> <strong><br>Plug-in - </strong><a href="http://support.google.com/chat/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=159499" style="color:rgb(110,113,115)"></a><a href="http://support.google.com/chat/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=159499" style="color:rgb(110,113,115)">http://support.google.com/chat/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=159499</a> - PC & Mac - Offers video/audio chat within Gmail, iGoogle, and orkut</p> <p style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><strong><br>Desktop Software -</strong> <a href="http://www.google.com/talk/about.html" style="color:rgb(110,113,115)"></a><a href="http://www.google.com/talk/about.html" style="color:rgb(110,113,115)">http://www.google.com/talk/about.html</a> - PC Only - Text and voice chatting, free multiple-user audio conferencing, file transfers, free PC-to-PC calls<strong><br> </strong></p><h1 style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.8007148518227041" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:24px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Google Voice - </span><a href="http://goo.gl/rVPt0"><span style="font-size:24px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://goo.gl/rVPt0</span></a></b><br> </h1><p style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px">Google Voice provides one phone number for all your phones, should you wish to have one. Two example scenarios of the utility of this feature are below.<br> <br>[Note that phone number porting, of your cell phone or land line number, is available for a fee. I do not recommend this though, since you will then have to get a new phone number, for your cell phone, from your provider, to retain that device with a phone service. It is a useful feature for those of you who do not want to inform your contacts of your new or additional phone number. Personally, I just told people to use my Google Voice number instead of my cell number, and all was well. If they failed to do so, and continue to use my real, service provider given number, my cell phone still rings; the calls are simply not forwarded also to my other Google Voice devices. - d.r.]<strong><br> <br></strong></p><h2 style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px"><span><b id="internal-source-marker_0.8007148518227041" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Scenario #1: Having the Google Voice Phone Number Ring on Multiple Devices</span></b><br> </span></h2><ol style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px"><li>Obtain a Google Voice phone number.</li><li>Via the Google Voice interface, add your existing phones' numbers to be associated with your Google Voice account. E.g, add your cell phone, home phone, and work phone.</li> <li>Click the check-box, in Google Voice, for any phone you wish to RING when your Google Voice number is called.</li><li>Give the Google Voice phone number to your contacts.</li></ol><p style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px"> <strong><br></strong>When the Google Voice number is called, all of the devices that you define will ring. Whichever phone you pick up will be the phone you use for the call.<br><br>Thus, you will not need to manually forward phones from anywhere to anywhere else.<br> <br>In my testing, I got the following results:<strong><br><br></strong></p><p style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px"> <strong>Answering the call on the PC:</strong></p><ul style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px"><li>I called my Google Voice phone number. All my devices (PC's logged into gmail plus my cell phone) rang as expected.</li> </ul><ul style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px"><li><strong>I answered the call on my PC</strong>, talked, then pressed * , causing my cell phone to ring. I answered the call, on the cell phone, and the cell was then conferenced in, via a three-way call. I hung up, on the PC, and the two phones were then left successfully in the call.</li> </ul><p style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><strong>Answering the call on the phone:</strong><br><br> </p><ul style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px"><li>I called my Google Voice phone number. All my devices (PC's logged into gmail plus my cell phone) rang as expected.</li> </ul><ul style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px"><li><strong>I answered the call on my phone</strong>, talked, then pressed *, and nothing happened on my PC. I was not able to take over the call, on my PC. Perhaps this was a problem with my phone, since I heard no * tone, or perhaps it is only designed to go one way. The Google help page at<a href="http://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115080" style="color:rgb(110,113,115)"></a><a href="http://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115080" style="color:rgb(110,113,115)">http://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115080</a> does not address the issue of failures transferring from phone to PC. I submitted a "Rate this article" review as follows:</li> </ul><p style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px">This does not address failure situations. I can transfer easily from PC to phone, via *, but pressing *, on the phone, will not transfer calls back to the PC. Nothing happens on the PC, and I'm using Chrome. Thus, the KB item does not specifically state what to do in such situations, although it does state calls could be picked up "from your desk", implying the feature is possible.</p> <p style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><br>You can make outbound calls,<em> from your Google Voice number</em>, only from devices that have been enabled. Thus, you can use the PC, via Google Talk, easily. You could only use your cell phones or house phones, with that number, if you port your Google Voice number to those devices. If you do not port the number, your outbound calls from those devices will simply function as usual, originating from their usual phone numbers. See below Scenario #2.<strong><br> </strong></p><h2 style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px"><span><b id="internal-source-marker_0.8007148518227041" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Scenario #2 - Use your Google Voice number only from your PC</span></b><br> </span></h2><p style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px">If you do not wish to add cell phones and/or land lines to the mix, you can simply use your Google Voice number as an originating number when calling from your PC via Google Talk.<br> <br>You can also use its voicemail feature, on your cell phone, and keep the "forward calls to…" turned off, for the cell phone. In this fashion you will easily be able to use Google Voice voicemail, and all its online features — also available on your phone — without having to give out your Google Voice phone number. See the below 'Voicemail' section for more details.<strong><br> </strong></p><h1 style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px"><span><b id="internal-source-marker_0.8007148518227041" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:24px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Google Voice Mail</span></b><br> </span></h1><p style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px">You can simply dial your Google Voice number — from any phone — press *, enter your PIN when the greeting starts playing, and access your messages. If you have a smart phone, you can download the Voice application, and even more easily access your messages.<br> <br>You can have individualized voicemail greetings based on the caller's ID.<br><br>See <a href="http://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164648" style="color:rgb(110,113,115)"></a><a href="http://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164648" style="color:rgb(110,113,115)">http://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164648</a> for voicemail configuration information.<strong><br> </strong></p><h1 style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px"><span><b id="internal-source-marker_0.8007148518227041" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:24px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Additional Information</span></b><br> </span></h1><p style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px">See <a href="http://goo.gl/hNNhb" style="color:rgb(110,113,115)"></a><a href="http://goo.gl/hNNhb" style="color:rgb(110,113,115)">http://goo.gl/hNNhb</a> for information on how to choose your Google Voice phone number.<br> <br>How Google Voice works: <a href="http://goo.gl/FkQwG" style="color:rgb(110,113,115)"></a><a href="http://goo.gl/FkQwG" style="color:rgb(110,113,115)">http://goo.gl/FkQwG</a> <br><br>Google Voice is not a phone service but is compatible with phone services. For example, you can utilize it through a VoIP service (such as Google Talk), a cell phone, a land line, your work phone, etc. There is no software to install; the set up is all done via the Google Voice site.<br> <br>Its voicemail is likely superior to your current voicemail. <br><br>You can define which devices ring based on who is calling.<strong><br></strong></p><h1 style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px"> <span id="mySelectedSpan"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.8007148518227041" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:24px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">My Scenario</span></b><br> </span></h1><p style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><strong>I utilize these services as follows:<br> <br></strong></p><ul style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px"><li>I have a Google Voice phone number. The system let me choose an available number that met my criteria. Thus, the number is almost identical to one of my other device's phone number, with the XXX-YYY-XXX x's being the same. Only the YYY value is new, and thus the number was easy for me to memorize.</li> </ul><font color="#6e7173" face="Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:15px"><br></span></font><ul style="color:rgb(110,113,115);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px"> <li>When I am in my basement office I make all outbound calls via my PC headset, because my cell reception down there is weak. If I want to continue the call I am on, I press the * button, and my cell phone rings. Note that my current call is NOT interrupted. When I answer the call, on my cell, the call is seamlessly conferenced, to my phone, and I can then hang up, on my PC, and leave the basement and take the call with me. The person with whom I am talking receives no beeps or interruptions, and they do not even know I have transferred devices unless I choose to share that with them.</li> </ul></div> </div> ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-11467424347725499992013-01-09T10:40:00.001-06:002013-01-09T10:44:41.625-06:00#Unfit2BTied - The Vasectomy Live-Tweets<div dir="ltr">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 17px;">From December, 2011:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">It being my first vasectomy, I didn't know what to expect…aside from wanting to tweet the event, of course.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">To read this properly,</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">begin at the bottom</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and work your way up through the document.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I did not think to capture these until a while afterward, and I think I may have missed a few, but whatteva.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">My twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/ebsewi" style="color: purple;">https://twitter.com/ebsewi</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi" style="color: purple;" title="ebsewi"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">ebsewi</span></b></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">ebsewi</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/vlmedina" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">@vlmedina</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> To be clear, the 'blows out the gunk' comment was with regard to positive </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23writing" style="color: purple;" title="#writing"><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#writing</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> effects & not the </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Unfit2BTied" style="color: purple;" title="#Unfit2BTied"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#</span></b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">Unfit2BTied</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> thread.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi" style="color: purple;" title="ebsewi"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">ebsewi</span></b></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">ebsewi</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Too soon for the standing desk apparently. A day of pillows commences. </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Unfit2BTied" style="color: purple;" title="#Unfit2BTied"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#</span></b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">Unfit2BTied</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi" style="color: purple;" title="ebsewi"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">ebsewi</span></b></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">ebsewi</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">To those of you who Facebook-poked me today, know that I am not allowed to poke you back for several days, per doc's orders. </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Unfit2BTied" style="color: purple;" title="#Unfit2BTied"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#</span></b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">Unfit2BTied</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi/status/150409099941654530" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">23 Dec </span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi" style="color: purple;" title="ebsewi"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">ebsewi</span></b></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">ebsewi</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">And before I take a tweet break, my final </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Unfit2BTied" style="color: purple;" title="#Unfit2BTied"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#</span></b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">Unfit2BTied</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> (or is it?): Go forth and DIVIDE BY ZERO ERROR</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi/status/150291336363393025" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">23 Dec </span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi" style="color: purple;" title="ebsewi"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">ebsewi</span></b></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">ebsewi</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">For some reason I'm feeling less of an affinity with bunnies.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Unfit2BTied" style="color: purple;" title="#Unfit2BTied"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#</span></b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">Unfit2BTied</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi/status/150291080083013632" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">23 Dec </span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">A friend advised an underwear-based supporter from the hockey store. Was going to buy it but it didn't come with a goalie mask. </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Unfit2BTied" style="color: purple;" title="#Unfit2BTied"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#</span></b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">Unfit2BTied</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi/status/150289821972185088" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">23 Dec </span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">When I retire I'm thinking a return to the work force as a surrogate is now off the table. </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Unfit2BTied" style="color: purple;" title="#Unfit2BTied"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#</span></b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">Unfit2BTied</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Whoever started "No White After Labor Day" was a frickin' prophet. </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Unfit2BTied" style="color: purple;" title="#Unfit2BTied"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#</span></b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">Unfit2BTied</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">1 more for the playlist-end: 'Swing low, Sweet Chariot'/'Lay Down Sally' mash-up. </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Unfit2BTied" style="color: purple;" title="#Unfit2BTied"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#</span></b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">Unfit2BTied</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi/status/150268183541067778" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">23 Dec </span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi" style="color: purple;" title="ebsewi"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">ebsewi</span></b></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">ebsewi</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Those worms from Dune were awesome. I wonder if they minded those hooks. </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Unfit2BTied" style="color: purple;" title="#Unfit2BTied"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#</span></b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">Unfit2BTied</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi/status/150267677242425344" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">23 Dec </span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi" style="color: purple;" title="ebsewi"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">ebsewi</span></b></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">ebsewi</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">That couple with 19 kids can afford to expect less, proportionately, from each kid. </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23LoweredExpectations" style="color: purple;" title="#LoweredExpectations"><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#LoweredExpectations</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Unfit2BTied" style="color: purple;" title="#Unfit2BTied"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#</span></b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">Unfit2BTied</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi/status/150266426488401920" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">23 Dec </span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi" style="color: purple;" title="ebsewi"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">ebsewi</span></b></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">ebsewi</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"So, what attracted you to this line of work, Doc? Moments like this, or the money?" </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Unfit2BTied" style="color: purple;" title="#Unfit2BTied"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#</span></b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">Unfit2BTied</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi/status/150266426324828160" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">23 Dec </span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi" style="color: purple;" title="ebsewi"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">ebsewi</span></b></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">ebsewi</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">I wonder why no one offers me giblets at Thanksgiving. Always dug 'em as a kid. </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Unfit2BTied" style="color: purple;" title="#Unfit2BTied"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#</span></b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">Unfit2BTied</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi/status/150266170170281986" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">23 Dec </span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Should have worn a big red nose & brought a buzzer. </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Unfit2BTied" style="color: purple;" title="#Unfit2BTied"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#</span></b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">Unfit2BTied</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Operation" style="color: purple;" title="#Operation"><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#Operation</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi/status/150265914804285440" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">23 Dec </span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"Expect a brief prick." Sounds like my mother-in-law's advice to my wife. </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Honeymoon" style="color: purple;" title="#Honeymoon"><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#Honeymoon</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Unfit2BTied" style="color: purple;" title="#Unfit2BTied"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#</span></b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">Unfit2BTied</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Humming "It's Cold Outside" & thinking I should have made a playlist. </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Unfit2BTied" style="color: purple;" title="#Unfit2BTied"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#</span></b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">Unfit2BTied</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Pandora" style="color: purple;" title="#Pandora"><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#Pandora</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi/status/150264408222871552" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">23 Dec </span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Should have worn shades. Feeling naughty when I make eye contact </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Unfit2BTied" style="color: purple;" title="#Unfit2BTied"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#</span></b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">Unfit2BTied</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23CatholicUpbringing" style="color: purple;" title="#CatholicUpbringing"><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#CatholicUpbringing</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi" style="color: purple;" title="ebsewi"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">ebsewi</span></b></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">ebsewi</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Is it inappropriate to ask my doctor what scent he is wearing? </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Unfit2BTied" style="color: purple;" title="#Unfit2BTied"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#</span></b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">Unfit2BTied</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ebsewi" style="color: purple;" title="ebsewi"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">ebsewi</span></b></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">ebsewi</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Entering the building. I had expected thunder & lightning. Seems too cheery. </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Unfit2BTied" style="color: purple;" title="#Unfit2BTied"><b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">#</span></b><span style="color: #93a644; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;">Unfit2BTied</span></a></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Live-Tweeting, during the procedure, begins above this line.</span></b></div>
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ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-49552072588011688882013-01-08T13:49:00.001-06:002013-01-08T13:49:21.210-06:00"Portal", "Portal 2", and Steam<div dir="ltr"><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px">Below is information I sent to a friend of mine recently. I've had a few messages from people asking me "What's this Portal game you've been going on about?", and "What's this Steam thingie?" </span><br> </p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"></p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Some background for you before diving in the links:</p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"> </p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><strong style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"><em style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px">Portal</em></strong></p> <p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"></p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> "Portal" and "Portal 2" are multi-platform games capable of being run on PC, PS3, Linux (I think), Xbox, and Mac. Players on any platform can play the multi-player portion of "Portal 2" with each other.</p> <p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"></p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> The game is non-violent, unless you count the various AI entities trying to kill you.</p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <br style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"></p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">"Portal" and "Portal 2" are often available on Steam for crazy low prices. One can even buy multi-packs so as to gift copies to friends. As I type this, "Portal" is $9.99 and "Portal 2" is $19.99, but I bought both of them, as a package, for under $10 over the holidays. All you need to do is add them to your wishlist, on Steam, and then you'll get an email when they go on sale.</p> <p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"></p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> "Portal" has no multi-player, but "Portal 2" has one that is great fun. Voice works across platforms, by the way.</p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <br style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"></p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><strong style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"><em style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"> </em></strong><strong style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"><em style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px">Steam</em></strong></p> <p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"></p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> I play the game via the <strong style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px">Steam </strong>gaming network (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(software)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(software)</a> ) . Steam happens to be owned by Valve, which also created "Portal", but this is a coincidence. That is, I play other games that are simply downloaded and played, via Steam, that were not created by Valve. Steam is a free online service via which you can buy and download games and connect up with your friends, within Steam, for playing the games.</p> <p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"></p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> A Steam account is FREE. Several games, such as "PlanetSide 2" (hilarious review at <a href="http://angryjoeshow.com/2012/12/planetside-2-angry-review/">http://angryjoeshow.com/2012/12/planetside-2-angry-review/</a>) are amazing...and again, FREE. To get the hang of Steam, I suggest creating an account, installing their client software, and downloading a free game. </p> <p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"></p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Note that the client software has a low overhead. I set mine not to launch at Windows boot and only launch manually, but it can of course be there all the time if you want it to be.</p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <br style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"></p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Steam often has enormous specials where games are .99 or a couple of bucks.</p> <p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"></p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <br style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"></p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><strong style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"><em style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px">Links:</em></strong></p> <p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"></p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Portal: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_(video_game)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_(video_game)</a></p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <br style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"></p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Portal 2: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_2">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_2</a></p> <p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"></p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Official Site at Valve: <a href="http://www.valvecorporation.com/">http://www.valvecorporation.com/</a></p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <br style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px"></p><p style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Sign up for a Steam account: <a href="http://store.steampowered.com">http://store.steampowered.com</a></p> <div><br></div> </div> ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-15450299005212457032012-11-17T09:59:00.001-06:002012-11-17T10:50:51.170-06:00To My Wife, on her birthday, a love letter<br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Happy Birthday, Kristie</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">-------- ----------- ---------</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">To she who has been my companion throughout the years,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I love you.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Others say "To my dearest ____, you are the most wonderful wife/husband/mate/F-buddy in the whole wide world!", but they are wrong.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Their mates are whores, a-holes, douche bags, pricks, meanies, compared to you. On Facebook, they profess thanks, to God, for having the presence of their loved one, bestowed upon them, when in actuality, God had been busy elsewhere, when the couple hooked up, and like in Bryan Singer's 'Superman Returns' movie, when Superman had been off on a mission to [the blown up?] Krypton, and returns to Earth, to find some very boring, nondescript, vanilla dude had been bangin' his old lady, proclaims "WTF?!".</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">They think they've got it great, but they don’t.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Compared to being with you, they might as well be living in a Pearl Jam song.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">They've settled. "This person is so great," they think, yet everyone - especially their parents and college friends - knows better, wondering how they could have chosen such a tool.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">So, thank you for, via your very existence in the universe, and my life, for making it easy for me to see how everyone else’s relationships really suck. I don't cry for them, because I really don't care, having no horse in their race, but I do enjoy my life all the more, knowing mine is so much better than theirs (even if they are ignorant of that), because of you.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Others close their eyes and think of Ryan Gosling, or Scarlett Johansson, or that guy from Mad Men, or a cheerleader, but I don't have to do that, cuz I've got you, not being saddled with someone I met in a bar, back in the day, to whom I got hitched because I had nothing better to do, and I was getting old, and what the heck.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Love Always,</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">- me</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">http://www.1happybirthday.com/play_song.php?name=Kristie</span></span>ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-81261288680143851792012-10-04T13:08:00.001-05:002012-10-04T13:10:07.500-05:002012-10-04 Obama vs Romney_Debate 01<br />
As posted to my sister's page in response to a thread there, I place this item here, in my notes, so I can refer to it as needed.<br />
- d.r.<br />
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I am judging the performance, in my posting, not the content. I thought both candidates were great debaters. Romney avoided directly answering several of the questions, and he did it deftly. Jim Lehrer, whom I've watched since the '70's, immediately lost control of the proceedings. I shed another tear for the loss of Tim Russert, who would have eaten both of those guys for breakfast, lunch, dinner, shat them out, and eaten them again.<br />
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I did not see Romney as either maniacal or psychotic, but as cool and professional. He operated extremely well within the confines of the rules*. That is, he got away with what he was allowed to do.<br />
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Obama performed well, but he looked tired. His words were well chosen, but his professorial approach hurt him here.<br />
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Make no mistake, Obama is my guy, but performance wise, Romney was the cooler cucumber.<br />
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That said, Obama was much FUNNIER. For that reason alone I'd vote for him, because comedy is my number one election issue.<br />
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As for content, it will take me days to read all the fact-checking stuff. For me, that's like pawing through the stats after a great game, and I love the task. I feel like Asimov sitting on the floor of his apartment and indexing his books manually, for fun.<br />
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*This sentence was written due to the assertion that "Romney looked maniacal and nearly psychotic", with which I disagree.<br />
ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-23237024929876031412012-10-02T16:40:00.000-05:002012-10-02T16:41:27.831-05:00Webkey (ROOT REQUIRED) Remote Control Android App - Mini-Review I had been looking for an app to "take control" of my Android phone's SCREEN, and not just its functions. Prior to trying 'Webkey' I had been using 'AirDroid', the latter of which, although great, did not give me a true screen control. Webkey does just that.<br> <br> Currently (2012-10-02), however, my Samsung Galaxy Nexus' on-screen keyboard is disabled after running the app, requiring a restart of the phone prior to regaining on-screen keyboard functionality.<br> <br> My Google play review:<br> <br> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZMs3PxHJmps/UGtfiBO1pJI/AAAAAAAABbA/wLdcPtLoZTA/s1600/Webkey%2BAndroid%2BRemote%2BControl%2BApp-787831.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZMs3PxHJmps/UGtfiBO1pJI/AAAAAAAABbA/wLdcPtLoZTA/s320/Webkey%2BAndroid%2BRemote%2BControl%2BApp-787831.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5794830383593137298" /></a><br> ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-79676634972734314732012-10-01T14:18:00.001-05:002012-10-01T14:18:03.087-05:00Information for Creating a Google+ Account<div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> To participate in a Google+ Hangout one needs a Google+ account, freely obtainable by Google.</span><br> <br> <ol> <li>If you already have a Gmail account...</li> <li>Click the pull-down menu, on the upper-right portion of your Gmail screen, then select 'Join Google+', as shown in the screen shot below.</li> </ol> <br> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Lm6i3deBP04/UGnsa9P41zI/AAAAAAAABZc/fxdhK0GUpF0/s1600/hejieaja-783088.png"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Lm6i3deBP04/UGnsa9P41zI/AAAAAAAABZc/fxdhK0GUpF0/s320/hejieaja-783088.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5794422343450810162" /></a><br> <br> <br> If you do not already have a Gmail account...<br> <br> <ol> <li>Navigate to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=oz&continue=https://plus.google.com/?gpsrc%3Dgplp0&hl=en" target="_blank">https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=oz&continue=https://plus.google.com/?gpsrc%3Dgplp0&hl=en</a></li> <li>Choose the "SIGN UP" button in the upper-right corner, as shown below.</li> </ol> <br> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QLvRXNRZkkg/UGnsbbsbk6I/AAAAAAAABZo/BfF3wy1qDwc/s1600/jjchdhej-785173.png"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QLvRXNRZkkg/UGnsbbsbk6I/AAAAAAAABZo/BfF3wy1qDwc/s320/jjchdhej-785173.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5794422351623590818" /></a><br></div>ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-67519350081769125562012-09-20T14:17:00.000-05:002012-09-20T14:18:12.007-05:00Google+ Hangout & Other Phone Video Conferencing - Beware the Restroom Click<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Yesterday, after working with a coworker and my boss, helping the latter familiarize herself with Google+ hangouts, I went to the restroom. Sitting there, checking my phone's status updates, it looked like my boss had sent another hangout request. I went to click it, with the idea of removing it from the droid notification list, but instead I launched Hangouts. Since my last camera-related action had been using the forward-facing camera, I found myself looking at my startled self, upward from my lap.</span></div> <div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> I scrambled to turn off the hangout, before she signed-in, and in so doing, I was waving the camera around. 'Oh no!!!!', shrieked my mind, as the point of view blazed across my chest, my distressed face, and the walls. Even navigating to my phone's home screen did not shut down the client. I managed to find the appropriate command, and I exited the hangout, prior to anyone signing in, but it was touch and go (no pun intended) there for an eternal 20 seconds.</div> <div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Beware, oh ye user of Google+ Hangouts, Skype, and FaceTime. This could happen to you.</span><br> ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-10372417828172893462012-09-17T11:55:00.001-05:002012-09-17T11:55:04.883-05:00ITIL Family Restaurant & Bakery<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Inspired by the events in today's ITSM meeting:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">ITIL Family Restaurant & Bakery</i><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">My Service Portfolio, My Recipes</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">My Service Catalog, My Dining Menu</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">My Experts, My Suppliers</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">You, My Clients, My Diners</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">You consume my sauces</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Which meet FDA inspection</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I do not divulge where I buy my tomatoes</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">My suppliers request anonymity</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Their relationship with me is</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">As mine is with you</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I deal with them on your behalf</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">As your appointed proxy</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Your champion</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">To illicit from them their best</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">My bread is tasty</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">You care not what flavor</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">So long it meets your nutritional needs</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">And is tasty with complimentary morsels</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I provide meals</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">You ask not for a plate of ingredients</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">You and your party plan to return</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">You have seldom seen food appear so quickly</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Hot</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">And Steaming</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">You eat</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">You enjoy</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">You purge</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">You are happy</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">You converse while you dine</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Oblivious to the kitchen machinations</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">As it should be</span><br> <br> ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-15369070132004356552012-08-21T09:44:00.001-05:002012-08-21T12:48:56.772-05:00Historical Timelines (Yeah, it's redundant) - We Humans Be Badass<div>
I recently overheard a cafe conversation where a woman, while talking to her mother, said, <i>"People have literally been around for over 3,000 years!". </i> While I do not know the full context of their conversation, but as I was cringing, I was reminded that many people tend to think of human history only in terms of the Egyptian pyramids, the earliest of which was probably some 4,600 years ago. It is good to remind ourselves of the hundreds of thousands of years that preceded that, for hominids, and the likely 250,000 - 200,000 years of Homo sapiens since then.<br />
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A heepin' helpin' of history, including timelines for "major civilizations". Check out its "Pre-History" section too, which goes back to our humble beginnings: <a href="http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html">http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html</a></div>
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Starting at 10,000 BC (that's 12,012 years ago, Folks): <a href="http://ehistory.osu.edu/world/TimeLineDisplay.cfm?Era_id=4">http://ehistory.osu.edu/world/TimeLineDisplay.cfm?Era_id=4</a></div>
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U.S. History: <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0902416.html">http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0902416.html</a></div>
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Contemporary yet very thorough timelines of specific people, times, and places. Read it with a British accent: <a href="http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/">http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/</a></div>
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An interesting history of the Church (Christians, namely Catholics), and fascinating in that one can click on any period and expand it to more fleshed out little timelines: <a href="http://www.historytimeline.org/">http://www.historytimeline.org/</a></div>
ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-63964240971801768562012-07-25T08:10:00.001-05:002012-07-25T08:10:57.720-05:00Why the European Date-Notation is Great, but File-naming with yyyy-mm-dd is Better<div><span class="commentBody">As posted to FB by me in response to seeing a European date on one of her pictures:</span></div><span class="commentBody"><div><span class="commentBody"><br></span></div>The dd/mm/yyyy is much more logical than our backwards mm/dd/yyyy format, for sure. Littlest unit to biggest. Makes sense.<br> <br> For my own file-naming needs though, I prefer the YYYY-MM-DD (biggest unit to littlest), because than one can find one's files, based on their assigned name-related dates, versus just their file system dates, which may not jibe with their content. E.g., if one waits months, to transfer pictures from a camera, to one's computer, the file dates might not reflect the pictures' actual taken-on dates, but such a naming convention preserves that information and allows the 'Sort by Filename' option, in one's folder, to effectively show a chronology.</span> ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-42950259716456732172012-07-19T03:37:00.001-05:002012-07-19T03:46:16.852-05:00Note to WPR's "At Issue With Ben Merens" regarding 2012-07-17 Episode<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">YOUR_COMMENT: LONG-TIME listener, re: 7-17-2012 show:</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">I listened to WPR's "At Issue with Ben Merens" and found that I was one of those who had to check my phone, while walking from room to room, or grab it when I heard it chime, or felt it vibrate, to see if I was "missing anything". I have even experienced "Phantom Vibration Syndrome" (or whatever), when one thinks an itch, coming from the general vicinity of where one stores one's phone, is actually a phone vibration alert. In just the course of one day I turned this all around via use of the add-on, for the Google <i>Chrome </i>browser, called '<i>StayFocusd</i>' (That's the correct spelling.) I now limit my <i>Facebook</i>, <i>G+</i>, and <i>Twitter </i>time to 20 minutes during the work day and an hour on either side.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Once again, your show has inspired me to take a look around...and at myself...and make improvements.<br /> <br /> ----<br /> Link related my above note:</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">"At Issue with Ben Merens" episode that prompted me to utilize a tool to force me to limit, meter, and most importantly, be aware of, my online, non-work related time:
<a href="http://wpr.org/merens/index.cfm?strDirection=Prev&dteShowDate=2012-07-17%2016%3A00%3A00%2E0">http://wpr.org/merens/index.cfm?strDirection=Prev&dteShowDate=2012-07-17%2016%3A00%3A00%2E0</a><br /> <br /> Google Search for 'Stayfocusd' reviews: </span><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tinyurl.com/834wr9e">http://tinyurl.com/834wr9e</a></b>ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-10351967238231774782012-07-18T09:26:00.001-05:002012-07-18T09:56:18.355-05:00Tip for Using Google Search as One's Quick Method of Searching Craigslist or Any SiteWhen I search Craigslist I prefer to let Google do the work, as shown below. Typing such search strings directly into the Google Search field -- or into the address bar, on Chrome -- garners one great results.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;">honda cruiser -trailer "good condition" site:<a href="http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/">milwaukee.craigslist.org</a></span></div>
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Above, we see my general search terms, including my desire for the word 'trailer' to NOT be included in the result set, followed by my desire for the exact phrase, "good condition", followed by the site I wish to search.</div>
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Note that I could as easily have typed:</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;">honda site:<a href="http://facebook.com/">facebook.com</a></span></div>
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and Facebook would have been searched. You can try it for other sites too, E.G.,</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;">windows 7 important updates site:<a href="http://microsoft.com/">microsoft.com</a></span></div>
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Or, you can do it all more easily by going to <a href="http://www.google.com/advanced_search">http://www.google.com/advanced_search</a> and typing the domain (site) name into the domain field.<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>In either case, you can bookmark your search criteria and click it at will</b>. For example, if you are watching for a specific product to arise, on your regional Craigslist site, you can simply click the bookmark periodically to see what is available.</span><br />
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[Note: In searching for the original bookmark, related to where I first learned this technique, I'm thinking it was probably here, back in 2009: <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/162030/10_craigslist_tips_for_power_users.html" style="background-color: white;">http://www.pcworld.com/article/162030/10_craigslist_tips_for_power_users.html</a> ]</div>
</div>ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-57169821204738071042012-07-14T09:58:00.001-05:002012-07-14T09:58:36.350-05:00A Break in the Drought...Notice ItWalking to a meeting yesterday afternoon, across campus
<br>Laptop safely tucked away between two Target shopping bags
<br>Warm down-pour
<br>A few minutes early
<br>Stopping on the sidewalk
<br>Face turned upward
<br>Eyes closed
<br>Experience cleansingebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-63838672476946260372012-07-06T14:07:00.001-05:002012-07-06T14:15:47.098-05:00Frickin' Shrink-Wrap Packaging<span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #555555; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I was able to "brush" a bag of marshmallows into our cart last weekend. I unloaded the cart. I unpacked that particular bag, upon arriving home. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #555555; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"What makes you think I'm eating something?", I replied.</span><br />
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<br /></div>ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-40025058966673066442012-07-03T09:26:00.001-05:002012-07-03T09:26:39.443-05:00Why Men Don't Make New Friends<div>Why men don't make new friends:</div><div><br></div><div>Misunderstood relationships</div><div>Friends of banter</div><div>Strangers to substance</div><div>Mostly isolated nodes</div><div>Occasional I/O</div><div> So we deal</div><div>And find our own paths</div> ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316300.post-35095327871118787062012-06-22T09:03:00.001-05:002012-06-22T09:03:03.980-05:00When Others' Opinions Matter...and When They Don't<span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">A friend of mine recently posted some interesting thoughts about being a female, in US society, and the pressures inherent in that, including the apparent hypocrisy in stating that imposed ideals, are bad, and then turning around and running to the rest room, removing spinach from their teeth and making sure their nose is not shiny. Some of that may be about someone wanting to represent themselves in a manner by which they would like to be perceived, as opposed to trying to </span><b style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">impress</b><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"> someone else. After eating spinach I too run off to the rest room to make sure I don't have it between my teeth, more to prevent someone from thinking I'm disgusting, and to honor my own taking-care-of-myself ethos (such as it is) than for any other reasons. As for the shiny nose thing, I do not think it is most often done, to please the surrounding men, but rather, to avoid the shiny one passing a mirror and cringing.</span><br style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"> <br style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">So long as we know where we get our stances, phobias, hang-ups, habits, and other practices, I have no problem with us having them. I think it is often less productive to fight them so much, because that too may be perceived as wanting to show others...that we don't mess around caring what others think, which seems hypocritical.</span><br style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"> <br style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">In a society, it does matter to us what others think. To some extent, it </span><b style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">should</b><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">. I consider that a feedback mechanism, and I'm hugely into feedback. One might settle for not always asking, "Am I doing this right?", which may make one seem to have a low self-esteem or be otherwise not very confident, but instead being open to, "Hey, you really bungled that one". I consider spinach teeth, externally visible mucus, ear wax, body odor, and spitting where people walk as all fair game regarding things which have a societal interest. Their presence detract from the common aesthetic.</span><br style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"> <br style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">We primates are villagers. Nothing wrong with that.</span><br style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"> <br style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">The extremes, of being dictated to, with regard to conforming to societal expectations -- imposed by both men and women -- are another matter, with regard to weight, cosmetics, and fashions in clothing, piercings, and sexual orientation. These things need to be resisted, as they are simply someone gettin' up in someone else's bidness, yo. If these items are perceived as distracting, then the perceivers need to edit their perceptions.</span><br style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"> <br style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">Of course, my lists may be different from others' lists, but these are the lenses through which I look as I make my way through my days.</span><div> <span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">We are taught to solicit feedback, for our project plans and documents, and we inherently know that incorporating the feedback, into our final works, will make the works <b>better</b>. Although humbling, it is generally true. However, when it comes to making ourselves better, we think we can do it alone. We are taught to be arrogant, in this regard. Humility and Arrogance.</span></div> <div><span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248);color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248);color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">I find this interesting.</span></div> <div><span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248);color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248);color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">Let us listen to each other, using our critical-thinking skills, and act appropriately. Call it a grain-of-salt if you like, but do not discount the feedback.</span></div> ebaleytheroguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558161281667806843noreply@blogger.com0