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I love old things like this, the old radios, the smell of a transformer burning dust off of it...
I had the idea that if I posted a few weird images of things that didn't really exist on T-Shirts, that maybe I could raise some money for the Prostate Cancer Foundation. I got so far as getting a Domain Name (seems someone is squatting on the current version of it now, Meh!) But I didn't take the time to do anything else with it. Didn't know how to promote it, or a site or anything like that. I was feeling a bit bummed due to there's so many things that I've thought about, and not acted on. Ideas that are dormant. There's only so much time in the day. Even a Metric Clock won't change that. :-P If I ever get to the "work at home" state of things, maybe I'll be able to work on some other ideas a little more. Right now, all of that is just a dream. And I'm trying to learn my way around the blogosphere a little bit better. Maybe one day, I'll actually make enough money from AdSense to purchase a cup of coffee. What kinds of things have you started that you've not finished? I've started lots things that I've forgotten about. But here is a list of a few things of mine. I'd like to know what kinds of things you'd like to invent or create if you had the time. Who knows, maybe we can merge some ideas? Randy's short list forgotten things to make or do... A Decade Car: A car manufactured to stay basically the same for 10 years, that is easily modified. I'd like to sit down with some ideas and hash them out, and at least make some kind of prototype out of wood, play dough, or Lego's. An Open Source Coffee Shop: A Learning place for open source ideas, geared for learning. Sort of a Mash Up of a Sylvan Learning Center, Make Magazine and Panera Bread... So? Again, What would you like to see done, or do? =-O
Yea, I know. I didn't talk to you yesterday Dear Blog. - I got caught up doing some PDF stuff from the Google Reader to Open Office, and the images don't get save locally when you do that. Pain in the ass to edit a file that has 50 or so entries with 10 or more images per blog post. :-( Maybe someone has an idea for this? =-O Ok, on to what I was thinking earlier today. A Metric Clock. 24 hrs would be replaced by 10 hrs. I knew I wasn't the only one who had thought of this.. There's a Wiki on it. LOL. A Metric Calendar. 10 months. We get rid of February and August. Those months sorta suck anyway. 36 day months, alternated with 37 day months, with every 4 years with an extra day at the end of the first or last month of the year. There's no getting rid of a Calender creeping up on ya, if yo don't do that extra day every 4 years. 10 day weeks. With 3 day weekends. The names for the days of the weeks are up for grabs. But I was thinking... Onesday, Twosday, Threesdady, etc.. :-\ Oh my, look what I found! There is a French Version already created.. Wow. =-O Ok, well, gotta go, I'm beat. I've got a chauffeur showing up to ferry me around a bit. I figure that 500+ miles today was enough, along with two deliveries.
How and why Did you get into trucking?
Posted by Randy on December 11, 2010
I want to make sure that I’m able to post to this site via email. – That way, if I’m out and about, I can easily post something here from my phone. But While I’m here, Making a message… I’m still struggling with ideas for blogging, or how to focus my efforts. I want this blog to be about how truckers can save a buck or two, or even make one or two. If I can find coupons or other deals that are good, I’ll post and link to them also. I’ve been doing a lot of reading over on ProBlogger, JohnChow, and BlogTyrant, trying to figure out how to create a more engaging blog. Time will tell if I do or don’t. I do know that with the trucking gig, that weekly posts are about as often as I can get one out. Also, I think that I’m going to stop promoting my Posterous Account as much, and work on this blog more.
Truth be told, I started this “whole trucking thing” as a temporary gig to stay employed almost 12 years ago. – Trucking’s been good to me, I’ve met quite a few good people. But it’s not really my first love. I’m a geek. I truly am.
Ok So here’s my question to you. How did you get involved with trucking?
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In any case, it took me 2 hrs to go 15 miles. One of our other drivers said it took him 5 hours to go 15 miles.... I dunno, I'm always amazed at how traffic jams up when it does, and how rude everyone gets, and how it exacerbates the problem. I'm no angel, and I've done the same rude thing, only due to the fact that if I didn't I wouldn't have gotten anywhere. For Example. The Grid Locking of intersections. - I tried to leave room for the other traffic to get across the intersections in the snowy bumper to bumper traffic, but cars were pulling in front of me, and filling up that "space" so, I quit leaving it there for a few blocks. Another pet peeve. - People that don't know that they need to stop at a stoplight when it's dead. 
I sent in a trio of pictures from this Lancaster, NY Customer a few weeks back. Back when there wasn't snow. See if you can go back and find them. - But you'll have to browse through TachoBlog to find them.. (Ha HA! See G, I'm getting people to BROWSE your blog now. Ok, I'm trying...) 
As I was headed South yesterday (Yes, in the near freezing rain) (11-30-10) on I-71 near Jeffersonville, Oh, I noticed this truck with some FUD on it. I really think something gets lost in the Translation. FUD is short for Fear Uncertainty and Doubt, and I don't want any of that when it comes to a hot-dog.
FWIW: I found John's Blog and he has a better explanation about the FUD truck, and BIMBO too. Funny Mexican Brand Names that just don't make it past the universal translation barrier.
And here's another shot, in about the same area on I-71, but a day later. It's trying to get Frosty on My Fenders. But it didn't happen.
It's no secret that I love Linux. I like using it, I like finding new things about it, and that I'd like to know that more people are using it. Comfortably, Reliably, and with support. And It's not a secret that I like Ubuntu. But how do I find the people that WANT it, how do people know that they might WANT it. - I had a chance to talk to my Landlady, a smart and intelligent person, but she's not into being a geek. My Wife's not a Geek either. Both of these lady's want to be able to use their computers, and then get on with their lives. The landlady is accustomed to the MS stuff, and that she needed to purchase MS Office products in order to do things. Her daughters school has Microsoft Office products on their machines, so, like many parents, she felt compelled to get a product (spend money) to create PowerPoint presentations.
Here's what I'm thinking. And if you're reading this, I'd like your input and suggestions. I'm thinking Craigslist. Putting and ad up in Craigslist that I'll install Ubuntu one someone's machine. I'll get it tweak and setup proper, import their settings, if need be, and / or set the machine up to dual boot if they'd like.
Q: What to charge?
Q: What levels to charge for the time?
Q: Get them hooked up with the paid Ubuntu Support site?
Q: How much time would the average install take? - Provide links for tutorial videos?
Currently, I'm making my money as a trucker. Not a geek riddled world, or at least, not my end of it, being behind the wheel. I'd like that to change, but maybe that can and will change with time. If it's meant to be.
I don't know what my daily schedule is the night before most of the time. - That makes my life... interesting. I can request certain times and days for things, ahead of time, but that's not always do-able.
In any case, thanks for your time, and input.
R_
While “Astrospies” offered some new insights into and images of the MOL project, the program was not without some errors. (credit: USAF) Astrospies, corrected by Dwayne A. Day Monday, April 14, 2008 Over the years, PBS’s Nova program has produced some excellent space documentaries. Two of the best focused on the Mars exploration rovers. In February of this year Nova aired a program titled “Astrospies”, focusing on the United States Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) and the Soviet Almaz program (see “All along the watchtower”, The Space Review, February 11, 2008). MOL and Almaz were military space stations intended to conduct surveillance and reconnaissance of the Earth. MOL was canceled before it ever had the chance to fly, but Almaz flew several times before the Soviets ended the program. The documentary is available on DVD for anybody who missed it and a transcript can be found here. -This is just old school cool...
June 28, 2010, 08:30 AM — ITworld.com —
Science Fiction sometimes comes up with remarkable ideas for devices which would make our lives easier. Or, at the very least, much cooler. Until we get a faster than light drive or a light saber, the following will have to do. Read on, and enjoy the future of fantasy today.
Universal Translator
The one big gotcha about visiting an alien race (Dr. Hawking's concerns notwithstanding) is the language barrier. In the Star Wars universe, communication is done the old fashioned way: learn the language. With Star Trek and Doctor Who, universal translator devices are what will get you talking. Here on Earth in the 21st century, Voxtec has created the Phraselator, a hand-held device used by the U.S. military that translates 40 different languages. None of them Klingon. Yet.
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Linux School: Today’s Lesson: Getting started with Linux
Source: ITworld
Have you ever been tempted by desktop Linux's security and stability, but you didn't know where to begin? You don't have to be some kind of technical wizard who chants "awk, grep, sed" at a shell command prompt to run Linux these days. Which Linux is right for you and what's the best way to get acquainted? This guide will help.
Hmmm This looks worthy of more study...
Disabling Synaptics Touchpad with Ubuntu 10.04
I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my Thinkpad T61 and set about disabling the touchpad, which I always find irritating. There seemed to be lots of guides to this, including this one, but none of them seemed to work for me. Eventually I figured some fairly simple steps which did work:
- Install two packages if they aren’t already installed (
gpointing-device-settingsis the more modern version ofgsynapticsand will uninstall it if it’s installed):sudo aptitude install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics gpointing-device-settings- Start
gpointing-device-settingsfrom the command line and select “Touchpad off”, as shown here:- Exit the tool and reboot.
Written by andrewferrier
June 4th, 2010 at 7:22 am
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I simply use Fn+F8 after startup to disable the trackpad – Sometimes I like to enable it for other people using it, and thats easy with Fn+F8
Of course I have to do this for every reboot, but thats only about twice a month
Fair enough. I’d never even noticed that shortcut was there!
Actually it wasn’t on my T43p, but is on my W500, so it was new at some point though I have no idea when
Actually, I found that I didn’t have to even reboot, and it worked well. Thanks!
Also, on my Toshiba A-135, I tried to use an extented fn key combo, and couldn’t find one.
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I'm going to have to add this to my list of things to do to Linux Mint 9 (or Ubuntu 10.04)
Is it “Cap and Trade” or “Cap and Rough Trade”?
Will Al Gore now be the butt of more jokes than anyone who ever lived?
Well, not quite, but it was always easy enough to make fun of Al — that blowhard who claimed to invent the Internet and that his marriage inspired Love Story. But no one could have anticipated his never-to-be-forgotten June of 2010, a month that would give even the strongest of us a migraine for life. And everything seemed to be going so well for him in May with the announcement of his purchase of a nine-million dollar ocean front home in Montecito.
Well, that place may have had a carbon footprint the size of Indiana, but we’re used to the hypocrisy of the supposedly green-minded. It comes with the territory.
But then came June. First the end of the “Love Story-ed” marriage with Tipper, then the putative affair with Laurie David and now this — sexual assault allegations. (That last appeared in the National Enquirer — as we know, a newspaper with one of the greatest track records for accuracy of any publication in our country. I’m serious. If not for them, John Edwards might be vice-president right now. Think about that. And, NE is backed up by police reports, etc.)
Whoa … Forget the migraines. Think seppuku.
But what does this all mean in the real world? Al Gore has already made a mockery of the Academy Awards and the Nobel Peace Prize, not that these organizations’ voters didn’t make a mockery of themselves and not that the latter wasn’t already a self-parody of monumental Orwellian proportions.
But all this emerges at the very moment that our “progressive” (talk about Orwellian constructs!) administration is about to proffer another round of energy legislation predicated on the anthropogenic global warming concepts promulgated by one Al Gore. This legislation will be voted on by several hundred people, few of whom — other than a handful of doctors — have any scientific training whatsoever.
You would think, though, that since so many of them are lawyers, they would be aware of that hoariest of Roman legal principles — Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus (You lie about one thing, you lie about all). That might give them pause that they have relied on propagandistic drivel like An Inconvenient Truth (how ironic that title now!) as a source of scientific knowledge. This is a film — already discredited in a British court — now revealed to have been produced by a man who is just a general all around creep or worse.
Would any honest person trust him? Isn’t it time to go to different, more credible, sources? Why not, say, invite MIT’s Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science, Richard Lindzen, to testify on the subject — a real scientist, also one who is not currently employed by a government or UN program and therefore not deriving his income from the Global Warming Machine. (As a convenience, they can find plenty of Dr. Lindzen on PJTV.)
I know. Our representatives will have to pay attention. This is difficult stuff. And their lack of background, maybe even inability to understand what Lindzen is saying, may show. But that’s a risk they’ll have to take if they’re the slightest bit interested in the truth (not the supposedly “inconvenient” kind).
This would all be one of the greatest black comedies, surpassing even Dr. Strangelove. Only it’s for real. Some people — notably many in authority — still do think AGW is “settled science” and they do so, largely, because they were inspired by Al Gore.
Well, until now.
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How Do I Cope with Losing My Job?Someone said, "When you fall down, look around. You may discover something you couldn't see when you were standing up."
Indeed, crisis can create opportunity. If we can avoid negative thinking, we may find opportunities when we're jobless that we wouldn't have found otherwise. A positive attitude and commitment can bring unexpected results.
What is commitment? David McNally said, "It is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down." In Late Bloomers, Brendan Gill lists numerous examples of people who started and developed lucrative careers after age sixty-five.
Many people have been successful when the odds were against them. I think of the philanthropist who helped me through medical school. He sweated bullets whenever he had to sign a check, which was a laborious task for him. When this man had emigrated from Russia in 1920, he sought employment and applied for a job as caretaker of a small synagogue. He was turned down because he could not sign his name, and this would be necessary if he were to receive deliveries.
So he found work with a man who collected scrap metal and rags, and eventually was able to get his own horse and wagon. A clever businessman, he was soon able to buy a few properties. He survived the Great Depression and made some very successful investments. When I met him in 1950, he was a very wealthy philanthropist.
This man helped pay my medical school tuition. His secretary would write the check, and with great effort, he would sign it. He smiled and said, "Good thing I don't know how to write. If I could have signed my name, I would have become a caretaker of a synagogue and could not help you with your medical school."
Sometimes we may miss an opportunity because our minds are set on doing things a certain way and we resist change. In fact, there is scientific evidence showing that when a person is forced to change a fundamental belief or opinion, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to torture. It has been said, 'The toughest thing to change is our approach to change. Expect change; it is inevitable. Your decision is to decide whether it is to be by consent or coercion.' Do you have some valuable ideas, but lack the confidence to try them? Don't be afraid. Remember, a baseball player who has a .300 average makes millions, but he hits safely only three times out of ten!
Excerpted from Without a Job, Who Am I? by Abraham J. Twerski, M.D.
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not matched by anything else. - Choqok is great also, but it added quite a few more KDE elements to my GNOME desktop that didn't need to be there. PINO is nice, but single stream, and only one Instance. TwitTux is ok, but hasn't been updated since sometime in 2009.
Happy with my Ubuntu.. 
Well I don't know but my computer won't load right
I got the feeling that something ain't right
It's so bloated with crap I don't think that it's fair
and I'm wondering how I'll get it up the stairs
PC Clones to the left of me,
Mac Jokers to the right, here I am
Happy as a clam with my Ubuntu.Yes, I'm happy with my Linux Ubuntu
And I'm wondering what what it can do?
Its so hard to keep this smile from my face,
No virus's sneaking into my geek space
PC Clones to the left of me,
Apple Jokers to the right, here I am
Happy as a clam with my Ubuntu.The Registry started out as nothing
But bloated with their plans
And the programs they all were a crawlin,
Blue screens of death make you say,
Please.... Please....FLOSS can make some sense of it all,
DRM makes no sense at all,
When your programs crash to the floor,
'Cause I don't think that I can take anymore
Clones to the left of me, Jokers to the right,
Here I am, happy with my Ubuntu.
As the mail man dropped this off.. - Hmm... ok, the front of an evelope, I guess it's better then wondering what happened to it. Rest In Peace, Transformers DVD. (yea, I think someone snagged it)...
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Exit 222 off of I-71
BY CHARLEY REESE
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code. Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy. Congress does. You and I don't control monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Bank does.One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices - 545 human beings out of the 235 million - are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank.I excluded all but the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it.No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislation's responsibility to determine how he votes.A CONFIDENCE CONSPIRACYDon't you see how the con game that is played on the people by the politicians? Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of Tip O'Neill, who stood up and criticized Ronald Reagan for creating deficits.The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating appropriations and taxes.O'neill is the speaker of the House. He is the leader of the majority party. He and his fellow Democrats, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetos it, they can pass it over his veto.REPLACE SCOUNDRELSIt seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 235 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts - of incompetence and irresponsibility.I can't think of a single domestic problem, from an unfair tax code to defense overruns, that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red. If the Marines are in Lebanon, it's because they want them in Lebanon.There are no insoluble government problems. Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take it.Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exist disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation" or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.Those 545 people and they alone are responsible. They and they alone have the power. They and they alone should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses - provided they have the gumption to manage their own employees.This article was taken from the Orlando Sentinel Star newspaperhttp://www.apfn.org/apfn/woes.htm
Ahh, I see, it would seem that Linc from the Linux Link Tech Show is trying to get himself some hasbrown casserole...
I tried to post this via an Email to Ping, and I've not seen it post, so.. There might be a dupe of this...
Ok, just in case someone was wondering what it was that I used?
2 bags of hasbrowns, I don't know what size they were, I just snagged them, one didn't look like it would be enough
I bag (14 oz, I think) of Mexican Style shredded cheese, Cheddar might have been better
2 cans of Cream of chicken Soup.
A few Dashes of milk, maybe 2/3 rds of of an empty soup can's worth.
I'd suggest some onion, and some butter with this mess, and or a different flavor of cream of- soup, Cream of Celery sounds like another good choice.
mixed all of this stuff up in the dish.. Baked for 30 mins covered, 10 mins uncovered with a handful of topping cheese on it.
If you want a recipe that's looks a little better then mine.... Try this one.. I'm going to give it a little more
http://www.recipezaar.com/recipe/print?id=15242
Now that Richard has encouraged me to stay up latter then I needed to be... LOL... ok ok, that's not fair. He didn't hold my hands to the keyboard..
I watched MacHEADS this afternoon, (yea, I don't have a DVD player, and I streamed it to the Wii, it's not a perfect world, LOL). It's nice to see people have an obsession or be fans of something that's geeky. True, I'm not a Mac fan, but in the history of Personal Computers, the Mac has played it's part, and in many ways, I'm glad it did. They upped the ante for Microsoft to create a more usable interface for it's users. I didn't take to Win 3.x right off, and fought using that danged mouse, but it seemed to be kinda pretty compared to the C:\ prompt. :)
