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looks like a good idea for a game, its nothing like people now would try.
This is a Group for all peole into really old school games, people who love the games that started it all such as pong, spacewar, Computer space, life etc.. This group is also for people who owned 1st gen consoles, namely pong and the magnavox odyssey.
looks like a good idea for a game, its nothing like people now would try.
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Hunt the Wumpus is a really old hide and seek sort of game, well not just that there are traps and the player has arrows to shoot so its like extreme hide and seek :D


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Finding the perfect vacation spot when traveling with kids can be a difficult task, at best. Children want to be excited and entertained, but parents do not always want to spend their time in line at a theme park.
It would be nice if fun and educational were mixed, and parents want enjoy their vacation as well as spending time with their children. Fortunately, Canada not only provides a great getaway experience for adults, but also features a variety of kid-friendly vacations.
• Victoria, BC – Victoria, British Columbia, may be one of the most kid-friendly vacation destinations in the world.
Beacon Hill Children's Farm is a petting zoo that closes each day with a goat stampede, while the Victoria Bug Zoo allows visitors to get up close and personal with over 40 species of creepy crawlies.
At The Scratch Patch, kids can pan for gold, find tropical shells in ponds, and dig through semi-precious stone mountains.
There are also multiple playgrounds, parks, laser tag centers, beaches, and playing fields.
Of course, being on an island means there are also numerous beaches where kids and parents can relax. Visitors can also spend time on the many whale-watching expos, where they can see whales, dolphins and a host of other wildlife on land, in the air and in the water.
• Montreal Jazz Festival – What? A jazz festival where kids are not only allowed, but they are actually welcome? Montreal Jazz Festival has a large play area where play equipment is shaped like musical instruments, such as the guitar ladder and trumpet slide.
There are also face-painters, jugglers, clowns and acrobats to help keep the kids entertained. Better still, the fun and educational mix with The Little School of Jazz, an interactive show that teaches kids about jazz using a cat mascot, live musicians, and songs the kids already know from their favorite television shows.
• Ontario – Like Victoria, Ontario has much to offer families. Ontario Place features Soak City, Toronto's only water park, as well as miniature golf, outdoor climbing structures, and other rides and attractions.
Canada's Wonderland offers over 200 attractions and more than 65 rides, in addition to a 20-acre water park.
For museum lovers, there is the London Regional Children's Museum, the Waterloo Regional Children's Museum, and the Ontario Science Centre, which boasts over 800 hands-on displays.
The Toronto Zoo and the Rock Glen Conservation Area are also great kid-friendly destinations.
Finding a kid-friendly vacation in Canada is not nearly as challenging as narrowing the vacation plans down to fit your schedule. Between the host of activities to entertain, educate and excite them, and the destinations that allow for real family time, Canada proves to be an ideal vacation spot for both adults and children.
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Twenty-one year old Frances Cleveland's marriage to the President made her an instant celebrity. She is, in many regards, Jackie Kennedy of the prior century - the media loved her and her and her young children were constant news sources:
After the wedding, the press turned Frances into a national celebrity. Journalists were not the only ones interested in the new First Lady. Thousands of Americans deluged Frances with fan letters, so much so that she had to hire a social secretary to deal with the onslaught. Thousands more risked injury as they fought to catch a glimpse of her in public. The fuss bewildered the President, who was intent on making "Frank" a "sensible, domestic wife." Indeed, he asserted that he "should be pleased not to hear her spoken of as 'the First Lady of the Land' or 'mistress of the White House.' I want her to be happy . . . but I should feel very much affected if she lets many notions into her head."
Frances was a college graduate who played the piano, spoke French and German, read Latin -- she was a voracious reader -- and enjoyed photography. Although she did not adopt any special project as First Lady, she focused attention on the Washington Home for Friendless Colored Girls by encouraging other white women to support the institution. She also promoted the Colored Christmas Club, a charity providing food, gifts, and entertainment to poor children in Washington. Although she supported the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and refrained from drinking, Frances did not ban spirits from the White House. In addition, while avoiding the issue of women's suffrage, she promoted women's education as a means of achieving equality.
In the White House, Frances was an attentive wife and a gracious hostess. She negotiated a careful balance between the privacy her husband desired and the publicity Americans craved. She greeted and shook hands with ten thousand people at official presentations to the diplomatic corps and to the public. She instituted noon receptions, so she could accommodate as many guests as possible, and received visitors on Saturday so that working women could meet her. She impressed diplomats with her fluent French, thrilled Washington society with her lively social calendar, and patronized the arts. Yet she and her husband often left the White House after the social season because of the relentless interest the press showed in the new First Lady. In fact, they took up residence two miles away from the White House at an estate that was off limits to reporters.
Although the Clevelands tried to minimize press coverage, they could do little about the rampant use of the First Lady's name and likeness in advertisements. "Frankie ads" abounded and advertisers rarely asked permission from the First Lady before they affixed her image to their products. The exploitation was so egregious that Congress considered a bill to curtail such practices, but it never came to fruition; manufacturers continued to use the First Lady to sell their goods. It seemed a shrewd business decision as thousands copied Frances's fashions. When she chose to forego the bustle, its demise was only a matter of time.
You can also check out her wedding dress here:
As the next day's Washington Post reported, "The bride wore an enchanting white dress of ivory satin, simply garnished on the high corsage with India muslin crossed in Grecian folds and carried in exquisite falls of simplicity over the petticoat. The orange blossom garniture, commencing upon the veil in a superb coronet, is continued throughout the costume with artistic skill. She carried no flowers and wore no jewelry except an engagement ring, containing a sapphire and two diamonds."
Frances had continued popularity througout her husband's terms, even when he did not:
Despite the public's growing aversion to the Cleveland administration, it retained a love and admiration for Frances. Although she did not endear herself to the nation through any special project, many Americans, especially women, could identify with her. Youthful and college-educated, Frances was a role model for young women; a devoted wife and mother, she appealed to older ladies as well. In addition, many saw her as a balm for a nation still licking wounds suffered during the Civil War. Born in 1864, Frances had no memory of the conflict and seemed to represent a fresh start, a perception duly noted in the South when the couple undertook the first presidential tour of the region since the Confederacy's defeat.
When Frances became First Lady, her husband warned her, "You will find that you get along better in this job if you don't try anything new." Although she seemed to follow her husband's advice, Frances set an important precedent by focusing attention on the role of First Lady. Although she did not seek publicity, Frances Folsom Cleveland enjoyed a personal popularity that brought greater attention to and appreciation of the role. From now on, whether she liked it or not, the First Lady was news, not because of what she had or had not done, but simply because of who she was.
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Branch, William Augustus Blount
26 Feb. 1847–18 Nov. 1910
William Augustus Blount Branch, Confederate soldier, planter, and congressman, was born in Tallahassee, Fla., the son of General Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, C.S.A., and Nancy Haywood Blount. His father, a North Carolinian, was practicing law in Florida at the time. Branch was educated at Lovejoy's Academy in Raleigh, Bingham Military Academy near Mebane, The University of North Carolina, and Virginia Military Institute at Lexington.
Branch joined the Confederate Army as a courier on the staff of General R. F. Hoke, and surrendered with General Joseph E. Johnston's army in 1865. He studied law but never practiced. In 1867 he took charge of his landed estate in Beaufort County and engaged in agricultural pursuits for the rest of his life.
Branch was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses and served from 4 Mar. 1891 to 3 Mar. 1895. He was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1896.
Branch married his cousin, Eliza Blount, daughter of William Augustus Blount, Jr., and Mary Washington. They had four children: Lawrence O'Bryan; William Augustus Blount; Eliza, who married Bayard Whitehurst; and Laura, who married John Stedman.
Branch died in Washington, N.C., and was buried there.
Biog. Dir. Am. Cong. (1961).
Daniel L. Grant, Alumni History of the University of North Carolina (1924).
Ursula F. Loy and Pauline M. Worthy, Washington and the Pamlico (1976).
Additional Resources:
"Branch, William Augustus Blount, (1847 - 1910)." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Washington, D.C.: The Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000765 (accessed April 16, 2013).
The early history of Raleigh, the capital city of North Carolina: A centennial address delivered by invitation of the Committee on the centennial celebration of the foundation of the city, October 18, 1892, Volume 1, Issue 1. Edwards and Broughton, printers, 1893. http://books.google.com/books?id=DXEtAAAAYAAJ&dq=william+augustus+blount+branch&source=gbs_navlinks_s&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false (accessed April 16, 2013).
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"The House of Representatives of the Fifty Third Congress" , The Graphic Chicago, 1893, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives. "Branch, William Augustus Blount, (1847 - 1910)." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Washington, D.C.: The Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000765 (accessed April 16, 2013).
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Valentines day is coming soon. There is still time to get beautiful treats for your American Girl or other 18″ dolls.
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My daughter wanted to do something good for others and we found a worthwhile cause, the Special Olympics of New Jersey. She became an Ambassador for Special Olympics NJ. This past birthday instead of receiving gifts she asked if anyone would like to bring a gift to instead bring a donation for the Special Olympics. She has raised a few hundred dollars so far.
This coming October 20th, they will be hosting an American Girl Fashion Show at the local country club and proceeds will go to the Special Olympics NJ. Tickets go on sale Sept 2nd.
My daughter has a couple of American Girl dolls with beautiful curls. Unfortunately even with gentle play, their hair becomes a mess. Every few weeks or whenever I notice it, I will take them aside and fix their hair.
It seems a lot of moms have the same problem with their daughter's dolls but might not know how to fix it.
This is the way I fix Caroline's hair also Saige and Kanani too;
First I separate small sections and brush each one straight. Next I curl the hair around my finger and let it go. I repeat with each section all the way around. I use the American Girl hair brush.
Their hair comes out very nice. It may not be factory or salon exact but it does look close and certainly a lot better.
My daughter's American Girl dolls were in need of some more food now that they have their own kitchen, so we decided to try making some fruit. I bought sculpy clay from the craft store and used yellow for the bananas, orange for the oranges and red and green for the apples.
To make the apples I rolled clay into balls and then squeezed the bottom to make them look like apples and using a pick tool I made a hole in the top of each one and cut tiny sticks to insert as the stems. I pressed the clay around the stems to close the hole.
For the oranges I rolled clay into balls and textured with aluminum foil all over to give that pebbled look and feel.
The bananas I shaped yellow into long tubes and curved them. Next I pressed the top and bottom to look like the ends of a real banana. For the bunch I added five together and pressed the stems together. I added a little bit of green clay and rubbed along the sides. Also I used a tad of brown paint on my finger to color the top and bottom tips and here and there to make them look ripe.
I tried to make grapes but wasn't happy with them, so I will redo them another time.
Lastly I baked all the fruit at 275 degrees on a piece of aluminum foil for 45 minutes.
My daughter and her dolls adore their new food. We also used some tiny jewelry boxes as holders for her fruit to keep in the icebox.
My daughter has donated shelves full of toys from her playroom to make space for creating a dollhouse for her American Girl dolls. I have been keeping an eye out here and there for things that might fit or make it special. One of the first things I came across was a vintage Wolverine metal kitchen set exactly doll sized online. I got it for a great bargain but it needed a little revamping. Since my daughter has a child sized version I bought her years ago and I fixed that one up, I knew what I was doing.
These metal kitchen sets from Wolverine were made approximately in the 1950's, possibly early 60's. Most have some degree of rust, especially on the shiny silver parts. This is the easiest to remedy, I purchased a silver leafing pen (really it is like a marker) and over the past few months as i would get time, I would paint the silver leaf over all the silver parts on the kitchen pieces. It covers rust and fading perfectly.
Since my daughter will be playing with these and we don't know if the original paint is lead based or not, I've used a clear coat lacquer to cover all the painted areas. This not only protects my daughter but also preserves the original colors and designs.
It turned out fabulous and my daughter is enjoying it!
Now that my daughter has brought us into the world of American Girl, I had read about the American Girl Doll Hospital. One day while browsing eBay I came across a poor Felicity doll who looked like a little girl's brother might have gotten a hold of. I showed her to my daughter and she wanted to help her and send her to the doll hospital to get well.
We bought her for a very low price and then called American Girl to ask how we send the doll into the hospital. We were directed to their website and could print off the admissions form and send in the doll.
Poor Felicity arrived here and was really in a bad shape, almost all her hair cut off, no eye lashes, marks all over and dangling limbs. My daughter got Felicity ready to go to the hospital by making her get well cards from all of her other dolls and a letter to the Doll Doctor, and also decorated the box she was to go in.
We sent in Felicity and expected her back in 3-4 weeks as they state the normal return time is, but we were pleasantly surprised to receive her back in less than one week!
My daughter was so thrilled to get Felicity back and she is all better. She looks completely new and was dressed in a hospital gown and socks and came with a certificate of health from a doll doctor as well as a get well card. She also came home in a beautiful white box with a bandaid sticker on the front and her hair done in the original style with a hair ribbon.
Great Job American Girl Doctors, we thank you!
My daughter had been asking for a table and chairs set for her American Girl dolls to play with and last night she said that she dreamed that I made it for her, so I had to make it today.
I made a table big enough for four dolls and two chairs to start with.
Cardboard box the size of the table you want
Extra cardboard for the chairs
Shelf liner or any color, I used wood grained from the dollar store
Box cutter or exacto knife
Packing clear tape
I started by cutting the bottom and sides of the box leaving the top and corners as the legs. I reinforced the top of the box with tape.
Next I used the extra pieces of cardboard to make a chair using the doll as a guide for size, I cut a rectangle and bent in half and reinforced with tape, next I cut notches on each side and made two small rectangle sides for the chair and cut slits for the notches or tabs to go through.
I assembled and reinforced with tape and covered everything with the wood grain shelf liner.
My daughter loves the set and later I will have to make more chairs.


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This is one of those odd stories with connections all over the place. Let's start at the beginning. On any given day, I check out a website called, Track My Tour. Once it opens, click on "Browse". A map opens with all these little icons all over the world. Really. Then click on the "bicycle" icon in the upper left. Voila! A bunch of these little icons open up that are people who are riding a bicycle in any given spot around the world. Click on North America. It will display icons representing people bicycling in North America. Click on one of the individual icons and it's somebody or some people riding across America/Canada somewhere. So, how is all this connected? Several weeks ago, while perusing this site, I happened upon a rider who was riding the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route....solo. Bicycling anywhere solo is impressive to me. Riding the GDMBR solo is very impressive, regardless of gender. This rider happened to be female. What caught my eye? Actually, it was the photos and then I watched a video she had taken in her tent while the wind was HOWLIN' outside her tent. In Montana, I believe. Sand was blowing everywhere. Particularly from outside to inside her tent. Her faux touching comment to someone at the end of the video was great: "Wish you were here!" LOL... The video was funny and I was interested in the camera she was using. Might be looking for one when I do a long tour again. Here's her Track My Tour site. Here's her blog: Ride Divide
Ok, there's more to the story. Today, I went for a ride up the hill to Pinos Altos, NM, and a couple of riders caught up with me, Ted and Phil. They're in better shape than me so they made it to the top of the climb before me, but I held my own. They turned around at the top; I went on for a bit longer then headed back into town. Stopped at Gila Hike & Bike to tell Jack about Liberty Bottleworks...the only company that makes stainless steel water bottles in the U.S. not China where every other company has theirs made. Couldn't remember the company's name last week when I was talking to Jack about them...a "senior moment", the kind I've been having since I was a kid but now can excuse myself because I'm a geezer. While there, I told Jack the company's name, he showed me some Tour of The Gila graphics that they're considering using. They're trying to pick one graphic to use over the course of several years vs. changing it annually. I like that.
As usual, I began looking at what was in the shop and what was new. While browsing, I heard a woman talking to Martin. He happened to be working on her bike. When I looked over, she looked familiar to me, so I headed towards where she was standing...and, WTF, it's the woman from the video of the sand being blown into her tent that I'd seen on her blog via Track My Tour. Starting up a conversation with her, I told her that I'd seen her stuff on Track My Tour and that the video of her in the tent was a favorite ... made me laugh. So, we chatted while her bike was being tuned up/checked out and she told me that, on her way into town, coming down Rt. 15 from Pinos Altos, NM, yesterday, she was rolling along about 35mph when her front tire blew...which blew the tire off the rim, the tire got caught up on the fork, etc., and she came "flying" over her handlebars into Silver City. Actually, she was right outside a veterinary clinic when she bit the dust. Coming up behind her, in a car, was a nurse who stopped and took her to Silver Health Clinic where she got her road rash taken care of and got a couple of stitches in her right arm near her elbow. From there, she got a ride to the Motel 6 on Rt. 180 that 's pretty close to downtown. This morning, she went across the street from the motel to the Enterprise Car Rental agency and asked about renting a truck to take her bike into town to get it fixed. The guy there said they didn't have trucks but they'd give her a ride into Silver City to the bike shop. These kind of people are all over the U.S....and the world, too, I'm sure. So, that' how I ran into Christine. Oh, and she knows/met Jenny, Josh, Trey, and Gen (the uni-cyclist). They've all been keeping in touch via texts, twitter, phone calls, etc. Small world out there on the GDMBR.
After her bike was fixed, I bought her lunch at Masa y Mas, which is a great Mexican restaurant that a couple owns/operates and they make their food from scratch. Good stuff. Christine likes tamales, so off we went. She went to Brown University in Rhode Island, where she played serious Lacrosse. After graduating from Brown, Christine thought she'd become an attorney, but a friend of hers knew she was very interested in Lacrosse, had even tried out for the U.S.A. team (didn't make it but was good enough to get a tryout)...so she hooked up Christine with an interview for a Lacrosse assistant coaching job at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, where she says she's been part of the coaching staff for 10yrs. When she gets back to Dartmouth, she, along with the Lacrosse team, will be heading to Australia to play Lacrosse there in December. Tomorrow, she heads out of town for the border and will probably take 2, maybe 3, days to get there because she's a bit sore today from her fall yesterday.
As I've said before, riding a bicycle here is very different than anywhere else I've ridden...I have met people from all over the world...on all kinds of bikes, doing all kinds of things...and it's always fun and interesting. Ok, some photos:
|Christine in Banff at the start of the GDMBR
|Christine at the top of the hill in Pinos Altos, NM, before her fall.
|The bike after the crash...YIKES!
|Looking worse than it was...straightened the rim, replaced the right handlebar grip that got shredded.
|Christine with the camera on her helmet...one that I'm interested in.
|Christine's breakfast today at Vicki's...two entrees.
|Christine's Salsa mountain bike
|Christine's Salsa mountain bike in Banff...still shiny new.


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- There is a famous and important town in Turkey called Zeugma. Weirdly, both the town and the delightful figure of speech have the same etymology, related to joining.
2. Speaking of weird figures of speech, the mondegreen takes its name from an example of the same:
Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to clearly hear a lyric, substitutes words that sound similar, and make some kind of sense.[1][2] American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term in her essay "The Death of Lady Mondegreen", published in Harper's Magazine in November 1954. The term was inspired by "…and Lady Mondegreen", a misinterpretation of the line "…and laid him on the green" from the Scottish ballad "The Bonnie Earl O' Moray".[3]
Sure, Scottish ballads are nice, but obviously the Taylor Swift's Lonely Starbucks Lovers and Brittney Spear's "If U Seek Amy" are more fun.
An unintentionally incorrect use of similar-sounding words or phrases in speaking is a malapropism. If there is a connection in meaning, it can be called an eggcorn. If a person stubbornly sticks to a mispronunciation after being corrected, that person has committed a mumpsimus.[12]
3. I know I complain about Texas slightly more than strictly fair, but come on, even our weird animals do awful things, like spread leprosy.
4. Oliver Sacks continues to amaze in a meditation about rituals and honesty.
"In December 2014, I completed my memoir, "On the Move," and gave the manuscript to my publisher, not dreaming that days later I would learn I had metastatic cancer, coming from the melanoma I had in my eye nine years earlier. I am glad I was able to complete my memoir without knowing this, and that I had been able, for the first time in my life, to make a full and frank declaration of my sexuality, facing the world openly, with no more guilty secrets locked up inside me."
5. It has come to my attention recently that people believe I like Tolkien. I do not! I actually forced myself to read the Lord of the Rings books, complained about them loudly, and have avoided any further contact with his fiction for adults. But! Most others I know love it, so I should tell you about the availability (for the first time?) of his first novel. Additionally, these letters from Father Christmas from Tolkien to his children are incredible.
6. Why does the schizophrenia label persist?
7. THE ZOOMBINIS' LOGICAL JOURNEY EXISTS FOR iOS AND ANDROID THIS IS NOT A DRILL. (This game taught me about important skills like "test only one variable at a time!" and "design useful experiments!" and also let me save creatures that were cute and somewhat helpless.)


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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act included a change to preclude employers from deducting qualified transportation fringe benefit expenses, including qualified parking, paid or incurred after December 31, 2017.
Yesterday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued interim guidance regarding the treatment of these fringe benefit expenses paid or incurred after Dec. 31, 2017. The guidance will help taxpayers determine the portion of parking that is nondeductible. The guidance also helps tax-exempt organizations determine how these nondeductible parking expenses create or increase unrelated business taxable income (UBTI) for not-for-profit organizations. In some cases, the organization may avoid having to file a Form 990-T, Exempt Organization Business Income Tax Return, altogether.
The guidance issued by the IRS includes examples for employers with third party contracts as well as employers who own or lease the parking lot, including a four-step reasonable method for completing the calculation. The IRS acknowledges that this guidance falls late in the year and taxpayers that own or lease parking facilities may have already adopted reasonable methods in 2018 to determine the amount of their nondeductible parking expenses. Taxpayers may rely on the guidance or use any reasonable method for determining nondeductible parking expenses related to employer-provided parking until further guidance is issued.
A key part of this guidance is a special rule, enabling many employers to retroactively reduce the amount of their nondeductible parking expenses. Under this rule, employers will have until March 31, 2019, to change their parking arrangements to reduce or eliminate the number of parking spots they reserve for their employees. Such a change made in parking arrangements will apply retroactively to Jan. 1, 2018. By making this change, many churches, schools, hospitals and other tax-exempt organizations may be able to reduce their associated UBTI.
The IRS also announced yesterday that it will provide estimated tax penalty relief in 2018 to tax-exempt organizations that offer these benefits and were not required to file a Form 990-T last filing season. Additionally, some tax-exempt organizations will not exceed the $1,000 threshold below which an organization is not required to file a Form 990-T or pay the unrelated business income tax.
For additional information, contact Michael Vogel, CPA or John Rittichier, CPA.


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Hopeful improvement on the computer front
Yesterday and today I took several pieces of action, which I hope will improve my computer situation at least until the budget is ready for a replacement.
1: I uninstantiated Norton 360 and replaced it with AntiVir. While Norton used to be a pretty good product, the last few generations have increasingly become bloated, and watching my task manager yesterday I noticed that it was using more time than any of my other applications — to the extent that when the only other things I was running were iTunes and Windows Remote Desktop and both were having to wait for Norton's "background" applications.
I'll also note that on AntiVir's initial scan it turned up about 30 files, all Trojans not viruses, that Norton had missed.
2: I upgraded my RAM from 512MB to 2GB, greatly reducing, I hope, the need to waste time swapping memory.
3: After discovering that my iPod wouldn't sync yesterday, I realized that my firewire card was probably bad. So I got a cable to connect my external DVD Writer by USB instead of firewire (I also moved my iPod over to its USB cable) and at least it is being recognized so far.
At Fry's getting the memory and USB cable, I did confirm that they have at least one kind of IDE CD/DVD Writer so if needed I can replace one or both of my internal optical drives and get a bit of an upgrade as well. But I held off since the new cable was much less expensive.
Now I just completed these, and haven't tried to put it through its paces to see if it has really improved or not, but at the moment I'm optimistic.
On the other hand, while at Costco for facial tissue I did post something to Facebook I should be sorry for, but am not.
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Yesterday, the family stopped at a Family Christian Stores location (we'd parked directly in front of it when heading to Souplantation — the same restaurant instantiated elsewhere as Sweet Tomatoes), where I picked up several new CDs. Given that the only CD players easily available are the ones in the cars, and other related reasons, the obvious first thing to do with these was to rip the contents into MP3s for loading onto my (and possibly robot_grrl's) iPod.
It's All Tara's Fault
Yesterday or Thursday robot_grrl received two copies of a shirt she ordered from Chopshop on Etsy. Both featured the same print — profiles of a bunch of robots. One of the shirts was supposed to be Derrick's, but ended up a large (mislabeled as extra-large) instead of small (or kids large) so its mine instead.
She also said I needed to look at their other stuff. While tonight, after spending sometime looking around, I thought I should complete my collection of similar shirts by getting the one with the aliens and the one with the vehicles. But if I got all three, I could save a buck.
Now we get to see if they will be nice enough to send us a complete set, but make the robot shirt a small instead of a large so that Derrick will be happy.
On the other hand, I hadn't planned on buying more t-shirts tonight.
Odd Thought
As I've mentioned here and here, I've been playing around with ideas for a Top Secret/S.I. adventure that I might be able to run at conventions and possibly other places.
One thing I've gone ahead and done — in some ways the most practical thing I've done — is generate some PCs. I did this since having a known group of PCs will help with my planing (even if I have no clue how they will actually play given unknown players) and will save having to create PCs and explain that part of the rules. In my very limited experience playing games at cons (one GURPS adventure at Dorkstock/RockCon a few years back and the RPGA D&D 4e game last February), at least half the time PCs are generated for the game.
So the characters I have so far as PCs are (and remember this is set in 1986): A retired SEAL Chief Petty Officer (or perhaps Master Chief, I don't remember which rank I decided on), who is of mixed race and has a 14-year-old son (wife deceased); A lanky computer geek with a karate black belt, who just graduated from Cal Tech; A former child star who ended up addicted to danger instead of drugs; and an FBI agent who somehow ended up not in the normal Bureau who comes to work with a 70 pound German Shepherd.
Just now, it occurred to me that if instead of a RPG game/campaign set in 1986 but written in 2009, but a TV show produced when it takes place, the casting would be interesting. One thought would be to try to cast a real former child star in the role of the former child star.
Oddly enough, I could believe a producer successfully pitching this concept in 1986.
Furry Sighting?
This evening, I ended up wandering around the nearby mall, Plaza Camino Real, because I decided I needed a different cell phone case. {My phone case jumped off my belt this morning — fortunately in the car, not the train some other bad place}
As I was leaving, I noticed a couple who'd walked out a minute or so before. But what drew my eye to them was the fact that both were sporting wolf tails. To the best of my recollection, this is the first time I've seen people wearing these kind of tails (or any other kind of tail) when not at least proximate to some sort of a convention.
I am making the assumption that a couple who would sport tails would be considered "furry," but I suspect that at least for some values of "furry" this is a safe assumption.
Wearing wolf tails in public is probably no more of a problem than someone who wears a Star Fleet uniform, or some other kind of garb in public when not at, or going to or from, some sort of an event. The tails are only going to be visible from a few angles, where as a complete costume is visible from most directions.
On Foreign Names, Old Maps, etc.
As I mentioned in my last post, I've been thinking around an idea for an RPG spy adventure set in 1986. Having some free time this afternoon, I was poking around on the next trying to find some useful information. Of course I'm running into difficult to quickly find information.
First, I went to see if I could find an online source that would show me street maps from 1986 for L.A. or, ideally, much of Southern California. Of course everyone online is trying to give me the most up to date data, and even if they have the older data, they don't seem to want to make it available. I may just have to made educated guesses what was as wasn't around 23 years ago.
One positive response, and not to surprisingly, I was quickly able to confirm that 1986 would be a good year to use. While it was after Gorbachev was General Secretary (defacto leader of the USSR), it was before Glasnost making much of what was going on at least appear to be "business as usual" from the outside. (I lived through that era and was in college, but the exact years do take some double checking).
But my next query started coming up a bit dryer. I wanted to find a woman's name that would have the same initials as Главное Разведывательное Управление (Glavnoje Razvedyvatel'noje Upravlenije or GRU). I did find a decent reference on Russian names which pretty much confirms what I knew — the third name would be a family name, and the second name would be a patronymic. But finding a common woman's name that begins with "Г," a common man's name that begins with "Р" and a common family name that begins with "У" has proven to be more difficult. Actually, I did find family names.
On the other hand, finding the actual Cyrillic for GRU (and KGB and probably most of the others I'd want) was just a simple search in wikipedia.
Of course, if I wanted to continue to be authentic, I'd have to also find at least a few Polish names — both names that would be in use by Polish consular officials during the mid-eighties, and a Polish family name that would make sense for an immigrant entering the US early in the 20th century. I think I have an OK handle on American names (if nothing, I've got access to lists of common names and a program that combines them nicely).
Then again, when all is said and done, just making something that looks/sounds good might well be more than good enough.
Looking in 20 year old boxes
For some reason, I've been starting to think I might be able to pull off some sort of a one-shot Spy game adventure somewhere along the line.
Out of the Darkness Walk
This morning, I walked in San Diego's 5K Out of the Darkness walk for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
It was a good walk, and it felt good both to take a nice walk and to support a good cause. The weather in Mission Bay park was just about perfect, not too hot but not too cool, and sunny. The walk was easy since it was a consistent 1 to 3 feet above sea level and on sidewalk or occasionally grass.
There was a very emotional talk afterwards by one of the survivors, remembering both her brother and how she felt and has dealt with it. But overall, it was an uplifting event.
At times I did feel a bit outside since I haven't been personally touched by suicide, even with clinical depression not uncommon in my family (or self). But I think that those of us who believe that we need to be taking efforts to prevent suicide and helping with the survivors — that is people whose loved ones have taken their own lives.
There were a few rather heartbreaking scenes. Probably the hardest was when I was walking behind a very happy, bouncy and beautiful eight or nine-year-old girl who was wearing a "I'm walking in honor of …" sticker on which was written "my grandpa." I couldn't help looking at this girl and thinking how could someone kill himself with a beautiful granddaughter like here around?
As part of the walk, people were encouraged to take strings of beads that identified their relationship with the suicide, or a string of blue beads for those of us just supporting the cause. Both Tara and I also noticed quite a few people wearing multiple strings of different colors, showing that they'd lost more than one loved one or friend
After the walk, the family debated on where to go to eat. After checking through our books of coupons, we decided to try Casa Guadalajara in Old Town. So we drove the short distance to Old Town, parking under the freeway in the transit center parking lot. We then walked (after a couple of unexpected and unmarked on the map dead ends) to the restaurant. After eating we wandered around first some of the shops near the park, and then into the park.
For better or worse, the park was hosting an arts and crafts fair this weekend, so was both more crowded than the last time I was there 10 or 11 years ago, and had booths filling most of the central plaza area. But we did look in a few shops — including one selling a lot of Victorian and western type wear that had both a hat and vest I'd be tempted to pick up as part of a steam punk type costume, and one that sold boots that I might be able to wear and would work with that kind of costume better than either my day to day shoes or my bald mountain moccasin.
We ended our time in the park with some ice cream — actually shakes for Derrick and I — and headed home.
All in all, a pretty good day.
The Missing Link
Last night when I posted about the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention walk, I neglected to include the link to the donation page.
Here is the link: http://afsp.donordrive.com/participant/ronboakes
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Walk
One last beg 🙂
This Saturday (i.e. in less than 1.5 days), I'm walking for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
robot_grrl has been brow beating me for not doing more to get people to donate, so I'm putting out one more plea (well two if you get this on Facebook where I also just directly posted).
I can offer two reasons, besides that this is just a good cause, why you should support me.
First, while I fortunately haven't been personally touched by Suicide, I'm still sensitive to it (and I'm not exactly sure why). But if you have, this would be a good way to keep it from taking any more people you know. Suicide is a killer, just as much as many diseases.
Second, if you support me on this, I'll be that much more inclined to support you in your cause later.
Thank You very much
Ron O


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