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I don't like to be unknowingly grammatically incorrect. You should already know this (and my weird, technically incorrect quirks) because I like to blog about this frequently. I'd say it's pretty much a fact that I'm funnier on the internet than in real life, because when I send you an email or leave a comment on your wall I can spell check, edit, and Google search to make sure I'm not making an embarrassing mistake. BUT, I wasn't an English major, so I haven't learned and retained what is wrong and right, so when you take me away from a computer, well, shit. I don't speak out as much as I would like to because I don't want to make grammatical errors or mispronounce words in front of people. So imagine my HORROR when I was informed that I was mispronouncing a word in a freaking PLAY, in front of lots of people!
VISCOUNT is not a word we use very often. So I would imagine most of you would pronounce it such as I did: Viss(rhymes with "piss")-count(as in Dracula). Nope, it's pronounced VY(like die)-count. CRAP.
About the only way I can save face is by rationalizing that because the story is about a bunch of fakers who pretend to be European royalty, they were just stupid lower class who didn't know how to pronounce the titles (like saying you were the Duck or Earl). But that's kind of a lame excuse, and my character (who is the only smart one) is the one who makes the introduction.
Ah well, the person who caught it was my mom who WAS an English major and who knows shit about ancient European royalty stuff, so maybe no one else noticed. Painful for me, though…painful.


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THE Asian Football Confederation's new slogan reads 'One Asia, one goal', replacing 'Future is Asia'. If the oneness the delegates displayed on Tuesday at its Extraordinary Congress in Goa, India, is any indication, then the future looks promising.
The AFC members had the courage of conviction to overwhelmingly reject the agenda and decide to postpone the election of its additional representatives to the FIFA Council after the Zurich-based umbrella organisation debarred Qatari candidate Saud Abdulaziz Al Mohannadi at the eleventh hour.
The much-anticipated congress was over in less than 30 minutes without any business being done. Perhaps, the most disappointed man would have been none other than FIFA President Gianni Infantino himself as it seemed he had a personal agenda.
Ever since Infantino became the FIFA president in February, registering an upset victory over AFC chief Shaikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa, the world body has been undertaking several steps to reform itself. It may be recalled the Swiss-Italian took over the reins from Sepp Blatter, who was ejected from office by FIFA's Ethics Committee and subsequently banned from all football activity for six years, following several allegations of corruption.
Infantino too came under some criticism following the resignation of FIFA's Audit and Compliance chief Domenico Scala, who protested against his high-handedness, especially in hiring and firing independent governance officials. But he survived the storm and got an all clear from the Ethics Committee.
There are many football insiders who say Infantino is power-hungry and that he has been targeting officials who either voted against him or could be a threat for him in future, all in the name of reforms. It is widely believed that his seemingly unseen hands are behind the elevation, or sidelining of some of his chosen men to various bodies, including the new FIFA Council. The blocking of Caribbean Football Union President Gordon Derrick as a candidate for CONCACAF presidency a few months ago, which would have guaranteed him a place in the council, is being referred as a case in point.
It was the same strategy Infantino wanted to try within the AFC as well, backing Iran's Ali Kafashian Naeni and Singapore's Zainudin Nordin, who both believed to have voted for him. It goes without saying that there was a clear bias against Qatar when Al Mohannadi was declared ineligible. His last-minute blocking denied others an opportunity to file nominations, leaving only three — Zhang Jian of China being the other — in the fray for two seats. Had the elections gone ahead as scheduled, at least one of Infantino's men would certainly have been chosen to the FIFA Council.
Indeed, it would have been a slap in the face for Shaikh Salman. However, his camp sensed this early and managed to garner the support of the vast majority, winning a 42-1 verdict to postpone the election, thereby sending a strong message to Infantino — not to meddle in the AFC affairs.
It remains to be seen how Infantino will react to this snub. But one thing is certain. Behind the 'beautiful game', there are many ugly games being played. DSP
Moral victory for Al Mohannadi
THE Asian Football Confederation's (AFC) decision to postpone the election of its extra FIFA Council members could be seen as a moral victory for Qatar Football Association Vice-President Saud Abdulaziz Al Mohannadi, who was barred in the last minute from contesting for one of the three positions despite getting an all clear following an integrity check conducted by the world body's ethics committee.
It was the last-minute debarring of Al Mohannadi, vice-president of the Qatar Football Association, that irked the majority of AFC members who overwhelmingly voted against going ahead with the elections on Tuesday.
FIFA advised the AFC to block Al Mohannadi from running only two days before the elections although the Adjudicatory Chamber had not taken a decision on the recommendation of Investigatory Chamber to ban him for two-and-a-half years.
An AFC statement said last Sunday, "FIFA has advised us, based on the report of its Investigatory Chamber, it has decided Saud A Aziz Al Mohannadi isn't eligible to stand in the elections for the Council."
Most delegates opined it was unfair to have banned Al Mohannadi, especially when the Investigatory Chamber, while recommending the ban, had clearly stated "until a formal decision is taken by the Adjudicatory Chamber, the accused is presumed innocent."
It was the Adjudicatory Chamber's failure to take a decision that led to this unprecedented situation of the congress being called off as the members overwhelmingly rejected its agenda.
However, even if he is acquitted by the Adjudicatory Chamber, Al Mohannadi's chances of having another crack at a FIFA Council seat look unlikely. It is learnt the AFC is set to adopt the recommendation of its Governance Task Force to make it mandatory that all candidates to key positions, both within the confederation and FIFA, should be none other than presidents of national associations. DSP
Next Electoral Congress in March-April
WIith the AFC Congress deciding to postpone the election of its extra FIFA Council members, it is unlikely that the world governing body's all-powerful forum will have its full quota of 36 members before March-April next year.
FIFA had set September 30 as deadline for all its confederations to elect their representatives to the extra seats they are entitled to after the world body, as part of its reforms, decided to replace its 24-man ExCom with an expanded council.
Doha Stadium Plus has learnt the AFC ExCom would decide on the dates of its next Electoral Congress only during its meeting in Abu Dhabi in the last week of November, before the awards ceremony on December 1.
With FIFA regulations stipulating a mandatory four-month window for its ethics committee to conduct integrity checks on candidates running for any post, AFC's next Electoral Congress can only be held sometime in March-April next year. DSP


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text: Mark Kenyon The Whitetail Addict's Guide to Shed Hunting I caught the flash of white in the corner of my eye as a shining white glow emerged from the darkened ground. Immediately my heart rate accelerated and my hands began to shake.It may come as a surprise that this excitement wasn't caused by the flashing antler of an approaching monster whitetail. Instead, it was the result of my discovery of a proverbial needle in a haystack – a shed antler.For me, shed hunting provides much of the same excitement I can garner from an autumn whitetail hunt, and I know many of you shed hunters can relate. If you haven't tried shed hunting yet, now is the time to make it happen.Here's the low down on everything you need to know to get started finding fallen antlers this spring. The BasicsWhen it comes right down to it, shed hunting is a pretty simple activity. It requires just two things – walking and focus. While that does sound rather easy, the actual execution of these two basic actions is much more challenging. First and foremost, to find shed antlers you'll need to do a lot of walking. Even in the best whitetail states, finding an antler, as I mentioned before, is like looking for a needle in a haystack. You're typically looking for just a handful of available antlers over hundreds of acres, and in order to find those few diamonds in the rough you'll need to cover a lot of ground.As a friend of mine says, it's all about "miles for piles." So if you want to find antlers, you had better plan on doing a heck of a lot of walking.Secondly, you're going to need to maintain focus. Walking 10 miles is great, but if you're just taking in the scenery, you're going to miss a lot of antlers. The key to shed hunting success lies in staying fully focused on the ground and looking for antlers. No matter how tired you are, no matter how futile the search seems, you must keep on looking. Antlers are tough to see. You'll need to constantly scan across the ground in front of you, ahead of you and off to the sides.One of the easiest traps to fall into is getting disenchanted and losing focus after walking all day and not having found anything. But just like in deer hunting, your luck can change in just seconds, so you need to keep your focus and be ready for your one opportunity when it comes. When To LookIf you think you can handle long walks and keep focused on the task at hand, you're ready to start shed hunting. But when should you actually get out there and look for antlers? This decision is a critical one for several reasons.You don't want to shed hunt too early. If you're in the woods and walking around before sheds have dropped, you may put enough pressure on the local bucks to force them to move off before they drop their antlers on your property. At the same time, you don't want to start shed hunting too late, as you may lose out on sheds to rodents or other shed hunters.That said, keep the following factors in mind to ensure you start walking at the right time. First, of primary importance is the biological timing of the antler drop. The casting of antlers is tied to a decrease in testosterone within bucks, related to declining levels of sunlight. This annual biological cycle typically causes most antlers to drop between Jan. 15 to March 15, making the months of February and March, most often, the best times to find antlers.But this can vary widely based on location and local weather or habitat considerations. For example, hard winters and heavy snow can lead to earlier antler drop for some deer. On the other hand, an easy winter and the presence of many nutritional food sources could result in slightly later antler drops.To keep tabs on local timing, run trail cameras to monitor when bucks in your area are actually dropping their antlers. Once most bucks have dropped their antlers, it's probably a good cue to get out there.Once you know most antlers are on the ground, it's just a matter of being able to see them. This is most effected by the amount of snow cover. Typically, you'll want to wait until the majority of snow has melted before heading out on your first shed hunt. Overcast and light rainy days also make for great shed hunting conditions, as antlers just seem to pop out against the leaves in this kind of weather.Where To LookWhen it's finally time to start looking for antlers, you need to know where to search. If you're limited to shed hunting one small property, you may be able to search the entire piece. However, when there are large tracts of land, you'll need to whittle down the area you walk to just those sections that are most likely to hold antlers.At a basic level the most probable places to find a shed are in the areas deer hang out most at this time of year, their winter feeding and bedding areas.Food sources at this time of year tend to be corn, bean, winter wheat or other agriculture fields supplemented by certain late season food plots such as rape, kale and turnips. Search out these food sources. Walk them carefully, surveying not just the fields, but also the grass and brush along their edges. Very often bucks will bed just off the edges of these food sources during the night while feeding and drop their antlers.Bedding areas can come in many forms as well, so hopefully your previous knowledge of a property will help you locate these. But if you're not familiar with the property you're shed hunting, look for thick cover, cedars and other conifers, or south facing hillsides. All of these types of areas can be popular bedding areas during the winter.In addition to these core areas, there are a few "wild card" spots that can be good for a shed or two. Popular trails leading between food and bedding are always worth checking, as well as any obstacle that will require a deer to jump over it. These include popular fence, ditch or creek crossings.Also, if you ever see isolated cedars or pine trees in grassy fields or on hillsides, be sure to check those out. They seem to be buck magnets during the winter, and countless sheds have been found next to those pine tree sentinels over the years.Final ThoughtsWhile writing this, I look at that antler on my shelf and, just like a head on the wall, it brings back a flood of memories and emotions. It seems to me that the hunt for antlers, just like whitetails, is good for the soul.Mark Kenyon runs Wired To Hunt, one of the top deer hunting resources online, featuring daily deer hunting news, stories and strategies for the whitetail addict. GET THE NEWSLETTER Join the List and Never Miss a Thing. Sign Me Up


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The most popular stock among millennial investors on Robinhood, a no-fee stock-trading app, is tanking.
The chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices is down 18.2%, or $2.48, at $11.14 a share on Tuesday after the company said it expected second-quarter gross margins to come in at about 33%, down slightly from the first-quarter reading of 34%.
AMD is the No. 1 stock held by millennials on Robinhood, according to the company's data scientist, Sahill Poddar. AMD is also a popular stock among Robinhood's other users, ranking fifth behind Apple, Amazon, Tesla, and Facebook.
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Welcome the New Year with a traditional good-luck recipe from the South, Slow Cooker Hoppin' John.
Have you heard of Hoppin' John before? It's not something that I grew up eating, but it's something that I've seen all over as a good luck recipe to welcome the New Year. Hoppin' John is a savoury blend of black-eyed peas and rice, that originated in the Southern United States. There are many versions made, but typically it's a combination of onions, rice, black-eyed peas, collard greens and bacon that's brightened with a touch of cider vinegar at the end. Sounds pretty delicious, don't you think? Reading about the history of Hoppin' John was fascinating (I'm a huge nerd about food history) and I highly recommend you take a read – it's interesting the way the dish is impacted by ingredients used. Back when this dish was being made in the 19th century, the quality of ingredients (and the actual ingredients themselves) used were completely different, instead of black-eyed peas they used "cow peas" or "red peas" which aren't varieties that are produced en masse anymore and even the rice was different and more flavourful. It's interesting the way our food has changed over the years, sometimes for the better, but not always.
I've seen different recipes for Hoppin' John that are quite elaborate with loads of spices and add-ins, but I wanted to try and stick to something simple but still with lots of flavour. I also wanted this dish to be slow cooker friendly because let's face it, a lot of us will be pretty tired on New Year's day, so having a dish that requires a little bit of prep, then cooks away in the slow cooker all day (while you nap, naturally) is a winner to me. If you're looking for another simple slow cooker favourite to make during a sleepy afternoon, try my Shredded Puttanesca Chicken in the slow cooker.
This slow cooker Hoppin' John is really easy but there are a few parts to it. Before you get started, note that it requires soaking the dried black-eyed peas overnight (canned won't work in the slow cooker, they will turn to mush). After they are soaked, they get added to the slow cooker along with some sautéed onions, bacon and celery and liquid before cooking away for 8 hours over low until everything is creamy and delicious. The last step is adding the rice and collard greens and then it cooks on high for the final hour. Here's to a great year filled with luck, love and happiness, thanks for spending time with me over the past year.
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- 1 1/2 cups dried black-eyed peas, soaked overnight
- 6 slices of bacon, finely chopped
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 1 stalk of celery, finely chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 jalapeno, halved
- 2 tsp dried thyme
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 4 cups water
- 1 cup long grain rice
- 1 bunch collard greens, thinly sliced (about 3-4 cups)
- 1 tbsp cider vinegar
- Soak black-eyed peas overnight, drain and rinse. Place in slow cooker insert.
- Heat a medium pan over medium heat. Cook bacon, onion and celery until softened and slightly brown, about 5 minutes. Add garlic, cook another minute. Transfer to slow cooker insert.
- Add jalapeno, dried thyme, bay leaf and salt. Cover with water. Cook on low for 8 hours or until beans are tender.
- Add rice and collard greens, cook on high for 1 hour. Remove and discard jalapeno halves and bay leaves. Stir in vinegar and serve.
Give this slow cooker Hoppin' John a try this year, let me know how it goes in the comments below.


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the never-ending argument over total cost of ownership (tco) among apple, windows, and linux continues. this heated debate is always lively during wide-spread releases of viruses that target specific operating systems that users have experienced lately. what continues to baffle me is that the tco argument is tossed out very easily, but not backed up. recently, the pbs column "i, cringely," jumped into the tco argument on the apple side, but as i continued to read i found not a single backing for the tco rambling for macs. apple, too, was guilty of the tco free-wheeling when it posted a hot news item back in march linking to an it outsourcing firm's claim that a mac environment can save money and time. surely someone can come up with a legitimate study on the tco of apple, windows, and linux that could be mostly unbiased. i realize that there will always be the political, economic, and personal opinion issues in any tco study, but i have to believe that some intelligent list of items to compare all the operating systems against can be made to come up with a reasonable tco argument.
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|tco debates are never the whole story (8:13am est mon aug 18 2003)
i don't believe most of the tco stuff that i read. most articles i've read only cover the cost of the admin, retraining and conversion of word docs. i still think it's prohibitively expensive for someone to move from one operating system (once entrenched) to another unless you are a small company or an individual. then it comes down to a desire to retrain your staff, or yourself, and many people aren't willing to do that. there would be production losses due to training, or in an individuals case, less time with his family, friends, and/or beer. many major corporations who have been using one operating system for a long period of time have custom built applications that are made specifically for company standard that may be necessary for day to day tasks. it could cost millions (or in some cases billions) of dollars and would take an obscene amount of development time just to get back to where they were before they switched oses. there are also some old systems that would have to be continually maintained while the new system caught up and could take over(read: nightmare). this is especially true in the government where there are custom applications that deal with pay and taxes are effected several times a year by congressional legislation.
– by killer on the road
|tc of users (8:37am est mon aug 18 2003)
tco should always take into account the use the computers are put to. locked down boxes that run only one or two canned apps are vastly easier to take care of than ones that "must be" (due to software requirements or managerial diktat) left wide open for people to install whatever they want on them. training (or familiarity) of users and their ability to help themselves through the little problems that will always occur is something usually left out or given minimal importance. i almost never pay attention to any tco studies since most are just marketing pitches anymomre. – by jrink
|conversion is not that big of a deal (9:30am est mon aug 18 2003)
1) retraining is not really an issue as most common applications are platform agnostic. for example, photoshop or m$ office is going to be familiar to users regardless of the platform. truth be told, most employees spend little time in the os, most of their time is spent using a suite, such as office, or a relatively small collection of apps.
2) conversion from windows to mac is much easier than conversion from anything to m$. the only advantage m$ has is the wide familiarity of it's software to the average hack, which will rapidly disappear.
3) many so-called it pros are little more than knowledgeable windoze hacks with maybe a little unix knowledge. when outsourcing a conversion, you get what you pay for. this also applies to in-house hires.
4) once the system is up, macs will cost much less to run and maintain than any beige box. – by nopc zone
|driving value (10:41am est mon aug 18 2003)
i trained as a mainframe guy, became a systems programmer on *nix before working in a windows house as architect. i've also used macs considerably for image processing – it's all just horses for courses!
as far as a business is concerned the it should provide real value, not just run at least cost. it's the platform that can delivery the most productivity to the most users that matters not the color of the screen – or the box! – by it for all
|conversion is a big deal (10:44am est mon aug 18 2003)
nopczone, you obviously have never dealt with users who barely can navigate their "common applications"! retraining for many non-technology-centric people can be confusing, frustrating and downright scary. this makes it very important when these scared users are your managers, vps, and other people who actually run your business (and make the money that pays your salary). even going between different versions of windows can be traumatic for some.
as eric pointed out, do you have any concrete evidence for #s 2) and 4)? – by jrink
|tco = bs (11:16am est mon aug 18 2003)
the whole tco falling on the mac's side is the biggest mantra that apple-loyals have tried to spread and uphold since day one. like shane indicated, there is little to nothing in terms of solid proof that says that macs are cheaper to maintain/own than pcs (linux and windows both). it still exists simply becuase mac-lovers keep saying it over and over.
the fact of the matter is that pcs are cheaper to upgrade and cheaper to maintain, simply becuase there is so much out there for them, that there is so much competition. with macs, there are far fewer choices in terms of hardware, technicians, and administrators. what does this mean? prices can stay high (just like buying new apple hardware).
(and dont give me and of that "macs last longer than pcs" bs — there are mac users in this very section who admit to still using their 486 and pentium pro machines running nt or win95).
|#s 2 and 4 (11:20am est mon aug 18 2003)
i as well wish that a series of studies would be conducted to get to the bottom of the matter.
being that microsoft has finally revved their client os's up to a point where they don't flake out after a few months i wonder if the old tco advantage of macs is truly concrete any longer…
on the other hand, working in an environment with 8 (3+ year old) macs and 2 decrepit administrative pc's – meanwhile sharing the floor with an it outsourcing firm (90% wintel support) i have a strong opinion on the matter… overhearing a steady stream of networking/printer spooling/virus/hardware failure problems coming in over the nextels whilst our machines rarely hiccup during our daily activities… and when those hiccups *do* occur they're almost invariably problems 'between the chair and the keyboard' such as kicking the e-net cable out or mismanaging quickkeys/applescripting… and we're not even on x yet :p
|no virii on the mac side? (11:22am est mon aug 18 2003)
i am positive that if the world were 94% apple instead of 94% wintel, then all the virii would be aimed at os x rather than winxp.
as far as being knowledgable windoze hacks, when 99% of the machines you work on are windows machines, it kinda helps. knowing how to run a mac doesn't really mean much if you don't have any in a 5 mile radius.
as far as converting to and from one platform to another, there is a much larger repository of software for the windows environment. custom software is only going to work on the machine it was written for, or allowed to run on. most applications work relatively the same, regardless of platform. true, reading a mac formatted floppy is dificult in windows, but cdrs read just fine. – by zaph1
|the g5 is finally shipping!!!!! (11:27am est mon aug 18 2003)
– by mingisback
|uh zaph (11:30am est mon aug 18 2003)
there is no such word as "virii"
and let's take the next train out of fantasyland, shall we? fact of the matter: nearly all infectious virus epidemics are win32.
|worlds fastest personal computer (11:32am est mon aug 18 2003)
the apple store near my house has em on display. what a beautiful system. – by bingismack
|houaa it for all (11:33am est mon aug 18 2003)
…to anybody who isn't in marketing. i worked as a telemarketer once for a major media company, and my job was basically to sell someone something they might actually need, but might not actually want. the whole point of tco is to give the marketing maggots another salvo in an on-the-phone battle trying to foist some late, underdeveloped, poorly-thought-out, overpriced piece of bloatware. jrink is right conversion is a big deal, that's why it's important for an it department to have a handle on computing technology in general, not just a particular platform. i've known too many fellow professionals who assumed that macs were just toys and absolutely turned green at the thought of using linux (even though they liked the sound of it:)). tco is just a marketing pitch annymore because it cannot possibly be computed before a product is actually deployed in a production environment where it is actually tested against the needs and abilities of the users and their sheepherding managers and other corporate monkey types. the only time i even see tco used is by m$ and it's sycophants in an attempt to justify spending a thousand dollars or more per user on software that is frequently just as buggy, failure-prone, and a whole lot more frustrating to troubleshoot that it's open source competition. face it people tco is the emperor's new clothes. – by army of one
|mac networks vs pc networks (11:39am est mon aug 18 2003)
i used to work for a small museum that had both macs (20 machines – os9
server) and pcs (30 machines). funds were limited so, as a 20 year mac user,
i was picked to set up and administer the mac network while they hired a
couple of it people for the pcs. i ended up training all the curatorial and
education staff (the mac users) to troubleshoot their own problems just before my job was terminated. the business office of my museum (the pc users) was willing to sacrifice 4 long-term staff members just to keep around the 2 pc tech guys to deal with the daily glitches of the pc network. there is no mac tech person on the payroll since there are very few problems and, if there are, the mac users can remedy them without tech support. the museum spends around $85,000 a year for the 2 techs while they have to suspend and/or cancel much of their public programming due to the lack of funds. i think that my point is pretty self evident.
…..and one more thing
– by sarcasmo
|tco is pointless…. (11:44am est mon aug 18 2003)
….as it's hard to quantify usefulness or lack thereof as a dollar value. kind of like saying any employee not busy every moment is automatically stealing company time. and the type of people using the 'puters matters, get a bunch of nerds together in an office and linux will run fine, the average joe has trouble finding their way around regardless of os.
couple of points to make, pc's can be recycled and upgraded much more than a mac, usually a motherboard/processor and monitor as last. pc's can also be custom built in house to do a variety of tasks from parts–not as easy with a mac. being able to source parts anywhere as opposed to apple or the few mac dealers about makes a difference in the long run.
also, the life or death of any platform is apps, and winders just has more. assume the best and everyone wants to go open source, linux on a standard pc is still cheaper than a g5.
|comon… (12:23pm est mon aug 18 2003)
everyone knows that it's 12.4% more cost efficient to go with linux or windows rather than mac.
…heck…. 43.2% of all canadians knows that.
oh yea nopc zone. you obviously do not work with your average day to day user. i have people in my company that come to me red in the face saying their box is toasted… only to walk over and find it not turned on. no really… they're that clueless. they know 1 way to do something. they don't even know the names of the commands they are instantiating… it's more like they just know where to click to make stuff happen. so yeah, retraining is a big task and it costs a significant amount of money in terms of time.
as for your #4 that's just complete bullshit. don't just say your personal bias. that sounds [almost] as stupid as my arbitrary percentages at the beginning of this post. so yeah, 87% of geek.com posters now think you're an idiot. :) – by johny-d -(87th %)
|re: johny-d -(87th %) (12:42pm est mon aug 18 2003)
my favorite clueless user story (which i heard third hand) is this officer in the military called the base's help support saying everytime he turned his computer to "official" it would die. he kept insisting was trying to do important work and the machine wasn't cooperating. not know knowing what the heck he was talking about the tech guy went to the officer's desk. turned out the office had seen the big red switch on that ol' ibm at and somehow thought off was "official" and on was "onofficial." i don't know which was worse, a guy who can't spell or can't figure out an off/on switch………… – by ziwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwi
|stupid users… (12:55pm est mon aug 18 2003)
i had a friend who was tech support in okinawa the same time i was there, he had an officer who couldn't get his cdrom to work, my friend came in and flipped the cd right side up.
once after installing software on some users machines, we got a call back saying that we had destroyed this one particular computer. turns out the icon to a application they used often had been moved to a different location on the desktop…
god bless the poor users. – by inigo montoya
|what about heterogenous networks? (1:32pm est mon aug 18 2003)
what about the tco of networks made up of different platforms? like *bsd backend and wintel clients? anybody know of any? – by the dread pirate
|true story (talkin' 'bout stupid people) (1:32pm est mon aug 18 2003)
honest to god, this is a true story.
i was in an aol chat a while ago, (i used to hang around there just to help people with their problems and stuff). we'd get questions about simple (but not readily apparent) stuff, like drivers with old win9x systems, converting files to and from mac and pc, etc.
i swear…
– by duhfud
|re:true story (talkin' 'bout stupid people) (1:39pm est mon aug 18 2003)
anybody in an aol chat room can't be that smart anyway.
– by sarcasmo
|plug and play (1:52pm est mon aug 18 2003)
true "plug and play" is pervasive throughout the design of the macintosh. this makes them unpopular among the soi-disant it professionals — who would buy the machine that makes their job unnecessary? it's much better from an it headcount pov to buy cheap junk that never quite works correctly so that there's always plenty of work to do.
besides, calculating tco requires multiplication, which is far beyond the abilities of windroid it "pros." – by desktop unix


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Revelation 21 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Always keep a Dandy handy
The artist Jamie Smart's work on childrens comics has come in for some harsh and over-the-top knocks recently from a handful of critics. It even reached the ludicrous extreme of one of them setting up a hate page littered with vile personal abuse. However, perhaps even those critics would find Jamie's cover to this week's Dandy a superb example of great design and funny cartoonery. Shown here for your viewing pleasure is one of the best covers seen on The Dandy since its relaunch, and it's had some stiff competition.
Hats off to the cover designer too. That logo with its blue background should really jump off the shelves, assuming the retail staff don't place it back to front or behind The Beano again.
There are 22 pages of brand new material in this week's issue (not counting the jokes pages and suchlike). Highlights for me were Nigel Parkinson's Harry Hill strip as always, plus Alexander Matthews' Nuke Noodle, and, my particular favourite this week, the hilarious Swamp Bloke, the latest story in Wilbur Dawbarn's Rocky's Horror Show series.
There's also a new Postman Prat, with a script by David Mason and artwork by me.
As they used to say, "Always keep a Dandy handy". A phrase that never quite caught on like "Never Be without a Beano", but the intention was the same. The Dandy No.3555, out now, £1.50. Support Britain's longest-running comic!
And for those of you who prefer vintage Desperate Dan, don't worry. Jamie's equally valid and hilarious version didn't erase the original Dan from history. He's still out there, either in your old comics or popping up in parts of the Internet when you least expect him. For example, check out Nigel Parkinson's blog, where Nigel recently showed a classic early Desperate Dan strip from 1938, when Dudley Watkins was drawing in a more raw but nevertheless excellent style:
6 comments:
- Peter Gray said...
A good story Postman Prat a nice surprise ending!
Also liked the monster of the week feature as well...I was expecting Frankiestein again didn't realise it would be different each week..
Also Nigel P and Jamie should always do the Dandy covers..
also liked the singing in the rain one by Nigel...and Jamie's totem pole as a test your strength machine..also whop ate the pies one..
Also for any critics of Jamie....my personal feeling there is room for all types of styles..see his Doctor Who book which very well contracted and fun!!
- Wednesday, 5 October 2011 at 23:52:00 BST
- Tom said...
I think it probably is a large part of the reason for the decline in readership. Many people can't handle change. More's the pity.
- Thursday, 6 October 2011 at 01:41:00 BST
- Rabsmith said...
An excellent cover I thought, Lew: if Jamie can come out with more of this sort of eye-catching material, I'll keep an open mind on his cartoons.
- Thursday, 6 October 2011 at 08:21:00 BST
- Peter said...
I agree with Lew I thought it was a strong issue this week and my two favourite strips were also 'swamp bloke' and 'nuke noodle' both very witty and well drawn.
I think Jamie Smart exhibits a brilliant knack for free wheeling mad cap humour,which is very fresh and original, and whilst i'm a convert now that wasn't always the case.When I first saw his work I found it hard to read his lettering and because he doesn't always vary his line depth much I found some of the panels quite 'full' and confusing, but then it just sort of 'clicked' and now I really like it and always look forward to reading anything he's done.I've also thought for a while Jamie should be let loose on the cover, as I'm not too keen on the tabloid style ones.
- Thursday, 6 October 2011 at 11:43:00 BST
Hi Lew,
I noticed this cover in Tescos on thursday. it is certainly the best cover that i have seen on the 'new-style' Dandy. I admit im no fan of the artist's comic strip art, but I think his heavy black outline graphic style is effective as a full page design.
- Friday, 7 October 2011 at 19:42:00 BST
- locusmortiis said...
I think its a pretty awful cover but then it isn't aimed at me or my sensibilities.
- Saturday, 8 October 2011 at 17:28:00 BST


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2015 Wolfeboro, NH, 'Fairy Land Festival', Fairy House Event At Cate Park On Saturday, July 11.
by Anura Guruge
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1/ Wolfeboro 'Fairy Land Festival', 2014.
2/ Wolfeboro 'Fairy Land Festival'.
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5/ Wolfeboro, NH, 'Fairy Land Festival' 2012.
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This is a GREAT and very heartwarming event.
Also for a good cause — Wolfeboro "The Children's Center".
As was the case last year it will be the same Saturday as
the always entertaining "Annie & the Orphans" —
again at Cate Park.
So you can essentially go for the evening at Cate.
Did WMUR (Again) Intentionally Mislead Folks About 4th Of July 2015 Weather Forecast In New Hampshire?
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All week, leading up to the 2015 4th of July (long) weekend, the WMUR weather forecasters were tripping over themselves to proclaim who perfect it was going to be — hot with lots of sunshine BOTH Saturday (the 4th) and Sunday. Even at 9am Saturday morning they were claiming that it would be a perfect day — while I am looking out of the window seeing lots of clouds.
Well, at least in most parts of New Hampshire, we had a fair amount of clouds, rain (albeit it light) and COLD temperatures for most of Saturday afternoon. Yes, the rain, fortunately, ceased before most of the town firework shows BUT most people had to contend with a not very nice 4th of July afternoon.
This morning, on Sunday, Josh Judge, WMUR's megastar weather forecaster, APOLOGIZED for getting the forecast SO, SO WRONG. Check it out here >>>>
Well, to be honest, I do NOT buy it. WMUR has done it before and I have mixed feelings about it.
As a Lifetime "Granite State Ambassador" (GSA) I have a vested interested in promoting tourism in New Hampshire. Yes, we need EVERY cent we can get from those from other States.
So I fully understand the motivation to mislead tourists about the weather on KEY holidays. I just worry that in time THEY will cotton on!
I have been watching this for years — with WMUR. To me it has become kind of a joke.
WMUR consistently, across all 4 SEASONS, will dupe folks into believing that we will have good weather during important holidays — whether it be the 4th, Labor Day, Columbus Day, New Year's (for skiing) etc.
So I am just giving you a heads up. Just be leary about WMUR weather forecasts when it come to HOLIDAYS.
Yellow Moon Over Merrymeeting River, Alton, NH — 4th of July 2015.
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I took this picture, at Deanna's behest, with my Canon T3i, at 10:45 pm, 4th of July, off Route 28, in Alton, New Hampshire (right off the 'Circle') coming back from the Wolfeboro concert & fireworks.
That is Merrymeeting River or Swamp. Not the lake. Lake is much further away in New Durham.
I think the yellowness had to do with the smoke from all of the 4th of July fireworks.
July 5, 2015 Google Doodles For FIFA Women's World Cup Final, Algeria National Day & Venezuela National Day.
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Wolfeboro, New Hampshire: 2015 4th of July Cate Park Concert & Fireworks.
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"The Cate Park Band" (led by our friend Bobby Burns)
playing an upbeat, rousing medley of popular songs (inc. some movie hits)
was on the mark and just what was needed. Bravo.
The fireworks were "OK". Par for the course for central NH.
The usual '20 minutes' of desultory single shot, not very high grade fireworks,
compensated by a '4 minutes' bang-bang-bang finale.
But any firework display, by definition, is 'good'.
So it was FUN. A good evening out. Good crowd. Everybody was happy.
Rain had cleared. The temperature was just right if you had a 'T' under your shirt.
Wolfeboro, as ever, did you proud.
A good 4th of July.
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Genting Hong Kong, a part of Genting Group, has seen a surge in its revenue from cruise and cruise-related activities by over 39 percent to USD 908.1 million in 2016 from USD 652.8 million reported a year earlier.
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IT'S OFFICIAL: A NEW GARDEN SEASON IS UNDER WAY. Or so the winter aconite, Eranthis hyemalis, told me today, once the fast-receding snow finally let it speak up. My official sentinel of spring, whom I have mentioned before, has reported for duty. Hallelujah.


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Like Father, Like Son by Mike Duarte
I dated my ex for about four years, and I got really comfortable with her. I began to follow in my dads footsteps. The beer and violence.
I seen my dad always abusing my mom every time he drank. I was always afraid of him, but I had to be brave to protect my mom and younger sister. So when I started to abuse alcohol, I started to do the same. I just have all this hatred, and anger all the time -even though I quit drinking alcohol seven years ago. Now I deal with anxiety and anger daily.
When my ex and I began dating, I would start the violence after any little argument. I started putting my hands on her, and it kept happening. She begged me to stop, and get help but I just didn't listen. I went to prison for kicking her door in, and assaulting her. I put a knife to her neck. I really took this to another level. I have remorse for what I did to her. That's why I'm sharing this. Believe me, it's not easy to do this. I lost the love of my life, and my 3-year-old daughter. And now I'm sitting here thinking, "If I could have just done things different." I love and miss her. I'm sorry for all the hurt and pain I caused her.
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I have a question about nesidioblastosis. I had gastric bypass surgery 13 months ago. I have lost 161 pounds and I am now at a healthy weight. I had several problems after my surgery, including being put on a TPN Bag for over two months and hospitalization for low electrolyte levels, among other things.
Last May, I felt a lump in my throat so I went to my doctor, who ran tests over a five month period. I was sent to an endocrinologist who told me I had Hashimoto's disease. Things progressed from there. I had a nuclear thyroid scan which showed I have hyperthyroidism and possibly had Graves Disease as well. Things from here just keep getting worse. I started having low blood sugar levels, usually in the low 40s mg/dl [2.2 to 2.5 mmol/L]. I was always hypoglycemic prior to my gastric bypass, but was told to control it by eating several small meals during the day. I was extremely overweight. Eating wasn't the problem, but I still suffered from the low blood sugars. Recently, things have gotten much worse. I've had dizzy spells, headaches, lightheadedness, nervousness, heart palpitations, and shaking. I am going to see a doctor at USC Medical Center, but I would like to get some extra information about the above listed condition. I spoke to a good friend, who is a nurse and also had the gastric bypass surgery. She sent me the information on it. Now, I am really scared. I want to feel better and get this taken care of. Can you help me with any information at all? I would greatly appreciate anything you can do.
The presence of nesidioblastosis following gastric bypass surgery is a relatively new observation. I think of it as a problem of transitioning from the old body to the new body. When you weighed a lot more, your body was very resistant and you had to make increased amounts of insulin to compensate. Now, in a short time, your body is rid of the fat, your insulin resistance is low, and you do not need the increased insulin production that your body previously needed. There is also the issue that changing the gut physiology may affect hormones that interact with insulin secretion and may induce some of these changes. In the patients that continued to have severe symptoms, they were treated with surgery to reduce the mass of the functioning islet tissue in order to decrease insulin production. I am glad you are going to see someone who is familiar with this. They will probably end up doing stimulation testing to see how responsive your pancreas is in its production of insulin to a challenge.
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I was a senior in high school when a friend of mine told me she had found a kitten covered in paint, wandering alone in a nearby orchard. She said they weren't going to keep him and that they were going to take him to the humane society later that day. My heart broke thinking of all this little kitten had gone through already. He probably thought he found his home, but was about to be moved again. So, without thinking, I told her I would take him, and that afternoon, before my mom got home from work, my friend dropped him off at my house. He was a little orange ball of fur and he fit perfectly in the palm of my hand. His tiny meep melted me and I instantly fell in love.
The next step was to persuade my mom to let me keep him. So, I wrote her a letter telling her how much I appreciated her and I signed off with a little drawing of a kitten. I heard her come home a few hours later and as she was putting groceries away I grabbed the kitten and hid him behind my back. I handed her the letter and watched her read. She looked so pleased until she saw the drawing. Then she looked confused and maybe a little suspicious of my sweet letter. So, I showed her the kitten.
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I decided to call him stinker for two reasons. First because he was so stinkin' cute and second because he had a horrible habit of not covering his business in the litter box.
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April Jones And A Nation Afraid
I haven't kept refreshing a news story so frequently for ages. But the story of five-year-old April Jones' abduction chills me like nothing in ages, even in our information-saturated culture.
I'm a Dad. I have a nine-year-old daughter who wants to walk home from school alone. Sensible as she is, the answer is no. While I was coming home from school on my own at that age, I don't feel it's safe in our society. Yes, I know an argument will rage about whether these incidents are more prevalent or simply more reported, and yes as a Christian I am not to be ruled by fear, but I have a parental duty of protection to my children.
The fear is coming out socially in other ways. Many have already assumed that the arrested man is guilty of the abduction (and maybe much more). But we don't know yet. We can't allow fear to launch vigilante groups. Our craving for safety could create a new Wild West if we were to follow all the populist cries. There is a danger that some people will do anything or vote for anyone they think will bring peace and safety. That anything or anyone could bring greater trouble, though.
Meanwhile, I see many messages on social media from Christians who are praying for the safe return of April. I find myself adding the qualifier, 'if she's still alive.' Since little April wasn't with the arrested man and they are searching in the area of a river, I feel sick about the prospects of finding the poor girl still breathing.
How, then, do Christians model living free from fear and full of compassion? Because right now, that could be a central part of our witness in the UK.
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It iis a difficult subject for Witnessing about .We know we are protected 1 John 5 4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the World our faith.. But that does not mean anything to Non believers. All I know is a lot of things have happened to me where I should have been Physicaly hurt but was not.It is the whole thing of Suffering and how we try to explain


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Archive for July, 2011
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 – Fenway Park, Section 34
Red Sox 13, Royals 9
The Red Sox dropped their Monday night game to the Kansas City Royals, but Dustin Pedroia extended his hitting streak to 22 games. I headed in for Tuesday night's game, but it took longer than usual to get there when my Green Line [...]
A Grand Game for Tim
Sunday, July 24, 2011 – Fenway Park, Section 36
Red Sox 12, Mariners 8
The Red Sox started out after the All-Star break the same way they had left off – on a roll. They took two of three in Tampa Bay, including an epic Sunday night game that ended with a 1-0 win in the sixteenth [...]
A Minor Diversion
Saturday, July 16, 2011 – Hadlock Field, Portland
Rock Cats 5, Sea Dogs 4
While the Red Sox took on the Rays in their first series after the All-Star break, I traveled to Portland, Maine, for my annual look at the Double A affiliate Sea Dogs. My family jokes that we know what day it's going to [...]
Give Me A Break
Sunday, July 10, 2011 – Fenway Park, Section 43
Red Sox 8, Orioles 6
When I went to Tuesday night's game I was excited to be seeing Jon Lester. I was also thinking ahead to my next game, five days later, when I was hoping to see him again. But a lot had happened in those five [...]
Less Lester, More Morales
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 – Fenway Park, Section 34
Red Sox 3, Blue Jays 2
The Red Sox were back from a less-than-successful interleague road trip. In fact, if it hadn't been for a three-game sweep in Houston to end the trip, it would have been a disaster. But now, after playing 9 straight games without being [...]


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Psychoanalysis uncovers the genesis of a problem or problems rooted in the unconscious and when understood by the conscious mind there is an occurrence of healing. This is a vast oversimplification and it belongs to a world of mechanistic cause and effect relationships with an assumption that the mind unlocks healing.
Our brains are hardwired for fear and possible negative outcomes.
This myth is perpetuated into logical thought and the some of shortcomings of the scientific method. In other words psychoanalysis has perpetuated an assumption that thought and the will can overcome unconscious traumas of childhood. That would be true if everyone lived in a cause and effect world.
Fears and anxieties based on an expectation of a negative outcome is an urge some people to begin to try and think how to escape the negative outcome. This in-turn encourages more thinking to solve the problem. This is the cycle of worry or obsessive thinking. The pattern of this kind of thinking may soothe the thinker for a nanosecond but then initiates the obsessive pattern again. The worrier doesn't use fear to attract the negative outcome to themselves but allows them to find situations were the negative pattern manifests. [People come to me and ask about romantic relationships they inevitably say they feel in-love for the person because it feels "right" and "familiar". The root word of "familiar" is family. After a few dates I suggest some questions. If the person asking me is a woman talking about a man, I ask the woman about her relationship with her father. I suggest that the woman ask the man about his relationship with his mother. You get the idea.] The family we were raised in represented a particular world. Some offspring leave the world of the dysfunction – often cause and effect relationships for a world in the present and they may slip back into the cause and effect world when encountering a parent or two or siblings. The function of expectation for a negative outcome is key and this is often an unconscious process.
When we humans feel joy and happiness expectation falls away.
Our brains are hardwired for fear and possible negative outcomes. This took place over a long period of time probably tens of thousand of years and was based in survival against real danger, such as being attacked and eaten by predators. Eventually the patterns that helped our ancestors cope with dangers were substituted with fears based on anxieties about our negative expectations of a future based on a causal world.
When we humans feel joy and happiness expectation falls away. These are emotions that expand and uplift and belong to a different reality than the expectations of negative outcomes and how to solve them. Expectations of negative outcomes and its solution – obsessional thinking curl us into self-protective loops that create conditions for suffering and breakdowns. Joy and happiness belong to a separate reality divorced from expectation and in the world of the present.
This takes a compassionate neutral place within our Being.
I had a friend that would ask me "Why?" to whatever subject she was grappling with at the time. I would answer that "Why?" questions assume that if one knew the reason for this or that problem then there would be a self-evident solution. "Why" questions belong to the cause and effect world of psychoanalysis. Cause and effect worlds are less complex and predictable. The Higher Worlds predicated in the present are more complex because the emotions of joy, happiness and love open us and make "Why" questions superfluous. The intellect and rational thought is not the answer to everything.
Overcoming worry and causal realities takes time and effort. Awareness is the first step. Awareness must be free of judgment. The spin of worry / obsessional thinking must be observed without judgment. This takes a compassionate neutral place within our Being. This place requires cultivation. Once the force of a witness is sufficiently cultivated we become aware when we are obsessing and have an expectation for a negative outcome.
A conscious breath may be enough to interrupt the pattern for a second. The use of distraction, moving out pattern of thinking to feelings of hope and joy may help us shift out of the pattern. Repeated efforts along these lines are necessary throughout our lives because of the hard-wiring of our brain explained above. For a better habit to replace a bad habit- especially one that is hardwired into our brains must be continually practiced.
I have noticed that breakthroughs into other worlds and even into a "place" beyond time are possible.


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