BUYING
I try to be a smart shopper, but when I take the time to select the best item in its class, I want it now … not a week from now. Tomorrow would be perfect, the day after is still quite excellent.
Last year, after adding up shipping costs, I realized I’d be saving a bunch of money by joining Amazon Prime
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UPDATE Aug 13: I have come to realize that even though this was successfully executed on my PCs (Macs), even some Mac browsers do not display it correctly.
So, I’m including a few static images for those who see something other than what this thumbnail shows. I’ve also included a reduced view of the entire image above … which is a smidgen under 3000 pixels wide.
One is looking due north … the other due south.
See them now on GOOGLE MAPS
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I’m using PC as in the generic “personal computer.”
That milestone is that PCs are now smart enough to mess with you. They know you’re working late, maybe all alone, you’re tired and that extra beer didn’t really help — and then your PC grabs the opportunity.
A minor, insignificant, unobscured thing just to mess with your brain, but be gone just before you get the opportunity to show it to someone.
Like this one which got me the other night …
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This just sort of made me laugh when I found it, so I just thought I’d take a moment and share.
I sure do hope this didn’t cause you to miss your bus.
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From the time my kids were in pre-school, I was their sole legal parent. I was determined to set and be a good example for their growth, and not just rely on telling them what’s right and wrong. I was most resolute about ‘truth’ being the strongest attribute in character building, just as I would not accept ‘lying’ for its scorn.
I believe it was early December, and we had been a single-parent household for about three years. I heard the bus drop-off my daughter out front, but when she walked in, she was in tears.
On the bus ride home, she and some friends got into an exciting discussion about the upcoming holidays. A short time into it, the discussion made its way to Santa Claus, specifically that Santa is a fake, and that there is no real Santa Claus.
My daughter went on to tell me that she took-on all her friends alone, and told them they were wrong … Santa Claus is real. She said they just laughed and made fun of her.
I took more time to explain it than this, but in essence, I said:
“Sweetie, wait, wait! I’m sorry that had to happen, but your friends are correct … there really is no Santa Claus.”
It was as if someone pushed her pause button.
She looked straight up into my eyes, and said,
“So you’ve been lying to me?”
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First off, regarding arms in general: the only safe arm is one not holding a gun.
If you find yourself face-to-face with a person with a fire arm, remember: drop and roll … them, not you.
This is the handgun that I used in the previous post. Look closely at the side view of the gun, then take special note of the gun’s front view. The reality is this is a virtual gun — it must be ‘loaded’ onto an iPhone or iPod Touch — CLICK the handgun above.
Apple’s got themselves a pretty sweet system. To sync your iPhone or iPod, you must launch iTunes. Right there in iTunes is the iTunes Store, featuring more and more things entertainment, everyday. And it’s tough not to take a quick peek while syncing starts up.
Most recently, I’ve been paying attention to the apps, which Apple neatly sorts by what’s most popular, both in the paid apps and free apps. I could not understand why a free gun app was always at the top of the most popular apps list. I read up on it, and discovered it wasn’t even a game — it was a “handgun simulation.”
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