April 25, 2012

I'm back on my desktop PC in my office! YAY!! Turns out 3 years worth of dust & nicotine buildup on a high-end graphics card is bad. Who knew? LOL! After all the gunk was blown out with a can of industrial strength canned air (industrial strength air??) ;-) & vacuumed out, it works great! Yes, I did quit smoking, but I also specified 3 years worth ... & I was a smoker 3 years ago. While I was at it I added more memory. I went from 4Gb to 12Gb. WOOHOO! The rest of this month is FREE! :D Nothing until May when we have a City Council meeting / LCFD BBQ / Maintenance on the 1st.

Closet:

If you need to purge some old clothes, invite a friend over who you trust & have a fashion show. Let them tell you what works or doesn't work. Remember trends change & so do our bodies. What fit great 10 years ago may look ridiculous now ... & sometimes only a friend can tell you this.

Crick & Watson publish the structure of DNA, a double helix. The alpha helix feels left out. (1953)

Food processors:

The kitchen helper does everything you could ask: chop, grind, grate, blend, & puree. (The 1st models were imported from France by Cuisinart.)

Godfather:

When organized-crime family patriarch Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge in this Oscar-winning epic.

Italian Formula One driver dies in crash (2001):

On this day in 2001, 44-year-old Italian race car driver Michele Alboreto is killed on a track in Germany during a test drive. Alboreto collected five Grand Prix wins on the Formula One (F1) circuit, where he competed during the 1980s and early 1990s, and also claimed victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race in 1997.

Michele Alboreto was born in Milan, Italy, on December 23, 1956, and began his racing career in the mid-1970s. He made his F1 debut in 1981 and took home his first victory at the Caesars Palace Grand Prix Las Vegas in 1982. From 1984 to 1988, Alboreto drove for the Ferrari team, the first Italian to do so in more than a decade. In 1985, his most successful year, he won the Canadian Grand Prix and the German Grand Prix and came in second place for the F1 drivers' championship behind the iconic French driver Alain Prost, who collected the crown again in 1986, 1989 and 1993.

Referred to as the world's richest sport, Formula One is an elite level of racing in which competitors drive highly sophisticated and technologically advanced single-seat, open-wheel vehicles capable of speeds surpassing 230 mph. These cars are typically built by large automakers, including Porsche, Ferrari and Toyota, who are known in the racing world as "constructors." Formula One racing is governed by the Fédération International de l'Automobile (FIA), which in 1950 named its inaugural world championship driver and constructor.

After departing Ferrari, Alboreto drove for other teams before eventually leaving the F1 circuit after the 1994 season. In 1997, he and two teammates won the 24 Hours of Le Mans race, driving a Porsche. Le Mans, along with the Rolex 24 at Daytona (formerly known as the 24 Hours of Daytona) and the 12 Hours of Sebring, is considered part of the Triple Crown of endurance racing, a sport that tests the stamina of both car and driver. The Le Mans, France, race was first run in 1923, while the inaugural Sebring race was held in 1952, at the Sebring International Raceway in Florida. The Daytona event began in 1962 as a three-hour competition at Florida's Daytona International Speedway.

In March 2001, Alboreto won the 12 Hours of Sebring, competing in an Audi. One month later, on April 25, he died at the Lausitzring (now known as the EuroSpeedway Lausitz) in Germany after the Audi R8 sports car he was test-driving at high speed suffered a tire failure and crashed.

Good debt management is 80% behavior & 20% head knowledge. It isn't rocket science, as some debt-management companies try to make you believe. True debt management is about controlling 2 things: yourself & your money.

Parietal:

1: Of, or relating to, or forming the walls of an anatomical structure. 2: Of or relating to college living or its regulation.

Throughout the mid-1950s, petitions requesting the extension of parietal hour circulated.

15th-century scientists 1st used "parietal" (from Latin paries, meaning "wall of a cavity or hollow organ") to describe a pair of bones in the roof of the skull between the frontal & occipital bones. Later, "parietal" was also applied to structures connected to or found in the same general area as these bones; the parietal lobe, for example, is the middle division of each hemisphere of the brain. In the 19th century, botanists adopted "parietal" as a word for ovules & placentas attached to the walls of plant ovaries. It was also at this time that "parietal" began to be uttered on college campuses, outside of the classroom; in 1837, Harvard College established the Parietal Committee to be in charge of "all offenses against good order & decorum within the walls."

SMS Scheduler:

Schedule your text message when it suits, not when it's too late!
You may be a very attentive person, but have you ever forgotten to send a birthday message? Or maybe a good luck message?
SMS Schedule is the most comprehensive, easiest and above all else, the cheapest solution!
Schedule your text message at any time in the future and SMS Timer will alert you by a push notification when it's time to send!
SMS Schedule is based on the functionality of the SMS application, but adds an indispensable addition of a timetable to it!
Consider and create your text message, but send it only on the day and date when necessary!
Think of birthday greetings, best wishes on holidays like Christmas, New Years Eve, Thanksgiving, etc. Or how about your wedding day, holidays or any reminder in a private or work related way? SMS Schedule provides you the ultimate solution!
*How it work?
1. Select your lovely friend's contact from your contact list who you wish sent to
2. text in your message
3. Select date
4. Click save button.
5. Check your schedule message? go to History page. Your can see your schedule message in there.
6. Delete schedule message? YES, your can delete your schedule message in History page.
7. Feed good to share your friends? Yes, your can share this application to facebook, email.

Simple table setting:

For basic table setting, here are 2 great tips to help you - or your kids - remember the order of plates & utensils:

1. Picture the word "FORKS." The order, left to right, is: F for Fork, O for the plate (the shape!), R for everything else that will be placed to the right of the plate, K for Knives, & S for Spoons.
2. Holding your hands in front of you, touch the tips of your thumbs to the tips of your forefingers to make a lowercase 'b' with your left hand & a lowercase 'd' with your right hand. This reminds you that "bread & butter" go to the left of the place setting & "drinks" go on the right.

What 2 terms were combined to create the name TiVo for the digital video recorder?

TV and i/o, the engineering acronym that stands for input/output.

Which character came 1st, 2nd, & 3rd?

A. The Cat in the Hat

B. Felix the Cat

C. Tony the Tiger

Which of these were formerly part of the USSR?

Estonia, Poland, Georgia, Norway, Lithuania, Russia.

Which type of sports equipment was invented 1st, 2nd, & 3rd?

A. Golf ball

B. Baseball bat

C. Referee's whistle

ACB. The 1st golf balls were made of wood. Then came the "featherie" in 1618 - goose feathers sewn into a horsehide sphere. (Hey, maybe they should make Tiger play with featheries ...)

You won't have to do without warm donuts & cider at the farm on a Sunday morning.