Good morning! What a weekend! I was out more than I was home so I didn't get anything done but we had fun. We woke up Saturday & I started my Blog but then Pete wanted us to go to Doug's to do some PC work for him. It was nice to see Doug & Cathy again. We hung out for a while & then it was time to go laptop shopping. Pete knows I needed one since my screen broke on mine & yes, we can repair the screen & we will, but he figured he'd just get me a new laptop now, then replace the screen on my old one & keep it for himself since he needs a laptop too. In fact, he was considering buying 2 laptops & then keeping my old one as a spare once the screen is replaced. I was happy to buy a used one, but the person who has it didn't have plans to sell it (I wasn't sure if they were thinking of selling it or not), so we went out hunting for a good deal. We went to Target 1st & they had a little mini notebook which would have been all I needed & the price wasn't bad. Pete thought we may have a winner with that one, but nowhere did it say the screen resolution which he said was important to know because anything under a certain resolution isn't worth buying. We got an employee to help us out & she scanned the barcode to see if they had any in stock. It came up "Not sold in this (or any) Target store". Uhhh ... then why is it sitting here on display? She got a manager & they tried scanning it again (the barcode didn't change, but I guess maybe the manager thought she was holding the scanner wrong? LOL!). It still came up as not sold in any Target store. I looked in the glass case under it & saw a tiny little box that looked like it would be that little mini notebook. Yep, that's it. Except the price was much higher. It seems the tag they were scanning was still sitting there from last year. They have a newer & better notebook for sale there now, but no one ever swapped out the info tag. Nope, no sale. Not at that price. We went to WalMart. Nothing. Went to Fry's. I like Fry's, I usually have really good luck there. Huge selection! Nothing cheap though. I was drawn like a moth to a flame to the iPads. I've always wanted an iPad, but they're SO damned expensive. I love my iPhone, but after having an iPhone since the iPhone was released 2007, my eyesight has started to get poor since then & I can barely see the screen on the thing anymore. I wanted an iPad. Does everything the iPhone does (minus the actual phone calls), but I can SEE the screen! The price though ... OUCH! I was over there drooling on iPads & Pete comes over saying we're going to MicroCenter next. I looked up at him with those big puppy eyes & then looked back at the iPad. A couple little sniffles ... he askes how much they are. Yes, even I choke on the price. I explained that an iPad Mini is perfect & MUCH cheaper. He looked at it, looked at the specs, choked a little at the price (although hundreds lower than the full-sized iPad, still much more than he was looking to spend) ... then said "if you REALLY want one ..." "YES YES YES YES !!!" I suddenly became a 3-year-old in a candy store. Have I mentioned that I've ALWAYS wanted an iPad?! I found a salesman & said "iPad Mini, white, WiFi only, 16Gb. The employee said "iPad Mini, Black, 64Gb." "How much?" He gave me the price & I almost fainted. "No thank you." I checked availability of the one I wanted with MicroCenter & they have over 10 in stock. We went to MicroCenter & the salesman had a very easy sale. He asked what I wanted, I told him exactly what I wanted & we were done. The 10 second sale. I also bought a very cheap case (that's kinda screwed up & doesn't close all the way without lots of effort), but it was just so nothing happens to the iPad while I shop for a really decent
case on eBay ... which I found (pictured left). A Black Stand Leather Case Cover With Bluetooth Keyboard. Nice, isn't it? It's on it's way as we speak. While I was at it, I also purchased a converter to go from all my 30-pin stereos down to the new thunderbolt connector. Yes, this thing has the new thunderbolt connector, rendering all my iPhone accessories useless without converters. Price for the converter? $40 from Apple. I got an original Apple converter on eBay for $30 & made sure it was the one with the cord because there's no way I'm attaching a tiny converter to a stereo & then balancing the iPad on top of the converter. Can you say weeble-weeble-SNAP!"? I love the iPad! It does EVERYTHING my iPhone did & MORE ... and BETTER! I can see the screen, it's got a pretty kick-ass speaker in it which surprised me, & a 10-hour battery life. Other really cool feature? It's going to pay for itself inside of a year. After 24 hours of carrying it everywhere with me & finding that it fits in my purse & is as easy to have by my side as my iPhone, we went to Dollar General & bought a super cheap dumb phone (a non-smart phone). All I needed it to have was a keyboard to make texting when I'm out of WiFi range easier because after 6 years of not using T-9, there's no way I'm going back to trying to text by hitting the #3 twice, the #5 3 times, etc, etc, etc. I used to be really fast at that, but it's been SIX YEARS that I've had an iPhone & come to think of it, several phones before the iPhone were all smart phones with full keyboards. The last time I had to do the T-9 thing was ... over a decade ago, easily. Anyway, I now have a little Alcatel "dumb phone" & called AT&T to reduce our bill. After a very long call with one of the nicest representatives I've ever dealt with, our AT&T bill was dropped by $80/mo. EIGHTY a MONTH by removing the iPhone off our plan, killing the iPhone fee, the iPhone data plan, the iPhone this, & the iPhone that! The iPad Mini was $329. It's going to pay for itself very quickly at this rate. I said I would need SOME data plan on this little phone. Due to my usage record, I use under 200 kb/mo. They don't have a 200kb plan, but they DO have a 300kb plan. OK ... I can live with that for $20/mo. That way I'm still in touch any where, any time, even if the iPad has no WiFi available (such as in iHop where they don't have WiFi). Then she comes back & apologizes. She said she's sorry, but they don't offer that plan anymore. (Here we go ...). She said instead, she can offer me non-smart phone UNLIMITED data for $15/mo. Uhhh ... OKAY! SOLD! This little Alcatel does everything I would have wanted it to do assuming there's no Wifi available. It has facebook, Twitter, News, Weather, Text Messaging, & E-mail. That was all I ever did on the iPhone when I was away from the house & SOMETIMES I'd pull up maps. I've very happy with my cheap little dumb phone, my unlimited data, & my iPad Mini! SO very happy! I take the iPad with me everywhere ... when we go out ... room to room in the house ... I can see the screen easily & use it for quick stuff while I'm on my desktop PC so as not to have to open a new tab or switch screens & with the iPad Mini sitting here, I now have
THREE monitors! We went to a few more stores after buying the iPad because Pete was still going to buy himself a laptop but couldn't find the one he was looking for. He remembered seeing a great deal at Conn's but they were sold out now. This ended up being a win-win-win situation for everyone though. I got my iPad, Pete's phone bill dropped, Kyle traded one of his laptops for my iPhone (which he's always wanted), & I gave Pete the laptop that I traded the iPhone for. SO ... I have my iPad, Kyle has his iPhone, & Pete has his laptop, AND our phone bill is much cheaper! While I was on with AT&T, I asked about unlocking the iPhone for our son so he can use it as a gaming device, music device, & CHEAP non-iPhone/smart phone. I've heard AT&T will do it for you for a cost. I've heard anywhere between $50 & $100. The rep said "No problem, I'll do that for you now ... ::: short pause ::: DONE!" That's it? Really? It's done? WOW! Now Kyle has an iPhone that he's using as a phone without the iPhone cost on our bill, I have an iPad Mini that I just LOVE LOVE LOVE, & Pete has a great laptop. It was a great Saturday for everyone. When it was all over, I went back to my blog & finally posted it somewhere after midnight. When we went to bed, we were out cold from the long day. During the early morning hours the FD got toned out to a MVA & then an EMS call. Sunday morning I planned on being home since I did NOTHING at the house the day before. Silly me. I asked Pete if he wanted to go to McDonald's with me for breakfast. I figured while we were out we could stop at Kroger & maybe even Academy. He wanted to get some stuff at Home Depot. Then it hit me ... we were going to be out for a LONG time again. Sheesh! Oh well, the price of breakfast out. LOL! We went to McDonald's & then Pete was bored. He asked if there were any gun shows in the area. I pulled the iPad Mini out of my purse, McDonald's has WiFi (I LOVE THIS!) & then
pulled up a gun show in Mesquite. Guess where we went? I almost bought a gun, but after going back to that table after looking at everything (never buy the 1st thing you see), it was gone. Great gun, great price, someone beat me to it. I did however get out of there with a t-shirt & a switchblade knife that has a blade that comes straight out the end of it. After all that walking around my feet were killing me. Pete drove back & I put the seat back, took off my shoes, & put my feet up in the side window which was open since it was so nice out. We stopped for fuel & then Pete wanted to grab some lunch, so we went to Rudy's & had brisket, then to Michael's so I could pick up some plastic canvas, then to Kroger for groceries, & then home for the day. I don't know what time it was, but it was late. The FD got toned out to a grass fire while we were out & I HATE missing grass fires! Damnit!! I heard the text message come in from the county when we got toned out, but I didn't know what it was. I wasn't used to hearing tones like that from the new phone. It wasn't until after I got home that I pulled my phone out of my purse & said "Oh!" Well ... damn. I didn't get the Active911 tones on my iPad because I wasn't in WiFi. When I'm in WiFi range, I do get those tones & the iPad is louder than the iPhone was. Kyle called me while we were at the gun show & I heard a phone ringing ... it sounded like the old-style bell telephone ring. I didn't pay any attention to it other than figuring it belonged to someone behind me. Nope, it was my phone. I didn't realize it until we left the gun show & I saw a missed call. I never heard the new phone ring before that, so it didn't even register that it was my phone ringing. I was used to my iPhone ringtone that I had set up. I'll get used to the new setup, it'll just take me a little bit. At least on Sunday I got home early enough to clean the house. I cleaned the tub, watered the plants, dusted the kitchen lights, did the dishes & wiped down the counters, dusted the living room lights, hosed down the front porch, dusted the office lights, cataloged 2 more books from my huge inbox, did small pickups around the house, swept the dining room, & cleaned the bathroom. I then went through the Sunday paper & figured I'd have enough time to check facebook & take my turn in the games I play there. I finished pretty late & Pete & I headed off to bed. No television all weekend. This morning the FD got toned out to another EMS call & when I woke up updated ALL my apps since everything that was now on the iPad needed to be upgraded to the iPad versions. That's been running since I started this blog & just now finished. The only thing I can't figure out is why when I used to plug my iPhone into my PC it would charge, but the iPad doesn't. Another thought of the day ... gag orders. I'm a blogger, I've been a blogger for many many many years. Telling me that I can't talk about things that go on in MY life will get you removed from my life. If you think you're doing something wrong that others will negatively judge you for, then DON'T do that thing. I'm not in the CIA, I'm a housewife. Gag orders don't work on me. I know the difference between private information & talking about how I feel about things that go on in my life. I never mention names, addresses, phone numbers, private internal documents, etc ... so BACK OFF! Ever hear of freedom of speech? Go look it up. I absolutely WILL talk about whatever I feel like talking about & there's not a damn thing you can do about it unless I give your full name, address, phone number, link to your page, & make you look bad in public. In fact, I think I MAY be able to do that if I have absolute proof of what you've done & I don't publish anything that was private (such as an unlisted phone number), but I don't do those things ... so bite me. If you see a reference to "you", I assure you that only YOU know it's a reference to "you". No one else has any clue who I'm talking about & no one else even cares. They're reading the story ... the big picture ... they don't care WHO the person is that's referred to. I've run into this so many times over the years. Everyone is so paranoid. If I say I went to McDonald's yesterday & the person who took my order was a putz ... the person who took my order could see it & would completely flip out at me. OH MY GOD!!! You talked about ME on Blogger! The entire planet now thinks I'm an idiot because of YOU! OK ... #1. If they did something stupid, that's their fault. Not mine. I simply told the story after the fact. #2. None of YOU know which McDonald's I went to except maybe a couple of you who are my friends on facebook & saw me check in at McDonald's which includes a pinpoint on a map. #3. None of you know which employee at that particular McDonald's served me. #4. None of you CARE! Things that happen in my life are minor. People who want REAL news watch the local news channel. There, they not only get the story as I would tell it, but they also get a HD photograph of the person who did it, a name, a video ... do I do any of that? Nope. Other than my immediate family & best friend, I don't call anyone out by name ... so chill! If you don't want to be seen with me, if you don't want to be associated with me, then stay the hell away from me. Go hide in your closet. Never leave your house. Stay away from public places & don't work in a public venue. I'm not your best kept secret. I'm an adult human being & you have NO authority to gag me, especially when I'm more vague than ANY other media outlet. Do you want to know what's funny? Someone who mentioned this subject most recently will see this, flip the hell out completely, & think the entire world knows I'm talking about THEM. They're going to be pissed! In their mind, I put up a huge billboard with their photograph in their hometown & attached the link to this post. And I assure you, they are the ONLY person who are going to think it's about them, & NONE of the rest of you are even going to have a wild guess as to who it might be about, what brought this up, nor do you care. Perfect example ... my own HUSBAND who LIVES WITH ME, will have no clue who or what this is about. Maybe it's not even about ANYONE. Maybe it's just a thought of the day. Something that popped into my head. If I go off tomorrow about abortion it doesn't mean I had one, am planning to have one, KNOW anyone planning to have one, know anyone who had one, or even am or know anyone who is pregnant at the moment ... but somewhere out there, someone is going to flip out about me making their life public on Blogger. You can make anything & everything about YOU if you try hard enough. If YOU want the attention bad enough, then it's suddenly all about you. Sounds like an ego problem to me. Every single person who has ever told me not to talk about them in a blog is now having a cow. Thing is, without a name ... it's not about YOU. It's a very general reference about how I feel about gag orders. This is my blog, this is about me ... my blog, my feelings, my opinions, my ego. LOL! LCFD training tomorrow.
Alaska has over 6,640 miles of coastline but probably the fewest number of surfers per capita, unless you count the polar bears.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or 1st creation, & a physical or 2nd creation to all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the 1st creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks & mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed & pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
American states with the longest coastlines top 10:
- Alaska
- Florida
- California
- Hawaii
- Louisiana
- Texas
- North Carolina
- Oregon
- Maine
- Massachusetts
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Capture waypoints: Mark campsites, trailheads, water sources, and more.
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Share your trip: Post adventures to trimbleoutdoors.com and Facebook.
Geotag your photos, videos, and sound clips: Save coordinates with every image and see their exact location on a map. Auto-save videos to your YouTube account too.
View maps: See unlimited street maps, aerial photos, hybrid street/aerial maps, and topo maps provided by MyTopo.
Navigate on the trail: Be an expert backcountry navigator. Use the digital compass to follow bearings or go to waypoints on the trail.
Create map packs to store maps on your phone. This app allows you to save topos (MyTopo), aerials (Bing), streets (OSM), and terrain (OCM) map types.
Get worldwide aerial image on your iPhone. Our app gives you rare access to view and store offine aerial imagery from Bing maps.
View stats: See 10 stats, including elevation, speed, and distance.
Pick your coordinates: Choose latitude/longitude or UTM and WGS 84 or NAD 27 then use GPS Trails for advanced navigation with traditional paper maps.
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The phenomenon known as the "mashup" can be traced
back through at least several decades of radio DJs and record producers
manipulating, or "remixing," one or more existing recordings to create a
new musical work. With the rise of digitally distributed music and of
inexpensive, sophisticated production technologies in the late 1990s,
however, the phenomenon was radically democratized, and a trend was
born—a trend that reached its highest level of public awareness with the
event known as "Grey Tuesday," which took place on this day in 2004.
Grey
Tuesday was a well-organized, one-day effort to distribute from as many
Internet sources as possible a controversial work called The Grey Album,
created by the American DJ/Producer Brian Joseph Burton, aka Danger
Mouse. Burton lived in England in the early 2000s, at a time when the
mashup phenomenon exploded in the UK thanks to a radio program called
"The Remix," which invited its listeners to send in their own examples
of what was also known as "bastard pop." Among the most popular and
creatively successful mashups introduced on "The Remix" were: Freelance
Hellraiser's "A Stroke of Genie-us" (2001), which paired Christina
Aguilera's vocal from "Genie in a Bottle" with the instrumental track of
The Strokes' "Hard To Explain;" and Go Home Productions' brilliantly
titled "Ray of Gob" (2003), which combined Madonna's "Ray of Light" with
the Sex Pistols' "Pretty Vacant" and "God Save the Queen."
Burton's inspiration for The Grey Album came in December 2003 while listening to the Beatles' White Album shortly after hearing an a capella version of Jay-Z's Black Album.
Over an intense two-week period, Burton constructed a brand-new version
of the Jay-Z album layered over beats and samples lifted from the
Beatles. Burton created The Grey Album only to share among his friends, so he never even tried to clear the rights to the Beatles samples it contained. Even as The Grey Album caught
on as a word-of-mouth Internet phenomenon, Burton's only concern was a
creative one: "I'm just worried whether Jay-Z will like it, or whether
Paul and Ringo will like it."
It is fair to say that EMI, the
owners of the rights to the Beatles' master recordings, did not. The
intensity of their legal response to The Grey Album, however, did
not sit well with vocal Internet opponents of the music industry, and
Grey Tuesday was organized in protest. On that day, hundreds of websites
organized to offer Burton's album for free download in defiance of EMI.
That protest, and its attendant publicity, combined to make The Grey Album the most widely distributed mashup album in history.
Saturday in New York, they had an earthquake. In N.Y.C. Registered 4.0 on the Richter scale & - that's not a big one. Out here in California, that would be considered a backfire. But in N.Y. it was - it scared everybody. You know you're in trouble when you see 3,000 cockroaches with tiny valises trying to get through the Holland Tunnel.
The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson’s film about the last 44 hours of Jesus of Nazareth’s life, opens in theaters across the United States on this day in 2004. Not coincidentally, the day was Ash Wednesday, the start of the Catholic season of Lent.
The star of action-packed blockbusters like the Lethal Weapon series and Braveheart, Gibson was earning more than $20 million per movie at the time he decided to direct The Passion of the Christ,
for which he received no cash compensation. Largely based on the
18th-century diaries of Saint Anne Catherine Emmerich, the film was a
true labor of love for Gibson, who later told Time magazine that
he had “a deep need to tell this story…The Gospels tell you what
basically happened; I want to know what really went down.” He scouted
locations in Italy himself, and had the script translated from English
into Aramaic (thought to be Jesus’ first language) and Latin by a Jesuit
scholar. Gibson’s original intention was to show The Passion of the Christ
without subtitles, in an attempt to “transcend the language barriers
with visual storytelling,” as he later explained. With dialogue entirely
in Latin, Hebrew and Aramaic, the film was eventually released with
subtitles.
A year before The Passion of the Christ was
released, controversy flared over whether it was anti-Semitic. Abraham
Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) went on record saying
that Gibson’s film “could fuel hatred, bigotry and anti-Semitism.”
Specifically, its opponents claimed the movie would contribute to the
idea that Jews should be blamed for the death of Jesus, which has been
at the root of much anti-Jewish violence over the course of history. For
his part, Gibson categorically denied the allegations of anti-Semitism,
but they continued to haunt him years after the film’s release. (In
July 2006, he was arrested for driving under the influence; a leaked
police report of the incident stated that Gibson made anti-Semitic
remarks to the arresting officer. Gibson later acknowledged the report’s
accuracy, and publicly apologized for the remarks.) Meanwhile,
Christian critics of the film’s story pointed to its departure from the
New Testament and its reliance on works other than the Bible, such as
Emmerich’s diaries.
Gibson, who put millions of his own money
into the project, initially had trouble finding a distributor for the
film. Eventually, Newmarket Films signed on to release it in the United
States. Upon its debut in February 2004, The Passion of the Christ surprised
many by becoming a huge hit at the box office. It also continued to
fuel the fires of controversy, earning harsh criticism for its extreme
violence and gore--much of the film focuses on the brutal beating of
Jesus prior to his crucifixion--which many saw as overkill. The film
critic Roger Ebert called The Passion of the Christ “the most
violent film I have ever seen.” Gibson’s response to similar charges was
that such a reaction was intentional. In an interview with Diane
Sawyer, he claimed: “I wanted it to be shocking. And I wanted it to be
extreme.... So that they see the enormity, the enormity of that
sacrifice; to see that someone could endure that and still come back
with love and forgiveness, even through extreme pain and suffering and
ridicule.”
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U.S.' northern neighbor, Canada, has more coastlines than any other country in the world.
Wear 1 white glove to work.
Who says that you can't buy art for chump change? In 1985, Ona Linquist created "Vend'art," a retooled ice cream vending machine that sells art work for as little as .75c. She has sold over 30,000 pieces made by 90 artists.
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