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Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
5:09:25 PM
Today is one of those days when you need something to pick you up. I clicked through to see the huge catfish and ended up in a portfolio of pictures from some south Florida TV station. They came through with several very cute pics which brought a smile to my face this afternoon.
This is the best one, a Hungarian pony:  [ via wftv.com ]
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1:00:12 AM
Kicking Ass: "If you're the Vice President, and you're being sued, and the case gets all the way to the Supreme Court, what do you do? That's right, you go on a hunting trip with the judge." [Channel Dean]
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12:54:06 AM
JRobb: .....It is true that in the US, we have a meat grinder assembly line approach to life. If you fall behind, the machine chews you up and turns you into a hotdog. If you get far enough ahead, you can leap off the conveyer belt and stand in safety -- and stay there unless you are dumb enough to spend enough to get close to the belt again.
However, the safety net for many of us is our family. They can support you through the most difficult of moments. They can pull you off the conveyer belt for a while -- the moment it takes for you to gain the strength for another run. The price is that family isn't free. It takes an investment of years. It takes an ability to forgive and forget, and more comprimise than you think you think you can stand.
Maybe the ability to build and maintain a strong family is a mindset. It is a mindset people haven't talked much about. It requires that people know how to keep connections alive. How to throw insults and humiliations away as so much transient garbage -- that were generated in the heat of the moment. How to give up what you want to do what is right for your family, even when every fiber of your being demand that you drive it up to the edge.
And finally: to forget. Most importently, the ability to forget the negative is the best way to build a strong family. [John Robb's Weblog] // JRobb on a roll here. I started out trying to highlight some of what he has here then just decided to let it stand on it's own. I'm not one who is good at throwing away the "transient garbage" but one can learn. OK so I did go back and highlight just a little.
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12:44:54 AM
Has anyone else noticed how NBC has started to show programs at 9:59 instead of 10:00? The only reason I can pont to is that NBC wants to screw with TiVo since the program recording options don't let you accomodate "early" programming. C'mon guys. :-< [John Robb's Weblog] // And I'd sure like to get the darn football games over with so that it quits screwing with the PVRs. Good news is my Dish PVR lets you set it to start any number of minutes early. Yesterday I lost a large chunk of the second football game when my PVR wanted to tape both Curb Your Enthusiam and ... uh... Surreal Life while the Eagles were still trying to get it together.
There is nothing worse than the sad Dish PVR user interface and the cryptic dialog box it throws up when you are watching one tuner and it wants to tape two programs at the same time. It gives you like a minute to sort out what you want to do and I all too often end up punting (pun intended) as I try to figure out what the heck it wants to tape. This is one of the few downsides to PVR technology which allows you to tape most anything and everything that's on. We have two tuners in the current machine and I'm ready for three anytime they want to role one out.
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12:36:58 AM
- ""This is hitting medical transcribers, financial analysts, radiologists, everyone," said Emmons, 41. "If you work at a desk, beware -- the foreigners are coming after your job."
Outsourcing Backlash Brewing. www.cbsnews.com - [via All Headline News - Top News and Headlines] // The rest of this article is serious despite this comment from a programmer who got layed off and is now running for office on this platform. I'm afraid I chuckled.
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