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Life and Choices... 2007-07-14 19:48:00 We all have decisions in our life to make that will and can affect us dramatically. Should we take a new job, or should we go for a promotion and the such. I am in that position at the moment.As many know, I was hoping to be picked up by Qimonda for a Sustaining position, the same position I do now, but with better benefits. This did not happen on the first go around of hiring.I have a chance in September to be picked up again, but with some changes to be made in the meantime. In order for me to become a better tech, I will have to go to Day Shift again, but go to straight days, Monday-Friday and not be on shift anymore. I do not know how I feel about that as I like shift and having days off during the week and a 3-day weekend every other weekend. I would only have a 2 day weekend. Also, I would have a lot more responsibility placed on me and have to learn the system and work on the equipment more that I have had to in the past. This is not a bad thing, but still a consideration.
Cameras and the such 2007-07-14 19:39:00 What kind of cameras do you people use? I use a Sony DSC-H1 Cybershot 5.1 megapixel.I am thinking of coing to soem type of SLR cam this christmas, but i am unsure. Can some of you please offer some suggestions?Thanks!! Free Polls - Take Our Poll What is your opinion?Subscribe to my Posts... Read more:Cameras
Friday the 13th 2007-07-13 15:44:00 Happy Friday
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Work Stuff... 2007-07-13 13:34:00 It has been very busy since i got back from vaca. I was on day shift, but got the call yesterday morning that i am going back to Night shift that i was previously on. I cant wait until the end of the month as my uncle and Grand Parents are driving from Texas to visit me for a week. More on that later this weekend... -- RMSTringer+++++++++++++++ Subscribe to my Posts...
Swift Creek Reservoir 2007-07-12 13:27:00 This is the lowest levels that i have seen since moving here in December 2005. IF we do not get any rain soon, we will be placed on Water Restrictions.We have lots of Canadian Geese that live here year round. The lake we live on is the water supply for Chesterfield County. It is called Swift Creek Reservoir
. We have not had an substantial rain in the past several months.This coves in the lake is getting shallow and the geese are taking advantage of it. Even though the weather gets hot here, the geese do not seam to mind the heat.What is your opinion?Subscribe to my Posts...
Thanks... 2007-07-12 10:01:00 Thanks for keeping me on my toes "Anonymous." Sometimes i forget to do that and i try to be very good about giving credit where it is due. I just want to thank you for your patronage and pleas continue reading and making comments on my posts...What is your opinion?Subscribe to my Posts... Read more:Thanks
Custom Ring Tones on Verizon. 2007-07-12 09:19:00 I am not sure if this will work on every Wireless Network or cell phone, but it works with my LG vx8600 phone. It has a slot for a MicroSD card. I purchased a Lexar MicroSD card but there are many choices. Mine came with an adapter as most card reader will not accept the MicroSD format. I have placed pics, music and the such on it. I bought a 1gig chip for under $30 at Wal Mart. The phone gives you the option to move all saved material from the phone memory to the card. I have chosen to do that.There is a folder called "My Sounds" on the chip. I placed the custom Ringtones in that folder that i made using Sound Forge and encoding them at anywhere from 40-96kbps depending on the length of the clip. I had to redo a few of them as they were to long. You will have to place them on the MicroSD car via your card reader. So you make them and how to get them onto the phone? There is no feature that will let you import them. So, you have to make a Pix Message and it gives you an option to attac Read more:Tones
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Lady Bird Johnson passes away in Austin, RIP. 2007-07-11 16:59:00 I, being a native son of Texas was saddened to hear of her death. She will be missed.AUSTIN, Texas - Lady Bird Johnson
, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, died Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 94.Lady Bird Johnson returned home late last month after a week at Seton Medical Center, where she'd been admitted for a low-grade fever. Her husband died in 1973.She died at her Austin
home of natural causes about 4:18 p.m. CDT, said Elizabeth Christian, the spokeswoman. She said she was surrounded by family and friends.She was hospitalized with a stroke in 2002 that left her with difficulty speaking. But even after that she continued to make public appearances and in May attended an event at the LBJ Library and Museum featuring historian Robert Dallek.In March, she listened from Texas through a conference call when President Bush signed legislation naming the Educati
Ten Reasons Why You Shouldn't Buy an iPhone 2007-07-11 16:43:00 I love this!! As you know, i am not an I-PRODUCTS person! I saw this and had to post it!!By: Jim LynchThese have been the weeks from hell as far as iPhone
hype goes. Over and over and over, we've all been subjected to more and more iPhone blather. Enough already!It's time to cut this stupid phone down to size, once and for all! And mark my words, that's all it is ... a stupid phone!It is not a cure for cancer, it will not bring peace to the world, it will not feed the hungry or provide homes to the homeless.It's a freaking phone and it's high time somebody drew a line in the sand and said: Thus far and no farther with the iBlather!Here are 10 reasons why you should NOT buy an iPhone. No doubt the Apple cultists will flame me for saying it like it is, but it's about time somebody did.So here is why you should avoid this vile piece of over-hyped crap:10. Too ExpensiveIs Apple kidding us? $599 for a freaking phone? Wow ... just wow. No phone is worth that much money even if it has a Read more:Reasons
Perseid meteor shower this summer. 2007-07-11 16:31:00 Got a calendar? Circle this date: Sunday, August 12th. Next to the circle write "all night" and "Meteors!" Attach the above to your refrigerator in plain view so you won't miss the 2007 Perseid meteor shower."It's going to be a great show," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. "The Moon is new on August 12th--which means no moonlight, dark skies and plenty of meteors." How many? Cooke estimates one or two Perseids per minute at the shower's peak.The source of the shower is Comet Swift-Tuttle. Although the comet is nowhere near Earth, the comet's tail does intersect Earth's orbit. We glide through it every year in August. Tiny bits of comet dust hit Earth's atmosphere traveling 132,000 mph. At that speed, even a smidgen of dust makes a vivid streak of light--a meteor--when it disintegrates. Because Swift-Tuttle's meteors fly out of the constellation Perseus, they are called "Perseids."Note: In the narrative that follows, all
The top indestructible careers... 2007-07-11 16:16:00 I found this and thought that it was interesting.By By CareerBuilder.com While we haven't quite reached the age of flying cars, we've certainly made significant strides in civilization. Gone are the heydays of goldsmiths and wheelwrights, but an element of those jobs live on in one form or another. With advancements in technology and science, so come changes in jobs working with them.And while there are certainly more than 12 occupations that will stand the test of time -- like artist and politician -- check out this list of jobs that have staying power:1. DoctorWhy it's everlasting:While humans pride themselves on being the most intelligent of species, we still have a mortality rate, and we still get bumped, bruised and diseased along the way. We will always need people to investigate and treat our medical conditions.What it pays:The median annual salary is $120,000.2. TeacherWhy it's everlasting:There will always be a need for education, and there will always be a need for people Read more:careers
Fun Today!!! 2007-07-17 10:32:00 We Are off to Bush Gardens!!! RMStringer ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and I am content. (Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast, Weird Tales, May 1934) Subscribe to my Posts... Read more:Today
Toilet-paper dispenser is stingy with the sheets. 2007-07-16 00:02:00 I know that i will try to avoid any and every bathroom that has one of these installed in it. If i want to use the whole roll of TP, i will This is just wrong on so many levels. I read about a study that said that you need at least 9-12 sheets to be sanitary. This thing is only supposed to give out 5 at a time! here is the whole story.By Brian TraceyMSNBCGizmo issues a few tissuesThis may be the last straw for people who think technology has eliminated every last bit of personal privacy: A toilet-paperdispenser
that limits the issue of tissues.A year in the works, the electronic dispenser is being rolled out to the masses by Kimberly-Clark Corp. as it seeks to capture more of the $1 billion away-from-home toilet paper market. The company believes most people will be satisfied with just five sheets — and use 20 percent less toilet paper in the process."Most people will take the amount given," says Richard Thorne, director of the company's washroom business. Waxing philosophical, he Read more:Toilet
1987 TV Shows... 2007-07-15 20:15:00 Who remembers the Genesis video called Land Of Confusion? It came out around 1987ish. They used puppets in the video. Now remember a show that came out around the same time and aired on NBC? It had the same kind of puppets in it and it had Ed McMahon as the leader of the government and other puppets like Regan, Bush just to name a few.IMO, it was alluding to the Trilateral Commission and the government being run by a “shadow government” where the President is merely a puppet and someone else pulls the strings. Does anyone remember this show? Perhaps the show was called the “DC Follies?” Or perhaps, it could have been a version of the British TV show Spitting Image. I am just not sure as both have Regan and Bush Senior in them. What is your opinion?Subscribe to my Posts...
Today and Tonight. 2007-07-15 18:41:00 Well, I am on my 3rd day of work. I got the call on Thursday morning that I had to go back to night Shift. I was like "ok" like I really had a choice. So I worked on Friday Day Shift but had to leave early to take care of my Wife after a little day surgery. I guess that I went to sleep around 11pm and got up around 8am on Saturday morning. I tried to go back to sleep around 9.30am and then got up at 3pm to get ready for night shift.Last night went ok at work, and I went home at the normal time. I ate breakfast and got into bed around 9am. I was woken up around 9.30 by a phone call and then I got up around 1.20pm for a few minutes. I tried to go and lay back down to sleep for a bit. I think that I slept for about another hour or so. Ay the present time, I am really tired and I am dragging around the Fab.I can’t wait until tomorrow morning where I can get some uninterrupted sleep! It reminds me of the song by the Art Of Noise called “Paranomia” with Max Headroom. Remember that Read more:Today
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West Texas Goes Green... 2007-07-15 00:01:00 Most of you know that i am from Texas
. All of my family live there. I talk to them almost daily and i get to hear about the weather and how it has been rainning for almost the entire month of June and now most of July. I saw this article relating to that issue. It would be strange to see most of Westren Texas with dense vegitation.By Christine Dell'Amore(National Geographic)Apparently, the weather doesn't know not to mess with Texas. A deluge of torrential rains has lashed the Lone Star State for more than a month—making June one of the wettest ever recorded in Texas. The rains spurred Texas' grassy plains to bloom dense vegetation, as seen in a photograph taken by a NASA satellite between June 11 and June 20. The deep, emerald green indicates regions where plants are growing more quickly or robust than average, and the dark, almost-black color marks where vegetation was most dense.Brown spots point to clouds or water on the ground, which in some cases may mask plant growth. About Read more:Green
Global Temperature 2007-07-19 01:37:00 Credit: Credit: AIRS Science Team, NASA/JPLThe Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard NASA?s Aqua satellite senses temperature using infrared wavelengths. This image shows temperature of the Earth?s surface or clouds covering it for the month of April 2003. The scale ranges from -81 degrees Celsius (-114? Fahrenheit) in black/blue to 47? C (116? F) in red.The Intertropical Convergence Zone, an equatorial region of persistent thunderstorms and high, cold clouds is depicted in yellow. Higher latitudes are increasingly obscured by clouds, though some features like the Great Lakes are apparent. Northernmost Europe and Eurasia are completely obscured by clouds, while Antarctica stands out cold and clear at the bottom of the imageWhat is your opinion?Subscribe to my Posts... Read more:Global
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Private Submarines? 2007-07-18 21:19:00 I would have to say that this hits the top in the luxury travel category! This to me is the epitome of decadence. Yes you too can have a private submarine to travel the Earth's Oceans undetected by foreign powers.The Phoenix 1000 pictured here is at the top of my list to purchase after I make my first billion dollars!! I can t wait. It has about 5000 sq/ft of living space in it and can be custom designed to meet your every need! With a $78 million price tag, all but the uber-rich can purchase one of these.Download a brochure on the Phoenix 1000What is your opinion?Subscribe to my Posts... Read more:Private
Alpengeist 2007-07-18 19:43:00 We rode this one 5 times!!What is your opinion?Subscribe to my Posts...
Bobby Brown fears he is terrorist target? 2007-07-18 19:30:00 We all know how imprtant BobbyBrown
is to the music industry. He had a hit or to way back in the late 1980s and early 1990s and then vanished off the face of the earth only to be married to Whitney Houston! What a pair they made!! So for him to make a comment like this is just par for the course.By Alex FletcherBobby Brown
has confessed he is scared of the fact that he may be a target for al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.The singer became aware of a threat, when Sudanese writer Kola Boof wrote about the leader's alleged infatuation with his estranged wife Whitney Houston.Brown has taken measures to increase the security around him since he read the claims.On an Australian radio show, the Being Bobby Brown star claimed: "Come on, if anyone is threatened by al-Qaeda they'd take it seriously. "I figure if Bin Laden wants me, and everybody is looking for him, it won't happen. But if he wants to try and find me for something so stupid, then he can if he wants. I have to leave it in the h
Next Week...26th - 29th of July 2007-07-18 15:55:00 My Co-Author Jimmy Freeman with be at the Comics Con in San Diego and will be sending live pics and reports via the Blog to us. So please be looking forward for that!! Here is the Link to the Convention : http://www.comic-con.org/ RMStringer ****************** "Seduction is thus a central, indeed in certain respects, the central idea, in political life. It signifies a course of action deliberately designed by one or more interested agents to undermine and replace some established loyalty." Kenneth Minogue (November issue of The New Criterion) Subscribe to my Posts...
The Lochness Monster 2007-07-17 17:26:00 We rode this one 4 times.Last one today!Subscribe to my Posts... Read more:Monster
Budweiser Clydesdale 2007-07-17 17:13:00 There were several of them in the stables located in the England portion of the park.Big horseSubscribe to my Posts... Read more:Budweiser
Apollo's Charriot 2007-07-17 14:32:00 We rode it 7 times yesterday!!Subscribe to my Posts... Read more:Apollo
The Big Bad Wolf 2007-07-17 13:41:00 This is the oldest ride that they have. We rode it 1 time yesterday.BBW!Subscribe to my Posts...
The Griffon 2007-07-17 13:24:00 This is the newest ride that they have, we rode it 1 time yesterday. It is a good ride, but it does not live up to the hype about it.Griffon
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Comics Con 2007 2007-07-21 17:22:00 This is by my Co-Author!Official Press Release - Jimmy FreemanDwight T. Albatross and Hot Seat Entertainment announce their upcoming, independently published 'zine' entitled Dwight T. Albatross Presents: Blinky's, to be available at 2007's San Diego Comicon International. The 38 page Color and BW zine will include interviews with comic writer Leah Moore (Raise the Dead, Albion, Witchblade), Jackson Publick of Adult Swim's Venture Bros., pin-up artist Olivia de Berardinis (Playboy), full color pin-up pics of well known models Dayna DeLux and Miss Mia Sinclair (both Varga Girls), two new original comic strips Zombie Custer and Billy Purgatory by artist and sculptor Moses Jaen and writer Jesse James Freeman, a special advice column by celebrity undead host Ms. Monster of (Hel On Ice), pin-up artwork by Monster Lab Tattoo's, and much, much more!This special first issue of Blinky's will retail for $5.00 US. The July Comicon issue will be the first of an ongoing series which will be p Read more:Comics
End of trail! 2007-07-21 11:24:00 At this point, we had ridden 9.03 miles around the James River on both of the banks of it. Very challenging trails as there were several different parks that make up the loop.Forest Hill Park Mountain Bike Trail "Description: Short small network of trails through a formerly fabulous (100 years ago or so), then dilapidated, now archeological find type of site. This park has been neglected for so long it has become beautiful again. Trails in this park were part of the Xterra race (June 2004). These trails are accessible from Reedy Creek (which is along the Buttermilk trail). Excellently difficult to climb hills, both single track and paved. An excellent whoop-dee-whoop on the East end (a bit hard to find, go over the creek near Forest Hill Avenue). Short trails, but worth exploring while riding the Buttermilk/Belle isle trails."Subscribe to my Posts...
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