Fleet Week + SB 209
Folks, the Blue Angels are here performing as part of “Fleet Week”. If you’re in the S.F. Bay Area, I encourage you to take advantage of the perfect weather and go visit. If you cannot, this Hi-Def video is not too bad a bandaid/substitute (aka “Friday Fun Video”).
And for those of you who don’t enjoy such things, here’s another “interesting image”, for your weekend:
Click on image to see more by this artist.
“The New Gene Simmons ?” by Trish Hamme, courtesy of Flickr Commons
Today’s quote: “You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.” ~ Maya Angelou
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I’m Older Than Dirt (+ Sunday Beauty #52) (+ more)
Kinda hard to believe I have been posting a pretty picture on Sundays for a year now. (It seems to be a feature that has “caught on”.) Does anyone here remember the very first one? If you do, I’m mighty pleased you’ve stuck around.. And for those who don’t, let’s take a look back, shall we? See where it all started.
I think this is it.. (and it turns out, I posted a few before I thought of numbering them..)
Obersee (Königssee) by Andim. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Count how many of the following you remember: (No, I did not create this..)
- Blackjack chewing gum
- Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
- Candy cigarettes
- Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
- Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
- Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
- Party lines
- Newsreels before the movie
- P.F. Flyers
- Butch wax
- Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive -6933)
- Peashooters
- Howdy Doody
- 45 records
- S&H Green Stamps
- Hi-fi’s
- Metal ice trays with lever
- Mimeograph paper
- Blue flashbulbs
- Beanie and Cecil
- Roller skate keys
- Cork popguns
- Drive-ins
- Studebakers
- Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-5 = You’re still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don’t tell your age
If you remembered 16-25 = You’re older than dirt!
And, thus, today’s title.
(I am “too young” to have seen #’s 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, & 25.)
Unrelated#2: I know they are not for everyone.. but when I was younger (and seem to have had more spare time), I could not get to enough airshows. Nowadays, I have to settle for videos like this one. The best of 2010?
Today’s free download: IObit Toolbox is a free, portable software that system administrators and computer geeks will take along to solve PC problems anytime and anywhere. With more than 20 dedicated tools, IObit Toolbox allows you to display/diagnose PC information, enhance PC security, optimize PC performance and repairing PC problems. In a word, it offers an easy way for PC admins to monitor and manage computers.
Today’s quote: “The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!” ~ Unknown
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I am a Retired computer & network technician. I used to think the machines were pretty cool. Now I don’t.
They’re anything but.
I regularly posted how-to’s and tricks & tips and general computing advice here starting in 2007. (Use the Search tool to find answers. But be aware, many are rather dated.) Sometimes I answered (your) specific questions in an article if I believed the answer was generally helpful to “everyone”. All the writing you see was my own, typos and all. There always is/was an implied “IMHO” in what you see here.
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