Closest to whom in the primaries?
Took this and came closest to Rudy. Which is rather amusing to say the least. I am not sure its the best one of these ever invented and the questions can be quite leading and the responses a bit simplistic. Good to see I am farthest from Obama though. That is reassuring.
No comments“God’s Army”?
Fundamentalist Iman Pastor Mike Huckabee has been preaching again NH. This should scare the stuffing out of anyone who is an evanglical fundamental Christian. With talk of God’s Army and the like one it hard-pressed not to think of other types of fundamentalists. Hopefully this kind of loony talk will convince sensible Republicans to steer well clear of this guy.
Its coming along…
While the design has taken a bit longer than we expected; I am pretty sure the new site will be pretty damn impressive. The design of our new EP CD by DK is quite impressive to say the least. We are going for a similar feel for the blog; so I am sure it will look cracking.
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Welcome to the January 7, 2008 edition of best of me symphony.
Sholom Anarchy presents Stumping for Ron Paul again posted at Anarcho-Judaism.
SJ Yee presents The Best of RichGrad.com in 2007 posted at Personal Development for the Book Smart.
John Crenshaw presents Mindless Zombies Attack Will Smith, And Im Not Talking About His New Movie posted at Dominate Your Life, saying, “You may or may not have heard of the recent comments Will Smith made about Adolf Hitler in an interview with The Daily Record in the U.K., in which he said, Even Hitler didnt wake up going, let me do the most evil thing I can do today. I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was good. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming.”
TherapyDoc presents At the Check-out posted at Everyone Needs Therapy.
Nicole presents Bigoted Old People Can Teach You Great Lessons posted at Makeitbetter’s Weblog.
200motels presents The Declining Price of World Pussy posted at 200motels.net, saying, “Foreign hookers are GIVING it away!”
Madeleine Begun Kane presents May I Please Have Your Paw In Marriage? posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.
Ryan Du Bois presents the hits keep coming posted at the daily dub.
Ken Nubo presents How to write an article in 7 minutes posted at Ken Nubo, PUA extraordinaire and ranting buddhist..
Justin Duval presents www.darkgrin.com – Why You Choose to Get Angry posted at The Dark Grin, saying, “recognized in 2 other carnivals so far, probably my best writing on my site so far”
Tali presents THE NIGHT-CELL posted at Helium – Where Knowledge Rules, saying, “I’m trying to build up this character, while writing a few shorts, involving her. This is the first.”
Missy presents Monday Poetry Train (short story submission) posted at Incurable Disease of Writing, saying, “A fictional account on how different generations feel about an event.”
Bill presents >Shocking Course Correction Secret Revealed posted at The Bubble Planner.
Karen Shanley presents The Steering Wheel posted at Karen Shanley.
Edith presents How to Stay Focused posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act., saying, “Are you distracted? Are you thinking about 3 things at the same time? Do you have more than 3 screens opened on your computer right now? If you said yes to any of the questions above, please stay focused here and read on.”
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No commentsI Have Good News . . .
and I have bad news.
The good news is that I got a new computer for Xhriata. (I was intending to type “Christmas,” but this is a new keyboard, so my fingers are getting a bit tangled up. Besides, “Xhriata” sounds like a perfectly good holiday, if somewhat paganistic.)
It came just in time. My old computer was beginning to generate some interesting (read: incomprehensible) Windows errors and I was contemplating buying an external disk drive to backup my files.
So with considerable delight I unwrapped a very nice, very powerful Hewlett-Packard computer running Vista Home Premium. At last I’ll be able to play the latest version of Flight Simulator (running the demo on my old machine was like watching a slideshow).
Now for the bad news: I got a new computer. The first thing I noticed when I popped off the Quick Access Panel is that the hard drives used a completely different cabling configuration than in my old computer. I’m not sure if this is a Vista thing (I really can’t see why) or, more likely, that Hewlett-Packard got a deal on some strange Chinese drives. Or that the computer industry decided to make a massive technology shift, and I didn’t get the memo.
Well, whatever. The upshot is that I had some 200+ gigs of stuff on my old drives, with no convenient way of transferring it. Much of it was in the form of programs that would have had to been upgraded to Vista-compliant versions. No point in moving those; but there were thousands of music files, photos, etc., that I am rather fond of and would have to transfer eventually, most likely by setting up a network or with a null-modem transfer cable.
The things I really needed—bookmarks, certain specialized programs and the like—would fit comfortably on a single CD, so I set about burning that. Then the CD writer died, and the CD itself was unreadable. I was starting to believe in The Curse Of Xhriata.
Then I had one of those d’oh! moments familiar to anyone who’s worked with computers. I was absently-mindedly thumbing through some advertising flyers when I came across one from a local electronics chain, offering its post-Xmas sales. Hi-def TVs, games, iPods, Flash USB drives, Nintendo acc—wait, what?
Though both computers had slots for them, using USB memory sticks to transfer data never even crossed my mind, likely because I hadn’t used one before.
Far faster than CDs, and much less in expense/frustration than the other solutions I was thinking of.
So that’s what’s been occupying my attention for the last few days. I expect posting will be erratic while I sort out my computer and try to whip myself into some semblance of a routine.
It’s good to be back; I hope to have some new stuff up shortly.
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