The upgrade has been out for a bit, I didn’t have any problems with the Betas. So, I’ll be upgrading in the next few days. There will be downtime for the site while I do this, as I’ll be moving to a new SQL server when I make the move.
Monthly Archives: July 2006
I Broke Maryn
We’ve been feeding Maryn baby food for awhile now, and she’s been eating it pretty good.. theirs been times that she’d eat a whole jar of baby food at a single sitting!
Yeah, those times, they’re gone.. I broke her. The other day we were having Pizza, and I was holding Maryn. She kept reaching for the piece of Pizza I was eating… so I let her try and reach a piece of crust..on her second try she got it (the first try, sent the crust flying across the room when she used the plate like a catapult). Once she grabbed the crust she quickly shoved it in her mouth and began sucking and gumming it… she loved it. And now.. we can’t get her to eat anything out of a jar =(
oops!
End of the World (again)
No really.. it is.. and I’m sure the predictions are real this time.. right?
Anyway.. it appears another comet/meteor/asteroid thingy is on an impact course with the Earth..its projected to pass closer to earth then some of our Satellites orbit!
This article has more details..although, its more geared to get you to watch the Dude’s TV show in October..
The odds of hit it hitting us, are apparently 1 in 38,000. Normally, that’d be a long shot, but, when you consider that the odds of winning the Powerball are something like 1 in 1.5 million….and someone wins that thing like every 2 or 3 months… suddenly, 1 in 38,000 doesn’t seem like such a long shot.
So.. maybe you should avoid making plans for 2036…just until we know for sure ;>
PBS is Stupid!
No really.. they are…one of the only channels we let Kael watch is PBS Kid’s Sprout.. its really just them repeatedly airing PBS shows (Bob The Builder, Thomas the Tank Engine, Caillou, Angelina Ballerina, etc…) all day.. with occasional pre-recorded “segments” of adult hosts geared towards the kids. One of their segments was the “good night show” in which, Melanie Martinez would do little crafts, dances, songs, etc.. and talk to a fish and a stuffed star while introducing the shows for the night..
Turns out.. the brilliant (and in this case by brilliant, I mean..dumb as rocks) decided to fire Melanie.. because.. she appeared in a 30 second satirical short film 7 years ago and mentioned anal sex… so.. she got fired…
To you idiots at PBS… newsflash.. if the kids that Sprout is geared towards, are watching clips on Google Video or iFilm about anal sex…there’s some more serious problems to be concerned about, then the 30 second satire film your hostess did SEVEN years ago..
Hire her ass back…. idiots…
Go Israel!
I tune in the ‘war’ over in the mideast (and I mean, the real war.. the one between Israel and the Hezbolah, not us invading Iraq), occasionally.. to see what’s happening, and if anyone else has decided to try and jump in to the party.
And I see the reports saying that its “unfair” and how Lebanon doesn’t have the same size Army as the Israelis.. and I wonder two things:
1 – Who cares? I don’t recall anyone saying War was supposed to be fair.
2 – Who cares? Israel isn’t fighting Lebanon.. they are fighting the Hezbolah to get their men back.
If Lebanon was really concerned about this.. they would have done two things..
1- Disarmed the Hezbolah back in 2000 like they agreed to as a condition of Israel giving up the “buffer” zone it had carved out of Lebanon…
2- Forced the Hezbolah to give back the two Israeli soldiers when Israel said “Give ’em back, or we’re gonna whoop your ass”
Me… I’m hoping Syria or Iran decides to jump into the mix.. so I can watch the Israelis whoop their butts too!
Of course..if they decide to jump in, we have to jump in, Russia will jump in, Britain will jump in, etc..etc.. world war 3! it’ll be awesome!
Bye Bye .Mac
Our .Mac accounts expire either tomorrow or the day after.. and I think, I’m going to let them go.
There just isn’t a compelling reason to pay $110.00 per year for the two email addresses, and the limited web hosting. Yes, the integration with the iApps is nice, but.. even that doesn’t justify the cost.
The only “bad” thing about it, will be having to re-do all the photo albums that are hosted over there…since that’s time consuming…
Site Down Time
We were down for a bit yesterday… technical problems on Dreamhost’s end.. seems it was a case of “if it can go wrong, it will go wrong”. I think we were down for about four hours.. so if you tried to reach any of the sites I host here.. they were not working.. sorry bout that..
Gadget gene
Apparently, the need to have new gadgets to play with, and always trying to have the latest and greatest gadget…. can be blamed on Genetics… at least.. that’s what this article says…
I like the name for it:
neophilia
Obviously, the disorder was named by someone who spent to much time playing neopets..
And, in case you were wondering.. both Kael and Maryn seem to have neophilia already…
I’m sure they got it from their mother…
Its better then taxes
There appears to be a budget shortall over in Chauncey, Ohio… seems voters turned down a tax levy last year that would have been used to pay for the electric bill for street lights… since then, the town has developed a….unique solution to raising the money to pay the bill…
They drop an old fashioned outhouse on your front lawn..and you must make a “donation” (of the monetary kind..not the kind of donation you’d normally make in an outhouse) to have it removed.. after making your donation, you get to pick who gets the outhouse next..and, apparently, its working, from the article:
In its first two days, the outhouse collected $200
So..in two days, they made about half of what they need in a month to pay the power bill… at this rate, they could be running a budget surplus in no time!
Feed me Faster!
Apparently, we weren’t feeding Maryn fast enough… so she decided to feed herself…
which is still cleaner then when we left Kael, Maryn, and a jar of food alone a little while ago…
