The Future as seen from 1981

The San Francisco Examiner is no longer in business...

Joke of the Day

"A man seeking to join an East Texas Sheriff's Department is being interviewed.

The Deputy doing the interview says: 'Your qualifications all look good, but there is 'an attitude suitability test' that you must take before you can be accepted.'

Then, sliding a service pistol across the desk, he says:

'Take this pistol and go out and shoot six illegal aliens, six meth dealers, six Arab extremists, and a rabbit. '

'Why the rabbit?'

'Great attitude,' says the Sergeant. 'When can you start?'"

Our Government at Work

Just a typical day at the office

So I was at the office this afternoon and Hector calls me to come see what is happening in our parking lot.

This is what is happening. Hector took the pictures standing in our front door.

What's so strange about this you ask? Well obviously, he's barefoot and the rest of the country is being hit by a record cold wave today. It's dangerous to acrobat around barefoot. He might catch a cold.

Go ahead and click on an image for a larger picture.

That building he is next to has a 10' high roll up door. So the building is about 16' high. The chairs were about as high as the building. And yes, that is asphalt below him. No pads to help him live if he falls.

Why Maggie Does What Maggie Does

Squirrel blamed for outage that affects more than 6,000 Idaho Power customers | News Updates | Idaho Statesman

Networking External Hard Drives

Pogoplug — How it works

Pogoplug is one of the most talked about new devices at the big CES show in Vegas this year. $79 gets you a transformer sized device you plug into the wall. Attach an ethernet cable into your router (supports up to gigabit Ethernet speeds) and plug in any USB external hard drive.

Not only can you share files around your home network, but you can choose to share files over the internet through their website.

You can store files on the drive and e-mail the link to your friends and family for easy access. Seems like a great way to share photos or home videos.

How to Import Audio CD audiobooks into iTunes for Listening on an iPod or iPhone

How to Import Audio CD audiobooks into iTunes for Listening on an iPod or iPhone

Detailed instructions on importing Library Audio Book CDs into Itunes and onto your iPod.

Update: Here is information on using the current iTunes 8.0

Well, maybe a few words are still in order. Here’s the new process, which will work every time:

1. Import your audiobook using your favorite process, in your favorite audio format. (I’ve written detailed instructions for both standard Audio CD audiobooks and for MP3 CD audiobooks.)
2. Select the imported track(s) in iTunes, and choose File > Get Info, and then click on the Options tab, to get to the Track Info Options panel.
3. From the Media Kind pop-up menu, choose “Audiobook”.
4. Check the Remember playback position and Skip when shuffling options.
5. Click the OK button.

From now on, iTunes, iPods, and iPhones will all treat the track(s) as full audiobooks, including remembering playback position automatically (saving your “bookmark”), skipping the track when you’re playing a random shuffle of music, and allowing you to speed up or slow down playback with the Settings > Audiobooks speed options on your iPod or iPhone.
Note: When you make the above changes, the audiobook track(s) will be moved from the Music source list to the Audiobooks source list. If you haven’t enabled the Audiobooks list, it will seem as though your tracks have disappeared. See Optimal iTunes Import Settings for Audiobooks for more details of enabling the Audiobooks source list.

GasBuddy.com - Find Low Gas Prices in the USA and Canada

GasBuddy.com - Find Low Gas Prices in the USA and Canada

The Math Behind The Economic Meltdown

Perils of the New Pesticides for Pets

Pyrethroid-based flea and tick treatments — from Hartz, Sergeant’s, Farnam, and Bayer — are approved for sale by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and they are readily available at grocery stores, specialty pet retailers, and hardware stores. But they are also linked to thousands of reported pet poisonings.

The concentrations of pyrethroids in over-the-counter spot on pet treatments range from a 40 percent to an 85 percent solution, eight to 17 times stronger than the strongest pyrethroid product currently approved for use on humans.

At least 1,600 pet deaths related to spot on treatments with pyrethroids were reported to the EPA over the last five years, about double the number of reported fatalities tied to similar treatments without pyrethroids, such as Frontline and Advantage. The over-the-counter pyrethroid spot ons are typically half the price of Frontline and Advantage.

Perils of the New Pesticides | Articles - Pets and Pesticides: Let’s Be Careful Out There:

Lundin - Family History & Genealogy Message Board - Ancestry.com

Lundin - Family History & Genealogy Message Board - Ancestry.com

Lundin Family Crest

Lundin Family Crest

RIP Appraising as a Profession

Appraisal Scoop: AMC’S - The first set of letters that spell appraisal de-valuation.

Dean Kamen's

Entertaining story on America's smartest inventor.


Dean Kamen's Water Purifier - Biography of Dean Kamen - Esquire

Mitt Romney --Let Detroit Go Bankrupt

Op-Ed Contributor - Let Detroit Go Bankrupt - NYTimes.com

Puppy Cam!

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Warning Sign

Witness to Obama's friend Ayers

Eyewitness to the Ayers Revolution

I asked, “Well what is going to happen to those people we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?” And the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated.

And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.

And when I say “eliminate,” I mean “kill.”

Twenty-five million people.

I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.

And they were dead serious

Obama Doesn't Care for Plumbers

What a snob.

House Of Lies: How Congress Failed To Protect Our Economy

Spread the wealth around

Our future leader admits his desire to redistribute wealth from the productive to the non-productive class. Oh what a future we have to look forward to.

Winter Park High School Sound Of The Wildcats 10/4/08

Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis?

Updated Link to V2 and bumped to top. This is a must see video.

Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending - New York Times

September 30, 1999

Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending - New York Times

In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders...

''Fannie Mae has expanded home ownership for millions of families in the 1990's by reducing down payment requirements,'' said Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae's chairman and chief executive officer. ''Yet there remain too many borrowers whose credit is just a notch below what our underwriting has required who have been relegated to paying significantly higher mortgage rates in the so-called subprime market.''

Clearly, it is all George Bush' fault.

Quote of the Day

Politics | | Seattle Times Newspaper

"I get why she's hot out there, why she's doing well."

...described Palin's appeal by adding, "People look at her, and they say, 'All those kids. Something that happens in everybody's family. I'm glad she loves her daughter and she's not ashamed of her. Glad that girl's going around with her boyfriend. Glad they're going to get married.'"

...voters would think, "I like that little Down syndrome kid. One of them lives down the street. They're wonderful children. They're wonderful people. And I like the idea that this guy does those long-distance races. Stayed in the race for 500 miles with a broken arm. My kind of guy."

Palin, the governor of Alaska, became an overnight star when Republican presidential candidate John McCain tapped her for his running mate. Her family, including her Down syndrome baby, Trig, her pregnant 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, and her husband, Todd, four-time winner of the 2,000-mile Iron Dog snowmobile race, have garnered intense media interest.

"I get this... My view is ... why say, ever, anything bad about a person? Why don't we like them and celebrate them and be happy for her elevation to the ticket? And just say that she was a good choice for him and we disagree with them?"

- Bill Clinton