While looking into why my laptop was taking so long to startup windows, I noticed a program, GoogleUpdate.exe, running. I wasn’t too concerned because I use GoogleDesktop, but since I had disabled that at startup I started wondering why it was still there.
Checking the usual places, I fired up msconfig to see if it was [...]
Fall is wrapping up and the leaves are turning colors. It’s time to start getting the house wrapped up and ready for winter.
From DianaLoomans
If I had my child to raise over again,
I’d finger paint more, and point the finger less.
I’d do less correcting, and more connecting.
I’d take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I would care to know less, and know to care more.
I’d take more hikes and fly more kites.
I’d stop playing serious, [...]
Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test…
Simple, Progressive, and Sensual
13 Ukiyo-e, 5 Islamic, 1 Impressionist, -2 Cubist, -14 Abstract and -7 Renaissance!
Ukiyo-e (???, Ukiyo-e), “pictures of the floating world”, is a genre of Japaneseand paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries. it [...]
I can’t take credit for this equation, but when I woke up this morning (with 3 hours of sleep) I realized that I needed to share
this.
[W + (D-d)] x TQ
M x NA
The model is broken down using 6 immediately identifiable factors; weather, debt, time since Christmas, time since failing our new
year.s resolutions, low motivational level [...]
I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight:
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re “exotic, different.”
If you grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, you’re a quintessential American story.
If your name is Barack, you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
If you name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re [...]
Your result for The Steampunk Style Test…
The Gadgeteer
14% Elegant, 69% Technological, 13% Historical, 56% Adventurous and 40% Playful!
You are the Gadgeteer, the embodiment of steampunk technology. Ironically, many of the things that most define your style are probably too large to easily carry about, but given the opportunity you would [...]
In recent years there has been a lot of hub-bub about Somali-Muslim cab drivers refusing to transport passengers from the MSP/STP airport that are carrying alcohol or are suspected on being inebriated, based on religious beliefs.
On September 10th, 9 of these cabbies appealed their licence revocation and the court agreed with the MAC and [...]
