My Boring Life
cause I wanted to post on something they’d done a great write up on, but either their blog is wonky this morning, they’ve converted to Islam and decided to help spread the good news, or they got hacked?
Edited: and since I’m sure they’ll fix it as soon as they figure it out (unless I’m right about the convert to Islam thing), here’s a screen grab of the current page:
I’m NOT reposting this one, its nasty to look at.
But really, a photo of a pair of young men holding a puppy off the ground by a string around its neck is horrifying yes, and I appreciate that you want to help possibly catch the two shown in the picture. But maybe you need to stop and look around first. The photo in question appears to have been originally posted online as far back as 2008, and there are reports that it was passed around via email for several years before that, AND that its possibly been “retouched” a few times. Reposting it everywhere you visit asking people to “help spread the word so we can find these people” is not effective, and makes you look stupid and alarmist to folks who know how to look up such things.
So, Apollo has gathered an impressive collection of leashes and collars for a single dog. 1 30′ leash, 1 6′ leash, and 1 4′ leash, plus his prong collar which also needs to be stored between outdoors occasions and his spare collar for just in case. So I went looking for a leash holder, or rack of some kind. I knew they made them. I wasn’t prepared for the prices on them. $30 and up, usually very fancy, or with cute decorative carvings. Totally not what I was looking for.
So today I went down to my local Lowes, and spent just under $19 in supplies, and then spent about an hour total between a single coat of stain on the wood (not counting dry time), and putting it all together and hanging it.
Gotta dig out the 6’leash and spare collar from wherever they wandered too, but I think I’m prepared now!
(couple of the hooks ended up not quite straight, and the whole thing ended up just a hair off level on the wall. We’ll see how much it bugs me before I’ll bother to pull it down and fix it.)
In rut (since Tibetan Mastiffs only have one breeding season. Techinically he’s fertile any time of the year, but breeding season is better). So far we’ve not had TO much trouble with the local bitches (though the psychotic GSD female almost got a visit the other day…..), but I HAVE noticed he’s smelling ALOT stronger than usual this past month. As in, he got a bath early cause I couldn’t stand it any more. It COULD just be the antibiotics he’s been on, or maybe he rolled in something extra pungent, but could it be the rut season too? I tried Google, but since most domesticated dogs don’t have a true “breeding season” no one appeared to have an answer. I suppose I could ask his breeder…..
…..who’s name starts with A(BC). If, when I click on a link to your site, you show me a page telling me about your new nifty iPad version of the site “click here to go to the iPad optimized version of our site”, then you can damn well ALSO give me an option to NOT go to the new nifty iPad optimized version. And when I go back and try the link again do NOT automatically load the iPAD optimized version of your site. Mobile versions of sites suck, your’s is no different.
But reading it made me want to pound my head into a wall. On the other hand I figured out whats wrong with the OWS crowd……
Weekend Pundit linked to a page where someone asked for differences between the US and other countries, things that really struck those folks when visiting the USA. So of course I had to go read. I am less than halfway through the page, and about to be late for work lol, but I had to comment on this one, less than halfway through the page, and its been repeated 4 times already with mimimal variations:
Yah, its bad when the non-citizens notice it that clearly too.
So, someone is spreading around this photo:
and telling everyone its a satellite photo taken during the recent power outages on the east coast.
*sigh* I can’t blame the lady on my Facebook friends list who shared, she’s a perfectly nice older lady who’s really that clueless, so I sent her a private message instead of posting in the comments, though I almost changed my mind after I saw the originial version had 346 shares……
Look, this is the EXACT SAME PHOTO as was spread by email forwarders after the major east coast power outage in 2003. It was confirmed a photo-shopped hoax then, and it hasn’t changed any.
Really people, don’t believe everything you see online, or are sent via email forward, it just goes to show how stupid you are (and don’t even get me started on the “Proctor & Gamble are owned by devil worshipers” forward…..)
Ok, hate IE, have for ever. Only have it on the computer cause there are things that just don’t work right on other browsers.
Usually use Firefox (latest greatest updated version, bleh). Except ever since the last update Firefox insists on loading some pages from the cache instead of from the server, and so things aren’t updating right (like, when I head over to the Gun Blog Blacklist, and it shows me post listings from two days ago….) unless I force Firefox to reload by holding shift while clicking refresh. And I can’t find the setting to tell it to auto clear the cache when I close the browser (haven’t actually dug that hard yet, its been one of those weeks months). Grrrr
Have Chrome, but I’m pissed at Google, so I prefer not to use it, but Firefox locked up for 15minutes when I forced it to clear the cache, so I want to download Opera to play with, except when I try to download the install file Chrome tells me Opera is an evil virus that’s going to kill my system (ok, I paraphrased).
Finally get Opera installed, attempt to log into to Blogger to make this post…..and Opera freezes up and I end up Ctrl-Alt-Del to make it go away (Windows has a fix would you like to see it? There’s an updated version of this program availilble…..BS I JUST DOWNLOADED THIS VERSION, arg).
At about that point Firefox unfroze and I could vent my frustration to the world.
All this after attempting to install the latest greatest version of Yahoo Messenger cause the version I was using broke, and it took a half an hour because first it wouldn’t download (check your firewall settings, reboot and try again), then it downloaded but wouldn’t install (so I turned off the virus scanner too), and then it wouldn’t download again…..(so I turned everything back on and tried again, and PRESTO it downloaded and installed no problem)
Remind me again while I like computers??