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Categories Online Idiots, Rants

Satellite photo hoax

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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…..)

Categories Rants

Browser h*ll

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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??

Categories Apollo, Trail Cameras

There was something in the yard last night

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Based on the prints left in the frost it has doggy like paws about half the size of Apollo’s.  I’m thinking coyote, but it could be stray dog.  Whatever it was Apollo was NOT AMUSED.  He spent half an hour this morning dragging me around the front yard, sniffing prints, peeing on strategic spots, and huffing away to himself.  He’s now sitting infront of one of the front windows and won’t even come to breakfast.

Categories Links

Today’s links

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I just picked two today, though there were a few more that caught my eye.

Store refuses to accept coins as payment.  I’ve been on both sides of this, both the person buying stuff with coins only, and the cashier having to take them, and its less than plesent from either side, but I really can’t beleive the store outright refused them.  I remember scrounging change in college so I could buy $5 in gas, and I still occasionally scrounge a $1 so I can have a donut with out breaking my budget.  I always feel bad handing the cashier that handfull of change, cause even though the change is usefull they still have to count it so as to make sure their cash drawer stays correct.  I’ll admit that $32 in change is a bit much, but it was in quarters which means its REALLY EASY to count out.  I think the best part of the article though is that the news people called the stores twice, once as newsies, and once as your average Joe, and got two different answers!

Dog bites Halloween Prankster.  So, boyfriend decides it’ll be fun to scare his girlfriend, girlfriend gets so freaked out her dog (a Rotti) feels the need to protect her and bites the boyfriend.  First off the article doesn’t say if the dog has any official history of aggression, but in the over all scheme of things I’m not sure that makes a difference in my feelings on this (it makes a difference to the dog and girlfriend though, if the dog does this could be a final straw).  First off: kick out that boyfriend.  Sorry, if he was doing something that aggressively scary he needs to go.  2nd, I’d be willing to bet that the dog and boyfriend never got along well in the first place, if the dog liked him it would have been less likely to cause actual harm in guarding its master (sorry for the “it” the article doesn’t say if its male or female).  3rd “Eggers told officers at the hospital he knew the dog was just doing its job, protecting Yeida, but that he wanted the dog put down.”  Cause yah, anything that protects your loved ones has to go huh?  Sorry dude, if you were my boyfriend you’d be gone.  And if this incident resulted in the loss of my dog I’d probly sue too.

Categories Nothing Much

No Snow

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Thursday we got the barest hint of white stuff falling from the sky (though area’s not much south of me had a couple inches to deal with).  I was not amused, and was dreading Saturday when they said there might be accumulation.  Probly not much, but some.  We got missed, thank god.  Not sure if the storm ended up a bit more east than expected or what, but we didn’t even see flurries.  After seeing pictures from the people who got hit I’m just as glad!  (Apollo’s not though, he broke the ice on his kiddie pool this afternoon cause it was “so hot” he wanted to dunk himself, he’d have been delighted with snow!)

Categories Apollo, Dog

Poor Apollo

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Poor pup is suffering through his 2nd set of antibiotics after the UTI made a comeback.  Course, since it came back (or its sibling did anyway, different bacteria this time), the antibiotic this time is a stronger one.  We’re a bit worried by the fact that it came back, males (human or animal) are MUCH less prone to UTIs in the first place due to body structure (if you don’t get it go Google it, I’m not explaining the birds and the bees to you), and neither his line or his breed have a predisposition to them.  One happens, twice is worrysome.

Anyway, the new antibiotic is screwing with his system.  Both drying him out, and at the same time making him not hungry, and possibly mildly nauseous, so he’s drinking alot but barely eating.  Since he’s still a growing pup not eating much is extra not cool, so today I headed down to Petco and picked up a can of Puppy Gold.  His breeder recommended it to us when we first picked him up, but he’s been weaned off it for months and months now.  But he LOVED it, and it can be given as a liquid.  Picked up a package of raw boneless chicken breasts too.  Came home, chopped up a raw chicken breast into bite sizes, mixed it with a serving of Puppy Gold…..and he licked his bowl clean.  Just gave him a 2nd serving and he licked that bowl clean too.  Sweet.

Note: for anyone looking to buy Puppy Gold, unless you only need a little bit (such as we do right now) its MUCH cheaper to buy it in bulk, we got a huge bag from Amazon for something like half the price it would have been to buy that much by the 1lb can.

Disclaimer: I did not get paid, reimbursed, or even asked, to do this post, so the .GOV can go screw itself.