Categories Apollo, Artemis, Dog

Ok, that hurts…

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We bought an attachment for my bicycle  so we could attach one of the dogs for some extra exercise.  Which sounds like a really good idea, but thanks to the wonky weather last year its been 2 years since I was last on a bike.    Didn’t even bike a mile and the fronts of my thighs hurt.  Sigh.

On the other hand at least for Arty its working reasonably well.  He caught on REALLY quickly to the concept and seems to enjoy it, and its probly just as well I couldn’t go any further as he was definetly flagging by the end.  I will say that before I hook up Apollo to the bike I’ll have to get the alternative hookup for the bike so that it attaches to my back wheel instead of just below the seat.  Even 25lb Arty can jerk me hard enough that I have to correct, 100lb Apollo would pull me over….if it WORKS for Apollo though we’ll get a 2nd setup so that my husband can take a dog too.

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Links

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Geeky Easter Eggs.

What it costs to get a cell-wiretap.

If you’re going to complain about speeders, make sure you’re not one of them.

Office Max Goose.

Requiring ID for voting is racist.  But not when its required for security.

If you’re going to steal the rental, make sure its not GPS tagged first.

Black off duty cop shot 28 times by white officers.  Convicted of attempted murder.

The first clue should have been that it stood still.

Yet another well thought out emergency drill.

Categories Bleg

Anybody out there know CSS?

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I’m trying, again, to create a set of child theme .css files so that the NEXT time they update the theme I don’t have to drive myself nuts fixing things again.  I want to over ride the font-family code, the problem is that font-family is designated in at least 10 different spots in 3 different files.  Now I know I have to create seperate child.css files for each of the individual files, but I don’t want to have to do 10 sets of code for each one either.  In theory:

font{
    font-family:Book Antiqua!important;
}

at the top of the child file will override the rest of the font-family designations.  Is that correct?

Categories Rants

WP.com, idiots

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So, my request for help on their forums (since nothing else was getting a response), finally got a response:

Since we don’t want other people to have your username in the future, we don’t delete usernames (they are kept so they cannot be recycled). For more information, please see
http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/
I also see you’ve already deleted your blog(s). I do have a few suggestions for you if you really want to scrub the account:
1) You can go to My Account->Edit Profile and remove all data except the account name and an email address. Create a throwaway email address and change the account email to that throwaway address. This only leaves the username behind.
2) To ensure the account is locked up tightly, visit this site, generate a password of 15-20 characters, and change the account password to it:
http://www.thebitmill.com/tools/password.html
3) To learn how to hide your Gravatar profile, please read “How do I hide my profile?” section of the help page:
http://en.gravatar.com/site/faq/#answer-1-8

There’s just one teensy weensy little problem with this.  I HAVE TWO ACCOUNTS WITH THE SAME USER NAME.  If I log into wordpress.com using the ONE username it will randomly log me into which ever of the two accounts it feels like, this is how I found out about the 2nd account in the first place.  So that whole “we don’t delete user names so  they can’t be re-used” is the biggest piece of BS I’ve seen in a while.

Never mind that I never gave them permission to create the 2nd account in the first place.  I sincerly hope this was done WITHOUT the knowledge of their legal folks cause its seriously stupid and less than completely legal…..

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Might want to confirm that “everyone else does it” before using that excuse on TV.

Yah know, being blatent about the money grubbing just pisses off your customers.

Kids like this make me feel stupid….

Megaupload user sues to get his files back.

Police spending way to much money to track cell phones without warrents.

7 landmarks to survive a Zombie attack at.

80yr old woman lands plane as  husband pilot dies besides her.

10 stunning tree top walkways.

 

Categories Rants

Excuse me, how much have you had to drink tonight?

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That was the question I didn’t ask tonight.  I considered it though.  Especially when you slowed to a complete stop at a green light, and watched it sit green for at least 30 seconds, while horns blared behind you, then yellow, then red.  And when you then got out of your car to find out why the car behind you was leaning on their horn and proceeded to claim to be “tired”?  Uhuh.  Time to go home and sleep it off, cause I’m on the line with 911 giving them your plate number as a suspected drunk driver, as well as the direction you’re headed in…..

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A couple of these are from yesterday, which I normally try to avoid because it can be very difficult to tell whats real and whats not, but both of these come across as real, so I included them in the batch.

 

MA police officer discovers what its like to no longer be a chosen one.

SC trooper writes threatening letter to man contesting a ticket.

576,000 miles in the same car.

Mom foils carjacking.

Totally COOL.

BURNED FOOD COULD KILL YOU!!

PA doctors not allowed to discuss fracking chemicals with the public.

Categories Apollo, Artemis, Dog

Wild life

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I’ve mentioned before that we’ve got wild turkeys out back.  We see them off and on, though I don’t believe Apollo has ever actually seen them, I know he’s smelled them though. 

This morning when I took the dogs out for their morning potty break I could hear what sounded like (at first listen) a bunch of kids laughing/yelling off the back of the property.  Which didn’t make sense since thats miles of forest….then I realized it was turkeys making all that noise.  Apollo was not amused.  He braced into a very aggressive stance and started huffing.  Arty was oblivious.  Since Arty had finished his business, and Apollo showed no sign of starting I coaxed them back to the house…only to get DRAGGED in the door by Apollo.    When I left for work Husband took the dogs out again, normal schedule, and he says that shortly after I left the turkeys started back up again.  Apollo turned and booked it for the house with all speed and determination.  Since he weighed in at 98lbs a couple weeks ago there’s not much that’ll stop him from going in the direction he wants to go……when Husband texted me to tell me I had to laugh at my goofy puppy…..

Then this afternoon on my way home a BIG dark and white bird, with a white head soared over the road….and just now when I took the dogs out an equally big bird soared overhead….I’m thinking we got Bald Eagles nearby!