Monthly Archives August 2006

Gone for a week

"The time has come", the walrus said, "to speak of many things."
Indeed…
I won't be posting here until next weekend. I'm heading down to Boston (VA hospital) to (hopefully) get these hernias fixed. I say hopefully just because I don't happen to have much faith that the right hand knows what the left hand is doing [...] Read more »

What to do, what to do.

So what's to do when one is stuck at home (yet again) because you did too much at work and your hernia (hernias in my case) are belly aching (get it?) about it? Well, spending time in bed is one thing and that went on till about noontime when our cat, Church, who had been lying next [...] Read more »

Stained glass and new quilts

Something new has arrived at Long Meadow Farms quilt shop. Stained glass items.
These colorful, sun-catching items are the newest thing coming out of the LMF workshop (the workshop being spread out between the shop and 2 different locations at home.
Here’s a couple of the first images taken this afternoon.

The panel [...] Read more »

4 out of 10?

OK, now here’s a weird one.
I happened to have the Google Toolbar sitting on top of my browser when I banged into “Just Thinkin” during my usual weekend morning “surf around” and I noticed that the blog was ranked 4 out of 10 on the site rank meter. Excuse me?
I’m not to sure why [...] Read more »

Just Thinkin’

I read the news today (oh boy). Seems that they’re very close to finding the missing gene, genome, whatever, that makes our brains so much different than a chimpanzee’s and why we’re so much more “intelligent” (do tell).
Well, well, well. It appears to me that the next step to be taken after they do find [...] Read more »

Switching to Mac? (I don’t know about that)

The more I read the (tech) news these days, the more I hear about the Microsoft’s latest doing’s and the less I like what I’m reading.
I have been an MS user from the PC’s “BW” era (Before Windows). I did have my choice at one time though. My Sound [...] Read more »

The world at your feet (or mouse actually)

You know, it’s amazing what lies at your fingertips when it comes to the Internet these days. Everything from news to blogs to old time radio broadcasts, anything you could think of really.
Need a part for your bashed up car, just Google it and you’ll find it.
Shop a thousand stores in one afternoon [...] Read more »

The Fox that “bought” IE 7.0

This is why I got into computers in the first place so long ago.
It’s just so much fun!
Check it out…Someone bought up the ie7.com domain name.
’nuff said.
powered by performancing firefox

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