Thoughts and Ramblings of a Disabled Vet
Posted in Life as a veteran on Mar 16th, 2007
As some of you may have realized by now, I’m a veteran of the Cold War, a submariner to be exact. I was assigned to a very special boat out of Norfolk VA that had a bad habit of spending an average of 300 days out of the year at sea and in the strangest [...] Read more »
One of the great things about having a personal type blog where you don’t really care about staying on one topic and one topic only or monetizing the darn thing (like my vacant “Sponsors Soon” section in my sidebar), is that you have the ability to play around with a new gadget or two or [...] Read more »
Posted in Misc posts on Mar 15th, 2007
Just a quick note here. Our Bluehost server went down last night when a router fried it’s power supply (from Bluehost tech support). They had to run a complete diagnostic on the server before they rebooted it of course and we were up and running in two hours but I wasn’t able to re-sync my [...] Read more »
After a long hiatus, the Performancing For Firefox blog editor (PFF) has returned with a new version and a new name as well—Scribefire. The development has been picked up by Chris Finke of Now I Have A Blog Too. Here’s the excerpt about him from his sidebar:
Chris Finke is a Netscape developer, Web software enthusiast, [...] Read more »
Posted in Misc posts on Mar 13th, 2007
Yeah, Spring is here alright. There’s a lot of snow on the ground from the last two storms of course but today and yesterday have been in the high 30’s to low 40’s from being super cold last week and the head is definitely feeling it. Both of us are walking around the house with [...] Read more »
Posted in The News on Mar 10th, 2007
I found the hulabaloo about Ryan Jordan’s “Essjay” portraying himself as a “tenured professor of theology” funny as all get out. Amusing to say the least it was, especially when that unbelievable, so-called “right thinking” Conservapedia began continuously slamming Wikipedia as being anti-Christian and anti-American. Considering that Wikipedia is a global effort, I find Conservapedia’s [...] Read more »
Posted in Just Foolin, The Mail on Mar 8th, 2007
From today’s mail comes this little beauty: To wit:
FACTS TO PONDER:
Doctors:
(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is: 700,000.
(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are: 120,000. (Calculation) Accidental deaths per physician is: 0.171
Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health Human Services.
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Now think about this:
Guns:
(A) The number [...] Read more »
Posted in Just Thinkin on Mar 8th, 2007
And a Good morning all. I was Just Thinkin’ about weekdays, working and blogging and the trouble with doing both at the same time. For the working man this does become a problem. Right now I’m looking at my wonderful little corner of blogdom and thinking how nice it would be if I could spend [...] Read more »
