Flock Browser · 2306 days ago by Jeanne
http://www.flock.com/
It crashes a lot but it’s only in development, and it runs on the Firefox browser. It caught my eye because it runs so closely with the del.iciou.us links.
I’m back from the trip – yay! Great trip. I will have pictures up soon, I hope!
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Top 5 worst movies · 2340 days ago by Jeanne
A while back, Jude and I were discussing if I still felt Dog Park was still, , in my eyes, the worst movie ever. In actuality, it isn’t – it just has a nice ring to it. So, the top eight worst movies that I have seen:
8. Charlies Angels Full Throttle
7. Rules of Attraction
6. Truth about Charlie
5. Dog Park
4. Dancer in the Dark
3. Sideways
2. Doom
1. Eye of the Beholder
These eight movies deserved to be walked out on.
Merry Christmas! See y’all end of January.
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Waterpik boxes · 2349 days ago by Jeanne
Many years ago, I opened a christmas present from my family only to discover a waterpik box. I was crestfallen and tried to say thankyou nicely but was sooooo disappointed. They encouraged me to open the box and inside was a Curious George. Of course at that, I was full of glee, and right then, I learned not to believe a box.
I hadn’t thought of this in years, but today at work we were organizing our gifts for the adopt-a-family project and someone had added a waterpik suggesting that since all the family had equal amount of presents to open, the youngest boy should open the extra one (waterpik). I acutely remembered my intense disappointment at receiving a “waterpik” and told them they couldn’t do that to the boy. Let the mom open it up.
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Detroit · 2384 days ago by Jeanne
You would think this blog would be about Kwame getting re-elected. Despite the fact there is much to bitch about, it is not.
On my drive down Livernois each morning I pass a collision shop. Now, you know which cars have been dropped off during the night because they are outside the gate. This morning, there sits a car that is so mashed in and mashed up on the front and back ends that I can’t even tell what it was. And the one part of the car that might have been in acceptable condition – the driver’s side door? Stolen.
Wind advisory today – keep your hats on.
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hola · 2386 days ago by Jeanne
I think I may have the Comments issues somewhat fixed. You have to link on individual article to get to the comment area – I will try and make that more convenient later. The problem was that in Tiger (Mac OS X) you can’t see the hidden files – (previous versions had a nifty “Show Hidden Files” option). So without thinking about it, I installed the blog with all the files I saw and missed the .htaccess (as it was, from my pov, missing). So, if you use Tiger, and still like to be a web person, here’s a tip:
open Terminal and type: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles true
Paul and I discovered a new-to-us but sweeping-the-state-of-Michigan coffee place – Beaners (It’s the Beaners!). I highly recommend their Big Chill. I now don’t know if I like that or Ground Level Coffee’s (Fort Wayne) Javafrost better. One is hitting Novi soon. There is one in Brighton and that isn’t too far.
I had a good time with the boys at Terry and Marilyn’s wedding. Highlights included gaining insight into the american pool players association, thinking of names for Steve and Mary’s coffee cafe (Hot, wet and brown?), smoked pork, losing power (Wudy really has to stop burning things), getting the power back, and watching a 2 year-old vacillate between running away from and wanting to dance with Greg, and home-made mini-pies. Thanks, again, Ang for house-sitting. Kita said it was a good time, but isn’t sure she wants to hot tub any more.
Back to TKD and fixing up the house. We are ready to put some trim into the guest room. I got most of the dust and various goo spots off the floor last night.
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lalala · 2390 days ago by Jeanne
I’ve got comments turned on but seem to be missing some essential pages to let people add them. Sorry folks. Someday I will get some time (and interest) to work on my website. Speaking of, the galleries are going to get wiped clean and started from scratch.
Jude and I saw Doom (1/2*) last night. While the movie sucked, at least the company was good. Great lines from the movie included:
“You have to face your demons some time.”
“Almost home.”
“I’m not supposed to die.”
“My name is (something unrememberable), but you should call me Pinky.”
“You shot The Kid.”
Paul got the second coat of paint on the guest room. It looks pretty nice. I am doing general house-keeping tonight but will continue working on the guest room on Sunday afternoon when we return from Terry’s wedding.
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hola · 2393 days ago by Jeanne
This weekend was pretty productive. Saw Elizabethtown (***) with Ang. I enjoyed the movie despite Kirsten Dunst who played the same type of character she usually plays – not to mention this character was too perfect and would never exist – which is normally fine except in a movie that is somewhat going for realistic. Anyway, Orlando was good and I thought the script was pretty decent. I hate to support Tom Cruise (who produced it) in any way but oh well.
Paul had done more patching and sanding on Saturday, so on Sunday, the guest room ceiling was completed. It took deglossing and two coats of paint. This week I hope to finish painting the walls. Then we can add new trim, outlets, and vents, give the floor a good once-over and call it mostly done. We also got in some quality outside time closing the pool and picking up after the dog. Ah, joy.
Am hosting a CMS demo here today. Hope it goes well.
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Crash · 2397 days ago by Jeanne
Crash (****) is one of the best movies I have seen in a while. It deals with race issues on multiple levels and if you are in the mood for a serious drama that will have you reflecting on the movie, yourself and/or the people around you, rent this one. I didn’t feel it was forcing issues down my throat; I just felt like it was realistic.
Yay – second week of second-red belt for me. Woohoo!
We are working on the guest room some more this week. I originally ripped out the trim etc a while ago. Paul mudded and I am (sort of) sanding. Yay us. I have to choose colors because we are painting, I hope, on Sunday.
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Yep a bomb threat · 2418 days ago by Jeanne
Yesterday, as some of you may have heard on the news, the student center received a bomb threat. They evacuated the building etc etc…
Here’s the scoop. A guy walked into the computer lab and said, “There’s a bomb is this building,” and walked out. So they called it in, and the Detroit PD brought in the dogs to sniff around. They didn’t find anything – didn’t reallly expect to.
It turns out the guy was a student. 3 people ID’d him and one person took a picture of him as he was making the threat with their cell phone – awesome!
The guy, who was wearing rather distinctive clothing, hung around the scene watching the havoc he created. He even went up to chat with the head of security. Finally, officers pulled him aside as he was entering my building and took him downtown. Suffice to say he won’t have time to take classes this semester.
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power outages · 2425 days ago by Jeanne
I can’t help but feel a little bit smug when the power goes out in this building (or on this floor’s line).
This building was built in the 60s. Even though it won an award, it is one of the most poorly structured structures in the city. First, it is a giant black, all window, sun absorber that many on campus call the death star. The boiler/chiller is somewhere else on campus. In the summer it exceeds 90 degrees nearly every day. In the winter, you are lucky to hit 65. There are two stairwells (one of which doesn’t go to the basement floor). And the bathrooms are in one of the stairwell – so the stairwell smells like poop. When it rains, there is a hole somewhere that causes a waterfall in the other stairwell – not a trickle, trickle waterfall – a niagra waterfall. The sound is actually relaxing.
Originally, the building was designed to put offices on the inside walls, and put the hallway near the windows. But that didn’t allow for enough office space – so offices are on the outside, and they are very drafty from the aluminum windows which make up the outside wall. The building was retrofitted for ethernet (we are not yet wireless). So wires flow on the floors of all the offices and between them. The electrical boxes sit in the middle of every office – they are boxes, not flat. They are 2.5×4 x 3 inches. I have two in my office. One is not even electrical; it’s got a scsi adapter sticking out of it.
Despite all this, our department does a good job of keeping our computers and software up-to-date. We often have the latest and greatest. Not surprising however, is the fact that they don’t protect them. The power supply on the floor is often overloaded. You can’t run the copier and coffee-maker without the line going down. In the winter, people run “illegal” spaceheaters. They don’t care the power goes out. And for many months a cry would echo the halls when we all lost all that were were just working on. After much complaining to Paul, and after yet another power outage, I stomped into Liz’s office and said, ”
“Through dangers untold
And hardships unnumbered,
I have fought my way here
To the castle beyond the goblin city…”
Oh, wait, that was a movie. I mean, I said, “Liz, give us some APC backup power supplies. Now!!!!!!” And she gave them to the four of us who lost power the most. (But not to all – shakes head)
So about 10 minutes ago, the power cut out in the building. And cries of the anguish of lost work echoed the halls. But those cries weren’t from me. They fell from the lips of the people who usually run their spaceheaters.
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