My head cold moved from my head to my throat. *cough* DirecTV came over so that is fixed. I asked them to give me NY local stations. They are working on it. That way, I could watch the Jets without NFL Sunday Ticket. Hmm, I wonder if Comcast could do that. They told me they…
I did pretty good based on my goals: (See list below) 1. Check 2. Check 3. No yet, gotta do that tonight. 4. No materials to work with. I blame Katie. 5. No, I forgot that one. Hopefully, I won’t electrocute myself. 6. Check 7. Katie wants me to try bringing the thing to Penny’s…
I love ComputerWorld Magazine, even though I don’t get it anymore. I was mentioned in the magazine 9 times. Check it out. Oh, the glory days, when everyone I knew thought the internet was a fad or useless or both.
I finished People’s History, and started The Document Object Model. Already, I see that everything I have done with JavaScript so far has been sub-optimal. I need to get started making better methods. For those curious, DOM is a way of looking at and manipulating an XML document or HTML document in a tree structure.…
I finally got the Vonage package and hooked it up last night. It was surprisingly easy to do. Its a router, but I put it behind my Sonicwall firewall and it worked perfectly. I’m shocked actually. The sound is fine. Might be a slight humming noise, but otherwise, its perfectly acceptable. Danny said there was…
So I ordered this Vonage thing to get phone service through the internet. UPS was supposed to ship it. I tracked the shipment online and they said they left it on the porch. But there was no shipment on the porch. So either the UPS driver is a liar or someone stole it within the…
Ok, first the rant. Comcast is not making my life easy. Neither is DirecTV. Comcast is providing my internet access. They were going to provide phone service too but they wanted to drill holes in the house. What is the point of pre-wiring the house if they want to drill a bunch of holes. All…
Now that the election is over, I have this strange feeling. Usually, I enjoy the political discussion and want to listen to the news. Over the last few days, listening to the news is the LAST thing I want to do. Can the world be made a better place? Can the good guys win? Are…
Bush wins, Kerry loses. I feel very similar to the way I usually feel when the Jets lose that game to knock themselves out of the playoffs. It is sad and frustrating and all too common. However, every year I pick myself up and say, “This is it. This is the year we are going…
The Constitution of the United States: Preamble We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the…
We had a great Halloween! All together (Lipkas and Gladstones) we dressed as: Superman, An Angel, A Pussycat, A Spider, a Dragon, A Monkey, A Ninja Skull Warrior Jedi with Pokemon Slippers, Santa Claus, and a Gordon. (What does a Gordon look like? Good question!) So we went across our lovely marsh and did our…
75 Years ago today was the great stock market crash of 1929. Also Winona Ryder turns 33 years old today. Wow. Looking at her bio, I had no idea some of the stuff about her. For example: 1. Her real hair color is blonde but when she made her first major film Lucas (1986) her…
What the heck happened to Enron? This was the biggest corporate rip-off ever and no one brings it up at all. I think that the War on Terrorism and the War in Iraq is actually just a big distraction from corporate greed and abuse scandals. Why doesn’t Kerry say as much? Something like this: “The…
Quick Question: What percentage of Americans do you think has your income level? I believe that most Americans do not understand the breakdown of income in this country. So here is a nice chart to help you understand how poor most Americans are. (Shoutout to Danny for the basic info and the IRS for making…