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Newspapers are in their regular spot next to the door
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May the 4’s be with you
Sorry no wait staff but on the plus side, no surly looks either.
Does this mean the regulars get to sneak behind the counters and play with the espresso machine?
Just remember, the video camera is on. Lewd and wanton behavior is strictly encouraged.
None of that up here. All the lewd and wanton is down in the Afternoon Delight thread, not that I have a clue what they’re talking about, of course.
that I shouldn’t have to high expectations for the sex scenes in your books?
There’s just no good answer for that, though I will say that my editor approves of the strong romantic elements in my work.
Hello, there, Swamp Mates…. I just received the following email. Does anyone know if it’s true?
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Emails with pictures of Osama Bin-Laden hanged are being sent and the moment that you open these emails your computer will crash and you will not be able to fix it!!!
This e-mail is being distributed through countries around the globe, but mainly in the US and Israel. Send this warning to whomever you know.
Origins: There are few headlines that would grab the attention of more computer users around the world than “Osama bin Laden Captured,” and that’s exactly what whoever created this lure was counting on to snare unsuspecting victims who use Microsoft platforms.
“Osama bin Laden Captured” isn’t a virus in itself; it’s the text of a message that includes a link to a file called EXPLOIT.EXE. When a message recipient clicks on this link to view what he thinks are pictures of Osama bin Laden’s capture, he can end up downloading an executable Trojan known as Backdoor-AZU, BKDR_LARSLP.A, Download.Trojan, TrojanProxy.Win32.Small.b,or Win32.Slarp. Clicking the embedded link in the “Osama bin Laden Captured” message auto-executes a file called “EXPLOIT.EXE,” which exploits a known security ho le to download the Trojan. According to McAfee Security:
The Trojan opens a random port on the victim’s machine. It sends the Port information to a webpage at IP address 66.139.77.145. The Trojan listens on the open port for instructions and redirects traffic to other IP addresses. Spammers and hackers can take advantage of compromised systems by using the infected computer as a middleman, allowing them to pass information through it and remain anonymous.
Microsoft has made available updates that close the hole exploited by this Trojan.
but as a Mac user, I don’t usually have to worry about .EXE files and associated virii/worms.
Hopefully this’ll just catch some of the a-holes on the Right Wing…
Sounds like it might be this thing, which was written up at Snopes. It’s never a good idea to open email or attachments from people you don’t know, best just to delete. And sometimes it’s not even a good idea to open them from people you do know, if you know them to be reckless about their net habits. Aunt Ida can always send you those pix of the cousins again, if it turns out you missed something important by erring on the side of caution. 🙂
This was true last June.
High-Tech Magazine
and
C|NET.
To cite but two.
Good information, thanks!
“Afternoon Delight” is a phrase which has now been permanently warped for me due to watching Arrested Development and the episode where, not once, but twice, there is the hilariously awkward realization of how dirty the song is while family members are singing it together karaoke style.
I haven’t watched that show (don’t watch very much tv) but wouldn’t it take a willing suspension of disbelief to think that there was anyone who didn’t know how dirty that song was?
I thought it made a nice combination with self-serve, too.
The show is exceptionally well grounded in a brand of absurdity that allows for easy suspension. It’s also a pretty smart show, which probably explains why so few people are watching it — not you, of course, but it’s under constant threat of cancellation due to lack of ratings, which is a crying shame. Some of the funniest moments I’ve ever seen on television have been on that show, but they all defy easy explanation if you don’t have a sense of the characters and the near complete detachment-from-reality in which most of them live.
if I didn’t watch it then because all it usually takes for a show to get canceled is for me to like it.
I like a good surreal comedy — Barney Miller is pretty much my all time favorite show (or at least is sharing that space with Buffy).
Oh, me too. They kill everything I love. I think the best American television ever made was Freaks & Geeks and that wasn’t even allowed to finish out its first season.
Didn’t they stop development on new episodes last month, and then FOX acknowledged it was done?
I would love to be wrong. Arrested Development was far too smart and funny to survive for this long, but I’m sure glad it did.
I believe that’s correct, but those of us among the faithful continue to hold out hope that another network might pick it up. ::hope hope hope::
You’re encouraging me to watch a show that is already canceled? So now the cynic is overwhelming the principled? :-,
I think you inferred something that I did not imply. I would never be so arrogant as to encourage any specific pop culture consumption choice on behalf of the magnificent Blue Dot.
you have to remember that I am only the Blue Dot’s physical embodiment on earth and as such don’t have her omniscience or omnipresence except when she chooses to speak through me — meaning if you kewl kids don’t tell me about the nifty stuff, I’m doomed to stay an out-of-it old dinosaur.
Oh, I get it, it’s kinda like transitory papal infallibility. If you could find a clever marketing hook for that, like for 99 cents with a Big Gulp or something, you’d make a killing.
Well, Jim is listening to Good Eats and Alton Brown just said “kosher salt” a little under a minute ago. I don’t precisely know what the significance of that is but somehow it figures into everything we’ve been talking about.
Cue Twilight Zone music.
IndyLib, have you seen this diary citing a Yahoo! article about Showtime being in negotiations for Arrested Development? Let’s hope it’s more than a rumor.
Actually, there are two whole generations now who first heard it when they were too young to register what it’s about and have never really listened to it since. At thirty-eight I’m on the older end of that, but I know I must have heard it at least a hundred times before it ever registered, and that’s fairly recently. My music was wave and punk and Afternoon Delight pretty much registered as musak in my younger years.
Being an old fartess….I had some mighty fine times in the heat of the afternoon and that song ALWAYS brings back those memories.
My oh my…where did I put my fan?
Being the sweet innocent young thing that I am, I can’t imagine what you’re referring to. Nope. Nu-uh. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Good ol’ Froggybottom, that multiple personality entity. S/he takes good care of the cafe.
Andy, I have to leave again, but if I’m back in time, I’ll put up the next one. And how will anybody know if I’m not back in time? I guess if I don’t put up the next one. 🙂
Doctor Humor from a wacko friend:
Later :{)
Peace
It’s really hard to pick a favorite but I’m leaning toward “Now I know how a muppet feels.”
Aahh dada, you are a warped man….God I Love it ; )
peace friend…
Yo Pig! Gracias!
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Peace bro
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One of my favorites of Zion’s Natl Park – was orginally from webshots – but reminds me of trips to So. Utah as a kidlet.
Thanks so much, SallyCat — that is one fine photo. I’ve been to Bryce in the snow but not Zion. Seeing that all that gorgeous red rock covered in snow would be really fine. Was that down in the valley or up in the Kolob canyons area?
I always like being off the valley floor…back roads every time!
Hi!!!
How are ya?
Sleepy! Eating & Sleepy.
It was very nice to have a nice normal day at work. I like routine.
How about you?
…from work. It’s really bad when I’m day-dreaming about my bed at, oh — say, noon?
🙂
When I go away for awhile, my beagle greets me with a full-body waggle. Wouldn’t it be nice if people could do that?
That’s EXACTLY how mr katiebird greeted me tonight when I came in!! This was the longest we’ve been apart since last Tuesday & he just couldn’t restrain himself, I guess.
I think we need video of that.
I’m sorry, much as I love you, we’re not sharing it.
Hi AndiF,
Have we met yet? ;o)
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Now I’m trying to figure out whether I’m supposed to scratch your belly or not.
Ooh!!! So, guess what happened today? We received a sharp, public, rebuke from the Bush Admin via Amb. Wilkins! Nothing like a sharp, public rebuke from the US to get the blood flowing, eh?
Gerbera Daisy flower bud — love the petals! (view large)
That’s was my mantra when I went out again to try to take some macro shots. Unfortunately the answer turned out to be, “Olivia would take a lot better pictures than you do.” You are so talented and I am a very jealous bugger.
As for Bush, Canada should send him to bed without his supper.
… is mine then, b/c I’m still trying to figure out the whole panaroma thing. And I have tried… Invariably end up with at least one panel that doesn’t stitch right, and of course it’s the one with all the detail so you can’t not include it. Your landscape/vista/panoramic shots are gorgeous, like breathtaking gorgeous.
That’s easy — take a slew of shots of some place that is really beautiful and then hope like hell that a few of the actually line up right.
I had a really funny one Sunday which showed how much I concentrate while I’m trying to get the shots lined up. When I loaded them up to stitch I discovered that my coonhound had walked through the shots. I went ahead and stitched it to see what it would do and I ended up with pieces of him at various spots in the image.
So you don’t use a tripod to keep them level with each other?
Tripod are for wimps!
Actually, I’m too much of a wimp for a tripod — I don’t like to carry the extra weight when I hike and I haven’t got the patience to mess with one anyway.
Tripods are for wimps! Although, I was scoping out some mini tripods (and we’re talking mini) the other day… But, it is added fussiness. 🙂
What a lovely photo, olivia. Quite the balm for a very chilly winter’s night — temperatures are predicted to drop a bit below zero here before morning.
As for Wilkins, apparently his statements were so chock full of steaming BS that my browser let me see the very end of the piece, then fainted — sparing me intense exposure to the ‘new American mentality’, no doubt. Blessed be.
Oh, you got to that part about the ‘new American mentality’ did you? Brave, very brave.
I take it you’re talking below zero F? Brrrrrr…! :o)
Sorry, yes, -5 F — meaning that here on the mountain, we’ll be closer to -10.
Thankfully, the last 2 grafs of the Wilkins piece were all I saw, so there was precious little to wade through before I got the typical gist.
Not that I’m whining about the weather — especially to a Canadian citizen!
In fact, lately I wish I’d gotten incredibly lost at Expo ’67 & been ‘left behind’ by my southbound family 😉
Hi Olivia… I apologize for the stupidity of the U.S. government (and for the pentagon agents who are now scanning our mailboxes). I don’t know what gets into kids now-a-days…
p.s. lovely photo. If only everyone would take time to take photos of flowers…
Evening all. I’m sitting here grading journals, trying to have something for progress reports this week. How is everyone doing?
We heard from Damnit Janet earlier today. She’s completed her move to Portland and things are mostly okay, except that her son is having trouble adjusting.
Oh and Military Tracy stopped by for a rant which she decided meant she was starting to feel better because she now has the energy to rant.
I was wondering how Damnit Janet was. That’s good about Tracy.
Thanks for the up-date Andi
Isn’t the bar open yet? I’m at home getting ready to multitask — (1) logging into work to finish some client work, (2) watching a repeat of Nova on PBS about raising obelisks in ancient Egypt (cool!), (3) doing laundry and (4) sitting in the cafe.
We have just the thing for someone so very capable.
My Irish ancestors thank you.
Jigs and reels on the house!
I like. And sing alongs. The Wild Rover.
But no “cry into your beer” ballads — my father was killed by an orangeman and may Cromwell rot in hell … I haven’t had nearly enough Guiness for that.
Wally’s world is falling apart. Diebold’s goin’ down in Leon County, Florida. Yep, that’s the capital county.
Folks at Black Box Voting tell us — that
Read the article to see how the experiment proved that the Diebold machines could be undetectably rigged by pre-programmed software “fix” putting the lie to Diebold’s claims to the contrary.
This is great news on the heels of Wally O’Dell’s (CEO of Diebold) resignation under a cloud of insider trading stench.
A pheasant dances for joy on our street, enjoying some unexpected December sun and our trademark green grass.
Wonderful image, Gooserock — it truly gives my spirits a lift. I’d adore dancing in the rain like that lovely bird before long.
Laundry is finished. The Egyptian Obelisk was succesfully raised on NOVA. Project for work is complete — pending an e-mail from a colleague that I’m still waiting for. What a sense of accomplishment. And that Guiness was great, although its been a quiet night at the cafe.
froggybottom’s going to put up a fresh cafe in a couple of minutes, just in case there’s a crowd who piles in after midnight.