Published on
September 17, 2006 in
Security.
If you were in a youth group or attended a summer camp you probably know the routine. Several cocky youth and a few shy individuals would be brought up onto stage like modern day gladiators for the entertainment of the crowd. As the youth minister goes from youth to youth they hand out marshmallows. The contestants would then place them in their mouths and say the phrase “Chubby Bunny.” People like me would typically fail early on. I had a narrow pallet (later widened by orthodontia), no interest in winning, and a realization that what I was being asked to do was really quite stupid (you have to at least have 5 in your mouth to drop out and make it look like you were actually almost trying).
As each contestant increased the number of marshmallows more and more started to drop out of the competition, often ending with a slimy white disgorgement into a waiting garbage can. The first truly disgusting outburst usually lead to cheers from the crowd and a domino effect bringing down another contestant.
Now it is in the news: Chubby Bunny Kills 32 Year Old Woman
I am not surprised that this tragedy which occurred in London this week has happened again. This time it gets more attention due to the event and the age of the woman. There are some references to other deaths on the Wikipedia page for Chubby Bunny. I have been looking for references to a related game called “Royal Roman” which was played with grapes. That one always seemed worse since I could picture sucking a grape into my windpipe when preparing to say “Royal Roman.”
Apparently the worse danger with marshmallows is that they slowly melt into your throat and clog you up with a goop that is not easily removed. The vistim has a decreasing supply of air and each gasp makes it worse until there is not enough air in the lungs to get the deadly goop out.
I posted this in the security section because churches also need to be protected from the stupidity within.
Poor Pluto, They’ve given you a number, taken ‘way your name.
It is a sad piece of news to hear. It is the final sentencing of Pluto.
Then I went and made it worse with this:
Published on
September 15, 2006 in
Techie.
Just a warning for people supporting iTunes users out there. iTunes 7 apparently has some problems.
So, hopefullly none of your people can upgrade it on their own so they won’t bring it on the system, but it is something to watch out for.
Published on
September 15, 2006 in
Techie.
I have a nice little legacy program on one of the computers I work with regularly. This program causes a bit of instability so I have become accustomed to Explorer crashing. Therefore I have a good remedy for that.
When Explorer crashes (menus don’t work and windows have problems) just hit Ctrl-Shift-Esc to open the Task Manager and right click on explorer.exe in the left hand column and select “End Process.” Your interface for much of Windows will now disappear.
While still in the Task Manager go to the File menu and select “New Task (Run…)” and in the dialog box that appears just type “explorer” no path, no .exe, just explorer. Everything (except the program that was causing the problem) should reappear.
This has rescued lots of unsaved work for me in the past and gives you a crutch to hobble on until you can do a real reboot. If things are really bad you may need to repeat the process a couple times.
How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger from WikiHow
Of course, writing a blog for a month without telling anyone about it would help too. After a month consider whether you would be interested in having someone read it or if you want to just abandon it.
Published on
September 11, 2006 in
Techie.
Our video guy was so excited about getting his new Core 2 Duo based computer. It was just placed on order and suddenly he comes up to me saying “Can we cancel that order?”
Then he shows me this link: Core 2 Quadro video benchmarks.
I told him that he may just need to use the Duo for right now. Perhaps in 6 months he can upgrade and then I will accept his cast off system.
Processor cores are getting like razer blades on a shaver. Next thing you know they will have a AAA battery to make them oscillate at well.
I was living in Crestview, FL. My wife was working with a Day Care and I was in the final stages of unemployment. I had just started working as interim minister at Niceville only one week earlier.
My sister called while we were getting ready to go to the Day Care Center and mentioned that Plane had hit a building in New York. She probably called about 200 other people that morning as well. We didn’t have cable and there were no local television stations so we couldn’t watch the news. I was having computer troubles and the internet connection was really slow so I decided to go into the library and see what was happening.
Except for some time Wednesday evening watching the television in the student union building of the community center of the community college between dropping my wife off for class and starting Wednesday evening services at the church I experienced 9/11 primarily online and over the radio.
That’s where I was. How about you?
Florida was affected by an earthquake today. I am not sure if I noticed it. It happened while we were in the church service this morning and that brings special circumstances.
- The building is built on a big foundation due to the fact that Florida is a big sand bar on top of hollowed out limestone. We are anchored in a big shock absorber.
- The walls are extremely solid steel reinforced concrete slabs welded together and supported by steel risers. They don’t rattle easily.
- The roof stretches across the worship center like a huge drum skin and it seemed as if it had been raining hard so it is like sitting in a drum while the percussionist is using the brushes.
I believe it was about 11:00AM or so when I heard an odd noise that sounded like a gathering rush of water and some thunder. If Elijah was there he would have leaned over and asked if God was in the sound, I just leaned over to my wife and said “Wow, that rain is loud.”
Funny story (that I have told a lot): A week or so after we started worshipping in the building back in June 1999 someone had left the roof access hatch open during second service. The parking ministry uses the roof to direct traffic controllers to empty parking spaces. At that time the High School class met on the third floor near the access hatch and a few of them decided to go on the roof and play. While in service I heard a few odd noises from up top, but then suddenly it started pouring rain and there was the pitter patter of big feet running across the roof. The floor under the access hatch was soaked and so were at least 4 teenagers who claimed that they had just gone to get something from their cars and were caught in the rain. I doubt they were parking on the roof.
I no longer use Go Daddy for any of my domain names. I was one of those who went to them because of the low cost domains and the name recognition of Bob Parsons from when he was associated with Parsons Technology and Quickverse. I still have my Quickverse 4 Deluxe CD from many years back.
I was also one of those who saw the Go Daddy commercials during the Super Bowl and found them offensive. My opinion changed when I started reading Bob Parson’s blog and realized he was even more offensive.
If you have not seen the commercials you can check them out here: GoDaddy Commercials. You may find it interesting that among the commercials listed is one focused on the web site JesusChristIsLord.com. As a web geek I couldn’t help thinking about how much Kevin needs to get a good web designer. He does have a lot of interesting sites on all sorts of topics ( http://www.projectcare.com/project-care-websites.html ), so I think he is a bit of a domain addict (says the guy with 20 or so current domain names) always looking for new projects.
I am just bothered that this commercial was thrown in with the rest of them. So, Jesus is proclaimed as Lord and carnal impropriety is glorified all right there on the same page. What Will Jesus Market Next?
I missed the one last week and finally succombed to downloading via BitTorrent. I grabbed the 5600 by mistake. Unfortunately I couldn’t get it to install on the virtual machine I had set up for it, so I decided to wait until the official release. Lucky me, it’s here.
The download is going pretty fast so far. Using the download manager has been giving me 320+ kb download speeds. Hopefully it will be done soon.