Another Opinion Among Many

I can’t decide which. I must applaud you for sitting through the game in that frigid weather. Its here, now! I was wondering when we were going to have real cold again. I guess that was today. This is the first time that our car had trouble cranking over. This morning, I went out about 6 times just to get it circulating enough to spark itself up. I managed to get it going (under much protest), even without being plugged in. Thank you to the jerk who stole my 30 foot exterior cord, by the way. I hope that it cracked and left you to freeze somewhere!

But, seriously, folks! With the wind chill, its -29°C outside right now (-20°C without - but its a little windy). I know that you sat through that kind of cold for hours! You’re dedicated. Naw, you’re nuts!

It’ll be nice to see the nice balmy temperatures that Toronto has, like -6°C!

Caleb asked me how I achieved a few of the effects that I use on the Gimp, so we sat down with a picture and started playing around.  Abby saw and sat down as well.  We got a bit goofy and here’s the result:

A joke from my inbox:

I went to the Patent Office trying to register some of my inventions. I went to the main desk to sign in, and the lady at the desk had a form that had to be filled out. She wrote down my personal info and then asked me what I had invented.

I said, “A folding bottle.” She said, “Okay, what do you call it?”
“A Fottle.” “What else do you have?”
“A folding carton.” “What do you call it?” “A Farton.”
She sniggered and said, “Those are silly names for products, and one of them sounds kind of crude.”
I was so upset by her comment that I grabbed the form and left the office without even telling her about my folding bucket

After visiting Dragonlady’s World to see her post about what Her Blog is rated, RIAA style, I tried as well, getting a “G” rating.  I guess that I’m safe for all ages.  Little do they know…

The same site has other fun quizes as well.  I chose to see what my body would be worth dead with their Cadaver Calculator.  Here is the result:

$4275.00The Cadaver Calculator - Find out how much your body is worth

Mingle² - Online Dating

I recently wrote about what runs this silly place. One of the things I mentioned (okay listed in FULL) was the list of plugins that I currently use on my Wordpress blog.

Changes:

removed

• Extended Live Archives (I wanted a different look)
• Related Posts (WP 2.3 broke it, like the get_links function)

added

• Aizatto’s Related Posts - Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. Inspired by Related Posts By Ezwan Aizat Bin Abdullah Faiz.
• Clean Archives Reloaded - A nice, uniform, single-query, moo.fx-enhanced way to display your post archives. By Viper007Bond.
• No Self Pings - Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site. By Michael D. Adams.
• Plugin Output Cache - Provides a caching mechanism for the output from plugins. The cache is cleared whenever the blog content changes. By Rob Marsh, SJ.
• WordPress.com Stats - Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key. By Andy Skelton.

So far so good. If you’ve noticed a few images on older posts not showing, its partly my fault for not properly uploading them to my host. There seems to be an issue with directory permissions that I’ve still got to sort out with the built in image uploader as well, but I’ll figure that out. I’m sure that’s also my fault.

Unfortunately, I am going to have to comment out the code that generates the great gravatars until the server they’re hosted on becomes a bit more reliable. I can’t have the pages load as intolerably slow as they are. I have a fast cable connection and the pages are loading like on a 14.4 dialup modem. That’s not fair to those who are silly enough to read my stuff. Perhaps I’ll put up a local version instead. Cya in a while Gravater.

As a bit of relief from the rather serious subject yesterday, I present you a joke that I found:

Fifty-one years ago, Herman James, a North Carolina mountain
man, was drafted by the Army. On his first day in basic training, the Army issued him a comb.

That afternoon the Army barber sheared off all his hair.
On his second day, the Army issued Herman a toothbrush.
That afternoon the Army dentist yanked seven of his teeth.
On the third day, the Army issued him a jock strap
The Army has been looking for Herman for 51 years.

:biggrin: :silly: :sideways:

*as always, if this is your joke, email me and I’ll cite it