The Truth is Out There

I haven’t been real excited for awhile. I am today. The new X Files movie is coming out in theaters on July 25th. I can’t wait. It’s been awhile since I saw a movie in a theater. I usually reserve watching only the coolest action flicks in theaters.

Back in the 90’s which were great years, I was an avid watcher of the X Files series starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as agents Mulder and Scully.

Here is a link to the movie trailer.

The Truth is Out There.

On the not so unbelievable newsfront -
Southern Oregon is going to welcome a new activist down in the Ashland area. Welcome might be a strong word for it.

Do you get bored while you drive? Me too. Finally a product to keep us entertained along the way. It should be entertaining too for the people who like to witness traffic accidents.

Have you ever found yourself thirsty and were afraid to drink the water?
Fear no more. Visit here to find your own personal water purification system. Suck it up!

Today’s FREE software - I use a few of these image products -
FastStone

A Busy Weekend

First of all, Happy Mother’s Day to all of you mothers out there. A personal Happy Mother’s day to my mother, my wife, and Muriel. You are all the very special mothers in my life.

A very busy weekend it was. Yesterday was my wife’s birthday. Happy Birthday Ange. She got a new digital camera for her birthday. She has been using a film camera until now (her choice not mine). A few months ago she informed me Costco was no longer supporting film developing. Welcome to the digital age honey.

Today of course is Mother’s day and another very special event - My daughter’s first communion. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Catholics, this special day is right up there in importance with being baptized. It’s a family event and most of my family was there to help celebrate. Congratulations Emma, I’m so proud of you.

Since my wife doesn’t spend a lot of time on the computer, I had to make the digital picture download experience as easy as possible. The software that comes with the camera is not exactly straight forward, so I began a web search to find an easy way to perform this.

The Day The Music Lived - 1980’s

The 1980’s were my coming of age years. From puberty to my last day of college was all done during the glamorous 80’s.

Looking back, music in the 80’s sucked. I didn’t really like hair bands that much so I started to discover what is now coined indie rock. Back then it was known as “alternative rock”. Make sure to check out the link below to Lucy and Ramona and Sunset Sam and Oh No it’s Devo. Very cool.

Nevertheless, as a young person, you have to have music! Discovering The Smiths (thankyou gravity force of one) in college was definately a step of the beat I was used to pursuing. I still listen to The Smiths pretty regularly.

In the late 80’s, something new was in the air and music was definitely making a change. Guns and Roses was a breath of fresh air for us riff loving rockers. Welcome to the Jungle in 1988 was the signal for change to come. Slash will go down in history as one of the all time great riff guitarists. The guy is incredible with a guitar and in my humble opinion paved the way for the new generation of music (grunge) that followed in the 90’s.

And now, here is my most listened to tunes in the 1980’s. (I hope I don’t sound like Casey Kasum).

Geezer Matt Metal Jammer

I recently caught up with an old bud from highschool. Haven’t really seen much of him since then but as fate would have it, we work in the same industry and our global pursuit of making your life better through structures has brought us together again. For now I’ll call him what he ain’t. Geezer. Infact if you saw him today, you’d swear he was 12. Matt is a great guitar player and as far as I know, can play every Blue Oyster Cult riff without reading the music. He worships the ground that the “More Cowbell” guy walks on.

Today there is not much happening with blogging. My brain is not blogly today. So, in my blogging absence, I want you readers to read what could be one of the funniest life stories I’ve read in awhile. Go HERE to read it.

Make sure to check in with Matt as needed.

In the news today:

In case you are wondering where your stimulus payment is, the good folks over at the Consumerist Blog can help you.

If you are involved in war combat, remember to turn your keylock on your cell phone. Seems this soldier freaked his parents out.

Todays FREE software - A compression utility that will shrink down your files and folders for transferring - 7zip

News of the Day

One redeeming thing about high fuel prices - Less traffic

Note to self: Do not drive erratically at a softball game. It seems our neigbors in Longview had some problems and took matters into their own hands after a driver decided to…SEE STORY

Who needs salmon? Apparently the good folks at the Wired Blog don’t. In this article, you can learn how to make caviar from carrots.

And finally, I don’t remember where I found this link but if you are on the go and don’t have a fax machine handy, this online FREE fax machine works great.

The Day the Music Lived 1970’s

Music has always been a part of my life. I was quite young when I got my first record. The Lion Sleeps Tonight by Robert John.

I’m really not sure why it was that particular 45 but it was. I’m sure it was mom’s choosing. She was a Carpenter’s fan. I still listen to The Carpenter’s once in a while. I have fond memories of making chocolate chip cookies with mom while listening to The Carpenter’s.

Today’s post will attempt to list the highlights of music from my early youth until the present. Hopefully this list will be forever preserved so when I’m losing my mind, I can use this list as a reminder of where I was the day the music lived - The 1970’s

Wilkins The Emu

Living on a farm has its benefits. My family eats well. I guess the other benefit is the fact we are surrounded by different kinds of animals.

Wilkins the Emu is just one of the many animals on the farm. We have two pairs of emu’s on the farm. Emus are a bit different than the other animals though when it comes to caring for their young. While the female still lays the egg, it is the male that does all of the sitting.

The male emu will sit on the egg from when it is laid until hatched. I’ve never really counted the days but it’s a long time. It is rare to see the male leave the egg.

AVG 8 and News you can use

A piece of software everyone should own is an anti virus scanning software.

The fine folks at AVG have just recently released their updated FREE - AVG 8. I’m pretty paranoid about viruses on my ‘puter and run two anti virus programs - AVG and Lavasoft’s Ad Aware 2007.

A couple of other good programs to help the scanning process for spyware and other infiltrations include previously posted CCleaner and another of my favorites - Spybot

With all of this anti virus, malware, and spyware software, you can breathe a little easier as you search the web.

Quit Burning Our Food

Something is wrong. I mean, superduper wrong in a bad way.

You can’t pick up a paper, read a news blog, or watch the news on tv without hearing about rising food prices and world famine.

Why is the United States so bent on corn ethanol production? Why are we burning our food?

Blogging Idiocy

What can I say? I’m dense sometimes and tend to do things the hard way.

Since I’ve been at blogging a total of about a week now, I’ve been writing my posts all wrong. Since I know most of you are probably on a time frame (as I am myself), I choose to write the “gist” of my post on the main page and then have been linking to a page for the “rest of the story” so to speak.

Today I’m sitting at my computer composing another blog and I think to myself, this irritates me to no end to have to link my post to another page. It seems like a tremendous waste of time having to duplicate my post. Not to mention the formatting. I think, obviously this has to irritate other bloggers so why hasn’t anyone figured out a way to split a post so only a portion of the post shows up on the main page.

I start into the wordpress faq. Oh. There it is. There is a way to do it. Infact there is a button to push for stupid people like myself to split the post. I Wondered what that button was for….