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The inner chaos of a web guy's mind.
A good drug problem…
Mar 19th
The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining county and he asked me a rhetorical question.
“Why didn’t we have a drug problem when you and I were growing up?”
I replied, I had a drug problem when I was young: I was drug to church on Sunday morning. I was drug to church for weddings and funerals. I was drug to family reunions and community socials no matter the weather.
I was drug by my ears when I was disrespectful to adults. I was also drug to the woodshed when I disobeyed my parents, told a lie, brought home a bad report card, did not speak with respect, spoke ill of the teacher or the preacher, or if I didn’t put forth my best effort in everything that was asked of me.
I was drug to the kitchen sink to have my mouth washed out with soap if I uttered a profanity.
I was drug out to pull weeds in mom’s garden and flowerbeds and cocklebur’s out of dad’s fields.
I was drug to the homes of family, friends and neighbors to help out some poor soul who had no one to mow the yard, repair the clothesline, or chop some firewood; and, if my mother had ever known that I took a single dime as a tip for this kindness, she would have drug me back to the woodshed.
Those drugs are still in my veins and they affect my behavior in everything I do, say, or think. They are stronger than cocaine, crack, or heroin; and, if today’s children had this kind of drug problem,The world would be a better place.
THANK GOODNESS FOR THE PARENTS WHO DRUGGED US.
Vista x64 Business Review
Mar 18th
Well I have been running Windows Vista 64 bit for a week now and all the bad things that I heard from people when I decided to switch have not happened. The system runs very efficiently all of my software works well with it and even games are running smoother and with less video glitches.
Problems that I have found to date are as follows.
- SyncToy from Microsoft does not work on x64 bit vista but there is a work around that I found here.
- PCI Simple communications Device driver not found but after uninstalling the device and running diagnostics when it was found on reboot. I was directed to a link to an Intel download that corrected the problem.
Windows is recognizing all of the RAM installed in the system currently 4GB with the other 4GB en route. Overall I am very happy with how well vista 64 is running and there is no conflict with any of my applications. Install time was just shy of 15min from boot to reboot after install. Adobe Master Collection CS3 installed in a very short time compared to installing it on the XP system.
64 bit OS’s are the future and if you are building a new system then I highly recommend Vista 64. If you are worried about certain applications not running in 64 bit environment then you can just run them in compatibility mode. 16bit applications won’t run on 64bit but seriously there is not a reason to run 16bit applications in todays world.
Here is a great site for tweaking Vista and learning more about how to speed up the OS at pcstats.com.
Well thats it for now folks. If you have any questions or want me to test things feel free to drop a comment.
I miss the 80′s
Mar 18th
Anyone else out there miss the 80′s, specifically TV and Movies from the 80′s. I just grabbed an old DVD off the shelf a remastered version of Iron Eagle a really far fetched flying movie from the 80′s. Fun music, hero tale and a really good watch.
While watching I can’t help but to reminisce about the late 80′s when movies where corny and unbelievable nothing was based on reality. We had shows like the A-Team, Airwolf, Blue Thunder, Magnum PI, the list is long. Movies like Ferris Bueller’s Day off, Iron Eagle, Lawnmower Man, Ski School, Ski Patrol, Adventures in Babysitting, The Labyrinth, The Last Starfighter and a HUGE assortment of other great 80′s flicks not to mention all the horrors series like Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elf Street, the list is endless.
Modern movies are technologically advanced and getting better with some of the newer stories based off 80′s television/film. The Transformers was a master piece using the greatest cartoon of the 80′s Era. Modern TV needs to take a page of the movie industry book and look to the 80′s for stories to immerse our selves into instead of living vicariously through the morons in so called reality TV programs.
Well thats my rant on Reality TV again. Feel free to give input there is nothing like a good old fashioned online debate.
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