Passed a Man Building a Boat

If you are in New England, you are wet.  Though the rain hasn’t come with hurricane winds, it has certainly come heavy and steady for several days.  It has done this continuously since the beginning of May.  There isn’t a dry field in the county or a pond or lake not full to the brim and overflowing.  Wet, indeed!

A dear member of our family is recovering from severe burns in a Boston Hospital. If anyone is expecting me to pay attention to petty minutiae for the next few weeks, dream on.  It is not only this family member requiring support.  It is the parents and siblings as well.  Consider me busy.
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Back in The Swing

It has been a stressful week at work and at home.  Friends have been hurt and my job could change or worse not change in the next week. I was reading Gideon Strauss’ blog this morning and thought I should get back into making morning entries.  It is a beautiful morning in New England.  The sign is shining, the birds are singing and the mosquitoes are breeding.  For what more could you ask?

Be Cool Cartoon!

Sam put together this Be Cool cartoon.

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You don’t see too many people sitting in the lounge chairs as you cruise along the Inside Passage along the Yukon/Alaska coast. One of the reasons is there are so many places inside on other decks of this Holland America ship where you can sit in comfort, with a beverage and a companion and watch the wonders of nature pass. As is clearly indicated by this photo, I spent a good deal of the time on the open deck. For those in need of meditative solitude, where better could you find it?
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10 Flagrant Mistakes

Wondering through the net trying to find a way around the endless menu at Signal Insurance’s Customer “Service” I came upon the ZDNet UK page on “10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid“ I can be honest and say I do make at least two of the listed mistakes all of the time.  I won’t tell you which two.
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I was going through my Picasa library and came across this picture.
I have no idea of its origin. I could see some people thinking it quite
provocative.
Let’s see what else I have...
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This is what the Pelson Center looked like this morning seconds before the crowd piled in to watch the school’s closing ceremonies. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house as the child of one of the school’s founders and after whom the school is named, graduated.

He handed over the gavel to the man after whose family the Pelson Center is name. One namesake to the next. Very touching.
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Monday-Monday

This was the first Monday back from vacation. Of course vacation was over two weeks ago, but last Monday was a holiday, so it didn’t count. I don’t care for Mondays. I call them the hang over of weekends. On Sunday nights I debate the wisdom of returning to work the next day or to continue the sabbatical that was interrupted by this spate of work.

But then, I survive the Monday and come home to dinner, a family + and a new puppy. I guess I’ll continue with the working for a while at least.
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Mosquito Trap

The most deadly sport, in that more people die playing this sport than any other: Golf
The most deadly creature on the planet earth: Mosquito.

The preventative action against golf is easy, don’t play.
The preventative action against Mosquitoes is don’t go outside at all. This is much harder. When kids and a back yard are concerned it’s even harder.

Yesterday I made an attempt at getting one of the propane based mosquito killers.  My wife nixed it as too expensive. $279.00. How expensive is EEC or Malaria? I asked.

Still didn’t get it. With most things like this I did a little research and found a similar device for $200.00. In a review of the item the two comments against it said a $10.00 bat box was as effective. There’s the rabies and guano side of that equation. The second comment mentioned an almost free invention of a school class in Asia that involved a plastic soda bottle, sugar water, yeast and black paper.

Will try it.
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Taken from the bus

This was taken from the window of the bus on the way to the photo safari.

It was a shot I took to test the veracity of the driver’s claim that the windows were specially designed to allow photography with no return glare. I would say it was a good claim.

Another thing I liked about his shot is the word “AlaskaCo..” in the lower right corner. A self captioning photograph!
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Browster- A Very Userful Firefox Extension

I found Browster in an emailed article from ZDNet.

It is rare for ZDNet to recommend an extension so roundly. I am glad they did.

Though it claims no spyware connections, the agreement does state it collects information that cannot be linked back to the user. Uh huh. Having very little information anyone would find useful on this computer; I have no compunction about using it, and it is fun.

What it does is pop up a small lightening icon, similar to the one found in Word. When you click the icon next to any link on the Web site browsed, it pops up the window attached to the link without leaving the page being browsed.  This make browsing much more intuitive.

Try it, if you don’t like it, uninstall, no harm done. Except the part where they will probably know by the end of the day what brand toilet tissue you use. (Charmin!)

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Upgraded Firefox AND RoboForm Almost Simultaneously!

In the bad old days, whenever Firefox updated there was a wait for up to a week for RoboForm to come up to grade and reassume its compatibility.

Today I upgraded Firefox to the latest version and it automatically upgraded the RoboForm extension with two reboots.  A minor act as life goes, but a pleasant way to start the morning.
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