This is coming straight from the Google blog...
Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS
Wow. That's so cool. This is going to be neat to be able to turn your computer on and once it gets past all those tests that you see, you know, where it shows how much memory you have, then all of a sudden you've got desktop. No more waiting for the Windows screen that shows that animated bar at the bottom of the screen. Instead you are instantly taken right to your desktop so you can immediately start browsing the web.
The only thing that concerns me is if this will allow me to install my Windows programs like the Sims, EverQuest, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Premiere Elements, Autodesk 3DS Max 2008, my webcam software, my mp3 player software etc. And will it allow my hardware like my webcam and my Kodak printer?
One of the things that I really look forward to is if this will allow me to play my old Win 98 games that Win XP won't let me run. I just hope that this isn't something like Mac and Linux where you have to buy the Google OS software only which will probably only be a few programs at first and will always only have 10% of the software compared to the 100% that Windows offers. That's always been an issue and why I won't ever have a Mac or Linux again because I want to be able to buy whatever program I want. It's really depressing when you go to buy software and the aisle for that OS is just a shelf while the rest of the store is for Windows.
Of course I'll have to wait until the 2nd half of 2010 for this to become available so I look forward to all of the blogs and pictures and possibly videos showing how well it is on Netbooks.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
New Purpose for Stakes
Years ago we bought these stakes from the garden section of the local hardware store. No, we don't have a vampire problem. We were putting grass seeds on the grass to grow new grass and to prevents people from walking all over the new grass we put the stakes in the ground and used this green tape on the stakes. Although, that didn't do much good, people broke the green tape and walked on our lawn anyway.
We still have all these stakes though and don't really know what to do with them so they just sit on the patio collecting dust. I just got an idea today...
I'm going to take the sander and sand the sides of them then use those zig zag type of metal nail things that you hammer into 1 piece of wood on the side then you hammer another piece of wood onto the other side of the zig zag nail to join the 2 pieces of wood. I'm going to put some wood glue in there and attach maybe 5 of the stakes together then press them tight and let the pieces dry. I'm going to do this with several of the stakes so I have more than just 1 or a few pieces. I'm going to keep 1 stake for every board that I make so I can use them to stake the board into the ground.
Why would I need to stake boards into the ground? Because I'm thinking that maybe I can use these boards for wood burning projects. I can wood burn patterns for gardens as gifts for Christmas. I think it will be neat. I could burn maybe a picture of fairies sitting on or flying around mushrooms or maybe some gnomes or something lol. I think it's a neat idea and it gives me free wood to burn on since we already have the wood lol.
We still have all these stakes though and don't really know what to do with them so they just sit on the patio collecting dust. I just got an idea today...
I'm going to take the sander and sand the sides of them then use those zig zag type of metal nail things that you hammer into 1 piece of wood on the side then you hammer another piece of wood onto the other side of the zig zag nail to join the 2 pieces of wood. I'm going to put some wood glue in there and attach maybe 5 of the stakes together then press them tight and let the pieces dry. I'm going to do this with several of the stakes so I have more than just 1 or a few pieces. I'm going to keep 1 stake for every board that I make so I can use them to stake the board into the ground.
Why would I need to stake boards into the ground? Because I'm thinking that maybe I can use these boards for wood burning projects. I can wood burn patterns for gardens as gifts for Christmas. I think it will be neat. I could burn maybe a picture of fairies sitting on or flying around mushrooms or maybe some gnomes or something lol. I think it's a neat idea and it gives me free wood to burn on since we already have the wood lol.
Busy Body Walmart Employee
We went to Walmart the other day so I could buy some tubes for my bike and when I got to the register this cashier was bitching to us about how these people bought some soda pop using an EBT card. EBT is like food stamps but in the form of a debit card.
What she said was she told the person buying soda "I don't think that's right that you are buying soda using this card because it has no nutritional value. You should be buying food with that, not soda". While I agree with her that they should be using that money to buy things like bread, dairy, cereals, meat etc, it's not her place as a cashier to tell a customer that she doesn't think that it's right that they are buying soda.
It's really none of her business. Her argument was that food stamp money comes out of her taxes so in a way it kind of is her business but on the other hand she has no right telling that to the customer as an employee of Walmart. And... I don't want to hear that. I don't want to go to a cashier and hear them bitching about the previous customer. Again, I agree with her but I don't want to hear it. Now if she was off duty and at home then sure, go ahead and bitch about it to your friends and family but don't take it out on the customers.
Her argument was that she can't afford to buy a bottle of water and these people are using her tax dollars to buy soda. First off, she has no right buying water that is free. All she has to do is bring a bottle with her to work, like a sports bottle or something, and then fill it up with the water cooler or drinking fountain. Or fill it up at home with your Brita filter and bring it with you, bring a couple of bottles with you in your purse and keep them in your locker. Don't keep buying bottled water. That's not very green. Me personally, I fill up those 3 gallon bottles, like the sparkletts or arrowhead bottle and I have a ceramic bottle holder with a spout that I use to drink my water. Now that's green.
What she said was she told the person buying soda "I don't think that's right that you are buying soda using this card because it has no nutritional value. You should be buying food with that, not soda". While I agree with her that they should be using that money to buy things like bread, dairy, cereals, meat etc, it's not her place as a cashier to tell a customer that she doesn't think that it's right that they are buying soda.
It's really none of her business. Her argument was that food stamp money comes out of her taxes so in a way it kind of is her business but on the other hand she has no right telling that to the customer as an employee of Walmart. And... I don't want to hear that. I don't want to go to a cashier and hear them bitching about the previous customer. Again, I agree with her but I don't want to hear it. Now if she was off duty and at home then sure, go ahead and bitch about it to your friends and family but don't take it out on the customers.
Her argument was that she can't afford to buy a bottle of water and these people are using her tax dollars to buy soda. First off, she has no right buying water that is free. All she has to do is bring a bottle with her to work, like a sports bottle or something, and then fill it up with the water cooler or drinking fountain. Or fill it up at home with your Brita filter and bring it with you, bring a couple of bottles with you in your purse and keep them in your locker. Don't keep buying bottled water. That's not very green. Me personally, I fill up those 3 gallon bottles, like the sparkletts or arrowhead bottle and I have a ceramic bottle holder with a spout that I use to drink my water. Now that's green.
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Today's agenda
I've already gone out on the bike trail this morning at 4:30am and returned before 6:30am doing 20 miles. Since I had 2 flat tires in 2 days on the front tire I've been leery every time I start riding after stopping at like a stop light or a stop sign because it just feels like I have a flat tire. Then I get off the bike to check and it's still hard from all the air pressure inside of it.
I'm still exhausted from all that work I did yesterday at the rental house next door. I still have to do the bathroom, the bath tub, sink and toilet, the floor is already mopped. Then I have to rake up all the leaves and dog poop that the last tenants were nice enough to leave me to clean up. I think 3 large piles that he raked up but never actually shoveled up and thrown out. What a nice guy right? So now I gotta do his dirty work. That's it! No more pets allowed.
Michael Jackson's memorial service at the Staples center will be broadcast live from 9am to 1pm on almost every channel today and Chip wants me to record it for him from CNN. He wanted me to record it from E! but I was going through the guide on the cable but E! doesn't show it being live until tonight so there's something wrong there lol. They say 10am PST but it shows the Michael Jackson True Hollywood Story being played over and over. I think CNN will do just fine. Although it would suck if they had breaking news during the event.
Yeah that would suck lol.
So at about 6pm tonight is the new show Warehouse 13 on SyFy channel. Yes I said 6pm. I have SyFyHD which is eastern time zone so I get to watch it as the east coast does.
My day is pretty much set already. UGH! I have to go fold laundry before I go next door lol.
I'm still exhausted from all that work I did yesterday at the rental house next door. I still have to do the bathroom, the bath tub, sink and toilet, the floor is already mopped. Then I have to rake up all the leaves and dog poop that the last tenants were nice enough to leave me to clean up. I think 3 large piles that he raked up but never actually shoveled up and thrown out. What a nice guy right? So now I gotta do his dirty work. That's it! No more pets allowed.
Michael Jackson's memorial service at the Staples center will be broadcast live from 9am to 1pm on almost every channel today and Chip wants me to record it for him from CNN. He wanted me to record it from E! but I was going through the guide on the cable but E! doesn't show it being live until tonight so there's something wrong there lol. They say 10am PST but it shows the Michael Jackson True Hollywood Story being played over and over. I think CNN will do just fine. Although it would suck if they had breaking news during the event.
"We interrupt the memorial of Michael Jackson to bring you this report. Casey Anthony demanding that she get some water, can you believe this? She actually wants some water... How dare she!" .... 30 minutes later "Back to you Staples Center."
Yeah that would suck lol.
So at about 6pm tonight is the new show Warehouse 13 on SyFy channel. Yes I said 6pm. I have SyFyHD which is eastern time zone so I get to watch it as the east coast does.
My day is pretty much set already. UGH! I have to go fold laundry before I go next door lol.
Monday, July 06, 2009
Busy All Day
Wow I've just been busy all day long without 1 moment to catch my breath. First off I woke up late. I didn't set the right time on my alarm for some reason. The alarm clock has 2 alarm settings so if your spouse or whatever has to wake up at a earlier or later time then you can have them both set differently and both turned on. Well, I have them both set for different times and the one that I needed wasn't turned on lol. I guess I just forgot to turn it on the right one.
So I woke up on my own at 5:30am and went out, Dell DJ battery was almost dead so naturally I had to charge that up. 6:30am comes and I leave the house. I'm on my way home and my brand spanking new tube for the front tire blows. UGH! I'm like 5 minutes away from the house (not walking, by bike) so I have to pull over and put some air in the tube, just enough to get me home. I come home and feel the tire and it's goin' down hehe.
I get in the shower immediately and then walk over to Albertsons to buy a bike repair kit. My bike repair kit sucks, the patches aren't patching lol so I needed a new one, one with that glue. But Albertsons doesn't have them so I go to Walgreen's and get it. Of course I had to go back to Albertsons anyway for other things.
I come home, put the new patch on the tube and I take one of my old tubes that the patch didn't work for and I just cut it all the way around and since it has that green goop stuff (which doesn't work by the way lol) I have to wash all that out, throw away all the chunks and then get it all off by hand in a bucket of water. So then I wrapped that around my tube, the one that I just bought yesterday that already has a hole in it that I just patched up lol. So hopefully this patch will keep it patched and if I run over another sticker then that extra tube in there will take the impact of it and not let it go through to the new tube.
So now it's 11:45am, I'm going to drink my slim fast shake but then I have to go next door and clean the rental. We were going to do it over the weekend but Chip was just too exhausted to go over there. He slept the entire weekend lol.
Hopefully it won't take me too long, I'm going to bring my alarm clock and set it for 2:50pm so that I can come over here and watch Stargate SG-1 at 3pm. If I still have more to do then of course I'll go back but I don't think there is too much to clean.
So I woke up on my own at 5:30am and went out, Dell DJ battery was almost dead so naturally I had to charge that up. 6:30am comes and I leave the house. I'm on my way home and my brand spanking new tube for the front tire blows. UGH! I'm like 5 minutes away from the house (not walking, by bike) so I have to pull over and put some air in the tube, just enough to get me home. I come home and feel the tire and it's goin' down hehe.
I get in the shower immediately and then walk over to Albertsons to buy a bike repair kit. My bike repair kit sucks, the patches aren't patching lol so I needed a new one, one with that glue. But Albertsons doesn't have them so I go to Walgreen's and get it. Of course I had to go back to Albertsons anyway for other things.
I come home, put the new patch on the tube and I take one of my old tubes that the patch didn't work for and I just cut it all the way around and since it has that green goop stuff (which doesn't work by the way lol) I have to wash all that out, throw away all the chunks and then get it all off by hand in a bucket of water. So then I wrapped that around my tube, the one that I just bought yesterday that already has a hole in it that I just patched up lol. So hopefully this patch will keep it patched and if I run over another sticker then that extra tube in there will take the impact of it and not let it go through to the new tube.
So now it's 11:45am, I'm going to drink my slim fast shake but then I have to go next door and clean the rental. We were going to do it over the weekend but Chip was just too exhausted to go over there. He slept the entire weekend lol.
Hopefully it won't take me too long, I'm going to bring my alarm clock and set it for 2:50pm so that I can come over here and watch Stargate SG-1 at 3pm. If I still have more to do then of course I'll go back but I don't think there is too much to clean.
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