I figure that if I had a blog (which I don't) I should post some stuff sometimes.
Well, on the eve (more like afternoon) of September 29, 2014 there was some heavy rain. Then the hail came for maybe 20 minutes. I opened the door to take a few pictures and had to scrape off the hail/ice to close the door. Even small hail stones do not feel great when they hit you. The dog, who was outside finally got inside (despite the driving hail, that is why you go downstairs under the deck dog - you still get soaked, but you avoid ice pellets).
Ready for some pictures (some misleading as to the amount). Too bad, for some reason Blogger and IE 11 don't work well together). Chrome has no problems though. Picture 3 - that is a quarter.
Monday, September 29, 2014
Friday, September 26, 2014
Halloween 2014, Just n-1 days Away
Well Halloween 2014 is approaching at the normal speed (by the way Xmas is in 90 Days from today).
i thought i would have a post to show a couple of the "new" Halloween decorations that i got for Xmas last year. Ready for some bad low light pictures and long-ish shutter speeds (someday i may have to figure out how to embed Flickr images, but not today).
i thought i would have a post to show a couple of the "new" Halloween decorations that i got for Xmas last year. Ready for some bad low light pictures and long-ish shutter speeds (someday i may have to figure out how to embed Flickr images, but not today).
Interesting Recent Bing Search Items
Yes, I Bing. Why don't I Google? Well Bing gives me points for searches that can be used for Xbox "Points" or Amazon gift cards.
So, what strange and unusual (and borderline exciting - yes, I have no life) thing showed up on the Bing search picture scroll thing.
* Real Genius the TV show: I'm not sure how this would work being that it is supposed to be a "work" sitcom - being developed by Adam Sandler's Happy Madison productions. The original 1985 movie was kind of awesome - featuring Val Kilmer in his best role (at least to me) as a sarcastic genius with an extensive t-shirt collection. The movie dealt with the lives of geniuses on a college campus working with lasers. I don't know how this would work in a workplace (with no Kent).
* Bill and Ted 3: Excellent! This one will supposedly follow the saviors of all things (or maybe not quite yet) as a couple of 40 somethings that may not have accomplished what they were foretold to (despite the ending to Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey). I was wondering why mini golf scores hadn't gone down yet and why bowling scores haven't gone up.
So, what strange and unusual (and borderline exciting - yes, I have no life) thing showed up on the Bing search picture scroll thing.
* Real Genius the TV show: I'm not sure how this would work being that it is supposed to be a "work" sitcom - being developed by Adam Sandler's Happy Madison productions. The original 1985 movie was kind of awesome - featuring Val Kilmer in his best role (at least to me) as a sarcastic genius with an extensive t-shirt collection. The movie dealt with the lives of geniuses on a college campus working with lasers. I don't know how this would work in a workplace (with no Kent).
* Bill and Ted 3: Excellent! This one will supposedly follow the saviors of all things (or maybe not quite yet) as a couple of 40 somethings that may not have accomplished what they were foretold to (despite the ending to Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey). I was wondering why mini golf scores hadn't gone down yet and why bowling scores haven't gone up.
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Maybe Target isn't Completely Useless
I am not a huge fan of Target stores. However, I "shop" there every once in a while because it is the closest store to me (Wal-Mart is another mile or so down the road - and I have the weird notion that if I want to buy something I should force myself to walk there).
Well, what did I confirm on my latest trip to Target? Target price matches Amazon.com (at least on advertised items). That means that I can now get Amazon prices and pay with cash (I prefer cash purchases) and get it that day.
So what do you need to know?
- Many Target stores have free Wi-Fi
- They want you to have a mobile device to confirm the price (especially if it is Amazon, Best Buy, Wal-Mart. com).
A mini tablet, tablet, or if you are a weirdo (like at least 65% of the population) a smart phone works.
- Find the customer service desk (that is where they do it)
So, hop on their Wi-Fi (or use your mobile data plan), pull up the price and show it to them, get a better price than the Target advertised one (since Target's advertised prices usually kind of suck).
Well, what did I confirm on my latest trip to Target? Target price matches Amazon.com (at least on advertised items). That means that I can now get Amazon prices and pay with cash (I prefer cash purchases) and get it that day.
So what do you need to know?
- Many Target stores have free Wi-Fi
- They want you to have a mobile device to confirm the price (especially if it is Amazon, Best Buy, Wal-Mart. com).
A mini tablet, tablet, or if you are a weirdo (like at least 65% of the population) a smart phone works.
- Find the customer service desk (that is where they do it)
So, hop on their Wi-Fi (or use your mobile data plan), pull up the price and show it to them, get a better price than the Target advertised one (since Target's advertised prices usually kind of suck).
Friday, July 4, 2014
Big Sandwich (or the Puzzle Saga Reaches its Conclusion)
Well, back on April 21, 2014 I had a post about a puzzle I completed. If I completed the puzzle one of my alleged sisters said that she would make it for me.
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Bad Hail Pictures
i considered titling this post with some lame puns ("what the hail", "This place is going to hail", etc), but I decided that would be kind of cheesy. So instead I decided to just post a couple pictures of a minor even here that happened recently (i think this was June 5th).
Then i realized that IE and Blogger don't get along, so i switched to Chrome for the remainder of this post.
Then i realized that IE and Blogger don't get along, so i switched to Chrome for the remainder of this post.
Monday, June 2, 2014
Losery Post of Loserdom: Movies Watched In May 2014
Yet another month has gone by. I surprisingly watched some movies again this month. Why a post for a month and not wait for a quarter or something? Well I started taking out AFI Top 100 movies from the library with a vengeance and watched as many as the library had/was able to get in.
The "New" Movies this month: Better Living Through Chemistry - ok / The Book Thief - I found it a little pointless / 47 Ronin - ok special effect laden movie / Grudge Match - better than I thought / I Frankenstein - they turned Frankenstein into an angels vs devils action flick, I guess it was an ok movie considering I didn't have to pay to see it / The Monuments Men - I found it kind of boring / Pompeii - completely disposable action movie (better than many I watched this month), with really cheesy volcanic eruption. I was waiting forever for the pyroclastic flow / That Awkward Moment - it was ok / Vampire Academy - kind of feels like a "me too" picture, not quite Twilight. One of the females occasionally had some decent lines
Many of the Top 100 movies kind of suck and leaves me wondering why they were on the list. There will probably be a few "impression" posts about that in the future. Here we go....
DVDs From the Library and a Couple Blu Rays (95) :
The African Queen, All About Eve, All The President's Men, All Quiet on the Western Front, An American in Paris, Annie Hall, The Apartment, Apocalypse Now Redux, The Best Years of Our Lives, Better Living Through Chemistry, The Birth of a Nation, Blade Runner, Bonnie and Clyde, The Book Thief, Breaking Bad: Season 2, Bridge on the River Kwai, Bringing Up Baby, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cabaret, Chinatown, Dances With Wolves, Do the Right Thing,
Doctor Zhivago, Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Easy Rider, Fantasia, Forest Gump, 47 Ronin, The French Connection, From Here to Eternity, The General, Giant, The Godfather, The Godfather Part 2, The Gold Rush, Gone With the Wind, The Graduate, Grapes of Wrath, Grudge Match, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, High Noon (TBS), I Frankenstein, Intolerance, In the Heat of the Night, It Happened One Night, The Jazz Singer,
King Kong, Labor Day, Lawrence of Arabia, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, The Maltese Falcon, The Manchurian Candidate, MASH, Midnight Cowboy, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Modern Times, The Monuments Men, Mutiny on the Bounty, Network, A Night at the Opera, North by Northwest, Out of the Furnace, Patton, The Philadelphia Story, A Place in the Sun, Pompeii, Pulp Fiction, Rebel Without a Cause, Rocky, The Searchers, The Shawshank Redemption,
Silence of the Lambs, Singin' in the Rain, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Some Like It Hot, Sophie's Choice, The Sound of Music, Stagecoach, Sunset Boulevard, A Street Car Named Desire, Swing Time, Taxi Driver, That Awkward Moment, 3 Days to Kill, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tootsie, Toy Story, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 12 Angry Men, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Unforgiven, Vampire Academy, West Side Story, The Wizard of Oz, Yankee Doodle Dandy
Borrowed DVDs (2):
Planes, About Time
Other Blu-Ray/ On Demand
none
Movie Theatre:
none
The "New" Movies this month: Better Living Through Chemistry - ok / The Book Thief - I found it a little pointless / 47 Ronin - ok special effect laden movie / Grudge Match - better than I thought / I Frankenstein - they turned Frankenstein into an angels vs devils action flick, I guess it was an ok movie considering I didn't have to pay to see it / The Monuments Men - I found it kind of boring / Pompeii - completely disposable action movie (better than many I watched this month), with really cheesy volcanic eruption. I was waiting forever for the pyroclastic flow / That Awkward Moment - it was ok / Vampire Academy - kind of feels like a "me too" picture, not quite Twilight. One of the females occasionally had some decent lines
Many of the Top 100 movies kind of suck and leaves me wondering why they were on the list. There will probably be a few "impression" posts about that in the future. Here we go....
DVDs From the Library and a Couple Blu Rays (95) :
The African Queen, All About Eve, All The President's Men, All Quiet on the Western Front, An American in Paris, Annie Hall, The Apartment, Apocalypse Now Redux, The Best Years of Our Lives, Better Living Through Chemistry, The Birth of a Nation, Blade Runner, Bonnie and Clyde, The Book Thief, Breaking Bad: Season 2, Bridge on the River Kwai, Bringing Up Baby, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cabaret, Chinatown, Dances With Wolves, Do the Right Thing,
Doctor Zhivago, Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Easy Rider, Fantasia, Forest Gump, 47 Ronin, The French Connection, From Here to Eternity, The General, Giant, The Godfather, The Godfather Part 2, The Gold Rush, Gone With the Wind, The Graduate, Grapes of Wrath, Grudge Match, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, High Noon (TBS), I Frankenstein, Intolerance, In the Heat of the Night, It Happened One Night, The Jazz Singer,
King Kong, Labor Day, Lawrence of Arabia, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, The Maltese Falcon, The Manchurian Candidate, MASH, Midnight Cowboy, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Modern Times, The Monuments Men, Mutiny on the Bounty, Network, A Night at the Opera, North by Northwest, Out of the Furnace, Patton, The Philadelphia Story, A Place in the Sun, Pompeii, Pulp Fiction, Rebel Without a Cause, Rocky, The Searchers, The Shawshank Redemption,
Silence of the Lambs, Singin' in the Rain, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Some Like It Hot, Sophie's Choice, The Sound of Music, Stagecoach, Sunset Boulevard, A Street Car Named Desire, Swing Time, Taxi Driver, That Awkward Moment, 3 Days to Kill, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tootsie, Toy Story, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 12 Angry Men, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Unforgiven, Vampire Academy, West Side Story, The Wizard of Oz, Yankee Doodle Dandy
Borrowed DVDs (2):
Planes, About Time
Other Blu-Ray/ On Demand
none
Movie Theatre:
none
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