So, i have had Windows 10 for a little while now (a work week of time) and am not impressed. i "upgraded" from Windows 7. Eventually, maybe Win 10 will run better - but not yet. It is running maddeningly unwell on this computer.
i expect an OS to just work. Windows 10 is currently not working like it should. i'm having all kinds of problems.
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Thursday, August 6, 2015
Windows 10 Upgrade
Today i finally got the notification that my Windows 10 upgrade was available. So how is it going so far?
Saturday, July 11, 2015
Happy 711 Day
Today is July 11th (in the US date system, 7/11).
If you don't know, 711 is kind of a franchised convenience store (used mostly by me to purchase lottery tickets). Apparently, 711 operates in a bunch of countries (mostly North America and Asia, with a few in the Nordic regions). Apparently, there are more franchised 711s in Japan than anywhere outside the US.
Useless information: the Slurpee capital of the world is Manitoba (according to the 711 Canada site) - it is probably a weighted per capita type thing, though 8,300 Slurpee sales a month per store isn't bad.
To commemorate the day, 711 tends to give away small Slurpees for free. Slurpees are a semi frozen drink with some type of flavoring - kind of like a snow cone but different. If you want to know more for some reason, there is a Slurpee.com
This year, I got a Watermelon Sour Patch kids Slurpee.
If you don't know, 711 is kind of a franchised convenience store (used mostly by me to purchase lottery tickets). Apparently, 711 operates in a bunch of countries (mostly North America and Asia, with a few in the Nordic regions). Apparently, there are more franchised 711s in Japan than anywhere outside the US.
Useless information: the Slurpee capital of the world is Manitoba (according to the 711 Canada site) - it is probably a weighted per capita type thing, though 8,300 Slurpee sales a month per store isn't bad.
To commemorate the day, 711 tends to give away small Slurpees for free. Slurpees are a semi frozen drink with some type of flavoring - kind of like a snow cone but different. If you want to know more for some reason, there is a Slurpee.com
This year, I got a Watermelon Sour Patch kids Slurpee.
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Losery Post of Loserdom II: Lose Harder (April and May?+)
Another random time period has passed randomly. There is too much randomness in the universe. What isn't random? The concept that i watched so movies/tv shows (basically visual media on some sort of disc type thing). I didn't really watch that much in April and May, so, i'll add the stuff I watched during my "Summer Vacation" in mid May to late June.
Commentary: most of Rankin Bass stuff sucks. There are no decent Easter specials (since it is a purely manufactured holiday anyway). Interstellar was odd with the time/dimension thing, Nightcrawler was ok (another movie about a sociopath), Taken 3 was not that memorable, The Wedding Ringer was the funniest thing I saw during that period (not on Summer Vacation).
Movies From The Library (17):
Big Eyes, Cake, The Captive, Here Comes Peter Cottontail, Home Sweet Hell, Inherent Vice, Interstellar, Kill the Messenger, Nightcrawler, Stretch, Taken 3, Third Person, The Voices, The Wedding Ringer, Wild, Wildcard, Woman in Black: The Angel of Death,
Movies from My Collection:
Airplane 2!, Arrow: Season 1, Better Off Dead, Boys and Girls (I kind of want this on Blu-Ray), Friends Seasons 1-10, Kindergarten Cop (not the best transfer), Mannequin (want on Blu-Ray), One Crazy Summer, Opportunity Knocks (ditto), UHF, The Wedding Singer, Weekend at Bernie's, Van Wilder, Frosty the Snowman, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Olive the Other Reindeer, etc.
Movies in the Theater:
San Andreas
Commentary: most of Rankin Bass stuff sucks. There are no decent Easter specials (since it is a purely manufactured holiday anyway). Interstellar was odd with the time/dimension thing, Nightcrawler was ok (another movie about a sociopath), Taken 3 was not that memorable, The Wedding Ringer was the funniest thing I saw during that period (not on Summer Vacation).
Movies From The Library (17):
Big Eyes, Cake, The Captive, Here Comes Peter Cottontail, Home Sweet Hell, Inherent Vice, Interstellar, Kill the Messenger, Nightcrawler, Stretch, Taken 3, Third Person, The Voices, The Wedding Ringer, Wild, Wildcard, Woman in Black: The Angel of Death,
Movies from My Collection:
Airplane 2!, Arrow: Season 1, Better Off Dead, Boys and Girls (I kind of want this on Blu-Ray), Friends Seasons 1-10, Kindergarten Cop (not the best transfer), Mannequin (want on Blu-Ray), One Crazy Summer, Opportunity Knocks (ditto), UHF, The Wedding Singer, Weekend at Bernie's, Van Wilder, Frosty the Snowman, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Olive the Other Reindeer, etc.
Movies in the Theater:
San Andreas
Friday, July 3, 2015
Not the Chicks i Was Hoping for
So here i am, i am not where i was. What did i see when i got back here?
A couple of chicks (ok, "chicks" are baby chickens, these are of the egg laying variety). Now for some bad pictures (they just didn't want to turn out).
A couple of chicks (ok, "chicks" are baby chickens, these are of the egg laying variety). Now for some bad pictures (they just didn't want to turn out).
Saturday, June 27, 2015
The Confederate Flag
Recently (and inexplicably) the Confederate (or rebel) flag has become the latest issue in the recent wave of the media trying to convince people that racism is a bigger problem than it is.
president obama (no i am not going to capitalize any part of that - i'm still hoping it is all a terrible, terrrible dream) recently said that the flag was a symbol of the civil war that was all about slavery.
Wrong. Slavery was not the cause of the "civil war". i know that is what US teachers have been saying for decades, but that doesn't make it true. Slavery was what the north used to "morally justify" and unjustifiable war (which actually more closely paralleled the revolutionary war). The slavery angle was tied on to the war to obscure the South's valid concerns about governance (and their declining lack of a voice on their own affairs). That and the North's egotism and hyprocrisy.
president obama (no i am not going to capitalize any part of that - i'm still hoping it is all a terrible, terrrible dream) recently said that the flag was a symbol of the civil war that was all about slavery.
Wrong. Slavery was not the cause of the "civil war". i know that is what US teachers have been saying for decades, but that doesn't make it true. Slavery was what the north used to "morally justify" and unjustifiable war (which actually more closely paralleled the revolutionary war). The slavery angle was tied on to the war to obscure the South's valid concerns about governance (and their declining lack of a voice on their own affairs). That and the North's egotism and hyprocrisy.
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Snow?
i was under the impression that the ground was not supposed to wear white after Eostre. Apparently, that is not always true - if IE 11 worked well with Blogger, maybe I would show you (but it never has). i wonder if it will work better with Edge.
i started taking these after much of the unidentified white stuff began melting. There might have been over 6", it is hard to tell with really wet frozen water (especially after it already started to melt).
i started taking these after much of the unidentified white stuff began melting. There might have been over 6", it is hard to tell with really wet frozen water (especially after it already started to melt).
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