Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
If you’re like me and hate changing SMTP servers whenever you’re on the road, and you don’t want to always be using your Web host’s SMTP server, you can always use Gmail, according to Greg. Great tip, thanks!
Speaking of Gmail, did you you know you could run Linux on it? Or that you can use Gmail as a spam filter? Now you do.
I think these extensions for the technologically inept would make the browser far more popular.
Random Acts of Reality is a blog written by an ambulance driver about the cases he comes across and the emotional and physical tolls the job will take on you. Having know a great deal of EMTs and Firefighters throughout my life (my mom was an emergency room nurse for 20+ years), and even running the Hood To Coast one year with a bunch of EMTs, I really enjoyed reading the site. It’s now in my Feeddemon feed list, and will be added to my Blogroll once I re-do the thing (there are lots of sites I read that aren’t on there, and vice versa).
This is one of the weirdest videos I’ve seen. According to b3ta, this condition was caused by the guy’s mom taking thalidomide when she was pregant:
In the 1960s, mum-ladies didn’t want the pain of morning sickness and turned to super-science to give them magic-drugs. Sadly it had the side effect of producing children with less limbs than the normally requisite four. Doesn’t stop them break-dancing though. See him go. Wheee!
It’s amazing that he can do what he does, but it’s just weird to watch.
How good are you at directing traffic? I actually have work to do today, so I quit early in the game before I got addicted. How’d you do?
I’m 75% General American English with 20% Yankee and 5% Upper Midwestern. What are you?
A group of scientists in Hong Kong spent five months from October last year measuring 148 ethnic Chinese volunteers aged between 23 and 93. What were they measuring? The size of their penises. Interesting tid-bit from the story: Germans have average lengths of about 3.4 inches, Chinese 3.33 inches, Israelis 3.27 inches, Turks 3.07 inches and Filippinos 2.89 inches. Italians were the longest at 3.54 inches, and Americans averaged 3.46 inches.
Thanks Cheryl for the link.
OK, since several people are bugging me about it, here’s the new car:
Yes, I know, one lousy picture. Whoopty-frickin-do. Interior is nothing to sneeze at, just your normal Dodge Grand Caravan (lots of frickin’ room, which is nice for hauling stuff around). It needs a CD player and some floor mats, but otherwise, it’s a great car for a great deal ($2,900).
Once it stops raining, I’ll be vacuuming out my old car and posting it for sale here with pictures. It’s an ugly 1988 Honda Civic with a bunch of little (and one bigger) dents and 187,000 miles, but the engine is in great shape, it’s got tires that are less than a year old on it (as well as a set of 4 studded tires on rims), a clutch that’s about a year old, and a left axle that’s about a year old. It also gets 38-40 miles per gallon, which is frickin’ nice with gas prices how they are. It has a pretty loud Pioneer CD player in it (4 speakers).
The only major problem is that it needs a new right CV Joint. It’s easier to just replace the whole axle on these cars when the CV Joint goes bad, and every mechanic I’ve talked to says it’ll run about $200 to replace the whole axle.
If you want it, I’ll clean it up for you, and it’s yours for $800 or best offer (I’ll knock off $50 if I don’t have to clean it). It’s an ugly little car, but I’ve always loved it, and it’s always driven great (and parts for it are cheap). I need the money to buy some snow tires and a CD player for the minivan, as well as sun visors for the Subaru sedan we’re keeping, and to make a payment or two on the minivan.
And if you ask nice, I’ll leave the “Save a Cow, Eat A Vegetarian” and “Hang Up And Drive” bumper stickers on there.
OK, I have a request for anybody out there with too much time on their hands. I need new Sun Visors for my 1990 Subaru Legacy (anything from 1990-1992 will fit). I don’t have visors for the car, and now that I’m driving it to work and my wife’s driving the mini-van, I’m going to be driven nuts if I can’t frickin’ see.
I’ve called and e-mailed a few wreckage yards locally and around the state with no luck at all. The dealer here locally wants $120 for a new set of them, and I’m just hoping somebody out there in Interweb land knows of a source for some cheaper ones.
For anybody that finds some that I can have purchase on my behalf will get a 10% finders fee (plus some cyber-praise here on this site) from me for their time and trouble. I just want to avoid paying the dealer a crapload of money.
I don’t really care the color and or fabric, as long as the frickin’ things work (I do also need the mounting brackets for them — the bracket that attaches the visor to the car, just in case that’s not obvious).