my stapler hates me... in fact, every stapler I've ever tried hated me...
What's your one office supply you battle with every time you face it? one that you just can't stand... or it doesn't like you...
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Office supplies
What's your one office supply you battle with every time you face it? one that you just can't stand... or it doesn't like you...
Thursday, April 1, 2010
It's a bird... It's a plane... No, Really, It's a plane!
Couldn't resist sharing this with the world... thanks Leigh :)
My friend captured this wonderful picture while driving down the road in Chesapeake recently... hilarious!
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Mastiff Forum
I frequently visit the Mastiff Online Community web forum... it is an endless supply of super cute Mastiff pictures and valuable information...
I'm much more of a stalker and less of a contributor, but still love purusing the site...
This morning I read this great entry talking about trying to get 200lb dogs into a Tahoe :)
The rest of the thread is here: Ramps
"Next we tried a Twistep. I liked the concept of the Twistep being stored on the vehicle and swinging out of the way when not in use, but the dogs didn't do very well with that either. They would step up on it with their front feet fine, but then put their front into the vehicle without stepping up on the step with their back feet. The result would be that they were all stretched out with front in and back end still on the ground. We would have to manually pick up their back foot one at a time and place it on the step before they would climb on in. No easy task as you can imagine. Getting them out was even more dramatic. They would want to lay down and crawl up to the edge and then slide their front out onto the step and then stand up and jump out of the Tahoe without even hitting the step with their back feet. Kind of defeated the whole point of using the step. I thought over time they would figure it out, but they never did."
Ha!
I'm much more of a stalker and less of a contributor, but still love purusing the site...
This morning I read this great entry talking about trying to get 200lb dogs into a Tahoe :)
The rest of the thread is here: Ramps
"Next we tried a Twistep. I liked the concept of the Twistep being stored on the vehicle and swinging out of the way when not in use, but the dogs didn't do very well with that either. They would step up on it with their front feet fine, but then put their front into the vehicle without stepping up on the step with their back feet. The result would be that they were all stretched out with front in and back end still on the ground. We would have to manually pick up their back foot one at a time and place it on the step before they would climb on in. No easy task as you can imagine. Getting them out was even more dramatic. They would want to lay down and crawl up to the edge and then slide their front out onto the step and then stand up and jump out of the Tahoe without even hitting the step with their back feet. Kind of defeated the whole point of using the step. I thought over time they would figure it out, but they never did."
Ha!
Friday, March 26, 2010
Snopes?
This is a very interesting topic, which could absolutely provide me with hours "googling" topics... but for now, I'll just share this email with you...
Please note that I have not verified any of the information in this email...
But I did learn of a new "go-to" website :)
Snopes Exposed
For the past few years ( http://www.snopes.com/) has positioned itself, or others have labeled it, as the 'tell-all final word' on any comment, claim and email. But for several years people tried to find out who exactly was behind snopes.com. Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it - kinda makes you wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband and wife team - that's right, no big office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It's just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby. David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California started the website about 13 years ago and they have no formal background or experience in investigative research. After a few years it gained popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over the past couple of years people started asking questions who was behind it and did they have a selfish motivation?
The reason for the questions - or skepticisms - is a result of snopes.com claiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions or issue when in fact they have been proven wrong. Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating and getting to the 'true' bottom of various issues.
A few months ago, when my State Farm agent Bud Gregg in Mandeville hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama and made a big splash across the Internet, 'supposedly' the Mikkelson's claim to have researched this issue before posting their findings on snopes.com. In their statement they claimed the corporate office of State Farm pressured Gregg into taking down the sign, when in fact nothing of the sort 'ever' took place. I personally contacted David Mikkelson (and he replied back to me) thinking he would want to get to the bottom of this and I gave him Bud Gregg's contact phone numbers - and Bud was going to give him phone numbers to the big exec's at State Farm in Illinois who would have been willing to speak with him about it. He never called Bud. In fact, I learned from Bud Gregg that no one from snopes.com ever contacted anyone with State Farm. Yet, snopes.com issued a statement as the 'final factual word' on the issue as if they did all their homework and got to the bottom of things - not!
Then it has been learned the Mikkelson's are very Democratic (party) and extremely liberal. As we all now know from this presidential election, liberals have a purpose agenda to discredit anything that appears to be conservative. There has been much criticism lately over the Internet with people pointing out the Mikkelson's liberalism revealing itself in their website findings. Gee, what a shock?
So, I say this now to everyone who goes to snopes.com to get what they think to be the bottom line fact 'proceed with caution.' Take what it says at face value and nothing more. Use it only to lead you to their references where you can link to and read the sources for yourself. Plus, you can always Google a subject and do the research yourself. It now seems apparent that's all the Mikkelson's do. After all, I can personally vouch from my own experience for their 'not' fully looking into things.
Http://www.wikipedia.org/ or Http://www.snopes.com/
I have found this to be true also! Many videos of Obama I tried to verify on Snopes and they said they were False. Then they gave their liberal slant! I have suspected some problems with snopes for some time now, but I have only caught them in half-truths. If there is any subjectivity they do an immediate full left rudder.
Truth or Fiction, is a better source for verification, in my opinion.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/
I have recently discovered that Snopes.com is owned by a flaming liberal and this man is in the tank for Obama. There are many things they have listed on their site as a hoax and yet you can go to You tube yourself and find the video of Obama actually saying these things. So you see, you cannot and should not trust Snopes.com, ever for anything that remotely resembles truth! I don't even trust them to tell me if email chains are hoaxes anymore.
A few conservative speakers on Myspace told me about Snopes.com. A few months ago and I took it upon myself to do a little research to find out if it was true. Well, I found out for myself that it is true. Anyway just FYI please don't use Snopes.com anymore for fact checking and make your friends aware of their political leanings as well. Many people still think Snopes.com is neutral and they can be trusted as factual. We need to make sure everyone is aware that that is a hoax in itself.
Thank you,
Alan Strong
Interesting? Let me know if you do any research yourself on this topic :)
Please note that I have not verified any of the information in this email...
But I did learn of a new "go-to" website :)
Snopes Exposed
For the past few years ( http://www.snopes.com/) has positioned itself, or others have labeled it, as the 'tell-all final word' on any comment, claim and email. But for several years people tried to find out who exactly was behind snopes.com. Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it - kinda makes you wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband and wife team - that's right, no big office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It's just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby. David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California started the website about 13 years ago and they have no formal background or experience in investigative research. After a few years it gained popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over the past couple of years people started asking questions who was behind it and did they have a selfish motivation?
The reason for the questions - or skepticisms - is a result of snopes.com claiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions or issue when in fact they have been proven wrong. Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating and getting to the 'true' bottom of various issues.
A few months ago, when my State Farm agent Bud Gregg in Mandeville hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama and made a big splash across the Internet, 'supposedly' the Mikkelson's claim to have researched this issue before posting their findings on snopes.com. In their statement they claimed the corporate office of State Farm pressured Gregg into taking down the sign, when in fact nothing of the sort 'ever' took place. I personally contacted David Mikkelson (and he replied back to me) thinking he would want to get to the bottom of this and I gave him Bud Gregg's contact phone numbers - and Bud was going to give him phone numbers to the big exec's at State Farm in Illinois who would have been willing to speak with him about it. He never called Bud. In fact, I learned from Bud Gregg that no one from snopes.com ever contacted anyone with State Farm. Yet, snopes.com issued a statement as the 'final factual word' on the issue as if they did all their homework and got to the bottom of things - not!
Then it has been learned the Mikkelson's are very Democratic (party) and extremely liberal. As we all now know from this presidential election, liberals have a purpose agenda to discredit anything that appears to be conservative. There has been much criticism lately over the Internet with people pointing out the Mikkelson's liberalism revealing itself in their website findings. Gee, what a shock?
So, I say this now to everyone who goes to snopes.com to get what they think to be the bottom line fact 'proceed with caution.' Take what it says at face value and nothing more. Use it only to lead you to their references where you can link to and read the sources for yourself. Plus, you can always Google a subject and do the research yourself. It now seems apparent that's all the Mikkelson's do. After all, I can personally vouch from my own experience for their 'not' fully looking into things.
Http://www.wikipedia.org/ or Http://www.snopes.com/
I have found this to be true also! Many videos of Obama I tried to verify on Snopes and they said they were False. Then they gave their liberal slant! I have suspected some problems with snopes for some time now, but I have only caught them in half-truths. If there is any subjectivity they do an immediate full left rudder.
Truth or Fiction, is a better source for verification, in my opinion.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/
I have recently discovered that Snopes.com is owned by a flaming liberal and this man is in the tank for Obama. There are many things they have listed on their site as a hoax and yet you can go to You tube yourself and find the video of Obama actually saying these things. So you see, you cannot and should not trust Snopes.com, ever for anything that remotely resembles truth! I don't even trust them to tell me if email chains are hoaxes anymore.
A few conservative speakers on Myspace told me about Snopes.com. A few months ago and I took it upon myself to do a little research to find out if it was true. Well, I found out for myself that it is true. Anyway just FYI please don't use Snopes.com anymore for fact checking and make your friends aware of their political leanings as well. Many people still think Snopes.com is neutral and they can be trusted as factual. We need to make sure everyone is aware that that is a hoax in itself.
Thank you,
Alan Strong
Interesting? Let me know if you do any research yourself on this topic :)
Thursday, March 25, 2010
had to share...
I know I said this blog isn't about me... it's about "Other Stuff"... well life/work has been so crazy lately, nothing exciting has been able to happen because I'm just too busy to be pondering or googling right now...
but I did have some humor (at least I thought it was funny) waiting for me in my inbox this morning...
After a long, exhausting, frustrating day at work, I emailed my husband late yesterday afternoon to let him know I was headed home.
This morning, I find his response... "Rommel duked on the floor again today."
It made me laugh. Rommel is one of our 19-month old Mastiffs. He is absolutely potty trained, but this is the 2nd time in 2 weeks that he has left a surprise for Donnie to find at lunch time... [i think he has entered the rebelious teenage years]
ANYWAY, I could totally relate to his findings. I feel like someone has duked on my parade for the last 2 weeks... desperately need summer time sunshine...
sorry for the rant, thanks for listening...
but I did have some humor (at least I thought it was funny) waiting for me in my inbox this morning...
After a long, exhausting, frustrating day at work, I emailed my husband late yesterday afternoon to let him know I was headed home.
This morning, I find his response... "Rommel duked on the floor again today."
It made me laugh. Rommel is one of our 19-month old Mastiffs. He is absolutely potty trained, but this is the 2nd time in 2 weeks that he has left a surprise for Donnie to find at lunch time... [i think he has entered the rebelious teenage years]
ANYWAY, I could totally relate to his findings. I feel like someone has duked on my parade for the last 2 weeks... desperately need summer time sunshine...
sorry for the rant, thanks for listening...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
This some funny Sheet...
I'm still giggling from reading Jen Lancaster's post from the 22nd...
this lady cracks me up! these are the blog posts I've been missing from her :)
http://www.jennsylvania.com/jennsylvania/2010/03/whats-the-polish-word-for-dumbass.html
this lady cracks me up! these are the blog posts I've been missing from her :)
http://www.jennsylvania.com/jennsylvania/2010/03/whats-the-polish-word-for-dumbass.html
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Il Divo
My new love... Il Divo... they give me chills everytime I hear them...
an interesting bit of info - Simon Cowell actually got them together, even though they weren't interested at first...
anyway, tonight my mom and I made the connection with my aunt and cousin of our mutual love for the group... filled with passion and emotion...
this is the first video/song I heard and it brought me to tears... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS-V3vBvxn0
and this is my newest favorite song... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy6L_bt6Flk
here is their homepage: http://www.ildivo.com/
we're desperately hoping they tour again in the US...
Edit - NOTE TO SELF: no more blog posts after drinking... also, no more drinking during the week...
an interesting bit of info - Simon Cowell actually got them together, even though they weren't interested at first...
anyway, tonight my mom and I made the connection with my aunt and cousin of our mutual love for the group... filled with passion and emotion...
this is the first video/song I heard and it brought me to tears... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS-V3vBvxn0
and this is my newest favorite song... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy6L_bt6Flk
here is their homepage: http://www.ildivo.com/
we're desperately hoping they tour again in the US...
Edit - NOTE TO SELF: no more blog posts after drinking... also, no more drinking during the week...
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