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Windows problems... 2007-11-27 19:48:00 I just had to do an “Upgrade” to my old Windows Xp Pro installation.  I used a prog called Reg Cleaner 4.3 and it hosed a few entries that I needed.  After its use, the desktop kept crashing.  I used an old trick and instead of doing a complete reinstall, I used the upgrade option.  This allowed me to be able to keep all of my settings and reinstall the main OS to a disk state.  I will have to reinstall a few other updates, but it is working fine now.   RMStringer ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You have no conscience and it seems you never will - Cyberaktif   Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

Esther's Follies...Austin Texas 2007-11-27 19:14:00 Here are a few pics from the Esther's Follies show that i saw in Austin Texas 2 weekends ago. The show is on 6th Street in downtown Austin and it has been running for 30 years. I had never heard of the show and when i was younger would not have enjoyed it but now I really loved the show and the funny skits and magic tricks that were preformed. The players were top notch and they all had a very political slant to the comedy! If you are ever in Austin, I STRONGLY recommend going to see the show! You will not be disappointed!!! The pics are not the best as i used my Cam Phone to take them.Ray Anderson He IS TOP NOTCH!!!Ray Anderson, Austin’s nationally renowned magician has been caught up in the tornado that is Esther’s Follies for over fifteen years. Deemed “best spellbinder” by the Austin Chronicle, Ray perplexes both audience members and curious 6th Street revelers peering through Esther’s trademark windows. Whether as himself or his “Amazing Frank” alter-ego, Ray uniqu ... Texas

Robot Chicken... 2007-11-26 18:59:00 We saw this the other night at work. Remember the ThunderCats? This is a little different take on them plus much much more!! This is not the entire video as it is over 15 minutes long. This is just a preview! There are several other clips in this preview that you might remember!!Dicks With Time Machines!What is your opinion?Blogroll Me!Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

Wet light rays. 2007-11-25 22:43:00 Taken with my LGVX8600 phone. I wanted to take this pic for a long time. It is on an overpass on I95 North.From RMStringerSubscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

Rain Tonight 2007-11-25 22:40:00 Taken with my LGVX8600 phone. The lot is all wet. From RMStringerSubscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

Police Secrecy Behind Unmanned Aircraft Test. 2007-11-25 20:11:00 For those of you that live in Houston Texas...It looks like they are getting in the "Anti-Terrorist" Game also. I wonder if the drones have guns and bombs like their Armed Forces cousins?By Stephen DeanWALLER COUNTY, Texas -- Houston police started testing unmanned aircraft and the event was shrouded in secrecy, but it was captured on tape by Local 2 Investigates. Neighbors in rural Waller County said they thought a top-secret military venture was under way among the farmland and ranches, some 70 miles northwest of Houston. KPRC Local 2 Investigates had four hidden cameras aimed at a row of mysterious black trucks. Satellite dishes and a swirling radar added to the neighbors' suspense. Then, cameras were rolling as an unmanned aircraft was launched into the sky and operated by remote control.Houston police cars were surrounding the land with a roadblock in place to check each of the dignitaries arriving for the invitation-only event. The invitation spelled out, "NO MEDIA ALLOWED." HPD ...

This week... 2007-11-25 20:06:00 Well folks, The week is drawing to an end. I was able to Ride about 15 miles this week and i went to the gym and did weights 2 days on Sunday and Tuesday. I was supposed to go and ride today but i did not feel good and i was tired as i today is a my "bad day" for sleep and work.Well, i am going to close this post by saying to everyone to have a very good Christmas Holiday Season!What is your opinion?Blogroll Me!Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

A Button... 2007-11-25 19:49:00 It is my first try at making a buton for others to use on their site. Let em know what u think. What is your opinion?Blogroll Me! Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

New Links To my Site... 2007-11-25 19:46:00 Here are a few new links that i have added to a fellow Blogger's sites.Good,Bad,Ugly"The Gonzo Papers"Go and Visit Them!!What is your opinion?Blogroll Me!Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

pulp - hardcore (no, not THAT hardcore...) 2007-11-24 09:29:00 What is your opinion?Blogroll Me!Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

Pocahontas Park Today... 2007-11-23 16:28:00 We got in 8 miles today on the Red and Blue trails.  I am totally wasted and my knees are hurting.  I will have to go to the gym tomorrow to lift weights.  I guess that I am just really tired from work this week…   RMStringer ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and I am content. (Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast, Weird Tales, May 1934)   Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

Strange Files... 2007-11-22 19:22:00 On CNN.Com/HealthDoctors untangle the strange case of the giant hairball!CNN) -- It may not be the most appetizing reading before a hearty holiday meal, but the New England Journal of Medicine is devoting part of its Thanksgiving issue to a giant hairball -- and not the feline kind.The prestigious journal details the case of a previously healthy 18-year-old woman who consulted a team of gastrointestinal specialists.She complained of a five-month history of pain and swelling in her abdomen, vomiting after eating and a 40-pound weight loss.After a scan of the woman's abdomen showed a large mass, doctors lowered a scope through her esophagus.It revealed "a large bezoar occluding nearly the entire stomach," wrote Drs. Ronald M. Levy and Srinadh Komanduri, gastroenterologists at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois.For the uninitiated, a bezoar is a hairball."On questioning, the patient stated that she had had a habit of eating her hair for many years -- a condition called ...

Justices To Rule On D.C. Gun Ban 2007-11-22 19:11:00 2nd Amendment Case Could Affect Laws NationwideBy Robert BarnesWashington Post Staff WriterThe Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will determine whether the District of Columbia's strict firearms law violates the Constitution, a decision that will raise the politically and culturally divisive issue of gun control just in time for the 2008 elections.The court's examination of the meaning of the Second Amendment for the first time in nearly 70 years carries broad implications for gun-control measures locally and across the country.The District has the nation's most restrictive law, essentially banning private handgun ownership and requiring that rifles and shotguns kept in private homes be unloaded and disassembled or outfitted with a trigger lock. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit declared it unconstitutional last year, becoming the first appeals court to overturn a gun-control law because of the Second Amendment.For years, legal scholars, historia ...

Dc Gun Laws... 2007-11-22 03:12:00 This is off of the NRA's Website. This does not need to happen!!! Please help to not let this happen!!!The Case For Reforming The District of Columbia`s Gun Laws H.R. 1399/S. 1001, the "District of Columbia Personal Protection Act," introduced in the House by Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.) and Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.) and in the Senate by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.), would end D.C.'s prohibition on using guns for self-defense in one's home and conform other D.C. gun laws to federal laws, while retaining stiff penalties for illegal gun possession and gun crimes. It would do none of the things claimed by anti-gun groups. The legislation is long overdue. In 1976, D.C.'s City Council thumbed its nose at Congress, the 14th Amendment's guarantee of "equal protection of the laws," and the rest of the U.S., and began conducting a social experiment of its own design against the city's law-abiding residents. The experiment, unlike anything known elsewhere in America, took the form of ...

Mountain Biking Today... 2007-11-21 21:12:00 We went to Pocahontas Park and we did the Red Trail. IT was fun as we had not ridden it in a long time. The redid a section of the trial and made a Half-Pipe out of it. I saw it and rode it several weeks ago with Mark. I will have some video clips of a few parts of the trial. Jeff brought his camera and we used the video function. After we rode the Red, We went to the Green trial and it was a good fun ride on that trial we had 6.69 miles when we made it back to the Quala Lot. I hope to get some more ridding in this weekend!! God Bless and have a good Thanksgiving Day!! RMStringer******************"Seduction is thus a central, indeed in certain respects, the central idea, in political life. It signifies a course of action deliberately designed by one or more interested agents to undermine and replace some established loyalty." Kenneth Minogue (November issue of The New Criterion) Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...