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About THIS web site. Kinda recursive…
ANOTHER Update…
Sep 8th
Updated Photo Gallery ‘Frank’s New House’ with pictures of the progress he’s made this last week. Will have another update this coming Monday or so for the work we’ll do this weekend.
Enjoy!
Frank’s New House
Sep 5th
The race to beat the weather rages on. The siding is almost completed and Frank has been staining the installed siding to weatherize it and the staining announces the finishing of that side of the house. It looks pretty cool. I’ve added the latest images to the Gallery – go take a look!
I also updated the sort order of the Gallery. A lot of the images were out of order. Some might still be; it’s kinda tough to look at 255 images AND make sense of the order looking at thumbnails that are only 1/2 inch in size. Maybe someday I’ll get it down…
Big Changes Here At My Little Corner Of The InterWebs
Aug 31st
I’ll be switching from Qwest to Comcast next week. Qwest was AWESOME in the last ten years, but their technology has lagged and now is almost unusable. I’ve had way too many instances of the Net just screeching to a halt in the afternoons and weekends due to way too many people being served out of the old technology. [SIGH] So, for a while, the camera and weather systems might be offline.
I’ve also updated the Photo Gallery with some new collections. Enjoy!
Site updated and cleaned up
Jul 30th
SO, I changed the look and feel of the little web site. Tell me what you think!
I’ve also checked most of the links to make sure they’re still relevant. Tell me if I missed one, would you?
Enjoy!
ArborRemodeling.com
Jul 5th
We had to laugh a bit.. we received a mailer card from the builder of our house this weekend. We’ve been dealing with issues related to these idiots since 2002. I even put up a web site (ArborSucks.com – now gone) to illustrate to these schmucks what crappy construction quality they had (have?). CLICK HERE to see a copy of the web site I kept stashed away. Anyways, here’s the text of an Email I sent back to them today:
“We just received your mailer advising us about ‘ArborRemodeling.com’
and the associated services you offer.
You are PRECISELY the people we would NOT have work on our home. We are
still dealing (8 years later) with the craptastic construction ‘effort’
you put into the structure in the first place. Extremely poor paint
quality. Structure issues. Poor HVAC ducting. Inefficient heater/AC
unit. I could go on, but you get the idea.
Again, thanks, but no thanks.
With ALL sincerity,
Michael Fisher”
I’ve also spammed this text to all the residents in our little neighborhood that I know. The reactions should be worthy of a good outdoor BBQ and drinking binge!
I hope to hear from Arbor soon.
Updates
Jan 9th
Just a quick note that I’m going to be doing a couple of updates this weekend.
I’ve added a new gallery of photos I took at the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, Washington. We dropped by there on the way back from visiting Momma’s family up in Sequim, Washington. VERY COOL place if you’re interested in American Naval Underwater technology/warfare. Torpedoes, mines, subs, etc. are displayed there. Supported almost entirely by the gift shop and donations from the public and like-minded business, this is THE place to see if you’re like me. GO, BUY STUFF and DONATE. I did…
I’m still mulling over the subject of my next story. I’m developing a couple of subjects. Stay tuned, I’m trying.
I’ll post another subject soonest.
MDF
Inconsistant Logic?
Dec 15th
I don’t know, you tell me:
An acquaintance was talking here recently and what she said struck me as A) innocuous at the time and B) wildly inconsistent in the logic department. Now, you that know me know that I am as far from logical as I can get, but this person tries to come across as a thinking, caring individual and this seemed to step outside the bounds of both.
The person will go nameless as I have no desire to harm them or their reputation.
It was all wrapped up in a couple of simple statements:
Statement 1: “… Chrimbo present.” (Chrimbo is a new secular slang for Christmas)
Statement 2: “To my Jewish friends. I’m sorry I missed the start of Hanukkah. I hope you have a wonderful celebration this year.”
If we’re atheist, as this person claims to be, then why the shout out to the ‘Jewish friends’ apologizing for ‘missing Hanukkah’? Where is the similar bow to their Christian friends? Why the secular slam implied in statement 1? It might have been an oversight, brain fart, what have you. And I’m pretty damn sure this person meant to alienate no one. But that illustrates my growing dissatisfaction with people of the liberal persuasion and their speech patterns.
These atheist folks will go out of their way to slam, criticize and denigrate Christians in any way possible. But ‘Heaven forbid’ (pun intended) they piss off some OTHER religion. Be it Jewish or Islamic, they’ll wet themselves to not ridicule these others.
All I look for in people is consistency in their many religious/political stands. If you’re atheist, their is NO GOD ANYWHERE. Regardless of the religion. None. End of story.
If you’re Christian, don’t riot and carry on in hopes of eliminating abortion and then cry for a criminal to get the death penalty. But, you say, they’re different because a baby is given a soul at conception, whereby the criminal has damned his soul to Hell because of his crimes. I beg to differ. If your logic is ‘Life is precious’ and you’re against abortion, then YOU’RE AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, TOO. Or at least you SHOULD be. Assholes.
And if your logic is ‘Reproductive Choice is a RIGHT of Humans’, yet you will riot and destroy to save whales and harp seals, then you’re an asshole, too. If your point is that life is precious, except human life because they’re unborn, then you are a REAL asshole. (See my NEXT story about THAT sore subject)
Just get consistent, people. That’s all I ask. By giving yourself wiggle room with exceptions and political bullshit, you become an asshole. Simple. Here, I’ll make it easy for you:
Pick ONE:
1) LIFE IS PRECIOUS.
2) LIFE IS NOT PRECIOUS.
Choose one and off you go, a non-asshole.
And you are, of course, allowed to disagree with me. By all means do so. But don’t be an asshole.
WebCam Software Blues
Dec 13th
I have a web cam. It’s nice. It takes good quality video.
BUT IT DOESN’T DO WHAT I WANT IT TO DO.
Here’s ALL I want:
1. Have a window on my desktop showing me what it sees.
2. Take date/time-stamped snapshot and upload them to my web site at a configurable interval like ‘every two minutes’.
3. Take video, or multiple date/time-stamped snapshots, and save them on my local machine. I can sort through them or use the separate images to make a ‘movie’ of the day.
Simple. NOT. I have tried literally DOZENS of software packages, both fee/open source and commercial, as well as freeware and shareware. NONE of them do all three. NONE. And if they say they do, they’re either lying or have truly poor documentation on how to do it.
It truly sucks that we have ALL these web cam software vendors and not one of them got it right. To be fair, some of them TRIED to do all three, but one of the three items fell WAY short of be usable.
For instance, YawCam. A free package that will do all three, BUT you can’t see the desktop window’s image due to flicker. It will KILL your eyes to watch it. There was a fix, however. Stopped the flicker, but killed the control panel for your camera. You could watch the desktop video, but couldn’t move your camera or control its zoom. Nice.
So I’m basically at a standstill. I can’t do all three and I have no idea how to fix it. I HATE THAT.
For my weather page, a camera view: CLICK ME
For my desktop, a great picture (With sound if I want it!)
For my day-to-day archive: CLICK ME
[SIGH]
Update!
Jul 28th
Sorry I’ve been MIA lately.. My Father-in-law (outlaw?) has begun construction on the new house and the update is now ready for prime time. Just click on “Photo Gallery” from the main menu and see the goings-on, updated weekly!
[UPDATED 08/03/08]
MORE Changes
Nov 20th
Well, nothing you folks would see, though. I’ve grown immeasurably frustrated with PowWeb‘s Email system (Them’s the folks what host this web site) so I’m moving the whole shooting match, Email-wise, over to GMail. Visibly, nothing will change, unless you get a kick out of reading the FULL header on an Email. This post is more or less to let you all know that I might drop a few Emails over the next couple of days. Just use the ‘Contact Me’ page and I’ll not be able to escape you.
