Well, I know the discussion for iPods goes back and forth. Safe or unsafe? Should or shouldn't? Why or why not? I think I'll jump in with my two cents, because its my blog and I can talk about whatever I want, right?
So, on to business.
I love my iPod, in fact, I love it so much that I think I'm gonna upgrade it to the DIY 16-gig drive. No, I don't have the new little Nano that plays video, I have the old Gen 2 one, a sexy little black and chrome number that I bought for $40 from my friend. So, I have this little cutie 2-gig Nano that I want to upgrade, and I found this awesome little Instructible that shows how to swap the hard drive out for a Flash drive, which is a faster booting, longer lasting, less energy taking upgrade. Note that you should read this Instructible thoroughly before attempting, and don't blame me if you screw your iPod up. This probably doesn't work for regular iPods or video iPods.
If it works, tell the world you learned it from me. If it fails, I don't know nothing about it. LOL
So, tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Rather then get into the political nonsense about who stole what land, and did we really need smallpox in those blankets, how about instead we remember that we are collectively still a lucky bunch. We have entirely too much food, too much money, and too much time on our hands. Be grateful for this, the gravy moments of the American Empire. The world favors our language for business, our currency for transactions, and our entertainment complexes for escapist fare. We really do have to give thanks. Thanks for being well-fed, thanks for having enough food availability to be picky and say, "May I have more turkey please?" and electricity for watching two teams have a train wreck on the football field.
We should give thanks, for clean water, good health, and warm memories. I wanted to volunteer at the local Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless, but unfortunately, family pressures kept that from happening. Nothing hammers home that you should be grateful until you see someone being grateful for a portion of food that fifth-graders would find lacking. As I sit, sipping coffee and enjoy a scented candle and warm South Texas weather, I'm grateful to God for a house, food, and leisure time.
I'm taking a moment to savor what I have. I am blessed, today.
Ok, moving on to other stuff here. Anyone remember the 80's, the concept of conspicuous consumption? I can eat caviar for breakfast and peacock tongues for lunch because I can afford it... that mentality? My God in Heaven, there is a drug to lengthen your eyelashes! Granted, it was designed to treat glaucoma, but it makes eyelashes grow! Can you imagine, I mean, Rogaine originally treated something completely different, but it made hair grow... but your eyelashes? I'm sorry, I never picked up a woman at the bar based on her great eyelashes. Great tush, nice bod, sexy hair, yeah. Eyelashes? Sorry, ladies. As much as lovemaking should include gazing deep into your partner's eyes, somehow I can't see myself thinking, "Man, this is so great. Her eyelashes are off the chain!" Or, even better, "God, babe, you give great eyelash!"
Go ahead and take a moment.
On to the latest way the Government screws the troops: if you took that $20k signing bonus to join and got hurt in combat and are disabled, the military is asking for a pro-rated cut of that signing bonus back.
Excuse me?
I don' t agree with the war, its someone's bloody violent porno, IMHO, but for god's sake, these boys and girls put bodies and lives on the line in the name of supporting the United States, and paid ultimate prices. Let's not forget that medieval law literally allowed a pound of flesh as payment for injustice, so taking injury in the line of duty pays the ultimate price. But, since they cannot serve their contract out because of on-the-job injuries, they must turn over money fairly given? Would an athlete be forced to return a signing bonus if he's crippled on the play field? No. Why then, should a soldier who was hurt in the most noble way, serving in the armed forces, be forced to, as well?
More reasons to bring our lads home. Protect America by making her strong, not by getting mired in a region that has been at war for thousands of years, on and off. Let them keep their earned money. Each drop of blood they shed in line of duty is more precious than a measly $20k.
Shame on you, penny-pinching losers. This is as big an issue as the fact taht generals can wear Dragon Skin, much more effective body armor than the Interceptor crap currently bought by the military, but soldiers who get it on their own nickel can't wear...
So, I saw the "One Less" commercials that promote how to keep your girls safe from this STD that is very common. Until the research tells you that it only covers about 30% of the human papilloma viruses out there. So, give my kid a shot that will have a partially inactivated virus that may cause a kind of cervical cancer to my child because she might catch it later on.... ok. And people wonder why I don't vaccinate my kids - got an exemption. I hope they don't try and make me shoot them with diseases like those poor souls in NJ - they actually threatened to take their kids away if they were not inoculated. Fascists line up to the right, please.
Well, that's it for now. No riding til later - hopefully I'll get to get my ten miles in. If my hemlet ever shows up. Sometimes I hate holidays.
So, on to business.
I love my iPod, in fact, I love it so much that I think I'm gonna upgrade it to the DIY 16-gig drive. No, I don't have the new little Nano that plays video, I have the old Gen 2 one, a sexy little black and chrome number that I bought for $40 from my friend. So, I have this little cutie 2-gig Nano that I want to upgrade, and I found this awesome little Instructible that shows how to swap the hard drive out for a Flash drive, which is a faster booting, longer lasting, less energy taking upgrade. Note that you should read this Instructible thoroughly before attempting, and don't blame me if you screw your iPod up. This probably doesn't work for regular iPods or video iPods.
If it works, tell the world you learned it from me. If it fails, I don't know nothing about it. LOL
So, tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Rather then get into the political nonsense about who stole what land, and did we really need smallpox in those blankets, how about instead we remember that we are collectively still a lucky bunch. We have entirely too much food, too much money, and too much time on our hands. Be grateful for this, the gravy moments of the American Empire. The world favors our language for business, our currency for transactions, and our entertainment complexes for escapist fare. We really do have to give thanks. Thanks for being well-fed, thanks for having enough food availability to be picky and say, "May I have more turkey please?" and electricity for watching two teams have a train wreck on the football field.
We should give thanks, for clean water, good health, and warm memories. I wanted to volunteer at the local Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless, but unfortunately, family pressures kept that from happening. Nothing hammers home that you should be grateful until you see someone being grateful for a portion of food that fifth-graders would find lacking. As I sit, sipping coffee and enjoy a scented candle and warm South Texas weather, I'm grateful to God for a house, food, and leisure time.
I'm taking a moment to savor what I have. I am blessed, today.
Ok, moving on to other stuff here. Anyone remember the 80's, the concept of conspicuous consumption? I can eat caviar for breakfast and peacock tongues for lunch because I can afford it... that mentality? My God in Heaven, there is a drug to lengthen your eyelashes! Granted, it was designed to treat glaucoma, but it makes eyelashes grow! Can you imagine, I mean, Rogaine originally treated something completely different, but it made hair grow... but your eyelashes? I'm sorry, I never picked up a woman at the bar based on her great eyelashes. Great tush, nice bod, sexy hair, yeah. Eyelashes? Sorry, ladies. As much as lovemaking should include gazing deep into your partner's eyes, somehow I can't see myself thinking, "Man, this is so great. Her eyelashes are off the chain!" Or, even better, "God, babe, you give great eyelash!"
Go ahead and take a moment.
On to the latest way the Government screws the troops: if you took that $20k signing bonus to join and got hurt in combat and are disabled, the military is asking for a pro-rated cut of that signing bonus back.
Excuse me?
I don' t agree with the war, its someone's bloody violent porno, IMHO, but for god's sake, these boys and girls put bodies and lives on the line in the name of supporting the United States, and paid ultimate prices. Let's not forget that medieval law literally allowed a pound of flesh as payment for injustice, so taking injury in the line of duty pays the ultimate price. But, since they cannot serve their contract out because of on-the-job injuries, they must turn over money fairly given? Would an athlete be forced to return a signing bonus if he's crippled on the play field? No. Why then, should a soldier who was hurt in the most noble way, serving in the armed forces, be forced to, as well?
More reasons to bring our lads home. Protect America by making her strong, not by getting mired in a region that has been at war for thousands of years, on and off. Let them keep their earned money. Each drop of blood they shed in line of duty is more precious than a measly $20k.
Shame on you, penny-pinching losers. This is as big an issue as the fact taht generals can wear Dragon Skin, much more effective body armor than the Interceptor crap currently bought by the military, but soldiers who get it on their own nickel can't wear...
So, I saw the "One Less" commercials that promote how to keep your girls safe from this STD that is very common. Until the research tells you that it only covers about 30% of the human papilloma viruses out there. So, give my kid a shot that will have a partially inactivated virus that may cause a kind of cervical cancer to my child because she might catch it later on.... ok. And people wonder why I don't vaccinate my kids - got an exemption. I hope they don't try and make me shoot them with diseases like those poor souls in NJ - they actually threatened to take their kids away if they were not inoculated. Fascists line up to the right, please.
Well, that's it for now. No riding til later - hopefully I'll get to get my ten miles in. If my hemlet ever shows up. Sometimes I hate holidays.
Ride safe.
SAroadbike
PS: I just had to come back and comment on some seriously asinine activities going on. Well, my wife still drives, because she is extremely pregnant and unable to bike any significant distance. She and I drove to the grocery store and decided, since our son was hungry, to eat at the local Jack in the Crack (Jack in the Box) so we could enjoy a juicy hamburger.
Well, this is in a shopping center that debouches onto the access road to Loop 1604 (San Antonio is so big we don't have one loop that goes around the city, but two) and they are doing construction on the intersection of Bandera and 1604. Well, the drive the exits onto the access road was blocked with traffic cones, so you're supposed to go another way. Well, some jackass decided to knock one road cone over and push the other to the side. Now, I understand when cones are moved, stacked to one side so they are out of the way, but there were three other cones standing to block the way!
So the shoppers in the shopping center ignored the standing ones and drove through the construction zone. I got this picture to show you just how bleeding obvious it is that this is a blocked area.
Well, you can see obviously that this is blocked from access. However, drivers, believing the driving a land yacht somehow exempts them from having to abide by the basic rules of the road, have decided to not pay attention to the other cones standing up, and drive past.
I'm sure I know what they were thinking, too. "Look at this - they let access through. They must have forgotten to take up the other cones. Oh, look, there's one right here that's all mushed up - they must have it here to keep us from wandering about."
Observe the land yachts going....
And let's not forget this other joker...
blatantly ignoring the situation. Let's pretend the others aren't there so we can drive through this little spot.
This annoyed the living daylights out of me, so I thought I would share it with you. It might have been the fact that this afternoon was almost ninety degrees outside. However, the temperature is supposed to change now that a cool front is coming through, and it is currently in the low sixties.
Enjoy eating that bird, and side of pork.
Mago
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