working it…

Creating dual-boot w/SuSE and XP. So far so strange. More on that later. Meanwhile, am working on some new product reviews and will post them soon. One is a very interesting boiler unit that is also a water heater… it’s being installed in Pittsburgh and the whole unit bears scrutiny. Curious and efficient. Don’t know [...]

The Restaurant Antoine

Found this card with my father’s things. He went to New Orleans in, I think, early 1942, on his way to OCS. Most of his letters from the WWII era involve food. If Daddy had something good to eat, he was just fine. Stationed at Newport News, VA, he was a Lt., had something to [...]

Dual Boot

It’s taken a while to get everything loaded correctly, but I’m using Windows XP for a bit. I can have my SuSE when I need it but I’ve already grabbed OpenOffice 2, GIMP2.2, Picasa, Google Earth…
and we’ll just see how this Windows works for me. More about it all in a bit, meanwhile, I’m trying [...]

Death by Swiffer

It ain’t gonna’ happen. Swiffer WetJet cleaning fluid does not kill pets. Urban Myth.
But you know what will kill dogs? Grapes and raisins.

We’re glad you came to us for the facts about the rumor circulating. Swiffer Wet cloths and WetJet liquid solution do not contain antifreeze or any ingredient similar to it. In [...]

Save the Station

Washington NC has a marvelous Pure Oil Station, right downtown in front of the post office. [photo soon, we're drowning today, got this whole storm thing going on, 6+ inches of rain...]  It’s in fantastic condition. According to my sources (meaning — here’s what my neighbor told me) the "ladies" of the Presbyterian Church have [...]

OpenSuSE 9.3 installation progress

I uploaded the contents of my harddrive to my websites for storage. Took 3 days to get it all up there. Then, after burning my 9.3 download to CD, I attempted to install the software. I’ve been attempting to install the software for the last hour and a half. After changing the bio to boot [...]

Rape the environment, use Katrina as an excuse to do it..

For Immediate Release / Contact: Tom Kiley / Daniel Weiss
Legislation to Drill off California Coast and in Arctic Wilderness Exploits Katrina for Long-Sought Regressive and Dangerous Energy Policy
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
WASHINGTON, DC – Representative George Miller (D-CA) issued the following statement on a new legislation offered today by Representative [...]

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