tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298551612012-01-29T19:22:56.681-08:00My personal rants. *WARNING* - I occasionally make stuff up. But not as often as CherkyB :)JohnnyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09077177285903173857noreply@blogger.comBlogger471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29855161.post-412338270686201412007-08-26T08:20:00.000-07:002007-08-26T08:35:42.297-07:00

I got this via Groxx (a spin-off of "This Is True", which has readers submit interesting or unusual news stories).Walking to the shops ‘damages planet more than going by car’ (The Times)Summary is that the food you eat has the highest Carbon Footprint of whatever you do, so to be green, forget the Prius, forget compact fluorescent light bulbs, buy local / grow your own, eat less beef, etc. Vegan,

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I went and had my Acrobatic Flight Lesson today.In a word - Wahoo!The first thing to do was to make sure I could get into and out of the airplane. Yeah - you laugh. These are not big planes, and putting my 6'4" lumberjack frame into a 2-seater Citabria took a bit of contortion.Good news is that I didn't break the plane. Before Nava gave me the gift, we had WebbieM and CessnyZ, (who owns the

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Thought I'd start this series on truly amazing thinkers.Some might call it "folk logic", like snapping your fingers to keep the tigers away. No tigers near here, so it must be working.This is also known as bad logic, or plain old stupidity.I like to think of it as a Shrubbery, or the type of logic Shrub employs."Daylight Exacerbates Warming (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition, April 16th

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Had a bad day at work last Thursday. Made a big mistake by (a) showing up at the project staff, and (b) forgetting to check my values and mouth at the door.Started off with the big project manager talking about the project we're re-using a large portion of our design from dropping the ball and not designing their stuff to work in our environment. Wouldn't be an issue, other than our project is

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Had to run to the bathroom tonight. Day after Nava's birthday - meant to go out to dinner, but Nava was avoiding her singing group, and didn't feel like going out. So I made dinner - and opened some wine. And a 2nd bottle. And then the news game on.I'm still laughting about it - newscaster said something, at which point Nava said "Hamsters"? Item was "Entertained fans for decades" - Nava heard "

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Haven't posted for 3 weeks.Would have a good excuse if I said I hadn't been on a computer at home during those 3 weeks. Yep, I'd have a good excuse if that was the case.Was sick for a week - spent a lot of time on the computer, but playing Civ IV. Nice thing about Civ IV is it's like TV - you dont' need a brain to do it, and you can set it on an easy setting and conquer the world with a little

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The new desktop arrived on Thursday - Velocity Micro Vector GX. VM builds some very nice equipment, using quality components (aka you gonna pay a few dollars more than a Dell, but you'll get more reliable components as well). The new desktop has:Intel Core 2 Duo 6400 (2.13GHz / 2M cache) CPU / 965 Chipset & Motherboard2G RAM320GB 300MB/sec 16MB cache SATA hard-diskLite-Scribe CD/DVD burner (you

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Quit smoking 10 days ago (Sunday, Feb 11th, 9am Grenada time), after smoking for most of the last 20 years. Funny thing is, it wasn't that tough! After years and years of never buying cartons of cigarettes, hoping I would quit soon, and knowing that any impetus to quit would run into the road block of having 5 packs of cigarettes left. So let's just say quiting has been in the back of my mind

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New laptop is working fine. And I've changed my backup strategy, which was to do a backup, but leave the backup on the laptop itself, and write to a CD every month or so, when I got around to it.That worked for a while (once or twice), but it'd been over 10 months since I'd dumped the backup off the old laptop when it died, so the "I'll get around to it" strategy wasn't very good for me.Got an

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It's time to catch-up on what's been going on -New laptop arrived (see here), works great, just could accept the old laptops hard disk (new laptop is setup for SATA, old one was ATA, converters don't fit into laptop bay, and not sure what they'd do for a hard disk locked one anyway).So - sent the hard disk off to PWCrack.com to get them to unlock it, so I could recover the data. They were able to

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Received the replacement for the previous laptop that died - it was a 500m, which was a ~4yr old design. They said they didn't have that model around anymore, so would give me something somewhat newer. The replacement is a Dell e1405 - a very good, middle-of-the-road laptop:Intel® Core™ Duo T2050 (1.60GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 533 MHz FSB), 100G,1G of RAM14" WXGA+7200RPM hard disk8X CD/DVD dual-layer

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Hate Dell.Had 2 problems on Saturday, as LavaN describes here- the "back-light" in our Samsung Syncmaster 204T, after a bit of vigorous dusting. Well - average dusty, and then vigorous pulling to try to get it to raise back to the right height.Good news - it's under warranty, and Samsung offers a replacement program (same or better monitor, you get the new one and send back the old one, which

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Got this in an eMail today, from someone I don't know. With an attachment. It made it through 2 Spam filters, and 2 Virus filters, but I'm still not opening the attachment. Didn't open the attachment, but I was tempted to, as the rest of the email was kind of funny, and written in a CherkyB kind of way.HOLIDAY EATING TIPS:1. Avoid carrot sticks. Anyone who puts carrots on a holiday buffet table

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Thanks to SillyHumans for the heads up.Problem with politics in the United States is the 2 parties are entrenched, and represent their more extreme followers than their majorities. To keep their 3 Sigma vocal minority happy, what WE get is eithera government which does little, when you have a president from 1 party, and a congress controlled by the otherora unrepresentative government, when party

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I knew I was going to regret it, when Nava got Blog tagged. I convinced Nava to *not* tag me, but I guess Rhonda ran out of Blog folks in our circle to tag, so she broke down and tagged me.IMO, tagging is right up there with chain letters and urban legends. I don't pass them on. My choice.On the good side, Rhonda's tag got me to go visit her blog, and she has a link to a very amazing picture of

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Thanks to Gizmodo for the link. They've got more Best of over there.

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How evil are you?I was shooting for Twisted, like SillyHumans - no hope for Angelic, like blueberry, but hey - if you're going to do something, don't do it half-assed! Or should I say, don't do it like a Republican.Thanks to SillyHumans and blueberry for the quiz!

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We here at The JohnnyB value the privacy of our readers.No personally-identifiable information is collected from our readers.We do, however, collect some non-personally-identifiable information through the use of a cookie.Examples of such information are operating system, name of internet service provider, and browser version. This data is collected so that we at The JohnnyB can better tailor our

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This is in the MaxieC-Wise-Guy themed humor... (click once on the picture to activate, and a 2nd time to play it).

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Click twice on the video below to watch (once to activate, once to start video).

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To clarify the melt down that happened yesterday at our house (see the P.S. at the end of Nava's blog), when Nava's new digital camera, a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ1 (need to figure out how to get paid for raving about that camera, like I did in comments on Nava's Who Needs Santa post), wouldn't download photo's for a while...The problem was created by NavaThe problem had nothing to do with the

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Scooter had a funny comment while he was doing his "death-watch" and sitting outside in the Smokers Patio, talking to me as I got my nicotene fix.Being a svelt fella, he said maybe I need a "Butt-Horn" to help me into the seat.Could have a travel version, to help people get into airplane seats.Then I said it's a good thing CherkyB isn't here, or he'd say there something like "That's not what you

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I work for one of those high tech companies, doing chip design. Same unnamed place as CherkyB. Which probably explains us knowing each other, and his frequent digs about me (CherkyB - FYI - today's was Color Blind LumberJack day).Unfortunately, I work for a team that took over a project from another team, which not only had their own way of doing things (one of the banes of chip design is having

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Over at Nava's blog, she's got a tall "Jesus Ad" on the left side, where you can find Masterworks of Religious Art. Funny thing is, if you're one of Nava's friends, the picture they show there is about the last thing you'd want.Wonder how many people will click through just to see what other stuff they have that you can be amused by? I did, and found out it's for a "Family Art" place, and they

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I read that and understand right away what it means ("Did you eat yet?", which boils down to "Jeet Yet?" for Minnesotans).Found this US Accent Quiz on the blogosphere (over at SillyHumans), took it, and it hit the nail on the hammer -What American accent do you have? Your Result: North Central"North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably

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Belmont, CA's proposed smoking ban is not law yet, but is setting a dangerous precedent.This time, it appears to be the CA Democrats that are losing their minds. First it was disagree with the Bush Whitehouse, go to jail. Now it's do something I don't like, go to jail.Someone's smoke bothers you - ban it. Yes, 2nd hand smoke causes cancer, and kills some people. So does obesity and heart disease.

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The Tongue Splitter has been bottled for ~3 weeks today, but the b-trip to Bangalore got in the way of me labelling it previously, but less than 2 days after my return (see "The f... you at the drive thru..."), the labels are done, and passed the creative review of Nava. Of course, it helps that:(a) I'm using one of her paintings as the main component(b) I mention her on the label(c) I got Avery

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Got back from India this morning (about 2:15am Sunnyvale time), after a 24 hour (door-to-door) trip home that turned into 36 hours. And why? Is Joe Pesci said it best -"Don't ever go up to the drive-thru, ok? Always walk up to the counter. You know why? Ok, ok, ok, ok. They fuck you at the drive-thru, ok? They fuck you at the drive-thru. They know you gonna be miles away before you find out you

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My friend Alex sent me this one - don't enough know if he reads my blogs!If he doesn't, the timing is impeccable.His note: "Life in England… Exciting venues to explore!!! ;-) Warning! Not for individuals with a sensitive disposition."Picture here.I'll try to see if I can get some pictures of the original disturbing image in India :)

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All the Indians working at the airport would be 1 clue.All the guys hanging out at baggage claim to help you find your bad would be another.My guy, I'll call him Ravi-I-think-I'm-the-best-at-finding-a-sucker, picks me, and starts in. What does my bag look like, did I fly business class. Is it this one (no, it's a purple wheely bag - borrowed Nava's at the last minute, so I'd have more room for

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Howdy from India. I've been here slightly less than 12hrs, but decided I should go ahead and start blogging about it anyway.On the flight from SFO to LHR (that's "London Heathrow" for you poorly educated republicans who're about to loose both houses of Congress), seems there was one flyer who just wasn't having a good day. And decided to take it out on the flight crew.After the first yelling and

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It started off innocently enough. New printer arrived, and Nava wanted it setup. Nava blogs it here, and posted this pict of me going into the loft in the garage, looking for the old printer box.CherkyB posted it as Disturbing Image Found On Web, which then got into a minor argument on copyright infringement in the comment section of CherkyB's blog, and then my bragging that CherkyB had

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Haven't blogged in a couple of weeks, mostly because I've had nothing interesting to write about. But, if I use that as an excuse, then maybe I should have never started the blog....Nava and I are grand-aunt and uncles yet again - her nephew Shai, and his wife Tamar, had a daughter (first grand niece), Yalli. And, her niece Liron, and her husband Yossi, had a second son.Finally got around to

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Hoped to bottle the Tongue Splitter yesterday, but I decided to do some gardening first.I planted some Trumpet Vine along fence on one side of the house, next too the garden. After 5 or 6 years, it was so thick it needed frequent trimming to get to the garden. Nava and I started a taking it out a month ago, and clipping it into "salad" (Nava's term) to maximize how much we could get in the lawn

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Why is siphoning beer (or wine) off of the junk in the bottom of the fermenter called "racking"?Hell if I know, but Bret and I racked the TongueSplitter into the secondary fermenter tonight. Had a few problems w/ the siphoning process last time, since I didn't have a good seal between the Auto-Siphon and the racking hose, so I used some rubber bands as clamps this time, and it worked just like

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Brewed up another batch of beer yesterday evening. It's called TongueSplitter, from Northern Brewer Ale Kit's collection. It's called TongueSplitter because it has a lot of hops - bittering hops, flavor hops and aroma hops. And in pretty big quantities - 5 oz vs. the usual 1-2oz. Should be similar to a lot of the IPA Bret, the neighbor who wanted to see how making homebrew was done, came over @ 6

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Play Poker. Now, many of you might say it can be fun, but you'll loose lots of money. If that's the case, you're playing with the wrong crowd. Sunday night's came was in honor of my brother, James, being in town on a visit. Scooter and RIK came over, from the old poker days with James. Tehas was out of town, on another one of his business trips to save his career (if you don't have a real job, at

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All of you who know me know that beer is pretty much my religion. I love to drink it, brew it, think about it, and sometimes blog about it.Drinking your own tasty beer is fantastic. Getting to the end of summer, when you haven't brewed in 3-4 months, and are running out of it is always a time of concern. But, the weather has been cooling off a bit, so the nesting instinct is kicking in again, and

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First it was the ants. Then it was more ants. And then more ants. After about 10 cans of Terro Outdoor Ant Killer Spray, they've stopped coming into the house. And, I just topped off the Gourmet Liquid Ant Bait in 4 KM Ant Pro Units, I finally seem to be winning the battle against insects.Or so I thought.Yesterday, as I was brushing past the hibiscus plants, dragging out the garbage totes, I

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Watching the idiot box, and despite managed to catch a few seconds of a commerical before we could grab the TiVo remote and skip over them. Nava says to me "Hey - I'm going to record that for you - you love that guy.". Then she asks me why I laugh so hard @ Nick from the BBC show My Family.So I answers "Because he's the best lay-about."And Nava asks "Excuse me, are you sure he's the best?"Now, I

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Most of you who know me know that I'm a pretty liberal guy, and tend towards the ecologically minded, without quite being a granola head. CherkyB says I'm a Bolshevik. But he's a Republican, so is prone to exaggerations, making stuff up, and ignoring laws that don't suit him (like his pal, GeorgeW). But, he grew up outside of Buffalo (not Love Canal, but close enough), so you have to make some

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Nava was telling me over dinner about a survey her niece was doing to finish up her degree. 10-15 questions on a some topic (hers is on a Israeli woman who was kicked out of a store for breast feeding her child). Nava said there was a 5 point scale, with 1 being you "strongly disagree" and 5 being you "strongly disagree". Sounds like an Israeli survey:1 = Strongly Disagree2 = Don't like it3 =

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Hmmmm - shrimp. Jumbo Prawns. Went to a Xanh's Vietnamese Restaurant in Mtn View last night. Very tasty. Ahi Tuna Tartar was very nice - the sauce overpowered the raw tuna a bit, making it difficult to taste the tuna beneath it. But still quite tasty.Shaking Beef - filet mignon with a special marinade, cubed, grilled and served on a bed of greens. Nava loved it, and I thought it was a good way to

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Nava and I painted our living room over the weekend. About 18 months later than we planned. We had decided to paint the interior of our house in the October of 2004. Nothing fancy - off white on most walls, and a wall of color in each room to make it a bit more interesting. Should take just 6-8 weekends. It’s a small house, so shouldn’t be too bad, and doing it ourselves should cost just $1000-

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BrankyP says I should add a comment to my blog saying "Getting readers by gravity" - a joke on both (a) not blogging often, and (b) having a large head, which causes smaller objects to be pulled towards it.Which is stronger - gravity or inertia? In physics, it depends on the velocity of the body in motion, the ratio of masses, etc. In business, it's deadlines (gravity) vs. things as usual (

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Had a team building event yesterday - Quarterly in our corporate misspeak. Spent tons of money so that people could go out paddling on canoes / pseudo kayaks / paddle boats and splash each other, or do tug-of-war and 3-legged races on land. Now, trying to splash or capsize your corworkers isn't normally considered team building, nor is pitting half of your employees against the other half. But,

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