Milk
Milk does not last long in my place, I just bought a 1/2 gallon yesterday, and well I finished it off today. And I want some milk right now. maybe I should buy by the gallon instead of 1/2 gallons.
Got this joke in the mail and though I would post it here
There’s a teacher in a small Massachusetts town. She asks her class how
many
of them are John Kerry fans. Not really knowing what a Kerry fan is, but
wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raise their hands
except
one boy, Johnny. The teacher asks Johnny why he has decided to be
different.
Johnny says, “I’m not a John Kerry fan.” The teacher says, “Why aren’t
you
a
John Kerry fan?” Johnny says, “I’m a George Bush fan.” The teacher asks
why
he’s a George Bush fan. The boy says, “Well, my mom’s a George Bush fan,
and
my Dad’s a George Bush fan, so I’m a George Bush fan!” The teacher is
angry,
so she says, “What if your mom was a moron and your dad was an idiot?
What would that make you?” Johnny says, “That would make me a John Kerry
fan…..”
This is a pain
Right now some one decided that they did not want to talk on their cell phone in the office, so now they are in the hall, and talking very loudly, I don’t care about the car trouble that the person that they are talking to is having. I will people would have more courtesy when they talk on their cell phones, or that she only has $100 for the rest of the month. and she seams to just be getting louder and louder, why does she not just shut up. The stupid of people on cell phones have gotten out of hand, I have now seen in stores signs asking people to please not talk on the phone when they are being waited on.
I am not against cell phones, I just wish people would use their head when they are on them.
Talk shows
I think I am becoming a talk show junkie. There are 2 talk shows I just hate missing. And I enjoy listening to talk shows in general, it is the only radio I can stand now. If I want music I will listen to my music collection, I will never don’t listen to music on the radio. The 2 talk shows I like are Issue Etc. on KFUO out of St. Louis, at 4:05pm EST available over the Internet and my second favorite is Rush Limbaugh
Google and blogs
In the age of blogging, their searches have returned some interesting stuff. Just today I was looking at a list of were people come from when they come to my web site. And one was from a search on google for banning Russian IP address. For some reason I was the 8th hit. It saw the entry on Banned IP address because of spammers, and it also saw on the side of the page a link to my friends blog “John in Russia”. I see some day google will move known blogs out of their main index and maybe setup a new index just for blogs. Also I would guess that maybe they will make it possible to search and remove blogs out of the results. I have had problems with my own blog showing up in searches I do, but it make sense I am searching for things I am interested in and my blog about them too. So it only make sense that I should find my own site on google when I search for stuff.
A funny juxtaposition
Today as I was giving my pastors a lift to the airport, and on the drive out I saw the following 2 bumper stickers on the same car. The first was “Hate is not a family value” the second was a kerry sticker. The funny part is that the majority of the kerry base is built on hate, Hatred for Bush. So to see those 2 stickers next each other was a funny juxtaposion.
Looks like I am still getting slashdot Visitors
The traffic has died down a bit, but I still see that the traffic is higher then usual. I wonder how many are just stragglers, how many are return visits because they like it, and how many are returning trolls. Over the last few days I been getting trolls in the responses, which I have deleted. Well if there are some true new readers that like the site welcome, enjoy your stay and thanks for comming.
The video is back up
I have put the video back up on line, I hope that the traffic from slashdot has died down some. I am not going to put a link right to the file here, just to keep things light. But it should still be on the front page, if not go to the Technology section to find it, it is under that entry labeled “CMU’s Robotics Institute” Sorry I had to take it down, it was burning allot of bandwidth, and I figured I would let a few days pass before I put it back up.
Guns don’t kill people, abortionist kill people
This election year 1) scares me and 2) saddens me. Why? You may ask. Simple this, the next for years may (if Peroutka or [to a lesser extent] Bush get elected) could help save many many lives of the unborn if a judge needs to be appointed. But if the pro-murder kerry gets in, we could see the crime of murdering the Innocent unborn continue. I live in a swing state, so I just can not go vote for Peroutka, I really want to. But can I in fully good conscience vote for Bush after the answer he gave about roe vs wae. So I really have to site down and think about it, Bush could win PA, but if I don’t vote for him (and others like me, and vote for Peroutka, who probably will not win PA) kerry is bound to win. Right now I have a spreed sheet I am working on. But then the question is, is this the right way to go about it. Right now in my spreed sheet it is still a close race between Peroutka and Bush. What ever happened to the time of White and Black, Republican and Democrat? now all I see are shades of gray and 3rd parties.
The Gateway laptop’s hard drive
Finally the first partion of the hard drive on the gateway finished the bad block scan. It is now on the second of the 3. But they are much smaller when compared to the other one. Right now on the second partion it is on block 194038/262144 if it goes for another 11 days I will be able to claim that it took a full month to scan the hard drive for bad blocks.
Boom that hurt
Ok here is the final total, I have moved the video file for now but here is the total before the move of the file: 51839.16 Megabytes (Yes that is about 50Gb, I bet my hosting company loves me now) So for the next 2 days I will not have that video up to save bandwidth, that is untill the slashdot affect is over.
The Video that was posted on slashdot
Ok if you clicked on the link at slashdot to view the video please Click here, to see the post. I had turned off the Hotlink Protection for the slashdot stuff, but now I have turned it back on again. I don’t think it should affect people much now, since it is almost off the front page of slashdot. If you are here from slashdot and got redirected here, I do apologize.
WOW, ok that is alot of bandwidth used
Ok I got into the office and checked the bandwidth used, and it now reads 14911.41 Megabytes (~14Gb) WOW!!! that is more then I ever though I could server from my web site. Well lets see if I get slasdoted off the net today? Well I am investigating if I can buy a bit more bandwidth after the day is over just in case I use up all my bandwidth today. Well the good thing is, this is probably the only time EVER I will ever ever use this much bandwidth in a month (I am thinking this is more like what I should see over a year)
Lets see how much traffic /. can bring here
I just got something submitted to /. that links to a file here from /. So far this morning the bandwidth usage is up at 336 Mb used and the story was posted at 7:30am and here we are about 2 hours and 15 minutes later and the site is up, I don’t think /. causes all the traffic people say, but we will see when the geeks start to wake up and hit /.
SWEET!!!!
I just did a couple of searches on google today, one was to see how many pages are linked to my site, it returned 68. Before it was only returning 33. And I did a search for just my name Michael P. O’Connor and found that it is the first real hit. So if some one searches for my full name, and just hits “I’m feeling luck” they will be sent to my site. SWEET!!! is all I can say. Ok I know it is not important but hay it is nice to be so high on the google list for my own name.
Why did I do this searches? because I just was wondering since the odd referer coming from google, that I would not have though would have gotten me in the top 100 but were still there in the top 20 (and top 10 in one case).
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