This commercial plays on tv all the time and is a service that is supposed to make your computer run faster.
Whether or not it's a scam, who knows... but what I want to know is...
If it says it's strictly for MS Windows and PC, then why in the commercial are 2 out of the 3 computers shown clearly macs??? One's a white iBook, another is an iMac - the black computer is the only one that's actually a PC!
This completely baffles me - if you're making a commercial for Windows/PC clean up software you would think the computers used in your commercial would be a PC!
3.27.2009
3.11.2009
Cute joke for Lent
One of my bosses received this joke in his email the other day and I thought it was funny and cute enough to post! Sure it might not be quite accurate, but it's still funny!
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A man down south loved to cook Venison on his grill, however the community he lived in was mostly Catholic and during Lent the smell of the deer meat on the grill drove them crazy as they couldn't eat it.
One day, several of them went to the man and explained it to him and convinced him to convert to Catholicism since most of the community was. The Priest cast holy water on the man, proclaiming "You were born a Baptist, you were raised as a Baptist, but now you are Catholic!"
The next weekend, the people in the community began to smell the deer meat on the grill again and promptly called the priest to go talk to the man. The priest quickly hurried over to the man's house, prepared to explain to him again how Lent works.
When he arrived however, he saw the man, standing over his grill with holy water, sprinkling the deer meat, saying "You were born a deer, you were raised as a deer, but now you are a catfish!"
3.04.2009
Mental Fung Shui
My aunt in the Carolinas forwarded this to me and I thought it was pretty good advice - some fun little reminders for life!
- 1) Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
- 2) Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
- 3) Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
- 4) When you say, 'I love you,' mean it.
- 5) When you say, 'I'm sorry,' look the person in the eye.
- 6) Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
- 7) Believe in love at first sight.
- 8) Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.
- 9) Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
- 10) In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
- 11) Don't judge people by their relatives.
- 12) Talk slowly but think quickly.
- 13) When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, 'Why do you want to know?'
- 14) Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
- 15) Say 'bless you' when you hear someone sneeze.
- 16) When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
- 17) Remember the three R's:
- Respect for self;
- Respect for others;
- and Responsibility for all your actions.
- 18) Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
- 19) When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
- 20) Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
- 21) Spend some time alone.
2.14.2009
NIU: 1 Year after the tragedy
February 14, 2008 and Forward Together Forward are phrases that will probably always come to our mind when thinking about my alum mater, NIU.
I remember when I first heard the news.
I was in Rockford and had just stopped by my parents house after having met with Sarah's mom who was making our wedding cake. A friend of my mom's called the house, asking where I was and told my mom to turn on the local news. And there it was - footage of campus, less than a mile away from my apartment and talk of a shooting had occurred. At the time, they weren't exactly sure which building it occurred in. I thought for sure it was DuSable, as they were filming near that part of campus and almost everyone has a class there at some point in their NIU career as most of the gen-ed classes are taught in that building.
I immediately got in my car and took off back to my apartment down in DeKalb and grabbed my phone and started calling those I knew who may have been in class to make sure they were alright. I also called Jeff to let him know if he need a ride to work I could come pick him up so he could avoid having to take the bus and change routes on campus. Those I couldn't reach I left messages and texts.
Josh was still asleep when I got back. They hadn't announced the names of the victims yet - I was worried about whether or not any of them had been kids I worked with at the theater. When we went out for Valentine's Day later that night, we stopped by the theater and I asked if we had heard if any of our kids were involved, but there was no news yet.
Although I had just graduated 2 months prior, I still lived and worked in DeKalb. I went to the vigil that night, as a recent alumni. What bothered me most was the "what if" it had it happened the previous semester? Just 2 months before did I regularly cut through Cole Hall to get to one of my classes twice a week. We've all had classes there - I had my only math class and my intro to journalism class in that room. I went to a church service one Sunday in that room. I had journalism design classes in the lab underneath that room.
My parents said they were playing interviews of students on Fox News that night - I caught part of Desiree's. We were never really that close, however we worked at the Northern Star together for a few semesters. I was one of the top page designers on staff at the time, and she started out writing (I want to say for Weekender, which I did a lot of the design work for) and was eventually one of the section editors who stuck around a little bit in the evenings. I sometimes worked with her to get content to put on her sections pages. I know she's talked about it a lot since and shared her story, but I still can't even begin to imagine the ordeal she went though, being caught inside the room there. My heart really goes out to her and all the others that had to go through that. I still get a little choked up just thinking about it, and reading what others have written about it - I'm getting more emotional in my old age!
I really feel that I can say I'm a little closer to people I knew from NIU than I was about a year ago, as this tragedy really brought us all together. I've reconnected with some and gotten to know casual acquaintances better. True, it's a little harder to keep in touch with some since I moved back to Rockford, but that's what social networking sites are for, right?
I remember when I first heard the news.
I was in Rockford and had just stopped by my parents house after having met with Sarah's mom who was making our wedding cake. A friend of my mom's called the house, asking where I was and told my mom to turn on the local news. And there it was - footage of campus, less than a mile away from my apartment and talk of a shooting had occurred. At the time, they weren't exactly sure which building it occurred in. I thought for sure it was DuSable, as they were filming near that part of campus and almost everyone has a class there at some point in their NIU career as most of the gen-ed classes are taught in that building.
I immediately got in my car and took off back to my apartment down in DeKalb and grabbed my phone and started calling those I knew who may have been in class to make sure they were alright. I also called Jeff to let him know if he need a ride to work I could come pick him up so he could avoid having to take the bus and change routes on campus. Those I couldn't reach I left messages and texts.
Josh was still asleep when I got back. They hadn't announced the names of the victims yet - I was worried about whether or not any of them had been kids I worked with at the theater. When we went out for Valentine's Day later that night, we stopped by the theater and I asked if we had heard if any of our kids were involved, but there was no news yet.
Although I had just graduated 2 months prior, I still lived and worked in DeKalb. I went to the vigil that night, as a recent alumni. What bothered me most was the "what if" it had it happened the previous semester? Just 2 months before did I regularly cut through Cole Hall to get to one of my classes twice a week. We've all had classes there - I had my only math class and my intro to journalism class in that room. I went to a church service one Sunday in that room. I had journalism design classes in the lab underneath that room.
My parents said they were playing interviews of students on Fox News that night - I caught part of Desiree's. We were never really that close, however we worked at the Northern Star together for a few semesters. I was one of the top page designers on staff at the time, and she started out writing (I want to say for Weekender, which I did a lot of the design work for) and was eventually one of the section editors who stuck around a little bit in the evenings. I sometimes worked with her to get content to put on her sections pages. I know she's talked about it a lot since and shared her story, but I still can't even begin to imagine the ordeal she went though, being caught inside the room there. My heart really goes out to her and all the others that had to go through that. I still get a little choked up just thinking about it, and reading what others have written about it - I'm getting more emotional in my old age!
I really feel that I can say I'm a little closer to people I knew from NIU than I was about a year ago, as this tragedy really brought us all together. I've reconnected with some and gotten to know casual acquaintances better. True, it's a little harder to keep in touch with some since I moved back to Rockford, but that's what social networking sites are for, right?
1.26.2009
Heart-warming story, especially for teachers!
One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down. It took the remainder of the class period to finish their assignment, and as the students left the room, each one handed in the papers.
That Saturday, the teacher wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and listed what everyone else had said about that individual.
On Monday she gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire class was smiling. 'Really?' she heard whispered. 'I never knew that I meant anything to anyone!' and, 'I didn't know others liked me so much,' were most of the comments.
No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. She never knew if they discussed them after class or with their parents, but it didn't matter. The exercise had accomplished its purpose. The students were happy20with themselves and one another. That group of students moved on.
Several years later, one of the students was killed in Vietnam and his teacher attended the funeral of that special student. She had never seen a serviceman in a military coffin before. He looked so handsome, so mature. The church was packed with his friends. One by one those who loved him took a last walk by the coffin. The teacher was the last one to bless the coffin.
As she stood there, one of the soldiers who acted as pallbearer came up to her. 'Were you Mark's math teacher?' he asked. She nodded: 'yes.' Then he said: 'Mark talked about you a lot.'
After the funeral, most of Mark's former classmates went together to a luncheon. Mark's mother and father were there, obviously waiting to speak with his teacher. 'We want to show you something,' his father said, taking a wallet out of his pocket 'They found this on Mark when he was killed. We thought you might recognize it.'
Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two worn pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times. The teacher knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which she had listed all the good things each of Mark's classmates had said about him.
''Thank you so much for doing that,' Mark's mother said. 'As you can see, Mark treasured it.'
All of Mark's former classmates started to gather around. Charlie smiled rather sheepishly and said, 'I still have my list. It's in the top drawer of my desk at home.'
Chuck's wife said, 'Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album.'
'I have mine too,' Marilyn said. 'It's in my diary'
Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her pocketbook, took out her wallet and showed her worn and frazzled list to the group. 'I carry this with me at all times,' Vicki said and without batting an eyelash, she continued: 'I think we all saved our lists'
That's when the teacher finally sat down and cried. She cried for Mark and for all his friends who would never see him again.
The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one day will be. So please, tell the people you love and care for, that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.
That Saturday, the teacher wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and listed what everyone else had said about that individual.
On Monday she gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire class was smiling. 'Really?' she heard whispered. 'I never knew that I meant anything to anyone!' and, 'I didn't know others liked me so much,' were most of the comments.
No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. She never knew if they discussed them after class or with their parents, but it didn't matter. The exercise had accomplished its purpose. The students were happy20with themselves and one another. That group of students moved on.
Several years later, one of the students was killed in Vietnam and his teacher attended the funeral of that special student. She had never seen a serviceman in a military coffin before. He looked so handsome, so mature. The church was packed with his friends. One by one those who loved him took a last walk by the coffin. The teacher was the last one to bless the coffin.
As she stood there, one of the soldiers who acted as pallbearer came up to her. 'Were you Mark's math teacher?' he asked. She nodded: 'yes.' Then he said: 'Mark talked about you a lot.'
After the funeral, most of Mark's former classmates went together to a luncheon. Mark's mother and father were there, obviously waiting to speak with his teacher. 'We want to show you something,' his father said, taking a wallet out of his pocket 'They found this on Mark when he was killed. We thought you might recognize it.'
Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two worn pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times. The teacher knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which she had listed all the good things each of Mark's classmates had said about him.
''Thank you so much for doing that,' Mark's mother said. 'As you can see, Mark treasured it.'
All of Mark's former classmates started to gather around. Charlie smiled rather sheepishly and said, 'I still have my list. It's in the top drawer of my desk at home.'
Chuck's wife said, 'Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album.'
'I have mine too,' Marilyn said. 'It's in my diary'
Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her pocketbook, took out her wallet and showed her worn and frazzled list to the group. 'I carry this with me at all times,' Vicki said and without batting an eyelash, she continued: 'I think we all saved our lists'
That's when the teacher finally sat down and cried. She cried for Mark and for all his friends who would never see him again.
The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one day will be. So please, tell the people you love and care for, that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.
1.19.2009
Getting Stupified and Down with the Sickness!
Friday night I went to The Rave/Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee with my brother in laws Caleb and Ethan and a friend of Caleb's and the guy's girlfriend and we saw Skindred and Disturbed. We had a lot of fun! Josh didn't go because it was like $40 a ticket and he said he could think of better ways to get a headache with $40 plus he's not really into going to concerts (probably the only thing my ex was good for, lol...) - instead he went over to one of his co-worker's and played Halo all night, which I guess we're doing next week, as they do this every Friday night - it's social interaction so I'm all for it, plus Sarah sounds thrilled to have another girl joining! hehe
Anyways... parking up there sucked because not only were Disturbed and Skindred playing, but Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (whoever they are - the emo kids seem to like em) was playing in the underground so there was twice the crowd. Once we got parked and in Skindred was halfway thru their set, which was good - I havent seen them since they played Wing Ding like 5 years ago. We got near the front during the set change and the crowd went crazy when Drowning Pool's "Bodies" came on the sound system, which was pretty amusing!
Also, security sucked - Caleb forgot he had his switchblade in his pocket, which fyi, all my brother in laws carry knives on them (don't ask! lol). Well security there don't frisk as well as they do in Chicago or at Wing Ding - it was like pat arms, pat sides, okay you're good! Caleb's friend and the guy's girlfriend had to go in the will call line to get their tickets and walked right past the frisking people and then right past the guys scanning and tearing the tickets! LOL...
But omg! Concert first for me - I got knocked over in the crowd. For some reason the crowd started shoving each and every way, which im used to at these shows, but we got stuck in the middle when it started crushing inward and down i went with a bunch of other people! It sucked too cuz I couldn't get up - I was on the floor and people were ontop of my legs, rendering them useless, so I was basically hanging onto whoever I could to keep from going under. I saw Caleb's red wristband so I grabbed onto him with both hands and told him to pull me up, which was all we could do since I still had people down on my legs. When we all went down, the people on the outskirts of it were bracing themselves up so more wouldn't fall ontop of us. It was a bit scary! We decided to move back a little bit and stayed on the back and side of the mosh pit, lol...
Disturbed came out and it was fun - Dave Draiman was escorted onto the stage in straight jacket and a Hannibal Lector type mask, which he tore off when the song started ("Perfect Insanity"). They did "Voices" "Stupify" "The Game" "Stricken" "Liberate" "Land of Confusion" "Deify" "Industructible" "Prayer" "Remember" "Just Stop" and a few others while playing "Inside the Fire" and "The Sickness" for an encore. The only 'big' songs they didn't play were "Guarded" and "10 Thousand Fists."
I had fun and have the bruises to show it, although I must admit - their hometown Chicago crowd rocks a lot harder than Milwaukee! Unfortunately, for this warm up tour (Music as a Weapon 4 is this summer), they're not actually playing Chicago, which is odd! Last time I saw Disturbed was beginning of '05 - it was the first show with their new bassist and they debuted 2 new songs - "Hell" and "Monster."
Ethan also had girl try to pick him up too - it was funny! She was smashed next to him for most of Disturbed and apologized to him afterwards if it seemed creepy, which we all understood as everyone was smashed against each other, and then asked if he had a girlfriend and if she could have his number - he was like "aren't you with that guy over there?" and she was like "oh that's just my best friend..." i was sooo about to be like "i said that for 9 years and then married my best friend" it was funny cuz she was the 'type' that Ethan had just discussed not wanting to date like days beforehand too, lol...
Static-X has a new album coming out in March and will be touring later this year - I think I found new concert going peeps so Josh doesn't have to suffer going to them with me, lol...
Anyways... parking up there sucked because not only were Disturbed and Skindred playing, but Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (whoever they are - the emo kids seem to like em) was playing in the underground so there was twice the crowd. Once we got parked and in Skindred was halfway thru their set, which was good - I havent seen them since they played Wing Ding like 5 years ago. We got near the front during the set change and the crowd went crazy when Drowning Pool's "Bodies" came on the sound system, which was pretty amusing!
Also, security sucked - Caleb forgot he had his switchblade in his pocket, which fyi, all my brother in laws carry knives on them (don't ask! lol). Well security there don't frisk as well as they do in Chicago or at Wing Ding - it was like pat arms, pat sides, okay you're good! Caleb's friend and the guy's girlfriend had to go in the will call line to get their tickets and walked right past the frisking people and then right past the guys scanning and tearing the tickets! LOL...
But omg! Concert first for me - I got knocked over in the crowd. For some reason the crowd started shoving each and every way, which im used to at these shows, but we got stuck in the middle when it started crushing inward and down i went with a bunch of other people! It sucked too cuz I couldn't get up - I was on the floor and people were ontop of my legs, rendering them useless, so I was basically hanging onto whoever I could to keep from going under. I saw Caleb's red wristband so I grabbed onto him with both hands and told him to pull me up, which was all we could do since I still had people down on my legs. When we all went down, the people on the outskirts of it were bracing themselves up so more wouldn't fall ontop of us. It was a bit scary! We decided to move back a little bit and stayed on the back and side of the mosh pit, lol...
Disturbed came out and it was fun - Dave Draiman was escorted onto the stage in straight jacket and a Hannibal Lector type mask, which he tore off when the song started ("Perfect Insanity"). They did "Voices" "Stupify" "The Game" "Stricken" "Liberate" "Land of Confusion" "Deify" "Industructible" "Prayer" "Remember" "Just Stop" and a few others while playing "Inside the Fire" and "The Sickness" for an encore. The only 'big' songs they didn't play were "Guarded" and "10 Thousand Fists."
I had fun and have the bruises to show it, although I must admit - their hometown Chicago crowd rocks a lot harder than Milwaukee! Unfortunately, for this warm up tour (Music as a Weapon 4 is this summer), they're not actually playing Chicago, which is odd! Last time I saw Disturbed was beginning of '05 - it was the first show with their new bassist and they debuted 2 new songs - "Hell" and "Monster."
Ethan also had girl try to pick him up too - it was funny! She was smashed next to him for most of Disturbed and apologized to him afterwards if it seemed creepy, which we all understood as everyone was smashed against each other, and then asked if he had a girlfriend and if she could have his number - he was like "aren't you with that guy over there?" and she was like "oh that's just my best friend..." i was sooo about to be like "i said that for 9 years and then married my best friend" it was funny cuz she was the 'type' that Ethan had just discussed not wanting to date like days beforehand too, lol...
Static-X has a new album coming out in March and will be touring later this year - I think I found new concert going peeps so Josh doesn't have to suffer going to them with me, lol...
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