During MelFest, I was pulling about 3 wood ticks off myself a day. Today, I picked up Elvis, and when I set him down, I had a bug on my arm, where his neck had just been. At first glance, I thought it was a ladybug - because of it's size. Then at second glance, I noticed this was brown, and did not have beetle movements to it. When I looked ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday (Belated) Mel, sorry I'm a day late.

My car is a 11 year old Toyota Avalon. It had a hood with 11 years of paint chips from rocks in it, and I wanted that fixed. One of the soldiers that got back from Iraq early was telling me that the auto skills center on post does body work, including painting. Well, they do the paint, you do all the work leading up to it. So, I got to sand my ( Read more... )

So, currently I have an "old" router at home, a Linksys BEFSR41v4. It has some limitations. I found this Zone Alarm appliance that looks good, and seems to have built in antivirus, so I could unload it from my computer.

Zone Alarm Z100G

If someone has some good information, experience or opinion, I would love to hear it, thank you.

http://xkcd.com/456/

So, this XKCD strip is about parents teaching your kids about linux, I've said lots about linux to my dad. When I spoke to my dad last night, he's talking about getting something like an EeePC and running linux. It goes both ways.

Between April's gas prices and May's the price of gas has gone up a lot. In April I drove 1156.3 miles and spent $152.56 on 43.58 gallons, in May I drove 660.1 miles and spent 106.35 on 27.78 gallons. Part of that April driving is a road trip with good gas mileage and May was only 3 fill-ups, all local, city driving, just commuting to work ( Read more... )

Speed Racer is awesome! The visuals are fantastic, and the story isn't terrible either. Hopefully Stephen Colbert will not be too upset with it, Rain('s character) does not win the Grand Prix.

This is about a friend's year ending tax payment to the IRS. I had first led with how the IRS cashed my check right away while NM and IL had not yet direct deposited my overpayments ( Read more... )

http://www.nysun.com/news/why-i-let-my-9-year-old-ride-subway-aloneRead more... )

I've heard a few people complaining here about LJ going pay only ... or some plan of LJ's like that. Given how I know most people here we care some about politics, and keeping track of our congress critters is an easy way to do that with http://www.opencongress.org/. Since it has a blog feature it seems like a very good mix of "Web 2.0"