NASA Geek – Opportunity at Santa Maria Crater, Mars

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Designed to last 90 sols (Martian days of about 24 hours and 37 minutes), Mars Rover Opportunity took this picture at Santa Maria Crater yesterday, December 15, 2010, on Sol 2450.  Santa Maria, visible in the background, is about 100 yards across.  Opportunity will explore the crater for a few weeks, and then continue it’s cross country trek to Endurance Crater.  Photo Credit: NASA

Acrobats strip for Pope Benedict XVI, perform topless in Vatican

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I think I just figured out why priests wear those flowing robes…

The look on The Pope’s face pretty much proves one of two things:

He’s not gay, or he’s really pissed that he’s so fucking old.

 

A Gift From My Sister, Some Years Ago

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My sister knows me too well!

Skeptics Establish South Valley Presence

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SOUTH VALLEY SKEPTICS: devoted to furthering the cause of rational thinking--no matter how much it hurts.

South Valley Skeptics has established it’s website, in the cause of promoting critical thinking skills.  Visit them at www.sovalskeptics.org, and check out the recently published articles.  Look for future activities and updates to this rational-thinking website!

The Ten Lies about the GLBT Community Told by Conservative Hate Groups: a Straight Christian Perspective (via Queer Visalia)

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The Ten Lies about the GLBT Community Told by Conservative Hate Groups: a Straight Christian Perspective Kathy at Canyonwalker Connections has written an insightful commentary on the top ten lies told about gays and lesbians by conservative hate groups.  Spurred by the recent addition of several right wing “values” groups to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hate group list, and their resultant indignation about being labeled hate groups, Kathy posted her thoughts on the entire sad drama.  Here, in her opinion, are the top ten lies told by these gro … Read More

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Holiday Potluck and White Elephants! (via Queer Visalia)

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Holiday Potluck and White Elephants! Holiday Potluck and White Elephant Gift Exchange The count down has started, and the date is coming for the most exciting time of the year. PFLAG Tulare-Kings Counties Meeting 305 E. Center St., Visalia (corner of Bridge) December 19, 2010 at 3:00 pm Following our regular introductions will be the breakout support groups THEN !!!! in place of our regular programming we will be having … Our Annual Holiday Potluck – White Elephant Gift Exchange E … Read More

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It’s Really Not My Fault

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Lady, don’t be getting exasperated with me because YOU don’t know where you are!  You’re walking on a street in a town you’ve lived in for some time,  there are signs on the corners with the street names, and houses nearby with their numbers!  You should be bright enough to figure out where the hell you are if you can manage to work the damned cell phone!  And you’ve reproduced!  I can hear your kids whining and crying in the background because of the drama you’ve induced!

Yeah, call me back when you get to where you going, even though you don’t know the address of that residence, either!

I love my job.  Really.

Oh, she did call back.  Actually, the people at the house she was going to called, because the drama that started at the first place followed her over to the other place.  It took the cops to defuse the situation.

I love my job.  Really.

Some of the people I deal with…  not so much.  It’s job security, though.  Remember what I said?  She’s reproduced already.  Very likely ‘same song, second verse’ in a few years.

9-1-1…  what’s YOUR emergency??

 

 

 

I didn’t see that, either

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Local network and IT solutions (via Queer Fresno)

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Local network and IT solutions This is Ted Freitas of Central Point Networks LLC.  They’re a local IT and network solutions provider and you can click the link below to check out their official business website!  🙂 … Read More

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I’m Calling It “Jesus”

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For about the past week or so, my computer has been sending little messages to my computer god Ted, saying it was having a bit of a problem.  He monitors my computers remotely, and started getting notices of an issue with one of the two hard drives.  Bad sectors, or corrupt thingamajigs, or some such highly technical geek talk that quickly outpaces my level of understanding.   (I know just enough about computers to either fix minor problems, or really screw them up big time!)

Anyway, he let me know one of my drives was probably dying, and that I had better do something about it.  I planned to check into the problem this weekend, once I was on days-off from work.  Of course, the computer decided not to wait.  The drive died early Friday morning, disappearing from the Hardware Devices page, and everywhere else you might expect to find it.

Crap!  All my blogging stuff was on that drive!  (Rule #1!  Back it all up on DVDs!)  While not the end of the world, it was a going to be a royal pain, since recovering all that data was going to take some work.  It’s all out there on the interweb thingy, but man…  that was going to eat up a lot of time and effort to track it all down and save it somewhere else.

So, Friday, it dies.  Then… IT’S A MIRACLE!  Sunday afternoon, it’s alive again!  Quick!  Blog files backed up to an external hard drive, then to a DVD.  Whew!  I think I have it all.

I’m calling it my Jesus drive.  It died, and on the third day it rose from the dead!  Hallelujah!

Now I’m waiting to see if it decides to ascend into heaven sometime in the near future.  It’s OK, it can go into the light if it wants, I’ve got what I wanted.   I’ve blessed it with copious amounts of my Holy Ministrations (yes, I can do that. I’m a High Priest. Really. Check it out here). Blessings of a non-denominational,  secular nature, of course.  Dry blessings, since electronics and Holy Water don’t get along.  Kind of like vampires and Holy Water.  Sort of.  Same kind of smoke ensues from both if you get them wet.  Not much in the way of screams, at least not from the computer.  Sparks, sometimes.  Not much fun to be around in either case, regardless.

If the ascension thing happens, Ill let you know.

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