www.audiobooksforfree.com
www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/
I've downloaded a couple, but haven't listened to them yet.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Thursday, August 24, 2006
FREE Senseo Coffeemaker
Fill out the questionaire and you might be eligible. I was and it only took a couple days to get the email saying so. You don't even pay shipping. I'll update this post if anything negative happens before I get it.
Click here
(I'm not an affiliate, I found this on singleservecoffee.com)
You don't have to put any personal info in until you've
been approved (it took like 2 days). And I didn't have to
pay for shipping or anything.
Click here
(I'm not an affiliate, I found this on singleservecoffee.com)
You don't have to put any personal info in until you've
been approved (it took like 2 days). And I didn't have to
pay for shipping or anything.
Monday, August 07, 2006
Open Command Prompt from Windows Explorer
Windows XP sometimes (I can't figure out when and when not) had a right-click menu item to open a command prompt at the folder selected. However, sometimes it doesn't??? Here's one way to help...
If you need to open a (DOS) comman prompt from Windows Explorer, put the file (link below) in the zip file in your 'Send To' folder. Usually that's somewhere like:
C:\Documents and Settings\your-username\SendTo
Zip file
If you need to open a (DOS) comman prompt from Windows Explorer, put the file (link below) in the zip file in your 'Send To' folder. Usually that's somewhere like:
C:\Documents and Settings\your-username\SendTo
Zip file
Add Outlook/vCalendar Entries to Google Calendar
I use Thunderbird for email which means I'm left w/o a decent calendar option. I looked into adding vCalendar (.vcs) file entries to Google Calendar w/o success. So I wrote some html and Perl to do it for me.
There's a few steps back and forth btwn your server and Google to get authorization and such. The Perl (source below) takes care of that. It takes the input from the html including your Google id/pw and the vCalendar text and hits Google calendar for you. If it's successful, it then redirects you to the calendar.
You'll have to update the html w/ the right url for wherever you put the Perl (gcal.pl) and you might have to update gcal.pl w/ your Perl location (first line).
Source code
Known uglies:
Helpful Links:
http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/calendar.html#add_event
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2005-07/0101.html
http://relationalspace.org/gcaladd.html
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col63.html
There's a few steps back and forth btwn your server and Google to get authorization and such. The Perl (source below) takes care of that. It takes the input from the html including your Google id/pw and the vCalendar text and hits Google calendar for you. If it's successful, it then redirects you to the calendar.
You'll have to update the html w/ the right url for wherever you put the Perl (gcal.pl) and you might have to update gcal.pl w/ your Perl location (first line).
Source code
Known uglies:
- Date/Time handling: it's limited and ugly. If you help it, please post here.
- Attendees: I didn't see a way in the Google API to add them.
Helpful Links:
http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/calendar.html#add_event
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2005-07/0101.html
http://relationalspace.org/gcaladd.html
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col63.html
Saturday, August 05, 2006
"Stadium Seating Funeral"
or "That's Why You Never Give a Gun to a Dog"
Ok, so I had this dream last night...
I was going to a funeral. I wasn't sure if I knew the guy, but there was only like 6 people in there so I felt sorry for him and thought I'd go in. Plus, the funeral parlor had stadium seating and I was drawn in my by the novelty of that. Would it really be that much better?
The seating was like those giant carpetted stairs at some sight-seeing theaters or highschool library media rooms. In other words, it was a classy joint.
After a couple of young girls, looking like they fulfilled a dare, viewed the body, I decided to go up. There was music playing. I can't remember what it was, maybe something by "Chicago." The body was casually dressed and looked a big like John Travolta.
Another novelty this funeral home had was they somehow wired the bodies up to move. Not a lot of movement, but an occasional position change somewhat synced to the music. Not exactly Bigmouth Billy Bass, but some movement.
To me, it was creepy, but sometimes new things are a turnoff at first. Think: leg warmers and calculator watches - now we can't live without them!
Another bonus to this parlor was one wall was lined with shelves of liquor for sale. Their thought was, most people have a gathering after the event so why not make it easier on them. A one-stop shop, if you will.
Somehow, as only dreams do, the front of the parlor turned into a checkout counter furthering the liquor sale motif. A slouchily dressed guy was sitting on the counter talking to everyone; I think we were waiting for more people.
He started telling us about a hilarious video he saw online about a guy and a dog. Somehow he was then able to show it to us all (dreams!).
So the video starts and there's a guy trying to load a shotgun with one hand and an old, beat up hound dog taking a dump on a dead horse. The guy loads the shotgun, but it goes off and some of the buckshot sprays up off the ground and grazes the dog.
I can't remember if the poop flies out or goes back up, but he gets off the horse and starts to run. The guy starts to run too. They're both chasing something they want to shoot. I think the guy, still using one arm, shots again and I think he and the dog both somehow get hit with some. It's a bit funny somehow. It's gruesome, but only because even in my dream it should be though nothing really noticeable happens when they are shot. It's more of a feeling.
Anyway, they keep running. Whoever is working the camera for this video is amazing, by the way. The framing is perfect. So then they run off chasing whatever it is and shooting and then a pack of dogs comes into the shot also chasing either the same thing or the guy and dog. Either way, there's one kind of leader dog in the pack and he has a shotgun too.
Since it's hard to run, as a dog, with a shotgun, he tends to shot at the wrong time and in the wrong directions. Other dogs are being taken out left and right. It just seems everyone is getting shot and it's just not working out at all.
One of the people watching the video with me made the sobering comment "That's why you never give a gun to a dog." We all agreed.
Ok, so I had this dream last night...
I was going to a funeral. I wasn't sure if I knew the guy, but there was only like 6 people in there so I felt sorry for him and thought I'd go in. Plus, the funeral parlor had stadium seating and I was drawn in my by the novelty of that. Would it really be that much better?
The seating was like those giant carpetted stairs at some sight-seeing theaters or highschool library media rooms. In other words, it was a classy joint.
After a couple of young girls, looking like they fulfilled a dare, viewed the body, I decided to go up. There was music playing. I can't remember what it was, maybe something by "Chicago." The body was casually dressed and looked a big like John Travolta.
Another novelty this funeral home had was they somehow wired the bodies up to move. Not a lot of movement, but an occasional position change somewhat synced to the music. Not exactly Bigmouth Billy Bass, but some movement.
To me, it was creepy, but sometimes new things are a turnoff at first. Think: leg warmers and calculator watches - now we can't live without them!
Another bonus to this parlor was one wall was lined with shelves of liquor for sale. Their thought was, most people have a gathering after the event so why not make it easier on them. A one-stop shop, if you will.
Somehow, as only dreams do, the front of the parlor turned into a checkout counter furthering the liquor sale motif. A slouchily dressed guy was sitting on the counter talking to everyone; I think we were waiting for more people.
He started telling us about a hilarious video he saw online about a guy and a dog. Somehow he was then able to show it to us all (dreams!).
So the video starts and there's a guy trying to load a shotgun with one hand and an old, beat up hound dog taking a dump on a dead horse. The guy loads the shotgun, but it goes off and some of the buckshot sprays up off the ground and grazes the dog.
I can't remember if the poop flies out or goes back up, but he gets off the horse and starts to run. The guy starts to run too. They're both chasing something they want to shoot. I think the guy, still using one arm, shots again and I think he and the dog both somehow get hit with some. It's a bit funny somehow. It's gruesome, but only because even in my dream it should be though nothing really noticeable happens when they are shot. It's more of a feeling.
Anyway, they keep running. Whoever is working the camera for this video is amazing, by the way. The framing is perfect. So then they run off chasing whatever it is and shooting and then a pack of dogs comes into the shot also chasing either the same thing or the guy and dog. Either way, there's one kind of leader dog in the pack and he has a shotgun too.
Since it's hard to run, as a dog, with a shotgun, he tends to shot at the wrong time and in the wrong directions. Other dogs are being taken out left and right. It just seems everyone is getting shot and it's just not working out at all.
One of the people watching the video with me made the sobering comment "That's why you never give a gun to a dog." We all agreed.
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