Archive for October, 2004
Friday, October 29th, 2004
Sobering and depressing
Brussels, Belgium – Results from the widest ranging European survey of human toxic contamination show that 76 persistent, bio-accumulative, and toxic industrial chemicals were present in the blood of those tested.
No Comments » - Posted in Found on the Web by Chris
Friday, October 29th, 2004
Dog saves owner’s life by calling 911
From CNN.com…
“RICHLAND, Washington (AP) — Leana Beasley has faith that a dog is man’s best friend.
Faith, a 4-year-old Rottweiler, phoned 911 when Beasley fell out of her wheelchair and barked urgently into the receiver until a dispatcher sent help. Then the service dog unlocked the front door for the police officer.” [more]
No Comments » - Posted in Found on the Web by Chris
Friday, October 29th, 2004
Pumpkin carving without the mess
Someone just sent me this carve your own pumpkin online link. When you hit done, it lights up.
No Comments » - Posted in Oddball Sites by Chris
Thursday, October 28th, 2004
Bull Terrier ‘trancing’
I was just looking through the blog’s web stats, and wanted to post a comment for the person who stumbled onto the weblog twice while trying to run a search on “bull terrier strange behavior frozen.” In case you happen to come back and read this, the behavior you are probably seeing is what [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Day-to-day ramblings, Dogs, Mojo by Chris
Thursday, October 28th, 2004
Last night’s lunar eclipse
I didn’t get the greatest pictures in the world but I’m just happy I remembered to watch it, as I’ve never gotten to see one of these before. It had been cloudy all day and raining hard just an hour before, but luckily the sky cleared just in time for the eclipse.
More pictures on our [...]
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2004
Chiggers, mosquitos and fleas, oh my…
Can it PLEASE just get cold already? We’ve had temps in the ’80s and ’90s the past few weeks when it should be fall. I know that, at the very least, chiggers are inactive below sixty degrees and killed by temperatures below forty-two degrees, so if the weather would cool down there would at least [...]
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2004
Hell just might have frozen over…
I am studying for my third exam (I passed 70-290 yesterday) and once again facing the subnetting demon. I think I might have actually gotten it this time. I’m doing the sample exercises out of the book for calculating subnet address ranges and miracle of miracles, my answers match the book! Now if only I [...]
