Mountain Cabin

You thought there couldn’t be worse news than the shape of our economy…you were wrong!

Bold the items you have done….

1. Started your own blog – it started on Blogspot and moved here to WordPress.
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/ World – both, and worked for them, too.
8. Climbed a mountain – Climbed to the top of Vesuvias in Italy.
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo – as a child years ago in a choir
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea yep, on a Disney cruise – awesome spectacle
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning – each time came from the Disney cafeteria…hmmmmm
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill – who hasn’t?
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping – WooHoo!
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise – many of them
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Been to Amish community – my sister lives in PA now so visited there
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person – and took lots of the obligatory “holding up the tower” photo poses
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke – did this once at Hamburger Mary’s
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal in a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling – in Key West
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater – as a kid
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Gotten flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check – this happened once and I vowed never again
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar – it’s disgusting
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square – I did this just last month
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job – does this include laid off?
76. Seen the Changing of the Guard in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle – I rode bitch with another guy
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican – the pope wasn’t home, tho
82. Bought a brand new car – twice, both Hondas
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous – a few
92. Joined a book club – a few
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a lawsuit – yes, a ridiculous, petty lawsuit that has been dismissed
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

I know Christmas is over, but I have one more surprise for you.

WARNING: It’s Christmas-themed but not for little kids. It even creeped me out!

Today Western Digital launched its brand new 3.5″ SATA 2TB hard drive, the world’s very first desktop hard drive with 2 terabytes of storage space. Called the Caviar Green 2TB, not for its color but for its class and environmental impact, respectively, the new drive boasts a design that prevents its drive head from ever touching the drive’s magnetic surface, which should extend its lifespan and protect the drive from motion.

The “green” bit comes as a result of WD’s intelligent seek patterns and spin speed adjustability, which supposedly reduce power consumption.

Caviar Green 2TB is available as of today for $299.

That’s a lot of porn storage for a very little price!

I never thought she would return…

The Judycast

Mac Malware Found in Pirated iWork 09

ZDNet’s Ryan Naraine is reporting that pirated copies of Apple’s iWork 09 circulating on BitTorrent and elsewhere are infected with Mac malware.

According to Mac AV vendor Intego the malware is known as OSX.Trojan.iServices.A. The pirated software is complete and functional but the installer has an additional package, named iWorkServices, that contains the attack. It may ask the user for an administrator password, depending on the version of OS X. After it installs it phones home to a remote server to report that it is installed and awaits remote commands, including the installation of additional software. It loads at boot time and has root access.

Sounds very much like a conventional Windows bot. Naraine quotes Intego as saying that at least 20,000 Macs had already downloaded the infected installer.

Looks like Norton and McAffee are gonna start making more money.

It almost as if I feel more relaxed. Like some huge weight has been lifted from the country’s shoulders. Can’t imagine why…

Tom Hanks sounds off over the Mormon involvement in the passing of Prop 8 during the premier of “Big Love”, whom Hanks is executive producer of.

“The truth is this (show) takes place in Utah, the truth is these people are some bizarre offshoot of the Mormon Church, and the truth is a lot of Mormons gave a lot of money to the church to make Prop-8 happen. There are a lot of people who feel that is un-American and I am one of them. I do not like to see any discrimination codified on any piece of paper, any of the 50 states in America, but here’s what happens now. A little bit of light can be shed and people can see who’s responsible and that can motivate the next go around of our self correcting constitution and hopefully we can move forward instead of backwards. So lets have faith in not only the American, but Californian constitutional process.”

Well, I got a letter from the lawyer who is representing our HOA members and me in the slander suit. I had to read the letter carefully as all the “legalise” gets a bit confusing, but the motion to dismiss this case is being granted. And reading further it says the plaintiff may not try and sue again on these grounds. That was wonderful to read. The next part put a bit of a damper on the news. It says he can try and appeal within 30 days. I only hope that if he tries (and he will, he’s tenacious) that it is turned down for the same reason the current case was dismissed.

I will keep posting if anything new happens.