Woke up this morning to a coating of snow. I’m beginning to think that’s all we’re going to get this year which is the complete opposite of last year. We’re doomed to wasted cold air this year so far.
December was cold and dry. Only flurries and not much rain either. I think we may have had one or two rain days.
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I’ve been noticing recently some websites want my email address. This is nothing new but the trend seems to be a box popping up over the content I was looking for. It dims and disables the rest of the page.
Note to the sites that use this. I find this intrusive and will immediately leave your site. I realize most sites are trying to make money but don’t be so fucking intrusive with it.
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I really haven’t paid much attention to GPSrs recently since we haven’t really been getting out to geocache much. That will change in a couple of years but it just makes sense tow wait until we have a reliable vehicle to get out caching often since by that time there will likely be newer models if we want to upgrade our old Garmin 60csxs.
I just came across the Garmin 62S now. Though I haven’t even seen one in person if I were to pull the trigger and get a new GPS now this would likely by my choice. It appears to have taken the good from the old 60csx and added to it instead of creating something completely different. It keeps the same form factor which is the best I’ve seen in a gps for what we use it for. I really don’t want to depend on a touch screen in the woods or that wheel thing Garmin tried. It also seems like it has the same screen as the 60csx which I found very readable with a magnifier. For those who don’t know I am legally blind and have poor vision. The biggest plus this seems to have over the older models it includes the full cache details. I can’t even begin to count how many times the write up or a recent log would have been very handy out in the woods when we’re searching for a cache that has gone missing. I don’t mind the DNF but we get obsessed and spend hours searching.
I am anxious to read other peoples’ thoughts on this unit. If Garmin did it right it could be the perfect gps. Hopefully it retains the older model’s dependability and accuracy along with excellent battery life. The old model was also pretty much unbreakable. I’ve dropped mine more times than you can imagine and it still works fine. The only thing it did is popped the microSD card loose once in a while.
According the the description it also includes 1.7 gigs of memory built into the unit which would be great. A great plus would be if they overcame the map block limitation all of their older generations had.
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So last night while waiting for Molly to get home from work I turned on the TV and started listening to the local news. I luckily tuned in just in time to hear that one celebrity got out of rehab and another celebrity went into rehab. I hope someone will someday be able to enlighten me enough that I can understand why this is considered news or why anyone really cares.
The real issue of this that bothers me is the fact that they treat it like it’s a game or just do it for attention when there are real people out there that rehab would help that can’t get in. I really wish the media would give these attention whores zero attention.
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Why is it that so many Christians feel the need to try to twist everything into something Christian? Can they not just enjoy something without having to somehow trying to relate being Christian?
My opinion on religion in general is it’s just a silly fairytale that is used to control the masses.
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Well today we finally made it back to the gym. It felt great to get back in there. I refuse to call it a new years resolution. It’s just that we’ve been busy and I personally lost my drive when my grand mom died a few months ago.
What I am really looking forward to doing is getting back into weights. Something I enjoyed very much in high school when they gave me that instead of a regular gym class due to my poor vision. I wish I would have worked harder at it then. I didn’t want to get big and was actually embarrassed to have the gym class with other disabled students rather than a regular class. Now I realize I was lucky to have it and an awesome teacher to go with it.
Our gym is not perfect for weights but they have some machines and a few other things. It’s only a 2 minute drive from home and once the new bridge is done being built we will walk to the gym. Now there is no shoulder on the road and I don’t plan on getting killed this year. It’s also much better than what we have at home, which is nothing.
My goal is to be able to do pull ups. I never could do those before no matter how hard I tried but I will do them now.
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December was a cold month and fairly dry month. Harrisburgh ended the month with the average temperature 4.1 degrees below normal. Pretty interesting how the blocking held up through out the month and even had a close call with a snow storm. It will be fun to see where January goes.
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For Christmas I gave Molly and Apple iPod touch 32 GB (4th Generation).
I have always personally written apple stuff off for me because of the touch screen. I just didn’t think it would work too well with my very poor vision. As it would turn out My old beloved Creative labs Zen W seems to be dying a slow death so I thought I’d look at Molly’s IPod.
After looking up accessibility for it I saw that they had a way to make the text large and reverse contrast which is what suits my needs best. As a matter of fact my computer screen is white (or at least light text on a dark background now and that of course is how I have my browser set up to display pages.
I found the screen very readable on the IPod although I didn’t play with it for long since it’s her gift and I’m sure she wanted to play with her new toy! When My old Zen finally dies I believe I’ll have to look closely at the Ipod because it seemed as it it would work well for me. The other thing is it just makes sense for us so we could just bring one cable when we go someplace since it would work in both devices.
I haven’t tried it but I have also read voice features too which sound like they’d be helpful to me. I am thankful a company would take the time to at least try to address accessibility in a mainstream product.
I do hope they’ve made some changes with the iTunes software for windows though, last time I had to look at that it was almost impossible for me to read. That was a few years ago though and I only use windows when I have to so I haven’t tried it since then.
I really like how thin the IPod is. It seems like it would be perfect to take to the gym which we will be doing regularly again soon. I was pretty impressed with it for my first impression.
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Google, can you please give me a way to get rid of the stupid and pointless previews for half of the sites that appear as an image on the right side of the page when my mouse hovers over the link. I find them very distracting and also a waste of bandwidth. They are there sometimes and other times they are not.
What ever happened to having things simple. That and the good search results are what originally got me to begin using your search engine. The results now are not very good. Usually the first page is just spam links and now you’re adding completely pointless features with no way to disable them. How I wish you had some real competition.
I also don’t need to see image results and video results at the top of the page. I can click on either image search or video search to get those. Isn’t that the point of having them links?
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I hate spam. I hate the fact that I have to waste my time going through my email to look for an important message sifting through what is ninety percent spam. Email is basically useless with such a high signal to noise ratio.
Could you imagine if your regular phone worked like email does? It would be constantly ringing to try to trick you into buying viagra.
Close behind that would be people trying to sell you the next new way to lose weight. It would be all about the new medical diet or the next fat burning pill. Then there would be the revolutionary devices that make your lose weight while doing nothing.
If I believed in Hell I would really hope there is a special area reserved for spammers and those who sell email addresses to spammers. Die now spammers. The spam must work to a point or else they wouldn’t bother. This just shows the sad state of humanity.
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