Microsoft has a beta AntiSpyware download. (You can choose to not validate your copy of Windows and still receive the download.)
You should be running a spyware detection program. NewMexiKen has seen what can happen with spyware and it isn’t pretty. (Whatever you do, do NOT download Kazaa.)
Did you hear about this? 300 passengers on a northwest flight from Amsterdam to Seattle got stranded onboard the plane for 28 hours with hardly any food or water. You know what you call a seat in a tiny seat with no food or water? Southwest.
The Bush administration announced it wants to change the social security formula and cut benefits by near 1/3rd in the next 20-30 years. The new program is called “Good luck grandma, you’re on your own. You’ve fallen and you can’t get up.”
Last night Fox had a 90 minute special for their new show “Who’s Your Daddy?” Where a woman has to guess which one of eight guys is her real father. That’s better than the original title “Which one of you guys was on my mom?”
It did terrible in the ratings. It did so bad, even my Tivo said, “I’m not taping this crap.”
A company now is developing a helmet for snowboarders with a built in phone. This way when you’re distracted on the phone and hit a tree you can call 911.
NewMexiKen isn’t allowed any Orange Bowl comments.
Well, maybe one:
“Did you see O.J. Simpson? He was there. O.J. was at the game last night. He was there. Boy, that guy always seems to be around whenever there’s a slaughter. You ever notice that?”
Jay Leno
While the American media falls further behind, the BBC is all over the various Mozart news stories.
Mozart ‘may have had Tourette’s’
Mozart’s relatives face DNA tests
From Scientific American —
Why is normal blood pressure less than 120 over 80? And why don’t these numbers change according to a person’s height?
But modern epidemiologic studies have confirmed with a great deal of certainty that risk of a heart attack or stroke begins to increase in adults when the usual systolic blood pressure is 115 or higher and/or the usual diastolic blood pressure is 75 or higher. The risk steadily increases with higher and higher readings, so the traditional 120/80 level remains reasonable as a threshold for getting a doctor’s attention.
It does in fact increase with height, which ensures that the brain, located at the highest point of the circulatory system for most of the day, gets sufficient blood flow and oxygen, despite the pull of gravity and other forces. But the effect is fairly small, which is why the 120/80 figure is not adjusted for taller people.
Answers excerpted from fuller explanation.
A year ago today NewMexiKen reported on General Wesley Clark’s increasing numbers in polls and the return of Joe Gibbs to the Washington Redskins.
Read the story at Functional Ambivalent about the one Kenyan who died in the tsunami. He was on his first visit to the beach.
Lee, official brother of NewMexiKen, wrote his friend Dewi in Java, Indonesia, and told her some of our family had donated money to various charities working on disaster relief for the Indian Ocean nations. Her reply:
Hi Lee!
I would like to say Thank U for U n ur Family support re tsuname.As Indonesian people n as my self!.
Yes,it could happen to any countries. And i think its time for all of countries to united,hand in hand together to prevent such big disaster happening again. In Indonesia as well others.
I am glad also to know the fact that i am live here in Cianjur,far away from the sea. But the tsuname not over yet,yesterday there’s another big earth quake shaking Aceh again,Sumatra Utara n continue to yogjakarta,Banten,East Java,West Java. Who knows what will happen next! we only hope n pray this is for the last!.
My brother phoned us lastnight n the line really bad,he lives near by the sea. My mother asked him n his family to stay in Cianjur for awhile till situation really safe.
Almost all the phone line here in West java,east java,really bad sometimes like blocked,so does the cellphone receivers.
All of my friends worried plus they really hard to get through me or home phone. No Wonder!.
The weather really bad recently,dark skies n heavy rain almost everyday.If we compare to what happent to those in Aceh N Sumatra Utara,our problems is Nothing!.
So,if u panning on coming to Asia this jan-Feb,my advice is,stay out from the sea! :0)
My New Year’s Eve,i gathered at home with family,cancelled plan with friends.My father lead the prayers for those in Aceh N Sumatra Utara n for all other countries who suffered from Tidal Waves…
We spent This New Year’s Eve with prayers,alittle bit diffrent with last years.
Takecare in there
PS: If u planning on coming to Asia this jan-feb,STAY OUT FROM SEA!
Dewi’s.
The town of Snohomish, Wash., ordered a barbecue restaurant to cover up a mural on the outside of the building depicting five naked, pink pigs. The design review board said the cartoon pigs were inappropriate, and might inspire other businesses to paint their walls with images of naked people. “How offensive can a pig be?” asked one confused diner. “When was the last time you saw pigs with clothes on?”
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Maybe if they’d had gloves and a shirt like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
NewMexiKen noticed a van (from a major American retailer which offers home maintenance service) parked in a unusual location behind my home this morning. Why would anyone pull over there I thought.
“To use my wireless network” I replied. “Nah, surely not. But let’s go turn it off and see.” (NewMexiKen lives alone and often talks to himself.)
I disconnected the modem from the router. Within a minute or so the van left.
Time to encrypt.
From interview with Dora’s creators at Nick Jr.:
How did you come up with the idea for Dora the Explorer?
Chris: We wanted to create a show that teaches little kids problem-solving skills. Preschoolers are our least powerful citizens. They can’t reach the light switch; they have trouble pouring the milk on their cereal. They’re faced with obstacles throughout their day and it can get pretty discouraging. Problem-solving strategies like stopping to think, asking for help, and using what you know are modeled in every Dora show.
From an American Family Association news release —
A pro-family group is accusing homosexual activists of using popular children’s TV characters to indoctrinate young children into their lifestyle. Specifically, the group is questioning the intention of a new children’s video featuring those characters.
SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney the Dinosaur, Arthur, Dora the Explorer, JoJo, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Big Bird, Bob the Builder — those and many others are among the characters starring in a music video remake of the 1970s song “We Are Family” that is designed to promote diversity and tolerance in the classroom. A special DVD version will be distributed to 61,000 public and private elementary schools nationwide, along with lesson plans for teachers. Distribution of the DVD is being donated by FedEx.
Ed Vitagliano, a researcher for the American Family Association, questions the motives behind the project. The problem, he says, is that it is an “open door” to a secondary discussion of homosexuality.
Link via Jesus’ General, who is carrying on a correspondence with Mr. Vitagliano.