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Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.
    – Richard Bach “Illusions”

A product marketing manager from Quest Software sent me this link…
For those of you from the 80’s music era will recognize… this was inspired by the Beastie Boys and of course the Beastie Boys rock.
The guys are from Quest Sales Team and they are
Nick Dean
Michael St. Pierre
Kristian Vandemark
 
Good job guys.
 
http://www.saveyourad.com
 
For the next Beastie’s [...]

Well I did a lot of cleanup around the yard, got a lot of sore muscles, nice sunburn which my Filipino blood has turned to tan now and had several beautiful bonfires…. Some people go camping, I go to my back yard, play all day, and then sleep in my nice pillowtop mattress bed. [...]

This looks interesting…
http://www.zoysiafarms.com/mag

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
   – Richard Bach “Illusions”

I always thought this company had a great hook for their advertising but would never trust technology to the extent he says it could be trusted when he gave out his SS# during the ad.
 
ID Theft Security Company CEO Gets ID Stolen
After putting his social security number in ads as part of the marketing strategy [...]

The other day Plato and a Platypus walked into a bar. The bartender gave the philosopher a quizzical look, and then Plato said, “What can I say? She looked better in the cave.”
     – From Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar

Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them.
   – Richard Bach “Illusions”

“And what would you do,” the Master said unto the multitude, “if God spoke directly to your face and said, ‘ I command that you be happy in the world, as long as you live.’ What would you do then?”
   – Richard Bach “Illusions”

“Like attracts like. Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts [...]

“Mrs. O’Callahan instructed the artist painting her portrait to add to it a gold bracelet on each of her wrists, a strand of pearls around her neck, ruby earrings, and a diamond tiara.
The artist pointed out that would be tantamount to lying.
Said Mrs. O’Callahan, “Look, my husband’s running around with a young blonde. After I [...]

This is a good article about one of the reasons we are seeing the prices we are seeing:
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/flowchart/2008/3/10/why-gas-prices-rise-as-the-dollar-falls.html
 
This is a map of the country and the various gas prices…
http://michigangasprices.com/map_gas_prices.aspx?z=0&lat=37.984375&long=-96.312500&ft=A&tl=48
 

 
 
 
This is where the country should be focusing dollars at
http://www.mrsolar.com/
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/current.shtml
 
My one hope with the outrageously high fuel prices (yes Europe… I know how high it has [...]

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.
You seek problems because you need their gifts.
    – Richard Bach “Illusions”

Anybody who’s ever mattered, anybody who’s ever been happy, anybody who’s ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.
    – Richard Bach “Illusions”

joe says:  I was sure when I first told you
joe says:  But I don’t put past some evil ass hack you found that is completely and utterly unsupported
joe says:  I have strong faith in your ability to find things that you aren’t supposed to be able to do

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.
   – Richard Bach “Illusions”

There’s only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is…
…ourselves.
    – Richard Bach “Illusions”

I took this shot after doing the cleanup work last Saturday/Sunday. It is about 650 feet back from the road (350 from the house) and the property goes back about another 1000 feet behind where I took the picture and all you can hear are birds and frogs and fish jumping in the pond. The [...]

I have received a few emails lately that all pretty much comment about being “all over the map” with my quotes, etc. People asking, what in the world do you read, you seem to be a trifle eclectic in your tastes…
Why yes, that is true. I read any and everything pretty much. I have [...]

I saw a posting that had a piece on AdFind at ActiveDir.org that made me want to post something to my blog here for anyone who doesn’t read ADOrg…
Basically one of the posters came up with a good way of setting local admin passwords on machines and part of the solution was to use adfind [...]

The Golden Rule doesn’t work. How would you like to meet a masochist who did unto others as he would have them do unto him? Or a worshiper of the Crocodile God, who craves the honor of being thrown alive into the pit? Even the Samaritan, who started the whole thing… what made him think [...]

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
    – Richard Bach “Illusions”

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
    – Richard Bach “Illusions”

Do you think that maybe if you say impossible over and over again a thousand times that suddenly hard things will come easy for you?
    – Richard Bach “Illusions”

I have an ad for some new service Amazon has called subscribe and save. It is a service to order food and other type items like that through Amazon and have it delivered for free. Well I decided to look up an item I just bought last night, my favorite cereal… Cocoa Pebbles… Yes I [...]

Call me weird but I actually like Dandelions, never got why people were so “out to get them”. I think they are really pretty. Our neighborhood was just covered in them the last few weeks well except for the neighbor across the street, I think they spray something to kill them off. They actually looked [...]

I spent most of today in the rain trying to pick stuff up around the back yard where I am reclaiming the “yard” from the “woods”. I am greatly hampered by piles of crap that are just randomly stacked up around back there. In the end I will likely spend hundreds of hours cleaning up [...]

I was talking with a good friend this evening and he asked a question which I would normally consider trivial but the way he put it made me go, oh wow, put that way, that is kind of interesting… It should work the way you would intuit it to work…
The question was, how do I [...]

Finally hooked the XBOX 360 up to my home theatre… My goodness did they make some improvements in the sound quality over the XBOX… Wow.  I need to finish the network drop that goes up to the home theatre setup so that I can tie into my media center and XBOX live. I am getting [...]