Oops. So I’m against white text over a background image. Also, in general, I’m against background images. But, overall, I like my new theme. It does need some more color tweaking, but I’ve had enough for now. The right side can be dragged and dropped around (or closed) by the user, and the settings will be saved via cookies. Pretty nifty.
Archive for November, 2008
wrong way
Monday, November 24th, 2008(SpreadSheet)Snow!!!
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008Wow. Pretty nifty.
Stoled From Emily’s Blog
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Copy the list, highlight the ones you’ve done, post it on your blog, and let me know if you do.
1. Started your own blog (since summer of ‘04. what a ride it’s been…)
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band (good times. would love to again.)
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain (Twice in Montana)
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang/played a solo (Ambassadors Quartet, Summer 2005 – Spring 2006; Messiah, Fall 2006)
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch (Coding is Art 
)
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables (Helped the parents count?)
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train (Possibly, when I was very young)
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort (Calvin and Hobbes)
25. Held a lamb (Possibly…)
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse (I was there, but I can’t really say I saw it)
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run (Probably kicked a few too, kickball)
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community (Might have seen, don’t really recall)
36. Taught yourself a new language (See #14)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing (Kinda…)
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt (I think we did… or maybe we were just planning on it?)
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa (eh, I could have… passed up…)
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight (Israel)
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
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
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 (Ummmm?)
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 (and saw the guy next to me pass out )
65. Gone sky diving (but I’d love to!)
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp (Well, maybe being to both Holocaust museums – USA and Israel – counts?)
67. Bounced a check (long long time ago)
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial (Ahhh, senior trip’in)
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car (eh, not that stupid. got a 2006 in 2007 though)
83. Walked in Jerusalem (see http://icynemo.us/israel/ )
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible (NT and OT Survey, funfunfun)
86. Visited the White House (I think we did… 2004 was so long ago)
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 (Congressman…)
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Made a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person (Choir tour – twice. Meh.)
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone (I’m on #3)
99. Been stung by a bee (K or 1 grade – very long ago)
Would like to hit a few and miss a few of the remaining unbolded ones 
Italics for the would-be-hits
A story
Saturday, November 1st, 2008This happened Friday, Nov 1, 2008. Yesterday.
Warning. This will be long.
I’m getting ahead of myself. In the past, my posts have sometimes or even often showcased:
- poor English
- overuse of parenthesis
- non-flowing form, as in, oops, this happened way back there but I forgot it so let me put it here.
Now my English is not the best, but I will try to improve it by actually using what I know. So, I offer my apology and promise to try to improve my posts. Now, on with the story.
Bethany got a new cell phone. To be more accurate, her family got new cell phones, but her family is in Iowa and she is in Oklahoma. Her phone was mailed to her. I believe she received it last Friday after work. She was ill Saturday so I believe she activated the cell phone over the phone on Monday. Maybe it was not Monday, but that does not really have a significant bearing on the story.
Now the problem that probably many people face – getting the contacts off the old phone and on to the new. Most people probably just go in to the store with both phones in hand and demand the current phone company help them. However, considering our past experience with US Cellular (note – my parents and sister and I are with AT&T; when I say we/our, I mean Bethany and I), I thought that alternative routes should probably be sought out first, with US Cellular being the last resort. I do not believe I have told the story of “last time we went to US Cellular,” but, trust me, you do not want it included here. Suffice to say it was not good; perhaps I will post that story some other time.
Sorry, I did it. I got ahead of myself and forgot something. I pardon myself with the excuse that I do not remember exactly where this goes in the story, but I got the model number of the phone from her so I could look it up to see what it offered. Whether this happened before she actually got the phone or not I do not remember. I looked at several sites, and nothing extraordinary jumped out at me, but considering the kind of phone she had, it did offer some improvements. For those interested, the old model is an LG ux245 and the new one is an LG ux300 – blue. You can compare the models if you wish, but the most noticeable improvement to me seemed to be the blue tooth – it now claimed to support file sharing, among other things.
This is where things get very complicated. To say that a device supports blue tooth doesn’t really mean much – the question is, what blue tooth “features” does it support. There are many: serial port, audio gateway, file sharing/object push, dial up networking, PIM/vCard… there is no point in listing them all. Then, once you know it supports a feature, there is the question of how it supports it. For example, Ben Jordan’s phone supports file sharing but will not accept MP3 files. Also there is the question of whether it supports sending/receiving multiple files or contacts – and those two are not the same thing.
So, Bethany comes to work, and I want to see what her new phone/blue tooth actually does. She has no contacts on her new phone, so I turn on blue tooth on both our phones, pair them, and send a contact. Success. I try sending multiple contacts. Success again. Wonderful! Later I tried sending several photos and, again, it received all of them. Again, wonderful! So the new phone supports receiving multiple contacts and multiple files. Oh, but if things were only that simple…