My friend's dog needs a new home. Wife is alergic. They tried everything. It's breaking everyone's heart... but Emily needs a new home.
Located in Burbank, CA.
She is a very loving, friendly dog. I'm going to miss her greatly myself! She always knows when I arrive to visit and will greet me as I'm parking my bike, or will meet me at door and leans her head on me.
See the attached flyer for more details.
Contact me if you're interested.
Mike and I at Bert's riding Can-Am Spyders:
Seen at Bert's Megamall in Covina:
Anyone know what it was originally?
Mike and I invade the Love Ride!
Overheard someone describe Mike's bike: "It's a Stainless Steel Vespa!"
Overheard someone describe my bike: "Hey look! It's a... a... uh... huh?" and walked off with a confused look. heh :-)
I think my forum thread speaks volumes for Parallels tech support.
This does not even include the emails!
Still unresolved as of this posting!
I just don't understand why there's so much hatred in this world,
it makes me so very sad when I encounter it. Not for myself, but for those that express it.
In this case, racism.
I was slowly passing traffic by lane-splitting on the left lane of the freeway, which was almost a parking lot. I noticed a couple of girls in a car stuck in traffic, I get stuck beside them - I noticed one of them saw me looking and I smiled (no idea if they can see my face/smile under my helmet, but I smiled anyway). They where able to creep up ahead of me a few feet before I could continue, as I passed I heard one of them yell out "WET BACK!".
WTF? :-(
*sigh*
Here I was wondering if they could even see my smile, while what little of my skin was exposed was able to clue them in as to what race I am to shout such an insult at me? Wow!
Now I'm not offended too much by the actual word, but the hatred in it is what makes me so very sad. Not only is it completely closed-minded (I'm American-born with Aztec Indian/Spanish blood from Mexican-born parents AFAIK) as their parents or ancestors crossed a big body of water, while most of mine - the land was acquired and the natives ran off by invading people.
If anything I would have expted to hear "ass hole" for passing them in traffic (jealousy) or even a comment about my weight... but "Wet Back"? Just.... wow!
Maybe it's the Buddhist in me (ok, that's probably exactly what it is), but - I have no reservations against any one kind of people. I love everyone!!! I know not everyone might feel the same about me, but I guess it still shocks me that there is so much hatred and racism in this world. Especially in this country.
Why can't people just accept everyone else for who they are and respect them - no, love them? We are all equal, we are in this world together! Why not try to make the best of it?
How to anger a peaceful zen geek:
I arrive at the server farm parking lot, take a ticket, and spend 10 minutes finding a parking spot! Ended up on the roof.
Get all my gear (backpack, tool bag, and 2 servers), go down a few floors (thankfully there are elevators), go to the lobby and announce I'm here to go to the server farm... and I'm told they their policy has changed and now I have to go through the loading dock! I'm even given specific instructions to get there.
Ok, whatever...
I go towards the exit I was told to go through, and I'm a little suprised that I don't see a guard there to open the gate. Ok, someone will see me through the camera and let me through... nothing... I push the call button... nothing! I start honking and pushing the call button... nothing!
Ok, I go back up through the way I came in, expecting the guard to know where I was going... he's charging me $2 because I've been here for 21 minutes! Um... yeah, trapped in your parking garage! He immediately gets angry when I decline to pay, so we're arguing for a minute, and tells me to take it up with security.
It's not about the money.
I backup and park, and go back to the lobby and talk to security,
they tell me to take it up with parking!
WTF???
Fuming I realize there's a parking office with a manager inside! I go in and explain the situation... and she too tells me to take it up with security in the building, they have nothing to do with eachother.
wait... what?
After arguing my point a little while longer, she admits that there have been allot of complaints lately due to the new policy, an that she will allow me to go without paying just this once...
With that I left, got back in the car, drove up to the parking toll collector, without a word being exchanged I handed him $5, he gave me $3 change, I drove away.
If you ask me why I paid I swear I will smack you!
I get to the loading dock,
I park, get all my gear out again, and walk up to the guy sitting by the door.
I tell him where I'm going, and asks what kind of servers I'm bringing in... he's expecting a brand and model... I simply say "Web servers" as they don't have a name brand. Then asks for a serial number, and I look at him and say "there is none, they're just plain rack mount boxes"... he keeps looking at them and I swear he wrote down "Intel Pentium 4" from the front (there's nothing else written on the front!), then he wrote down some numbers off the sticker on the backs - they're not serial numbers!!!!
Whatever!
He mumbles something that I can't understand, and give up trying to ask to repeat himself since he seems to have a problem dealing with people, but I assume it means for me to wait. some time passes by, then he mumbles something else again that I am just able to pick up to mean something about my ID.
Some more time passes by when I finally get an escort to the server farm.
As I'm leaving I get more upset.
What just happened here???
What was all this for???
If you're thinking "it's heightened security due to terrorists" I'll smack you with my tool bag, because my tool bag nor my backpack where checked!!! Nor where the servers themselves!
Saw it on MacDailyNews,
"Allchin says Ballmer, the world's 13th wealthiest man with a fortune of about $18 billion, spent almost two days trying to rid the PC of worms, viruses, spyware, malware and severe fragmentation without success," Frith reports. "He lumped the thing back to Microsoft's headquarters and turned it over to a team of top engineers, who spent several days on the machine, finding it infected with more than 100 pieces of malware, some of which were nearly impossible to eradicate."
Brings a smile to my face and a tear to my eye.
Article on MacDailyNews
Original article on Australian IT News
Public Transportation in Los Angeles SUCKS! I rather get my teeth pulled out!!!
I realized that the MetroLink trains I needed to get today where not in service - due to it being Sunday (um, WTF???), but I found an alternate - or so I thought...
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