Time to spice up this blog network with a bunch o' fun stuffs. We got lots o' pictures and stories and all the Texas B-B-Q you can handle.
First off, here's a public service announcement for y'all. Look at this here hand-out that a buddy of mine got from the friendly state of Virginia:
After reading this incredibly insightful piece of information (to state it nicely) that the commonwealth of cured ham chooses to thrust upon unsuspecting commercial drivers, understand that the driver in question had a regulation height trailer that was less than 13 feet 3 inches in height. And yet both times he went through this stretch of highway he was told he was over-height. Do you smell something rotten in Denmark? Could Virginia beach be playing games at the expense of lowly truck drivers??!!! How could they, since such a major tourist trap (I mean attraction) relies on trucks for so much of its commerce? Needless to say, fighting an "over height" ticket would be a pretty easy thing to do. But what would really throw them for a loop is if all us truck drivers filed a class action lawsuit. Oh, if we only were more organized! Help us, Trucker Doc...
Next, we have a story about the Wifi that broke all speed records. You don't believe me? Lookie here:
This is the fastest download speed I have ever had with any WiFi. It was so fast, in fact, that my computer didn't even have time to save it to the proper file name. The data was there on my hard drive alright, but the file name had a bunch of numbers and letters that meant nothing to me. This all happened at the Flying J in Tye, Texas on May 19. Just to let you all know, the speed of the downloads decreased quite a bit after that. At one point I was getting slow speeds of 7 or 8 KB/sec. So you never know what you'll get.
Finally, here's a picture I'm quite proud of:
I found a link to this little game in one of the blogs I subscribe to. This score is *way* beyond what I ever thought I could get. When I started playing this game I thought I'd be lucky to make it past the fourth level. But I kept playing and started figuring out a bunch of new strategies as things kept going along. It's a simple game, but there are some pretty complex little details that make it surprisingly deep. The post that had this link said "Try to beat -55." Good luck with that one, folks. To do that well, you would have to have no life at all. I have a life, and so I'm very happy with the score I got. One note of caution here. When you go to the website, you will be asked to install a Japanese language package. Above all, don't do it!! The game works fine without the install. Of course, you're on your own trying to figure out how it all works, since it's all in Japanese anyway, but for me that was half of the fun. And you don't want to open your computer up to potential problems. I allowed a "language package" install the other day and suddenly a couple Microsoft programs that I already had kept wanting to re-install themselves every time I started them. If my computer hadn't made an automatic restore point the day before, I would have been really hating life. So without further delay, here's the link for
Cat with Bow Golf.
Enjoy!
