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re: Don’t You Hate It When…

Peanut Butter Overlord — Wed, 26 May 2010 15:41:00 GMT

Yes, I hate all of those things. Especially #4 which happens to me a lot. :-(

re: Reminiscing About Backing Up My Data

parker — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:53:47 GMT

Thanks!

re: Reminiscing About Backing Up My Data

Peanut Butter Overlord — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:16:42 GMT

I remember typing in a BASIC program and backing it up to a tape cassette, slightly before the days of 5 1/4" disks. When I bought my first computer, it came with one of those new-fangled things called a "hard drive". Things sure have progressed a lot. I'll usually back up on a weekly basis to my iPod which has a 30 GB capacity. Every couple of months I'll back up everything to a CD, or a DVD if it needs more space, for more permanent storage. CDs and DVDs are pretty cheap. If something is very important, I'll back it up to more than one place, including online storage places. External drives usually have USB connections just like a thumb drive so just pick a size large enough for your data.

re: Today At Rocket Daddy

willburns1 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:42:11 GMT

Oh cool sounds like a good time.

re: Spanking Children

PDeverit — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:50:33 GMT

Most compelling of all reasons to abandon this worst of all bad habits is the fact that buttock-battering can be unintentional sexual abuse for some children. There is an abundance of educational resources, testimony, documentation, etc available on the subject that can easily be found by doing a little research on "spanking".

Just a handful of those helping to raise awareness of why child buttock-battering isn't a good idea:

American Academy of Pediatrics,

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,

Center For Effective Discipline,

PsycHealth Ltd Behavioral Health Professionals,

Churches' Network For Non-Violence,

Nobel Peace-Prize recipient Archbishop Desmond Tutu,

Parenting In Jesus' Footsteps,

The LDS Church (education.byu.edu/.../spanking.html click on "quotes on spanking")

Global Initiative To End All Corporal Punishment of Children,

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In 26 countries, child buttock-battering is prohibited by law. In fact, the US was the only UN member that did not ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

re: Spanking Children

PDeverit — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:42:34 GMT

Child buttock-battering vs. DISCIPLINE:

Child buttock-battering for the purpose of gaining compliance is nothing more than an inherited bad habit.

Its a good idea for people to take a look at what they are doing, and learn how to DISCIPLINE instead of hit.

I think the reason why television shows like "Supernanny" and "Dr. Phil" are so popular is because that is precisely what many (not all) people are trying to do.

There are several reasons why child buttock-battering isn't a good idea. Here are some good, quick reads recommended by professionals:

Plain Talk About Spanking

by Jordan Riak,

The Sexual Dangers of Spanking Children

by Tom Johnson,

NO VITAL ORGANS THERE, So They Say

by Lesli Taylor M.D. and Adah Maurer Ph.D.

re: “Along Came A Spider”

parker — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:40:51 GMT

Yeah, the "Charlotte's Web" story makes it very hard to kill a spider. I'm trying to get it to move out of the mailbox, I don't want to go get the mail one day and find that there are tons of spiders in it!

re: “Along Came A Spider”

Blogette — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:57:21 GMT

I opened our garage door one morning and saw a big spider on the ground right outside the door. I don't care for spiders either, so I took my flip-flop in hand and slapped at the spider. It fell off to the side with its legs all curled up, presumably dead, but then all these tiny, tiny spiders that had been under the big spider started running around. I frantically started slapping the flip-flop at all of these little spiders. From their behavior, I am assuming it was a mom spider and she had been protecting all her baby spiders. I felt positively awful for killing her. I didn't even think that spiders nurtured their young like that. My only knowledge about spiders comes from "Charlotte's Web" and that spider created an egg sac and died before her babies were born.

re: It’s About Time!

kurt — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:31:47 GMT

Just saw a pic of the thong bicyclist and you just may have a point;)

re: It’s About Time!

kurt — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:53:07 GMT

I know you are a super great person so please don't be offended that I don't agree with you completely. I am more likely offended by this guy than you are. However, every time the police arrest someone for being a little off I must say it worries me. All our freedoms come from people challenging the what we consider normal and it gives us all a little space to live in freedom. One day someone might think I look ridiculous and offensive and I hope they don't arrest me for it. This may already have happened, just this last weekend;) I don't even want it to be an issue. Nudity is not the worst thing in the world but losing our freedoms is. Just my 2 cents.

re: Healthy Snacks

Blogette — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:51:52 GMT

All very good suggestions!

re: Would You Accidentally Run Over Your Own Family?

willburns1 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:04:27 GMT

That is crazy. I can't believe that. I assume the fact that he was thrown out of the army since I guess the choices are stay in army have money leave army and be homeless. Maybe not I don't know but that is horrible. I hope they don't take their kids that would be awful. If they allow adults to be homeless on the street they should allow children with their parents to be homeless. I know that sounds weird.

re: Healthy Eating

willburns1 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:53:51 GMT

That's a really great suggestion. I don't like eating after i brush my teeth. It makes all the food you eat taste weird.

You make a good point about not skipping meals. In fact if you eat very little food in a day thinking it is going to make you loose weight it won't. You body will start to think it's starving and will slow your metabolism to compensate for the lack of food. You might loose some weight at first but it will slow and if you go back to eating a lot of food you will gain it all back because your metabolism is so slow.

re: Recent Celebrity Deaths

Blogette — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:00:16 GMT

I missed the announcment about Ricardo Montalban. How sad. He was one of my favorite actors.

re: Recent Celebrity Deaths

willburns1 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:51:12 GMT

yeah there was a rumor going around that Rick Astley was dead. Of course the king of the rick roll is not dead it was just some internet rumor that was floating around.