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Mac Heads. Run Software Update for the latest. Hopefully, they’ve fixed all of the buggy crap.

There is also an HP Driver update that shows up after you do the Java update.

I’m just sayin’

I have (and love) my MacBook Pro laptop and use it for everything from podcasting to video production to…

…writing.

Right after I got the laptop on the very same day, in fact, the “N” key popped off. One of the plastic pieces that are used to keep it in place broke leaving me with an “N” key that is hanging on to the rest of the keyboard for dear life. After a few keystrokes, it would come loose and I’d have to push it back in place again.

Well, during the week the key popped off and this time, it refused to semi-click back into place. In essence, it is now no longer even semi-secured to the keyboard.

During this whole thing, my father offered to call Apple and see if they could send me a replacement “N” key to simply snap back into place. Apple’s response was…

…”ahh, no.” We’ll replace your entire keyboard but the “N” key by itself is simply out of the question. This exchange between Apple and my father went on for about a week. My father lost the battle. Apple will not send out an “N” key by itself. If anything happens to your keyboard at all, Apple will replace the whole thing.

I just didn’t want to be without my laptop for any length of time. The compromise will be waiting while a local technician makes the repairs and changes out the keyboard with me watching him/her.

I haven’t made the reservations or called the technicians yet. In the meantime, I bought a HP USB 2.0 keyboard at Wal-Mart to hold me over. Of all of the keys on your keyboard, the “N” key is one of the most pressed.

At least, when you don’t have it you think it’s the most pressed!

I’ll let everyone know how the repair goes. It should happen sometime this week.

I’m not making this up. This site exists. Go here.

You’ll laugh. You’ll cry.

You’ll laugh mostly.

I found this article during my morning read. I can’t say that I agree with everything 100% because of speculation on the part of the author or the “so-called” scientific expert.

Here’s a small blurb about alcoholism…

Even in alcoholics, alcohol use doesn’t actually result in the death of brain cells. It can, however, damage the ends of neurons, which are called dendrites. This results in problems conveying messages between the neurons. The cell itself isn’t damaged, but the way that it communicates with others is altered. According to researchers such as Roberta J. Pentney, professor of anatomy and cell biology at the University at Buffalo, this damage is mostly reversible.

I’ve been posting over at stuckatmydesk.com, my personal website.

The tech stuff is probably going to be posted over there.

If I can cross-post, I’ll do that as well. I’d like to keep both sites but I work so much these days that I can’t keep up with all of my websites.

I’ll keep everyone posted on what the future will be.

Sorry. I’ve been working on my personal stuff lately.

Will post stuff soon.

I predict that CNET will become CBSNET after the dust settles from the CBS acquisition of CNET.

I just wanted to get my prediction on proverbial paper before they change the name.

In other words tech people, no body cares about your political views on anything. They watch you, listen to you, and or tolerate you because of your technical savvy and electrical goodness.

If anyone that I follow on Twitter because of their technical background starts talking about politics, I’m going to have to stop following them.

I can’t take it anymore.

Apple has released update 4.0.1…

I’ll be doing at least a couple of shows this week as time permits.

Big schedule this week. Huge!

I’m working to make the website better.

Please be patient.

Thanks.

I logged into my PayPal account using Firefox 3.0+. I simply logged in, checked the balance, and logged out.

After I logged out, I sat in my chair trying to remember something else I wanted to do. While sitting there, my iSight camera came on for a second and then turned off. I was sitting in the dark. Otherwise, I may never have noticed it.

Anytime your MacBook Pro camera comes on without your knowledge is a serious problem in my view.

There is also the “creeps you out” factor.

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Aug. 21, 1986: Volcanic Lake Explodes, Killing Thousands: “

SCIENCE  :  DISCOVERIES  
Aug. 21, 1986: Volcanic Lake Explodes, Killing Thousands
By Randy Alfred 7 Hours Ago

The waters of Lake Nyos, Cameroon, turned a murky brown following a deadly release of toxic gas in August 1986.
Photo: Thierry Orban/Corbis Sygma
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1986: A deadly cloud of carbon dioxide sweeps down the slopes of an African volcano, smothering more than 1,700 people.
Volcanoes can kill in many ways, but this one is pretty weird. A volcanic lake in the West African nation of Cameroon degassed violently (you could say it burped, or worse) in the middle of the night. Carbon dioxide is odorless and heavier than air. Most of the victims died in their sleep.
Lake Nyos sits in the crater of a volcano that hadn’t erupted in centuries … and probably didn’t actually erupt the night of Aug. 21, 1986.
Magma deep underneath the lake releases carbon dioxide into its depths. Lake Nyos is 690-feet deep, enough for the water pressure to keep the CO2 dissolved in the “

(Via .)

*** My article can also be read at the World Sentinel ***

This whole Bigfoot “story” is a scam and I’ll tell you why. The only thing I’ve done here is read about 5 news reports and applied the “common sense” filter. If you don’t think this story is a scam then perhaps, your filter is broken. This whole thing screams B**S***.

1. Obviously, after all of these years and with all of our new technology we still can’t manage to snag a picture (dead or alive) of bigfoot. The photos that these guys brought to the press conference were laughable. You supposedly have a dead body. You have all the time in the world to get some really great pictures to present to the world but you don’t? You offer up samples that look like close-ups of a Taco Bell dinner.

2. The fact that REAL reporters couldn’t help but notice a bunch of folks who tried to pass themselves off as REAL reporters. I haven’t seen a reporter with tattoos and a biker outfit at a press conference with this amount of real or imagined importance. This conference wasn’t last minute. The reporters had all the time in the world to doll themselves up but several decide not to? One of the guys hosting the press conference called on an unknown reporter by name. It just wasn’t one of the REAL more well known ones. Makes you go ‘hmmmm.’

3. DNA evidence didn’t show anything, yet they go forward with the press conference? These dudes claim to have a body. If you have a body, you have plenty of DNA evidence. You can take samples all day long and from anywhere on the body. It’s a forensic pathologists dream! Alas, but no. The sample given to be tested was a stomach sample that turned out to be a combination of human DNA and possum DNA. If you have a dead bigfoot body, how on God’s green earth could you screw this up? Hair samples, skin samples, nail samples, and internal organs not yet gone.

4. The REAL body is in a freezer at an undisclosed location. This is the 21st century. Couldn’t have managed to have a display at your press conference? Believe it or not, there are companies out there that rent freezers.

5. The people who claim to have found Bigfoot have a monetary interest in Bigfoot, insomuch as they make their living from the story of bigfoot. They are not working at Wal-Mart or working construction. They sell Bigfoot paraphernalia on the web for money. For these guys, the legend of Bigfoot must survive so they can survive as well.

6. Haven’t these guys heard of the internet? Do they not realize that everyone can fact check on the internet? Even a simple look at Google Images would have showed them that they’d have to produce better pictures to be believable. Ever hear of Photoshop? I would have looked at the Bigfoot scams that failed and then try something different. Hello?

7. The bar needed to be raised. This press conference simply didn’t do that. Pictures, DNA, and a body. Had they produced those three things, they might have managed to raise the bar. The pictures were awful, the DNA was a human and a possum, and they didn’t have the body.

From a scientific perspective, you need to present your evidence and your findings in a way that garnishes support. You failed to do that.

Imagine that the American people (world is ok too) represent the jury. You are the prosecutor. You have to convince the jury that Bigfoot is real and alive. Do you believe you’ve done that? Did you feel good walking into your press conference (a.k.a the courtroom of America)?

As far as the DNA and body stuff, wasn’t one of the guys a police officer? Isn’t the other guy a security guard?

The whole “I want to believe” mantra just doesn’t apply here. If you want something to believe in, why not start with your loved ones and your family?

In conclusion, as far as Bigfoot is concerned, it certainly is an interesting theory. If you can’t see it and you can’t touch it then perhaps, just perhaps it’s time for you to move on. We need our resources focused on far greater concerns. Concerns that are tangible. We need natural free energy. In the mean time, we could use some cheaper oil. Alternative energy would be nice.

Have you ever heard of opportunity cost? By spending time on this bigfoot nonsense (I’ve definitely proved that so forget the emails) you are choosing NOT to spend time on something else. You only get so much time on Earth. Do you guys want to be remembered as fakes? Is this a 15 minutes of fame issue?

Just two guys trying to make the Web 2.0 (final) crowd believe that Web 1.0 (beta) is good enough and in the age of information, the 1970s scams just won’t work anymore.

Something smells and it’s certainly NOT a bigfoot corpse.

Gary Vaynerchuk, iJustine, and Leo Laporte.

Details at iJustine’s website..

BTW, They are at the New Media Expo in Vegas.

The San Francisco Chronicle kind of thinks so…

Irrefutable evidence came to Palo Alto on Friday.

It was brown and fuzzy and looked very much like irrefutable evidence of a man in a gorilla suit.

But it wasn’t, said two Georgia hikers in baseball caps who rented a hotel meeting room to tell the world that they had found the dead body of the creature known as Bigfoot.

The hikers - Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer - found the body, they said, on a hiking trip about two weeks ago in northern Georgia. Unfortunately, they said, it was not possible to show the actual body. It’s in an icebox at an undisclosed location, awaiting a necropsy by a prestigious molecular biologist to be named later.

But the hikers did present three photographs of their find. The clearest one looked like a man in a gorilla suit.

The fuzziest one - the one that looked like a banana inside a tortilla - depicted what Whitton said was Bigfoot’s jaw. That photograph was airtight proof of the existence of something that looked like a banana inside a tortilla.