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Personal website for Lacy, a Tennessean web designer who loves to read, play the piano, paint and work in her garden. You can find games, links, jokes, and my daily ramblings at silverberry.org! 1 Sep 07 links for 2007-09-01 60 Advanced Adobe Photoshop Tutorials (tags: photoshop graphics design) ... 24 Aug 07 links for 2007-08-24 Web 2.0 Badges - Useful collection of stylish web 2.0 badges and badge generator. Web20Badges is a set of free and very cool Web 2.0 Badges. ... 19 Aug 07 Minesweeper: The Movie "Why are you here soldier?? Why are you here??" ... 17 Aug 07 Why you should never have a glass desk! woah - poor guy! Amazingly - his computer survived - but he did have to recarpet ;) He's now the proud owner of a solid wood desk! The thread of comments on flickr is hilarious though ... other ikea furniture buyers wondering how the desk just spontaneously shattered ... 5 Aug 07 links for 2007-08-05 MT Daily Builds TAG changes / tags for MT4 (tags: movabletype) MTTags.com MT Tags Reference (tags: movabletype) ... 4 Aug 07 links for 2007-08-04 Color Codes Matching Chart HTML (Pantone, CMYK, RGB Hex) (tags: design reference pantone CMYK) ... 24 Jul 07 It's Done. Finished last night at midnight-thirty. *amazing* ... 24 Jul 07 links for 2007-07-24 The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web *great* tutorials for how to do different text effects (tags: adobe photoshop how-to) ... 23 Jul 07 Week at Camp So ... last week was summer camp with the student ministry at my church. Part of my responsibilities this year included helping the senior class produce camp news every day. It's *exhausting* because we film after midnight usually and then I have a few hours to edit and have ready for noontime news... 11 Jul 07 links for 2007-07-11 Final Cut Express - dvcreators dvcreators.network forums (tags: finalcut, apple, video) Free Stock Footage Clips (tags: video, finalcut, free) ... 4 Jul 07 The good wife's guide We've all seen this before ... but some parts are just too funny to not highlight again when it's making the rounds. From May 1955 Housekeeping Monthly The good wife's guide * Have dinner ready... 29 Jun 07 Garden Party ... 29 Jun 07 Email Overload I am feeling an email overload right now. It feels like it has been months since I have been able to look at my inbox without cringing because I know I have emails from FEBRUARY that I still haven't tended to... 27 Jun 07 A Wedding Bouquet My friend Jill and I did the bouquets and a few small arrangements for a friend's wedding (it was our gift to her) - Congrats Kimberly & Matt!! Jill and I are on the flower committee at church ... and so we are used to doing HUGE flower arrangements and those don't make us nervous ... 21 Jun 07 links for 2007-06-21 Iconmac Magazine cool icons for mac (tags: apple icons) ... 10 Jun 07 links for 2007-06-10 ... 8 Jun 07 links for 2007-06-08 Curbly | DIY Design Community (tags: inspiration home decor) ... 7 Jun 07 links for 2007-06-07 35 Designers x 5 Questions (tags: design CSS programming standards) ... 6 Jun 07 25 Books That Leave a Legacy USA Today's "25 Books that leave a legacy" ... (only looking at books from the past 25 years) including: Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone (for obvious reasons) The Da Vinci Code (on the list basically for it's controversy) And the Band Played On (excellent book ... 6 Jun 07 Top 50 Tourist Attractions Bold the ones you've visited and post ... Many of these are Japan, China, India ... hope to one day visit Japan for sure! 1. Times Square, New York City, NY: 35 million visitors every year 2. National Mall & Memorial Parks, Washington, D... 6 Jun 07 Movable Type 4 beta MT4 beta was released Monday .... I had a test install up and running by that night. I've long been a supporter of Movable Type ... it's a fantastic content management system, with unreal online community support... 24 May 07 links for 2007-05-24 The Best Designs - Designers Gallery (tags: CSS design inspiration layouts) ... 19 May 07 links for 2007-05-19 Mom makes daughter who bullied hold a poster in front of schools finally a parent taking responsibility and actively doing something about their behavior instead of blaming it on the school, the media, etc... 17 May 07 links for 2007-05-17 Granger Communication Values (tags: church marketing) ... 16 May 07 links for 2007-05-16 Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts (tags: apple) ... 12 May 07 links for 2007-05-12 The Credit Card Prank a guy sets out to prove that no one checks the signature on credit card slips (tags: funny) ... 11 May 07 links for 2007-05-11 Absolutely Del.icio.us Tools Collection (tags: reference tool del.icio.us) InDesignSecrets tutorials, tips, downloads,e tc (tags: design reference adobe indesign) Layers Magazine Tutorials (tags: how-to photoshop indesign illustrator design adobe) Dingbats Galore (tags: fonts design graphics) Bearskinrug (tags: blog inspiration funny) Two Peas in a Bucket (tags: how-to scrapbooking) Free Icons (tags: design graphics icons) The City Church (tags: church inspiration design) fabrics (tags: design patterns) The Idiot's Guide to moo... 19 Apr 07 Aloha Photos Pictures from Hawai'i if you're interested!! We took about 1700 photos ... I only put 125 online though!! Click here for aloha photo happiness from Steve & Lacy If you just for a few pics ... 19 Apr 07 My iMac died The impossible (or so the media and online world would have us believe) has happened. My iMac died. Completely. Pressed the power key last Thursday ... the apple logo appears in center, the spin wheel is spinning ... 9 Mar 07 5 Days til Black Sand, Low Humidity & Volcanoes Let the countdown commence. Only Five Days 'til Two Weeks in Hawaii. We haven't been on a real vacation in two years (a real vacation for us is going somewhere we've never been ... and for more than a week!)... 9 Mar 07 Kick the killers face in already! Yes. It's something else from Drivl. Movie Cliches That Must Die Just a few ... but visit the site for the whole list complete with movie examples and thoughtful reasoning ;) *The just-in-time bomb disabling *The "Now, what were you going to say?" *Subduing the killer and promptly running away instead of repeatedly kicking his face in *The makeover that turns an already-pretty girl into a hot sex kitten *The disproportionately huge apartment that realistically can't be affordable for the person habiting it I'd love to see Pam's additions to this list ... 9 Mar 07 Drivl - 7 Phases of Ipod Ownership I have found a new site obsession ... Drivl.com. I can't stop laughing ... it's witty and intelligent ... what's not to like! From The Seven Phases of Owning an Ipod: PHASE 6: A smaller, fancier ipod is created and yours is now outdated and crappy... 9 Mar 07 Mr. Muggles is the Biggest Hero of Them All "Heroes" Secret Revealed - Who is the Most Powerful Hero? Excerpts: **In episode 15, Claire's mom recognizes Mr. Muggles as a threat and Claire discovers her in the kitchen screaming at him in horror... 7 Mar 07 yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae... 27 Feb 07 Craig Ferguson is the real deal We are big Craig Ferguson fans ... tivo him every night. He's absolutely hilarious ... and unlike Letterman (who I still prefer to Leno) and Leno -- he isn't reading jokes off a teleprompter (and doesn't have to say the punchline 3 times like Leno) -- and seems to actually ENJOY what he's doing... 16 Jan 07 Tom Hanks IS James Bond EXCELLENT ... ... 7 Dec 06 A *real* computer keyboard comes with the Commodore Vic-20! My first computer was a Commodore 64 ... I remember my brother and I keying in pages and pages of code just to play a super simple game. One keystroke wrong ... game doesn't work and you start over. You want to play something else? Key the code in again... 7 Dec 06 Never aired TIVO commercial hehe ... I love my tivos!!! ... 1 Dec 06 One Man Stonehenge Really interesting ... ... 22 Nov 06 AOL advertising even in their NDR messages Amazing. AOL spams is everywhere now. One of my users got this NDR (Non Delivery Report) message today when attempting to send an email to an AOL user: The following recipient(s) could not be reached: There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server... 14 Nov 06 Zune Zune .... Microsoft's new mobile music player might just have a chance at giving Apple *some* competition. It looks cool ... they're doing a good job with marketing ... the price is right ($249) ... and you know they are going to start bundling it with PC sales - at the very least zune software will be included with windows on new pc's... 7 Nov 06 Baptism Cannonball! ... 4 Nov 06 Not Frog-like enough for me. I saw Umbridge in a totally different way in my head. I think this is the first time when I have been *totally* disappointed with the casting in Harry Potter. I've been pretty pleased with everyone up until now; she is just *not* AT ALL what I had in my head... 3 Nov 06 Glorious view I was syncing my treo today - and realized there were photos on there I forgot I had taken! When we flew to Florida in April for Paul's wedding - the view from the plane was simply breathtaking. I pulled my treo out and took a few pictures ... 3 Nov 06 Y'all Magazine Saw this in Davis-Kidd Booksellers this weekend. y'all magazine. Seriously?? ... 1 Nov 06 Claudia Nunez had four years to get her act together. Now she's crying mercy? Katherine blogged about the Claudio Nunez sob story ... here are my thoughts [getting on soapbox] Yes - its sad that she will be separated from her family. But she's had more than ample time to file papers with INS ... 28 Oct 06 Political Ads attempt to pull in the Christian voter Steve and Bethany (from realverse.com - a fun new project I've been involved with over the past few months) are doing a new segment for hotair.com called Press Play. This is my favorite one so far ... (can't embed their vids ... 28 Oct 06 I suppose you can find racism anywhere if you're looking *really* hard Sarcastic and witty vidcast from townhall.com vlogger Mary Katharine Ham. [related article here] I'm so ready for this election to be over ... ... 25 Oct 06 Physics + Dominoes = Wow ... 20 Oct 06 Bellagio Water Show Another item I'm finally getting around to uploading - TWO YEARS after the fact. Sheesh. This is a short video I shot with my canon elph camera ... if you haven't ever been to Vegas and seen the Bellagio water shows ... 19 Oct 06 West Coast Tour 2004 Photos ... 17 Oct 06 Election Officials Not That Bright From an article in The City paper: Social security numbers don?t start with nine, eight, 666 and 000. In addition, all zeroes aren?t used in the second or third series of digits, according to the Social Security Administration... 5 Oct 06 Amanda Congdon visits Nashville! Amanda Congdon (formerly of rocketboom fame) comes to Nashville with her new gig at Amanda Across America! She visits WKRN to speak with the station general manager - but more importantly with full-time paid blogger Britney of Nashville is Talking... 5 Oct 06 The LOST Sri Lanka video ... 5 Oct 06 Hanso Foundation Formula and Phone Messages The numbers predict the end of the world ... they are trying to change the numbers ... The Hanso Foundation Formula The Hanso Foundation Phone Messages ... 2 Oct 06 Black and White Weekend Quick construction and weekend update! Our new house was finished and we closed and moved in about 7 weeks ago. It's been a whirlwind of activity since then ... we've been taking pictures - but haven't had a chance to post them... 6 Sep 06 What Microsoft is Up to My brother sent me this very cool link to PhotoSynth - a project Microsoft is working on. It's really amazing ... although I'm sure if they ever release it to the public we'll be paying for a license to use it... 14 Jul 06 Almost Finished! Carpet, Columns, Driveway & More! All Photos from July 14 ... 25 Jun 06 Verde Butterfly Granite Countertops installed All Photos from June 23 ... 20 Jun 06 Cabinets and Light Fixtures are in and Some Flooring is down All Photos from June 19 ... 5 Jun 06 Painting has begun All Photos from June 4 ... 2 Jun 06 Moving Day Today is moving day ... we've just waved goodbye to our friends from "Two Men and a Truck". Almost everything we own is sitting in a POD in the driveway now. We're now sitting in a mostly empty house... 29 May 06 Drywall is finished ... Connected to Sewer Now! All Photos from May 27 ... 25 May 06 Nashville Mayor?s 43rd State of the City Address Nashville is a great city to live in ... and apparently lots of other people agree. Our pastor reported some of these things from the breakfast this morning where the Mayor gave the 43rd State of the City Address: ? For 2 years in a row, Nashville is the number 1 city for business expansion... 24 May 06 Drywall has begun ... All Photos from May 20 ... 13 May 06 We have brick! All Photos from May 13 ... 10 May 06 Electrical, hvac, and more! Brick has arrived! All Photos from May 7 ... 6 May 06 Our house is sold!!! We put the house on the market Friday morning ... got an offer this afternoon. Woohoo!!!! We're homeless come June 5 ;) All that's left now is a home inspection (which we should pass easily). Then we start packing! What a huge weight off our shoulders to have the house sold so quickly - and for what we wanted to get... 1 May 06 No more TIVO lifetime service option I know this is old news ... but it still bugs me. Why do they have to go and do that? I know it must annoy them that there are all of us out there who haven't paid them a dime in 2 or 3 years ... but come on... 1 May 06 ABC is streaming full episodes now You can watch ALIAS, Desperate Housewives, LOST and more ... the full episodes. There ARE commercials ... but not as many as if you watch it live (for those of you without tivos). check it out! ... 30 Apr 06 We have windows and plumbing! All Photos from April 29 ... 24 Apr 06 We got to go inside for the first time! All Photos from April 23 ... 22 Apr 06 Roof is Taking Shape All Photos from April 21 ... 19 Apr 06 And on the third day ... there was a roof! All Photos from April 19 ... 18 Apr 06 We have a second floor! All Photos from April 18 ... 18 Apr 06 We have a first floor!! Steve and I were in Florida last week for an English wedding (more on that later!) ... when we left Nashville our footer had been poured. While we were out of town - they built the foundation. We got back into town Sunday night and went down yesterday to see the progress... 6 Apr 06 The footer is poured! ... 2 Apr 06 Cutting Trees, Pouring Foundations and Marshmallow Dogs Had a super fun weekend last weekend: Our foundation is supposed to be poured Tuesday/Wednesday at this place: And I guess if you saw this behind the gate ... you might think twice about coming into our yard... 25 Mar 06 itunes fun From Connielane ... Go to your music player of choice and put it on shuffle. Say the following questions aloud, and press play. Use the song title as the answer to the question. 1. How does the world see me? Great Things (echobelly) 2... 22 Mar 06 For Sale Anybody looking for a house in West-West-Nashville? :) ... 9 Mar 06 She was healed Seven years ago today we lost a beautiful, kind, smart, witty and strong woman. Amber was 22 and leukemia took her from us. Today on the drive in to work - I was flooded with memories. Memories of this day - seven years ago - when a circle of friends had their faith rocked to the core... 3 Feb 06 Four Can't sum up the enthusiasm to blog ... but memes? That's easy! I've seen this one all over the place ... Four places I?ve lived: Cleveland, TN Herndon, VA Kingston Springs, TN Nashville, TN Four jobs I?ve had: K-Mart Cashier (worked there for 1 month ... 23 Jan 06 Dooce's Chuck definitely doesn't have ADD MacGyver could never sit still for this long ... ... 23 Jan 06 Bordeaux mastiff v. Squeaky v. Doberman You've got to see the pictures of this dog - a Bordeaux mastiff. ... 20 Dec 05 Sold ... 15 Dec 05 I'm a Christmas Light-ist Every Christmas I am faced with a bizarre fact about myself. I'm a Christmas Light-ist. I have white christmas lights in my house - and ONLY white Christmas lights. Steve knows not to bring colored lights within 100 feet of our home... 5 Dec 05 Innocence and Wonder I haven't posted in forever - but this photo could not go unblogged. Could this child be more beautiful? I love this picture ... a perfect moment with her. Happy Thanksgiving Sarah :) Life has been busy... 2 Oct 05 Flightplan A mother's worst nightmare comes to life in Jodie Foster's newest suspense movie - Flightplan. Kyle (Foster) and her 6-year old daughter Julia are on a trans-atlantic jumbo-jet flight (with Kyle's husband's body in the cargo hold)... 30 Sep 05 Tivo Everywhere with Slingbox For only $249 - you can have access to your tivo (or regular television) from anywhere in the world. That's right. You can watch that LOST episode on your tivo at home on your laptop in your hotel room in China... 27 Sep 05 Another September Baby :bday: Birthday Wishes to Lydia today ... :present: ... 26 Sep 05 Personalize Your Google Nifty. You can personalize your Google homepage now. I've got mine setup to show my latest gmails, my search history, a few personal rss feeds, a newsfeed, and some other random fun stuff. I especially like the gmail and search history being right there... 25 Sep 05 Extreme Makeover - Home Edition: The Best Show on Television Season premiere of Extreme Makeover - Home Edition was tonight. I'm sure you guys were watching just like us. Last season it was a weekly ritual - Steve and I would sit on the couch and watch EMHE with tears in both our eyes... 25 Sep 05 I'm actually looking forward to a Monday? I'm actually looking forward to Monday this week. Why? I'm attending an Adobe Photoshop conference. :bounce: Wheee!!! I booked it several months ago and am really looking forward to it. We have a large-group opening session tomorrow morning - and then there are 10 small-group sessions offered the rest of the day - and you pick five to attend... 21 Sep 05 September 21, 1977 12:55 PM :propeller: At 12:44 PM on September 21, 1977 my mother was checked in by my frantic father to Bradley Memorial Hospital. I was born at 12:55 PM. :bday: According to my mom, they stopped on the way to the hospital at one of her friends house to drop off my brother - and it's lucky I wasn't born on their front porch! As my father said at lunch today - I was in a hurry then - and I have been ever since... 19 Sep 05 My husband and I are dating At least that's what it feels like anyway. We talk to each other on the phone every night - "Whaddya do today?", "I love you", "I miss you", "See you on Friday" -- and we see each other a lot on the weekends... 15 Sep 05 A Bloggers Lunch Had lunch with four Nashville bloggers today ... Katherine, Pam, Patrick, and Lydia. Thankfully I can continue to be lazy (thanks Katherine) and not write my own entry about it - because Katherine and Pam both blogged about it already! Be sure to check out the plate... 13 Sep 05 Enough Already I've turned off my newsreader this week. I was talking to a fellow blogger last week - and we agreed that it seems like every body can't stop talking about Katrina and who's to blame for the aftermath... 8 Sep 05 Reboot in Progress I'm "rebooting" this site this week - implementing a new design, condensing my stylesheets and reworking some of the code - so some things might be a little wonky (yes that's a technical term). It's been a while since my last redesign -- and this one is definitely the darkest I've ever gone... 8 Sep 05 HCA's timely response to Katrina My husband, Steve, works for HCA (he is one of their geeks) and spends at least 3 days a week traveling all over the country to the different hospitals they own or are about to take over. He has kept me updated on HCA's evacuation efforts post-Katrina - and yesterday a company-wide email was sent with details about their response and action after the hurricane... 1 Sep 05 40 cent jump in 9 hours! Woah! This morning I filled up for $2.59 -- on my way home tonight -- it's $2.99 ($3.01 at a gas station I saw later!!) That's a 40 cent jump in 9 hours! Pam says she read that it was $3.29 in LaVergne... 23 Aug 05 Blondes and Football A guy took his blonde (substitute with your favorite hair-color) girlfriend to her first football game. They had great seats right behind their team's bench. After the game, he asked her how she liked the experience... 5 Aug 05 The Famous ROPMA.NET Terrorism Quiz "...One hundred percent of the successful terrorist attacks on commercial airlines for 20 years have been committed by Arabs. When there is a 100 percent chance of being hijacked by an Arab Muslim Extremist, it ceases to be a profile... 5 Aug 05 The gay dog in our neighborhood Monday when we got home from work -- there was a black spaniel hanging out at the gate -- trying to get into the backyard with MacGyver. Steve and I went over to check it out and the dog was obviously well-taken care of, not a stray... 4 Aug 05 Teeny Weenies Look what's living at my house for the next few weeks. We got two dachshund puppies for my grandmother's birthday (my grandparents have always had dachshunds and their dog, Brownie, died about 10 months ago; I know they miss having him around... 4 Aug 05 Pretty in Pink Powerbook I got a tattoo for my powerbook -- and I love it! It comes with the apple cut out ... so it still glows :) It's definitely Pretty in Pink! Get one for your apple (they do ipod, mac mini tatoos too!) at We Love Macs... 23 Jul 05 Taking a breath ... I'm back from camp with my church's students ... and now I'm halfway through my ten year high school reunion weekend! I can't wait for Monday :) ... 16 Jul 05 I'm off to Camp! Tomorrow morning I leave for a week at camp with my church's students. As my internet access situation is still up in the air (or at least the speed of said internet access) - I doubt there will be much activity here this week... 14 Jul 05 Now Running Movable Type 3.2 Beta Just upgraded the Movable Type 3.2 Beta ... so far no problems. I like the new and improved interface - I'm still checking out all the new features. I'll have to go back through and upload all my personalized graphics though... 11 Jul 05 It's Been Ten Years Already? My ten-year high school reunion is two weeks away. I'm on the planning committee :censor:. (yes, I must have been smoking crack to agree to that.) We've been working on it since September of last year... 9 Jul 05 Dominey Redesigns ... Hmmmm Things that make you go hmmmmm. I've been enthralled with Dominey Design since my first visit to his whimsical, fun and informative business site (the previous version is still available here); now he's redesigned and I just don't get it... 9 Jul 05 The Taking Not one of Koontz's best. This story centers around a couple who wake up in the middle of the night in a rainstorm the likes of which neither has everseen. The gal hangs out with some coyotes, they see weird things in mirrors, and like The Sixth Sense - the see dead people... 7 Jul 05 London bombings I've not been able to get through on the phones to Steve's family in England all day. As soon as I heard about the bombings - I tried calling - but I can't get through. Most of his family lives about 90 miles north of London - and we don't think they were on any trips down to the city; but he has friends who work downtown... 2 Jul 05 The Cute Factor Wow ... it's unbelievable how fast they grow up. Here's my niece, Sarah -- she's 2 1/2 - and calls me Wacy or Sacy... Steve is Teve and MacGyver is Gyver ! :hug: We're in Cleveland for the long holiday weekend -- and she's spent the night with us at my parent's house... 30 Jun 05 3-D Sidewalk Art Got these in an email from a friend. These are all drawings done on sidewalks ... so keep in mind the surfaces are FLAT! Simply amazing! (They're posted in my flickr account -- you can view the collection by clicking the thumbnails - or click here for the collection... 28 Jun 05 Alphabetized Links and You Clear the address bar in your browser, type in every letter of the alphabet, and list out what is the first URL on the history list (Found via KC; I found some nifty new websites via her list!) If you do this - trackback or comment to let me know so I can visit your link list ;) A - acropdf... 27 Jun 05 AD and Exchange Scripts Anybody know of a script (VBScript preferably) out there that allows you to import an excel/text/csv file into Active Directory - and for each line item - have it create a user account in a specified OU, and create an exchange mailbox at the same time? I've been surfing the microsoft tech-net scripts - and found something to create the user accounts (though I haven't tried it yet) - but haven't seen anything yet that includes the automation of exchange mailbox creation... 27 Jun 05 MIT Weblog Survey Take the survey ... ... 26 Jun 05 Life Expectancy This was a really good read - I laughed out loud several times while reading Life Expectancy - there are some really witty and funny scenes mixed in with Koontz standard dose of horror! Jimmy Tock is born at the very moment his grandfather dies - but not before the grandfather unexpectedly makes several predictions about Jimmy's life - 5 terrible days... 23 Jun 05 Evidently Nashville is Talking a lot Recently Brittany Gilbert is one of the first full-time paid bloggers - she maintains a very frequently updated blog - Nashville is Talking - for the ABC affiliate, WKRN 2, here in Nashville. Within three days, my blog and two blogs of people I know were all linked at Nashville is Talking... 23 Jun 05 Burning the Flag in the Land of the Free While checking out a new blog [visit Katherine] - I found a link to this news story about the house approving a move to outlaw flag burning. Katherine and I have similar views on the topic - [see her thoughts here]... 23 Jun 05 All we get is one extra lane? Construction has been horrendous on I-40 in Nashville for several years now -- around the I-40/Briley Parkway area. From all appearances it looked like we were going to get 2 extra lanes on each side... 22 Jun 05 New Coke is zero-splendaicky At the grocery store this weekend (Publix rocks!) - there was a deal that you could get a free bottle of Coke Zero and Diet Coke with Splenda with the purchase of 2 regular bottles. I'd heard from a friend that the Diet Coke with Splenda tasted just like regular Coke - so we got a bottle of each to test... 22 Jun 05 Velocity Got this new Dean Koontz book yesterday via the amazon marketplace . I ended up reading the whole thing last night in about 2 hours. It's one of those books that is so incredibly fast-paced that you find you have read 100 pages and you haven't even reached for your glass of Diet Coke... 18 Jun 05 Darth Comics Found via geeky ... Some really funny tiny Star Wars comics. A few of my favorites: ABBA OR "ME AT WORK" Bandaids Just Another Silly Love Song ... 17 Jun 05 The Notebook Started watching this last night on my computer while I was doing some work - within a few minutes I had moved down to watch it on the bigscreen. This is one of the few Nicholas Sparks books that I hadn't read - so I didn't know the storyline for the movie (although evidently they did change the movie a bit; especially the ending... 5 Jun 05 The Apple Presentation Factor ... 4 Jun 05 It's Arrived! Whee! I've been setting up a different section in my brain for how macs work (took me 5 minutes to sort out how to unzip a file! Ahhh StuffIt!) More thoughts & photos to come! ... 3 Jun 05 Our First Mac Status In Transit Scheduled Delivery June 3, 2005 Shipped to Nashvile, TN, US Package Progress Date / Time Location Activity June 2, 2005 11:43 PM Nashville, TN, US Destination Scan 10:53 PM Nashville, TN, US Arrival Scan 8:16 PM Lexington, KY, US Departure Scan 3:52 PM Lexington, KY, US Origin Scan 12:06 PM US Billing Information Received Tracking results provided by UPS: Jun 3, 2005 11:39 A... 2 Jun 05 Got this in the mail today ... ... 1 Jun 05 England v. USA A few months back Steve found out that the England football (soccer) team would be coming to Chicago to play the US team. Almost before he finished reading the announcement he was looking online for where and when he could buy tickets... 26 May 05 MacGyver's Excellent Adventure We spent this past weekend working at my parents old house (my childhood home). They have already moved into their new neighborhood (less than two miles down the road!!) and are going to rent the old house once they get everything cleaned out and spruced up... 25 May 05 My name isn't Michael Vaughn Great lines .... Jack - "I'm trying to have more fun" Irina - "Ever since you were eleven, there's something I've wanted to do... " Vaughn - "My name isn't Michael Vaughn." Irina - "take me to my sister" Great moments ... 19 May 05 Alias, Lost & Gilmore Girls Thoughts on the latest episodes of Alias, Lost and Gilmore Girls in the extended session. Spoilers. Alias Is Nadia Jack's daughter? Is that what Irina was hinting at ??? "Ask me on the beach?" Wheee! I still think it must be weird for Vartan and Garner to do those types of scenes together considering their history... 19 May 05 A Book Meme Nabbed from Connielane 1)Total number of books I've owned? Hmmm ... I have no idea. Hundreds. We have lots of bookcases in our house - and they all have books in them. 2) The last book I bought? The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger [read my review] 3) The last book I read? The Evening Class by Maeve Binchy [review to come] 4) Five books that mean a lot to me: (in no particular order) Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen How can you not love this book? "In vain I have struggled... 16 May 05 Pretty Little Wacom There was a sale (rebate) on Wacom tablets at COMPUSA this weekend -- and since I've wanted one ever since I found out about them -- we dropped by yesterday afternoon and picked one up. :cool: I got the white version - the mouse is pearlescent white and just looks beautiful on my desk... 11 May 05 Who is at Veronica Mars' door? Last night was the season finale. We finally learn the truth behind all the mysteries this season. :pi: If you haven't watched it yet, don't read the extended entry. It'll ruin your viewing pleasure of the finale... 7 May 05 Love: Husband vs. Children About two weeks ago there was an episode on Oprah with author Ayelet Waldman. She had recently written an article in which she boldly claimed, "I love my husband more than I love my children". I think she could have worded it differently - becuase she was saying that her relationship with her husband was the PRIMARY relationship in her home... 7 May 05 The Time Traveler's Wife The Time Traveler's Wife is a thought-provoking novel by Audrey Niffenegger with a storyline that includes sci-fi, drama and romance. Henry De Tamble, our tragic hero, is cursed/blessed with the ability to travel in time - within his own lifetime that is... 7 May 05 Life slows down a bit Good interview with Mena Trott of Movable Type - great quote "People did this. People kept journals all through history and it's important. As soon as you stop, keeping track of what you do, things go by too quickly... 4 May 05 It's a New Amazon Ohhh nifty new amazon navigation. I like the rounded corners and gradients -- and the "view all 31 categories" layer that becomes visible when you move your mouse over it. ... 18 Apr 05 Macromedia + Adobe = Not Sure Yet Hmmm ... have you heard the news? Adobe and Macromedia are merging (or will as soon as its voted on - which they must be pretty certain it will get approved as they're announcing it). What will this mean? I use Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop and Illustrator... 14 Apr 05 Veronica Mars is my New Buffy I love this show. We caught the first episode back in September when we were in Vegas. We were in the hotel room, getting ready to go out - and it came on and we stayed in the hotel an extra hour to watch it... 13 Apr 05 Gas vs. Frappuccino I filled up my tank yesterday at $2.20 a gallon - and while I know that gas in the US is cheaper than almost anywhere in the world - it still irks me to pay that much when I remember getting it for 98 cents a gallon not too many years ago... 10 Apr 05 The Houdini Dogsitting Weekend We watched one of our friends dogs this weekend ... a black mixed-breed named Chloe. We joke that she's MacGyver's girlfriend - they get together as often as they can, and quite frequently have sleep-overs when their owners go out of town... 8 Apr 05 Lego Spidey and Ghetto Prom Pics My brother forwarded me this -- with the subject titled "Some people have way too much free time .... " -- but it is hilarious! Somebody has redone the Spiderman movie ... with Legos. haha! CLICK HERE to see it in your theatre now!! And then we have the Ghetto Prom Pictures... 27 Mar 05 Happy 3-Year Blogiversary! Wow - I've been blogging for THREE years now. I never thought I'd keep this up as long as I have. Interesting that we are dealing with one of the same issues we were dealing with when I first started this blog three years ago! We got a letter in the mail this weekend from the Office of Homeland Security... 20 Mar 05 MTKeystrokes WORKS. Installed a few new anti-spam plugins last week - and one of them is working overtime! Woohoo! In the past 4 days, it's blocked over 300 potential spam comments! Get it for your MT blog here --> MTKeystrokes (Heard about this, where else, from Jay Allen here... 17 Mar 05 Shut Yo Mouth! So Wednesday afternoon, my fellow starbucks-addicts and I ran into our pastor on our way back from getting an oh-so-delicious frappucinno (which by the way, was made for LEXIE. Every week - the girl gets my name wrong... 14 Mar 05 Googley Images Snagged from Connielane ... Answer the following questions, then using Google Image Search, choose one image from the first page that comes up from your search. The questions: 1. First car 2. The place you grew up 3... 10 Mar 05 Smarterchild What a trip. If you have AIM - add "smarterchild" as a buddy. Then send an instant message saying "hey" or whatever. It's an IM-bot. You can get movie showtimes, definitions, have really bizarre conversations ... 1 Mar 05 Sometimes ... Bigger is Better A little gift to me from Silver Strawberry ... because sometimes - size DOES matter ;) Just delivered yesterday - my Dell Ultrasharp 20.1 flat-panel LCD. It is beeeautiful and goes quite nicely with the still-new-feeling high speed internet access we finally got in December... 1 Mar 05 Oh Yeah Luke!!! When the door knocked ... we knew it was Luke. Yeah!! :heartbeat: Much jumping up and down on the couch ensued! Great episode. * Enjoyed Rory's appropriate treatment of Emily at Friday Night Dinner... 1 Mar 05 Survivor in Death Giving any of the "In Death" books 4 stars isn't hard for me -- I LOVE this series. Eve and Roarke are characters I've grown to love while reading this 22+ book series. This newest book in the series is sure to please Roarke/Eve fans - although those who read it more for the mystery than for the relationships might be a bit disappointed... 16 Feb 05 Do you have a pink or blue ribbon? LOST ... I still don't like Sawyer. And I don't know if I'm supposed to or not? Yes, there was great tragedy in his life. But tragedy doesn't give you free reign to be a total jerk the rest of your life? Oh and back a few episodes... 14 Feb 05 The Most UnRomantic Day Why is it considered romantic for your significant other to do something for you because a national holiday has reminded them to do so? Is it not more romantic, more special, and certainly more meaningful, for your significant other to give you flowers, send you a card ... 14 Feb 05 Assisted Computing Facilities ... 8 Feb 05 Me and You. We're Done. Oh yeah ... good Gilmore Girls episode. So, so tired of Chris. Love, adore Luke. He was treated like crap all night - and still tried to make the night work. He IS too good for Loralei ... and hopefully she'll realize it and start treating him better... 4 Feb 05 Catch My Breath Whew. This is the first chance I've had to blog in two weeks. I've been covered up with web work (which is nice) - and then of course, it's musical time again. For the past two years, I've worked with my church's musical productions... 21 Jan 05 We've Always Done It That Way The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US railroads... 18 Jan 05 My Dog Skip A wonderful boy meets dog movie. Watched this over the Christmas holidays at my parents house. Our dog MacGyver was out on the porch and we just had to go out and give him a hug when this movie was over... 18 Jan 05 Exchange Mailing Lists Anyone know if there is an add-on to Exchange to manage external mailing lists? (i.e. when you send am email to news@domain.com - it sends an email to 125 different external email addresses on the mailing list; the email addresses are all outside of your exchange/active directory membership; need subscribe/unsubscribe pages) There has to be a way ... 18 Jan 05 Nate on Oprah Did everyone watch Nate Berkus on Oprah talking about his experience in the tsunami? Wow. Powerful episode. ... 11 Jan 05 how much are you worth I'm worth $2,276,330.48! How much are you worth? seen at andshesaid.com ... 9 Jan 05 Deep Fire Rising I like discovering new authors I enjoy - and Jack DuBrul is definitely going on my list. My dad loaned me this book - saying it was particularly interesting considering the recent events in Indonesia... 9 Jan 05 Tivo Top Twenty-Fives I was logging onto my tivo account this morning ... and thought some of their top 25 lists were interesting. As of 1/2/05 Desperate Housewives was the #1 tivo recording! Not surprising as the show is fantastic... 6 Jan 05 Alias Rides Again Best line of the night: Marshall: "er ... Sloane is here" Sydney: "we know" How many people actually thought Sydney was getting transferred to the mailroom? I mean ... seriously? She's their best agent... 4 Jan 05 Our Happy Tivo Family It's lucky that Steve and I are both such geeks and tivo lovers ... because we both had the same idea this year for our Christmas present. We gave each other the Humax Tivo DVD-R. And we LOVE it. It's got all the normal cool Tivo features -- plus with like 2 clicks you can burn any tv show or movie to DVD... 23 Dec 04 White Christmas ... 20 Dec 04 I can see you now! My LASIK eye surgery was last Thursday ... and it went perfectly. A VERY lengthy description of the surgery and the past few days is in the extended entry ;) I got to the doctor's office Thursday morning around 9:30 AM... 20 Dec 04 MacGyver versus Santa Guess who won? ... 12 Dec 04 MacGyver's Christmas Photos I never thought I would actually be the type of person to take Christmas photos of their pet. Oh well ... that was pre He's-so-cute-MacGyver-World. My mom sent Mac a Christmas scarf in the mail - so I had to get a few shots to email her... 10 Dec 04 Got LASIK? After thoroughly researching LASIK and the doctor I am going to see, I called for a LASIK consultation last week. I had to forgo wearing my contacts for a week before the consultation; they want your cornea to return to it's most natural state... 7 Dec 04 Four Times a Year? Anybody see the commercials for the new birth control pill Seasonale? Having your period only four times a year? Oh yeah, I'm going to be asking my doctor about this one for sure. I started the pill, Ortho Tri-Cyclen, when I was about 14 (seriously evil cramps); two years ago I switched to the Ortho-Evra patch... 7 Dec 04 Speed, Blessed Speed Comcast was turned on yesterday afternoon! We're getting download speeds over 3Mbps ... yesssssssss! Can I just say that when you've been on 24K for 18 months - you REALLY appreciate 3Mbps. I want to bake it a cake and throw it a party... 29 Nov 04 Vonage v. Bellsouth Anyone other than Patrick using Vonage for their phone service? We're going to be switching from Bellsouth to Vonage as soon as our Comcast connection is turned on. It's an amazing service ... Voice-Over-IP phone service! Here's a comparison of our current bill ... 27 Nov 04 Black Friday Results Last year Steve and I did lots of Black Friday shopping - we got a 9 foot pre-lit Christmas Tree for $99, several 256MB Compact Flash cards for $10, two 256MB USB flash drives for $10. Basically - we got everything on our "Black Friday Wishlist" ... 22 Nov 04 Trace I've been waiting for the next Scarpetta novel for almost a year. I would have waited a little bit longer if it would have meant a better book. This isn't Patricia Cornwell's finest writing ... nowhere close... 22 Nov 04 What's so great about LiveJournal? Recently, several of my daily reads switched to LiveJournal. A move I have to admit has lessened how often I read them. I don't like LiveJournal - I've complained before that I hate only being allowed to leave anonymous comments (which is one of the reasons I guess I subconsciously don't visit those sites as frequently)... 22 Nov 04 A L I A S ! Y E S S S S ! Did everyone catch the ALIAS promos on TV last night? We caught them during Desperate Housewives (my newest TV addiction) ... I started jumping up and down on the couch. Watched it ... then hit the rewind on the tivo to watch it again... 19 Nov 04 It's finally here! Back in July, I blogged a dirty little secret. My husband and I have been shamefully surfing the web at a shocking ... 24K. (Read more about that scandal here!) :cloud9: On Saturday, our fantasies of high speed internet access finally came to fruition... 10 Nov 04 Rory, Rory, Rory Enjoyed last night's Gilmore Girls Episode. But then - I enjoy almost every episode of GG, so what's new? Am I going to regret liking Logan? I knew when Rory was asking Dean about her article and he didn't have any comments that later we would see her and Logan would comment on the article... 5 Nov 04 Saving our Democracy Great article on Alt Text about things that need to change in our country in regards to elections. Doesn't matter who you voted for ... the article is well worth reading. I especially agree with eliminating fundraising and banning political ads - and duh - reforming "everyones favorite red-headed stepchild the Electoral College" ... 2 Nov 04 My Voting Experience I voted! How about you? I didn't early vote this year because the closest early voting location was an hour away (which is ridiculous ... and our county caught lots of flack for not having more locations available)... 1 Nov 04 The Cutest Ladybug Ever Have you ever seen anything so cute? Click to see the entire picture ;) I can't believe my niece is going to be TWO in just over 2 months. Wow! They grow up so fast! ... 26 Oct 04 WordPress and Movable Type Love I'm working on a website for a friend of mine (see the work in progress) -- and all along had planned on using MT as the backend for managing all the content. I'd even talked with SixApart about proper licensing for educational use... 15 Oct 04 O Washing Machine, how do I love thee? I was gleefully doing laundry all day today!! I never would have dreamed that sentence would ever appear on this blog ;) I'm sure it's just a by-product of having a broken washer for almost a month now (it broke right before we left for California; when we got back and finally got a new one ordered ... 11 Oct 04 Free iPod for Lacy Dear Friends, the Few Faithful Readers, My Fellow Compatriots .... Help Lacy get a free ipod! Basically, click on THIS LINK. Be sure to click on my link so that I'll get the referral credit. Then go through the signup process... 10 Oct 04 Dog Visitation Rights? We got MacGyver, our dog, from a couple at our church. Their niece was moving, didn't want to take him with her, and was going to put him in the pound. !!! The aunt/uncle stepped in and said - no we'll keep him until we can find him a good home... 4 Oct 04 Must ... Stop ... Playing ... Sims I ordered my copy of The Sims 2 before we left on vacation. The DVD special edition. It arrived at my office two days after we left for California. The beautiful amazon box sat on my desk for two weeks... 1 Oct 04 Our Vacation - The Cliff Notes Version Lake Tahoe is peaceful beauty. San Diego is wild, but 2 days was enough. San Francisco is a mecca of fun and trolley-hanging-off-excitement. Las Vegas is spectacular and alice and sad all at the same time... 26 Sep 04 The Forgotten Steve and I wanted a break from walking all day, so we stopped in at a theatre in downtown San Francisco and this was the only movie we were even halfway interested in. (We've gotten too used to going to cheap matinees ... 23 Sep 04 Restroom Vending Machines Why do all restroom vending machines carry feminine hygiene products from the 1950's? Are most women always prepared, and therefore never use the machines, and therefore the stock hasn't needed to be replenished in 50 years? On Tuesday we had a day-early surprise on our vacation and my supplies were in our checked luggage... 21 Sep 04 Twenty-Seven :bday: Today is my 27th birthday ... and I can't think of any better way to spend it than to be on my way to California for a two-week vacation. :present: It's hard to believe I'm only 3 years away from 30... 18 Sep 04 Addie Rocks When I got home from work yesterday, I found my first birthday present on the doorstep! A beautiful little Amazon box. :bounce: I love seeing Amazon boxes on my doorstep. :cloud9: I quickly opened it up ... 17 Sep 04 A Faster MT Anyone else noticed how much faster MT 3.1 is? I love that deleting or approving comments is atleast 10x faster ... and rebuilding pages! Faster! This is awesome for people like me who have the spiritual gift of IMPATIENCE... 16 Sep 04 Grampy, MacGyver, & the Spin Cycle It's been so hectic in Lacyville here lately. What with dealing with my grandfathers cancer diagnosis and surgery, MacGyvers mite infection, our upcoming two week vacation ... we haven't had much time to just "hang out"... 12 Sep 04 West Coast Tour 2004 Steve and I will be leaving for a two-week tour of California next week. We leave on September 21 - a day which also happens to be my 27th birthday! We'll be going to San Deigo, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, Phoenix, the Grand Canyon, Oakland ... 4 Sep 04 Gmail Invites I've got six g-mail invites to give away ... First come, first serve! Email or comment to request one :) ... 3 Sep 04 Sarcoptes Mites Our beautiful white, blue-eyed, thick-haired, sweet siberian husky MacGyver has sarcoptic mange. :worried: As is typical of his breed, MacGyver has been shedding his second coat all summer long. We brush him daily - and usually get about half a garbage bag full of loose hair... 30 Aug 04 Veritas Compatability I've got Veritas Backup Exec 8.0 running on Server A ... I installed Veritas Backup Exec 8.5 Accelerator Agent on Server B (so that I can backup Server B files with Server A's tape drive). It allows me to enter the serial number for the Agent ... 30 Aug 04 The Whole Ten Yards That's two hours I'll never get back. What a letdown! The first movie was hilarious. This movie was just stupid. Sometimes a sequel is NOT a good idea. ... 30 Aug 04 MT Blacklist v. 2.0e installed Yesss!! I've installed MT Blacklist v2.0e. Bring on the wonderful no-comment-spam days!! This version ONLY works on MT 3.0D and 3.01D - and it's a developer's version. So all the kinks aren't worked out... 26 Aug 04 Service Pack 2 I installed XP SP2 this morning ... I wanted to get it installed on one machine and make sure all our programs still worked before deploying it to the entire network. It was a seamless installation - no problems... 25 Aug 04 Are comment spammers stupid? Between 8:15 PM and 5:24 AM this morning, I received 784 attempted spam comments. SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR. Again, are they stupid or something??? They're never going to show up on this site - all they're doing is just encouraging me to contact their hosting provider and report them for spam activity... 24 Aug 04 Amish in the City I've been hearing a lot about the UPN reality show Amish in the City - so I set the tivo to record the next few episodes. Amish in the City puts five Amish and six city kids under one roof in Los Angeles... 21 Aug 04 Grampy is amazing! My grandfather's surgery went perfectly. He ended up having two surgeons - and two is always better than one! With four eyes, they can't miss anything! They got all of the cancer out - and did something called a sleeve resection (they take out any of the bronchial tubes that are cancerous - and then they reconnect the tubes... 19 Aug 04 First Website What was your first website? My first website was an update site for my friend Amber - when she was going through chemo & the bone marrow transplant for leukemia. We had the site up so that we could post what was going on - so that they wouldn't get a hundred phone calls a day... 19 Aug 04 Tableless? Are you tableless? On this site I am ... but they are still in use on lots of my client sites. I still don't know of a better/quicker way to organize tabular data. Yes, you CAN do it with CSS. But what a pain... 19 Aug 04 The Surgeon Great characters. Detective Thomas Moore, the grieving widower, finds himself drawn to a woman again - but not just any woman - it's Dr. Catherine Cordell. Cordell is a woman he meets in the course of investigating a series of gruesome murders by a serial killer the press has tagged as The Surgeon... 19 Aug 04 Gravity This is my second reading of my favorite Gerritsen book so far. Dr. Emma Watson is on the International Space Station doing scientific experiments when something goes terribly wrong. One of the crew is afflicted with stomach pains, vomiting and blood-red eyes... 19 Aug 04 Bloodstream Stephen King-esque storyline about a small lakeside town with an unexplained eruption of violence from local teenagers. Dr. Claire Elliot, a newcomer to the town, is at the center of the controversy and soon discovers that this isn't a new thing for the town... 19 Aug 04 One Thoracotomy, Please I'm off to my parents tomorrow to be there for my grampy's surgery. It's been a long couple of weeks - seeing doctor after doctor after doctor. Getting second opinions. But - the end result has us feeling much more optimistic... 16 Aug 04 Stupid Drivers !!! The happy couple is on their way home from work, slowly but surely making their way through rush-hour traffic. A few miles down the road, traffic starts crawling. Before long, they are moving at a maximum speed of 5 miles an hour... 13 Aug 04 Citron Ice I spent this afternoon filling in nail holes and taping off one of the spare bedrooms upstairs. When we bought the house - the light light pink on the walls didn't bother me. It was a spare room - not top on the priority list... 13 Aug 04 Life Support I enjoyed this story of Dr. Toby Harper ... even if it did remind me a bit too much of Harvest, one of Gerritsen's first books. Highly successful women doctors. Everyone turns against them. Their medical careers are going to be ruined... 12 Aug 04 Zen Sarcasm 1. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just leave me alone! 2. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire... 10 Aug 04 Must Haves I recently wiped one of our computers at home - and had to spend a few hours reinstalling all my software. I've done this so many times - I have a list on the bulletin board in my office of all the programs to reinstall, so that I don't forget anything... 9 Aug 04 Seniors and Technology I had a very interesting Friday afternoon last week. I spent three hours at the home of a 79 and 75 year old couple giving them some computer lessons. I had a blast. The husband is a retired surgeon and avid world-traveler who has a major love of photography - and he wants to learn how to scan pictures, use his digital camera, and print pictures... 8 Aug 04 Harvest This is my second reading of Tess Gerritsen's first novel, Harvest. I enjoyed it even more the second time around. It all starts with a young woman having a car crash that leaves her brain dead. Her heart matches two people: one is a poor 17 year old boy, the other is the wife of one of the richest men in the country... 8 Aug 04 Something's Gotta Give Netflixed this one last night. There aren't too many films out there about 50 & 60 year olds getting together; the success of this film should tell the film industry that people do enjoy films that don't revolve around 20-somethings (and that's coming from a 20-something!) Apparently, the roles of Harry and Erica were written specifically for Jack Nicholson and Dianne Keaton... 6 Aug 04 The Power of the Human Mind Got this in an email. It IS amazing what our brains can do ;) I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae... 6 Aug 04 Choices I heard a great comment/metaphor about presidential elections: You've been told you have to get a new car. You've got in mind a nice, sporty, full-featured car. However, when you get to the dealership they only have two vehicles available: A Garbage Truck and a Honeywagon... 5 Aug 04 IQ versus Knowledge I came across this IQ test tonight ... I'm a sucker for online quizzes. Your IQ score is 131. Your Intellectual Type is Insightful Linguist. This means you are highly intelligent and have the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist... 1 Aug 04 A Case of Need I thought I had read all things Michael Crichton. But last weekend, my brother loaned me a bag of books and inside was A Case of Need. One part of me loved it because it delved into the medical world - and that brought back so much... 29 Jul 04 Cancer Update If there can be good news when it comes to cancer, we got some. My grampy had a PET scan last Friday to determine if the cancer had spread anywhere other than the one spot in his lung. We found out yesterday (which was, incidentaly, my Grandmother's 85th birthday) that is hasn't spread... 26 Jul 04 Technology in the Home There's an interesting article over at PVRblog with some stats on tech in the home (tv tech anyway). 4% of TV homes report owning a DVR (such as TiVo) -- a figure that has doubled in the past 6 months; 6% have an HDTV set, up 50% versus six months ago; 18% a VCR/DVD dual deck; and 5% a PC with a TV tuner... 26 Jul 04 Internet Access Situation :shocking: This will shock you: :wide-eyed: We're on dial-up internet access. And it's not even GOOD dial-up. We're doing good to get upwards of 30KBS. Yes, that's right. 30KBS. :headache: WHY are we not using DSL or cable? Well ... 25 Jul 04 Blooming Hydrangeas ... 25 Jul 04 Trackback Spam So it's come to this. Comment spamming is no longer a problem for MT 3.0 users (with comment moderation and typekey access). So they finally are spamming via trackback (who knows why it took them this long to figure that out ... 23 Jul 04 Sliding Doors It was only now that I realized I haven't set up my reviews blog to give something a 0-Berrylicious rating. Thats the only reason this is getting 1 star. What were you thinking, Gwyneth? And John Hannah - How embarassing for you... 23 Jul 04 Kill Bill Vol. 1 Watched this on the recommendation of a friend -- and I liked it! Ala Quentin Tarantino - it's super violent - but it's cartoonish violence. Someone's arm gets cut of ... and it spews like a geiser... 23 Jul 04 MT Plugin Contest Winners Announced Jay Allen's MTBlackList wins first prize (An Apple G5 dual 2GHz with 23" Apple Cinema HD Display and Adobe Creative Suite Premium with GoLive CS - worth more than $7,000). Have you seen the screenshots of the new Blacklist interface? You'll be salivating... 21 Jul 04 Cancer Sucks, Part 3 My mom called me last night. It's definitely cancer. It's bad. The doctors are very discouraged. We won't know until tomorrow whether it's small-cell or non-small-cell lung cancer. He has a PET scan on Friday that will tell us if it's spread anywhere else other than his right lung... 19 Jul 04 Out of my jurisdiction Saturday night, we were driving on the interstate and came up behind a weaving tractor trailer. He was all over the road - we pulled back and cringed every time he swerved and almost hit other vehicles... 18 Jul 04 8.4 I give 8.4 a 3.0. This book is obviously about earthquakes. The New Madrid Faultline (NMSZ) - think Memphis - is infamous for the historical triad of earthquakes that happened in 1811-1812. It's present day, and one of our heroes, Elizabeth Holleran (seismologist), comes into some information that leads her to believe that it's probably going to happen again... 17 Jul 04 Cancer Sucks, Part 2 Not that this is a new concept for anyone, but I just wanted to reiterate my thoughts on the subject. One of my closest friends died of leukemia 5 years ago, my paternal grandmother has breast cancer, my mother-in-law died of breast cancer, two of my aunts have breast cancer, my maternal grandfather is in remission from bladder cancer, and this week we found out that same grandfather has a mass in his right lung that looks like lung cancer... 13 Jul 04 Dell Renigs I have to send it back. :crying: Can you believe it? Two weeks ago, they said it was their mistake, keep it. Today I get a letter from them requesting that I return it. I guess my sales rep's decision was overturned... 8 Jul 04 Two Ovaries for Sale Free shipping to the highest bidder. :worried: :arg: :sad: When I was in college, a bunch of us pre-med girls thought that our goal should be to develop some type of switch that could be installed on the ovaries... 6 Jul 04 Cute Dog Treats and Babies A friend from work gave MacGyver a treat from the Just Dogs Barkery. Is this not the cutest dog treat ever? MacGyver loved it ... these were gobbled up almost as fast as the Frosty Paws doggy ice-cream! (Thanks to Addie for that idea ... 4 Jul 04 Spiderman 2 This movie accomplished what very few sequels can: it is actually better than the first film. Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst both do a phenomenal job ... so much love angst between these two! So well played! I enjoyed the plot of this movie much more than the original film as well ... 4 Jul 04 I said yes 4 years ago Four years ago today, I was in D.C. visiting Steve. We'd been long-distance dating for over a year, although we had known each other for at least 4 years (3 1/2 of which he was still living in England)... 2 Jul 04 Ode to the Gig Oh lovely Gig of Ram, your prescence has forever altered the speed with which I can work and play... How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth of my full taskbar. My programs run so smoothly... 1 Jul 04 Anna Karenina I have started this review several times over the past week - and I just debate whether to give it a glowing, literary-masterpiece, oh wow type of review ... or to be honest and say that while yes, parts of it were excellent, there were also parts that were so incredibly boring and pointless (!) that I almost fell alseep... 1 Jul 04 Stats and Stuff Some fairly interesting statistics ... at least to me! Summary of June 2004 Statistics for Silverberry.org Operating System Stats 89.4% - Windows OS. 5.4% - Mac OS. .5% - Linux Less than 1/2% - Sun Solaris, Irix, FreeBSD, WebTV, Dreamcast, Symbian, etc... 30 Jun 04 Dell Loves Lacy I get to keep it. :bounce: Lacy is doing a happy dance. :dance: ... 29 Jun 04 Please don't take my candy away Last week, we purchased a new computer at work. I ordered a standard Dell Dimension machine ... nothing snazzy or exciting. But Dell accidentally shipped their brand new Optiplex GX280 with DVD burner, CD burner, Zip drive, 1GB memory ... 29 Jun 04 What email client do you use? Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Mozilla, Eudora, Opera, KMail, Pegasus ... the list goes on and on. What client do you use, and what do you like most about it? (I'm thinking of moving away from Outlook - right now I'm thinking to Thunderbird - but I wanted to see what other people were using and how they liked it)... 28 Jun 04 Calendar Girls What a great movie! Touching, witty and well-acted. Based on a true story, Calendar Girls is the story of a group of members from a somewhat starch-collared dried-up women's fellowship club deciding to raise money to buy a comfy couch for the relatives room at the local hospital (where one of the club members husbands recently died from leukemia)... 28 Jun 04 Customer Support Options When you call customer support for computers, I think the very first options should be: Do you think your CD drive is a cup-holder? Press 1. Do you think the term hard-drive is referring to a long, tiring journey? Press 2... 28 Jun 04 Love Actually I netflixed this one last week after Christie's comments about getting her Firth-Fix from watching it. It's a delightful film - although I think they could have definitely cut some of the storylines (oh I don't know - maybe the nude movie stand-ins ... 28 Jun 04 Ode to a Spell Checker by Jerrold H Zar I have a spelling checker. It came with my PC. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can knot sea. Eye ran this poem threw it, Your sure reel glad two no. Its vary polished in it's weigh... 28 Jun 04 The Computer Prayer Our Hard Drive Which art internal Volume C by name; Thy code be clean, Thy fonts be seen On screen as they are on paper. Give us this day our documents, And lead us not into fragmentation But deliver us our data... 25 Jun 04 Marking Your Territory Behind our house, we have approximately 1.5 acres of our property surrounded by a nice sturdy fenceline. When we first brought MacGyver home two weeks ago, and let him loose in our back-yard, he went insane with joy... 25 Jun 04 Sarah and Grampy I found a roll of film this week - and it was from way back in January of this year! When I had it developed, I was pleasantly surprised to find some sweet pictures of Sarah & my Grampy (her great-grandfather... 23 Jun 04 The Dysfunctional Section of a Hallmark Store 1. I always wanted to have someone to hold, someone to love.And now that you've come into my life... (Inside card) - I've changed my mind. 2. I must admit, you brought religion into my life... (Inside card) - I never believed in Hell until I met you... 23 Jun 04 Combined Entries from All Your Blogs !! This tutorial is obsolete. The MT plugin multiblog will do all this and more ... it's FANTASTIC! Click here to get it! !! I've gotten several emails asking how I combine entries from all my different blogs onto my main index page, with each type of entry having its own display settings... 22 Jun 04 Got Gmail ? The lovely Sasha sent me a gmail invite ... :cool: I'm in agreement on it being a great backup email account (and handy to use for online forms!). Lots of space - woohoo! The names it proposes are kinda interesting though :) It suggested my full name (which I didn't want), lacyster, lacytster, lacster ... 20 Jun 04 Dogs v. Babies Sometimes it's wonderful to have a weekend at home where you can just get some stuff done! Our weekends usually find us either out of town visiting family and friends or traveling/working on Silver Strawberry business... 18 Jun 04 Under the Tuscan Sun Beautiful Scenery. Beautiful People. Thin Plot. Diane Lane is gorgeous in this film and her performance was excellent - she just needed a better script to work with. Her friendship with the men who remodel her house is one of the good things in the film... 16 Jun 04 MT releases new pricing structure After listening to lots of constructive criticism - Six Apart has released another new pricing structure and now has feasible personal edition pricing options available. Free Edition - 1 author / 3 blogs Personal Edition - $69... 14 Jun 04 C2 Taste Test Coca-Cola has released their new "Half the Carbs, Half the Cals, All the Great Taste" C2. We picked up a six pack yesterday to try it out. We poured a glass of Coke, a glass of Diet Coke, and a glass of C2... 13 Jun 04 England v. France ... Grrrr What? Huh? Injury Time? But ... it was England 1-0! Errrr? Zinedine Zidane did WHAT? :soccer: Sounds heard at my house this afternoon: [England scores] Steve: Yesssssss!!! :bounce: [Beckham misses the field goal] Steve: Bloody buggers! What the ?! Bloody useless sod ... 13 Jun 04 Your Movie Meme Movie Meme ... via Lisa Here's the game: underline the movies you own, bold the movies you've seen, put those you've only seen part of in italics. Then add three movies to the bottom of the list. Comment or Ping with a link to your blog entry :) The list is in the extended entry! 01... 13 Jun 04 School of Rock We netflixed this one last night ... and I thought the movie was pretty funny. If it had been a bit shorter - I would have enjoyed it more. Jack Black is obviously having a great time in this movie - using his Tenacious D skills and his over-the-top humor with a really talented group of kids... 13 Jun 04 Dog Bath 101 So we tried to give MacGyver a bath this afternoon. Tried being the operative word. I think we got about ... 40% of him clean. First off, it's kind of hard to tell where the soap is because the soap kinda just blends in with his white coat... 11 Jun 04 MacGyver Jack ... 11 Jun 04 In Respect of an American President President Reagan was the president of my childhood - he's the first President I have real memory of watching on television and knowing what The President was and what he did. If only more of our politicians today could approach governing the way he did... 10 Jun 04 MT, CSS and Spam It's been a frustrating week here at silverberry ... my MT installation somehow got corrupted and this site was eating up bandwith like crazy. All the cgi scripts were just going and going and going - like an energizer bunny! Suddenly, the php includes I was using in several places across the site were just spastic... 8 Jun 04 Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban I love this new director! While Chris Columbus did an excellent job with HP:COS and HP:SS - the third installment of the Harry Potter dynasty is just RIGHT ON the money. Alfonso Cuarón has wonderfully portrayed the darkness of the third book ... 8 Jun 04 Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife There are scores of Pride & Prejudice continuations out there ... but most of them are poorly written and don't maintain the characters personalities as they were originally and wonderfully written by Jane Austen... 3 Jun 04 Site Maintenance I'm doing a little site maintenance this week. I'm finally getting around to updating all my templates to MT 3.0 - mainly the individual archive pages are set up a bit different. Although I'm still having problems with typekey... 1 Jun 04 What a Girl Wants I netflixed this movie only because of my Mr. Darcy / Colin Firth obsession. Not his finest work. This story has so been done ... the recent The Princess Diaries was much funnier and better written... 1 Jun 04 Just another Terrific Tuesday Why don't I ever learn? I've always had this problem. I let myself get walked over. Taken advantage of. Dumped on. I have this personality trait that basically prevents me from saying "no" to anyone... 29 May 04 Lovin' on my Laptop I've been breaking in the laptop over the past two days. I'm loving having a nice machine to work on wherever I feel like working instead of having to be upstairs in the office. I'd installed all my software last week - but up until yesterday I just hadn't had much time to play OR work on it... 26 May 04 What kind of social software are you? Take the test! ... 25 May 04 Gettin' Buggy With MT Overall, I'm pleased with the upgrade to 3.0 on my MT installations. I am having the same problems across all the installations though -- I'm sure |