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Terry Tate For California State

I originally posted the Terry Tate Reebok stuff on the blog in February. But now, an update. He is running for California Governor. That’s correct. The Office Linebacker is ready to take his no holds barred, intense offense business strategy to Sacramento.

Friday Fives

Friday Fives

1. What’s the last place you traveled to, outside your own home state/country?
Las Vegas last summer. Haven’t left the country since 1988 when I returned home from three years in Germany.

2. What’s the most bizarre/unusual thing that’s ever happened to you while traveling?
A cab ride from Fort Benning, GA to the Atlanta airport and stop at Western Union to get money from mom for the plane ride and cab fare. The cab driver was just something else. Time doesn’t permit all the tales I have about this guy.

3. If you could take off to anywhere, money and time being no object, where would you go?
As a group of friends, we have all pledged, time and money no object, to take the world tour of food, and go to all the amazing “food towns” and food places in the world.

4. Do you prefer traveling by plane, train or car?
Plane. I love flying. Hell, I love airports! There is always a spy at the airport. Your job, find him.

5. What’s the next place on your list to visit?
I am drawn lately to the north. So either Iceland, Finland or Norway are places I really want to go to.

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I’ll Still Never Make It To Limon

They still love Slim Cessna in Denver. The Denver Post gave a rousing review to last week’s Bluebird Theater Slim Cessna reunion show. And don’t forget to join their Yahoo Group for current mailings and musings.

Yet another thanks to Kevin

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Give’m Hell, Al

He says he isn’t running for office, and is just a concerned citizen and the first worker unemployed as part of the Bush administration, but former Vice President Al Gore made news on Thursday with this speech criticizing the current administration’s focus and policies concerning foreign affairs, domestic affairs, the economy and the environment. Gore described the administration as running a White House that is “swept up in enthusiasms,” rather than a White House that is focused on the truth, fact gathering and “and a shared respect for the Rule of Reason as the best way to establish the truth.”
“I think it’s partly because they feel they already know the truth and aren’t very curious to learn about any facts that might contradict it,” Gore said in a combative speech at New York University in which he criticized President Bush’s policies at home and in Iraq.”

If he ain’t running for office, he is sure making very focused speeches attacking very targeted issues. I expect a draft Gore movement to take place in the Democratic party very soon.

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For Sage, Jenny and the Gang . . .

A collection of 40s and 50s pin up art. There’s some cool and very vintage stuff here. Poke around for a bit.

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A Look Back In Time In 3D

The Viewmaster was my mom’s instant babysitter. She always had a houseful of kids and needed some quick ways to keep the nest quiet and get everyone down for a nap after lunch. The Viewmaster, with its gadgety futuristic look, its cool pictures and stories and the ability to let us young ones relive our favorite cartoons, Disney movies or historical scenes, even vacation spots – all captured for viewing in ultra cool 3 D. I still have a Viewmaster in the closet somewhere, combined with a bunch of old Viewmaster Reels. But apparently there is still more to be had. A entire list of all things Viewmaster got me to thinking that certainly the good people of Ebay will have anything anyone needs to look at the world through 3 D eyes.

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It Started Innocently Enough With Netscape 3.0

When I first started messing around with this “In-ter-web” thingy, I shared a computer with a roommate. It was his computer and I was merely a guest. So updating and customizing Internet Explorer would have been in poor form. So I downloaded and installed Netscape Navigator. And ever since I have had a warm spot for Netscape.
They say you never forget about your first time.
Well, IE 6.0 came out. It seemed so much more stable than iterations of the past. I had since bought my own box by then and wasn’t constrained by Guest status any longer. So I gave IE 6.0 a try.
And it was ok.
I guess.
And since most folks are MS inclined, I stuck, more or less, with IE. But after a spell I missed Netscape’s browser.
I tried Opera. If you think the talk of this being a fast, bug free browser are true, try it yourself. I found it slow and buggy and unable to load many IE-centric pages.
Then, a few months back I went to Mozilla. It is the open source version of Netscape and I liked. I liked it a lot. Although it was still a bit of a resource hog.
As time went on, I got accustomed once once again to the beauty of the Netscape web browser interface. And I kept getting emails and alerts about yet another security hole and security hack in IE.
So, Mozilla became the default browser.
A few months back, Mozilla introduced its cleaner, faster, crisper version of Mozilla of the future. Introducing Mozilla Firebird. Free, open source, extendable, and useable with 99 percent of every web page I visit (Including those generated from Redmond, WA.) With 1.6% of the global market. share based on guerilla marketing alone, it’s use is growing by about a half a percent in the last six months. There still is along way to go to beat Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, with 96% of the global market. But it is based on summer 2001 technology and no major news that they plan on updating it anytime soon. Why drive an Edsel, just because every one else is driving an Edsel.

Mozilla Firebird really is all they say. Easy to install. (scroll down to the setup.exe download) Very expandable with lots of extensions and skins and themes. Tabbed browsing (once you have used tabbed browsing, you frown at any old school browser supplied by a major software provider headquartered in the pacific northwest.) Mouse Gestures (once you have used mouse gestures, you frown at any old school browser supplied by a major software provider headquartered in the pacific northwest.) A very good pop up stopper. The ability to stop annoying flash animation banner ads. Automatically configured to search with Google.
And loads more.

And fast. Did I mention it seems to be much faster than IE?

Here are some reviews if you don’t believe me:

Mozilla pitch
Joel on software
DEVx Review
A collection of reviews
A Fighting Dragon

So, go forth, download and install Mozilla Firebird, pop over and download and install some extensions and get cruising along the web.

Mozilla Firebird extensions you must have!

Pick and install from the list. Installation is as easy as clicking the mouse. Mozilla does the rest.
trvial
mouse gestures
linky
xui msn messenger
smooth wheel
close other tabs
tab scroller
tab browser extensions
text links
(Total time to download, install and configure extensions and themes, about 25 minutes with a broadband connection.)

Friday Fives

Friday Fives

1. What time do you wake up on weekday mornings?
Usually about 9:30 a.m. I don’t use an alarm clock, so it varies, but that is generally the time. I work late nights and don’t usually get to bed until about 2:30 a.m. I only need 6 or 7 hours of sleep, generally.

2. Do you sleep in on the weekends? How late?
I work on Saturdays. But generally because of my late hours I work, I am usually up around the same time on my days off as I am the rest of the week.

3. Aside from waking up, what is the first thing you do in the morning?
Pee. Pull up the bed covers. Turn on the computer and head for the coffee maker.

4. How long does it take to get ready for your day?
About 25 minutes to Shit, Shower, Shave, Shampoo and dress.

5. When possible, what is your favorite place to go for breakfast?
Pete’s Gyros Place on Colfax and Detroit, right by East High School in Denver. mmmmmmmm, Breakfast Burrito.

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Cheap Labor Conservative

My pal Kevin passed this along. A simple phrase with a few backing arguments on how to deflect and defeat the standard Republican arguments. Refer to them simply as a “cheap labor conservatives” and then point out how nearly every Republican proposal fits neatly in a cheap labor conservative mode. Feel free to throw the argument about and deflate a few conservatives along the way.
I had promised several weeks back to give out some talking points and reasons not to vote for the current administration. This is also attemped here with the corresponding blog:
Conceptual Guerilla’s Talking Points.
With many of our non thinking Republican friends, it is important to have some facts and data to help steer them towards a more principled and people oriented government.
This is a start.