Hard Labor & Time Spent

I just got back this week from a few weeks spent at hard labor. Even some of the folks I was paying money to for their own labor commented on being surprised at my efforts. Cleaning up a house and property for leasing is something I take very seriously. I tried my best, and the efforts paid off with a completed lease to folks who seem very nice. There are a crowd of supporters who made it all go much easier, not the least of which are my wife and E.C. Gee.

Getting back home was comforting. I didn't get to sample much of the more cosmopolitan life in Austin, since I was totally engaged in the clean-up efforts.

Error, try again (in red)

I'm seeing red.

Have you ever been so frustrated that you could {insert absurd and possibly illegal or antisocial action here} I guess my rope is finally frayed and out of length in my efforts to be successful at simply posting my comments on the YouTube site to various video posts already there. You'd think that would be absurdly easy. My wife thinks so, as she has already left several comments and greeted my outbursts of frustration this afternoon with laughter.

Every time I sign in the site and attempt to leave a comment, the comment text is held in place and in red letter out to the left of the button I click on to leave comments, I see the text, "Error, try again". No amount of all the different things I can think of to fix this have resulted in any change in the situation.

I went to the YouTube help page and found the first reporting of the problem is April 7, 2010. Someone named "Liz" answered from the YouTube staff almost immediately and said their "engineers" would fix this known bug in a "few days". It is now mid-July and I still seem to be having this problem on a regular basis. I was successful at posting a new request for help on that site and will await the results.

Meanwhile, I wonder if "Liz" is another name for the old 8-bit computer program "Eliza" and the whole YouTube help page is simply something to keep the users busy while the minions are working behind the curtains...while the wizard is doing whatever he wants. {Don't pay any attention to the man behind the curtain.}

Thanks for letting me vent...
Comments welcomed.

Ahhh, the 4th of July!

Ahhh, the 4th of July. The quintessential time for outdoor activities with family and friends. We had a friend here from Austin and went to other friends' house to swim and take in the views of the fireworks folks set off around the nearby lake after dark. What fun! I'd never done that with all the OOOOHs and AAAAAHs and LOOK OVER HERE! LOOK OVER THERE! We sat along the shore and had a great time until about 9:45, when we all decided it was time to be getting home. The pie above was brought as a treat by one of the folks at the get together. It was a SCRUMPTIOUS strawberry pie, which was served with whipped cream, much to the delight of all who tried it! Be sure to notice the stars and squiggily stripes on the top crust.

Until next year...

Judging why the judges decide NOT to judge

This opinion piece has a really good idea, taken from my own viewing of the facts in this miscarriage of justice. We elect and appoint judges to judge. They know when their right to recuse themselves should be implemented. However, they don't have to tell WHY they are recusing themselves. A cascading set of such actions has set the stage to nullify a correct verdict in a lower court. Worth a read...

Creating a file/folder text listing in Windows

Creating a file list to send others in Windows. Have you ever (like me) wanted to send someone a list of files in a folder or a list of folders on a drive? (in Windows, but you were stifled by Windows' lack of ability to perform that function?) Well, laydeez and gennulmen, SUFFER NO MORE!

I followed these SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS and created the ability to do such in my Windows operating system in about 3 minutes, which included reading the instructions. Why the Microsoft overlords would fail to put such in the operating system is beyond me...but now it can be done.

U.S.A. Oligarchs and Oligarchy For Real?

Well, author Michael Ventura thinks so. In this article in the latest Austin Chronicle newspaper, he posits that notion. If you have a chance to read it, please comment back to this post. Maybe a conversation will ensue?

Comments welcomed.

One good thread deserves another

I recently posted this on facebook, but I realized that not all the folks who read my blog are represented there. So, enjoy the hardware view of how to get lost in the modern myriad of strange screws and screwdrivers. A partial title for it is "When a Phillips Is Not a Phillips...."