Dr. Mike's Steak Dinner

Running out the door for the night but I wanted to give a quick plug for Imy the Comic.  I found it via a twitter that I'm not going to go back looking for.  Probably one of Frumph's.  It started out as one of those "The artist as the main character but, as the creator Irma puts it, it's developed a life of it's own, even down to strips about the hair color of the main character.

Please kindly give it a read.  It updates on Mondays and Thursdays.

I've always wondered.  Do chicks really dig giant robots?

The opening theme for Megas XLR after the fold.

There's one major problem with bellringing for the Salvation Army.  That's the inbox count for my main GMail account.  I'm a little behind and now have to play catch up.

I don't even want look at what support tickets are waiting for me. :(

*sniff* Must be nice being able to take a holiday.

Seems like a police officer in New York City wants to play Scrooge.  An unknown female officer (Do notice that they didn't name the officer even though I'm assuming the officer's name would have been on the ticket.) ticketed a double parked SUV protecting Chip Cafiero, a 60-year-old retired schoolteacher dress as Santa, while he passed out toys and candy canes to the children for Christmas.  She did it while the kids yelled at her 'That's Santa's car! That's Santa's car!'

While the police are refusing to comment on what occurred, local politician Martin Golden, who was at the event, called the parking ticket "ridiculous."  Mr. Cafiero is, of course, going to fight it.

I have to admit that I'm not a big Christmas person but I would have thought that considering the event and why the SUV was there in the first place, a simple request to move the vehicle or even direct traffic around it would have been a better solution.  I mean the officer is listed as being a "traffic agent" so directing traffic would have been something she would normally do.

Story from here. Picture from a number of places found on line.

If you haven't guessed by now, I' ve been rather busy.  Bellringing is taking a lot out of me and my doctor has upped my walking schedule.  Spent last Sunday just trying to relax.  Only a few more days and I'll be back.

Image from here.

Well, three weeks in on the bellringing and I have to admit that it's driving me crazy.  Not the actual bellringing but having to deal with folks who want to explain to me about how they've already given somewhere else or they gave to the previous.  Granted I'm the only one at my spot so I know there wasn't any previous gentleman that they gave to.  Gotta love folks like that.

I'm really behind on stuff so please bare with me.  On a normal day, I'm getting up at about 5:30-6 am, walking down to South Park Mall which is where I'm currently ringing and having breakfast along the way at either McDonalds or at Eddie's Place. (Steak and Eggs for $10.95?  Ouch.  It's been more McDonalds than anything else.) I'm sitting in the mall for about two hours every morning, ringing for about 9 or ten hours and then it's back to the laptop for another hour or two.  After walking home, gotta keep the doctors' happy, I'm going to bed around 11 at night.  Kind of tired right now.  Probably should have slept in today.

And once again, I can't get my paycheck cashed until Monday morning.  I'm itching for a decent meal right now.  That and a Monster.

I did buy myself a little something though.  Found a 2 gig mp3 player at a local WalGreens for twenty five bucks.  Granted I could have gotten it cheaper it now appears but it's just nice to have.  I've been using my laptop as a mp3 player walking down the road with it under an arm.  Probably not the most safe thing to do and charging it is a pain.

But anyway, there's an article over on Forbes predicting the end of the iPod.  The first time through reading it, I must admit that it didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.  The author quotes a 20% decline in sales.  That's not a whole lot to me, especially considering that the author also quotes a 10% increase estimate in Apple sales in general.

Then I read the comments.  Not a single commenter agrees with the article author.

So what do you think?  You can get mp3 players for quite a lot cheaper than what Apples sells theirs for.  I saw a 1 gig Shuffle for $50 recently.  That same amount would have paid for my 2gig player and still had money left over.

The image is from the ebay posting I linked to.

Yup, still here.  Doing the Salvation Army bellringing so updates may be a few days apart.  Plus it appears my camera is now busted.  I guess leaving it in the backpack wasn't a good idea.

My sister, Jen, got a write up about her experiences with writing her novel for National Novel Writing Month.  Turns out her computer "crashed" and she lost the work that she was working on.  Now she's got a "new, shiny flash drive" and is working on a new novel.  No news if she will rewrite her lost work.

What's actually interesting is that I've given some thought about trying to find older, used flash drives and giving them out to the local homeless who need or want them.  Not sure what folks do with their older ones.  Seems like I use all of mine but I only have a couple.  I do get asked occasionally for one and, if I have one to spare, I give them out.

One of these days I'll have to finish my writings.

It's been awhile since I've done one of these Most Read posts.  Back in May in fact.  Five months.  Heck, I've started this post a number of times as well only to push it back further and further along.

So anyway, let's see what's popular around here for the last 5 months.

(And let's see when I'll remember to do the next one.)

Just a quick note to let me know if something's broken so I can fix it.  Hopefully within the next few days, I'll have time to run through the site and fix all of the broken links and videos and whatnot.

Just let me know what's busted.

Image from here.