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12 things that I'm focusing on this morning instead of working (don't tell the boss)

The city is looking to unload some old parking meters. Local blogger draws up business plan for new "gypsy meter" company.
No, really. Why does Vista suck so bad?
I think I need to plant some trees. Either that or invest in curtains.
Note to Heather Wilson and Steve Pierce: You blew it. You had a chance to support clean energy nationwide - and potentially bring home some of that other white meat for New Mexico renewable projects. You too, Pete Domenici for declaring that you'll vote against the House's clean energy bill when it comes to the Senate. < /sermon >
If I go to register ABQ Gypsy Meters with the city, and they issue me a license, does that make my meters legal and protect me from later prosection for freelance tax collection or something? And if so, can I still call them gypsy meters?
Scot Key points out that Anonymous sucks. I think we should gang up and get that guy. Or gal. Whoever he or she is. Let's get 'em! Seriously.
NMBosque is looking to take that old tile saw off your hands.
Why does UNMH never seem to have any studies that I'd want to get in on? Where are those sweet "Effect of cruller and Frito consumption on PMS symptoms"-type deals?
God I love KNME on YouTube. Caution: Video about poetry launches immediately. Also, here's New Mexico In Focus. Nice jacket, Gene.
I'm thinking about painting my house. Cottonwood or Sahara [poll]? (see colors above)
What are Noetic Sciences, anyway?
No rickrolling here. That's RIck Astley down there, and I'm not even going to pretend otherwise.

20 Comments

Comment by Tricross on March 3, 2008 at 1:42pm: Windows Vista, just another reason why my next computer will be a Mac.

Comment by misterhinkydink on March 3, 2008 at 1:46pm: I google'd 'osx sucks' and got over 600K hits.

Comment by Doc Mara on March 3, 2008 at 2:05pm: Counting google hits is so 2006. Now, if you could cite YouTube videos about how OS X sucks, I might believe you.

Noetics is just a fancy Greek-ified way of saying philosophy. Because "philosophy" isn't Greek enough.

Comment by misterhinkydink on March 3, 2008 at 3:09pm: Looking up anything 'sucks' on google is sure to return hits; 'mother teresa sucks' returned 120K.

Comment by bobme on March 3, 2008 at 3:11pm: misterhinkydink should learn how to use Google before moving on to something difficult like YouTube. On Google, if you are looking for an exact phrase, you put it in quotes. Result:
"osx sucks" -- 2680 hits
"vista sucks" -- 210,000 hits

OSX ... 100 times better than Vista :)

Comment by misterhinkydink on March 3, 2008 at 3:28pm: Bobme, if I had done as you suggested it would have returned 1.5M hits. BTW, I'm no MS fanboy but golly, you Mac fanboys are so sensitive. ;-)

Comment by bobme on March 3, 2008 at 3:36pm: You and I must be using different googles :) Can anyone else try this and confirm? Not sure how you can get MORE hits for an exact phrase than for all occurrences of either word. That seems to break some law of physics. :)

Comment by Kitson Harvey on March 3, 2008 at 3:52pm: misterhinkydink's profile photo is so rad, I'm having a hard time paying attention to what exactly it is (s)he is saying.

Comment by Masshole in Fringecrest on March 3, 2008 at 3:57pm: I cannot believe that Cottonwood is only beating out Sahara by only 2 votes (6 to 4 currently). There's too much yellow in Sahara for such a large-scale canvas as a house. BTW, is this a stucco color, or are you painting wood? Because if you are planning on painting over stucco, bad idea. Someone painted our stucco house bright white some years back and when it came time to stucco our addition to match, the El Rey Stucco Monopoly said, "no dice." Now i am stuck with saving up so someday my house matches my addition. Not to mention that paint requires some special "glue treatment" (I know I am butchering this whole thread by my layperson's approach...) to go back to stucco... just a word to the wise. (Parenthetically and ellipsesially yours...)

Comment by Donny Ozmund on March 3, 2008 at 4:51pm: Sorry misterthinkydink, but bobme's numbers for the google results using the quotes are exactly correct.

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