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KBCO in Boulder has a new ad out for it's $50,000 give away promotion and, IMHO, it's fucking hilarious.

It goes something like this:
Annoucer: What would you do with $50,000?
Dude: I'd invest it.
Annoucer: In what?
Dude: Girl Scout Cookies.
Announcer: Oh, yea?
Dude: Come July, those Colorado Stoners will pay a fortune for them.
Announcer: silence.
Dude: What?

It probably comes off better when heard because the voice actor that does the 'Dudes" is great. It makes the whole spot.

Been slacking off in my reading recently, but am finally getting back into it.

Currently I am reading Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series. I started a bit backwards reading the second book first -- City of Night by Koontz & Ed Gorman -- and am now reading the first book -- Prodigal Son by Koontz & Kevin J. Anderson. And, I have the third and fourth books on hand to follow these up with.

I must say, I'm not a big fan of horror, but they have been good reads. They are more like suspence than horror, with well built story lines.

In a kind of related note, I use the Calibre program with my Acer Aspire One to read e-books. It works OK, but one of these days I would like to purchase and Kindle or such.

Small near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass very close to Earth on February 15, so close that it will pass inside the ring of geosynchronous weather and communications satellites. NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office can accurately predict the asteroid's path with the observations obtained, and it is therefore known that there is no chance that the asteroid might be on a collision course with Earth. Nevertheless, the flyby will provide a unique opportunity for researchers to study a near-Earth object up close. Here are the facts about the safe flyby of Earth of asteroid 2012 DA14 -- a record close approach for a known object of this size.

Read on ...

Via APOD.

Jules Gabriel Verne -- February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905 -- was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre in Europe. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Many of his novels involve elements of technology that were fantastic for the day but later became commonplace. He is the second most translated author in the world (after Agatha Christie). Some of his books have also been made into live-action and animated films and television shows. Verne is often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction", a title sometimes shared with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells.

Continue reading on Wikipedia.

The Top Ten Reasons Computers Must Be Male
10. They have a lot of data but are still clueless.
9. A better model is always just around the corner.
8. They look nice and shiny until you bring them home.
7. It is always necessary to have a backup.
6. They'll do whatever you say if you push the right buttons.
5. The best part of having either one is the games you can play.
4. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.
3. The lights are on but nobody's home.
2. Big power surges knock them out for the night
1. Size does matter!

The Top Ten Reasons Computers Must Be Female
10. Picky, picky, picky.
9. They hear what you say, but not what you mean.
8. Beauty is only shell deep.
7. When you ask what's wrong, they say "nothing"
6. Can produce incorrect results with alarming speed.
5. Always turning simple statements into big productions.
4. Smalltalk is important.
3. You do the same thing for years, and suddenly it's wrong.
2. They make you take the garbage out.
1. Miss a period and they go wild!!

Originally found on Annoyances.org

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This drop in Cherry Creek is located where Cherry Creek bike path and Highline Canal bike path meet.
Took them on 14 January 2013.
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More photos from the walkabout along Cherry Creek, 14 January 2013. We are up to 5 sets from this day and I still have more to go.
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Skip the post below this one and you will see 3 consecutive posts for photograph sets. When you follow the links to the galleries, the content of those pages, I hand code.

Search Drupal with gallery and there are a bajillion results returned. I've spent time looking through them. I've spent time looking through Drupals Modules. I still can't find what I am looking for.

My set up is an image with thumbnails of previous photos above and following photos below. This setup lives in my current theme so all pages match. Boring yes, but I like consistency.

As of now, I go a rather roundabout way. I use a program that creates slide shows. It takes the original images, creates slides of reduced size with a watermark, makes thumbnails and creates a finished gallery. I then take the slides and thumbnails and use those for my handcrafted content.

I don't know. I guess it keeps me in touch with some coding still. I still have to do some thinking to create the pages and I guess that's a good thing.

A Sun Pillar Over Sweden -- Image Credit & Copyright: Göran Strand

I don't know, guess I miss my days in the mountains. I have no other reason for wanting to be there.

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Took these photos while on a photography walkabout along Cherry Creek, 14 January 2013

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