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    <title>Netflix Randomizer</title>
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    <author>chris@ripp.net (Chris)</author>
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    Whoa, a post!&#160; Yeah but this time its actually got something in it.&#160; I needed (ok, wanted) a way to mix up my netflix queue, and ran across <a href="http://blog.spoofed.org/2008/07/netflix-queue-randomizer.html">Jon Hart's Netflix Randomizer</a> Greasemonkey script for firefox.&#160; Awesome!<br /><br />The trouble is it uses the 'move to top' function of the netflix queue instead of simply entering new numbers in the List Order fields.&#160; So, with a little (and I mean little) javascript-fu I hacked it to do just that...<br /><br /> ...the problem is I can't get the thing to act on any of the items in my queue past #226.&#160; Why? I really have no idea.&#160; Maybe someone can enlighten me, or maybe its just some sort of security thing rearing its ugly head.&#160; If your queue isn't that long then you may not see this problem.&#160; Let me know if this effect happens for you.<br /><br />It doesn't really affect the functionality of the thing, as it generates numbers in the first part of the queue which will bump things past that, so it actually does randomize the whole thing, where Jon's was leaving the last half untouched due to the same '226' problem.<br /><br />Tested on Firefox running in Ubuntu Linux, Intrepid.&#160; Yes you need Greasemonkey.&#160; No I won't support it, other than to fix the "226 bug", so <span style="text-decoration: underline;">don't ask me how to install greasemonkey or how to get it to work for you, because I won't answer</span>.<br /><br />Once you've got it installed in greasemonkey, you'll see 'Randomize Queue' down next to the bottom 'Update Queue' button.&#160; Hit that, click in any of the List Order fields, then click, Update Queue and you should be good.<br /><br />Here is the code:<br /><br /><code><br />// ==UserScript==<br />// @name           Netflix Queue Randomizer<br />// @namespace      http://www.netflix.com/Queue<br />// @include        http://www.netflix.com/Queue<br />// ==/UserScript==<br /><br />function randomSort() {<br />	return (Math.round(Math.random()) - 0.5);<br />}<br /><br />function randomizeQueue() {<br /> var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('input');<br /> var idRe = /^OP(\d{6,8})$/;<br /> var idRe2 = /^OR(\d{6,8})$/;<br /> var curIds = new Array();<br /> var newOrder = new Array();<br /><br />// find all of the movies in the queue and store their ID and current<br />  // position in the queue<br />  for (var i=0; i &lt; inputs.length; i++) {<br />    if (inputs[i].type == 'hidden' &amp;&amp; inputs[i].name.match(idRe)) {<br />      var matches = idRe.exec(inputs[i].name);<br />      curIds.push(matches[1]);<br />    }<br />  }<br /><br />  // create a new array that is the same size as the movie queue and<br />  // randomize it.  This has to be done this was because QueueReorder does<br />  // not support moving to arbitrary positions, only the top.<br />  for (var i=0; i &lt; curIds.length; i++) {<br />    newOrder[i] = i;<br />  }<br />  newOrder.sort(randomSort);<br /><br />// OK, now take and put the new values into the boxes<br /><br />  for (var i=0; i &lt; curIds.length; i++) {<br />    if (inputs[i].name.match(idRe2) &amp;&amp; inputs[i].className == 'o') {<br />	  inputs[i].value = newOrder.pop();<br />    }<br />  }<br /><br />	alert('Your Queue Should be Randomized. Click in a List Order field and then click Update Queue.');<br /><br />}<br /><br />// Create a new div that contains the 'Randomize Queue' link, and then prove<br />// that I have nearly zero HTML foo by being unable to place the link to the<br />// left of the bottom 'Update DVD Queue' button<br />var qFooter = document.getElementById('updateQueue2');<br />var rDiv = document.createElement('div');<br />rDiv.setAttribute('class', 'd1_qt');<br /><br />var rLink = document.createElement('a');<br />rLink.addEventListener('click', randomizeQueue, false);<br /><br />var rText = document.createTextNode("Randomize Queue");<br />rLink.appendChild(rText);<br />rDiv.appendChild(rLink);<br /><br />qFooter.parentNode.insertBefore(rDiv, qFooter);<br /><br /><br /></code> 
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    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:26:10 -0500</pubDate>
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    <title>Diary of a Semi-Disaster</title>
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    <author>chris@ripp.net (Chris)</author>
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    Well, maybe not a disaster per se, but it definitely was not the way I'd have liked to spend Christmas.  I'd just finished my last day of work for 3 weeks on Fri., and had grand visions of doing some heavy duty web site work, updating existing ones, building some new ones... getting some much needed stuff done around the house, and generally de-stressing.  Well...<br />
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About 3am on Sat. the 20th of Dec. I'm awaken by some yelling.  This is pretty unusual, so I figured I'd get up and see what its all about.  My daughter had woke up, and told her mom that, "hey, the floors are wet."<br />
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 Sure enough, they were.  A faucet in the wet bar decided to blow a fitting up underneath the sink, spraying water for a couple of hours almost silently, and in the process soaking 90% of the carpet in the house.  I reached up in there to try and shut off the valve to the cold side, as the hot side valve is behind the mini-fridge and isn't exactly accessible.<br />
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BZZZZZT.  I'm greeted by that lovely feeling you get when sticking your fingers into an open lightswitch, basically I was getting electrocuted.  Well, I decided that wouldn't do, so I literally tossed everything out of that cabinet and unplugged everything.  <strong>of course</strong> it's not the cold side, its the hot side.  So a trip to the hall closet to shut off the main water valve ensues.  On the other side of the house, and with every step that sinking squishing slop sound as the water pools up around your bare and now frozen feet.<br />
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I get the water shut off, and then that feeling hits.  That, "holy shit, now what do we do" feeling.  We see just how far its spread, yeah its pretty much everywhere.  So at 3am, I'm boxing up as much crap as I can, hauling it upstairs, throwing it on beds and tables, trying to unplug everything else, and trying to save anything that might've gotten soaked.<br />
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Meanwhile the wife is on the phone with one of the local "disaster cleanup" companies.  These guys have sprung up in the last couple of years around here, I'm sure they existed before, but just recently their TV ads have become obvious.  They show up around 5, and by noon they've got every square inch of wet carpet and pad tossed out into the backyard, and the furniture up on these little styrofoam blocks.<br />
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For three days we had *27*, (yes twenty-seven) industrial sized fans blowing on the baseboards, and 3 R2-D2 looking dehumidifiers running 24hrs.  It sounded like a bloody airstrip in there.<br />
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Yeah, from then on it was a battle trying to find someplace that had reasonably-matching carpet, in stock, and was able to get someone out to do it around the holidays.  Thankfully we've got full-replacement coverage on the insurance, so we only had to eat the (still rather high) deductible.  After finally convincing the insurance guy that, no, you can't get the same carpet we put in for $18 a square yard.  Not in this century anyway...<br />
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Along the way we decided to put down that locking engineered hardwood stuff down in the dining room and the office.  2 days and some very sore knees later, that was done, and Monday the the 20th two, um, fellows from south of the border show up to put in carpet.  They stuck around until almost 9pm to get it all done and then that other feeling hit.<br />
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"Whew.  Now we have to put everything back."  Which we are still working on.  The upstairs looks like a garage sale warehouse type of deal, and the downstairs is slowly falling back into place.  All the baseboards back on and things are finally returning to normal.  Whatever that is.<br />
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So.  So much for the "destressing" part, and I've not even started to piece the office back together, which means all that website work I was planning is just off in limbo someplace.<br />
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Yeah, I left some bits out.  Like the cat getting bit by a dog and having three big holes in the top of his head, one of which got infected (yeah, ew), like some dickhead stealing my wife's bag of clothes out of the car that same day when we went to eat lunch... across from the copshop in itty bitty Inola, OK., like the whole situation with our bigscreen TV which was out in the shop at the time and turns out the extended warranty actually paid off and we're getting it replaced outright...   like spending Christmas morning in a hotel room and telling the kids they can't open any of the boxes they just unwrapped....all of that.<br />
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But hey, at least we got some family time in.  Not like there was much else to do! 
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    You can find me here:  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rippc/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/rippc/</a><br /><br />I'll be working on getting all of my/our pictures up in there (pro account ftw!!)<br /><br />If you know me or Sabrina, drop me a line and if I/she remember you <img src="http://ripp.net/templates/default/img/emoticons/wink.png" alt=";-)" style="display: inline; vertical-align: bottom;" class="emoticon" />  and you have a flickr account also I can let you in to see the hidden stuff.  No, nothing like that.  I just don't plan on sharing *everything*.<br />  
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    <pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:34:25 -0500</pubDate>
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蛸 or tako, is quite possibly the world's perfect food.  So lo and behold while perusing for Japanese goodies at the local (well sort of) Asian grocer I found this 2lb bag of octopus for $5.  Not bad if you ask me.  For octopus.  Yum.  And yeah, I know its actually from Korea.<br /><br />
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But its octopus dammit.  Yum yum yum.  Time to learn to make takoyaki.  Tako tempura.  Tako on a stick.  Tako tacos!!  Taco sandwiches.<br />
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    Are you bonehead corporate types over at Y!ahoo so f-ing clueless?  Its not delicious.com, as the new "Delicious 2.0" now sends us to.  Its del.icio.us.   Why? Why ruin such a perfect domain name and branding with this .com crap?!  Forward the .com to the .us fer chrissakes, not the other way around!!!<br /><br />This is just lame corporate bullshit at work.  "Gee, uh, shouldn't we be a dot-com, Bob?" "Um, Yeah, I think you're right, Bob!" "We should just change it, nobody's going to notice."  (together) "Hahahaha!"<br /><br />Geez, what a bonehead move.<br />  
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    And the schedules they acquire.  I set up my MythTV box Saturday night to record 'Dial M For Murder.'  I'd not seen it before, but have been waiting for the opportunity.  Great! I set it up, and let it run.<br /><br />I go to watch it and notice that the movie didn't start until about 5-6 minutes after it was supposed to.  Hm, I thought.  This could be bad at the end, but maybe its close enough it won't matter.<br /><br />WRONG!!<br /><br />Hitchcock's ghost comes back from the grave, and just as the inspector is about to tell the lovely Margot how he's figured out she's innocent and the conniving Tony is guilty, in a moment of sheer spiteful irony....  Right at that moment....<br /><br />END. FIN.  The recording stops!! ARGH.  If ever there was a moment I wanted to put a brick through that TV, that was it!<br />  
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    <author>chris@ripp.net (Chris)</author>
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    So I figure, since I've got this blog with (counts on fingers) four domains pointing at it (I will dominate the ripp-dots someday!!) I should start doing something with it.  Yeah sure I post some garbage (french pronunciation, if you don't mind) from time to time, usually when I realize, "Oh, sh*t, I have a website!" or something really ticks me off.  Usually I forget about it.  How messed up is that?  Or I try to pimp some latest project or other to get some of that much-coveted google link-juice.<br /><br />To wit, The 4th of July was just 3 days ago (counts on fingers again to confirm) yeah three.  Independence Day.  For those of you not in the US, lets just say it involves waving the flag around, setting off explosives and celebrating our insurgency, er I mean, rebellion from the British oppressors some two-hundred-and-thirty odd years ago.<br /><br />I was sitting in the living room, and started hearing this rumbling sound.  Now, a bit of background is necessary.  I live somewhere between civilization and BFE (look it up) in Oklahoma.   I say between because the main highway is just a quarter-mile down the road, and any unusual rumblings can usually be attributed to some truck driver air-braking on his way into the truck stop at the corner.<br /><br />Not so tonight.  The sound didn't stop.  I went out the front door and was treated to a most peculiar display of sound and light.  It seems that this year, <strong>everyone</strong> within five miles of my front door was setting off fireworks.  A full 180-degree view of random airbursts could be seen, and the flashes from the ones that didn't make it over the trees.<br /><br />But the sound.  Normally, the wind is blowing a constant 20 mph.  All.  The time.  With gusts to thirty.  Its a rare occasion to have no wind, and tonight was one of those.  The sound of these fireworks was only as I'd imagine it would sound like in a war zone.  The low, distant, <strong>thumpthump</strong> concussions that you can feel in the ground, and in the air, posing as artillery or air-dropped ordnance.  Random <strong>rat-a-tat-tats</strong> of firecrackers posing as machine gun fire.  Medium-sized shells making a solid <strong>bang</strong> sounding like light mortars.  <br /><br />The flashes just over the trees became villages just over the horizon, being annihilated by squadrons of B-17s somewhere in Germany sixty years ago.  It was surreal in the sheer amount of it.  I sat there for a solid hour-and-a-half, listening and watching the battle unfold.<br /><br />Then I realized I was being assaulted in my own by the local mosquito contigent.  Back inside.  Ten years I've been in this house, and this is the first time I've ever witnessed an apocalypse of that magnitude.  In years past I've either been somewhere else, or a combination of high winds and dry, ultra-flammable prairie grassland have kept the missions at bay.<br /><br />It was one of those "moments of clarity" that you get on a rare occasion.<br />  
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    <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:06:54 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author>chris@ripp.net (Chris)</author>
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    It's funny because its true.  You know it.  I always wish things were more like they were then.  People just got shit done.  Christ we went to war in '42 and were done in <strong>two</strong> separate theatres in three and a half years.  Stuff just got done, dammit.  And it was because <strong>this</strong> kind of stuff <strong>didn't</strong> go on.<br /><br /><blockquote>David "Everything is Miscellaneous" Weinberger sez, "Here's a PDF of a 1944 'Simple Sabotage Field Manual' from the US Strategic Services, explaining how to train people to sabotage their workplace. Full of useful suggestions, from the practical to the, um, less so (e.g., bring a bag of mo[n]ths into a theater showing propaganda films). It also recommends doing things through channels, making speeches, and referring matters to committee as techniques of sabotage (cf. page 28). I got this link from a <a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/11/simple-sabotage/">presentation by two CIA folks</a> at the Enterprise 2.0 conference."<br />
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(1) Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.<br />
(2) Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of per­sonal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate “patriotic”<br />
comments.<br />
(3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and considera­tion.” Attempt to make the committees as large as possible — never less than five.<br />
(4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.<br />
(5) Haggle over precise wordings of com­munications, minutes, resolutions.<br />
(6) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.<br />
(7) Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be “reason­able” and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.<br />
(8) Be worried about the propriety of any decision — raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the juris­diction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.</blockquote><a href="http://community.e2conf.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/1090-5-1190/OSS%20Simple%20Sabotage%20Manual.pdf">PDF Link</a><br /></blockquote><br />
Link: <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/11/sabotage-manual-from.html">Sabotage manual from 1944 advises acting like an average 2008 manager - Boing Boing</a><br /><blockquote></blockquote><br />
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I especially like the bit about the moths.  Bob and Doug McKenzie's playbook, eh?  
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    Yeah OK so it's been another month since my last post.  Argh.<br /><br />A rat or some other nasty rodent type creature destroyed the main engine wiring harness on my Magnum.  Pissed doesn't even begin to cover it.  I'm not even going to tell you what a new harness costs, but suffice it to say that my comp. insurance deductible is all I'm paying.  Five hours later and a couple days of stiff- and sore-ness, its nearly all fixed.  At least it runs and drives like normal now! Just have one O2 sensor wire to repair and it'll be good as new.<br /><br />But WTF is up with Dodge and these dopey little safety clip things on each connector?  I'd have had it done a lot sooner if not for fighting those things.  Imagine a little tiny tab you have to move <strong>just right</strong> to get the clip to unlock, and most of them are in hard to reach places.  Yeah, it's kind of like that.<br /><br />Gotta say I'm not liking the electronic throttle on this thing though.  Had the car had a conventional accelerator cable, I'd probably at least have been able to drive it.  But getting in, stomping the gas, and nothing happening... its a little disconcerting.<br /><br />So I had to get the Pontiac out of storage for the year a bit early, and risk the thing getting hailed on.  Not a fun thought after the last time, and the money and time that went into getting it back to show condition.  Then the wiper switch craps out on me, so yay for me having to find a working 27-year old part.  Whoo. Sigh.<br /><br />What else?  Not much really.  Launched <a href="http://scifireview.com/">ScifiReview.com</a>.  Yeah its an Amazon affiliate site.  Hopefully it gets some page views.  I had the domain, and no time (or cash) to put into what I'd like to see from it, so there it is.<br /><br />Also redesigned <a href="http://youthscompanion.com/">The Youth's Companion Project</a> site.  I've got a lot more issues to get scanned and uploaded, so I figured putting the whole thing into a blog (yay for <a href="http://s9y.org">serendipity</a>!) engine and a coppermine gallery was the way to go.<br /><br />Stay tuned for another post, sometime this year. snicker.<br />  
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    Well, Let's see....<br /><br />We finally ditched DISH Network.&#160; Now we're on OTA channels (HD of course) and good old NetFlix!&#160; Why'd we do this?<br /><br />It just wasn't worth it anymore.&#160; Sure the news channels would come in handy from time to time.&#160; I will miss TCM and the occasional SciFi Channel show.<br /><br />But honestly apart from those few things, it just wasn't worth the $50/mo. anymore.&#160; Most of the channels no longer have any relevance to what they started off as.&#160; Dish also screwed me when they moved HDNet Movies from the base HD-Pack to a new "tier" that cost twice as much.&#160; No longer worth it.<br /><br />I mean, look at some of the channels out there, and look at what's actually on them.&#160; Crap like "Ice Road Truckers" on the History Channel, WRESTLING on the SciFi Channel, TLC is now the crappy makeover network, A&amp;E? No longer Arts and Entertainment, Bravo? Used to be somewhat interesting.&#160; Now I can't remember the last time I turned there.&#160; Even AMC went downhill, first adding ads, then dropping letterboxing, now even they've got crappy "original series" on there.<br /><br />And most of it is all re-runs of the same crappy shows.&#160; I'll use Law and Order as an example.&#160; TNT especially.&#160; I just started calling it the "L&amp;O" channel, because that's about all thats on there during prime-time anymore.&#160; It's on USA, its on other channels.&#160; Get it away from me!<br /><br />So, much as I hate to admit it, the internet will have to provide me with my dose of BSG, SG-A, and a couple of others....<br /><br />And now we've got two NetFlix accounts at 3 movies out a piece, and its still cheaper than the satellite.&#160; That's about all we've got time for in a given week anyway, so I think its for the best. <br /><br />Oh, and check out part II for the other time-eating device we've acquired.<br />  
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    Who was the idiot who came up with this idea?&#160; If there's anything I hate more than talking on the phone, its trying to talk to a freakin machine.&#160; "One. ONE!!! No. NO! Yes. YES. YES! GODAMMIT!"&#160; I mean really.&#160; These things don't work.&#160; Just let me push the damn buttons.&#160; Beep beep beep. There I'm done.&#160; Why anyone would think people actually like these stupid systems over just giving a damn menu and letting me just get there just blows my mind.<br /><br />Rant over.&#160; Carry on.<br />  
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    Keith Moon or John Bonham?<br /><br />And why?<br /><br />Discuss.<br /><br /><big>I SAID DISCUSS!!!! <img src="http://ripp.net/templates/default/img/emoticons/smile.png" alt=":-)" style="display: inline; vertical-align: bottom;" class="emoticon" /></big><br /><br />Technorati Tags: <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/dead%20drummers" rel="tag">dead drummers</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/john%20bonham" rel="tag">john bonham</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/keith%20moon" rel="tag">keith moon</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/led%20zeppelin" rel="tag">led zeppelin</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/the%20who" rel="tag">the who</a>  
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    Well at least they're not going to tear the thing down.&#160; Man that just ticks me off.&#160; Forget about the whole Bell's incident.&#160; Yeah we'll just screw 50 years of Tulsa's history and part of its identity in favor of a parking lot.&#160; Man.&#160; Funny though that they'd scrap $300 G's worth of work after the Bell's fiasco.&#160; "But its about the money!" Yeah, right.&#160; What's next, tear down the Pavilion, too?&#160; I'm sure that'd be the last straw.<br /><br />At least the armory will remain.&#160; (See the link.)<br /><br />I wish the US had the same, I dunno, attitude towards architectural history thats present in say Europe.&#160; Around here anything that's a little old is looked upon as trash in need of destruction to be replaced by some crappy metal building, parking lot, or cookie-cutter franchise store.&#160; <br /><br />I think people are finally starting to realize that once these monuments are gone, they're never coming back.&#160; Yes it costs more money to maintain and restore them, but dammit that's not the point.<br /><br />Link: "Armory Restoration Costing More Money" - <a href="http://www.kotv.com/news/local/story/?id=138490">KOTV.com - The News On 6</a><br /><br />And yeah, I haven't been posting.&#160; Busybusybusy.<br /><br /><br />Technorati Tags: <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/tulsa" rel="tag">tulsa</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/national%20guard" rel="tag">national guard</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/armory" rel="tag">armory</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/architecture" rel="tag">architecture</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/history" rel="tag">history</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/money" rel="tag">money</a>  
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    <author>chris@ripp.net (Chris)</author>
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    God is anyone else getting mildly (or grossly) annoyed by the next latest greatest fad in phishing e-mails? &#160;The 'welcome to my site' ones that want you to click on some link to verify your signup info that you supposedly submitted? &#160;Man, if I could find one of these boneheads and lock myself in a room with them....<br /><br />...only one of us would be coming out, and you only get one guess as to who it is. &#160;I'm getting dozens if not hundreds of these things, and I guess spamassassin isn't able to flag them... bah.<br />  
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    Hey, yeah I'm still here.&#160; Remember back when I said I'd come into possession of some old papers and such?&#160; Well, I've gone and started an entire project around some of them.&#160; Enter: <a href="http://youthscompanion.com/">The Youth's Companion Project</a>.<br /><br />The Youth's Companion was a magazine that was published from the 1820's up through the 1920's.&#160; I came into a few partial issues, and two complete ones.&#160; Since they (should be) are in the public domain by now, and from what I have read the original archives no longer exist... this will be an attempt to recreate the archives.&#160; Ambitious? I dunno. Depends on how much support I can get to carry the thing out.<br /><br />So if you're interested in reading what kids of the 20's and before were reading instead of watching Pokemon and playing video games... check it out.&#160; There's lots of cool and some just weird ads in there as well....&#160; Like 'get your own steam engine!' and 'every boy should learn to shoot!'<br /><br />And if you happen to have some issues of this lying around, and you can get them scanned in, send em my way... contact info is on the site.<br /><a href="http://youthscompanion.com/"><br />The Youth's Companion</a><br /><br />Technorati Tags: <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/youths%20companion" rel="tag">youths companion</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/vintage" rel="tag">vintage</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/history" rel="tag">history</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/project" rel="tag">project</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/public%20domain" rel="tag">public domain</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/advertising" rel="tag">advertising</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/literature" rel="tag">literature</a>  
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