Julie Callaway » Computers and Internet

This is probably old news to you

Julie — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:58:32 +0000

My sister sent me a link to a story on a news site that she likes to read about a story of some Danish college students who were kicked off of Facebook because they had documented with photographs (posted on the web) themselves cooking and eating a cat. They claimed that they were doing this to protest the way that people eat animals in general, and that their cat was a feral cat killed by a farmer who was trying to control the number of cats on his land, but their efforts created such a huge outrage that they ended up getting kicked off of Facebook.

I know that there are some cultures that eat cats (and dogs) routinely, but those are two animals that I cannot imagine myself eating on purpose. If I could arrange my life so that I was a vegetarian I would do so, but my life is a little too complicated for that right now.

Pigeons for dope smuggling?

Julie — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:04:14 +0000

I was reading an article on ananova.com a story that prisoners in a Bosnian jail were using pigeons to smuggle heroin into jail. It seems that one of the rehabilitation programs in the jail involves raising pigeons, and someone in the program took it a little bit further than intended. The “guilty” pigeon has been put behind birdy bars. I’m surprised that the folks in charge of security didn’t see something like this as a possiblity of happening as a result of raising pigeons!

FaceBook

Julie — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:44:32 +0000

I, like so many others in this wonderful world of ours, LOVE to play the applications on Face Book. I have two farms in Farmville, a homestead in Frontierville, a city in Cityville, an Island in Treasure Island… the list goes on and on and on.

Like most Face Book users, I use the applications for entertainment and to kill time when I happen to have some extra time on my hands. I go to my Frontier for relaxation, harvest a few crops, try to complete a few missions and then move on to Farmville. I have an English farm and an American farm. I grow and harvest crops on both farms, build new buildings, raise animals and (new to Farmville), complete missions. Farmville is celebrating its 1 year anniversary this week. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Farmville!!!

Some people say (such as Betty White when she hosted SNL), that Face Book is a big waste of time. And true, it is. But, if you have time to waste, the I can’t think of a better way to do it. It’s fun, it’s relaxing and you get to communicate with people you haven’t heard from in years, not to mention all the new “friends” I have made.

In the potting shed

Julie — Mon, 23 May 2011 02:35:48 +0000

I don’t have the opportunity to watch any of the Martha Stewart shows on television because of my work schedule, but I do enjoy watching clips from her shows on You Tube. This clip is of her with Conan in the potting shed, making topiaries from some plants that Conan claims he found in his back yard. It’s refreshing to see that Martha has a great sense of humor! Very amusing!

Completely unprepared

Julie — Thu, 12 May 2011 02:19:50 +0000

Today I went to a Red-Hatter party where we all met at Patty’s house to learn how to sell things on Ebay. Patty’s been selling things on Ebay for several years and she invited us all to come over and she would help us set up our seller accounts and list something for sale.

When we got to her place, she was completely unprepared. It seems that her comuter is over ten years old, and kept shutting down in the middle of what we were doing. She didn’t have a camera ready to take photos of the items, she didn’t have a list of the flat rate USPS box dimensions and prices, and she didn’t have a tape measure or postage scale.

And to top it off I think she was a little bit inebriated. What a shame!

New Router

Julie — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:47:59 +0000

Last week I started having trouble getting online at home. I would have to go reset the router just about every night before my laptop would get online. My brother, Lucas, set up my home network when I first moved into this house and thank goodness he showed me how to reset the router.

But yesterday I guess it would not reset because I could not get online at all. My brother thinks that maybe the router is just getting old and needs to be replaced – after all, I have had it for over 6 years. So today I am going to stop by Best Buy on the way home and buy a new router. I hope that will fix my connection issues.

PLEASE Tell ME This is Fake!

Julie — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:52:26 +0000

I know people who can do really funny things with Photoshop. I really hope this is not a real sign. PLEASE tell me that someone used Photoshop to create this as a joke.

A good show

Julie — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:40:38 +0000

I don’t know why, but today the memory of going to see “Stomp” several years ago popped into my head. It was a great show, something I’ll always remember. I went with my two kids and hubby. I would love to go see them again sometime! I found this video on YouTube of one of the numbers that they do.

Hunting turkeys

Julie — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:51:42 +0000

After my sister sent me a funny video called the Turkey Rap, I went on You Tube to see how I could share it with you on my blog. In doing so, I found those guys had done another video that is just as funny called The Turkey Hunt! What a riot! I hope you enjoy it!

Chain letters

Julie — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:39:35 +0000

Don’t you just hate it when you give out your email address to someone, hoping that they will use it with some commonsense and only contact you when they really NEED to communicate with you and then all you ever get from them is those stupid “chain” letter emails? I find that to be a constant problem and I really hate having to send those people polite replies asking them to NOT do that! I like to think I am a nice person; I KNOW I’m a busy person, and I HATE getting those kinds of emails “forward this to 8 of your closest friends within five minutes or something bad will happen to you.” I DON’T forward it; I reply back to it and then delete it. I don’t know anyone who likes getting those kinds of emails, and it surprises me how many people are so superstitious that they are afraid to “break the chain” by deleting the email.