Health care and the Incredible Hulk?

A co-worker from Seattle sent me this.

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I'm still waiting for Thor's editorial.

you Know you are from San Angelo when.....

What happens when you check off almost everything on the list as being true.....you're officially from Small Town USA (aka San Angelo, TX).

You know your from San Angelo when...

1. Meeting a celebrity means standing in line at Fuentes next to the local weatherman. 2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a camper on the Mertzon Highway. 3. "Vacation" means driving to Dallas. 4. You see all the biggest clothing trends ten years after they were popular. 5. Your work or classes are cancelled because of a half inch of snow. 6. You realize your only choices for eating out are Mexican and steak. 7. When it rains, it's the talk of the town for days. (and you know not to drive down College Hills or any of that area for that matter when it is raining!!!) 8. When it snows, it's the talk of the area for weeks. 9. During the summer, the car trunk doubles as an oven for your groceries. 10. You measure distance in hours. 11. The local paper covers national and international headlines on one page, but requires 6 pages for high school football. 12. You've had to switch from Heat to A/C in the same day. 13. Driving to Abilene to have lunch at the Olive Garden does not seem crazy to you. 14. You think that opening weekend for dove and deer seasons are holidays. 15. You find 98 degrees "a little warm," and 60 degrees downright freezing. 16. You think the only seasons are hot, damn hot, football, and deer. 17. You know what a "Wall girl" is 18. You know if another person is from out of town the second he or she walks in the door. 19. "Overachievers" go to A&M, UT or Texas Tech. The rest must choose from ASU, Howard Junior College, American Commercial College , or Texas College of Cosmetology. 20. You've had several friends move off and move back within a couple of months. 21. You are used to cole slaw being next to your enchilada and beans. 22. Your first kiss was on top of a hill overlooking the airport. 23. The Rodeo is the major event for the whole year, and you know where the Beer Barn is. 24. White sauce is amazing and not as dirty as it sounds... 25. "Mohair Capital of the World" has some meaning to you. 26. Honeymoon means "San Antonio." 27. You've ever referred to an orange and blue homecoming mum as "pretty.” 28. One of the best restaurants is in the airport. 29. You have ever celebrated "cotton" by having a party. 30. You've referred to eight feet of water in a mudhole as a "lake" and you know that swallowing any of the water is reason to call 911 31. You know that "overdressed" at Scrub Pub means anything other than a tshirt, jeans and flip flops. 31. You get these and send them to all your San Angelo friends.

Mugshot Tips

As I continue my research of the social-networking world I've noticed a few things with mugshots and I thought I'd offer my opinion on them.

First of all, what is a mugshot? It's the picture people place on their profiles. While there may be a better name for these I'll call them mugshots for clarity.

Married people and those in committed relationships
Place a picture of yourself with your significant other. This solves a couple of problems:

• Women - This should hopefully keep guys from hounding you. If they see you with your man in a loving photo they probably won't bother. Why waste their time with an attached woman when there are plenty of single ladies out there.
  

• Men - This will keep you from looking like a sex fiend on the prowl for chicks.
  

Single females
A photo of only yourself. You'll confuse guys as they try to figure out which one you are. Besides, they really don't care that you have friends because guys are just different that way.

Single males
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put up a photo with you hanging out with friends. When you only have a photo of yourself you look like a psycho pervert freak. A pic of you and your friends, preferably some of them women, makes you look safe and less like you just got out of prison.

Facebook sucks!!

So why does Facebook suck, because it's addicting! I was supposed to be doing research for a social-networking application, RockingBull, I'm working on but the more I research the more I get addicted to customizing my profile and exploring all of the different applications available. Opening up their website to programmers was genius and turned them into an operating system for the web, like Windows XP is to the desktop. I can see why Facebook is so popular because it sucks you in and you keep wanting more.

Saving electricity with virtual PCs.

Like most hard-core geeks I have a network of PCs running all the time. A friend of mine got bit by the electricity-saving bug and one thing he discovered was that it was costing about $20/month to run his small network. So how can you cut down on electricity without tearing down your network? Virtual PCs! My plan is to rebuild my workstation with 64-bit Windows server and load it up with RAM. It'll be my Primary Domain Controller, DNS server, and SMTP server. I'm then going to run VMWare and host an image of my current XP setup. Another host will contain Vista, and another host will run a Linux image. Having one machine act as 4 computers shouldn't be too tough for it because it has two processors and since the base OS will be 64-bit with 8GB of RAM I'm hoping performance will not be bad. The reason I'm going with VMWare instead of Virtual PC is because VPC doesn't support USB and I absolutely will need my XP image to be able to use USB.
I'll write another entry in the near future once I've made the migration and can successfully power down 3 computers yet have them running on only 1 computer.

Trash Mobile

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Originally uploaded by atapaz

Now come on people, is it that hard to throw out trash every once in a while? The car was filled with trash except for the driver's seat. The driver apparently like 4Bucks, aka Starbucks, because there must have been atleast 20 cups of Starbucks on the passenger side.