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Merry Christmas!!!
posted by GJ on December 25, 2005 @ 12:20PM
Now I gotta get back to making my kick butt fudge!!
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Fantasy Football Championship
posted by GJ on December 24, 2005 @ 3:34PM
Holy crap--Steve is keeping up with me in the fantasy football championship game.
It's nearing the end of the first round of games, approximately 3:35pm, and here are the scores:
GJ 53, Steve 42
Consolation game:
Geoff 60, Dad 15
Update, 4:20pm:
GJ 63, Steve 52
Geoff 75, Dad 15
Update, 5:20pm:
GJ 74, Steve 60
Geoff 76, Dad 29
Game most likely over, 6:05pm
GJ 90, Steve 62
Geoff 76, Dad 34
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So you want to be an expert blogger?
posted by GJ on December 21, 2005 @ 9:44AM
I will hold a session, "How to be a blog/forum poweruser," during Christmas break in Syracuse. If blogging or forum posting is still somewhat of a mystery to you, I would encourage you to attend! OK, it's not that formal. Still, I'd like to know if anyone is interested, and even better, I'd like to know what topics are of specific interest to you.
Some ideas:
* how to post in a forum / blog
* how to reply / comment
* how to view newest replies, or be notified of replies.
* how to populate your avatar, or add a signature line in the forum.
* how to create links in postings, comments, replies, etc., for urls pointing to all sorts of things.
* how to upload media for display on Baumblog or BaumForum.
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EVIL insurance companies strike again
posted by GJ on December 20, 2005 @ 11:03AM
Do you have emergency road service coverage through your insurance company? Think it's a good deal, better than AAA?
Think again.
Turns out, the insurance companies log every service call you make, no matter how trivial, as a claim. That's right, folks, you call for a flat tire, then run out of gas, then have some other mechanical breakdown, all within two years, and whammo, you'll be looking at either higher insurance rates, or get your policy cancelled altogether.
Not such a good deal anymore, is it?
If you do have one of these goofy plans, cancel it and get a membership in AAA. It's more expensive, yes, but way better quality (the travel and eyeglass discounts alone pay for the fee each year) and it doesn't ding your insurance one iota.
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Prepare To Cook
posted by Marc on December 20, 2005 @ 8:59AM
Every Christmas and pretty much every holiday, Mom and/or Kristen and/or (any other female) in the house spends a good majority of the time cooking. So when do they get to sit down and play video games? ...or read or just relax.
Here's the plan: Each person/family gets one day of the vacation to cook (or buy pizza for the cooking impaired). :) We'll still get Mom's home cookin', but Mom will get a break as well.
Comment away!
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Jury Duty scam...watch out for this one
posted by GJ on December 19, 2005 @ 3:39PM
Here's a new twist scammers are using to commit identity theft: the jury duty scam. Here's how it works:
The scammer calls claiming to work for the local court and claims you've failed to report for jury duty. He tells you that a warrant has been issued for your arrest.
The victim will often rightly claim they never received the jury duty notification. The scammer then asks the victim for confidential information for "verification" purposes.
Specifically, the scammer asks for the victim's Social Security number, birth date, and sometimes even for credit card numbers and other private information -- exactly what the scammer needs to commit identity theft.
So far, this jury duty scam has been reported in Michigan, Ohio, Texas, Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Oregon and Washington state.
It's easy to see why this works. The victim is clearly caught off guard, and is understandably upset at the prospect of a warrant being issued for his or her arrest. So, the victim is much less likely to be vigilant about protecting their confidential information.
In reality, court workers will never call you to ask for social security numbers and other private information. In fact, most courts follow up via snail mail and rarely, if ever, call prospective jurors.
Preventative Action: Never give out your Social Security number, credit card numbers or other personal confidential information when you receive a telephone call. This jury duty scam is the latest in a series of identity theft scams where scammers use the phone to try to get people to reveal their Social Security number, credit card numbers or other personal confidential information. It doesn't matter "why" they are calling -- all the reasons are just different variants of the same scam.
Protecting yourself is simple: never give this info out when you receive a phone call. No matter WHO you think is on the line, NO ONE can ask for this kind of info over the phone when they've initiated the call.
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Carlin on driving
posted by GJ on December 19, 2005 @ 9:43AM
Have you ever noticed that when you're drivin', anyone goin' slower than you is an idiot? And anyone goin' faster than you is a maniac? "Will you look at this idiot!" [points right] "Look at him! Just creepin' along! [swings head left] "Look at that maniac go!" Why, I tell ya, folks, it's a wonder we ever get anywhere at all these days, what with all the idiots and maniacs out there. Because no one ever drives at my speed.
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Christmas arrivals/departures?
posted by Kristen on December 17, 2005 @ 10:53PM
Kristen's ETA: Wednesday before christmas around noon
ETD: December 30th around 7
How 'bout everybody else?
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Amusing
posted by GJ on December 16, 2005 @ 2:05PM
Thanks to our fear of death, no one ever has to die; they can all just pass away. Or expire, like a magazine subscription. If it happens in a hospital, it will be called a terminal episode. The insurance company will refer to it as negative patient-care outcome. And if it's the result of malpractice, they'll say it was a theraputic misadventure.
-George Carlin
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