no I did and have had my fill of gas!!! to many ties!!! I slowed a HOLE MOUTH FULL THE LAST TIME and had to go to the ER!!! wont ever do it agin!! my stomic is still not the same and that was 10 years ago now!!!
JUST the tought of it makes me fell like crap!!!! :lipsealed: :lipsealed: :lipsealed: :lipsealed: :lipsealed:
things are getting better, been a rough summer, shortly after dave passed away a good friend of ours from the campground died, we are getting back to normal little at a time, everyone pitched in and bought this bench in her memory, it's kept at the campground up at the store for people to sit on. she loved dragonflies :smile:
I'm sure you probably did...she was a permanent fixture around there, she was short like me but heavy set, there is a picture of her sitting on her golf cart in my photo slide on myspace.
For future reference for anyone with resizing photos: shareware called Irfanview - there is a free basic version - will take pictures and resize them into smaller file sizes but keeps the high quality resolution so the receiver can blow them back up again if they want and not lose any of the quality -
1. Fill up your car or truck in the morning when the temperature is still cool. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground; and the colder the ground, the denser the gasoline. When it gets warmer gasoline expands, so if you're filling up in the afternoon or in the evening, what should be a gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and temperature of the fuel (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products) are significant. Every truckload that we load is temperature-compensated so that the indicated gallonage is actually the amount pumped. A one-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for businesses, but service stations don't have temperature compensation at their pumps.
2. If a tanker truck is filling the station's tank at the time you want to buy gas, do not fill up; most likely dirt and sludge in the tank is being stirred up when gas is being delivered, and you might be transferring that dirt from the bottom of their tank into your car's tank.
3. Fill up when your ga s tank is half-full (or half-empty), because the more gas you have in your tank the less air there is and gasoline evaporates rapidly, especially when it's warm. (Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating 'roof' membrane to act as a barrier between the gas and the atmosphere, thereby minimizing evaporation.)
4. If you look at the trigger you'll see that it has three delivery settings: slow, medium and high. When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to the high setting. You should be pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapors created while you are pumping. Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as a return path for vapor recovery from gas that already has been metered. If you are pumping at the high setting, the agitated gasoline contains more vapor, which is being sucked back into the underground tank, so you're getting less gas for your money. Hope this will help ease your 'pain at the pump.
5. Do not top off your gas tank, when the pump shuts off, do not keep trying to add more gas..................a friend who owns a gas station says that by doing this, you are actually giving the next customer a $1.00 worth of gas. The gas you pump stays in the hose and never makes it to your tank
1. Bill Gates is not giving you $1000, and Disney is not giving you a free vacation, no one is giving away cases of free M & M's, the GAP is not giving away clothing.
There is no baby food company issuing class-action checks. MTV will not give you backstage passes if you forward something to the most people. You can relax; there is no need to pass it on "just in case it's true." Furthermore, just because someone said in the message, four generations back, that "we checked it out and it's legit," does not actually make it true.
2. There is no kidney theft ring in New Orleans. No one is waking up in a bathtub full of ice, even if a friend of a friend swears it happened to their cousin. If you are hell-bent on believing the kidney-theft ring stories, please see: http://urbanlegends.tqn.com/library/weekly/aa062997.htm
And I quote: "The National Kidney Foundation has repeatedly issued requests for actual victims of organ thieves to come forward and tell their stories. None have."That's "none " as in "zero." Not even your friend's cousin.
3. Neiman Marcus doesn't really sell a $200 cookie recipe. And even if they do, we all have it. And even if you don't, you can get a copy at:
Then, if you make the recipe and decide the cookies are that awesome, feel free to pass the formula on.
4. We all know all 500 ways to drive your roommates crazy, irritate co-workers, gross out bathroom stall neighbors and creep out people on an elevator. We also know exactly how many engineers, college students, Usenet posters and people from each and every world ethnicity it takes to change a light bulb.
5. If the latest NASA rocket disaster(s) DID contain plutonium that went to particulate over the eastern seaboard, do you REALLY think this information would reach the public via an AOL chain-letter?
6. There is no "Good Times " virus. In fact, you should never, ever, ever forward any email containing any virus warning unless you first confirm it at an actual site of an actual company that actually deals with viruses.
7. If your CC: list is regularly longer than the actual content of your message, you' re probably going to Hell.
8. If you're using Outlook, I.E., or Netscape to write email, turn off the "HTML encoding." Those of us on UNIX shells can't read it, and don't care enough to save the attachment and then view it with a web browser, since you 're probably forwarding us a copy of the Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe anyway.
9. If you still absolutely MUST forward that 10th-generation message showing everyone else who 's received it over the last 6 months. It sure wouldn't hurt to get rid of all the "" (or the <) that begin each line. Besides, if it has gone around that many times - we' ve probably already seen it. But PLEASE LEARN HOW TO COPY AND PASTE!!!!!
10. Craig Shergold (or Sherwood, or Sherman, etc.) in England is not dying of cancer or anything else at this time and would like everyone to stopsending him their business cards. He apparently is also no longer a "little boy" either.
11. The "Make a Wish " foundation is a real organization doing fine work, but they have had to establish a special toll free hotline in response to the large number of Internet hoaxes using their good name and reputation. It is distracting them from the important work they do.
12. If you are one of those insufferable idiots who forwards anything that promises "something bad will happen if you don't," then something bad will happen to you if I ever meet you in a dark alley!
13. Women really are suffering in Afghanistan, and PBS and NEA funding are still vulnerable to attack (although not at the present time) but forwarding an email won 't help either cause in the least. If you want to help, contact your local legislative representative, or get in touch with Amnesty International or the Red Cross. As a general rule, email "signatures" are easily faked and mean NOTHING to anyone with any power to do anything about whatever the petition is complaining about NOTHING!!!
If you really care, and you're not just trying to make yourself feel better when your server is down at work, then get the hell outdoors and start a REAL petition.
(PS - There is no bill pending before Congress that will allow long distance companies to charge you for long distance when using the Internet, nor for the Post Office to "tax " e-mails.)
Bottom Line ... composing e-mail or posting something on the Net is as easy as writing on the walls of a public restroom. Don't automatically believe it unless it's proven true... ASSUME it's false.
8. If you're using Outlook, I.E., or Netscape to write email, turn off the "HTML encoding." Those of us on UNIX shells can't read it, and don't care enough to save the attachment and then view it with a web browser, since you 're probably forwarding us a copy of the Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe anyway.
Wow, people actually use unix shells to read email? Gotta love command prompt!
Hidden inside Google Earth is a secret Flight Simulator that takes full advantage of GoogleÂ’s extensive satellite imagery.
To access the hidden feature, open Google Earth and hit Command+Option+A (note it must be capital A) or Ctrl+Alt+A if youÂ’re using a Windows Machine.
The Google Earth Flight Simulator comes with two aircraft options, a F16 Viper and the more manageable SR22 4 seater. Players have the option of commencing the game from their current location in Google Earth or can pick from a list of pre-determined runways. Control instructions can be found here. http://earth.google.com/intl/en/userguide/v4/flightsim/index.html
Overall the game play is fairly simple in terms of control, but the striking difference is flying over real pictures of locations. I took a quick flight from San Francisco International, headed North to the Golden Gate then turn back over the city before heading towards the Valley. It wasnÂ’t perfect, but it was as good visually as the paid Microsoft Flight Simulator, and in terms of actually presenting real objects it was better.
oh ya I am so going to bleave that!!! just because some guy got it to work on his computer!!! Ya shure lol I am giveing you a hard time!! lol I couldnt get it to work thow?? whats up with that???
you can take off from the msp airport, if you want to.... or even your own driveway/street..
just go to whatever location you want to, in google earth, and then open up the flight simulator... it gives you the option of taking off from your current position.
I recently came accross some foreign currency, and I have no idea what the value and/or exchang rate is for any of it...
It belonged to my dad, and he didnt do a very good job, on keeping track of where it was from, and how much it was/equals....
we tried to have Wells Fargo look at it, because they have a foreign currency deal at a few select branches, but no luck there... all they could do was tell us that some of them were too old, and not being used as a form of money any longer, and that Wells Fargo itself didnt have any further info.
we then stopped at a rare/collectible coin/money dealer/trader/buyer, and he took one glance at them, and said that they were too common, in the areas that they came from, so he would only pay us 3 cents apiece for them.....
we looked up a few of them online, and think a couple of them are worth a few hundred bucks.... but theres no way for us to tell for sure...
any help on this?
any idea of a place in the cities, where we could go, to get an honest answer, and/or exchange for some of them?
JUST the tought of it makes me fell like crap!!!! :lipsealed: :lipsealed: :lipsealed: :lipsealed: :lipsealed:
Things OK in the North Country?
things are getting better, been a rough summer, shortly after dave passed away a good friend of ours from the campground died, we are getting back to normal little at a time, everyone pitched in and bought this bench in her memory, it's kept at the campground up at the store for people to sit on. she loved dragonflies :smile:
hey ll- miss you both awefully... did I meet Mel? :frown: sorry bout your friend
Ask a Stupid Question Day takes place on September 28, it is usually observed on the last school day of September.
My sister sent me one that is 3.9MB.
I need it, and its accompanying e-mail text to be 3.0MB or less.
Thanks for any help you can give me with this.
Resize digital pictures quickly
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/photogallery.mspx
And this resizer is supposed to be Vista compatible.
http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/
This tip courtesy of my geeky IT past.
1. Fill up your car or truck in the morning when the temperature is still cool. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground; and the colder the ground, the denser the gasoline. When it gets warmer gasoline expands, so if you're filling up in the afternoon or in the evening, what should be a gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and temperature of the fuel (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products) are significant. Every truckload that we load is temperature-compensated so that the indicated gallonage is actually the amount pumped. A one-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for businesses, but service stations don't have temperature compensation at their pumps.
2. If a tanker truck is filling the station's tank at the time you want to buy gas, do not fill up; most likely dirt and sludge in the tank is being stirred up when gas is being delivered, and you might be transferring that dirt from the bottom of their tank into your car's tank.
3. Fill up when your ga s tank is half-full (or half-empty), because the more gas you have in your tank the less air there is and gasoline evaporates rapidly, especially when it's warm. (Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating 'roof' membrane to act as a barrier between the gas and the atmosphere, thereby minimizing evaporation.)
4. If you look at the trigger you'll see that it has three delivery settings: slow, medium and high. When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to the high setting. You should be pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapors created while you are pumping. Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as a return path for vapor recovery from gas that already has been metered. If you are pumping at the high setting, the agitated gasoline contains more vapor, which is being sucked back into the underground tank, so you're getting less gas for your money. Hope this will help ease your 'pain at the pump.
5. Do not top off your gas tank, when the pump shuts off, do not keep trying to add more gas..................a friend who owns a gas station says that by doing this, you are actually giving the next customer a $1.00 worth of gas. The gas you pump stays in the hose and never makes it to your tank
and they have that hot chick on there thats a vegan I hate the fact that she dosnt eat meat but hay to each there own!!!
There is no baby food company issuing class-action checks. MTV will not give you backstage passes if you forward something to the most people. You can relax; there is no need to pass it on "just in case it's true." Furthermore, just because someone said in the message, four generations back, that "we checked it out and it's legit," does not actually make it true.
2. There is no kidney theft ring in New Orleans. No one is waking up in a bathtub full of ice, even if a friend of a friend swears it happened to their cousin. If you are hell-bent on believing the kidney-theft ring stories, please see: http://urbanlegends.tqn.com/library/weekly/aa062997.htm
And I quote: "The National Kidney Foundation has repeatedly issued requests for actual victims of organ thieves to come forward and tell their stories. None have."That's "none " as in "zero." Not even your friend's cousin.
3. Neiman Marcus doesn't really sell a $200 cookie recipe. And even if they do, we all have it. And even if you don't, you can get a copy at:
http://www.bl.net/forwards/cookie.html
Then, if you make the recipe and decide the cookies are that awesome, feel free to pass the formula on.
4. We all know all 500 ways to drive your roommates crazy, irritate co-workers, gross out bathroom stall neighbors and creep out people on an elevator. We also know exactly how many engineers, college students, Usenet posters and people from each and every world ethnicity it takes to change a light bulb.
5. If the latest NASA rocket disaster(s) DID contain plutonium that went to particulate over the eastern seaboard, do you REALLY think this information would reach the public via an AOL chain-letter?
6. There is no "Good Times " virus. In fact, you should never, ever, ever forward any email containing any virus warning unless you first confirm it at an actual site of an actual company that actually deals with viruses.
Try: http://www.norton.com/ or http://www.kumite.com/ or http://www.kumite.com/
7. If your CC: list is regularly longer than the actual content of your message, you' re probably going to Hell.
8. If you're using Outlook, I.E., or Netscape to write email, turn off the "HTML encoding." Those of us on UNIX shells can't read it, and don't care enough to save the attachment and then view it with a web browser, since you 're probably forwarding us a copy of the Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe anyway.
9. If you still absolutely MUST forward that 10th-generation message showing everyone else who 's received it over the last 6 months. It sure wouldn't hurt to get rid of all the "" (or the <) that begin each line. Besides, if it has gone around that many times - we' ve probably already seen it. But PLEASE LEARN HOW TO COPY AND PASTE!!!!!
10. Craig Shergold (or Sherwood, or Sherman, etc.) in England is not dying of cancer or anything else at this time and would like everyone to stopsending him their business cards. He apparently is also no longer a "little boy" either.
11. The "Make a Wish " foundation is a real organization doing fine work, but they have had to establish a special toll free hotline in response to the large number of Internet hoaxes using their good name and reputation. It is distracting them from the important work they do.
12. If you are one of those insufferable idiots who forwards anything that promises "something bad will happen if you don't," then something bad will happen to you if I ever meet you in a dark alley!
13. Women really are suffering in Afghanistan, and PBS and NEA funding are still vulnerable to attack (although not at the present time) but forwarding an email won 't help either cause in the least. If you want to help, contact your local legislative representative, or get in touch with Amnesty International or the Red Cross. As a general rule, email "signatures" are easily faked and mean NOTHING to anyone with any power to do anything about whatever the petition is complaining about NOTHING!!!
If you really care, and you're not just trying to make yourself feel better when your server is down at work, then get the hell outdoors and start a REAL petition.
(PS - There is no bill pending before Congress that will allow long distance companies to charge you for long distance when using the Internet, nor for the Post Office to "tax " e-mails.)
Bottom Line ... composing e-mail or posting something on the Net is as easy as writing on the walls of a public restroom. Don't automatically believe it unless it's proven true... ASSUME it's false.
Wow, people actually use unix shells to read email? Gotta love command prompt!
I especially like
To access the hidden feature, open Google Earth and hit Command+Option+A (note it must be capital A) or Ctrl+Alt+A if youÂ’re using a Windows Machine.
The Google Earth Flight Simulator comes with two aircraft options, a F16 Viper and the more manageable SR22 4 seater. Players have the option of commencing the game from their current location in Google Earth or can pick from a list of pre-determined runways. Control instructions can be found here.
http://earth.google.com/intl/en/userguide/v4/flightsim/index.html
Overall the game play is fairly simple in terms of control, but the striking difference is flying over real pictures of locations. I took a quick flight from San Francisco International, headed North to the Golden Gate then turn back over the city before heading towards the Valley. It wasnÂ’t perfect, but it was as good visually as the paid Microsoft Flight Simulator, and in terms of actually presenting real objects it was better.
or try
Ctrl-Windows-A
KC!!---have you ever seen this b-4???
I havent...looks really cool.
http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/applet/index.html
couldn't keep it flying...but I got it to work
crashed about 5 times....I managed to crash into some golfcourse in oakland, ca.
just go to whatever location you want to, in google earth, and then open up the flight simulator... it gives you the option of taking off from your current position.
I recently came accross some foreign currency, and I have no idea what the value and/or exchang rate is for any of it...
It belonged to my dad, and he didnt do a very good job, on keeping track of where it was from, and how much it was/equals....
we tried to have Wells Fargo look at it, because they have a foreign currency deal at a few select branches, but no luck there... all they could do was tell us that some of them were too old, and not being used as a form of money any longer, and that Wells Fargo itself didnt have any further info.
we then stopped at a rare/collectible coin/money dealer/trader/buyer, and he took one glance at them, and said that they were too common, in the areas that they came from, so he would only pay us 3 cents apiece for them.....
we looked up a few of them online, and think a couple of them are worth a few hundred bucks.... but theres no way for us to tell for sure...
any help on this?
any idea of a place in the cities, where we could go, to get an honest answer, and/or exchange for some of them?
I dated a guy (who I'm still on good terms with) that happens to be a huge geek on coins/bills etc.
Not only would he love a call from me, but I'm sure he'd love to give his thoughts to the matter, as this is how he spends his weekends.
(and from that last sentence you can see why we are no longer together)