Category: Random Stuff

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how time has changed

As I walked around the mall and stores today it is surprising at what people do. Most people I saw were walking around with the cell phone affixed to their head. The funny ones were the man/woman couple’s that were walking together talking on their own phones to who ever. (would have been pretty funny if they were talking to each other.) Then there are the parents that are taking their kids around to shop. Everything from the very young to the teen ager’s. Considering it was only 30° yet, they let their kids be out in shorts and tshirts with no jackets. Then you hear them coughing and hacking their heads off while they are walking behind you.

The next funny thing is seeing a woman that was about 400 lbs wearing a t-shirt that said “to hot to love”. Turned around and saw another very large woman with a sweatshirt that had murder spelled backwards on it. Not sure what that meant.

If I only had a camera with me, it would have been a sight to see.

And the final thing, if you are the owner of a big box store, and have 20+ checkout lanes, and there are more than 3 people in each line, please freaking open more than 4 lines for people to check out in. (cough walmart cough)

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Lego as collector items

Once a kid always a kid…. I have liked Lego’s ever since I can remember getting my first set way long time ago.. So I was out looking at amazon to see what they have come up with now days. To my surprise I saw a couple of sets that I have gotten recently. It seems that they are no longer sold by lego, and therefore are extremely expensive collector items… The plane I got at a local Target a year or so ago, at the time it was $49.99.. Now it is selling on amazon for yes, $329.99.. The train set, I recieved as a gift… It is now $300.00. I thought amazon was screwed up so I went around and looked at some other sites, and they too list these items for that much. and to prove it seeing is believing:

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not even done looking yet, and found the same plane offered by the same third party people for $699.99 wow, just wow… $700.00 for something that not a year ago was $49.99. And in the 2 minutes it took me to type this and do another search for the train, it went up almost $200. It is now $499.99.

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Checkfree hacked?

As I was going through mail tonight, gmail had marked this message as spam, but it appears as though something actually happened and checkfree lost control of its domain for a while…..

We take great care to keep your personal information secure. As part of these ongoing efforts, we are notifying you that the computer you use for online bill payment may have been exposed to software that puts the security of your computer’s contents at risk. This letter will help you determine if your computer is actually infected and advise you how to fix the problem and protect yourself against future risk.

The malicious software affects some but not all customers who accessed online bill payment on Tuesday, December 2, 2008. For a limited period of time, some customers were redirected from the authentic bill payment service to another site that may have installed malicious software. Your computer may be infected if all of the following are true:

  • You attempted to access online bill payment between 12:30 a.m. and 10:10 a.m. Eastern time (GMT -5) on Tuesday, December 2, 2008, and
  • You were using a computer with the Windows operating system, and
  • You reached a blank screen rather than the usual bill payment screen when you attempted to navigate to online bill payment, and
  • After reaching the blank screen, your computer’s virus protection program did not tell you via pop-up or other messaging that malicious software was detected and quarantined.

If all four of the conditions above are true, your computer may be infected. We have partnered with McAfee, the world’s largest dedicated security technology company, to provide you with a complimentary copy of its VirusScan Plus software which, when installed, will detect, block and remove any malicious software from your computer hard drive. Please contact us at 877-800-4864 for further instructions or 800-564-9184 (Option 1) for further instructions. We will also offer you both advice and free services that can help you mitigate any risk you may face as a result of this incident or other everyday exposures you may encounter.

CheckFree will never ask for your password via email or via phone.  If you ever receive an email requesting your password, do not respond and delete the email immediately.

We value your business and your trust, and we apologize for any inconvenience this incident has caused.

Thank you,

Art D’Angelo
Vice President, CheckFree Customer Operations

More links that I found:
Online Payment Site Hijacked By Notorious Crime Gang

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More bars in more places…. but only if it is an urban place

Since having my cell phone switched to AT&T, I have noticed more problems that when I had US Cellular. Now while driving up the interstate the signal goes up and down, sometimes cutting out completely. In fact at home my signal goes between 1 and 2 bars… US Cellular at least had 4 or 5.. So everytime I see one of those commercials, it just makes me mad, as unless you are in a highly populated area, your stuck with the same old crappy coverage that Cellular One had before AT&T bought them out. The only good thing about the new one, is that the GPS works in it with Google Maps. But other than that, the internet access is slow, calls dropped and the coverage sucks.

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Mail Pouch Barn

On my way home from seeing my mom in the hospital, I decided to take the back road (US19) instead of the highway (I79). On the way home I saw this…. Not to many of these exist any more.. But there were two on the road home. This one is kept up a little more than the other one had been.

Mail Pouch Barn