Monday, December 22, 2014

Quotes About The Internet

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The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. ~John Allen Paulos


The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. ~Jon Stewart


Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. ~Mitch Kapor, variation of a quote by Jerome Weisner (Getting an education from MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.)


The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. ~Bill Gates


Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks. ~Author Unknown


National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway. ~Tim May


Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. ~Al-Waleed bin Talal


Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the Net, it looks like very soon everyone on Earth will have 15 megabytes of fame. ~M.G. Sriram


A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click. ~Author Unknown


What, exactly, is the Internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a "modem" can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo. ~Dave Barry


I have an almost religious zeal — not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up. ~Dan Millman


The Internet isn't free. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism. ~Brad Shapcott


While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our config.sys settings. ~Dave Barry


The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. ~Andrew Brown


Internet: absolute communication, absolute isolation. ~Paul Carvel


Emails we can read, say no to 'send a receipt', mark as unread, categorise, label and put in a folder whilst drinking tea and thinking about other things. It's hard work making the right noises and facial expressions in response to an in-person reminder. ~Neil Cottingham


Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar. ~George Lundberg


Television to brainwash us all and Internet to eliminate any last resistance. ~Paul Carvel


Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life. ~Bill Clinton


One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data. ~Jared Sandberg


We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. ~Robert Wilensky, 1996


You can't take something off the Internet — it's like taking pee out of a pool. ~Author Unknown, 1995


The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation. ~Vinton Cerf


Hooked on Internet? Help is a just a click away. ~Author Unknown


Entire new continents can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the Department of Motor Vehicles. ~Dave Barry, Dave Barry in Cyberspace


The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. ~Rupert Murdoch


The advent of electronic mail is fostering a revival of "the familiar letter." ~Author Unknown


The Internet is clearly about more than sports scores and email now. It's a place where we can conduct our democracy and get very large amounts of data to very large numbers of people. ~Frank James


My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. ~Penn Jillett



 

The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each other. ~Dave Barry


The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. ~Eric Schmidt


The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. ~Clifford Stoll


Warning: the Internet may contain traces of nuts. ~Author Unknown


Twitter is just a multiplayer notepad. ~Ben Maddox


The big dispute between the government and Microsoft concerns the Internet "browser," which is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later. As you can imagine, the potential market for this service is huge, so Microsoft would like you to use its browser, and not somebody else's. ~Dave Barry, 1998


Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. ~Vinton Cerf


Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy. ~Clement Mok


The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ~Dave Barry


What do you call a doctor that fixes websites? A URLologist. ~Author Unknown


The Internet is the most powerful magnifier of slack ever invented. ~Author Unknown


Almost overnight, the Internet's gone from a technical wonder to a business must. ~Bill Schrader


Laying in bed this morning contemplating how amazing it would be if somehow Oscar Wilde and Mae West could twitter from the grave. ~Dita Von Teese


Cutting through the acronyms and argot that littered the hearing testimony, the Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the CDA, interrupt that conversation. ~Stewart Dalzell, ruling on the constitutionality of the Communications Decency Act, 1996


The Net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it. ~John Gilmore, 1993


#undernocircumstances shud sum1 feel its ok 2 tlk lik this. You have 140 characters. Use them and stop typing like you're illiterate. ~@Lord_Voldemort7


A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the Universe and move bits of it about. ~Douglas Adams


The Internet interprets the US Congress as system damage and routes around it. ~Jeanne DeVoto, take-off on a quote by John Gilmore


I believe that social media's greatest gift is in providing every person the forum to be themselves, speak their heart & soul. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


The Internet is full. Go away. ~Author Unknown


If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. ~Rob Stampfli


A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn. ~Dave Barry


If you have a web site, it makes your small business look big. ~Natalie Sequera


The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things — of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language. ~Jim Clark


The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. ~Esther Dyson


The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. ~William Gibson


Every bit of software wants you to be "social." What ever happened to being grumpy and alone in your writer's fugue? ~Doug Green


On Twitter we get excited if someone follows us. In real life we get really scared and run away. ~Author Unknown


No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't. ~Don Rittner


There are 5,000 great people for every jerk on Usenet. But that still is a lot of jerks. Proceed with caution and eyes wide open. ~Don Rittner


The greatest thing about the internet is that you can quote something and just totally make up the source. ~Benjamin Franklin


The problem with internet quotes is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy. ~Abraham Lincoln


I'm a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist. ~Richard Turner (1937-2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon, a.k.a. "The Mudge" (2009 tweet)


A bird's song is beautiful, but if it never stops you feel like shooting it. ~Laura Ainsley, on over-zealous tweeting


[W]e're into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history. ~Bill Clinton


The only social networking I did this weekend was with my family. I actually let the battery on my laptop completely die. ~Betsy CaƱas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2009 tweet, @wildthyme)


A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. ~Denise Caruso, about the Internet


And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing. ~Scott Adams


First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure. ~Douglas Adams


I had a life once... now I have a computer. ~Author Unknown


Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. ~Andy Grove


Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles. ~Paul A. Samuelson


The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u. ~Anna Quindlen


When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page. ~Bill Clinton, 1996


Using Twitter like a dandelion uses the wind... Spreading messages, not exactly knowing where they might go, some taking roots and blossoming, some making a adventurous journey through the air but not falling on fertile ground. So what? A process of beauty and joy. ~Detlef Cordes, detlefcordes.org


The message for business people contemplating their place in cyberspace is simple and direct: get linked or get lost. ~Vic Sussman and Kenan Pollack


On the internet even our privacy is public. ~Terri Guillemets


I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society. ~Scott Adams


In cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. ~John Perry Barlow


As of now, the Internet preserves our right to access all lawful content and software without interference. In other words, the Web is a level playing field: you can read, watch, play, browse and share on the same terms as everybody else. That level playing field — or "Net Neutrality" — is under threat. If we stand by, the Internet could become increasingly closed, centrally controlled and designed to serve the few instead of the many. It's up to us to protect the open Web. That's where you come in. Now more than ever, we need to come together as a community, with a unified voice and solution, to protect the world's largest public resource. ~Mozilla, 2014


In the next few days, the House of Representatives is going to vote on a bill that would fundamentally alter the Internet. That bill, and one that may come up for a key vote in the Senate in the next few weeks, would give the big phone and cable companies the power to pick and choose what you will be able to see and do on the Internet. Today the Internet is an information highway where anybody — no matter how large or small, how traditional or unconventional — has equal access. But the phone and cable monopolies, who control almost all Internet access, want the power to choose who gets access to high-speed lanes and whose content gets seen first and fastest. They want to build a two-tiered system and block the on-ramps for those who can't pay. ~Eric Schmidt, "A Note to Google Users on Net Neutrality," Summer 2006


Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle a thing that flies. ~John Lester


A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


I am at a loss to figure out how to rid my e-mail of those bottom-feeders of the electronic world, the generators of spam.... If I were Emperor of the World, I would lock all the spammers in a room and force them to watch nothing but TV commercials for the rest of their miserable lives, and I would condemn the people who respond to spammers to do nothing but clean the toilets in this room. ~Richard Turner (1937-2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon, a.k.a. "The Mudge," from "The Curmudgeon Sounds Off: A Plague of Spam"


The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn't excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws. The problem is that it was devised by a bunch of hippie anarchists. ~Thomas Nolle


There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. ~Guy Almes


The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity. ~Patrick Murray


YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, are merging. The new program will be called YouTwitFace. ~Author Unknown


Internet users are flocking to the Vatican's new website (so they say). It turns out though, that most visitors are there to confess after visiting the Cindy Crawford site. Now, the faithful don't have to kiss the Pope's ring — you just double click on it. ~Author Unknown


If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check. ~Dan Quayle, attributed


A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


The Internet is the trailer park for the soul. ~Marilyn Manson


The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.) ~Steven Levy, 1997


The Internet is a shallow and unreliable electronic repository of dirty pictures, inaccurate rumors, bad spelling and worse grammar, inhabited largely by people with no demonstrable social skills. ~Author Unknown


We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people. ~Pierre Omidyar


America Online customers are upset because the company has decided to allow advertising in its chat rooms. I can see why: you've got computer sex, you can download pornography, people are making dates with 10-year-olds. Hey, what's this? A Pepsi ad? They're ruining the integrity of the Internet! ~Jay Leno


I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss. ~Dave Barry


Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos... two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished. ~Clifford Stoll


Chances are, you now know that the marriage of the computer and the telephone is one of the century's seismic technical and economic developments. In terms of potential social and economic impact, it is often likened to the introduction of assembly-line manufacturing or to the invention of the computer itself. ~Author Unknown


As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion. ~Stewart Dalzell

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer - Rankin Bass - What a Wonderful Classic, A Breakthrough in 1964 for Stop Motion Animation !

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer - Rankin Bass - What a Wonderful Classic, A Breakthrough in 1964 for Stop Motion Animation !



Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer by SantaKlaws

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Greetings from Bergen County : Ridgewood, New Jersey Vintage Postcard Collection

Greetings from Bergen County : Ridgewood, New Jersey Vintage Postcard Collection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE6VTG54f3s

Monday, September 22, 2014

Panasonic LX100 first impressions review and 4K footage -



http://www.eoshd.com/2014/09/panasonic-lx100-first-impressions-review-4k-footage/

For those who find video very lacking on small cameras especially the Fuji X100S and X100T, Panasonic now have a high end retro-styled compact with 4K video.
The sensor and EVF come from the GX7, which in turn is quite close to the GH4 in performance terms. We are talking a gigantic sensor here for a compact, larger even than the 1″ sensor of the Sony RX100 M3. As well as a large sensor, the camera packs a large aperture Leica 24-75mm which opens to an impressive F1.7 at the wide end.
This adds a premium zoom lens to your small-camera-large-sensor arsenal whereas the X100T only has a fixed focal length prime.
One of the most frequented cameras at Photokina by visitors was the LX100. Indeed the busiest stalls were all set up around 4K video at their core. Sony, Samsung and Panasonic all pushing it hard, Fuji, Canon, Olympus and Nikon not. It’s interesting to note that all the camera manufacturers pushing 4K have 4K TVs on the market which are now accessibly priced for most consumers and the cameras should encourage uptake of those. I recently saw a Sony 4K on the high-street in Berlin for 1300 euros, hardly any more than a higher end 1080p set.
The LX100 is a perfect travel camera, something you can shoot 4K on with the minimum of fuss, get back and watch it on your 4K TV. As a result of 4K video the camera captures all pixels to record video and that improves all aspects of the image not just resolution. Thanks to large sensors in stills cameras doing 4K video, those 4K TVs will be done justice to with a wider dynamic range and more natural colour from cameras like the GH4 and LX100.
Panasonic LX100
Olympus did not allude to any 4K this year and their stand certainly wasn’t the busiest. Fuji rolled out the X100T with the same old lens as the other models, but the X-T1 does look lovely in grey. Canon has no 4K solution under $10k and the one they do have (1D C) has not sold very well. Nikon have no 4K solution to speak of. It’s just odd!
Along with retro styling the LX100 also has a Leica D-LUX variant which costs a surprisingly small amount extra by the usual Leica standards. Compared to the Sony RX100 M3 the LX100 has a significantly larger sensor and lower megapixel count. This makes for better low light performance and a shallower depth of field. It’s the only camera of its kind to shoot 4K video whereas the RX100 M3 only shoots 1080p XAVC-S at 50Mbit. The 4K codec on the LX100 has double that bitrate.
The Panasonic LX100 costs just $899 (pre-order at B&H). This is very democratising. Soon everyone will be casually shooting 4K, and those left shooting 1080p on older Canon and Nikon cameras will be missing out on the better quality.
Even if you feel you “don’t need 4K” you do actually need 4K if you want high quality 1080p. With 4K on the LX100 and GH4 you don’t lose a huge amount of the image through line-skipping or pixel binning. On an iMac 27″ screen for example, line-skipped 1080p looks extremely soft full screen, whilst 4K from the LX100 looks like oversampled pin-sharp 2.5K at the native screen resolution and on a Macbook 15″ Retina display it looks incredibly detailed and retina-standard.
I use small cameras a lot alongside my iPhone for casual shooting and visual documenting. The LX100 appears to satisfy my yearning for a high quality small camera, and a ‘pocket GH4′ I can take anywhere for 4K video and stills. The Sony RX1 I have used a lot and although that is full frame with a lovely Zeiss 35mm F2.0 the video quality is a long way of the A7S to say the least.
I hesitate to call the LX100 a ‘compact’ because about the only thing it shares with a traditional compact is size. The performance of the LX100 and image quality makes it worth thinking twice about taking snaps on an iPhone. The sensor is DSLR-class, the EVF mirrorless class and the lens frankly a class of its own. If sold separately for Micro Four Thirds it would be a premium offering with a premium price. I found the performance of the Leica zoom to be superb, in keeping with the recent Panasonic-Leica 15mm F1.7 for Micro Four Thirds it is pin sharp wide open and offers punchy colour. Bokeh is pronounced and creamy.
LX100 Leica lens bokeh
The camera goes easily into a jacket pocket. The EVF on the LX100 is excellent given the challenges posed to the viewfinder by such an extreme miniaturisation effort. I believe it is the GX7’s EVF transplanted into the new smaller body. I found it to be functionally good but not quite as comfortable to use for long periods at a time compared to the larger one in the GH4. The new Panasonic GM5 has a much smaller EVF, so given the LX100 is only fractionally larger they have done well to fit the GX7’s EVF inside.
The LX100 has a dopalganger in the D-LUX Typ 109. Essentially the same cameras but for a different front and rear grip, subtle body styling differences and square Leica-M style buttons on the back instead of round Lumix ones. Here are the differences side by side at the back –
LX100 and Leica D-Lux Typ 109
The LX100 has a 4K Photo Mode for stills photographers to use 4K as a capture format in their work.
The mode can record continuously or in a mode which keeps the last 15 minutes and deletes the rest on a rolling basis. This is great for storm chasers and sports shooters, or for capturing unpredictable things like lightning strikes. The camera will get the shot and you don’t have to worry about timing, simply stop capturing once you have what you want. Then you can cut down the amount of post work dramatically with a simplified way to grab 8.3MP stills from the 4K capture feed in multiple aspect ratios.
Normal 4K video has a 2160 line resolution but the multi-aspect ratio sensor in the LX100 allows a greater vertical recording area to be used with taller aspect ratios. It doesn’t merely crop the sides. 1:1 extends vertical resolution to an enormous 2880 lines. That’s almost 3x the resolution of 1080 full HD.
Multiple aspect ratios like 4:3 and 3:2 will also be of interest to filmmakers using anamorphic lenses.
The 4K Photo Mode has 30p and 25p but not yet 24p (it might be added in a firmware update later). The thinking behind this is stills will often be shot at high shutter speeds to avoid blurry frames, and 30p syncs to 60hz lights in NTSC regions, whilst 25p syncs to 50hz in PAL regions to avoid flicker. So 24p is not there for the fact that stills shooters don’t need it in a 4K Photo Mode. Anamorphic shooters and filmmakers do, and on that subject Panasonic are listening intently in particular Matt Frazer at Panasonic US.
The general responsiveness and layout of the camera is good, though the video button is quite close to your nose when shooting through the EVF. It’s a small camera and sometimes feels a bit cramped but generally it is lovely to use, especially the retro Fuii X series style top plate with shutter speed dial. The styling and looks of the camera makes it easy to mistake for a Leica, the silver version in particular.
The lens has a nice manual focus ring and focus aids are very effective like on the GH4. Peaking and a high quality magnified focus assist windowed or full screen are very useful. Like the previous LX cameras there’s an aspect ratio switch on the top of the lens housing, allowing you to make use of the multi-aspect ratio sensor.
When I have had a meaningful amount of time with the camera I’ll bring you a full review. The camera is due to hit the streets in late October / early November.

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

“Good Old Days” Syndrome

http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/do-you-have-glory-day-syndrome/

good old days
Recently I was contacted by some old friends that I had not seen or heard from in about 36 years. Oh the power of the web! As we talked, I began to realize that they might be victims of what I like to refer to as Glory Day Syndrome, which is basically a nostalgic longing for the so called “good old days.” I started to think about the limiting effects of this condition, and to wonder how many of our readers might be struggling with it as well.

Longing for those good old days

Do you remember an old Bruce Springsteen song called Glory Days? The lyrics tell the tale of three people who look back on times gone by with longing. Why? Because their current situation is disappointing and doesn’t measure up to the good old days. The last verse goes like this:
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
a little of the glory of, well time slips away
and leaves you with nothing mister but
boring stories of glory days

It can happen to anyone!

In the song there are three completely different scenarios. The first guy was a star baseball player back in high school. Many years later, that’s what he still likes to talk about. The second was a woman who was very popular and could “turn all the boys heads” when she was in school. Now she is divorced with kids and verydisappointed by her situation, so she talks about the good old days.
The third guy is a little different. He worked on an assembly line at Ford for twenty years and never had any glory days. In retrospect, his life seems boring without any real highlights to look back on in his old age.

Can you relate to any of these scenarios?

For many, life just hasn’t lived up to their expectations. They started out excited,energetic, and full of hope, and ended up feeling disappointed and let down. So what is it that allows others to feel totally excited by life and looking forward to each new day instead of thinking about those so long lost good old days?
Circumstances can certainly have a huge effect, but that’s not the answer. The way we know this is that many people are able to rise above the worst kind of circumstances and still maintain a positive, optimistic view of life. So there must be other factors involved.

What Glory Day Syndrome is not!

Hopefully, we all have fond memories associated with different times of our lives, times that stood out as special. We think of those times with great fondness and we enjoy reflecting on them. This is normal and healthy, even comforting. It is not Glory Day Syndrome unless we feel that life is not now, or will it ever be that good again.
As long as we can continue to look forward to tomorrow with a positive sense of eager anticipation then we are fine. In this case, our good old days are just the really memorable parts of our living experience. But our focus is still in the here and now, and we expect each coming day to be a positive and worthwhile experience.

OK, so what is it?

It’s all about where we choose to put our focus. If we are so emotionally invested in the past that it prevents us from seeing and appreciating the wonderment of our present life, then we’ve got glory day syndrome.
Imagine being on a journey and spending all your time looking in the rear-view mirror. Instead of seeing what’s all around, you would only see what is behind you. Instead of anticipating what is beyond the next bend, your view would only include the past. We all glance in the rear-view mirror from time to time, but our focus should be on where we are now, and where we are headed.

You can never go back

The past is exactly that, past. In other words, it’s gone and it’s not coming back. You can revisit the people and places, but you cannot relive the experience in the same way. We grow and change. Life is not static, and as the saying goes – time waits for no one.
Don’t waste today longing for yesterday. Make today your good old days and adopt the attitude that the best is still ahead. How can you do that?

Learning keeps life exciting

Our potential to learn and experience new things is almost inexhaustible. When our mind gets bored, our life turns boring and there is a tendency to think back to more exciting times. So make today exciting by learning new things. What have you always wanted to do? Well, stop wanting and start doing.

Create the life you want to live

There is no time to bust out of a rut like right now. Just because things have been a certain way for a long while doesn’t mean that they can’t change. You can change almost anything you want to, and you can start right now.
If you feel that you lack the skills to make serious changes in your life, don’t let that stop you. I created Find Your TRUE SELF to quickly teach you everything you need to know to completely transform your life. So please, don’t allow the lack of a few simple skills to stand between you and a life you can get excited about.
Glory Day Syndrome is curable. All it takes is a shift in focus and a strong shot of motivation. Why would we want to keep looking behind us when tomorrow can be used to realize today’s dreams? I tell you with absolute certainty that if you want it, then the best is yet to come.
Do you know someone with glory day syndrome?
How do you feel about change?
The lines are open!

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

1986: Jonathan Winters and Robin Williams improvise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDJjq0Pd0RM




Palisades Amusement Park: A Century of Fond Memories

http://www.palisadespark.com/index.php


Originally published in 1995, Palisades Amusement Park: A Century of Fond Memoriesbecame the fastest seller in the history of Rutgers University Press. It has been unavailable for several years. This best selling book is finally back and now available in a soft cover edition. 

With its two hundred pages and a foreword by the legendary Cousin Bruce Morrow, this oversized coffee table book captures every fond memory of the famous New Jersey fun spot: the vinegar-soaked french fries, the Tunnel of Love, the world's largest outdoor salt water pool, and so much more.

This newly revised edition includes an all new Photo Scrapbook... 20 new pages with over 100 new photographs. The book also features an introduction to the soft cover edition and updated information throughout the book to make this the most comprehensive work ever on the history of Palisades Amusement Park.


In the foreword of the book, Cousin Brucie recalls, "Palisades was an integral part of our lives. Anybody who has played, visited, or been touched by this magical kingdom retains the glow from a very special relationship." For those who ever visited Palisades Amusement Park, this book is sure to bring back those cherished remembrances. 

And for those never lucky enough to have entered its colorful gates, Palisades Amusement Park: A Century of Fond Memories will recreate the thrills, laughter and joy that was Palisades. This book will make the perfect gift for anyone on your gift list.

Saturday, July 12, 2014

How do I adjust house door so that striker plate & deadbolt are in alignment?

How do I adjust house door so that striker plate & deadbolt are in alignment?

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070902194147AAZWJ5C

Best Answer
  • Rich Z answered 7 years ago
You would be better off adjusting the striker plate instead of the door. Stand where you can see where the bolt hits the striker plate. Make a Sharpie marker line there. That shows how far off the two parts that are supposed to mate are.

Let's say that the bolt is hitting the plate 1/8" too high. Then what you will need to do is raise the plate at least that 1/8" higher. The easiest way is to take off the striker plate and look at the recess it is mounted in. Now use a chisel to enlarge that recess on the top edge so that the plate can be mounted on the door frame that much higher.

Before you screw the plate down, double check how the door bolt and late will touch after raising the plate to the top of the new recess. If it is good then drill holes through the frame where the plate's screws will go and attach the plate with screws. Changing that plate location is usually easier than filing the opening in the striker plate to let the bolt pass into it without interference. But if the difference is small that might be easier.

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Don't mess with the panels and their hinges. They are harder to get correct if you alter them.
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  • donmohan2 answered 7 years ago
    Before you try anything complicated or start cutting things, do this:

    Remove the top screw from the top hinge of the door you have to lift. Replace that screw with a 3 inch long screw, driven TIGHT into the stud behind the door frame.

    Usually that's enough to bring a sagging door into alignment.

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    I'm a retired locksmith
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  • tablesawtom answered 7 years ago
    My guess is either the screws in the hinge are loose if the bolt/striker plate used to line up or if they never did the hinges are installed at different depths in their mortise (recess).

    Open the door and tighten the hinge screws on both the door & jamb. Does that help?
    If you need more adjustment, make some cardboard (cereal boxes work well) shims using the hinge as a pattern. If the bolt hits too low put some shims behind the lower hinge. If it hits too high, put them behind the upper hinge instead.

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  • I am, I said answered 7 years ago
    I would look very closely at where the bolt is hitting the strike plate...usually it is only slighty off due to normal shifting of the house/door frame.

    You said you have to lift the door to lock it, so I am thinking you can enlarge the opening in the strike plate slightly with a round metal file on the bottom edge of the opening.
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  • Chi-TwnZ Fynest! answered 7 years ago
    most of the time it is as simple as tightening the screws on both sides of the hinges....BUT, depending on how old the house is and how long the door has been there, it could just be out of line with the sagging and settling of the house, which is normal

Thursday, May 8, 2014

"Ogilvyisms"- Quotations from David Ogilvy


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"Ogilvyisms"- Quotations from David Ogilvy


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Never write an advertisement that you wouldn't want your own family to read.


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We pursue knowledge the way a pig pursues truffles.


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If you hire people who are bigger than you are, we shall become a company of giants.


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Encourage innovation. Change is our life blood, stagnation is our death knell.


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We prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anarchy of ignorance.


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Tolerate genius.


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Unless your advertising is built on a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night.


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Get rid of sad dogs who spread gloom.


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I believe in the Scottish proverb: Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom. They do not die of hard work.


10.


You cannot bore people into buying your product; you can only interest them in buying it.


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The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure you can live happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.


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No manufacturer ever got rich by underpaying his agency. Pay peanuts and you get monkeys.


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Hire the kind of people clients don't have and wouldn't dream of having.


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If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out - either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time.


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Do not summon people to your office. It frightens them. Instead go to see them in their offices.


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You aren't advertising to a standing army; you are advertising to a moving parade.


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I despise toadies who suck up to their bosses; they are generally the same people who bully their subordinates.


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I admire people with gentle manners who treat other people as human beings.


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Look for people who aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.


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The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything. She wants all the information you can give her.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

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Thursday, March 20, 2014

7 IRS Website Tools That Could Save You Time And Money

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7 IRS Website Tools That Could Save You Time And Money


7 IRS Website Tools That Could Save You Time And Money


According to Ben Franklin, nothing in this world is certain but death and taxes. Well, I can’t help you avoid death, but I can try to give you a hand with your taxes.
Taxes no matter where you live, are a real burden. Unless of course you live somewhere where you don’t have to pay any income tax, in which case please tell me where you live so I can move there. Taxes in the U.S. are especially frustrating. There are just so many forms, so many laws and so many potential loopholes and pitfalls. It’s tempting to just give up and pay someone to do your taxes for you.
Well, if you’re a U.S. citizen and you’re diligently slaving away over your taxes, I have a few important online IRS tools to share with you that could make your job a whole lot easier.

1. Interactive Tax Assistant

Often, people come across issues in life that create complicated tax concerns, so they give up and just pay someone else to do their taxes. But if you only have one or two of those issues to deal with, the Interactive Tax Assistant may be all you need to get through.
The ITA is set up like a FAQ, with common questions covering four major areas — general filing questions, deductions, credits and income.  When you click on a question, the site launches a wizard that takes you through a series of questions, and finally provides you with an answer about what forms you need to fill out for that particular issue.
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The great thing about the ITA tool is that it’ll make you realize that seemingly complicated tax issues aren’t that confusing as you thought. All it takes is a little bit of time to work your way through the ITA wizard, and you’re good to go!

2. Free File Fillable Forms & Free Tax Software

One tool that the IRS folks link to throughout the IRS website is something called Free File. Free File is awesome for anyone earning a gross income of less than $58,000 in 2013, because it gives you free access to a commercial tax filing software to do your taxes.

Do you make too much to qualify? Have no fear — you still have access to the Free File Formswebsite, where you can fill out an online “fillable form” and then submit it to the IRS at no charge.
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This is for people who have a pretty simple return. Maybe you have one job and not enough deductions to really itemize anything. Fill out one of the simple 1040 online forms at the site, submit to the IRS and your taxes are done. Easy peazy!

3. IRS2Go Mobile App

Who ever said the IRS is old and staunchy? Hey, they’ve got a mobile app for taxes. What could be cooler than that? It’s called IRS2GO and it allows you to check the current status of your refund. Even if the refund hasn’t been issued yet, you can see where it is in the process.
This works much better if you file your taxes electronically, which only takes 24 hours to enter into the status tracker system. If you file a paper return it can take up to four weeks to enter into the system (which is rather useless, really).
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Other things you can do with this app is request a transcript of your account for past tax years (the transcript gets mailed out); locate a IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE) service near you. You can get free tax help if you qualify, and you can also use the app to watch IRS YouTube videos and follow its Twitter stream. A tax Twitter feed…exciting, I know.
Get the IRS2GO app at the iTunes app store, or on Google Play.

4. Where Is My Refund

Have you been sitting around for weeks after electronically submitting your tax return, waiting patiently for your refund check, with no sign of it anywhere? Well, have no fear, the IRS now offers a quick and simple form on its website where you can quickly check on the status of your refund check.
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All you have to do is type in your social security number, the filing status that you used when you did your taxes the year you’re looking up, and the exact refund amount as calculated on the tax return you submitted. The results will at least tell you where in the process your return is, and it’ll give you a much more accurate picture of when you can expect to receive that wonderful tax refund check (if you get one!)

5. IRS Tax Map

If the IRS Tax Assistant doesn’t answer your tax question, you may have a little more luck using the IRS Tax Map tool. Tax topics available at this searchable directory include regular tax tips covering things like adoption, debt and more. The Affordable Care Act and International tax rules etc. are also covered.
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You can either use the search field to dig through the 5,000+ topics inside of the map, or you can just click on a letter in the Topic Index. Either way, you’re likely to find detailed information and answers.
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The results will turn up the instructions you’ll need to fill out the specific forms required. The instructions take you through the form line-by-line, making it easier for you to  handle the taxes on your own, rather than having to pay someone to do them for you. Just keep the tax map handy as you’re working through your taxes.

6. Withholding Calculator

Are you confused about how much your employer should be withholding throughout the year so that you don’t end up having to write such a large check to the government at the end of the year?
The reality is that if your employer doesn’t withhold enough, you’re stuck with a huge tax bill, but if they withhold too much, you’re essentially giving the U.S. government a big interest free loan. You really want to carefully calculate how much is withheld, and then submit a W-3 form to your employer with the appropriate withholding number on it. That’s exactly what the IRS Withholding Calculator is for.
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The withholding calculator isn’t so much a “calculator” as it is a wizard that walks you through several steps filled with questions where you just need to share your life situation, such as whether you’re married, and some other details. The results will tell you exactly how you need to fill out your withholding paperwork with your employer so that the correct amount is being withheld for your situation.

7. Online Payment Agreement Application

Have you been hit with a huge tax bill that you have no idea how you’re going to manage? Are you panicking? Afraid of having to go to prison? Don’t worry. Calm down. It’s not that bad.  The IRS is actually a lot more lenient when it comes to payment plans than people think. Assuming you don’t owe hundreds of thousands of dollars, the IRS should permit  you to sign up for a reasonable payment plan to pay off your remaining tax burden each year.
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The IRS makes it so easy in fact, that they offer an Online Payment Agreement feature on their website. All you have to do is fill in a bit of information detailing your situation and the IRS will present you with a payment agreement, which you can agree with electronically. No more waiting for paperwork and praying that the IRS accepts your payment plan — just fill out the forms, submit, and make your payments. It’s as easy as that.
Doing taxes is never fun (unless you’re getting a huge refund I suppose…), but no one can say that the IRS is not going with the times. With the tools above, and many others you’ll find at the IRS website, there’s no reason you can’t get your taxes done yourself this year. Why not give it a shot?