An excellent list, and I hope you don't mind my adding this, based on an experience trying to help a newbie this week:

Do NOT burn to CD-RW disks for your archiving of evidence. Use CD-R. CD-RW disks can be erased and overwritten (potential accidents and questions), and the substrate is more volatile and sensitive to degradation from exposore to light, heat, humidity, etc.

The very best string cheese is bought in bulk. I have not had good string cheese since I left the Midwest. When bought on bulk, there are no messy wrappers all over the house.

But then I'd eat entire blocks of it. And I don't even especially like string cheese! I just like peeling it.

It does not come in blocks. You get this nice big box that is set in another box with dry ice between the two boxes. There are bazillions of sticks of string cheese in each box, all stacked together. Fear not, they pull apart from each other just as easily as the cheese peels from the stick.

BTW, I'm addicted to both. Peeling the cheese as well as the taste. As long as it isn't that gooey wet prepackaged stuff.

Zeke, you are an enabler.

Why thank you, maam.

"Any other questions please feel free to PM me."

Why does this process (good data management really) Seem to be light years over the head of the average (or even exceptional) birther.

'Cause they iz "speshhhhul".....?

Me, I got to own all the forensics processes around a $3.4 billion dollar class action law suit a couple of years ago. The tools my folks were using were heavyweight industrial grade but it ALWAYS comes back to simple repeatable bullet proof processes.

Meatware can bugger up hardware and software EVERY time unless you make it monkey see, monkey do simple.

Ladies Day at Royal Ascot. I know some of the ladies here will love the outrageous hats!

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/videos/T ... s-Day.html

Have fun!

For those who are hockey fans, this is how to celebrate the Stanley Cup, old school. For those who aren't hockey fans, this is how a 6'9" tall man gets drunk

Love the hats! But Designer Tracey Whoseiwhat is going to have a crushed neck from hers.

For us Mac folk, here's an MD5 application

http://download.cnet.com/MD5/3000-2092_4-95588.html

Happy Fathers Day, RTH.

Does a happy dance! IT IS RAINING! THANK THE FSM! (We are in a severe drought, my poor gardens are suffering, I am suffering thanks to having to haul a watering can all over the place) YAAAAAAAYYYYYY.

I'm watching the Met game on SNY while playing on the Intertubes, and a commercial for Time Warner Cable just came on.

The music in the background had some foreign sounding lyrics, but sounded vaguely familiar.

Then it hit me: The song is called "Jet Boy/Jet Girl" by Elton Motello.

What were they thinking?

Just read that Clarence Clemons, aka The Big Man in Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band, has died of complications from a stroke.

What a loss. So very, very sad.

Here's the story.

Oh, man. That is very sad. RIP, Clarence.

In 1977, a movie called "New York, New York" came out. It starred Liza Minelli and Robert DeNiro. DeNiro played a sax player; Clarence dubbed in all the music that DeNiro "played."

The movie came to a local theater in the West End of Long Branch; the marquee had the stars' names, then, underneath, and in huge letters:
and
CLARENCE!

The movie was torture to get through; something like 3 hours But we went just to hear Clarence ...

Saw him in a little club in Berkeley back in the 80s. Rest in Peace brother Clarence. He went out on top, he just did work on Gaga's new album and I think he's in one of her recent videos.

Enjoy.

As described above, a "mountain lion" was killed a little while ago near the Merritt Parkway - Wilbur Cross Parkway juncture at the bridge. The town of Greenwich has had multiple complaints of sightings of a "cougar;" some news accounts have assumed the Greenwich cougar is the one that was killed. Looking at the map, I wonder whether cougars would have that large a range.

Now a cougar has been reported in northeast Connecticut, basically just on the other side of "the mountain" from me.

I think it is pretty exciting that wildlife is returning to this densely inhabited forest, but so far as I know, cougars have been strangers to New England states. A little more research can confirm that. If they are now migrating north and east, I wonder what that means. Coyotes preceded them by at least a decade.

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/20557084[/vimeo]

Cougars here have very large ranges, in the hundreds of miles.

Your cougar seems already to have made it into Wikipedia.
(scroll wayyyy down)

So... I have the option of applying for a job, that I would be a pretty good shot at getting, in Owego, NY.

Has anyone been there or lived there? Have any positives or negatives about it?

I'm a mad surfer, so am aware that I might have to slow that down a little there, but also love snowboarding - are there decent ski fields nearby?

I also love to eat well - any ideas whether there is good food places in the area?

This could get you started: http://www.villageofowego.com/

From looking at maps, it appears to be in the Alleghenies, so there may be some skiing. Pretty close to the Pennsylvania border. You would be probably a weekend trip from the Atlantic coast.

Looks like a sleepy town.

But, I leave the experts that live in that area to tell you all about it.