• Hot Off The Presses

    Schaumburg: Are You Missing… A Tree?

    March 7, 2016 - By 

    Local woman pulled over in Roselle with a tree stuck in the hood of her car, tells police she noticed it after driving through Schaumburg. A woman was charged with driving under the influence in January in northwest suburban Roselle after she was pulled over with a tree trunk stuck in the hood of her car.The woman was pulled over around 11:10 p.m. Jan. 23 on Central Avenue after police received a call about a vehicle driving with a tree embedded in the grille, according to Roselle Deputy Chief Roman Tarchala. She was charged with driving under the influence after failing…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Donald Drumpf Throws Tantrum, Film At Eleven

    March 1, 2016 - By 

    First of all, just because of the best damn Chrome extension since ever, I’m using Chrome. Second of all, Drumpf threw another tantrum. Again? But because of that extension, I am pleased to quote: Donald Drumpf is throwing a tantrum and threatening to run as a third-party candidate for president because the Republican Party and Marco Rubio are being mean to him. I’m more and more convinced that he’s tapped Christie as his most likely VP choice and exit strategy. He shakes things up, gets bored or mad, and quits after being nominated (or God help us, elected) and Christie…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Radio

    NPR Listeners Comfort A Dying Man Who Tried To Stop The Challenger Disaster

    February 27, 2016 - By 

    David and I listened to this follow up story Thursday on the retired Thiokol engineer who tried to stop the Challenger disaster, and had a parking lot moment of our own. We were meeting Dad and Linda (my father-in-law Sheldon and Shel’s girlfriend Linda) for dinner. As the story ended, we listened, pausing before getting out of the car. NPR listeners evidently had their own driveway or parking lot moments, and responded quickly to the original story. It’s nice to report so many acts of kindness to try to comfort a dying man. After NPR reported Bob Ebeling’s story on…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    One Term Wonder Joe Walsh: Who’s The Ass Again?

    February 19, 2016 - By 

    So glad this guy got booted out after just one term, and now the IL-08 district is reliably blue. Why is it that when Dems leave office, they disappear? When Republicans get bounced, they go on talk shows or create their own. Joe Walsh, a radical Tea Party congressman who was voted out of office after one term amid a variety of financial problems and has since become a right-wing radio host, is none too pleased about Presi Source: Former Rep. Joe Walsh: Obama Is An ‘Arrogant, Immature, Anti-American Ass!’

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    One Term Wonder Joe Walsh: Who’s The Ass Again?

    February 19, 2016 - By 

    So glad this guy got booted out after just one term, and now the IL-08 district is reliably blue. Why is it that when Dems leave office, they disappear? When Republicans get bounced, they go on talk shows or create their own. Joe Walsh, a radical Tea Party congressman who was voted out of office after one term amid a variety of financial problems and has since become a right-wing radio host, is none too pleased about Presi Source: Former Rep. Joe Walsh: Obama Is An ‘Arrogant, Immature, Anti-American Ass!’

  • Flickr - Photos and Shutterblogs - The Never-Ending Bloga

    Moving On From Picasa? WTH, Google?

    February 14, 2016 - By 

    Goddamit, Google, not again. You’re retiring yet another essential productivity tool!! Since the launch of Google Photos, we’ve had a lot of questions around what this means for the future of Picasa. After much thought and consideration, we’ve decided to retire Picasa over the coming months in order to focus entirely on a single photo service in Google Photos. We believe we can create a much better experience by focusing on one service that provides more functionality and works across mobile and desktop, rather than divide our efforts across two different products. Via Googleblog: “Moving On From Picasa” I grumble…

  • Flickr - Photos and Shutterblogs - The Never-Ending Bloga

    Moving On From Picasa? WTH, Google?

    February 14, 2016 - By 

    Goddamit, Google, not again. You’re retiring yet another essential productivity tool!! Since the launch of Google Photos, we’ve had a lot of questions around what this means for the future of Picasa. After much thought and consideration, we’ve decided to retire Picasa over the coming months in order to focus entirely on a single photo service in Google Photos. We believe we can create a much better experience by focusing on one service that provides more functionality and works across mobile and desktop, rather than divide our efforts across two different products. Via Googleblog: “Moving On From Picasa” I grumble…

  • Sheldon Gibbs Birthday Coupon Cake
    Connections - Today

    Today and Yesterday and a couple of days after tomorrow

    January 10, 2016 - By 

    Today my husband David and I got together with my father-in-law Shel, and Shel’s lady-love Linda for lunch. We had dinner together last night at Bahama Breeze, because COUPON. And we’re having dinner with them Wednesday for the purpose of congratulating my niece Naomi on graduating (early) from high school. I’m not sure where we’re eating, but I bet a poo-kon will be produced at the end. Such an exciting life I lead! We eat out based on whichever of us has the best restaurant coupon! It’s not that we can’t afford this stuff; we count ourselves lucky on that…

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Blog Housekeeping

    January 4, 2016 - By 

    Maybe it’s time I dump the rather annoying and complex-to-set-up plugin I’ve been using to push content and posts to Facebook (and Twitter). The plugin’s own developer said in a support forum post 7 months ago that it should probably be deactivated and uninstalled. I went looking for answers because I’ve recently been getting a ton of “random Facebook comment spam” that I suspect is being pulled in to my blog via false positives from Facebook’s own parser. Tricky, as if the plugin he recommends doesn’t work for fan pages, I’m screwed. I administer several different accounts (including a church…