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Santa Killed My Dog
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They say that Santa's coming,. He comes 'round every year. He comes he'll meet a shotgun slug. Cause he ain't welcome here. Five years ago this Christmas. The fatass came around. With jingle bells and ho ho hos. And looking like a clown. He came in for a landing. As I let out a yawn. My house is pretty little. So he landed on the lawn. I didn't have the time to yell. As he came in through the fog;. He came in fast and and came down hard. And landed on my dog. He looked around all furtive like.
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The McGrew Page
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So I have a lot of photographic slides and prints to digitize, since film photography is now obsolete; Kodak put itself out of business when they invented the digital camera which made their cash cow, film, obsolete. Prints are easy to digitize, as scanners are cheap and make good digital photos out of film prints. But what about my slides? I looked, and bought one on the internet. It was only six bucks after shipping. Here’s what the phone/viewer/rubber band combination looks like:. The next step is to ...
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Dr. Robert Bakker Answers Your Questions About Science and Religion - Slashdot
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Please create an account. To participate in the Slashdot moderation system. Compare cell phone plans using Wirefly's innovative plan comparison tool. Dr Robert Bakker Answers Your Questions About Science and Religion. On Tuesday March 12, 2013 @12:23PM. Yesterday we ran the first half. Back to the very first page in the fabulous 1953 Life magazine. Augustine in Life Magazine. Too many journalists today make the mistake of saying that Charles Darwin confronted the young earth creations in 1859, with his.
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Australians Urged To Spoof IP Addresses For Better Prices - Slashdot
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Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org. Discover the Many Uses of Python and Strive Towards a Successful IT System Administration Career with 60 Hours of Training for 95% off. Australians Urged To Spoof IP Addresses For Better Prices. On Thursday October 25, 2012 @05:28AM. Writes "Choice, a prominent Australian consumer advocacy group, has urged Australians to obfuscate their IP address to avoid geo-blocking and use US forwarding addresses to beat high IT prices. On Thu...
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Microsoft Office Finally Gets iOS App - Slashdot
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Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org. Compare cell phone plans using Wirefly's innovative plan comparison tool. Microsoft Office Finally Gets iOS App. On Friday June 14, 2013 @08:47AM. An anonymous reader writes "After years of rumors. And months of bickering with Apple. Over revenue splits, Microsoft has finally released an official iOS app for Office 365 subscribers. The Office app has basic functionality, but is missing some key productivity features. They could ea...
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Star Trek Economics - Slashdot
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Follow Slashdot stories on Twitter. Discover the Many Uses of Python and Strive Towards a Successful IT System Administration Career with 60 Hours of Training for 95% off. On Friday February 14, 2014 @11:12AM. From the once-you-have-their-money,-you-never-give-it-back. Evolved from democratic capitalism. You may like to read:. Facebook Debuts New Gender Options, Pronoun Choices. Hugos Refuse To Award Anyone Rather Than Submit To Fans' Votes. Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women.
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The McGrew Page
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The GNU Image Manipulation Program is an excellent free and open source graphics program that will do almost anything you want to a bitmap image. Almost. When text is needed in an image, GIMP is indeed gimpy. Rather than use fonts installed in the computer’s operating system, it has its own, very limited set of fonts, and no way to exactly position your text. The workaround is easy: don’t use GIMP for text. Say you wanted to use the above image (a 35 mm slide I took in 1974 and digitized. The reason I li...
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The McGrew Page
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I’m a firm believer in the Bible’s truth. I’m also a firm believer in science, as any Christian should be. In other words, if someone’s spent years studying something you should pay attention to them. However, if they’re a preacher you should beware; he could be a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Atheists lack, in my opinion, wisdom. If you think science disagrees with something in the Bible, either you misunderstand the Bible or you don’t understand the science. In the above case, science didn’t understand...
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The McGrew Page
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I had more fun this weekend than I have in years! Patty and I attended this year’s World Science Fiction Convention in Kansas City. Patty had said that she would be at my mom’s house in Belleville around one, and I got there a little before. She got caught in construction work traffic in Indiana, and we didn’t get on the road until three. Traffic was terrible, not just through St Louis but all the way there. We decided to go straight to the convention; we could check in to the hotel later. It turned in n...
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The McGrew Page
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Ten years ago I wrote a humorous article titled Useful Dead Technologies about technologies that are no longer used that I sorely miss, like furnaces that still worked when the power went out, or things made of durable steel instead of today’s fragile and short-lived plastics. A couple of the things on the list have improved since then. Shoelaces, for instance. Ten years ago I wrote:. What are they making shoelaces out of now? And they’re flat again. The radio in my car now really annoys me, because the ...
