If you’re like me, you’ve gotten a few e-mails from companies you’ve done business with at some point in the past few years, informing you that
the vendor they use to send out e-mails – a company called Epsilon – had their e-mail database hacked, and you might now expect to get a lot of spam and phishing e-mails. They claim that no personal or account information was compromised, but you’re certainly ripe for the cyber-picking. Companies affected include Citigroup, Chase, Barclays, U.S. Bancorp, Capital One, Walgreen, Kroger, Marriott, TiVo, Verizon…. And lots more, no doubt. So it would be pretty easy to, say target you with phishing e-mails tied specifically to the companies you do business with. So, watch out when your credit card company send you a legitimate-looking e-mail saying you need to click on a link and fix your account. Though I’m sure you already knew that.
If you plan on flying today, good luck. Especially if you’re flying Southwest (though you know if they’re having these problems, so are the the rest of them. Flying just all it’s cracked up to be). I advise you to pay close attention to the part where they tell you how to put on the oxygen mask upon losing cabin pressure (my favorite part is when they say that if you have small children, screw ’em and save yourself).
Congratulations to libertarians, teabaggers, and the champions of deregulation. While the invisible hand of the market may not be enough to lift up your flight and keep it in the air, no doubt after enough planes fall apart mid-air, prices will drop (so to speak).
Hit the 90’s yesterday with 40 mile wind gusts from the south.
This a.m. it’s 40 with 40 mile wind gusts from the north.
Still no rain.
Timed/auto thermostats are useless around these parts. :billcat:
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Thanks for doing penance at the fair yesterday, Vern!
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Always thought it would be nice to have a skylight in an airplane, but not that kind. :bee:
Especially if that piece of the fuselage is from whence your mask use to be located.
Yesterday, I had an e-mail from so-called FaceBook and it wanted to sell me erection med and painkillers. Until they can limit the erction duration and make painkillers that last more than 4 hours, just leave me alone. I might bite if they had something to get rid of a Boehner or induced a nach’l looking tan.
Meanwhile, when I went to FB to send a message, my message function was hinky so I immediately changed the PW. I hope none of my FB friends got spam from me.
I don’t know what the temperature is outside. It’s grey and drizzly. But there us no heat inside. Mike tried to fix it last night but while he could get the pilot light on something else was not working and the pilot would go off. He says we need to replace some part so this will be a day of waiting and, hopefully, finally getting heat.
Last night we made good use of those 104 degree cats who were only too happy to get under the covers and stay close. They may not be mousers, but they are good heating pads.
As I slept last night I dreamed about a making a phone call that I have to make to the accountant. I had to make the call on Mike’s new Iphone (he dropped the blackberry in the toilet and it just hasn’t been itself since,) Of course, dork that I am, I couldn’t figure how to make the call. The keyboard wouldn’t appear or if it did it would be letters not numerals. But, at least I was warm.
Download a ‘heater’ app on iTunes. Those suckers can get pretty cozy, just keep them away from your brains or genitalia if applicable.
When Dr. King was killed I was a brand new teacher, having just started that February. I was assigned to a 6th grade class that had managed to get their 3 previous teachers to quit. I was definitely having a hard time. My principal, who usually stayed locked in his office, appeared at my door and told me if I kept my class from rioting the school would stay calm. Fortunately the kids were too absorbed in their own foibles to consider rioting because there was no way I could possibly have stopped them.
We’ve got heat! :yippee:
Sitting on the sidelines of this battle is a man named Sal Khan. A one-time hedge fund analyst, Khan has become an unlikely hero in education circles–his innovative methodology turns the classroom dynamic upside down.
In Khan’s program, students watch a series of 10-minute video lessons at home. Kahn narrates the videos, which are available as free downloads on his website. Homework following up on each lesson is completed at school, where teachers circulate among students for one-on-one instruction and problem-solving tutorials. Software that tracks each student’s progress helps teachers plan and respond accordingly.
Khan says his method of learning, dubbed “the Khan Academy,” will liberate teachers from the standard “one-size-fits-all” lesson plan and help to “humanize the classroom.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/04/the-khan-academy-and-educ_n_844390.html
Yet another person who has never taught and non the less has the answer that has eluded everyone else. I can’t wait.
Anthony Weiner at the Congressional Correspondents Dinner. He has some advice for Boner about embracing his name,
SueP, You Rock Sister!!! :yippee:
Congratulations on getting the Heat back — although :cat: :cat: s certainly can produce considerable BTUs and can be great foot warmers.
As for today in history and in history in the making, I remember the day MLK was assassinated and I remember it being a horrible day. I was a 19-yr-old college dropout working a crappy little $80-a-week secretarial job until something better came along (which it did, fortunately). I lived in Queens – Woodhaven, right on the border of Brooklyn, at the time. My crappy job was on Park Avenue, a BMT ride away … started out as an El, transitioned to a subway via a dramatic right angle turn just before the East River.
That day was awful, though, like a spear through my heart, because it was the culmination of hatred for people struggling for justice — don’t know if the Koch Family had their tentacles involved in loosing their hounds, hoses and guns on all the uppity Black Folk demanding to be treated like human beings in the late 1950s & 1960s. I remember watching the news coverage of the riots in 1964 and 1965. I also did not understand why my Lutheran Church elders turned away invited guests at a Square Dance the Youth League worked hard to put together — the skin of those invited guests was the wrong color and it was 1965. Those of us kids involved in setting the dance up didn’t understand why INVITED guests should be turned away because of their skin color … this was NYC fercryinoutloud! I could not understand the hypocrisy and my confidence in religion was pretty wobbly already because I just never got the GOD WILL PUNISH YOU IF YOU DON’T OBEY HIM but he is a Loving and Kind God, so you should be all warm and fuzzy about following His Will. The Elders turning away the Black Lutheran Kids (that in itself is pretty weird in retrospect — but maybe not) from Brooklyn did a lot of damage to any inclination I had to trusting Religion. Those were very Black & White days on many levels.
Anyway, I felt compelled to do SOMETHING on this very sad anniversary of Dr. King’s death and the ongoing drama of strugging for justice for all working people, so I joined a dozen Union folks in Auburn, NY, which is a shorter ride from the new place than Syracuse ( and much more scenic as well), in standing at a busy (and complex) intersection holding a sign that said “WORKERS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS”. The action was under the auspices of the Cayuga Central Labor Council (now I know where they are) and here’s the Local Auburn Paper “Opinion” Coverage
Even the smallest action makes a ripple. Oh! And I’m waiting for a photo of our small group from this action standing in front of “The Phoenix” Building in Auburn —- the symbolism was great! :fist: :fist: :fist:
I’m glad I went to Auburn instead — the a**hole remarks in Syracuse reflect the serious poisoning of the drinking water.. :fu:
At least the people who work at the maximum security slammer in Auburn are Union — at least as far as I know & I don’t know much.
Got lotsa beeps & thumbs up on that streetcorner in Auburn!
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I don’t know why the unions didn’t promote this. Not a word from the UFT or the Teamsters. I hope it is because they are planning a bigger get together, perhaps in DC. Dems and Rethugs need to see streets clogged with angry union families.