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Topping Off My Desk

Published on October 9, 2007 by in Funny Pictures

Desktop Well, Truthie (a.k.a. Gerri) asked for it, so here it is.  My computer lap-top desk-top in all it’s glory.  As you can see I like to keep it very neat and tidy.  No shortcuts icons randomly littering the entire thing.  No sirree bob.  I keep the trash can down on the bottom right hand side in case a download anything that automatically tries to put an icon on my desk top. At the top right I have a short-cut to all things Blue Beaver Beer.  Bottom left is i-explore, always a handy little doo-hickey.  At at the top left is a short-cut to my favourite free down-loadable video game.  "Weird Al" Yankovic’s Virus Alert.  You play as Al himself going around the office killing all the computer viruses before they can do some serious damage.  Say what you will about a P.C., but at least mine has the courtesy to hide my system tray until I need it as well.  And that is the wonderful wondrousness of my desk-top.

Oh, I suppose one or two of you might have noticed my wall-paper.  Well, in order to protect the innocent I can’t say where I got ahold of that.  Let’s just say that someone very close to me is not all that concerned about keeping her desk-top clean and tidy.

 
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The Great Mofo Delurk 2007 Blogroll

Published on October 8, 2007 by in Blogs

Here are all the participants form the recent Great Mofo Delurk 2007.

 
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The Top of My Desk

Published on October 7, 2007 by in Uncategorized

Truthie at Absolutely True has tagged us in a "show your desktop" meme. At first I didn’t know what to do, having never been tagged before.I always think of the actual top of a desk, which I don’t really have.  Usually my electronic desktop looks something like the first picture  but more messy.

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I  decided to clean up my act a little for this occasion. I have a bad habit of saving every little file.
The one below with he boat is my current desktop:
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Kinda boring, I guess. Well, wait until you see my real life desktop. I don’t always hang out with giant evil rats and Bubbles the Powerpuff Girl, sometimes they just sit around on top of my dresser. And since space is at a premium in our house, unless my computer is on top of my lap in the living room I have to borrow the tiny spot in front of the kids’ computer monitor.Desktop2

Now, on to other people’s desktops. I wonder if Saskboy would show us his private domain? And I admit a little curiosity to the workspace of Captain Picard. it always looked so tidy and clean on the Enterprise, so I can only guess that there were cleaning robots busy  while we weren’t looking.

 
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Thanksgiving – The Real Untold History

Published on October 7, 2007 by in Holidays

One again, my friends, I have done my usual Google-ing exhaustive research and I have uncovered the heretofore hidden history of Thanksgiving.

"The reason that we have so many myths associated with Thanksgiving is that it is an invented tradition. It doesn’t originate in any one event. It is based on the New England puritan Thanksgiving, which is a religious Thanksgiving, and the traditional harvest celebrations of England and New England and maybe other ideas like commemorating the pilgrims. All of these have been gathered together and transformed into something different from the original parts."
- James W. Baker, Senior Historian at Plimoth Plantation

Originally the feast was a one time event so it wasn’t technically the beginning of the tradition.  It occurred sometime between September 21 and November 11, 1621 and lasted for three days.

During the American Revolution a yearly day of thanksgiving was suggested by the Continental Congress.  In 1817 New York State adopted Thanksgiving Day as an annual custom.  By the mid-19th century most other states had followed suit.  In 1863 Abraham Lincoln set Thanksgiving as the last Thursday in November.  In 1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt amended that slightly to be the fourth Thursday of November.

Nobody knows for certain exactly what was served at that first feast apart from fowl (of a non-specific sort) and deer.  Historians speculate that they may have eaten some of the following items; cod, clams, lobster, wild turkey, eagles, seals, pumpkin and carrots.  These same historians say that there was no evidence that they had any of the following modern Thanksgiving foods; ham, potatoes, corn, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie (apparently this recipe did not exist yet).

There seems to be a few different ideas as to why we Canadians celebrate the occasion in early October.  The most popular opinion is that it is because we are celebrating the harvest, which is earlier due to our more Northern location.

Interestingly, I came across an article that says the first Canadian Thanksgiving  ceremony was held by an English navigator, Martin Frobisher, in 1578, in what is now Newfoundland.

As for myself, I shall be attending a family dinner where much chicken and ham shall be eaten and more than a few Blue Beaver Beers shall be drank drunken.

 
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