Back from the Cape

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon

Mom and I had a fabulous jaunt to Cape Cod. Lucked into a nice place to stay in Hyannis, plenty of places to eat nearby and places to explore. I got all the getting “lost” out of the way at the beginning so we didn’t waste time doing that after we arrived. On our first night we had a nice dinner at The Black Cat which seemed just right:

Dinner at The Black Cat Hyannis Harbor

At the Beach Mom and Me, sunset cruise

Sunset Mom and Friend

We had the most incredible weather for this – brilliant clear skies, 70’s temperature, light breezes. Wonderful

Today we left our motel and went to The Egg and I for breakfast before starting home. But then, our roadtrip took an unexpected jog north where we spent an hour or so at the Magic Wings butterfly conservatory in Deerfield Mass.

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Side B – What to remember about America

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon

A former co-worker was asking for a musical lead in to a college class on the shutdown. The list suggested was rough or funny and came fast and furious. I began to wonder what a “Side B” (remember side B’s of records? It was the flip side of the disk, you young uns) would be like, something that underscored why we shouldn’t let stupid one note politicians pretend to lead our country.

The House I Live In (sung by Paul Robeson here but made famous by Mr. Sinatra.

The Statue of Liberty (From Manhattan Tower by Gordon Jenkins. This was the only digital version I could find, the song starts at :32 and lasts about 2 min.)

What else ya got?

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sharing

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon

in cat terms it’s a lend-lease-temporary use permit sort of thing and sometimes it involves some cooperative behavior:

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good news bad news

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon
  • Good news – apparently it was just a user error that kept the dictionary app off the iPhone during the recent restores etc.
  • Bad news – (already knew this) not really oxford dictionary
  • Good news – put it back on via iTunes no problem
  • Bad news – not optimized for iPhone 5
  • Good news – no apparent use/screen glitching due to not being optimized
  • Bad news – to get optimized version, another $20+ and still not really oxford (why don’t they sue the heck out of whoever that is and use the proceeds to develop their own app)
  • Good news – back in dictionary business on iPhone and I’m not having to store 600,000 entries that would be involved with real OED app

and some unrelated advice from the quote box:

The air’s advice is all
Young birds are guided by:
Fly and you will not fall,
or fall and you will fly.
– Marie De L. Welch

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Spam Spam Spam Spam

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon

Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam

But seriously folks, last night I deleted over twenty-three thousand captured and true spam comments. I keep a pretty close eye on spam comments because you know they’re spam and they’re just taking up stupid space in a database for no good reason at all.

This morning there were a thousand more. Yes: 1000. That’s ridiculous. All spam bots. Ridiculous.

I am loathe to put captcha/recaptcha controls on this dinky little personal blog so I’ve put a length limit on comments which won’t be any problem for the normal real comment-leaving visitor. (Let me know if you encounter any problems with this)

In the meantime, here’s the obligatory:

and for more fun, with subtitles

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