Greg In The Desert

I’m not sure what to say about this product. These small items are supposed to resemble boobies and you stick them on the whatever you want. Presumably during a bachelor party. And they glow. The creepy looking guy on the packaging is not the type of guy I wold have at my bachelor party.

Pipedreams Gid 3D Boobie Stick Ups, 8 Pieces are on Amazon for $5.20 and you get two packages!

The most often purchased item with the glow in the dark 3D boobies, the Pipedreams Glow In The Dark 3D Penis Stick Ups. If you going to stick mini fake glowing boobies all over everything, you might as well stick mini glowing penises to go with them.

No customer reviews on either product unfortunately.

• New Mexico Independent » Schott Solar banking on public investment in sunshine – That Schott Solar is barreling ahead with plans to become New Mexico’s flagship solar manufacturing company, despite the current recession, makes sense considering where the company is coming from.

  Dr. Gerald Fine, CEO of the North American branch of the German company, sees a dynamic in the U.S. now similar to what caused the solar energy industry to take off in Europe five years ago. Germany went on to become the largest consumer of solar energy products worldwide, and he predicts

• Confessions of an Introverted Traveler – Features – World Hum – But I don’t seek people out, I am terrible at striking up conversations with strangers and I am happy exploring a strange city alone. I don’t seek out political discourse with opinionated cab drivers or boozy bonding with locals over beers into the wee hours. By the time the hours get wee, I’m usually in bed in my hotel room, appreciating local color TV. (So sue me, but I contend that television is a valid reflection of a society.)
• Judge Orders Halt to Illegal Robocalls Selling Deceptive Warranties – Today Judge John F. Grady of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a temporary restraining order stopping telemarketing company Voice Touch, Inc., its principals James and Maureen Dunne, its business partner Network Foundations LLC, and Network Foundations principal Damian Kohlfeld from making any further calls in violation of the Do Not Call Registry and other provisions of the Telemarketing Sales Rule and the FTC Act. The FTC filed the case yesterday, charging that the defendants were operating a massive telemarketing scheme that used random, pre-recorded phone calls to deceive consumers into thinking that their vehicle’s warranty is about to expire.
• Follow Ups: REI Says ATM Photographer Is Welcome In Their Store Any Time – REI's Director of Corporate Communications contacted us with an official statement about the recent showdown between two Loomis security guards and a customer with an iPhone at one of their Seattle stores. She says despite the document Shane says he was forced to sign at the police station, he is not banned from their stores. Below is REI's official statement.
• Steve Stucker Explains the Recent Night Winds in Albuquerque – We call these "back door fronts" because most fronts come from the west or northwest. When the cold air pushes up against the central mountains (Sandias/Manzanos) it is sort of like hitting a wall, or an air dam, thus the wind gets forced into and through the little passes, gaps and canyons in the mountains, causing breezy to wind conditions in ABQ. It wasn't windy everywhere this morning, ABQ had the strongest winds in the state. The pattern is just a combination of the placement of high pressure and low pressure, and until we get a big "kicker"—some big system that moves through and knocks these little systems out of our area—the same basic pattern will continue for the next week or so at least, not windy every night, but every few. Friday night is probably our next big blow. God bless…..ss
• Clearly not a craigslist fan – Meanwhile, the backpage.com (owned by Village Voice Media) “adult entertainment” section for Greenville, SC has about 60 ads for the last 3 days, many of which are quite explicit, quoting prices for specific sex acts, close-up photos of bare genitalia, etc , etc (Be careful, even the index page has photos that are not-safe-for-work).
• HOW TO – Make a cheap “pager scanner” « adafruit industries blog – In this video (m4v) we show you how to take a $10 pager and make “pager scanner” – it can see all the pages and pager data on the pager networks – surprisingly it’s still used for a lot of interesting things and for transmitting data to many devices. Breadboarding diagram here…
• LOOPRumors – E*Trade launching iPhone App? – LoopRumors sources confirm that E*Trade Financial is working on an App for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch. The company is said to have a very secret beta circulating internally. E*Trade currently has a native application for Blackberry phones, but the iPhone counterpart promises to be more robust and add much more functionality that the current Blackberry version.
• Apartment Therapy The Kitchn | Restaurant Recipe: Buttermilk Fried Chicken from Ad Hoc – It's been quite the week for fried chicken. First we gave you Grandma's recipe, then we showed you oven-fried crispy chicken. And now we're giving you one more crispy, greasy, delicious recipe for fried chicken, and it's from Chef Cruz of Thomas Keller’s restaurant Ad Hoc. Apparently great chefs love fried chicken too!
• Chinese Forum Poster Describes Next Generation iPhone Details – Mac Rumors – We've been keeping an eye on some reports coming out of Chinese forum Weiphone over the past couple of weeks, and it appears the reports are starting to spread. In early May, a forum poster from the Chinese site posted specs and a screenshot from what is claimed to be the next generation iPhone.

Not just Galaga for the iPhone, but the orginal version and an updated version. Galaga REMIX is $5.99 on the iTunes App Store. There is also Galaga REMIX Lite available for free as a demo.

Shoot your fighter’s missiles to blow away waves of incoming enemy aliens in this classic stage-based shooter. Gameplay is very intuitive. It’s easy to pick-up and play!

Rediscover Galaga’s trademark “dual-fighter” power-up system, in which shooting ability is enhanced by rescuing captured fighters. This high-risk, high-reward feature has thrilled generations of players. Test your abilities with the interleaved “challenging stages”.

“Galaga Remix” offers play of both the original 1980’s arcade game, and an enhanced remix version with extra features including intense boss battles, 9 power-ups types, and a variety of background images illustrating your fighter’s journey from Earth to the Galaga system.

I like Lighting By Gregory, not just because they share a similar name to me. They can be a little expensive which is why I offer some coupon codes. By using one of these links you help me get the dam bathroom project completed faster. They also offer free shipping via UPS and FedEx.

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In 2004 I recived a Scottevest 4.0 jacket. Since then it’s been my jacket of choice for every day use, hikes, skiing and yurt trips. Their have been many times I’ve rubbed against something and swore I put giant hole in it.

For four years I managed not to harm the jacket at all, until last fall when I pulled several teeth out of the main zipper. I used it for a few months like that but it became impossible to zip up and the zipper pull finally fell off and became lost.

I couldn’t afford a new jacket and there’s really nothing wrong with the current one except for the few missing teeth. I contacted Scottevest to see what they would charge to fix it.

I sent a email to Scott Jordan the CEO of Scottevest with a picture of the broken zipper. I then recived a reply from Laura at Scottevest who verified when I order it. She then sent me a pre paid UPS shipping label to ship it back to them for repair. She didn’t ask if I damaged it or ask for payment. She just offered to fix a 4 year old jacket on their dime without question.

I was a big fan of Scottevest before, now I am customer for life.

I’ve been having some issues since installing 10.4. Specifically system wide lock ups, where every application including the finder and any menu bar items don’t respond and all I get is the spinning beach ball. But the cursor still moves even with a bluetooth mouse. Back in the OS9 days I could tell if the the system was locked up based on if the menu bar clock’s time separators would stop flashing. Prior to 10.4 this was never a sufficient indicator because the whole system never locked up. I’ve also had problems with my MacBook Pro going to sleep, or that it wouldn’t go to sleep (instead having a dark screen and having to force it to reboot).

I’ve had this same weird behavior on my 1Ghz TiBook and I figured it was due to the fact that I was pushing the limits of my hard drive space. But I’m having the same symptoms on my fancy new MacBook Pro and I have plenty of hard drive space available. I started watching the system log via the Console and see these errors: (default pager): [KERNEL]: no space in available paging segments.

So what’s going on here? Searching Google doesn’t reveal much, only that a few other people have had the same issue. One guy thinks his system was hacked, but I don’t believe this is the case for me. Another thinks a Windows Server bug, that one I could believe. I also considered that it could be related to a bad prefs file or something when I migrated all my settings from the G4. I re-installed, or should i say over-installed, the OS. This seemed help with the sleep problem and the over all stablity seems to have improved but the MacBook Pro will still totally lock up every now and then.

I think there’s some fundamental problem with 10.4 that Apple has yet to fix related to paging. It could also be related to Safari since Safari is always open when I have this problem, of course that could be a coincidence since Safari is my most used application.

This week we made a trip to Arizona. Since I’m from there, still have family there and have rental property there I make these trips quite often. Usually I make a straight trip there from Albuquerque to Flagstaff then down to Phoenix. I can make it in less than 8 hours this way. This time however my girlfriend and I decided to take our time and check out the sites along the way. We got a late start that day. I was waiting for a package delivery from UPS and they didnt get here unitl about 2:30pm.

There isn’t a whole lot to see between Albuquerque and the Arizona/New Mexico border. There are several places we could have stopped but will have to save them for next time. First stop was the Petrified Forest National Park In Arizona. The wind was really bad that day and the smoke from the Tucson fire was blowing into the area. I could barely hold the camera still. The park service charges $10 per car, which seemed a bit expensive. The painted desert is beautiful. The main part with the petrified trees was kind of sad. Before the area was a national park people came and took parts of the peterfied wood, so there wasnt a whole lot to see there.I can imagine what it looked like before most of the larger pieces were removed. The park is now protected, so noting can be removed from it.

We got there about 6pm. The park closes at 7pm. So we started heading out at 6:45 when we were about half way through it only to see people still heading into the park. It was after 7 and were wondering why no one else is leaving. After were a few miles down the road I realize that New Mexico time is 1 hour ahead of Arizona time. So the park time was 6, not 7.

Once we got to Flagstaff it was night time and we were tired. We stayed at a Holiday Inn right near the freeeway. If your ever in Flag try no to stay there. There are train tracks about 2000 feet away. The train came buy at least 3 times that night and just had to toot his horn every time.

Once we left Flagstaff we headed to Sedona via State Route 89A. I was hoping to check out Slide Rock in Oak Creek Canyon. We just wanted to go down and take a look, but the park service wants $10 per car regardless of wether your getting in the water or not. We chose to no go this time. None the less the drive through the canyon was nice.

Once we arrived at Sedona we pretty much just checked out the main drag. A tourist trap with lots of shops. Nothing that interesting to see there. They do have tours that take you around which I’m sure are much more interesting. I’ll be posting more on my trip back to New Mexico.