If you have Firefox 3, and you’re annoyed with the auto-play “feature” of espn.com (where you load the page and you have the ESPN anchors blaring away at you about last night’s Royals/Mariners game), then you should install this plugin:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1765
The auto-play feature will be disabled.
Since I got into a car accident in February that totaled my Maxima and my sister’s in Israel, my family has been generous enough to give me my sister’s old car.
While talking about this incredibly generous act should probably be where I concentrate my attention, I’m going to instead detail the grief it’s put me through.
While my sister was last in the country (around May), she filled out the car’s title so that it could be in my name (and could then be taken over by my insurance policy).
I went to the DMV with this filled out expecting that I’d be able to drop the title off and in a few weeks they’d send me a new title… BUT, after about an hour of waiting the DMV counterperson said that where the owner’s name should have been was scratched out and replaced with my sister’s full name, but there hadn’t been any initials beside the change to indicate it was an ‘accepted change’. (My sister did this because she had written her first and last name, but was supposed to put her first, middle, and last name). Since this change wasn’t initialed, it wasn’t suitable for processing. We’d need to get a notarized statement by my sister that said she had made this change.
This is quite difficult since she’s, y’know, living overseas. I don’t know how difficult it is to get a notarized statement in Israel, but I expect it’s difficult (plus the statement would have to be shipped to the U.S. since a notarization loses its value if faxed)
Have no fear, though, my father (the lawyer) says… We’ll get the notary who was present when my sister filled out the title to send a statement that said: “I witnessed the person scratch their name out and put in their full name”.
I took the title and this statement on Tuesday to the DMV in the hope that I had enough documentation to get my title processed.
Not quite.
In fact, the counterperson said: “The notary’s witness statement” didn’t qualify to counter my sister’s scratching out. In addition, the counterperson said that the state of the “date” field (that was filled out by the notary) wasn’t as clear as it would need to be.
So, if you’re keeping score at home: We still need a notarized statement by my sister and now we need a statement from the notary that said that the date is what it should be (and that statement needs to be notarized by another notary since you can’t “self-notarize”).
Oh, and by the way that took another hour standing in line to find out I’m now even further behind.
The hope is now that the wheels of bureaucracy will turn a little easier at the DMV near my parents.
If not, we may just have to wait until my sister is back in town (probably another 6 months).
I found myself noodling around on Wikipedia (and who hasn’t found themselves doing that) when I found myself reading about Junior Johnson.
You’d think someone who lived in the NC Piedmont for his entire life would have some knowledge about a bootlegger who (apparently) more-or-less inspired the Dukes of Hazzard.
My only excuse (and it’s lame) is that I dimly remember the Dukes of Hazzard being part of Georgia (they were always going to Atlanta) that I figured they must be part of Georgia’s past.
Anyway, this discovery has made me wonder if NC’s only (legal) distillery gives tours…
In honor of our 3rd anniversary, I bought a domain:
http://doesdanloveerin.com
The answer (in case you’re too busy to visit the site) is: YES.
If you look on our anniversary (Nov 20), you’ll see a picture of us under the chuppah.
I went to Harris-Teeter today and they FINALLY have Peter Pan Peanut Butter in stock.
They changed the packaging slightly (by making the jar larger), but it tastes the same.
Now I can go back to dipping my Hershey’s chocolate into my peanut butter of choice.
BTW- I tried Jif and I think choosy moms are idiots.
I recently set about digitizing some old stuff (since bits and bytes take up less space than video tapes + pictures)…
One of the things I’ve digitized is my Off The Cuff (Student Television) tribute:
Ah. To be young and have too much time on your hands…
Credit should be given to Matt Burdorff who (I believe) was the primary editor for this.
A couple of months ago, I put together a “Chore Web Application”:
http://askingforthirds.org/tasks/
My motivation for putting this together is because I’m a slob and can blissfully live in squalor. My wife on the other hand will live in squalor until she can’t take it any more and then explode into (justified) anger/disappointment that the house is worse than a pig sty.
So to hopefully avoid explosions, I made the web page above to make me aware of what parts of the house are due for a once-over cleaning.
Since then the house has been clean, we’re both happier, and we can have friends over without fear of the “So, do you guys ever clean this house?” comments.
I have toyed with the idea of expanding this and making it into a commercial site, but I don’t know if there’s enough mass-appeal to make it worthwhile. I don’t think most folks want to head to a computer after they’ve done a few chores around the house.
Although it does kind of make cleaning your house feel like playing a video game.
BTW- Until today, there wasn’t a “public” view into this page. It was this post from a site called Unclutterer that inspired me to make a “public” view… You’ll also see a comment from me in this post that’s very similar to what you’re reading right now 
Thanks to some help from Steve I’ve now got a bracket as well.
(Not submitted in any pool… Strictly for me to be able to say I have a bracket)
I for one welcome our new Buckeye Overlords.
