Dr. Horrible hijacks the Emmys?

I found Narnia

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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog - Act I

It's dumb but funny. Probably rated PG almost PG 13. Act's II and III can be found on the Hulu site.

Funny stuff

Funny stuff - these anti-theft plastic sandwich bags have fake mold on them so no one steals your lunch. ;-) http://design-milk.com/anti-theft-lunch-bags/

Forgiveness

"Forgiveness is a dying process. As we die to ourselves and allow Christ to act His character through us, we are empowered to forgive."

— Jennifer Ridgway

Risks

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing to be sentimental.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing our true self.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying. To hope is to risk despair.
To try at all is to risk failure.
But risk we must, because the greatest hazard in life
is to risk nothing.
The man, the woman, who risks nothing does nothing,
has nothing, is nothing.

(Anonymous)

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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. 

- Og Mandino

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”

-Og Mandino

Interdependence

“We must be our own before we can be another's.” -emerson

Finish each day

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. -Emerson

Friends

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends.' -unknown

anti-malware

Best free

Windows Defender
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx

Spy-bot
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Adaware free
http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.36
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2345349,00.asp

a-squared free
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/

Best commercial

Spyware Doctor
http://www.pctools.com/

Spyware Sweeper
http://www.webroot.com/En_US/consumer-products-spysweeper.html

Safe Computing

1. Use firefox (www.mozilla.com/firefox/) not IE as your browser.
   


2. Don't click on fake ads which try and trick you and say there is a virus on you computer so click here now to get it removed. They then get you to install the virus/adware.
   


3. Don't click on executable attachments .exe, .dll, .bat, videos, screen savers (http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/a/fileextview.htm) from an attachment ever even if you know the person. Even if they are a close friend and you can tell they legitimately sent it to you (because the text of the email was obviously written to you and not a generic message written by a virus or a forward, still don't. ) You usually can't trust others to have gotten the app from a reputable source so it still may contain a virus. Just ignore the email attachment.
   


4. If you get an email with an attachment from someone you know or don't know. (A lot of virus's spread through people you know). Don't open an attachment even its a word file, or excel file, video file, etc no matter what they say it is unless there is something personally identifiable in the email which tells you a human you know sent it to you and only to you ignore forwards. For example if it says "this is cool try it." Don't. If they say this video is cool watch it, still don't. This includes forwards, they weren't written to you personally so don't trust them. If you want a way to figure out if it was a virus or a person sent it to you, respond to the person who sent it to you and ask if they meant to send it. They will get the response and probably be very confused because 1) they didn't send it and won't know what your talking about, or 2) they will be insulted because they don't understand why you're questioning them. So its usually easier to just ignore the attachment.
   


5. Don't follow links people send you in emails unless its to a reputable site. Youtube is ok.
   


6. Don't use filesharing programs like Kaaza or limewire. Kaaza installs spyware.
   


7. Don't go to bad parts of the web. Hacker sites, porn sites, stolen software sites, etc. Stay in the nice neighborhoods.
   


8. Keep your machine patched. Let it auto update your browser, your OS, your plugins, your apps etc. Keep MS word, Acrobat reader, excel and powerpoint patched as well. Basically patch everything, not just your browser.
   


9. Install anti-virus software on your computer.
   


10. Install anti-spyware/adware software on your computer.
    


11. Set up windows to always show all file extensions. The reason for this is some malware type programs try to hide what they really are. You will get a file with the extensions stuff.jpg.exe. But because windows hides they .exe it will look just like a jpg (image) to you and you'll run it and it will infect you. Don't click on files with suspicious double extensions. Instructions on how to do this http://www.fileinfo.com/help/windows-show-extensions.html
    
    
12. Don't send forwards with attachments, or links to sites you don't trust. You are convincing others to do the things email suggests against.
    


13. If send a forward even without links or attachments, clean it up first. Get rid of the FWD:FWD:FWD text in the subject and leave just one FWD. Get rid of all the >> signs, remove all the old email addresses from previous people. Remove the "please forward me now" chain letter stuff. Use bcc (blind carbon copy), rather than cc (carbon copy). That will hide who you send it to. If you send a forward with cc, rather than bcc you are giving out all of your friends email addresses to everyone you know, and if they forward it they are are giving your friends email addresses to everyone they know, and the cycle continues. At some point much further done the line, you are possibly giving all of your friends email addresses to spammers.
    


14. If you do see lots of stuff on the web you want to send on including forwards, don't forward them. Get a facebook or blog account instead. Send the link to your account to your friends. Then you can post it all in one place, plus a good place to post your thoughts, musings, and pictures and have discussions with friends, both through chat and leaving messages. It's considered more polite than sending a lot of forwards because if people have the same interests as you, they will go to your site and if not, they won't. Plus they can talk to you and the rest of your friends in a more fun/interactive way. If you do get a blogger account, don't put your name in it or anything personally identifiable because it is very public. But facebook is ok to leave your name because you can limit who can see your page, but then be careful who you accept as friends.
    

Correlation

I also enjoyed the image hover text from the original page "Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'."

Gratitude for Grace

Interesting article it's about how we rarely feel or show gratitude to God for anything we have especially if we feel we "earned" it ourselves.

…I got out a pen to add some things to the store list. I do this about five times every day. But this time, as I wrote “bread” and “black beans” on my little pad of paper, it hit me: I am doing something really, really amazing here. Out of the blue, I suddenly saw writing items on my grocery list in a completely different light: I realized what an incredibly — almost unimaginable — luxury it is to be able to simply write down what I want to feed my children, and be able to go get it. Quickly. Easily. Cheaply.

Another interesting quote

When we pray the petition in the Lord’s Prayer, “Give us this day our daily bread,” we aren’t (usually) asking for God to “miraculously” drop manna and quail from the sky. But we are asking that he graciously rewards our labors with the material needs for our existence. Jennifer’s reflections on the blessings represented by the ability to write up grocery lists reminds us that we ought to be grateful to God even for what we think we earn.

http://blog.acton.org/archives/8910-gratitude-for-grace.html

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Kids Science exam answers

Funny/dumb email forward from my Aunt.

Kids Science exam answers

If you need a good laugh, try reading through these children's science exam answers

Q: Name the four seasons.
A: Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.

Q: Explain one of the processes by which water can be made
safe to drink.
A: Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes
large pollutants
like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists.

Q: How is dew formed?
A: The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them
perspire.

Q: How can you delay milk turning sour?
A: Keep it in the cow.

Q: What causes the tides in the oceans?
A: The tides are a fight between the Earth and the Moon.
All water tends to flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the
moon, and nature hates a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.

Q: What are steroids?
A: Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs.

Q: What happens to your body as you age?
A: When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental.

Q: What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty?
A: He says good-bye to his boyhood and looks forward to his adultery

Q: Name a major disease associated with cigarettes.
A: Premature death.

Q: How are the main parts of the body categorized? ( e.g., abdomen)
A: The body is consisted into three parts -- the brainium, the borax and the
abdominal cavity. The brainium contains the brain; the borax contains the
heart and lungs, and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels A, E, I, O,
and U.

Q: What is the fibula?
A: A small lie.

Q: What does 'varicose' mean? (I do love this
one...)
A: Nearby.

Q: Give the meaning of the term 'Caesarian Section.'
A: The Caesarian Section is a district in Rome

Q: What does the word 'benign' mean?'
A: Benign is what you will be after you be eight.

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Kids Are Quick

TEACHER: Maria, go to the map and find North America
MARIA: Here it is.
TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America ?
CLASS: Maria.

____________________________________
TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?
JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables.
__________ ________________________________

TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell 'crocodile?'
GLEN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L'
TEACHER: No, that's wrong
GLEN: ! Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.
____________________________________________

TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?
DONALD: H I J K L M N O.
TEACHER: What are you talking about?
DONALD: Yesterday you said it's H to O.
__________________________________

TEACHER: Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we didn't have
ten years ago.
WINNIE: Me!
__________________________________________

TEACHER: Glen, why do you always get so dirty?
GLEN: Well, I'm a lot closer to the ground than you are.
_______________________________________

TEACHER: Millie, give me a sentence starting with 'I.'
MILLIE: I is..
TEACHER: No, Millie..... Always say, 'I am.'
MILLIE: All right... 'I am the ninth letter of
the alphabet.
_________________________________

TEACHER: George Washington not only chopped down his
father's cherry tree,
but also admitted it. Now, Louie, do you know why his
father didn't punish him?
LOUIS: Because George still had the axe in his hand.
______________________________________

TEACHER: Now, Simon, tell me frankly, do you say prayers
before eating?
SIMON: No sir, I don't have to, my Mom is a good cook.

TEACHER: Clyde , your composition on 'My Dog' is exactly the same as your
brother's. Did you copy his?
CLYDE : No, sir. It's the same dog.
___________________________________

TEACHER: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people
are no longer interested?
HAROLD: A teacher.

John Lennon or Harry Potter

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Burning an online video to DVD

Or burning any video to a video dvd.

A friend of a friend wants to know how to do this as part of a class project. Here you go...

Get any video file from the internet. The higher the resolution the better, because it will be scaled up to the size of a tv screen, where it might look very blocky if its a tiny (or even normal youtube video).

You can put a youtube link into this page (http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/) to download a youtube file. Add the extension .flv to the file before saving it. But if you forget it doesn't save the file with a file extension by default so sometimes its tricky to find in programs later, so make sure you always look for all files and not just specific file types in open dialogs.

My researched turned up the open source apps for this are DVD Flick for Windows, and DVD Styler for Linux and Windows. I tested with DVD Flick on windows.

List of features from the webpage.

• Burn near any video file to DVD
• Support for over 45 file formats
• Support for over 60 video codecs
• Support for over 40 audio codecs
• Easily add a menu
• Add your own subtitles
• Easy to use interface
• Burn your project to disc after encoding
• Completely free without any adware, spyware or limitations

Download and install from this link
http://www.dvdflick.net/download

Run the app, select Add Title in the upper right corner.

Select "All files" in the bottom of the file dialog, then find your video file you want to encode.

Click Ok.

Use a DVD-R if possible because its most universal for video, but a DVD+R will probably work on anything newer, and video CD may work as well.

Set up your DVD burning options by clicking on project settings dialog.

Under general chose the target size which fits the format you are using DVD-R/+R, video cd, etc.

Under the video tab choose the NTSC format for the US.

Under the burning choose your DVD Burner. (I had too choose create ISO because it Parallels doesn't support DVD burners on the Mac, then I copied the .iso file to the mac to burn. When you do this the iso file is under "My documents" \dvd\something.iso).

Click Accept.

Now click Create DVD at the top of the screen.

Click OK on the warning dialogs to re-encode.

Wait a long time.

Put your DVD in a DVD player and play.