and so the snow came, furious and insistent
covering our neighborhood in a white velvet robe
erasing the scars of oil stains and potholes from the streets
and calming the built up energy of the city
i recently purchased a 24″ iMac. i love it and am very happy with it. however, this is my first Mac and the transition has hit a few bumps. it was bothering me that i couldn’t easily see the desktop without minimizing all of the open windows. i could “see” the desktop when i used expose, but you can’t click on anything, ie, folders or the HD. in windows, there is the “show desktop” button in the quick links panel down on the bottom left near the start button, ya know? but i figured out a good fix using the “active screen corners”. i set the bottom left corner of the monitor to “show desktop”, so now i just throw the cursor down there for a second, all open screens get pushed off the desktop to the edges, and i can click on things on the desktop. it’s brilliant! i was used to moving the mouse down to the bottom left to hit the “show desktop” button, so it’s very natural to move it down there. only drawback is i accidently engage it sometimes when i move the cursor.
steps:
the leaves fell down, on me they rained,
through autumn dusk on this crisp day.
like red twirling dive bombers falling to earth,
prepared to be trampled and turned into dirt.
from beauty the colors they all go to brown,
from heights and bright majesty they die on the ground.
for a brief moment in time did this beauty exist,
and for nothing more than the knowing of this.
this site has a few early obama jokes. my favorite:
“Vice President Dick Cheney’s wife, Lynne Cheney, said that Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are related. She said they are actually eighth cousins. … Lynne Cheney says that Obama and Dick Cheney’s connection was the result of one of Obama’s ancestors marrying one of Cheney’s ancestors in 1650. Even more interesting, you know who introduced them
in 1650? Bob Dole.” –Jay Leno
google tracked the top searches on election day and analyzed them in blog post. from the post:
As polls closed and the presidential race was called after 11 pm EST for [president obama], people searched for outcomes on state races of interest, such as [al franken senate race], [massachusetts question 2], and [proposition 8] in California.
in case you don’t know, massachusetts question 2 pertained to the decriminalization of a small amount of pot and california’s prop 8 pertained to a ban on gay marriage.
does anyone else think it’s wicked funny that google thought ma’s pot question this important?