I believe just like cigarette’s Food is addictive. Especially for those of us who despise many of the so-called “good for you foods” like vegetables. Yes, I do eat that stuff. To eat it gags me. Unless it is saturated in some kind of cream cheese sauce I will not eat it.

Do you remember when you were most adults would say you need to eat that to become big and strong. It’s a lie. I got big and strong and I ate less vegetables than most kids today. I am a meat eater. However, I will eat most breads and starch based foods (like corn).

Yet here is the addiction part. I believe it is the Carbohydrates and some of the processed food chemicals that drive our appetites. Do you crave a big bowl of green beans? I don’t and hopefully never will. If you do then you are sick. lol

I am a former smoker and I must admit that quiting that habit was far easier totally changing my diet. I cannot understand why there is not a substitute for flower so I can have Pizza . That shows you how bad my withdrawal really is.

Without some level of weight loss diet help I think most of us will be up the creek. I know I would be. If it were not for my family staying on me about what not to eat then I know I would balloon back up to my high end weight.

Finally, I am still hoping for a pill to solve this whole weight loss thing.  ;)

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This story is really on the fence for me.  Its not bad but then again at the time it scare me to death.

Way back in the good ole days.  This was after the IBM Computer was introduced.  Maybe a couple of years after the first one.

I was in a local community college studying Computer Science.  So I had my hands in several languages trying to learn them; Paschal, Basic, Cobol and Assembler.

Well the Assembler at school was not what I would call an assembler but our professor used it.  It was on the mainframe and basically it was just loading registers, dumping the memory and doing simple command instructions like that.

I got a case of the boredoms and I started to experiment with PC Assembler.  At the time I was a subscriber to PC Magazine and during those days they would publish a neat little Assembler program that actually did something useful.

I would type in that code and pick it apart.

I had an idea that I would write a TSR application.  A TSR stood for “Terminate and Stay Resident”.  This way the program would continue running while you could do something else with the computer like word processing.

So I decided on writing a Clock.  My goal was to have the clock appear in the upper right hand corner of the screen and he user could see the cloack all of the time even with the word processor running.

Eventually, I had high hopes of adding an alarm and having it able to toggle between normal time and military time.

Since I worked 2nd shift in a computer room there were a couple of these PCs around the office area.  So after my regular work was done I would go out and start writing my Assembler code.

I finally finished the coding.  I compiled the code and corrected a couple of errors and then I executed it.

The Clock jumped to life and it did appear in the upper corner of this monochrome monitor.  It looked so good.

Then what appeared to be a 30 seconds or so.  The clock started advancing in time really quicking just like a digital stop watch.

And then the screen suddenly went blank and a large vertical green line appeared in the center of the monitor and then it reduced quickly to a small dot in the center of the screen.  And then the monitor made a loud Pop.  And the screen was completely blank.

I quickly shutdown the power to the computer and I just sat there.

What if the monitor was ruined?  What if the computer was blown?

These sencerios were running rampant in my mind along with the sweating.  I could not afford to buy this thing.

So with a shaky hand I restarted the computer.

Thanks goodness!  It started up and appeared to be normal.  Whew!

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A Simple Computer Game

March 12, 2010

Games are suppose to be fun. We have them today and our kids play them. In fact, some adults still play them.
As with anything good, they tend to get better. Think about it. We now have the Wii. Gaming merged with excercising. What a concept.
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Honda Civics and Railroad Tracks

March 11, 2010

Back in 1977 I bought my first brand new car. It was a 77′ Honda Civic and it got 32 MPG. Gee why can’t cars get that MPG today?
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Bridges and Water Balloons

March 10, 2010

I absolutely do not recommend anyone do this. You can very well land in jail. So reader beware!
I can be the poster boy for doing dumb things and this has got to be one of them.
One weekend night back when i was in high school my best friend and I were looking for [...]

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My Chinese Buddies

March 9, 2010

Hopefully, there will be a time in your life where a greater good will be presented and you will act on it.
In my case, it took place in China. Typically, during the summer I will travel to China to teach English in a summer camp. The kind of teaching we do is geared [...]

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Standing with Jeff – a Sad Ending

March 8, 2010

As a part of growing to be a better person I felt that I should do more in this world and I felt that God was tugging me in different direction.  So with the encouragement of family and friends I went on a mission trip.
The man that was heading it up was named Jeff.  He [...]

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The Muffler Trip – Good Friends having a Blast

March 7, 2010

I have this friend who I will refer to as N and he is one of my closest friends.  At one point in my professional life he was my boss.  We were the only two guys in the department so we had a good time.
Well we were on a trip in North Carolina in one [...]

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Twitter Status Updates – Part 3

March 2, 2010

I know I am a bit late with what I described as a cool Twitter trick so let me explain what I ahve done.
If you are familiar with the automated services for Power-Twitter users then you will understand what I have done.
Using sub-domains I have manged to create mini Wordpress blogs that can post tweets [...]

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Twitter Status Updates – Part 2

February 24, 2010

I stated a couple of days ago that I had a developed a cheap and free system for making status updates.
Well, I must beg for your patience for another two days.
The system that I have developed is quite easy but I did run into one glitch that caused me to stop in my tracks until [...]

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Twitter Status Updates – Automatically? Yes! And it is Free

February 22, 2010

I believe I have discovered a very interesting and unique way to auto-post Twitter Status Updates.
For the next two days I will throughly test this procedure to see if my theory holds true. I will also check to see if it complies with Twitter’s TOS.
IF you are not sure as to what I am [...]

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The Really Cool People Are Born In May

February 19, 2010

Everyone in the world knows this to be a fact.  Really cool people were born in May.
Why argue about it.  It is well known, just look at those that are honored as having that claim.  Other than myself.
Tim McGraw
Ray Parker, Jr.
Rita Coolidge
Judy Collins
Terry Southern
Jack Paar
Glenn Ford
Kate Smith
Lily Allen
David Beckham
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
Lesley Gore
Bianca Jagger
Engelbert Humperdinch
roscoe [...]

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PLR Buddy Believes That Twitter plus PLR Yields NEW MFA Potentials

February 19, 2010

Twitter has got to be the biggest waste of time on the planet, right? Think about it. Why do you want to Micro-Blog about yourself all day long. Better yet, why do you want to keep up with other people’s nonsense?
“I stumped my Toe! OMG! It HURTS!” or “She dumped [...]

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Another PLR Buddy Moment – Double Your Showing in the SERPs

February 18, 2010

Have you ever seen two listings for one website on Google’s search engine results page (SERP)? If so then you have probably wondered how that was done?
Well, in Google’s infinite wisdom them decided to allow that to happen. Now when started doing that they did not make any headlines about the availability of [...]

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A New Dirty Secret When Using PLR From Your PLR Buddy

February 17, 2010

There are times when you need to question authority and there are times when you should not. This is one of those times.
When I discovered Private Label Rights with regard to Content there were a certain set of implied rules that were being laid out as a best practice. Now while their intentions [...]

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Thinking Of Buying A Mac

February 15, 2010

I see it in the forums alot; “I am thinking of buying a Mac” or “Is a Mac a good investment?”
I don’t mean to rain on anyone’s parade in here and I do appreciate some of the apps that MAC can do as in graphic and video production.
BUT
What will happen when Steve Jobs dies?
We all [...]

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