Posted on 03/25/2008 5:58:52 AM PDT by silent_jonny
I found several more--they all seem to have "system32" in their file names. I was able to delte about half of them.
Good night, Chef! ;)
guess it’s time to go battle the other computer, hopefully I’ll finish in time to get some work done. see ya all later
I prefer my food cooked. ;) Glad to see him gone.
As for Jen in Vegas, shoot, I wouldn't want to spend time with any of them! Were I her, I think I would have picked Petrouza. He's mildly less annoying than the others. imo
Which is probably a good thing, since half the time the cakes are made with non edible things like pvc pipes, wire, thick rope etc. They look really cool, but if you plan to serve it to guests, I guess I'd want to know ahead of time how many pieces of it would be edible.
I was still worried what would happen this morning when I re-connected to the Internet. But so far, so good. No sign of the bugs. No suspicious downloading. I'm still getting the pop-up warning, but I think that might be from another anti-spyware program I already had on my computer. I clicked "no" on it and it went away like it's supposed to, nothing else happened.
Thank you for your help :) I didn't know Crap Cleaner even existed, LOL
Good! I’m glad things seem to be back to normal. I only found out about Crap Cleaner after I my bad virus and the old IT guy at work put it on my computer. I was looking up song lyrics to post a joke on FR. LOL
A warning, though. There is a feature that automatically deletes things from your recycle bin as soon as they are put there. If you are like me and accidentally delete things, uncheck that box! A couple of months ago they upgraded us to laptops. Well, during the conversion, the IT guy accidentally deleted my e-mail box. All of my work e-mail was gone.
I don't understand big metrosexual oafs who think they can cook, but don't know sh-- from shinola around a kitchen!
2 wellingtons 1 risotto and 2 ribeys....Ok, 2 risottos, 3 wellington's and a ceasar's salad, yes, chef....
Oh wow, do I have a migraine!
Interesting article. http://gamedame.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/the-dodgers-and-david-cook/
The Dodgers and David Cook
Last night hubby and I went to a Dodgers game. Another loss. We’re 0 for 2 so far when seeing them live. Boo and sadness. Interestingly, although the baseball was underwhelming, we were not short of entertainment last night. Let me ’splain you.
So Tommy Lasorda (or, um, some marketing geek saying he’s Tommy Lasorda) sent us an email enticing us to buy “preferred field box” seats for more than half off. Normally they go for $70 and the offer was for $30. The field level has been renovated since we last sat there years ago and we were intrigued to sit in the little 4-seat bench area with our own tray for food and stuff. We pulled the trigger.
When we got there, however, the usher told us that our seats were NOT one of the neato bench boxes with the shelves, but actually the last row on the field level, under the overhang. Disappointing, but at least we were on the aisle seats.
Those aisle seats turned out to be a major character in this story.
About 10 minutes before the game started, my husband poked me in the arm and whispered, “David Cook! Coming up the aisle! Right now!” {My hubby kindly allows me to have a crush on American Idol winner David Cook. I think he finds it amusing.}
Sure enough, brushing right past my arm on the aisle seat comes Cookie, wearing a green “KC” hat and looking EXACTLY like he does on TV, scruffy beard and all. Dude, I was flabbergasted. I am ashamed to say that I tried to smell the air in his wake. (All I got was eau de bodyguard.) His seats were, ironically, right down the aisle from us in the boxes we thought we’d be in.
Cook’s girlfriend / date / we’re-just-hanging-out-chick, Kimberly Caldwell, however, provided much more of an aromatic show for us. (Cough.) She sang the National Anthem before the game and performed adequately. The beginning was “very pitchy” (I cringed) but she got on track halfway through and finished competently. Not the best anthem I’ve heard by a long shot, but also not the worst.
David behaved graciously during the game. He was asked for photos and autographs at nearly every half-inning break. (All these people went by me on their way down to see him.) He obliged them all with a smile and no hint of resentment.
Kim, on the other hand… not so much. I had no idea who she was until my husband explained that she hosts something on the TV Guide channel and had been on Idol a few years back. I just thought she was some skank with a bad weave. (And yes, her hair extensions are awful, obvious, choppy.) She was NOT pleasant to fans. She seemed to resent the attention that David was getting. When she was in her seat next to him (a cumulative 30 minutes for the entire game), she felt the need to police who got access to him.
She came past me up the aisle many times. The first time, she was expressing surprise and outrage to her Dodger stadium escort that smoking is not allowed anywhere in the stadium seats. (Has this chick even been ANYWHERE in California?) Later, when she came up the aisle for another of her smoking breaks (I could smell the cigarette smoke on her 3 rows before and after she passed my chair), two little boys asked if they could have a picture with her. Her response was, “No! I’m not working today!” and brushed past them in a huff.
Holy moly.
In direct contrast, I urged two little girls and their father to go down between innings toward the end of the game and get his picture. They waited through the entire top of the 7th and when he saw them standing there, he grinned and stepped right up for the picture. Their dad high-fived me on the way back, thanking me for my help.
The last highlight of the baseball game was a bench-clearing brawl. I’ve never seen one live. The crowd’s reaction was more intense than I expected. I was glad the players had no sharp weapons because the crowd wanted blood.
The Dodgers lost 3-0 to the Rockies but I definitely had a memorable evening.
Very interesting. I’m glad to hear that Cook is gracious to his fans and disappointed to hear that Caldwell is not. Methinks that relationship won’t last long.
You’ll get a kick out of this video - look at the first one. Very funny. (I have way too much time on my hands).
http://topidol.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/david-cook-stop-being-so-likable/
If you thought Simon Cowell was blunt, how about this?
The Idol judge has nothing on his boss Nigel Lythgoe, who told OK! that this year’s winner David Cook could be as big as AI alum Daughtry – but only if he gets some personality.
The exec producer also revealed for the first time that the smash hit show had a run-in with the White House earlier this year over the President’s appearance on the Idol Gives Back special!
And he told us about his bizarre plans to turn America second biggest show, So You Think You Can Dance, into a tinned-food drive.
The Idol exec producer said yesterday that both of the finalists, Davids Cook and Archuleta, could have a shot at the big time -- except that they both suffer from a lack of onstage charisma.
Lythgoe said that he thinks 25-year-old Cook, who took the Idol title two weeks ago, could be “enormous for a long time” and even rival the success of fellow rocker Chris Daughtry, who came fourth in the show's fifth season.
“He can certainly sing – and I’d like to see a bit more personality when he’s singing,” he said.
“And that was the only thing that I think our finalists lacked a little bit this year, was more charisma.”
He said that the pair should use the American Idol Live tour this summer, which starts in Glendale Az. on July 1, to learn to put a unique sparkle into their performances.
Nigel, 58, also spilled that during the planning for the second annual Idol Gives Back fundraising special, which aired in April, America’s biggest TV show had a spat with no less a power than the White House!
He said that the show’s producers were so disappointed with President Bush’s efforts to combat the very poverty that the show was trying to relieve that they were embarrassed to have him on their TV show.
But Nigel said that Idol relented under pressure from the Pres's people, and allowed him to speak during the star-studded broadcast.
“The President is always saying ‘I want to be on [Gives Back],” said the Brit.
“We didn't ask the President this year to say anything because we are all a bit embarrassed about him, and the office insisted that, because the [primary] candidates were on it, the President would like to come on and say ‘thank you.’"
So far Nigel says, Idol Gives Back, has raised some $142million for projects in the US and Africa. But that hasn’t stopped him for developing some far more home-grown ways to help the poor.
The exec, who is also on the board of the after-school program LA’s Best, said that he is going to make the studio audience for So You Think You Can Dance donate canned goods for the program in exchange for an admission ticket.
"So if you want a ticket for So You Think You Can Dance, all you have to do is bring a can of fruit or vegetables or something.
"And I'll come and collect it each week and just take it away.
"And how sad is this? How sad is this in Los Angeles. I get angry with it,” he said.
There is so much wrong with that, I don't even know where to start.
President and Mrs. Bush have been to Africa FAR more often than anyone associated with American Idol--they've seen the poverty there with their own eyes on five seperate visits since 2001, including two visits just this year. Mrs. Bush has made at least two visits there on her own, IIRC. And their daughter Jenna has LIVED and WORKED there as a teacher.
The President's focus on Africa has ALWAYS been to alieviate poverty and disease through freedom and education--not only to ease the human suffering there, but also to keep terrorism from spreading.
As for the Africans' themselves, they don't seem to be "embarrassed" by the President. Far from it.
President George W. Bush embraces a hospital staff member Monday, Feb. 18, 2008, during a tour of the outpatient facility at the Meru District Hospital in Arusha, Tanzania. White House photo by Eric Draper
A sign welcomes President George W. Bush, Monday, February 18, 2008 in the Tanzanian capitol of Dar es Salaam. White House photo by Chris Greenberg
President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush pose for a photo Monday, Feb. 18, 2008, with patients and staff at the Meru District Hospital outpatient clinic in Arusha, Tanzania. White House photo by Eric Draper
I guess the only people embarrassed by the president are you and your condescending limo liberal pals in Hollywood, Nigel.
Gee she sounds charming. I think we used to call her “goat girl”, because she added so much unnecessary vibrato to every song.
He’s clearly torturing those poor Africans! ;-)
In honor of our wonderfully talented, always gregarious, and all around prince of a host, I've arranged for a knight in shining armor (okay, it's more like a dull gleam) deliver a cake! Well, maybe the armor is more protection from the raging inferno on the top of the cake. The good news is that there is plenty for everyone!
OMG! I pinged everyone BUT YOU to my post above!!! LMAO!!!!
Somehow it’s fitting I made a boneheaded mistake like that on your birthday. It’s like a little extra present. ;-)
LOL! Somehow this doesn't surprize me!!!
To the gaining of much more widsom...Even if it's all about SPAM!!! ;-)
Happy B-DAY, SJ!
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