Posted on 08/30/2009 2:38:30 PM PDT by Fishtalk
For one can never get enough Ted Kennedy.
But more importantly, on Thoughts this week we have a tender story about butterfly babies and backyard habitats. Plus a story about a new computer malware that is particularly nasty.
And of course, as we all need more of the wonderful Ted Kennedy in our lives, my tale of just how I shall explain the story of Ted Kennedy to my granddaughter.
Much more.
(Excerpt) Read more at patfishthoughts.blogspot.com ...
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Other Blog posts this week:
TV Reviews of Hell's Kitchen where Chef Ramsey keeps cussing the wannabe chefs keep smoking.
Also a dark horse HGTV reality contest for interior designers…."Design Star".
And as "America's Got Talent" rapidly gains as a challenge to "American Idol" it now has a final top 20.
First guess at the top five here with pics and video you'll find nowhere else on the Internet.
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Ed and Lois Smart tell the harrowing tale of the search for their abducted daughter Elizabeth.
She'd been taken from her bed in her own home one night and as the Smart family suffered the insults of a community the Salt Lake Police blew this case so bad that Elizabeth suffered many more months for their dereliction of investigative duty.
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For one can never get enough Ted Kennedy.
But more importantly, on Thoughts this week we have a tender story about butterfly babies and backyard habitats. Plus a story about a new computer malware that is particularly nasty.
And of course, as we all need more of the wonderful Ted Kennedy in our lives, my tale of just how I shall explain the story of Ted Kennedy to my granddaughter.
Much more.
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I loved the singing nurses. I would have loved to have some of them working at the time I was hospitalized last year. My blood pressure (which is usually almost too low) would definitely have risen some as my heart would have beat just a mite faster. Whew! It’s getting hot in here.
I agree wholeheartedly with you about Fat Teddy. He was guilty of either murder or at the very least, negligent homicide. He should have been imprisoned for what he did.
Whiskey and Moonshine say “Hey!”
I could pull up all menus, but could not execute any commands. It claimed to have scanned a total of 28
infections and wanted $39.99 to download new software to remove the infections.
I abandoned the ‘puter for a month. Turn it on one day and it was fine. No trace of infection or phony security ware.
And guess what?
The other day I am on my computer in the bedroom and boom, I get ANOTHER notice that I’ve got a nasty bug on the machine and just click here to clear it out. This was not Windows Antivirus Pro...it was another name.
I, of course, am of the “fool me oncit/twicit” school so I quickly downloaded the program I used on the kitchen computer...”malwarebytes.org” I think it was, and cleared it right up.
This sort of program could fool people so easily. Evidently some computer site I am visiting is getting me these things but I’m a fairly typical web surfer. I did just join a game site so that seems a spot.
To me this is a crime and surely it would be easy to catch these people. Surely they have a credit card account in order to steal people’s money, you think?
I got lucky a couple years ago when I found a couple other caterpillers hanging out on a milkweed plant. I cut the plant and brought it home and put it in my bug cage.
About a week later the original caterpillers were still alive but I also discovered a baby monarch caterpiller which eventually grew to adult hood, climbed to the top of the cage and turned into the chrysallis.
I then gave the cage to my niece's dau. who was then able to watch the transformation from chrysallis to butterfly......
At one point in my struggle, a “true” Windows’ warning did pop up.
“Warning-your system is under attack from a deceptive security ware system”, or some such statement.
It was a fleeting, short staid message.
After the computer's month long hibernation, the bug had vanished as if it had never even been here.
I cannot find a trace or record of this bug in my system.
Whew, I am just learning this stuff but here’s what I learned about the life span of the monarch butterfly.
The butterfly only lives for about six weeks or so.
during a summer, this laying of eggs on the milkweed occurs, of course, once every six weeks. The final egg laying is called the fourth generation, usually late in August, early September. It is THIS generation that will migrate, eventually hibernate over the winter in Mexico or somewhere, then return to these climes, lay the first batch of eggs and the life cycle goes on.
So i’d be looking for these caterpillars, well they about all year as the above life span would indicate, but right about now is the most important.
As of now everyone of my guys is gone, I’m think to a chrysilis somewhere. The “butterfly plant” is stripped bare and they were really fat guys toward the end.
But this fourth generation is out there as they begin migrating at the end of September/early October.
In the future, build yourself a bug cage and put the plants with the caterpillers in it. They will continue to feed and morph without threat of being eaten by predators such as birds or other creepy things.............
You're actually doing them a favor.......
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