[ here kitty ] Vacaville had a reported sighting by a few people at a park. Maybe the cat was sizing them up.

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[ 8.1 quake ] Penguins escape huge earthquake. What would you yell out to the fleeing Penguins, "Run Penguins Run!" or "Slide Faster Penguins!" ???

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[ water humping ] The Elephant Seals are lounging in their favorite place. Fun to watch them, it is. This is BTW their mating season.

[ small towns ] I used to live here, Mantoloking, NJ. A fun place with good surf, nice people and beautiful weather. And now I live here, San Jose, CA. Compared to Mantoloking, San Jose is further from the surf, 35 minutes, has nice people (b/c many are imported from NJ!), beautiful weather and with only a 4 hour drive to the mountains we get some great skiiing. So instead of driving in the snow, we now drive to the snow ;)

[ no morals ] Now that China has presented the world with the first Miss Artificial Beauty contest, I'd expect the "wonderfully gifted screenwriters" of Hollywood to bring us a Reality T.V. show of the same. Everyone and their mother, literally, are having surgery to "improve" themselves for this contest.

[ What's wrong with a pouncing pet Lion? ] Some people just amaze me! If you had a young pet Puma living with two young children, and two Bob Cats what do YOU think would happen if left in the same house for extended hours? Unsupervised!

[ Hole me not ] Nuts! Just when you thought it was safe to go outside.. recently scientist "discovered" that I am living by a new fault. A hole, a crack or whatever you want to call it, the fact is it is active. How do they come across such cracks? It's not like a "car down".

[ cool app ] I found this app not too long ago called Konfabulator. It allows you to place modules anywhere on the desktop, modules like weather, clock, Wi-Fi notification, song lyrics, CPU monitoring, etc. And each module supports Opacity, way cool! My favorites are Picture Frame and iTunes Companion. I liked viewing my pictures but the algorithm was shady. So to view more photo's I copied Picture Frame twice in the same directory and renamed them in order for me to lunch three versions of it. Now I point each "Frame" to a different directory. The result is my personal rotating gallery on my desktop. The iTunes Companion takes over as a mini player for iTunes and displays the album cover of each song played, local or streaming. Way cool!

[ Stumping out the report ] I don't get it. If you remove the equation, the report is inadequate. Remove the variable and you have no equation.

[ Mtn Lion sighting - Oakland Hills ] Coming in from all directions, they are. East side, West side, the South. You better run Rodney, run run, Cats are in the Hood! LOL

[ Was just talking about that ] Another Lion was spotted in the Palo Alto area, this time at the Stanford dish. I was having a beer conversation just the other night about that area and lions. Funny we thought, well me, that the lions were passing through this area to get into the neighborhoods. This area I speak of is of classic California rolling hills/ cattle/ horse ranches. "Easy" food for a lion the horse or cows would be. And th person was disagreeing with me stating that a lion wouldn't eat those. The comment if I recall was, "a bull is too large". Well we're talking horses and cows, not bulls. An average 3 to 5 year old cat at 100+ pounds could take a horse or cow. No problem. Anyhow, this is all assuming as we don't know if this is their path into the neighborhood. I use "theirs" b/c my theory is there is this particular area. I believe the Mom cat brought her young in here once and now they continue to use their path through the neighborhoods. It is logical but can only be proven ... hhmmm, I do not know yet how it can be proven. Buckle up!

[ XP Services ] I disabled some XP Service in the attempt to cut down on background processes and now I can't install apps. nuts, it's always something :) I get my Services 411 z123 and some info from The Elder Geek.

[ Task Mgr replacement ] This replacement is a kickass for obtaining more info on and locating rogue processes. Recently I picked up a "WDFMGR.EXE" and could not figure out which application was kicking it off and it was killing my explorer shell. So I searched my old XP System bookmarks and relocated this app. It's worth having this bookmarked or installed as a resource!

[ Mtn Lion interest ] USA Today wrote an interesting story about Mtn Lions in the news, sightings and some stats. A good read it is. In this story they note a David S. Maehr whom reported on Puma's in Florida. After some Googling I was able to find Maehr's research in the Wildlife Society Bulletin but unable to read it as it costs $25. Nuts!

[ Google Ads ] I'm thinking of doing this for my site.

[ Police Beat ] This new movie sounds interesting.

[ Omega-3 ] So it is suggested that we should have a diet of Omega-3, not supplements, as the preferred human absorption of n-3.

[ SF Mtn Lion continues ] More news on the South SF Lion sighting. Here was another sighting at Moss Beach the same day. This same article talks about an unconfirmed sighting near Sugarloaf Mountain Open Space on Nov. 21st. This park is on the ridge of a high class Bay Area suburbia.