Recently, I discovered that pandas are extremely boring creatures to visit.  Basically, they don't hang out with each other and do cute things: all they do is eat.  Oh, and their white bits get very grubby looking.

Feel good story for today:

Yesterday, a client came in with a new found cat. I should say that the cat found her. It was about mid October that my client felt sorry for the stray and stared to feed her and let her into her home. One night in late October, my client saw some movement outside and found that her little stray had decided she found a good enough home for herself and her 4 kittens. They were quite wild, and so it took a few tries for my client and Momma Cat (her official name now), to round them all up. Now they will have a chance for finding a good home. I suspect that Momma Cat will be staying with the person she trusted enough with her babies.

The white house has Zorked back onto the Just Adventure logo.       

Boo.  Sorry, false alarm: it's just on the forum, not the Home Page.

Yeah OK, but does anyone actually bookmark the Home Page?

Not me.  I come into the site via the forums.

Originally Posted By Caroline

Not me.  I come into the site via the forums.

Same here.

Here's a little piece by Richard Strauss to wake you up this morning:

Also Spracht Zarathustra

Originally Posted By CB

Yeah OK, but does anyone actually bookmark the Home Page?

I have not bookmarked anything (related to this site), I just manually type in www.justadventure.com/ every time I want to visit the forum. That is faster for me than to go through a bookmark bar. 

You don't have simple bookmark tabs? On Firefox it's very easy to have tabs (under the address bar) that you si mply click on the tab you want to go to. I have JA bookmarked there so I simply have one simple mouse-click to get here, no typing, no opening menu's, etc Just a simple little click and I'm here. Have most of my faovirte websites on it that I visit daily.

OK, with WIE I have all my favorited sites organized into separate folders followed by a few sites (email, TV Guide, JA Forum...) that I visit on a daily basis. This keeps the list down to a single screen or less rather then having to scroll through five screens of jibberish.

Originally Posted By Stiler

You don't have simple bookmark tabs? On Firefox it's very easy to have tabs (under the address bar) that you si mply click on the tab you want to go to. I have JA bookmarked there so I simply have one simple mouse-click to get here, no typing, no opening menu's, etc Just a simple little click and I'm here. Have most of my faovirte websites on it that I visit daily.

Yes, but as I visit this site so often, I really don't have to type out the entire adress, all I have to do is to start to type out the URL and it will suggest the site url, so j+enter. My bookmark tab is reserved for sites with harder to remember URLs, like specific news sites and such. 

I use my customized drop down bookmark menus in both my browsers.  I find it easier than tabs unless I want to keep several windows open at once.

I think I may have confused some people.

By tabs I didn't mean actual open webpage tabs, but the bookmark toolbar/tabs. Where you can just have them displayed under your address bar and click to go there (or middle click to open in another tab, etc).

One for Caroline:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2011/12/16/china-chocolate-themepark.html

I can see the headlines now:  

Aussie and Yank Devastate Theme Park

Caroline (Australian) and her accomplice, Lady Kestrel (American), broke into the World of Chocolate Wonderland, a theme park of lifelike chocolate exhibits, that recently opened in Shanghai, China.  Sometime around midnight the police were alerted to strange yummy sounds coming from the park, and the culprits were caught brown-handed while trying to make off with a dragon's tail and the head of an ancient warrior.  Park officials were dismayed to find a third of the exhibits had been devoured.  The two women, self-confessed chocoholics, are now in choc detox and will be deported as soon as they are clean.  

how in the heck do they expect edible exhibits to last....well past the first school class visit?   or from the visit of say, two Chocoholics?  ???

What about a heat wave?

Originally Posted By Lady Kestrel

I can see the headlines now:  

Aussie and Yank Devastate Theme Park

Caroline (Australian) and her accomplice, Lady Kestrel (American), broke into the World of Chocolate Wonderland, a theme park of lifelike chocolate exhibits, that recently opened in Shanghai, China.  Sometime around midnight the police were alerted to strange yummy sounds coming from the park, and the culprits were caught brown-handed while trying to make off with a dragon's tail and the head of an ancient warrior.  Park officials were dismayed to find a third of the exhibits had been devoured.  The two women, self-confessed chocoholics, are now in choc detox and will be deported as soon as they are clean.  

Hoses are being used.)  When asked why they did it, Caroline mumbled something about irresistable temptation, and Lady Kestrel just drooled.

Thanks, Colpet! 

I expect the chocolate is laced with wax, Cris, like the chocolate bars my husband would get in Vietnam.  He said they'd be difficult to melt with a flame thrower.

In that case, it might be a good idea to take a blowtorch with you on your nightly expeditions to the museum.  You could first melt off the outer layer of wax that way.  ..but it might be easier to freeze it then peel/chip it off. 

@ crisger;  I'm sure their aircon will be able to withstand a heatwave, though their security system might not hold up against a joint Aussie/Yank onslaught.   

Let's just hope they don't end up fighting each other for the leftovers.       

well if the exhibts are large enough there will probably be enough for both of them...

and there wont be any need for fighting...or intergalactic conflict...

There's never enough chocolate! 

I know, eh.  I bought a dark chocolate slab brimming with hazelnuts for someone else the other day, (my strategy is never to buy any chocolate for myself, and all my nearest and dearest know not to).

and.. 

guess in who's tummy that slab ended up.  I console myself with the idea that it was actually hazelnuts I ate, wuth just a smathering of chocolate...

..and hazelnuts are good for you, hmm?  

Originally Posted By Traveller

I know, eh.  I bought a dark chocolate slab brimming with hazelnuts for someone else the other day, (my strategy is never to buy any chocolate for myself, and all my nearest and dearest know not to).

and.. 

guess in who's tummy that slab ended up.  I console myself with the idea that it was actually hazelnuts I ate, wuth just a smathering of chocolate...

 

..and hazelnuts are good for you, hmm?  

Totally agree. Same with raisins and almonds.

Murphy's law # x000235:  The garbage truck will come around very early on the days you forgot to put the garbage out the night before,  and late on the days you didn't.

Murphy's law # x000236:  It will always rain the day after you forgot your sprinkler on for the night/washed your car/washed your windows/are wearing new shoes.

Is there any REAL reason (besides for the name,  that I should be getting a Kindle above other e-readers?  I'm not ruling out ones that use LCD screens, since I'm not convinced e-ink is better. I never read in sunlight.

What's important to me is low price and value for money, reliability, and as wide a selection of file formats supported as possible.

Oh, and while I don't positively hate touchscreens, they're not a preference of mine.  I don't really need wi-fi on the thing either, I prefer using it like a mass-storage device on my PC.

But multiple media and formats can be a plus, especially multiple document formats supported.