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Auto Worker Pay Myth

  U.S. auto workers do not make $70.00 an hour.  I repeat they do NOT make $70.00 an hour.  That is just crap put out by the anti-worker union hating right.  The Republicans and the right hate the hourly working man for some reason.  They hate workers. They hate teachers. They hate unions.
 

 

Delorme PN-40

  It is out of my price range but I was reading about the Delorme PN-40 GPS unit.  Wow what a great GPS unit.
 

  That is not what I been doing all day today.  Today I made about three videos and uploaded them to YouTube.  They have a new player and it is setup to show wide screen video.  I had already made a normal video so I converted it to wide screen to see how that would work.
  The video that I had made that was not wide screen looked very good.  I then converted it to wide screen.  The video did not look as good. 
  My Casio has some wide screen video formats so I made a wide screen video.  I uploaded it to YouTube to see what it would look like on YouTube.
  It worked out OK.  Here is that video.

Thanksgiving AM post

The HNB Toolbar

  OK gang I been working on the HNB Toolbar and it is ready. 


  Trust me.  This is a nice looking toolbar.  It works with Firefox or IE.  It works on Windows and Linux.  It is safe.  It will not slow down your computer.  It has a lot of nice features you can add. 
  If, and I hope you are, a fan of Howard's Notebook then for sure THIS is the toolbar for you.
 

Black Friday 2008

 

Tomorrow is Black Friday.

"Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States, where it is the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season. Since Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, Black Friday may be as early as the 23rd and as late as the 29th of November.

Black Friday is not an official holiday, but many employees take the day off, which increases the number of potential shoppers. Retailers often decorate for the Christmas season weeks beforehand. Many retailers open very early (typically 5 am or even earlier) and offer doorbuster deals and loss leaders to draw people to their stores. Although Black Friday, as the first shopping day after Thanksgiving, has served as the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season at least since the start of the modern Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924, the term "Black Friday" has been traced back only to the 1960s..."  Wikipedia

  If your looking for a good deal check out Black Friday 2008 site.

 

 

Waiting for Thanksgiving

 Photo is of my cousins Billy¹, Janet and me.

 My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving.  I love the United States so much I feel like I am letting down the United States.  My favorite holiday should be the 4th of July.  When I was a kid, I think my, favorite holiday was Halloween or the 4th of July. 
  When I was a kid, I am 67 years old now, on Halloween as soon as it got dark all the kids went door to door and we did it for hours until it get late and people would turn out their porch lights. You never heard of any problems and no one was worrying about us. 
  On the 4th of July you could get all sorts of fireworks and shoot them right in the city.  Now you often can not shoot them in the city or you can only shoot off a limited time on that day.  Even after the 4th I would have a lot of fireworks left over and we would play with our plastic rubber army men and dig them in the clay and toss lady fingers at them.  

 

I have never been crazy about Christmas.  Jim (my father) and Betty (my mother) did not make a big deal about it.  I never got a lot of stuff.  We had the money and I always had money in my pocket but they just did not make such a big deal of it. 
  During the 12 years I was married, to Darlene, Christmas was a big deal.  She loved it and we had four kids so we did the Christmas thing big time.

 

I am now a Thanksgiving person.  Tomorrow Ken, Russell and I are going to have a nice turkey breast, dressing, gravy and pumpkin pie.  Ken will not get home until 2230 hours so our plan is to eat it very late.

¹Billy Stolsworth, my cousin, was shot and killed years later in Dallas Texas.
  The photo of us was taken in Kansas City, MO.

MSN Live Search Maps

  Since I was going on about Google Maps I decided I had better look at MSN Live Maps again.  Their version of the Street View is called “Bird’s Eye View” and take a look at this:

 

  They must use aerial views in addition to satellite views. The above is a park near me here in Miami.  The

   Here is a view of Haulover Beach, the nude part of the beach, and if you want to check out the area on maps the address is:  10800 Collins Ave, Bal Harbour, FL 33154

  Live Search (MSN) is:  http://maps.live.com/

  Google Maps is:  http://maps.google.com/maps

Google Maps with Street View

“Google Maps borrowed the navigation controls from Google Earth and made the transition to Street View smoother. Just click on the small yellow man to see the street view imagery for the current location or drag the icon to the correct location.

Google Maps shows small previews when you drag the icon so you can adjust the position. Street View opens in full-screen and the mini-window displayed at the bottom of the map can be maximized when you want to change the location…”  Google

  So much neat stuff out now.  I wish I had one of the new cell phones with GPS.  Just think of getting directions and you can see views of the street as you drive or walk around.  Pretty neat.

 

  I did the above just now.  All of Miami seems to be Street View ready.  I wonder how much of the United States they have driven.  I would love that job.  Driving up and down all the streets.

Obama announced economic team

"Today and yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama announced key members of an economic team tasked with creating jobs, stabilizing the economy, and getting our country back on track.

Barack is bringing together some of the best minds in the country to make swift progress on the economic challenges we face.