Misc. Stuff

domesticelefant · 31 May 07 :: 18:25

Why should that be off topic, we're in the misc thread, everybody can post everything here.

I have to make an announcement too. I got an invitation to the 2007 Sommerfestival at "Schloss Bellevue", that's were our federal president lives. Kinda like the White House, just not that important. LOL The federal president of Germany is only the representative head of the state, he has not really anything to say in politics. (Sorry, my English is crappy here, can't explain it in a better way) So I am probably in Berlin from July 6 to July 8. You don't get such an invitation every day, so I'll totally go there!

TheCentralScrutinizer · 03 Jun 07 :: 20:24

I just have to get this off my chest: Eric Balfour is beautiful! I watched this VERY dirty movie with him in it last night, called Lie With Me. OMG! You couldn't have any modesty and be in this movie --- or watch it. It's completely and wholly about a highly sexual love affair. Just kind of knocked me out. And I mean you get to see every inch of him in this movie. Every inch. And man is he hot. Wow. Wish I could find somebody to screencap some of it for me. He might be back-up guy material if he was a better actor.

domesticelefant · 08 Jun 07 :: 21:50

Wow, I just watched the first episode of the Grey's Anatomy Episodes featuring Chris Lowell. That was a real blast for me, because it had so many other actors from other TV shows I used to watch. LOL
There was not only Becky Wahlstrom, Amy Brenneman (It's so great to see her on screen again!) and Chris Lowell, there was also Stephanie Niznik from Everwood (I still miss this show) and Raphael Sbarge from The Guardian (Tina, you probably know him from Numb3rs, he was there a couple of times), whom I didn't even recognize at first because he looked so different!
And the funny thing was, one of the characters was called Cooper, so I was watching Cooper on Cooper. LOL
Ok, I'll stop with the babbling now, I just needed to tell that somebody. LOL

TheCentralScrutinizer · 08 Jun 07 :: 23:41

Here's hoping this is the beginning of the end of the "torture porn" genre...

Hostel II thrashed by the few critics who are allowed to see it...

Movie Reviews: 'Hostel: Part II'

Hostel: Part II was apparently screened for just a handful of critics. The studio shouldn't have bothered. Those critics who did see the movie wrote reviews that included comments like this one by Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune: "You live in a free country, you put up with crud like Hostel Part II. It truly is crud, though. The film is the definition of torture porn, and regarding the Motion Picture Association of America's business-friendly, brain-free decision to give it an R rating: If this film gets by with an R, then what is left to warrant an NC-17?"

SOURCE: http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2007-06-08

Indeed.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 16 Jun 07 :: 19:21

I wanted to tell you all why I went silent in the middle of the week and stayed kinda quiet till last night. Wednesday was the worst day of my life since my mom died in 2003 because I had to let my 17-year-old dog, Lacey go. She'd been really sick but stable for almost a year, but it finally caught up with us beginning last Saturday. It was the most terrible thing I've ever had to do and it's just really messing me up right now.

She was about 10 here, and I know everyone thinks their dog is the best ever, but she really was amazing:

TeeJay · 16 Jun 07 :: 19:38

Aw, that's a really cute picture of her. I was lucky enough to still meet her last year, and she was a cutie and really adorable. Wish I could have met her when she was younger and bouncier. I'm really sorry that all this had to happen this week, Deb. I'll be thinking of the both of you. Stay strong. And I'm glad you're back here and posting. Looks like real life caught up with all of us a little more than we would have preferred this past week. Here's to wishing things'll get better before long.

-TeeJay

domesticelefant · 16 Jun 07 :: 19:57

Aw, that pic's really adorable. I'm sad she's gone.
My great-aunt used to have a dog I grew up with. He had been already there when I wasn't even born yet, so I kinda grew up with him.
Yeah, life just sucked this week. Thank God it's over soon.

OhGnarly · 16 Jun 07 :: 21:46

Deb, I'm so sorry about Lacey. I've lost pets a few times in my life so far, and I know it's one of the hardest things to go through. What a great photo of her, too.

I'm glad you're posting again, and I hope you start feeling better soon

TeeJay · 24 Jun 07 :: 16:18

I now have wireless LAN in my apartment. Very cool!! :dancing: Just felt like sharing that.

-TeeJay

shoothoops22 · 24 Jun 07 :: 16:34

Cool. I wish I had wireless.

TeeJay · 24 Jun 07 :: 16:43

Yeah, it's really cool when you have a laptop that has WiFi. I just got lucky. My colleauge Rob told me he had two WLAN routers at home that he didn't need and that were just basically sitting in his drawer. So now I'm using one of his. For free. Yay! Three cheers for hand-me-downs.

-TeeJay

shoothoops22 · 24 Jun 07 :: 16:55

I have a laptop but it has to be hooked up and I hate hooking it up.

domesticelefant · 24 Jun 07 :: 19:21

TeeJay wrote:

I now have wireless LAN in my apartment. Very cool!! :dancing: Just felt like sharing that.
-TeeJay

Cool! We're going to get WLAN soon too! I look forward to be able to use Cooper to go online.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 04 Jul 07 :: 04:11

Very interesting...

Carry on yawning - it will help keep you awake
By GWYNETH REES - More by this author » Last updated at 00:32am on 4th July 2007
It can catch you embarrassingly unawares - as Cherie Blair has discovered.
But rather than being a precursor to sleep, scientists say the yawn is actually designed to keep you awake.
A study has found that when you yawn, the inhaled air reduces the temperature of vessels in the nasal cavity, allowing cooled blood to be sent to the brain.
This chills the brain, making it more alert and able to perform better.
Those who breathe in through the nose instead of the mouth are much less likely to yawn, as the vessels in the nasal cavity are already cooled.
To avoid embarrassment and quell a fit of the yawns, you can adopt this method or apply something cold to the forehead, the researchers said - advice that might have been welcomed by the former prime minister's wife.
Mrs Blair failed to suppress a very public yawn during the closing ceremony of last year's Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.
Scientists say yawning is the body's way of making us more attentive
The scientists believe that 'contagious' yawning - where one immediately mimics another's yawn - is an evolved protective mechanism to make a group more alert.
Their team, from New York State University, spent months watching 44 students, examining why they yawned and what happened when they did.
They found that the physical mechanism of yawning cooled the brain - making it operate more efficiently. Leading researcher Dr Gordon Gallup said: 'According to our hypothesis, rather than promoting sleep, yawning should antagonise sleep.
'We think contagious yawning is triggered by empathic mechanisms which function to maintain group vigilance.'
For the study, volunteers were shown hours of film clips of men and women yawning. The number of 'contagious' yawns they made were recorded.
While watching the films, volunteers were told to breathe in and out in one of four ways - strictly orally, strictly nasally, orally while wearing a nose plug, or just normally.
Fifty per cent of those breathing normally or through their mouths yawned while watching the films. But none of those breathing through their nose was affected.
Those who held a cold pack to their forehead - again cooling the vessels - also avoided yawning, but those who held a warm pack to their forehead were not so lucky.
Researcher Robert Provine, from the University of Maryland in Baltimore, said yawning could mark the body's readiness to become alert. 'Paratroopers report yawning before they jump.
' Yawning signals a transition between the behavioural states of wakefulness and sleepiness, and boredom to alertness.'
Meanwhile, a team at Kyoto University in Japan has discovered that chimpanzees also suffer from contagious yawning.
The scientists believe their findings provide further evidence that apes may possess an advanced level of self-awareness, similar to that found in humans.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a … ge_id=1770

TeeJay · 04 Jul 07 :: 08:36

That's indeed interesting.

<yawn>

-TeeJay

TheCentralScrutinizer · 04 Jul 07 :: 17:52

Hey, at least you're awake now.

domesticelefant · 04 Jul 07 :: 20:04

Ah, that is the reason why I was yawning so much at work today. LOL

domesticelefant · 11 Jul 07 :: 18:46

Tina, the Import of the Emails to Thunderbird did not work. Do you have an idea what I could do? I don't want to lose the mails!

TeeJay · 11 Jul 07 :: 19:30

Well, I don't know what to tell you. The import function in Thuderbird should be able to do it. Would this help?
http://www.techiegroups.com/t72654-impo … rbird.html

Maybe you need to export all your e-mails from Outlook first? You know, go into Outlook and see if there's an export function that will let you save all your e-mails to a location on your hard drive in a special file format that Thunderbird can then interpret? I've never done any Thunderbird importing.

http://www.thunderbird-mail.de/wiki/FAQ … us_Outlook

http://www.thunderbird-mail.de/wiki/FAQ … ok_Express

The above says you first need to import your Outlook e-mails into Outlook Express. From there you can then import them into Thuderbird. How complicated. That kinda sucks. Well, I guess there's a reason that Thunderbird is freeware...

-TeeJay

domesticelefant · 11 Jul 07 :: 19:40

I don't have Outlook Express. And how do I do that if the mails are still on the old computer?

TeeJay · 11 Jul 07 :: 19:46

Every Windows computer has Outlook Express. It's one of those vile Windows things that you can't uninstall, like Internet Explorer. At least I don't think you can.

Can't you export your e-mails from Outlook? You know, save them as one or several files? You can transfer those to Cooper and import them into Thunderbird.

-TeeJay

domesticelefant · 11 Jul 07 :: 22:11

It worked! I managed to tranfer all my Emails to Cooper and Thunderbird. Thanks to Tina and my MP3 player USB stick.

TeeJay · 11 Jul 07 :: 22:18

Hey, that's great news! Congrats! I'm glad it worked out.

-TeeJay

domesticelefant · 11 Jul 07 :: 22:33

Yeah, I'm really happy now. I didn't lose any mail. I wanted to import the address book too, but then I thought I should know who to submit new contacts and so I tried it myself. That way I can also sort out old addresses I don't need anymore. I already sumitted your details. LOL I am going to finish tomorrow, I need to go to sleep now!

TeeJay · 15 Jul 07 :: 16:00

Cats.

I love cats. Unfortunately, I'm also allergic. But I still love being around them if it's only for a short while. I don't think I could keep one, because having to live with constant sneezing and wheezing would be more than I can take, but I was at my friend Anja's place yesterday and she has three adorable cats. Well, I only know two of them, since Tiffy is so shy, she never shows when strangers are around.

But here's a photo of "Dicker" (means "fat one") and Samson:

Dicker

Samson -- We also call him McBräsig, which means McStupid. Because he is. He's been known to run against glass doors or fall off the window sill. He can also sit and stare at you for hours without moving a muscle. Drives you mad!

Anja and Dicker -- Must be love.

-TeeJay

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