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<title>NERD ALERT!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[My new home setup...

Got the laptop from a seller right here on BBR, Refurb monitors from Wal-Mart for $89 ea, e-Port Plus Port Replicator and the Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse combo from Amazon.com

Old pc (Center monitor) now serves as a file server for the laptop.

- FM
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Q: How many theoretical physicists specializing in general relativity does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two. One to hold the bulb and one to rotate the universe. 
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<pubDate>2012-01-12 16:50:14</pubDate>
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<title>Franchise Tax Blah</title>
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<description><![CDATA[So according to the franchise tax board, they estimated that I owe them $685 from the tax year 2009.

I had just moved back from Colorado in July of 2009, and was on CO unemployment through the remainder of the year, finally gaining employment on January 18, 2010.

They garnished my wages recently, I got them to reduce it to $50/pay period and I manually filed my 2009 forms, showing $0 income for the year.

It's been over 6 weeks and they still haven't processed it.

I just filed my 2011 taxes over the weekend.

Now, in addition to the lien on my paycheck, they're going to suck up the balance of what they say I owe from my refund due this year...

...and I just get to wait until the finally process the 2009 papers, realize they took money they weren't due, and decide to give it back... I wonder if I'll get interest?

 :mad:

- FM
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<pubDate>2012-01-23 12:14:12</pubDate>
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<title>Bag bans and recycling</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Now that the sky is falling folks have eliminated grocery bags, I find I have no brown bags for recycling.
Since the early 80's I recycled, when they started taking paper, I then put it in the brown grocey bags to put in the blue bin. 
Just threw paper in the trash just now as I am out of bags to put next to my desk. 

I guess I will need to come up with another container to keep at the desk, likely one made of a lot of Chinese imported plastic to put my paper in :(

Going to run out of plastic bags soon to put my car recycling (soda/water bottles) and garbage in. Guess I will then just start throwing away my car recycling in the trash and throw the trash on the freeway..........]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-01-17 18:38:40</pubDate>
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<title>New $1,000 Fine For Throwing Football, Frisbee On Beach...</title>
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<description><![CDATA[...or digging a hole in the sand at the beach.

(...under the heading; "Yeah, but you can't beat the weather!")

 said by CBS--> http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/02/08/la-county-oks-1000-fine-for-throwing-football-frisbee-on-beaches/  :LOS ANGELES (CBS) &#151; The Board of Supervisors this week agreed to raise fines for anyone who throws a football or a Frisbee on any beach in Los Angeles County.

In passing the 37-page ordinance on Tuesday, officials sought to outline responsibilities for law enforcement and other public agencies while also providing clarification on beach-goer activities that could potentially disrupt or even injure the public.

According to Lucy Kim, from the LA County Department of Beaches and Harbors, a first-time offender will have to pay a $100 fine. For a second offense, beach-goers will face a $200 fine. Three or more infractions within one year will result in a $500 fine, Kim said.

The updated rules now prohibit &#147;any person to cast, toss, throw, kick or roll&#148; any object other than a beach ball or volleyball &#147;upon or over any beach&#148; between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

Your kids could also end up costing you big bucks: the ordinance also prohibits digging any hole deeper than 18 inches into the sand except where permission is granted for film and TV production services only.
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<pubDate>2012-02-09 17:59:57</pubDate>
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<title>Free medical help</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have a friend who returned to Huntington Beach a few months ago. She's been very sick the past few days and is in need of medical treatment. She has no income or money because she was recently laid off.  The former employers last check bounced. When she has called the free clinics listed on the web they say they really are not free and want at least $45 just to see her. If she had the $45 she'd go to a doctor.

Does anyone know of a truly free clinic in her area? A friend can drive her a reasonable distance.

Thanks.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-08 08:09:21</pubDate>
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<title>Red Rock Revisited</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is hardly the first time I've extolled the virtues of this area of Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park.  Red Rock Canyon is one of my favorite "this can't be Southern California" walks.  The namesake rocks are an excellent example of the Sespe Formation.  40 million years ago, this stuff was volcanic peaks.  Now, it's layered sand and pebbles towering over some guy with a camera who's sharing them again with you.


This is a sign.
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The sediment layers used to lie in a flood plain.  Blame plate tectonics for the angle of this section.
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The colors in the strata are the first thing you notice, but the size of the material is more telling.  It indicates how severe the erosion was that caused the deposits.
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To give you some sense of the scale, there's a falcon or small hawk at the peak on the right end of the ridge.  Some of the sediments are more durable than others.  Modern erosion of the exposed sandstone carves out the soft stuff first leaving distinctive shapes.
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A bit o' green.
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Same ridge, same bird, but a nice view of a layer of larger conglomerate.  There was some kick ass erosion going on in that layer.
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Just to show you I was also interested in more recent things, here are some area fauna.
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This finch was plucking fuzzy stuff (a botanical term) out of the flowers on this shrub to reach the seeds.
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When diet and exercise just aren't enough, there's Ipecac.
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<pubDate>2012-01-29 23:53:09</pubDate>
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<title>Anybody want my...</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I've sold off everything related to my Xbox 360 except I still have the core unit (with HDD), power supply and headset.

I'm probably going to toss it all in the trash this weekend unless anyone local wants to grab it up.

There is something wrong with the core unit - in that once it boots, after putting in a game or a dvd, maybe 15 seconds in, the screen glitches and the system freezes up.

I dunno if its an HDD issue or the core unit itself.

But if anyone wants to take this stuff off my hands, I'd rather give it to a tinkerer than toss it in the trash.

- FM
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A: Two. One to hold the bulb and one to rotate the universe. 
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<pubDate>2012-01-27 14:14:52</pubDate>
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