The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 1,500,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 27 years for that many people to see it. Your blog had more visits than a small country in Europe!
A wonderful reminder of Bush’s 8 years.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/50-reasons-you-despised-george-w-bushs-presidency-reminder-day-his-presidential?akid=10363.243298.jqVTXh&rd=1&src=newsletter830237&t=3&paging=off
By: sidney18511 on April 25, 2013
at 12:16 PM
Good article in The Journal about the sequester vis à vis the FAA and the needless furlough of (largely needless) air traffic controllers.
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887323735604578440981119902460-lMyQjAxMTAzMDIwNDEyNDQyWj.html?mod=wsj_valetbottom_email
great line: “For all of its rough edges, the sequester is proving to be educational. It is showing Americans how broken so much of government is, and it is revealing how our politicians refuse to distinguish between essential services and needless waste.”
As someone who uses ATC’s services on an up-close-and-personal basis every week, I can vouch for its accuracy. If the FAA weren’t a pet government featherbed, technology would have already done for it what email has done for the US Postal Service.
By: PFesser on April 25, 2013
at 6:14 AM
Hi Kitchen Crew,
By all means, Peas, bring your wife!!! Actually you would be in BIG, BIG trouble with both of us if you didn’t. And sure, you can bring your cat. We are cat people from way back. There are plenty of feline pals in the neighborhood to keep him/her company when they aren’t all curled up snoozin’. They can stay busy chasing down geckos and chameleons.
Aloha!
Namaste. Shalom. Saalam. Peace.
Auntie Jean Δ
By: waialeale on April 23, 2013
at 2:03 PM
Aloha Auntie Jean,
I’m glad I could help you set up your gravatar back when the porch was filled with pie lovers (‘wedgies’) and remember it fondly. I just may take you up on that invite to come out to Hawaii. Can I bring my cat?
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And my wife?
Anyway, here’s what I found for ya:
International Accent Marks and Diacriticals
You can hold down the ALT key while typing in the 3 or 4 number code or if you prefer you may be able to hi-lite, copy, and paste the accented letter itself.
Let me know if I can help you with anything else.
PEACE ~ Δ
ps: You can always copy and paste the ‘wedgie’ above.
By: Whirled Peas Δ on April 23, 2013
at 12:22 AM
Hi Congenial Gang,
Whirled Peas Δ on April 22, 2013
at 9:08 AM
Yep, Peas, good buddy, you are a GENIUS!!! Could be I was referring to you in the present tense, since my former “in house” computer guru died. Thanks (I think) for the link to the Html Code Tester. I’ll give it a try. This is not the first time you have given out great computerese tips. But somewhere along the line I lost my “wedge” and can’t find it. Now if you could just help me figure out a way to do diacritical marks, I would be in clover.
I can never forget how you helped me way back early on to get my avatar, taking me through it, step by step. I wouldn’t have it without you! Remember how I invited you to move in with us? The offer still stands. We will feed you. I will even do your laundry while you go snorkeling, scuba diving or something. But BYOC. (Bring Your Own Computer.) Mine gets messed up from time to time.
Back to my fish fry or the salt mines, depending on the point of view.
Aloha!
Namaste. Shalom. Saalam. Peace.
Auntie Jean
By: waialeale on April 22, 2013
at 10:36 PM