Signorelli Girl

Vacation Rentals

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:45:37 -0500

Looking for some vacation rentals for the spring or summer along the Atlantic coast? Take a look at this website and see what’s available. There’s locations in Savannah Georgia, Myrtle Beach South Carolina, and Charleston South Carolina.

Spring Break

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:25:11 -0500

I’m finally able to go on a spring break vacation this year. I was always the jealous one in college because other people’s parents would pay for them to go and I could never afford it….not this time. I’m deciding between a few locations right now. I want warm weather, so down South it is. Rather than stay at a dingy hotel, I’m booking a Bed & Breakfast. Here are the places I am considering:

Yes, I’m probably overdoing it a tad considering some of the prices, but I owe it to myself.I need a vacation.

Data Recovery Article

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:28:30 -0500

livvy-on-fire:

Losing your data from your computer can be a big pain, but I read an article on data recovery, and it explained the types of data recovery options out there. Hard drives fail all the time, and there are quite a few warning signs that should be watched. If you have an older computer this is particularly important. Don’t lose your precious and valuable files!

MunSoft to Open Online Data Recovery Service, Offering No-Charge Recovery to Eligible Customers (sacbee.com)
Data Recovery Needed, Computer Crashed, Again! (mysmartphoneapps.blogspot.com)

Swimming Pool Yearly Maintenance Schedule

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:19:55 -0400

backyard swimming pool (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Do you own a swimming pool? Spend half your money on pool supplies? Have you ever considered it? Well, much like buying your kids a puppy you never really know for sure what the hell you’re getting yourself into until it’s in the house crapping on the rug. I bought myself a pool last year and started cataloging the amount of time I spent working on the thing in the last year. Here you go, in case you’re wondering - activity first, hours spent second:

Drain, acid wash, refill, and rebalance chemistry (pool) 10

Drain, acid wash, refill, and rebalance chemistry (spa) 4

Replace diving board, rail, ladder, or slide (on existing mount) 3

Cut floating pool cover to size, install on roller straps 2

Rebuild three-port valve 1

Replace (or replace a component in) a time clock 1

Replace an underwater light bulb 1.5

Replace an underwater light fixture 2

Replace an air blower 1.5

Filters

Remove/Clean filter (cartridge or DE) 1.5

Open sand filter, breakup/clean sand 2

Remove sand filter, change sand 4

Install new filter (remove and dispose of old unit) 4

Pumps and Motors

Replace seal, seal plate, gasket, or other nonplumbed pump components 2

Replace volute, strainer pot, or other plumbed component 2

Replace motor (including electrical) 2.5

Heaters

Replace heater 8

Replace flange gaskets or thermostatic mixing valve 1

Replace pilot assembly 2

Replace main gas valve or burner tray components 2

Replace mainfold headers, heat exchanger, or firebrick 3

Ream heat exchanger 4

Gas Pool Heaters vs. Heat Pumps (poolsuppliesblog.com)
Repair Refrigerator Gasket (answers.com)
New swimming pool in Bunaken at Two Fish (twofishdiversblog.wordpress.com)

Off The Wall News: Anonymous Donor Gives $5,000 of Amazon Gift Cards to Midwestern Orphan Society (MOS)

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:08:35 -0400

Off The Wall News: Anonymous Donor Gives $5,000 of Amazon Gift Cards to Midwestern Orphan Society (MOS):

knickerkiller:

For Immediate Release

August 16, 2012

Source: Midwestern Orphan Society

Chesterton, Indiana — The Midwestern Orphan Society, an organization dedicated to caring for and housing children orphaned specifically in the United States’ Midwest, received an anonymous donation of…

Off The Wall News: Anonymous Donor Gives $5,000 of Amazon Gift Cards to Midwestern Orphan Society (MOS)

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:47:15 -0400

Off The Wall News: Anonymous Donor Gives $5,000 of Amazon Gift Cards to Midwestern Orphan Society (MOS):

knickerkiller:

For Immediate Release

August 16, 2012

Source: Midwestern Orphan Society

Chesterton, Indiana — The Midwestern Orphan Society, an organization dedicated to caring for and housing children orphaned specifically in the United States’ Midwest, received an anonymous donation of…

Target Got Me Thinking...

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:30:00 -0400

Doing some shopping half way through the work week thanks to the Target gift cards

English: Logo of Target, US-based retail chain (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I got for my birthday. I certainly love Target, but it got me thinking of what my favorite stores to shop at are. Here are my top picks in no particular order.

Target

Banana Republic

Best Buy

Macy’s

Nordstrom

Bed Bath & Beyond

Barnes & Noble

IKEA

bellecs: Olivia de Havilland in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:59:27 -0400

bellecs:

Olivia de Havilland in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Poetry 365: Hunger Artist, Rita Signorelli-Pappas

Mon, 28 May 2012 14:57:35 -0400

Poetry 365: Hunger Artist, Rita Signorelli-Pappas:

I believe I could have saved him.
What he wanted was easy: the poured
sweet wine of encouragement. A smile.

In another life he might have grown
a comfortable margin of flesh, he might
have kept all his teeth and been spared

translation into the skeleton’s cage.
I would have kept an eye on…

Photo

Sun, 27 May 2012 14:59:43 -0400

Islamic Thinking: Put the Glass Down

Sat, 26 May 2012 14:59:01 -0400

Islamic Thinking: Put the Glass Down:

islamicthinking:

A professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it. He held it up for all to see and asked the students, ‘How much do you think this glass weighs?’

’50 grams!’…. ’100 grams!’…… ’125 grams’ …… the students answered.

‘I really don’t know unless I weigh it,’ said the…

eluri: Si necesitas sonreír...

Fri, 25 May 2012 15:01:16 -0400

eluri:

Si necesitas sonreír hoy…

joshuanguyen:

alittlespace:

npr:

A 9-year-old boy who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto parts store is about to have the best day of his life.

—————-

This is fantastic. My faith in humanity is restored. — Tanya

So awesome.

Ok - that put a serious grin on my face that’s gonna last for a while. Best thing I’ve seen in a long long time!

"The majority of surveyed Joplin residents did not immediately go to shelter upon hearing the initial..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 15:01:05 -0400

“The majority of surveyed Joplin residents did not immediately go to shelter upon hearing the initial warning, whether from local warning sirens, television, NWR [NOAA weather radio], or other sources.”

- From the National Weather Service’s report on last year’s tornado in Joplin • Detailing how, in severe storm conditions, a big part of safeguarding communities and lives depends on people taking warnings seriously. In one instance, a Joplin resident ignored a slew of warning signals, driving from place to place looking for an open restaurant despite seeing that some were barred against the brewing storm, and hearing tornado warnings throughout town. As a response, the NWS has implementing new, stronger and more frightening vocabulary to be used for high-risk storm alerts, such as “mass devastation,” “complete destruction,” and “not survivable.” We really hope everybody in the Midwest will prioritize their safety over the coming days – authorities anticipate big storms (and likely tornadoes) to roll through Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska later tonight. source (via • follow)

Photo

Wed, 23 May 2012 15:01:30 -0400

A(n)nals of Online Dating: Girl that's right, I am on OK Cupid and I AM a lawyer. (Or I pretend to be one on the internet).

Tue, 22 May 2012 15:01:34 -0400

A(n)nals of Online Dating: Girl that's right, I am on OK Cupid and I AM a lawyer. (Or I pretend to be one on the internet).:

annalsofonlinedating:

A note from your esteemed editor: That really long post from the most ridiculous human being alive has now been taken down twice, because he keeps reporting it to Tumblr as a copyright violation, and Tumblr is obligated to remove any reported post. But thank you, dear readers, for sending me…

9gag: Awesome dog is awesome!

Mon, 21 May 2012 16:11:08 -0400

9gag:

Awesome dog is awesome!

On August 9, 1949, at age 41, Jimmy Stewart married former...

Mon, 21 May 2012 13:22:56 -0400

On August 9, 1949, at age 41, Jimmy Stewart married former model Gloria Hatrick McLean. Stewart adopted her two sons, Michael and Ronald, and on May 7, 1951 the couple welcomed twin daughters, Judy and Kelly. Ronald McLean was killed in action on June 8, 1964, at age 24, while serving in the Marine Corps in Vietnam.

Jimmy and Gloria remained married until her death on February 16, 1994 from lung cancer.

hirethestache: I do. I really do. If and when I get married,...

Mon, 21 May 2012 13:20:05 -0400

hirethestache:

I do. I really do.

If and when I get married, would it be trashy if I were to give my to-be this ring instead of a finger hugging diamond weight? Yes? You’re probably right. Ok, well I suppose it’ll just have to do for Valentines Day.

Available on Etsy

merlin: OK Go - “This Too Shall Pass” Oh, look. This one is...

Mon, 21 May 2012 13:17:42 -0400

merlin:

OK Go - “This Too Shall Pass”

Oh, look. This one is embeddable (context, via).

And, delightful it is.

And, yes, please do read OK Go’s terrific forum post about why their label, EMI, has — as is the case with the thousands of other artists subject to their tender mercies — chosen to make the band’s (self-produced) video for “This Too Shall Pass” unembeddable.

Because it helps explain a lot about why the visual history of the last five decades of popular music is currently chained to a library carrel overseen by the clutch of execrable fuckstains who are — still, inexplicably — running our planet’s (increasingly less major) major labels:

The recordings and the videos we make are owned by a record label, EMI. […] We make our videos ourselves, and we keep them dirt cheap, but still, it all adds up, and it adds up to a great deal more than we have in our bank account, which is why we have a record label in the first place.

[…]

The labels are hurting and they need every penny they can find, so they’ve demanded a piece of the action. They got all huffy a couple years ago and threatened all sorts of legal terror and eventually all four majors struck deals with YouTube which pay them tiny, tiny sums of money every time one of their videos gets played. Seems like a fair enough solution, right? YouTube gets to keep the content, and the labels get some income.

The catch: the software that pays out those tiny sums doesn’t pay if a video is embedded. This means our label doesn’t get their hard-won share of the pie if our video is played on your blog, so (surprise, surprise) they won’t let us be on your blog. And, voilá: four years after we posted our first homemade videos to YouTube and they spread across the globe faster than swine flu, making our bassist’s glasses recognizable to 70-year-olds in Wichita and 5-year-olds in Seoul and eventually turning a tidy little profit for EMI, we’re – unbelievably – stuck in the position of arguing with our own label about the merits of having our videos be easily shared. It’s like the world has gone backwards.

And, indeed, it certainly has gone backwards. At Superman-Trying-To-Save-Lois-Lane-Via-Time-Travel speeds it’s gone backwards.

What a shame that this had to be said, but how awesome that it was put so very nicely.

I’d be hard-pressed to find a recent anecdote that more perfectly illustrates the tone-deaf arrogance and stupidity around the opportunities that are still being squandered by the majors every day.

Particularly in this instance, that there’s a degree of willful blindness to the functioning marketplace (read: “reality”) that enables the lizard media barons — who personally collect the checks for OK Go’s work, and who can SEE the numbers on web traffic and MP3 sales — to still overlook the single overriding factor in this band’s meteoric success: millions of loving fans who share the band’s VERY popular videos via the internet.

Just completely, mind-bogglingly insane.

In ten years, we’ll look back and regard these animals with the same respect and admiration historically reserved for alchemists, bible salesmen, and deposed Central American dictators. Good riddance to them.

But, good luck to OK Go. Sounds to me like it’s about time to go indie, boys. Get out of that fucking contract, and go set some shit on fire.

fuckyeahtattoos: Metatron’s Cube, Done at Think Ink by Levi,...

Mon, 21 May 2012 13:17:24 -0400

fuckyeahtattoos:

Metatron’s Cube,

Done at Think Ink by Levi, Norman, OK