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The original Men in Black is now older enough to buy alcohol, which is to say it's old enough to be rebooted. The forthcoming blockbuster called, simply, MIB is technically a spin-off, which is to say it's absent original stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones (or even Josh Brolin, who played the younger Jones, complete with prosthetic ears, in Men in Black 3). Instead of Agents J and K, we're getting Agents H and M, played by Thor alumni Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson. MIB has been shooting since July, so it's strange that we're only now getting a look at what Thompson and Hemsworth look like as our new agents. Also notable is how it's coming not as a glossy studio image but from the latter's Instagram account.
Of course, what were we expecting? We know what they're going to look like: They're going to wear suits, with black ties. And so they are, minus the jackets.


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Well, in case I do, that's the work of one Hisashi Tenmyouya, an artist whose "neo-nihonga" art style produced this fantastic little glob of fantasticness back in '05. Oh, and it recently sold for the Hong Kong dollar's equivalent of 600,000 USD, at a Christie's International auction.
...Hoooly crap. I started to post this in strict nerd appreciation for ancient Japanese Gundam art, but check out the Christie's Lot Notes section. This is pure gold:
To diligently serve a traditional motif with pop cultural futuristic form, the tasteful vacuity in composition and the ostensibly flat surface is created by the simplicity in technique and medium that substrate as a precondition connotation in exhibiting Hisashi Tenmyouya's contemporary rendering of academicism. [...] The impecability and cleanliness of these philosophies are intricately woven in Tenmyouya's pre-planned ordered space and outlined in crisp elegance with his ritualistic brushstrokes. His delicate sensitivity towards thin brushstroke application is not just a mere technical process but in greater sense, a reflection of his calm diligence in reverting back to his traditional roots; each brushstroke awakening his Japanese spirit.
"Gold" isn't an intentional pun, just 'cause the background of the painting is gold leaf, mind you. It's just that I haven't seen such splendid academic cock-jockeying since the last time I glanced through my old Literary Criticisms textbook.Unglaze your eyes for the totally straight-faced dissertation on the vital importance of the Gundam univese in modern Japanese culture. Rock on!
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Hula is a form of storytelling through dance that was developed by the Polynesian settlers of the Hawaiian islands. The movements of the dance interpret the words and music of an accompanying "mele", which is a chant or song. Various implements may be used by hula dancers to convey their story--these include gourd rattles known as "uli'uli" and bamboo sticks known as "pu'ili".
Hula schools like Ohana Hula are known as "halau", and hula instructors are known as "kumu hula".
There are two basic types of hula: "kahiko", which is the traditional form of hula developed before the end of the 19th century and "auana", a more modern form of hula developed with influences from Western culture that had been introduced to the Hawaiian islands. Kahiko hula typically is accompanied by chants and traditional Polynesian instruments, while auana hula is performed to more modern music and Western-influenced instruments such as the guitar and ukulele.
There are related forms of Polynesian dance that originated in Tahiti, Samoa and other Polynesian islands, but technically the hula itself is unique to Hawaii.
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Photographs & Memories
I spent the bulk of the morning going through the photos that I took in Uganda, editing them for publication, and praying for the people who remain there. Some I know by name, some I prayed for though I don't even know their names. It was good to go through these. It helped me thank God again for this opportunity and to know at least in part the value of the work we accomplished there. At the same time, I came to the hard realization that pictures cannot capture the experience.
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Imbalances in your mind will result in imbalances in your body. For example, if you're unhappy, you'll veer towards eating traditionally comforting foods and eating more of them than is good for you. Contrastingly, if you are happy, you'll naturally gravitate towards more healthful foods, feel joyful about movement and exercise and respect and love your body.
I just read a statistic that 96% of self-driven weight loss attempts fail. To me, a lot of weight loss and fitness solutions are like a sticking plaster - by counting calories and restricting foods you control the consequence (temporarily) but don't address where it's all coming from. If you're anything like me, I overeat and eat rubbish when I'm sad, lonely or just generally feeling imbalanced. When I'm feeling myself and whole, I'm much less likely to.
The above two pictures are me five years ago at university and me today. Back then, I was living in a room in a shared house, with two horrible girls, black mould everywhere and I really wasn't enjoying what I was doing. I stopped exercising and began eating cheap, rubbish food all the time. I ate for comfort and stimulation - ultimately, I was really bored and lonely!
I left that house and begun to get happier - it was then that I realised I had put on three stone and definitely wasn't looking or feeling well. Each year of my life since then has been exponentially happier and I think that shows! I both look and feel so much better - there's still room for improvement, but everything is going in the right direction.
That's why I take a holistic approach today - it's not about weighing and measuring and setting strict parameters (in fact, I won't ever weigh or measure you) - it's about working on body, mind and soul to get you feeling happy, strong and powerful. We deserve it!
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Yesterday, as some of you may already know, tornados hit land all across Durham Region, Ontario. I apoligize for the lack of pictures because I did not expect this, here is the story on how it affected us. It started when I was about to call my friends, the weather got extremely hot and humid, with temperatures over 30 degress celcius and a humidex of over 90 %. Although we still decided to met them to go fishing. As we started driving the temperatures droped but the humidex stayed high and it started to get windy, so we listened to the radio for the weather. The sky started to get darker and the radio said there was a tornado watch. We called our friends we were about to meet and apparently the weather there was even worse, so we told them we would meet another time which I don't regret because as soon as we turned around, the sky turned nearly pitch-black behind us. Half way back to our house we heard tornados were hitting ground not far from us and then the sky did turn completely black behind us and it started to thunder loudly. We quickly pulled in the driveway and went inside, it started to poor and lightning flashed everywhere! Our friends called and they said tornados near them were destroying houses! We took the necessary safety precautions and got some flash lights. The power suddenly went out and about an hour later the sky turned green, orange and red but the thunder and lightning stopped. Unfortunately for us the power stayed out until morning so we had trouble getting to bed.
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On an HPC cluster I am trying to run multiple bash scripts (
permute2.sh) from 1 bash script using GNU parallel, however it doesn't complete every job. It randomly completes one job, while it is stuck doing the other.
seq 1 $permuations | parallel -j $PROCS sh permute2.sh {}
permute2.sh (taking 100 random lines from a file and performs some actions on it for permutation)
awk 'BEGIN{srand();} {a[NR]=$0}
END{for(I=1;I<='$randomlines';I++){x=int(rand()*NR);print a[x];}}'
FILE.txt > results/randomlines.$id.txt
# do stuff with randomlines.$id.txt..
When I run
permute1.sh I can see it creates 144 files, for each cpu 1 (randomlines.1.txt - randomlines.144.txt), but most of them are empty and stopped working, and some are completed. What am I doing wrong?


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- spends time on her new laptop; checking emails, updating her blog, BabyBrain ... in reality, she's just watching some silly monkey dance around, but the idea of her blogging is hilarious to me :)
- catches up on a little light reading - Eric Carle is fascinating!
- yells excitedly at the "big kids" playing in the snow outside her bedroom window.
- gets into all sorts of mischief and finds some pretty interesting places to "play." Just this morning, while I was trying to catch a few seconds of the local news, she threw open both cabinet doors and proceeded to climb in and empty the contents all over the floor.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Cabin Fever and Sanity Saving
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Double Ear Infection
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Santa's Little Elves ... a Wish Come True
In fact, I made 16 in all. The felt and hot gluing almost put me over the edge, but I persevered.
I gave them as Christmas gifts to a few of the little ones in my neighborhood. And each of my nieces and nephews will be getting one, too. For my nuggets who are old enough to read/enjoy a good story, I printed personalized story to go along with their elves.
I think it's safe to say that I am feeling a little bit craftier ... and believing in the magic of Santa's little elves :)
Monday, December 8, 2008
I wish ...
I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a batand a '64 Impala
This is Skee-Lo's simple Wish List.
Mine is, well, even simpler ...
I wish I was a little bit craftier.
I peruse all these delightful and oh-so-crafty blogs out there, and I am green with envy. Overcome by the desire to take raw materials and produce something out of them. Something that won't produce giggles and snickers or pity-inspired, "oh, that's nice." I want ooohs and aaaahs and "oh, you're so clever." I want the kind of satisfaction I imagine must come from a craft well-done.
I have no idea how to use a sewing machine. My art supplies consist of glue sticks, colored pencils and a stack of neon paper left over from a classroom project. I do own a glue gun but I avoid using it if at all possible; there's something about me and hot, stickiness that doesn't get along. I once tried to paint a large canvas ... just black and white ... I projected an image and traced it ... and it is now "decorating" my attic. I would love to be able to whip up a cute little curtain or throw pillow ... in my spare time.
But, alas, I am not crafty ... not even a smidge.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
Worth the Wait?
The "slightly" longer version ... I had it in my mind all week - since I won my tickets - that the House Party started at 8:00 pm. About 5:00 on Saturday evening, I decided to double-check the tickets and realized that the concert actually started at 7:00 pm. A quick and frantic call to Tammy put the wheels in motion and we both did our best to get showered, dressed, and looking ghetto-fabulous ... all in less than an hour ... while tending to our precious little ones!
Our lame attempt at being gangsta :)
Okay, so back to the story ... there's much more to tell ...
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Can you say .... N E L L Y ? !
Woo Hoo! I won, I won, I won! After calling - and hearing lots of busy tones - for the past three weeks, today I was caller 25. And I have the very distinct pleasure of seeing my boy, Nelly, next Saturday at the 92.5 House Party! I sounded like a very excited teenage girl on the radio, and the DJ thought I was hilarious ... when I get excited, I get funny :) To say I am excited would be a complete understatement. I mean, seriously, if you know me at all, you know that I am slightly obsessed with this hip-hop artist ... partly because "I'm from the 'Lou and I'm proud!" but also because I find his music delightful (doubt anyone else has ever used that word to describe Nelly's songs). I know it's not typical music for the 30+ SAHM-crowd but I just can't resist, and I am not even going to try! This mama likes to shake it :)
I also have to give serious props to my darling husband. He called all day - every hour - on Thursday and Friday. And he even went to a local mall parking lot after work on Friday to try to "Spin-and-Win" me a pair of tickets. All because he knows how much this means to me ... isn't he the sweetest? (I tried to get CPV to pose for a photo like Nelly's - thought that would be a nice addition to this post - but he declined ... something about not wanting to make Nelly look weak!)
Friday, October 31, 2008
Happy Halloween
Thursday, October 30, 2008
And you think your life sucks ...
This isn't my story, but I feel compelled to tell it, and I hope to get most of the details right. Laurie hasn't been bitten by the blog bug yet, so if I don't tell this story, it won't get told to the masses ... besides my life hasn't been anywhere near this interesting as of late ... or sucky for that matter :) You should also know that this post is based on a series of phone conversations ... some tear-filled, others peppered with laughter - 'cause sometimes life sucks so bad you cry and when it gets worse, you can't help but laugh :)
A little background ... Laurie's husband, I'll call him PIMP 'cause he'll love that, took a new job in Chicago, which meant a move from the Lone Star State to the Windy City. A move they are excited about, despite the vast difference in weather conditions, primarily because it means that Laurie will get to be a full-time SAHM, and well, what's more delightful than that? The move also meant deciding to be separated for a month. With PIMP heading up to Chi-town to start his new job and enjoy a few weeks of bachelorhood, no doubt ... well, not literally, but you know what I mean! While Laurie and her darling 15-month old son staying behind to tie-up loose ends ... like selling the house, packing an entire house worth of stuff, ... you know, minor details.
Not surprisingly, Laurie handled the month of single parenthood like a rock star, and even managed to get packing down during naptimes ... impressive! And so the month was challenging but manageable, especially with a light at the end of the tunnel. Soon enough they would be together again as a family, in a new town, on a new adventure ... but this story takes a turn of misadventure.
Scratching the surface of suckiness ... the movers took 15 hours to load the truck, twice as long as estimated, which sucks because they were paid hourly ... ouch! The house didn't go to closing as expected because of an issue with the appraisal. Not devastating but an end left untied.
These are things you could deal with, right? I mean things like this happen during a move. But you have to admit, it sucks. And it gets worse ...
So the movers came on Sunday, and by Sunday night, Laurie and Benjamin were "homeless" but staying with friends in Texas until Tuesday when they were schedule to depart on a flight bound for Chicago. On Monday, Benjamin got the stomach flu. Do I need to get graphic here in order for you to fully appreciate the suckiness of his situation? Well, Benjamin puked all over Laurie's friend's house, had constant d-word (yuck!), and felt too crummy to sleep well. That's a tough combination even in the comfort of your own home, but when you're a guest in someone's house ... let's agree, that sucks!
In addition to the inconvenience of having your son puke all over someone else's house, Laurie was also facing a trip to the airport, through security, and on a plane to Chicago. A trip that had been her light at the end of the tunnel, they would finally be reunited with her husband and his daddy, had become a mommy's worst case scenario. A 15-month old puking, pooping machine confined in the cabin of an aircraft ... could she possibly pack enough plastic bags and changes of clothes? Should she even attempt such a feat? When we spoke on the phone, I could tell she was struggling to make a decision ... flying with a sick munchkin wasn't an appealing option, but the thought of staying in Texas - and away from her PIMP - until she could get booked on another flight was pushing her over the edge. She asked, "Would you take Natalie if it was you?" Without hesitation, I assured her that given the circumstances, I would risk the flight if the puking had stopped for at least 4 hours. The pooping could be dealt with ... and hopefully no one would get close enough to risk getting the stomach flu germs from her little man. And so, they did make the flight and at least their family was back together again.
But, the suckiness continued. The moving company was in an accident before the truck even got out of Texas, which delayed their boxes by two days. This especially sucks because Laurie and the PIMP and Benjamin are in their new place with a chair, an inflatable mattress, and a pack-n-play ... and a washing machine that isn't working. Oh, and the puking started again Wednesday morning. Benjamin managed to puke on the one piece of furniture in the house. Not to mention, their supply of clean clothing is dwindling to just about nothing.
I am sincerely hoping this is the end of Laurie's sucky-streak. I've said, "It can't get any worse," and been wrong too many times in this little tale. But for those of you who know Laurie and her family, they are alive and in Chicago ... and hoping for a puke-free day of unpacking tomorrow!
House Party
Caller 25. I just want to be caller 25. I've tried at 8, 9, and 10 this morning ... nothing but busy signals :( And yesterday when I was at the peak of discouragement, feeling like I was going to give up ... I was caller 21 at 11am ... so close! It totally sucked me right back into calling 13 times a day, listening to the awful busy tone, ... and when it actually rings, my heart rate goes off the charts. I want these tickets so badly!
Deb - Just to clarify, Nelly is my NKOTB ... are you feeling my pain?
Update: A huge thanks to my sweet hubby who is doubling my efforts by calling to win tickets . And he is having far better luck than I am today. He's been caller 5 and caller 12; you go, CPV!
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Pumpkin Patch: Flashback
Today's experience was very different, and yet in some ways not that much has changed. First of all, we actually went to a Pumpkin Patch, a local farm called Jubilee. And the weather was gorgeous; blue skies, sunshine and temperatures in the low 60's. I am willing to bet this type of weather for our future trips to the pumpkin patch will be rarity at best.
Most of the time, Natalie was very serious. She has this adorable way of taking in what's around her ... observing and considering and studying. And her smiles were accompanied with babbles and signs and requests. She sat atop a John Deere tractor; her grampy will be so proud! She walked and tripped through the rows of pumpkins. She squatted - with a determined look on her face - and tried to pick up pumpkins weighing at least as much as she does. She got ridiculously dirty, ate some dirt, and drooled on a few gourds, too. She said, "neigh, neigh" as the horse-drawn wagon passed by. She entertained a small crowd while dancing to the music of two acoustic guitar playing musicians. And she did get hungry; we shared a banana and a little apple cider.
Just as Natalie is bigger this year than last, so is her pumpkin. The one Chad searched many rows to find. It's round - my shape preference - and smattered with a little unripe greenness and has a perfectly trimmed stem.
Pumpkin Patch Spy Photos
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Dear Milkman
Do whatever you can.
Sleep with him if you have to.
We can't take anymore milk!
About three weeks ago, I signed up for milk delivery service. Yes, I have a milkman.
I can't help but wonder if he's the same milkman that fathered my dear sister - tee hee!
I also can't help but make the comparison between this milk delivery service and the 11 months I spent providing this service to my darling NHV. Mine came on schedule and in an insulated container ... but I never "delivered" more than we needed!
Ummmm, so what's the problem? Glad you asked ...
Thus began the delivery of 3 half gallons of organic whole milk ... every other week. Except, well, it's not every other week. It's every week. Every Friday three half gallons of milk are left in my handy-dandy insulated milk box on the front porch. "From, moo to you," indeed!
Oh, yeah, the problem ...
And now I am off to call the milkman ... again ... to explain my dilemma, offer sexual favors if it comes to that, and hope to put an end to this milk madness :)
Monday, September 29, 2008
Discipline with a Smile
I am wondering, darling, BB, does it count if you make them laugh?
Effective my discipline is not. Funny ... well, both Natalie and I usually end up giggling by the time all is said and done, so ... WHAT am I going to do?
Let me give you an example ...
Natalie has a darling little while rocking chair in her room. A gift from our favorite mom-of-triplets :) For quite some time, Natalie would just stand supporting her weight on the seat and stare at the letters written across the back. And I would spell, "N-A-T-A-L-I-E ... Natalie." Great fun. Occasionally she would pat the seat as if to say, "Hey, I'd like to sit here," and so I'd lift her and set her rear first in the chair where she would rock a little and then scoot to the edge and stand up ... looking all proud of herself. Oh, the good old days.
Now my sweet almost-15-month-old has figured out how to climb onto the chair ... not into but onto ... as in standing on the seat, holding on to the back, and rocking like she's on some sort of amusement ride done wrong! My reaction: a stern, "No, no, Natalie. We don't stand on the chair. We sit." followed by removing her from the precarious perch. Natalie's reaction: giggling, lots and lots of giggling, and more climbing back to that exact position. After we repeated this scenario a handful of times - and I was reduced to turning my back to her in order to giggle without being seen - I can't suck at discipline and be a bad role model - I put the rocker in the closet and closed the door. Not even that got a reaction, still no tears ... Apparently, my style of discipline involves putting things out of reach ... but in the future I should probably draw the line at putting my sassy, back-talking five year old in the closet ... don't ya think?
Well, that darling rocking chair simply could not STAY in the closet, which leads me to the next funny part of my tale. Every time Natalie approaches her chair, she looks over her shoulder, gestures with one hand, and says, "Naa, na. Naa, na." in this sarcastic and hilarious tone ... and then proceeds to climb onto the chair ... but she only "stands" on her knees. It seems we've reached a compromise, and that's something to smile about :)
An eebee Adventure of the PD Kind
This was a PD with a "higher purpose." This was a PD inspired by eebee's Adventures and focused on developmental play. I think the comment of one of the mom's pretty much sums it up, "Dana, you are such a teacher!" And a bit of a nerd, but I'm totally okay with that :)
So here's what I did ...
- Pouring and Scooping - two big bins filled with uncooked rice, all kinds of scoops and cups, and a big blanket to cover the floor
- Building and Stacking - a big bin filled with all the blocks and cups I could find and a collection of empty boxes (cereal, shipping, diapers, ...)
- Rolling and Sliding - a board made into an inclined plane by propping it against the ottoman, balls of all shapes and sizes, and a set of random objects for sliding
From there, we split into groups - two mamas and two babies - to rotate through the stations. Each station visit lasted about 10 minutes and then groups moved on to the next. The rice station was a big hit amongst the babies, but some moms seemed a little skeptical about making such a big mess. It did take me about 20 minutes to clean it all up after the PD, but I think it was totally worth it!
After 30 minutes of rotating, I brought everyone back together for snacks and conversation about what happened at each station, what observations the moms made, what ideas they would take back home with them ... that sort of thing. Oh, and while the adults talked, I popped in our eebee DVD and the babies got to watch other babies playing just the way they did at the stations!
Play can be fun and meaningful, and I am so glad eebee has taught me that lesson, and I enjoyed sharing it with other moms, too!
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Beautiful Weather Park Tour
And I love spending sunny days at the park with my baby girl!
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Chocolate, Anyone?
So ... why did this neighbor knock on my door and interrupt what promised to be a delightful morning snooze? To ask for "Chad's recipe for Texas sheet cake. The one he made for the 4th of July party." I immediately knew which sheet cake he was referring to - my mom's freakin' awesome, out-of-this-world, chocolate Texas sheet cake - the one I made and brought to our neighborhood 4th of July celebration this year. But I let the Chad comment slide ... until he said it again, "My wife and I have been talking about Chad's cake since the 4th." Let me be clear, Chad had absolutely nothing to do with the baking of said cake and the recipe is my mom's, one she is famous for at family gatherings. Wait, I take that back. Chad did carry the sheet cake to the party. I have yet to hear Chad's side of the story on this, but I assume there is one ... in the meantime, enjoy my mom's recipe, we like to call it Grammy's Incredible Sheet Cake:
The Cake
The Frosting
Disclaimer: I do not recommend making this cake during a PMS episode ... you will eat the entire thing ... and that's 3 sticks of butter and like 5 cups of sugar!
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Time Flies ...
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Welcome to a Goddess
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Nothing but ... Bs Flattened
Nothing but ... Bananas Flattened
It seems like I think about food ... a lot ... lately. And my brain is not usually preoccupied for the sake of my own nourishment. No, I am constantly thinking about what to feed Natalie, especially when we leave the house for an extended period of time. There's nothing worse than a hungry baby melting down in public! Even if she isn't particularly hungry, it seems like food can slay the fussy monster before it rears it's terribly ugly little head. And before we leave the house, I arm myself with an easy-to-transport snack. Something like Gerber's Puffs; I like to pack a variety in the little container that once held three bottles worth of formula. Isn't that a clever re-purposing? I thought so, too. It has three sections and a little spout for pouring those puffs out in small "doses."
Nothing but ... Bs Flattened
Along those same lines, but definitely not edible ... Natalie has been completely weaned for six weeks now, and boy, did the girls pay the price for that little 11-month work load. When I look down - where my once perky size C rack formerly resided - all I see are Bs Flattened! I mean the flattened part is bad enough, terrible actually. But how the heck did I lose a cup size? Something about that just isn't right! But is does explain why so many of my mommy friends with babies the same age as Natalie are thinking about and even trying to have a second child ... they all want their voluptuous ta-tas back. And I can't blame them. I may even join them! Definitely something to consider ...
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Pa ... another one's got the fever.
So what's that have to do with anything? Good question. Well, Natalie has been running a fever for three days now - this is day three. She felt kind of warm to me during the day on Tuesday, but I never bothered getting out the thermometer because a) she hates to have that thing under her arm for the two minutes it takes to register ... and if she hates the underarm, imagine how she'd feel about the other option, which really isn't an option because it gives me the heebee-geebees hardcore and b) she was acting like her usual, high-energy self. And then at 1:00 am, she woke up crying, something she hasn't done in a very long time. At this point I did break out the thermometer; she felt hot rather than warm. The thermometer read 99.9, which I guess is really 100.9 after you add the degree ... so confusing ... especially when you're doing this stuff with one eye open! She got a dose of baby Motrin and a 30-minute snuggle with me and back to sleep she went. Same deal on Wednesday; she felt warm all day, I dosed her with Tylenol, and then we hung out again around midnight.
Today - day three - she still had plenty of energy and no other symptoms ... well, there were a few disgusting diapers, but she was eating, drinking, playing, and sleeping like normal. However, her fussiness has reached an all-time high and my tolerance has sunk to an all-time low. Hoping this fever takes a hike ... like soon!
"... damn pigs."
Update: No fever today, Friday ... woo hoo! Have heard from several other moms in my Mom's Group that this sort of thing seems to be going around - fever for three days with no other symptoms. Well, we're done with it ... on to the next baby with you, darn fussy-inducing fever!
Friday, August 15, 2008
Lucky Number 13
And here's a list of 13 things I currently love about my 13-month old!
- My sweet baby girl says, "Hi!" all the time to me, to Chad, to Louie, to the flowers, ... but never in response to a stranger saying "hi" first.
- Natalie has been making some rather messy attempts at spoon-feeding, and she really loves to hold the bowl! Also, she signs eat, more, and all done with much zeal and pride. She can also drink from a Camelback bottle - bite valve, straw, and all.
- I am completely in love with her ridiculous snaggle tooth - no front teeth at this point, just the one snaggle. (But I could do without the baby mullet; wishing the front of her hair would grow in already!)
- It is so cute the way she bends over and looks at me from between her legs - where did she get that idea? Just looking for a new view of the world, I suppose!
- She drops her binky and lovey into her crib when we get her up; I know it isn't easy to leave those security items behind, but she handles it well and gets rewarded with lots of smooches!
- She adores her kitty cat lovey that I've named "Meow" - she chats with him and lights up when she sees him ... it's adorable!
- File this under random ... Chad and I have been saying letter names to her when we play with the blocks or foam letters, and when we say the letter "L," she totally cracks up ... why is that funny?
- I love her voice from her random babbles complete with highs and lows to her mimic singing of Aye, Aye, Aye and La, La, La.
- Her obsession with "balls" continues; too bad she always takes them from her playmates. We play "roll the ball" with her, and she really likes to sit between us while Chad and I volley a beach ball back and forth ... simple pleasures :)
- Taking things OUT is a well-honed skill ... books off of shelves, clothes out of baskets, plasticware out of cabinets, everything out of her diaper bag, ... yeah, she's got it figured OUT ... IN, not so much. I just love to watch how determined she is to empty whatever it is she's working on.
- This girl has some serious dancing ability. Gone is the nonchalant rocking back and forth, instead she's up on her feet bouncing up and down and shaking it ... as my sister might say, "She gets it from her mama." All those afternoon dance sessions are paying off ... thanks MTV online!
- Natalie loves the water. We frequent the neighborhood baby pool, and she splashes like she means it! Not mention how stinkin' cute she looks in her little baby bathing suit and sun hat. Seriously, it should be illegal to be this cute :)
- She is WALKING everywhere ... she does laps around the bottom level of our house. She takes off from the family room, walks into the living room, runs the corner to the dining room, and then heads into the kitchen ... and does it all over again. I want to strap a pedometer on her little waistband :)
Yes, this blogger is so very happy to be the mommy of an amazing 13-month old!
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Flying Cross-Country ...
But the actual traveling part ... pretty much sucked! Oh, by the way, it was my brilliant idea, or at least my conscious choice to fly with a connecting flight ... no one to blame but myself for this little misadventure!
Seattle to Dulles International via Newark
And so delightfulness ensued until we landed in Newark. Our connecting flight was a considerably smaller plane, which doesn't bother me in the least, in fact, Chad use to fly 50-seater jets, so that is not an issue. The issue was getting to the "tiny plane" terminal. God-forbid these freakin' airport builders, architects, morons would give a thought to how passengers with a baby and stroller might get from one terminal to the next. I can't imagine how people in wheel chairs must feel about this predicament; it is so infuriating! First we waiting in this tiny, disgusting room for a bus to arrive. Then I was shown to a freight elevator that hadn't seen a mop in a very long time. I somehow managed to get Natalie out of her infant seat, fold my stroller, and get everything on board the darn bus without so much as a mention of help from the driver or fellow passengers ... hello, rude! After a short ride, I again juggled all my crap plus Natalie off the bus only to discover 16 concrete steps. Huh?!? I mean, I can manage a backpack, a stroller, an infant carseat, a 22 pound baby, and my sanity when not faced with 16 stairs and no elevator! I just about lost it! Thankfully a baggage handler noticed my dilemma and rescued us ... and the many witnesses to my potential breakdown. He carried my stroller ... at arms length from this body ... as if it contained dead animal carcass or something ... but at least he took it all the way to the top.
Once inside the "tiny plane" terminal, things did not get any better. On the contrary, things just kept getting worse. Keep in mind that Natalie had only slept for a grand total of one hour at this point. Let's see ... how do I make this long story just a smidge shorter ... our one hour layover ended up to last a grand total of FOUR hours. And I could only keep Natalie up off that FILTHY, DISGUSTING, GERM-RIDDEN airport terminal carpet for so long. Eventually I had to concede and let her .... crawl around for a little while. Oh, it makes me sick just thinking about it! What makes it even worse is the fact that she constantly sought out and crawled to every trash can she could spot! We made many, many, many trips to the restroom to wash hands with soap and water - after the anti-bacterial wipes were all gone. Her cute little pants were absolutely black - or at least a very dark gray - from cuff to just above the knee ... YUCK! But we did meet a wonderful mom and her teenage son from Texas, and they kept us company during the long wait ... and gave Natalie a new object of her flirting affections.
The flight included an hour long sit on the taxi way before take-off, which sucked, but we finally arrived in Virginia ... at midnight. And my poor friend Heather had to roll out of bed to come pick us up. At least we didn't even have to think about airline travel for another 6 days.
The Return Trip: Dulles International to Seattle via Newark
Phew! That was a lot of typing and a lot of reading if you stuck with it. But I am blogging about this so I can remember the pain - I don't want to forget it like childbirth and foolishly decide to do it again!
Monday, August 11, 2008
12-Month Check-up
Natalie had only a mild case of stranger anxiety during the exam and cooperated with most of the doctor's request. She was most disgruntled when having her ears checked ... and the vaccinations were awful - at least for me. Chad held her, and I turned my back and shed a few tears for her. Sitting on daddy's lap, clutching her lovey, Natalie was unbelievably brave and calm. She cried - hard - during the injections but then recovered within a minute or two. My sweet girl was even smiling by the time I got her dressed and out to the reception area. Overall, a very successful check-up :)
*Check out these stats:
Weight: 22 lbs. 4 oz.
Height: 31 inches
Crepes: One of the Many Reasons I love CPV
Crepe Batter
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons water
1/2 cup milk
3 large eggs
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1/2 teaspoon salt
Combine all ingredients in large bowl. Use hand mixer to blend until liquid consistency. Let the batter stand, covered, for 1 hour. (The batter may be made up to 1 day in advance and kept covered and chilled.)
To Make Crepes:
- Start with a heated a 9 inch skillet. Chad sprays the pan - just one - with cooking spray.
- Once the pan is hot (but not smoking), remove it from the heat.
- Stir the batter, fill a 1/4 cup measuring scoop with batter.
- Pour the batter into the pan. Tilt and rotate that pan quickly to cover the bottom with a thin layer of batter and then return the pan to the heat.
- Loosen the edge of the crepe until the underside is browned lightly.
- Flip the crepe - you can even get fancy about it - and brown the other side.
- Transfer the crepe to a plate.
- Serve with strawberries and whip cream, berries and powdered sugar, just powdered sugar, or maple syrup - these are the toppings we've tried thus far :)
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Mobility: That Baby Gets Around!
Rolling: Natalie rolled from back to tummy first, and she did this for a good long while before figuring out the other direction. Once she unlocked this little mystery, she spent a lot of time practicing in her crib ... when she was suppose to be sleeping! All that rolling led to our first "doctor's office" injury. Natalie dislocated her elbow, which sounds worse that it actually is - click here to read the story: Elbow Injury. Anyway, rolling didn't "change my life" but it did prompt a note to self: Don't leave NHV unattended on raised surface.
Crawling: This was the next big "leap" in mobility, and I must admit, it rocked my world. It happened about a week after she turned 9 months. I couldn't believe how tired we both were when Natalie first started locomotting on all fours. As evidence, her naps suddenly extended to a solid two, sometimes three, hours. And often times, I joined her for at least one of those naps! Clearly, the naps were a major benefit. But it also came with more than a few drawbacks. Gone were the days of plopping her down with a basket of toys and expecting to find her there three seconds later. Gone were the days of going to the bathroom by myself - although it does crack me up when she crawls around the corner and seems surprised to see me sitting there on the toilet! And I have never vacuumed, swept, and mopped more in my life. Now that we were spending so much time moving around on the floors, I couldn't help but notice how dirty they seemed - all the time. No wonder I was so tired, when I wasn't chasing Natalie everywhere, or resetting her to a safer, cleaner place, I was doing my best impersonation of Cinder-freakin'-ella!


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Eph·tha·lite | \ ˈefthəˌlīt\
variants: or less commonly Hephthalite \ ˈhe- \
plural -s
Definition of Ephthalite
: a member of the western branch of the Yueh-chi-Tocharians that ruled Russian Turkestan and northwest India in the 5th and 6th centuries A.D.
— called also White Hun
appealing forcibly to the mind or reason
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I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to have generated the belief, throughout my childhood years, that I could become a being such as "Superman", because of having idolised the "Superman" character from the movies, from within which I have actually brought myself to believe that, within the saying of "everything is possible", that it was/is possible to become a being such as "Superman" and that one could "fly in the sky" and have "inhumane force" if one could chose to be so, because after all, like the saying said : "Everything is possible". Within this, I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to go into the extent of actually believing that I could eventually "fly in the sky", have "inhumane force" and be a superhero such as the character of "Superman", because of actually believing the saying that said "everything is possible", wherein I have imagined the possibility of becoming "Superman" within my secret mind, whereas I have constantly and continuously built the "Superman entity/character/persona" within the secrets of my mind, wherein I have stored and generated tremendous amounts of energy within the relationships of "hoping to become superman" and the "positive affirmations" within my own mind, from within which I have generated the "Superman Entity" within and as the secrets of my mind, and where I have actually come to express and embody within my first "psychosis" back in 2003, where I believed that I did in fact became "Superman" – but not within the universal picture of the Superman character, but rather within the principle of what the "Superman" character stood for – and that I allowed myself to delve deep within the delusions of the mind because of having attained a level of mental energy that made me believe that I was a "special being" such as what "superman" is.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to experience feelings of positive energy, such as the feeling of an overwhelming sense of grandeur whenever I hear the "Superman theme song" or whenever I see an excerpt of a past superman movie or a future superman movie, wherein I sense the energy swell up inside me to the extent/point where I become so overwhelmed by the "positive energy/feeling" that I completely lose focus of where I am within and as the given moment, and become entirely possessed by the "energetic entity" that is birthed from the relationship that I have built with the character of "superman", whereas I start imagining myself flying in the sky, running faster than a "speeding bullet" and/or, just to simply visualise myself within the company of superman whereas I become emotionally unstable – instead of remaining HERE stable within and as my human physical body through the tools of BREATHING in order to interrupt my participation within the energy that is generated through the mind games that I participate in while relating myself to the "superman" character, so as to stop myself from feeding the delusions of the mind through my participation within the "superman" character, and return to who I truly am HERE within and as the physical as life, so as to eventually birth myself from the physical as life and to stop myself from entertaining the games of the mind which only entraps myself further into and as the illusions of the mind.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to experience feelings of negative energy within and as myself, such as the feeling of longing, depression and sadness whenever I do not participate within the "superman" character within and as my mind, whereas the high energy that is associated with the superman character cannot be made present within and as my own mind, from within which the "thought of being more than who I am" is not made manifest, but where the thought of "being less than who I want to be" such as who I truly am within and as the physical, is made manifest through the "routine" that I have defined as being "boring" in comparison to the "routine" that could be if I were to be "superman". Within this, I forgive myself that I haven't accepted and allowed myself to realise that through me defining my "routine" as being "boring", that I have thus invited the negative energy to overpower me within and as the moments where my habitual "routine" is made manifest, whereas I constantly and continuously feed the sadness, depression and longing for something "more" because of not being able to "find something to like" about my habitual "routine" – instead of realising that through me accepting and allowing myself to participate within the preferences of the mind, such as the likes and dislikes, that I thus allow myself to be enslaved by the games of the mind as polarity manifestations, which ultimately controls the sense of who I am within and as the emotions that my likes and dislikes generates within and as me, whereas I become the slave to my emotions rather than stopping my enslavement all together, through the application of BREATHING in order to stop the movements as energy within my own mind, self-forgiveness to peg the patterns that are continuing my enslavement towards my mind, self-honesty to actually see who and what I am within my own mind as what I have accepted and allowed myself to be and become, and self-corrective application in order to stop participating within the patterns of enslavement that I have pegged within self-forgiveness – so that I can ultimately change myself in order to act towards what is best for all life, equal and one with all living beings.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to get emotionally involved towards the prospect of the new superman movie that is to come out in June of 2013, whereas I have allowed myself to participate within an emotional uproar after having seen the firsts videos and music from the upcoming movie over the internet, where I actually experienced myself within an emotional high such as the feeling of an overwhelming joy because of the inner satisfaction that I have experienced within myself as I was watching those videos and images of the superman movie to come in June of 2013 – instead of stopping myself from participating within the emotional reactions within myself, through the realisation that as long as I accept and allow myself to participate within emotions as energy as the mind, that I thus accept and allow myself to be governed and determined by the mind, which only enslaves me within a system of abuse which abuses physicality as life through the consumption of physicality for the own sustenance of energy as the mind as illusion, which is finite, rather than aligning myself towards the physical as life as all as one as equal, so as to change what I have accepted and allowed myself to be and become as the mind, so as to be and become that which I should have been from the beginning, which is LIFE itself as the physical as all as one as equal, so as to change the system of abuse of the world and bring about a system which honours life, one and equal with all living beings.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that I am and was equal to what I have defined as being the "Superman" principle, through the realisation that if I cannot become equal to the superman character, that I could at least become equal to the "Superman principle", which I have defined as being the principle of being a "leader" which leads through the example that is brought through the relationship that the leader has with "high energy", wherein I have perceived myself as being this "leader" through the accumulation and expulsion/manifestation of "high energy" through the constant accumulation of energy through meditative practices and through the feeding of the idea of eventually becoming equal to "superman" – instead of stopping myself from feeding this "superman principle" through the simple tools of Breathing, self-forgiveness and self-corrective application so as to completely stop myself from participating within the delusions of the mind, and return to where I am HERE as the self-honest expression of who I am as life, which is equal and one with all of physicality, equal and one with all living beings.
I commit myself to stop accepting and allowing myself to participate within the mind's emotions in relation to the "superman" character, through the realisation that as long as I accept and allow myself to participate within energy as the characters of the mind, that I automatically accept and allow myself to participate within energy as the mind which abuses/misuses substance as myself through the consumption of the physical as life for the own sustenance/survival of myself as finite Energy – to which I am ultimately not, as who I am is one and equal with the physical as life eternal, wherein there is NO ENERGY which controls who I am as the physical.
I commit myself to, through writing, self-forgiveness, self-corrective application and self-honesty, write daily in my blog so as to become a living example to others as what it is to be a responsible human being which acts for the interest of what is best for all, as what is best for all is best for everyone, Equal and One with all living beings.
If and when I see myself moving or about to move into the mind through the reaction of "desiring to be/become superman" pattern, I stop, breathe, remind myself that it is a pattern of me as the mind I no longer want to engage in for it is not what is best for me and what is best for all, One and Equal.
When and as I see myself moving into the automatic personality of "the superman character", I stop, breathe, see if i have missed an opportunity to self-correct into Oneness and Equality from which the personality arose, if so, I forgive myself, stand up from the personality game and self-correct, if not i stop, self-forgive my participation in personality as an automated response to a pattern of self-abuse and bring myself back Here in and as Breath.
I commit myself to stop myself from entertaining ideas and beliefs about myself as the feeling/experience of "what it is to be superman", through the use of thoughts and emotions, learned ideas and beliefs about the human condition, comparisons and games of winners and losers to establish myself as an example of how Life could be for everyone outside of the limited living of the Mind of illusions and back into Life as the Physical, One and Equal for every living Being.
I commit myself to assist and support myself through writing, self-forgiveness, self-corrective application and breathing – to stop the desires and stop the frictions/judgments/blame/spite within and as me and so allow me to express myself unconditionally for the first time.
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Boring Managers and Bad Energy
I've been working out with my trainer, Max Reynoso, for several years now. I enjoy his high energy, calorie-burning sessions for the physical benefit, as well as the mental boost. Regardless of my frame of mind when I arrive at the gym, Max is there to meet me where I am. He's always positive, energetic and encouraging. Working with Max is just good energy.
Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow me to work out with Max, and I become a slave to the early morning treadmill instead. I don't mind it as it gives me time to watch the interaction between other trainers and their clients. Through observation I've learned that not all trainers are like Max. Some never smile; others offer no words of encouragement. Still others just don't pay attention to their clients' needs. Honestly, if I worked out with these trainers, I'd be completely bored and probably discouraged.
You have an opportunity to create an environment where employees want to work hard–to give their all. Some leaders do just the opposite. Here are a few things leaders do, sometimes inadvertently, to create an environment that produces lower levels of performance:
- Focus on the problem rather than the opportunities.
Great leaders stay positive–always. When obstacles present themselves, they are tackled head on with enthusiasm. Focusing on problems and things that are wrong is a downer. Max always reminds me of the benefits of exercise instead of telling me I should do more.
- Give little feedback and encouragement.
Motivating leaders acknowledge the work of others. We all need to know that someone is noticing our hard work. We all need a little pat on the back when we've reached a milestone. When we don't get the feedback we crave, we wonder why we worked so hard.
If Max and I can't meet face-to-face because of my work and travel schedule, he checks in with me to make sure I'm making good choices. If I have a bad day he just says, "Let's get back on track." He always says it with a smile. If the guy ever has a bad day, you wouldn't know it.
- Lose touch with the environment.
Effective leaders are keenly aware of the environment in which they do their work. The physical environment must support employees so they feel that they can do their best. The emotional environment must be one in which everyone feels valued. Online retailer Amazon, was recently criticized in the New York Times for fostering a cutthroat work culture. The immediate response from CEO Jeff Bezos was that the article "didn't describe the Amazon he knew." Within two days of the article's publication, over 5000 comments were posted online supporting the article's claim. This sounds like an out of touch leader to me.
- Become monotonous.
Motivating leaders change things up often. Doing the same thing day after day, meeting after meeting, sales call after sales call, gets boring. Great leaders add competition, fun, and renewed energy. Every time I work out with Max he surprises me with a new routine, new piece of equipment, or new challenge. I may not always be excited to work out, but I'm never bored.
I'm back on track with Max after some time off. He shares my vision of being healthy and strong and reminds me every day that we share this common goal. Come to think of it, Max is also a great team leader. His team of trainers is one of the highest producing in the company. Great leaders also get great results.


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In January of 2014 we posted about the City of St. Augustine being activated, (click for post). You could say they don't call it the oldest city for nothing! It took three years for our city to finally put someone to task who was up to the challenge, Reuben Franklin, P.E. as the Mobility Coordinator. While it may have taken nearly 4 years and a lot of donated time, the Bike Share RFP hit the street officially yesterday, February 5, 2018!
"How?" you wonder did we keep pressing on for over four years? Because it's the right thing to do. Because we hear you VeloFest! Because we read all the city/county surveys and our community wants it at an overwhelming 85% plus approval rating. Because it is successful in cities and towns nationwide and right here in the Sunshine State. Because more people on bikes means more people living and loving our community. Because Reuben reminds us of successful staff in other districts we work and meet with regularly. Because we have HOPE! #RebelionsAreBuiltOnHope
What will the share look like? Who knows! There are so many options from docks to dockless, lease to purchase, solar powered to electric required. Colors, names and so much more. It really is so exciting!
As with most government decisions a committee will be called. We want you to jump on and enter your name. Whether you want share, love share, have no experience with share, get involved. Email [email protected] and let him know!
Many components presented to our city and county commissions during the Sec. Fox Challenge needing updating still remain. These include addressing our ancient, outdated, inconsistent and virtually not enforceable bicycle ordinance. An alternate route signing installation. And for the ultimate experience, a safe connected network within the right of way routes including connection to the River to Sea Loop!
In the meantime, check out the 25 Best Bike Shares in the world. Argentina has one that is FREE!
Hang in there VeloFest followers, this is just the beginning. Welcome along for the ride.
See you on the road,
P.S. VeloFest is seeking out two "Directors." Of course these are #veloteer opportunities! So no pay but many rewards. We need someone who likes small events to help out! Many requests to assist in River to Sea Loop, Cycling Expos and other small cycling events are popping up. Maybe 3-5 a year!
Second is to help with building our social media content, especially our blog writing. WE have an extensive list of subjects and bullet points, so if you like to write, come on over.
Lastly, we are seeking out a contracted bike mechanic for the Box to Bike Program. This is a paid position. Please email [email protected] if you are interested.


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By Mike Bloomfield, president, Tekie Geek and ASCII Group Member since 2016
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I googled the problem and NOTHING!!!!! many information NO LONGER is displayed in my details pane in Windows Explorer!!!!!! song length is one of them gone missing (& total length if multiple files are selected) and I use that frequently!!!!! it ONLY shows basic information now such as artist, title, album, and genre!!! but total length is GONE!!! also MANY UNRELATED INFORMATION is now in the details pane for media files!!!!!!! mood of music has been added (never heard of that tag), song rating, and composer now have been added!!!! it even displays ALL THIS SAME INFORMATION for WAV files when it used to be ONLY file size and length for WAV files!!!!!!! WAV is NOT capable of tags so I don't know why Windows Explorer shows this information for WAV files!!!!!!
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How can I re-associate .mp4 files with video details displaying in the Details Pane? After installing the K-lite codecs pack, my mp4's all began displaying in the details pane as audio files (Album, Artist etc) and no longer displays the important video default details (size, frame height, bitrate etc). I assume it was because of incorrectly associating file types when installing the codecs (even though wmv's, avi's are still correct), so I uninstalled the codecs but the Details categories remain for typical audio files. I've exhausted The Google and I'm stumped... any help? (Win7, 32-bit with VLC as my default player) Thanks!
Have you tried resetting your Folder Templates?
Folder Template - Default
I have this problem with the vista details pane and I have not been able to find any solution. I have Windows Vista 32 bit Home Premium version. The problem is that:
1. My details pane is missing a lot of properties/tags . Only ones that are appearing are file date, file name, dated created.
2. When I go into a MP3 folder, same thing happens as I described in 1. Just the 4 tags appear and I don?t get any other tags that used to be there like artist name, rating, title, etc.
3. I cannot edit any Tag in the details pane. When everthing was working fine, I could go in the MP3 folder , I could edit the title, ratings etc. and Save it. But now I can?t do anything, the save button does not appear and the tags don?t go in edit mode.
Up till now I have tried the following solutions:
1. I have reset all the folder options in Vista by going to Folders/tools/reset defaults. (did not work)
2. After resetting the folders, I have also turned on the details pane option under Organize/Layout and the details under the Views. (did not work)
3. Under View, in the tool bar, I went to Customize This Folder and chose the Music Folder Option, All Items etc. (did not work)
4. Then on the Microsoft site, I found this solution ? Open Documents by clicking the Start button , and then clicking Documents., and click a file to apply properties. Then In the Details pane at the bottom of the folder window, click the property that you want to change, type the new property in the Tags.? But it did not work ei... Read more
Is this only for mp3 files?
You said "when everything was working fine" what happened? did you download a new program? (itunes,vlc)
If it wasn't that long ago, you could try system restore.
Did you use a "registry cleaner" or an "optimizer"?
On the properties window, general tab, what is it set to "open with"?
good luck
My friend has MSN Messenger 7.5, with the Messenger Plus 3 add-on. She used to be able to display the song she's listening to as a personal message, but she can't anymore. The "display song information from Windows Media Player as a personal message" box in her settings is still enabled and there is no known reason to this problem. She already updated and reinstalled both MSN and Windows Media, and she even reformatted her hard drive, but the problem has not been solved.
She uses Windows Media Player 10 to listen to music, under Windows XP SP2. Thanks for any help you can provide.
Edit: By the way, she has trouble with her sound card drivers. Could that be the problem? She can listen to music just fine, though.
Update: She installed Messenger 8, and the problem is still the same.
Every song I play, the same picture for the "album" shows up every time (mine is the A Static Lullaby album cover). What is wrong and how do I change this?
Hi Allen,
When you use the term "media information pane", you're talking about the Library screen display... the pane below the center Details pane... the pane where information from your currently selected online store is displayed? Right?
Left click on "Help", at the top of your screen, to trigger the drop down menu. Click on the Contents and Index. Up comes the 2 page help screen. On the left side, on the "search" page, enter "media information pane" and click on the display button. Check out the entry on the right side page...
What happens when you hide the pane, by clicking on the "More Info" button?
Also, there is a link at the bottom of the page, "To update information about an album". Does it help?
My Windows Media Player 9 Music Library settings will not automatically update media information for files which were copied from CD's. These CD's were copied over several months but the missing media data i.e. '01 Track 1' is intact. I have done this successfully in the past with no issues.
I added the correct folder for monitoring with the following settings in Tools - Options - Media Library:
Update files by retrieving missing information from internet.
Only add missing information.
Find media information for music copied with another program.
I restarted the computer and started the browser before opening WMP9 and waited several hours for it to update with no changes appearing. I tried this with both Explorer and Firefox.
There is no menu item to force media information updates.
Is reinstalling WMP9 the best option at this point?
I recently used IOBit uninstaller to remove all traces of a program from the registry. I'm assuming it removed something that caused this issue, because after I used it all my program information in Add/Remove programs was missing. However, other users on my PC show all information in Add/Remove programs. Is there a way to repopulate this or would I have to create a new user? Thank you
Use a restore point before this happened.Read other 5 answers
So I have a MP3 file from a while ago. The song itself is about 2.5 mins long, but every media player displays it as being 16 mins. The track ends when the counter is at 2.5...
So is there a way to get it to display at 2.5 rather than 16?
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Can someone help me? i have no idea why this is happeningRead other answers
I have mp3 files of songs saved on my hard drive. When I import the song to windows movie maker, it makes the song longer. For example, a song is 4:01 minutes long as saved on the hard drive. When I load it into Movie Maker, it says it's 7:53 minutes long. Any ideas on how to fix this? I've tried numerous songs and it's always the same result.
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I'm using Windows 7 Professional x64. When I use Windows Explorer to view image files (jpg, png, etc.), I would like to see each image's dimensions listed in the Details Pane (when it's set to view the images as Icons/Thumbnails, rather than Details). However, the only details that show up in the Details Pane are Name, Type, Date Created, Date Modified, and Size. This is the case even though:
* I've checked 'Dimensions' in the 'Choose Details' options
* The folder is already categorized/optimized for 'Pictures'
* Other folders show the other details I want -- i.e., the Details Pane for my 'Videos' folder shows Length, Frame Width, Frame Height, and other details that I've chosen
Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.
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A long story short is that my cat ran over my keyboard and now all my folders have a preview/details pane I can't get rid of. I read it could be removed by going to Folder Options, General, Use Classic View. Well guess what, there is no classic view! I included two screenshots to show my problem.
Lack of Classic option
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A fairly simple question:
Has anyone tried to (or found a third party app) that can put the details pane back to the bottom of the File Explorer windows, like it was in 7. It was of great use to me when reading tags and other information. In 8, it just takes needless width space from the windows.
Shell32.dll but modifyng it crashes windows 8 (at least in CP/RP), havent tried in RTM yet.Read other 15 answers
How can I change the color of details pane in Windows Explorer? I'm trying to modify Soft7 visual style to suite my needs.. I've found allmost everything else, but I can't find the way to change this. Is it a bitmap in shellstyle.dll, msstyles, or something else?
Hi Morpheus
Are you using Windows Style Builder?
So, I upgraded directly from XP, I hated Vista and I hated Win7. So. It's only natural that the omittance of the details + preview hybrid pane being missing causes me a lot of mental insecurity and overall discomfort (not literally :P ).
But point is.
Can I move the details pane from the right to the left, where the tree explorer is located?
Not sure how you did that but i can not replicate it at all.Read other 5 answers
I'm running a machine with Vista Home Premium and in a folder I was looking in there is a details pane at the bottom of the folder. Well, I accidently hit 'Hide The Details Pane" button and poof it was gone. Now I can't figure out how to get the details pane back. Any help would be mucho appreciated.
thanks all,
by the way.....great forum, it's been a lot of help.
Is there a way to display file folder location in the details pane view?
In the search box I've type *.* and it display all files. There are duplicate files I want to delete so I want to see which folder they're in without checking each file's properties.
Thanks in advance.
is there anyway i can display my details panel on the bottom ? like it used to on win 7?
because windows 10 shows it on right hand side, but it's just taking too much of the space on my screen, it's really inconvenient when you open 2 folders and snap to sides and modify files.
Was just thinking the same thing. Here is how my Win7 workstation looks (about perfect to me! Note Classic Explorer is also running).
...and in Win10. The preview thumbnail image in the details pane cannot be resized (larger).
Hello! I would like to somehow know how to move the details pane from bottom to the top, like this:
Thank you!
I have a video folder that I would like organize by genre (i.e.: action, drama, comedy, etc.) but Windows isn't allowing me to add or change existing file details.
I consulted this document and realized the following applies to my situation.
Some properties can't be added or changed. In those cases, clicking next to the value won't change its appearance.
Is there a work-around? (e.g.:Additional software)
Click Here to download abcAVI, save it to your desktop, once download is complete run installer => Open up abcAVI => On the top menu bar the first icon will let you select one movie file to edit, the second icon will allow you to select a whole directory to edit all movie files in it, once in the movie just go down to Genre and choose the one you would like or type in your own => Click Save once done
How would I add an image to the background of the details pane? The ones highlighted in the screenshot I attached.Read other answers
In order to customize which fields are displayed in the details pane for a given file type you can:
1. Run Regedit.
2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\SystemFileAsso ciations\.mp3 (Or whatever file type you want to edit.)
3. Edit the PreviewDetails string.
My question is:
Is there a way to do something similar for folders? Currently, the only info displayed in the details pane when a folder is selected is Date modified, and Availability. I would like to add other details to this pane (Size, Date created etc...). Is this possible?
I have three computers, and one of them has all of my iTunes music. I tried to burn it all to CD-RW's, only to find that when I put the burned CD-RW into one of my other computers, there was no song information (like title, album, artist etc...) In addition to using the burned CD-RW's to put music on my other computers, I was also planning to use them to back up my music collection in case it is somehow lost. All three computers are Windows XP Home Edition. I plan to delete the CD-RW's and then re-burn them...How do I make it so that the CD-RW's (HP brand CD-RW's) remember the song info?
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As the title says. I first tried to find the album info using WMP, got it, and it changed the file names... but then in the library everything changed back to what it was before. I tried a couple more times with the same result.
I then decided to manually change the info, thinking it was a problem with WMP. Long story short, every change I made disappeared as soon as I hit OK.
But here is the real clincher that has me beating my head against the wall: It is only happening with a certain 15 files that are all in the same album. They have no protection on them, they aren't locked, they aren't hidden, I even checked to see if they were system files. Nothing. Can I get suggestions on this unusual problem? I just can't think of anything else to try, besides getting a hex editor out and trying to change the info that way, but really...
Does anyone know how to edit the details that appear at the bottom of the screen when you select a file? I'm not talking about the details that you can change when you select view but the one at the very bottom of the screen.
Thank you
Try this:
Once installed, go to the details tab of a files properties, and you can edit them as you wish, which will also appear at the bottom of Windows Explorer.
For some reason when I go to the layout menu in Vista Exploer (Explorer --> Organize --> Layout) there is no details pane listed. Is there a way to get that back?
I checked to see that "Show Previews and Filters" is selected" and it is. I tried unselecting and reselecting it and that didn't work.
Hi, the details pane is not under organise it's under View.Read other 2 answers
Is there any way to permanently remove or disable all of the various "views" in the Windows 7 Navigation Pane *except* for Details? If a subdirectory contains audio files I *never* want to see "Album" or "Artist" or any of the rest of that garbage. If the subdirectory contains an image file I *never* want to see a thumbnail of images. If I need more information about a file I'll right click on it and select Properties, thankyewverymuch!
In short, when I click anywhere in the left or right panel in the Navigation Pane I never want to see *ANYTHING* except the file name, type, size, and date modified. If it isn't a file (e.g. Network, etc.) just show me a computer or device name, not some massive image of a router or other waste of my time.
Jerry H.
You can modify the folder templates for different folder types like Music, Pictures, etc. where you can specify things like that.
These should get you on track to setting those up:
Folder Template - Change
Folder View - Set a Default for All Folders
I've been trying to re-organize my photo collection. Previously, I had been using Windows Live Photo Gallery to tag my photos, and admittedly it was convenient. Recently, though, the program has gone on the fritz to where thumbnails aren't loading so it's harder to differentiate photos simply by the file name in cases where I have a lot of photos of the same group or folder. While I've tried a lot of troubleshooting to get the thumbnails to load, and would gladly take advice on that issue, in the meantime I'm trying to accomplish the same thing using the details pane in explorer.
When I highlight a photo right now, most file types load the date stamp, tags, rating, author(s) and comments properties in the details pane. However, I'd like to edit the people properties so I can tag individuals in the photos. I have not seen a way to easily do that short of using other software (such as Photo Gallery).
Does anyone know if there's a way to do this through explorer or will it require a separate application?
You are talking about edit Exif data. There are programs out there that allow you to do that.Read other 4 answers
Hai Im new here..
Recently I was trying to add comments to movie folders so that i can keep a brief description about it when i click on it. It was easy to add comment then i had a bit trouble to get the comment getting displayed in the details pane...after playing with the registry for a while i got that solved as well.
Now I ended up with a problem where the comment being displayed eds with just some 3 or 4 words with the remaining given in dots (...) and I get a full display of it when i hover the mouse over it, which obviously goes way in 5 seconds or so.
So what i need is to find a way to expand what ever that is shown in the details pane so that it shows the entire content in consecutive lines without being restricted to one line (without having to hover a mouse)
You might get a picture of it if you have a small details pane on the right and make it show your processor details when you open thisPC.
This is what i mean, if no one gets it :PRead other 0 answers
The details pane used to show a thumbnail preview of the first page of Adobe Acrobat documents when I selected the file. This was extremely helpful to me due to the nature of how I file these documents, as I didn't have to open the files - I only had to select them. As of this morning, the details pane only shows the name of the document and does not display a thumbnail preview of the first page. How do I fix this? Thank you!!
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I was wondering if you know if there is a way to improve Vista's Video Preview on the Details Pane.
The problem I see is that Vista shows the very 1st second of video, while Windows 7 shows the 4th. That's why many of the video previews on the details pane show a black screen on vista instead of actual video.
If anyone else has the answer, I will be really grateful.
I guess you could edit that through the registry, but believe me, lol, to be honest Idk...Read other 6 answers
I must apologize in advance for any forthcoming ignorance, as I am a forum newbie. Using Win8.1, I am trying to relocate the Details Pane in Explorer from the space wasting right side to the well fitting & familiar bottom.
Fix I found is here: How To Move Details Pane To The Bottom In Windows 8.1 File Explorer
Has anyone had any experience in general with this tool? Haven't been able to find out any more jnfo either way othter than the link.
Thank you in advance for your time.
Better use Old New Explorer:
OldNewExplorer - make your 8.1/10 explorer work like Win7/8 one - StartIsBack+ - MSFN Forum
It has some other features but the one you are searching for is one of them. It doesn't always make the hack but it is much safer than patching the shell32.dll
How do I change the font style in the Windows Explorer details pane using Windows Style Builder?
I have attached a screenshot, I want to change the font inside the red box. More specifically, the font of the text in black.
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That would be at Styles > TextStyle > BodyText > FONT:FONT
Hello! Title says everything
Win 8 Enterprise x64, non local administrator user.
I can not change music's rating or other stuff from details pane. In local administrator user I can. Should I change my account type or any help?
Also the music is at external HDD
Check that your files haven't suddenly become "Read-only".
Also try running CHKDSK to check the drive.
After I've used one of my external HDDs at TAFE, my PC claims that it is "Read-only" and it takes several CHKDSK commands to fix the problem.
Of course after CHKDSK is finished, it says that there weren't any problems.
I do not want to see a large space to the right of my photos & files in file explorer. I want to see the full space filled with them. I have been searching for hours for the mythical "General Tab" which supposedly contains the key but it doesn't seem to exist. Does anyone know if this display is possible?
I want to make some specific changes to the default Preview Details string for picture files in Windows Explorer. I have found an excellent write-up on how to edit that string using regedit, but the author was only interested in the specific around music. In the attached picture, I show the file properties/attributes that I am interested in placing in the Detail Pane. The current edited string is shown below.
As you can see, some work, others don't. Is there a comprehensive list of these properties and their syntax in the form
that one can refer to when modifying the string?
Hi, I just re-installed windows 7 on my desktop pc and have a question about the settings of the details pane in windows explorer (the one that appears and the bottom when you select a file). Previously when I selected video files (.mp4, .avi and .mkv) I would get the details at the bottom, the video frame width and height, size of file etc.. but since I reinstalled I don't get these details when I select video files. I know its only a small problem but I work with video files a lot and have gotten used to seeing the resolution of files without having to open them. Does anyone know how I can get the details pane to show these details again? At the moment it only displays the video size, name and state.
Here is a screen-shot of the details pane for a selected .mkv video file on my laptop, this is what I want it to display on my pc.
Is the folder set as a "Video" type?
Look at the properties of the folder, and there you will see a drop down list for the type.
Screenshot of my situation: http://i31.tinypic.com/e8txr7.png
I am aware that most or all of these song files do actually contain information on them, since I had them in an old computer, and everything was just fine. On this machine all the columns show blank.
I got tons of song files from various sources and none of them show any information under folder explorer. When I add them to the Winamp playlist the tags show normally, however by hitting Properties > Summary on any file I don't see any information there as well.
Thank you for your time, in advance.
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Please could someone tell me how to view the length of a playlist in Windows Media Player 11 on Windows XP?
Open up media player. Click the library tab then select the playlist you want the length of.
Click "edit in list pane"
It will tell you how many items in the play list and the duration of the play list.
Hey all,
Well...I finally got my Media Player 11 working again after an issue with firefox. After opening it today...I was reminded of an old problem I had been having with WMP 11. I have duplicate songs almost EVERYWHERE!!!
I had been trying to fix this for a quite a while but have come to no clear solution for it. This issue is probably my fault in the fact that when I moved my music from PC to now PC about 11 months ago, I put the Itunes Music files on 2 DVD's, and moved them into 2 different folders in my computer. Also, the music I've downloaded from the internet recently is spread throughout my hard drive. In simpler terms...my music is scattered throughout my PC and I don't want to move it around at risk of Itunes not recognizing where I moved it to causing me a huge headache and a long night moving things back. When media player "automatically" monitors folders for music, It finds the foldered song as well as the song in the Itunes Library, causing up to three of the same song, but from different locations.
Is there any way that you can just sync your itunes library to your Media Player 11 library, and have media player not monitor anything but the itunes library, so that when I add a song to Itunes, it also shows up in WMP, to prevent duplicates?
Any Suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
my computer is stuck with same MP3 song.
i had a mp3 song on my computer which i have deleted already but still all my media players (VLC,WMP,winamp) play that same file i have deleted.
i have got new mp3 and still the same.
any suggestion please..
some body please help me
I am trying to add a song to a playlist in MS Media Centre. Can anyone advise me how to do this?
Dublin, Ireland
When I want to do this I usually have selected the Playlist to play. Clcik on the Edit Playlist in the right pane window. Then I will select Library and move to the selection which I want to add to the Playlist. Right click on the selection and an option to add the file to the playlist will be available.
Repeat for all files you want to add.
I have a bizarre problem that I can't seem to solve. I looked all over the internet for solutions, but can't find any.
My problem is that when I right-click on Mp3 files, the pop-up menu shows "Edit Song Information" as the default command for Mp3 files. The default command should be "Play In Winamp".
I've looked for a command in Winamp to change the default command back with no success. I've checked the Mp3 info in Folder Options > View File Types and the "Play In Winamp" command IS set as the default.
One of my other programs must be causing the problem. I have the following audio programs or codecs installed.
Winamp 5.52
Windows Media Player 10
VLC Media Player
iTunes (I don't really use it except for m4b files)
Roxio Easy Media Creator 9
RealPlayer 10.5
K-Lite Codec Pack 3.7.0
G-Spot 2.21
Quicktime Player 7.4
Does anyone know how to get "Edit Song Information" removed as the default command for my Mp3s and what program might be causing it?
Hello and welcome to TSF :Wavey:
What does the Edit song information belong too?
Can you post a screen shot of the .Mp3 file type in Folder options
My windows media player will freeze up when playing songs. can anyone help me with this?
What version of WMP is this?
Do you have all the latest codecs?