Animal Style at In and Out Burger, Dallas

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Posted by montytx on July 1, 2011 at 12:20 pm

4 lanes waiting to go through the drive through, notice the lince under the canopies waiting to go inside.

 

My son and I went to Guitar Center to get my son a new acoustic 12 string guitar today and decided afterwards we would hit In and Out Burger, since it is next door practically. The wait was about 25 minutes and the place is a zoo. Once you actually get off the police directed service road at IH75 and into In and Out’s parking lot you are shuttled into a 4 lane wide waiting area where they take your order and then release each lane to move to the regular drive through when they are ready. It was a lot of waiting for a burger, but not terrible.
My opinion, the burger is quite good. We both ordered a double double, animal style, and an order of fries. I put the burgers up there with Burger House’s burgers, the fries on the other hand were terrible. My son and I both thought they were dry and crunching. It may be because of the massive volume they had to deal with that quality suffered, I don’t know. Would I go through the wait again?  Not unless I was right next door. I’m going to venture a guess that the mob of cars and people you see in the pic below will fade in a few more weeks, this ain’t Bob’s Chophouse, after all.

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Understanding the Web’s real Estate Value

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Posted by montytx on June 17, 2011 at 9:21 pm

If you just browse the web to look at sites, read the news and find info or products you are really missing the boat. The web is the great equalizer. What am I talking about? Digital real estate, that’s what. If someone had told me 5 years ago I would own 80+ websites and be making a living off of them I would have thought they were crazy.  But, that is exactly where I am. I’m not going to tell you I’m rich and its easy, but frankly it is something anyone can do, if you have patience and persistence. I started on the web in 2002 with my remodeling website and then decided in 2007 I wanted to grow my on line presence. I was lucky enough to do it before real estate went bust along with my remodeling business for the next few years. Otherwise, I would have been living under a bridge. But, anyone who knows me, knows I am a survivor and can’t be kept down ( I am also horrible at punctuation, tit for tat, I suppose). During those dark recession days I spent hours learning web design and building my portfolio. It has taken me this long to reach a point where I can pay the bills and I don’t have to worry about that next bathroom remodel, which is nice . How do you do it?

Blogging is always a good start, get the creative juices flowing and write about what ever interest you. Ad Google adsense to your site. Create a new site focused on your business interest. If you sell real estate, talk about the market, if you make pencils poke your eyes out and talk about lead. Get people to link to you and build your presence. This takes lots of work and comes slowly but it can happen.Sell stuff on line, sell links, affiliate advertising. The list is endless.

My point is this, if I hadn’t started to put one foot in front of the other in 2007 when I decided to do this I would be doing this from my mom’s closet. And if you know my situation with my mom you know that would suck ash.

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Google Voice Steps up to the plate

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Posted by montytx on June 15, 2011 at 8:54 pm

I’ve been jacking around with Google Voice for over a year and had tossed it to the curb becuase I couldn’t port my existing phone number over to it. I love, love, love the features it offers but I hate, hate, hate the idea of ever getting another phone number. This number is going to my grave with me, I may need to order pizza there.  Sprint, in an effort to stay relevant obviously, and not become some sort of sticky gum on AT&Ts mammoth, mangled foot, has decided to kiss Google’s ass and push all their chips in with the big G. Well, since I despise AT&T and went back to Sprint I recently discovered I can port my Sprint number to Google Voice.  As MC Hammer would say,” can’t touch this,’ or some shit like that. So I am all in with Google Voice and loving it. Now if your not a prop head like me and are asking yourself ” what the heck is he talking about?” Let me give you an idea of what Google Voice is all about.

Imagine a world of Rainbows and candy with no calories and funny grape men to bring them to me… Its nothing like that but what does do is really cool. My ” phone” which is a generic term for how I make calls ( the how is no longer relevant with GV) is all neatly organized in an email inbox  online. So when I get calls they appear with a transcript of the message left for me if I don’t answer. More to the point I can tell Google when, how and where to contact me for my phone calls. So if I want a call from my sister at my brothers house I can tell it to send it to his phone. She would still call me as always. I can also customize my outbound voicemail for everyone I know. This is really entertaining since most people calling me don’t understand why I would leave weird outbound messages with their name in it.

Just to give you an idea of how cool this product is here are 10 kick ass features in no particular order:

  • texting anyone’s phone from my laptop and getting it back on my laptop and my phone, no more cramped keyboards when I at the computer
  • block or send anyone  to voicemail and it could be a custom one at that
  • have it ring multiple phone numbers when I receive a call just in case I cant miss that call
  • easy to use email looking inbox with all my messages
  • Dirt cheap calls over Google’s network such as 2 cents to call the Netherlands
  • If I had limited minutes on my mobile phone I could have Google call me to place my calls to people thus saving me the call charge
  • its FREE!!!!
  • It transcribes your voicemail into text
  • it can send your voicemail transcripts to your text messaging or your email
  • you can call from your mobile, another phone or your PC
  • you can add a call me button on any of your websites… you’ll see mine on the right

Frankly it is where all the phone carriers should be at this point. Sadly, it takes G to show them what can be done, if they would just sprinkle a little dash of internet into your phone services. I do find it very interesting that Sprint is doing this right out of the hopper even though it could cut into their revenue, they must think they will pick up more customers. Makes me wonder if G might make a play for them, but that would create some friction with other carriers offering Android, of course the other two are both pushing Apple.

Now, if my washing machine would just move my clothes into the dryer for me I’d be on easy street.

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Finials in my son’s leg

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Posted by montytx on June 3, 2011 at 6:45 pm

Ohh, to be fifteen again and full of blind foolishness. Today is the first day of Summer and my son decided to go out with a friend and play some basketball and swim. Somewhere along the way they both decided to hop over a wrought iron fence with nice pointy finials. Somehow he managed to jam one in his leg as he was jumping off the fence. Part of me wants to knock him upside the head and say what the fuck were you thinking, the other part of me is glad he didn’t impale his stomach or head on one of those damned things. Nothing like getting a call from the Emergency Room letting you know that your child has been transported there for an injury. Anyway, here are images of the impalement and stitches.

Dont click on the impalement if you get squeamish.

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Whydowork adsense monitor work around

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Posted by montytx on May 23, 2011 at 3:52 pm

This plug in was originally just a nice simple plug in that checked my adsense. Then this website apparently took over the plug in and crow barred in their lovely website into a frame over adsense. If you have this plug in you know what I mean. I found a simple work around that removes the banner site frame over the top and allows adsense to pop up and when you click on the lower tool bar where it is running. You need to go to the folder where the plug in is running. In my case (running Windows 7) it looked like this:
C:\Users\Joel\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\n87di648.default\extensions
I then found the folder with the adsense program called: wdwadsensemonitor@whydowork.com ( wierd name but easy to figure out) You can probably do a search for this folder in windows if you are having trouble finding it.
Once in the folder I went into the chrome/content folders and found this file: wdwadsensemonitor.js
This is a javascript file. I’m not a js expert but the one thing in it that I saw that I simply changed at the top you will see two urls referenced.
var url = ‘https://www.google.com/adsense/report/overview’;
var loadUrl = ‘http://www.whydowork.com/wdw-adsense-monitor.php’;

which I changed to this:
var url = ‘https://www.google.com/adsense/report/overview’;
var loadUrl = ‘https://www.google.com/adsense/report/overview’;
This gets rid of the frame issue. I does not fix the login issue.

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Image to Ascii Text conversion

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Posted by montytx on May 12, 2011 at 2:17 pm 
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Obama’s Birth Certificate is fake

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Posted by montytx on April 28, 2011 at 8:11 pm

I’m an Obama fan, those who know me know this to be true. So to write this post pains me.But,  I’m also a tech head and I spend my day working in Photoshop, Illustrator and many other Adobe products. I saw this youtube post today posted in facebook about the apparent fake appearance of Obama’s birth certificate and thought to myself, ” here  we go again, these right wingers are never happy.”

But, I always check my facts first, so I watched the video and downloaded the certificate just he did and opened it in illustrator. Sure enough, there are multiple layers and it is evident that the BC has been dramatically altered. Here are some layers to show some points.

As you can see here on this screen shot of this layer ( I hid the green layer) the date of Obama's BC appears to be altered. There are 2 colors in letters. The gray appears to have been edited into the ceertificate.


Here is a screen shot of the birth certificate as it is on the whitehouse.gov site. Notice the name

This is the same image with the background layer removed in illustrator CS4. Notice some of the name is now missing and only the altered copy is present.

 

 

 

 

Obviously who ever did this thought saving the document to a .pdf would prevent too much analysis, but they clearly didn’t know that an adobe pdf can be opened with its layers intact in illustrator. The fact that there are so many layers, or any at all is disturbing. Anyone techy knows that something that is scanned into a .pdf is nothing more than an image and has no layers.

All you need to do is go to whitehouse.gov and download the pdf to see for yourself. It is a really bad editing job, you would think if you’re going to commit fraud with  something this important it would be done right. Its very disappointing and unfortunately, and unless there is one hell of an explanation I’m officially off the Obama train.  Will this be Obama’s Watergate?

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The Ignorant rights Continued Attacks on Obama

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Posted by montytx on April 22, 2011 at 8:21 pm

I can’t begin to express my level of frustration with all the blatant lies and misnomers that are being circulated via email and other networks to undermine our President. If you’re conservative, that’s fine, if you want to discuss the facts, that’s fine too. But, don’t email me bullshit thinking it is in someway based in fact. I received this email today:

Title: Lying Sack of Shit

Content:

Does this man have any truth in him? How did he get by with all he has done… it is just amazing… and he wants us to trust him…

If you are a veteran or know a veteran you should be totally outraged!

Know Who is Sitting in YOUR White House…

Obama’s father served in WWII? Really?

Of all the things I’ve seen or heard about Obama on the internet, NONE has hit me like this one! How can we not believe some of the charges about citizenship, religion, etc., after hearing what he says on this?

Obama said his father served in WWII?
Barack’s father served in WWII? He said so in a speech.
Here is an 18 second video:

CNN news clip:

Is he a compulsive liar? Were there no reporters who checked or double checked these statements and called the party on this?
They did for everyone else. Why not him?

Like it or not, here are the TRUE facts:

Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (Obama’s father)
Born: 4/4/36 Died: 11/24/82 at the age of 46. He was 5 years old when WWII started, and less than 9.5 years old when it ended.

Lolo Soetoro (Obama’s step father)

Born: 1935 Died: 3/2/87 at the age of 52. He was 6 years old when WWII started, and 10 years old when it ended.
He must have been the youngest Veteran in the war.

Watch the video. RIGHT OUT OF HIS MOUTH!

And the media doesn’t say anything.
If you doubt it, Google both of these guys.

It appears this guy doesn’t know how to tell the truth – or he doesn’t care about telling the truth! – or perhaps he doesn’t know when he isn’t telling the truth (which is also a very scary angle on it).

Talk about STOLEN HONOR!

If this had been Bush the Media would have had a fit.

The CNN clip of Obama is surprising. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that this lie wasn’t uncovered, questioned and debated before the Nov. 2008 election. Oh well. He must have just “forgotten” the facts, again. Or perhaps he really doesn’t even know the difference between truth and fabrication?

This should be sent to every Veterans group in the USA! STOLEN HONOR!

I’m insulted… are YOU? I served… Did He serve?

Obama’s grandfather,Stanley Dunham, served in WWII and saw action in Europe. He also was the single most influential man in Obama’s young formulative years and would likely have been the man Obama would have thought of as his father. So when Obama spoke of his “father” serving in WWII in the above youtube video, he meant his grandfather. So, the man slipped and missed one word in his speech and these nasty, malicious, moronic, emails start circulating.  It really is very sad that this is what politics have come to and that the right feels they need to disseminate this trash to try to undermine the President’s authority. Of course, all you have to do is look at the current front runner for the right, Donald Trump, and see why they are so confused and angry. Trump with his wonderful comb over, inflated wealth and ego, and his penchant for pretty women. I can’t think of a better candidate to run against the President in 2 years. Now that is putting lipstick on a pig.

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Kenmore Elite HE3 front loading washing machine clogged

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Posted by montytx on April 4, 2011 at 4:28 pm

I’m an engineer at heart and I love tinkering and taking things apart. Broken is an acronym in my head to fix something when others call in the repair man or toss the item. My girlfriend’s washing machine went on the blink this weekend and stopped draining and gave her a series of errors. I looked on line and it appeared to be a filter in these units that was likely clogged up.

So I decided to remove the front lower service plate which is annoyingly held in place by 3 torx screws that are hard to get at. After I removed them the panel popped off and the filter was easy to get at. Once I unscrewed the cap lots of water came out along with a watch, spring, staples and the big problem….a stocking that was jammed over in the right side of the unit. I had to use a pair of tweezers to remove it. Alls well now.

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The Republican Misnomer

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Posted by montytx on March 22, 2011 at 7:21 pm

If you make a million dollars a year or have a large trust fund, I get it. It makes perfect financial sense. You want to pay the lowest taxes possible and the party that preaches that gospel is the Republican party. Hell, I grew up Republican, then I went to college and got an education. It doesn’t take much to realize the party is truly only interested in wealthy, white, connected men. Screw women and women’s rights, screw the vet that needs assistance after he was wounded by an IED, screw the homeless that lost their home becuase Wall Street gambled on housing values and lost. The Republicans have done a great job of convincing middle class America that all we have to do is work a little harder and come up with some great idea and “we too will be rich”. Well the cold hard facts are a lot more sobering. The uber rich control an all time high of 10% of the US economy while the “wealthy” control 50%. That means all the other folks,like me, are struggling to get ahead in a difficult economy and barely treading water. Wall Street has zoomed right up, but I gave up on Wall Street after the Tech bubble of 1999-2000.

Reaganomics with its trickle down BS has in fact been a trickle up. I personally work 50-60 hours a week and I live sparsely ( so my girlfriend says) and yet I don’t particularly feel like I am getting ahead. I have managed to sock away a little money in this horrific economy, but I’m no Richie Rich. Meanwhile, the rich have apparently zoomed right back and continue to dominate the economy. So I have to ask my fellow non millionaire Republicans why they are in fact supporting this party?

Is it becuase you think the Republican party limits government? G Bush II would love to prove that statement wrong. He increased government spending a whopping 25% during his administration. The most in 30 years, so clearly the Reps. are  worse  or at least no better than the Dems. at managing the US coffers. If you are pro life then I cant really argue with you, you will always view things from a point of view that faith conquers all. I’m not one to argue pointlessly in the religious contradictions of history.

But, the sad reality of the US middle class is this, today’s parents are working harder than our baby boomer parents did and making little or no more. But the rich are definitely picking up the slack. Long term capital gains taxes are down from a high of 39% to today’s 15%. Now I’m sure everyone like me thinks, wow, I can make some money in the market with that low rate. But the cold hard facts are that few of us middle class folks trade enough in the market for it to matter, and if you are like me you lost your ass in the 1999 and 2008 collapse of stocks that I still haven’t rebounded from.  What this tax does is give the rich a huge tax break. So much so that the top 400 richest ebb and flow with the stock market.  And lets look at the real statement here, should a millionare trading stocks pay less income tax than I do working my tail off all day? I personally don’t think that makes any sense.

So, I have to ask my friends again, why do you vote Republican? I only know a few millionaires, and yet I live in state controlled by the Republicans. The thing I so clearly see going on is the rich are influencing the politicians with money and the promise of a great future after politics. So the bills are slowly but surely eroding the middle class lifestyle. Unions are being dismantled under our noses, we are brainwashed into thinking that government is bad, yet all you have to do is learn and read up on US history to know what happened in the 1800′s and early 1900′s when rich men and corporations controlled everything. The Jungle covers it in nice detail. And unless this current onslaught against us is reversed, we will be there again and we will have no one to blame but ourselves, and our children will be too ignorant from the lack of funding at schools to know better.

 

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