Yeah, I'm pretty much on the Northern part of the Hudson River. Infact, it's like 15-20 minutes from Queensbury to the GE plant that dumped all the PCB, I believe.

I'll have to check out a map or something when I am feeling less lazy, so I can gauge how close we live to one another. But yeah man, that's cool. Queensbury... Damn, what a hell hole. The town itself is very nice, it's a good area. And the education at my school is good too. But damn, the people bother me. They're like the personification of stupid suburuban white-kids.

Anyone ever watch this PBS documentary on New York? I've only watched the first disc which is from 1609-1825 and so far I think it's fantastic (TOTALLY blown away). I was just curious if any other true New Yorker had seen it?

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I haven't seen this Particular documentary, but I know PBS has shown different ethnic documentaries. I have seen the "Italian American Experience" a couple years ago (don't know if it's the same producers) and liked it so much that I purchased it for my parents who really enjoyed it. They also have "The Irish-American" Experience and several others that they showed for a while.

What exactly does the NY documentry cover? Anyway, I'm not a real big documentary fan (depending on the subject), but this sounds interesting.

TIS

As far as I know it just covers the entire history of New York. "This exhaustively thorough documentary chronicles the evolution of the city from its time as a Dutch settlement in the early 17th century to its current status as megalopolis extraordinaire."

Does it delve into the building of the modern day NYC by Irish and Italian immigrants in the early 20th century ?

How about bridges, tunnels and highways ? I'm fascinated by that stuff.

I have a virus on my work computer. You'd think with the lovely ITG department we have here they'd figure out ways to stop viruses from getting here. My computer is only 2 years old and the ITG guy said even the Norton antivirus was outdated. The sadder thing is I only have Windows 2000. Wonder if I could get him to upgrade me to at least Windows XP. They have to come and completely re-install my Operating System. This place blows!!!

Are you sure it's not just spyware ? Did you try ad aware, spybot or c cleaner ? The basic versions are all free, and partnered with Norton's basic service, have kept my computers virus free for quite some time.

I didn't do a thing. The ITG guy was remotely working on my computer and try to do a Windows update. After 30 minutes, halfway through downloading, the upgrade failed. They have Norton Antivirus and Spyware. He did upgrade that to 2007 version. I told him since they "upgrade" our software we use in my work the system has been increasingly slow. Today the Internet just wouldn't come up at all. I'm only working now because he moved my documents and internet files to my folder.

I actually had that problem after a Windows update the other day. After a little googling I found a "patch" on the Microsoft website that fixed me right up.

I'm actually talking out of my butt right now cuz I couldn't tell you what a "patch" was if you held a gun to my head. All I know is that it worked. Geoffy would know.

He thought when he deleted the almost 9000 Temporary Internet files I had that would solve the problem. That could explain why it was so slow though...hahaha. Since this my workplace I'll let our ITG guys worry about it. I barely can log onto the computer.

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Beth, this happened to my son's laptop, my daughter's laptop and my personal computer all in the same week! I had a tech guy that I am freinds with come over to see what the hell was going on and it turns out that my kids picked up a MY SPACE virus that is going around. It basically slows down all of your applications and makes using your computer basically impossible. He had to re-build all three computers from scratch!

The good thing is the lady tech from ITG said when she rebuilds it she'll put on Windows XP. She asked me why in the world I had Windows 2000. Like it was my choice..hahaha. I said you geniuses installed Windows 2000 on my computer...just 2 years ago.

They have sites like myspaced blocked here, so I didn't get a virus there. When the guy moved my files to my folder it somehow has the fantasy baseball site blocked as well. This better change when they rebuild my computer or I will kick some serious ass...haha.

It's the first week of April and we're looking to get our first legitimate snowfall. By 8 a.m. or so we should have about 3 inches of snow on the ground.

They called for 1-3 inches here, but now it's a rain/snow mix. There's very little dusting on the grass, but the streets and sidewalks are clear. Although they said the afternoon there's gonna be more snowfall. The poor Easter Bunny is gonna freeze his tail off.

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Well the weather man actually called it right this time. We've probably had 50 snow predictions this year...with 49 of them either turning out to be rain or nothing.

It's actually snowing it's ass off right now. I'd say there's a good inch or two on the ground right now. I'm glad I decided to come home early from work. I'd hate to have to drive 35 miles through this mess.

I gotta say though...despite the crappy driving conditions, I'm always humbled by how beautiful snow is. The way is sits on the branches of the pine trees, the stone gray sky in the background. To some it may look depressing, but I think its beautiful.

Until I have to go out later, that is.

I was (re)watching Full Metal Jacket some days back and suddenly felt that the drill instructor/sergeant and the character "Woltz" in Godfather are played by the same person. I checked in IMDB and found out that they are not the same person!

Do you see the similarity with "Woltz" in this image?

That's Ronald Lee Ermey and he was a real life drill instructor who served two tours in Vietnam.

he looks like the dad from "Step by Step".

Mind you I fucking hate sitcoms, that one in particular.

Wasn't that the one with Suzanne Somers and Patrick Duffy ?

Yeah, I think so. I might be wrong, I haven't seen an episode since about 1998 or so.

Wait, not Step by Step, what's the one with Leonardo DiCaprio?

The father is a psychiatrist?

They have a son who was named Mike... I'm blanking on the last name. It's on the tip of my tongue.

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Yes, that one!

The father... Um... I can't remember his name. Well, the bloke in the picture looks like him.

Alan Thicke.

Yeah, I believe so.

Anyone else agree with me? Anyone see him in there?

Meeeeeeeee.

Yeah, he does look like Alan Thicke. You said STEP BY STEP before so I was thinking of Patrick Duffy.

You pineapple.

I think I'm gonna shoot myself in the foot.

I was just about to reformat my hard drive, and I must have done something wrong. Well, obviously I did something wrong.

It didn't wipe it clean.. I'm pretty sure it just installed all those programs and drivers and stuff again. So now my hard drive is almost full, instead of at 30%. And my internet is waaayy slow.

So, then I realized THAT I DONT EVEN HAVE MY FUCKING WINDOWS XP CD-KEY. AAAHHH. I have NO idea where it is. I have the disk, and I thought that I had the key with the disk. But nooooooooo.

Yeah, Imma shoot me foot.