Google.com Redirect Phenomenon
I’ve been having issues with Google trying to decide from what country I was visiting their site(s). Up until just recently, I was always landing on www.google.com. However, I now get redirected to www.google.de. I have nothing against the Germans or the German language, but it makes using Google difficult since I am not familiar with the language. I noticed similar issues with YouTube as well.
At first I thought there was an update to Firefox that changed some locale setting. But then I noticed I had the same issue on every computer regardless of which browser I was using. I assumed it had to be a problem with Google in relation to my IP, but I couldn’t find any confirmation until just today.
In a Google Groups discussion, a lot of users were reporting the same issue. One was able to get information from Google and relayed it to the group. Google uses location files to keep track of where an IP resides in the world in order to provide region specific services. Apparently, the files are not perfect and fortunately Google has provided a form in order to report any issues that are found.
http://www.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=ip
If anyone else is experiencing this strange phenomenon, let Google know so they can correct it. Even my brother on location in Afghanistan was being redirected to www.google.de.
Totally Looks Like
The people known for the LOLCats at ICanHasCheezburger.com have a string of comedic sites within their so-called Cheezburger Network. One that I enjoy most is the TotallyLooksLike.com that shows a comparison between two objects or people or both. Once in a while the comparison could be questionable but most are dead on, even humorous. Take for instance the comparison of the International Space Station and a Tie Fighter.
That’s hilarious.
Added A Featured List
I haven’t added much to this blog for a bit. I’ve been concentrating on other things, such as my RebelZero.com site, and haven’t found the time to post anything. The most I’ve been doing is moderating any comments that come in. The most recent comment comes from a Walter N. Pruiksma who served with the 783rd MP BN during World War II.
That prompted me to add a featured list to the far-right sidebar starting with Mr. Pruiksma’s comment. Most of what I have here is a mish-mash of a variety of topics, so I wanted to highlight certain areas that will most often be buried and unnoticed from the general view.
I should be getting back into the swing of things, shortly, with some new content from my brother. I’ll have to start referring to him as this website’s on-location correspondent who is embedded with the 783rd MP BN. Most of this site’s traffic has been for those related posts, so I would like to cater to those visitors a little more. I know there’s few, if any, that come just to read my rants about such things as people causing automobile accidents, which consequently began after a phone conversation with my brother as his unit was boarding the plane heading out to Afghanistan.
In any event, more to come as time progresses.
(Today’s secret word was: most)
As If It Were Foretold
A while back, I barely missed becoming involved in an auto accident. It was one that could have certainly been avoided had a driver not yielded their right-of-way to another. I came within inches of smashing into the minivan of elderly couple who hadn’t realized the need to yield themselves to another lane of traffic. Bygones.
But it was as if it were foretold when the occurrence repeated itself. This time it came with consequences. Luckily for me, I was not involved. I was a witness, however.
A fellow co-worker was travelling in the left lane while passing cars to his immediate right. Upon reaching the front of these stopped cars, an older gentleman drove out from a gas station driveway and tagged the co-worker’s car. The woman at the front of the line was trying to be nice by allowing the older gentleman to enter the road on the assumption that he was going to turn right. She mentioned that she didn’t see a turn signal showing an intent to turn left which led her to the assumption of a right turn. The area, known for its heavy traffic, prompted the older gentleman to hasten his entry to the street, ignoring the fact that he had two lanes to cross, not just one.
The end result is exactly what I would like to avoid by getting this point across: Follow the rules of the road as they are written. If someone is wanting to enter the road in which you are a part of, the burden is not on you to create a clear lane of traffic. The burden is on them to find one. I understand the dogmatic idea of doing unto others as you would them to do unto you. However, to quote a line from S.W.A.T., “Sometimes doing the right thing isn’t doing the right thing.” Below is what happened when someone tried to do the right thing.
Pepsi Sweepstakes Delivers
I got home yesterday to the sight of a huge box sitting next to my front door. Inside was my new Trek 820 mountain bike, courtesy of Pepsi Sweepstakes at PepsiStuff.com.
After getting rid of the zip-ties, foam sheets, and cardboard protections, all I had to do was mount the tire, handlebars, pedals and seat. The bike helmet was included in the box as well. It’s been a pleasure being a Pepsi drinker this summer.
It Does Seem Like Everything But
xkcd hits home, again.
Ring-riiiiing!
MRAP Training With The 783rd MP BN
I put up a gallery of the pictures that my brother sent me of his unit training with the new MRAP vehicles. As the unit was supposed to be packing up for their deployment to Afghanistan, a few soldiers were selected to learn how to operate the military’s new trucks.
Here are some quick facts from Wikipedia’s page for the MRAP:
- MRAP stands for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected.
- MRAPs are a family of vehicles rather than just one design like the Hummer or M1A1 Abrams.
- There are no common designs since a number of vendors supply their own versions.
- The MRAP program is being funded through an “emergency war budget”.
- Since making the vehicles available to soldiers in the field was a priority, the military granted contracts to a number of vendors to speed up manufacturing.
- The hulls are V-shaped to deflect energy away from the vehicles.
- Because of the weight combined with the design, a high center of gravity makes the MRAPs susceptible to rollovers from poor road conditions.
- An MRAP II program has been initiated to develop a new vehicle in order to better protect against explosively formed penetrators (EFP) which use shaped charges to form a jet of metal to cut through armor.
From the pictures that my brother sent me, it looks like they were being trained to use FPI’s Cougar. They come in both a 4×4 and a 6×6 version. Over 3500 vehicles are expected to be delivered by the end of 2008. There’s been a number of Cougar’s that were subjected to IEDs and mines in Iraq and Afghanistan where crew members survived the blasts with some of the trucks still operational enough to get to safety.
A Cougar MRAP after driving over a mine. All crew survived with minor injuries and the Cougar was driven two miles to safety on three wheels after the explosion.
783rd MP BN Pictures From Afghanistan
My brother was finally able to send me the pictures he’s been taking from his pre-deployment training and his unit’s housing at Bagram, Afghanistan. I’ve got the housing pictures in my Gallery section. There’s a good group of pictures of when a select group of soldiers from his unit were being trained to operate the military’s new MRAP vehicle that I’ll get up in the next day or so. There were some videos with those as well that I may or may not toss up on to the YouTube. I haven’t decided, yet.
boner, boner, boner, boner
Who the hell is looking for boners? I check the search terms that are used to find different posts on the site and the one that is used the most is boner. Granted, the word “boner” shows up a lot on my spam recount postings, but really.
Let’s guarantee that this post as well shows up for everyone…
- boner
- limpdick.com
- huge boner
- long boner
- bed boner
- tiny boner
- how to get a boner
- public boner pics
- how to achieve a boner.
And those are just from the last seven days with some appearing on more than one. Let’s add some new ones so I can catch even more boner obsessed individuals.
- schlong
- biggus dickus
- one-eyed trouser snake
- cock
- penis
- penis head
- purple headed warrior
- wood
- pecker
- pecker head
- fuck stick
- wang
- ramrod
- johnson
- prick
- love muscle
- Mr. Happy
- magic wand
That’s all I can think of without searching. Are there anymore we can add? Comments are moderated, but anyone can post a suggestion(s). I missed the good old days when we were more interested in seeing some tit. Janet Jackson must have killed that off with the “wardrobe malfunction” a few years back.
To the person(s) asking about “how to achieve a boner” or “how to get a boner”: if you’re a man you look for boobs, if you’re a woman you flash your boobs. Either or, and I guarantee a boner will find you, not the other way around.
Ta-ta… hmmm…. ta-tas….. boy-oy-oy-iiiinnnnggggg!!!!
Man I miss Beavis and Butthead….
Hurricane Tracking Map At StormAdvisory.org
Every year between June 1 and November 30, every island nation in the Caribbean, every country along the Gulf Of Mexico coast, and every state in the US along the Atlantic Ocean braces for the onslaught of hurricane season. Names like Andrew, Hugo, or Katrina bring horrible memories of the death and destruction that’s caused by these huge reminders that mother nature, and not mankind, still controls the weather and the seas.
And while mankind can not control the awesome force of a hurricane, we can still develop better ways to track and predict where a hurricane may strike populated areas in order to issue fair warnings so that people can seek safety or shelter in time. When Gustav was still a major threat, Google put together a meta-page in order to track it and help with any recover efforts. One of the most interesting links from that page was the Hurricane Tracking Map that StormAdvisory.org maintains.
Powered by Google Maps, you can select any or all of the hurricanes from this season and see their path from life to death. Different stages, or way-points, are detailed to show date, time, and wind-speed and are color-coded according to each storm’s severity. Current storms also give projected paths. Whats even more intriguing is that StormAdvisory even has a drop-down menu where you can see the paths of every hurricane known to exist as far back as 1851. Of course, accuracy begins to decline the further back in time you look, but it’s still cool to see.
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