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Before I begin the two memes, I just gotta tell you the huge faux pas I did yesterday. I had planned on visiting other blogs by 8 A.M....have my computer work done so I could get away from the desk and get stuff done around the house, etc. Pfffft!! What a joke on me. I took the memory card out of the camera...slid it into the card reader....hooked it up to the port at the back of the hard drive tower and began uploading/transferring the zoo photos from the camera to the computer folder for resizing so I could make a blog post. The reader told me there were 150 photos! And this was a new chip. So, that means I took 150 photos at the zoo. I think I musta kinda sorta got carried away with photographing, wouldn't you think? LOL ---Okay, so I started clicking away, got all of them chosen, and checked the box 'delete after transfer'. So, they all would be deleted off the memory card once they were saved on the computer. It was taking forever. Bud asked me if I wanted to go to town with him...I needed to get a package sent from the post office, so I said yes. I then, clicked "cancel" to stop the process in order to begin again once we returned home. BIG MISTAKE!! The entire remaining photos [about 70 or so] - the ones not yet transferred, got deleted off the card....they disappeared for good!!! I stayed home, needless to say. I worked on it...loaded the .exe and installed my recovery program, tried it without success twice and then, read the directions. LOLOLOLOL Finally, after hours and hours of futile attempts, I recovered [or the program recovered] them all. After that, I had to resize every one of them from 4000x3000px to 640x480 for the 'net upload. I finished what was to be a couple of hours' work in about 8 hours all together. GEEZ----But out of all this, I would highly recommend the software recovery....I don't know how it works, but dang...it saved my butt!!
[photo used for my opening today, is the zoo's gift shop...where I purchased a sweet little stuffed tiger]- - -
Now, onto my Thursday memes....
THURSDAY THIRTEEN - Little -or perhaps unknown to many- FACTS
This past Sunday's Sunday Stealing meme had a question about little known facts, and I answered that the Duck's Quack doesn't echo and no one knows why. Well, I thought I'd do a bit of research for this week's thirteen on 'little known facts'. So here is my list:
3- Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.4- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111=12,345,678,987,654,321 [check out the TOTAL # sequence!]
5- The term: "Get Fired" from a job originates from- Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down.6- Coca-Cola was originally green.7- A snail can sleep for 3 years.8- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. 9- The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.10- All porcupines float in water.11- The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."12- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.13- THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE---whoa! Here's an example: The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." - - -<><><>- - -
THURSDAY THUNKS
1. If you were to start a meme (or a second or third), what would you call it and what day would you pick? I don't think I'd start a meme 'cause it'd take too much time to work with one. Thing is, I'm trying to be on the computer with limited time these days. But if I were to do such a thing, it'd probably be on Monday. Dunno why. Monday just seems like a good day for a meme.
2. When a celebrity endorses a product, do you really believe they like it/use it? Well Paul Newman endorsed Budweiser Beer all the time...and I think he liked it!! Ask Joanne Woodward. She'd know better than I. LOLOL [But the question should be -- would I use the product that celebs endorse? ---I'd use Budweiser to be sure, but with John Madden endorsing ACE Hardware; you wouldn't see me in that store! I can't stand the "Boom Boom Man". That wasn't the question tho, was it?]
3. Why don't zombies ever just eat each other? They're rotten to the core. Have you smelled zombies? Nobody likes rotten meat, except for maggots....at least that's what I've seen.
4. If you were an elephant, would you rather roam free or be in a zoo? Let's see...having to work for food or having it given to me ummmmm..that sounds like a political question, right wing or left wing. Wonder what Rush Limb*ugh would say to this?
5. The doorbell rings on October 31st, do you answer it? YES!! Come on over. See for yourself.
6. If you see a piece of paper on the ground while out & about, do you pick it up? If so, do you look to see what it is? It depends...if it's paper with a bit of linen in the mixture...and green, I'd pick it up and look to see if it was $1, $5, or $20. If it's trashy lookin'....no, I'd walk around it. When you live in the city, you tend to ignore trash blown out of the garbage trucks.
7. If Jon Gosselin and Octomom got married and then their own reality show, do you think she would try to get pregnant again for better ratings? No doubt. I honestly think the girl skipped Sex Education at school!!! It's that, or she had the hots for the teacher and couldn't get enough of that either.
8. If Thursday Thunks was to be put on hold or quit completely, would you be sad? I'd be disappointed 'cause it's one of my favorites. But, trust me, I could continue to live...sad is just a state of mind. Mind over matter...and I wouldn't mind, no matter.
POSTED: Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
4:50 A.M.
