"Seanachaí just got nominated for 3 Equity Jeff Awards!!!I'm so proud to be associated with this wonderful group!
"Congratulations to Brad Armacost as Jack in The Weir, to Bob Groth and Jenniffer Thusing for scenic design in The Weir and to Ira Amyx as Noel in That Was Then."
Feeling persistently resentful toward other people -- the boss who fired you, the spouse who cheated on you -- can indeed affect your physical health, according to a new book, "Embitterment: Societal, psychological, and clinical perspectives."Just how bad can it get?
In fact, the negative power of feeling bitter is so strong that the authors call for the creation of a new diagnosis called PTED, or post-traumatic embitterment disorder, to describe people who can't forgive others' transgressions against them.
Feeling bitter interferes with the body's hormonal and immune systems, according to Carsten Wrosch, an associate professor of psychology at Concordia University in Montreal and an author of a chapter in the new book. Studies have shown that bitter, angry people have higher blood pressure and heart rate and are more likely to die of heart disease and other illnesses.Seriously, dude, you've turned into the Poster Child for PTED.
If you have a credit card account with Bank of America or Chase, two of the nation’s largest banks, a major security flaw has been exposed that could make your information vulnerable to an Internet crook – or even a nosy neighbor.Yikes!
Consumer advocate Edgar Dworsky of ConsumerWorld.org, who discovered the flaw, says anyone who knows your phone number and has the last four digits of your Chase or BofA credit card number might be able access your account.
Here’s the flaw Dworsky uncovered: When you call a bank’s automated credit card account information system, the computer uses caller ID to compare the number you’re calling from with the one on the account (usually your home phone).
At BofA and Chase, if the phone number is a match, the verification process is streamlined. Rather than requiring the entire credit card number to be entered, the caller can usually access the account with only the last four digits. In some cases, a zip code is also required.
“The last four digits of your credit card number are just out there so predominantly,” Dworsky says. “If you look at any sales receipt, it always has those last four digits.”
In order for someone to take advantage of this security loophole, they’d have to trick the bank’s computer to make it appear the call is coming from your home phone. Internet “spoofing” sites make this incredibly easy to do. Con artists have been using this technology for years, and it is how those British tabloid reporters were able to hack into so many voicemail systems.
I opted for the giant pants.
The butt boofed out like a gangsta's boxers.
Last night I posted on facebook the following: “If I’m wrong, please speak up. I came across a page on facebook that was created (by someone under a ficticious name) thats purpose is to bully, ridicule and say mean and hurtful things about their class mates. While visiting the page, I found several teenage girls that have scheduled sessions with me for their senior pictures. I am emailing them tomorrow to cancel their shoots. I do not want them to represent my business and I am beside myself at how MEAN and CRUEL they were on that page.”You go, girl.
“My good friends Rachael, Guy and Sandra are the most generous charitable folks I know. They give so much of their time and money to help the food-deprived, sick children and abandoned animals. I have no idea what Anthony has done to contribute besides being irritable.”Go read the whole thing here.
Last night's lulu had to do with me wanting to go trekking around to do some photography. I didn't want to take my new tripod, because it's too heavy to be toting up hill and down dale. For some reason every time I stuffed it back in it's carry case, another friend or family member would unzip the bag, take out the tripod and set it up again. This happened over and over and over again.
He is certainly a huge celebrity, but as far as size goes, Tom Cruise is not exactly big.Check out Reacher's stats, per the novelist himself, here. If you can, with a straight face, 'splain me how they can turn the Poison Dwarf into that towering giant of a man, I'll buy your cocktails for a month.
However the 49-year-old movie star's next leading role is playing giant Jack Reacher in the film adaptation of Lee Child's thriller book One Shot.
Curtis Moore has lost three cats, including his cat, Walter, who’s hind leg was found by his next door neighbor.How many different kinds of stupid do you have to be to not get the message after the first cat didn't come home?
“I don’t live in the mountains, I live in the city. I’m ok with wildlife, but I don’t like them eating my pets,” Moore said.
'There's got to be regret': Former Governor Mark Sanford talks candidly about his mistress, his family and his regrets after scandal that brought down his careerWill this whiny piece of crap never go away???
The ATF has promoted three key supervisors of a controversial sting operation that allowed firearms to be illegally trafficked across the U.S. border into Mexico.Only in DC can you conceive of and execute an operation that kills hundreds, including your own citizens, and get promoted. Only in DC, my friends. Only in DC...
All three have been heavily criticized for pushing the program forward even as it became apparent that it was out of control. At least 2,000 guns were lost and many turned up at crime scenes in Mexico and two at the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona.
... or Red?
I can't decide.
A southern Illinois man who survived the 65-mile forced World War II trek known as the Bataan Death March has died.Thank you for your service and your sacrifice, Mr. Brown.
Pyatt Funeral Home in Pinckneyville says Albert Brown was 105 when he died Sunday at the Friendship Manor nursing home in Nashville, Ill.
Brown was a Nebraska native who had been a dentist before the war. The artillery officer was among 78,000 prisoners of war that Japanese troops forced to walk from Bataan province near Manila to a POW camp in 1942.
I'm delighted to be able to announce the forthcoming publication of a new, deluxe, limited edition of A GAME OF THRONES, to be published by my friends at Subterranean Press, and illustrated by the massively talented TED NASMITH.Zing! Right to the top of my wish list with a bullet.
Ted is widely considered to be one of the "Big Three" of Tolkien illustrators; along with Alan Lee and John Howe, he has brought Middle Earth to life like no one else. And he he is no stranger to my own world, either. Ted painted the all of the wonderful landscapes for the gorgeous 2011 Ice & Fire calendar, with what I consider to be THE definitive depictions of thirteen of the great castles of Westeros.
A new study finds that most people hit by cars in the city are in a crosswalkOh really? That's news to me...
US President Barack Obama's top reelection strategist charged Friday that Republican White House hopeful and Texas Governor Rick Perry had "very little to do" with his state's economic success.And well he should be worried about Perry.
‘But, I believe our human rights have been completely taken for granted. Daniel was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.Marvelous job, Mum.
‘As a mother, I’m not responsible for my son’s actions and they are penalising me for his actions.’
"Can brownies be too rich?"Really?
About a dozen trade unions plan to sit out the 2012 Democratic convention because they're angry that it's being held in a right-to-work state and frustrated that Democrats haven't done enough to create jobs.Did you spot the flying pig that just whizzed by?
The move could pose a larger problem for President Barack Obama next year if an increasingly dispirited base of labor activists becomes so discouraged that it doesn't get the rank-and-file to the polls in the usual strong numbers.
The middle class 'rioters' revealed: The millionaire's daughter, the aspiring musician and the organic chef all in the dockIt's an eye-opener, no?
Two-thirds of those who have come before magistrates have been remanded in custody and a large number have been sent to Crown Courts, which have powers to hand down prison sentences of longer than six months.In addition, the papers are shaming by naming names. LOTS of names. Well done.
Justice Minister Jonathan Djanogly said: 'Yesterday and today I met court staff and judges who had worked 30 hours straight.
'We will continue to provide all necessary support to the police to ensure anyone involved in this kind of criminal activity is brought to justice as swiftly as possible.'
A Ministry of Justice spokesman added: 'We have enough prison places for those that are sentenced to custody after these incidents. There is substantial capacity in the prison and youth justice system.'
In addition to shutting down Twitter and BlackBerry messaging during civil disturbances, the government is suggesting rioters be sprayed with dye....
Other governments have used brightly colored dye to mark and arrest people. The tactic has been used in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir, Hungary, Bangladesh, Uganda, South Korea and Indonesia.
If there’s a warrant out for your arrest, perhaps you should think twice about popping your pimples in a public place.The popping of zits is disgusting, on his back is even grosser, doing it in a public restaurant is appalling.
That’s what police in Florida said when they arrested Owen Lemire Kato outside a Cape Coral McDonald’s in an incident that would make the Hamburglar blush.
As Mr Kato, 23, reached behind him to pop zits on his back for 10 minutes, customers demanded that he leave the restaurant.
This demonspawn is obviously the love child of Joan Crawford at her frothing finest and the Honey Badger. She’s the only 4 year old I’ve seen that has the voice of a chain-smoking dock worker. She is the dark underbelly of what happens when breeding is left to amateurs. If we airdropped Makenzie’s rhinestoned ass into Afghanistan, the war would be over the next day. If we sent Makenzie to live one day with each teenage girl in America, the teen pregnancy rate would drop to zero. If we wait long enough, most likely the pits of Hell will open up and reclaim her.Fried butter on a stick.
If you are a LinkedIn user, you may want to act on this quickly. In classic social network style, LinkedIn has borrowed from Facebook’s playbook on abusing your privacy. They’ve made agreements with advertisers and defaulted your LinkedIn account’s privacy settings. Unless you change the default setting, advertisers have permission to use your LinkedIn name, photo and posts in their ads. In effect, this makes you an implied endorser of a company, product or service without your explicit consent.A very naughty, very funny gift from Ray at Finish the Book, George:
To change your settings, do the following:
Go to LinkedIn and sign into your account. In the upper right and side of the window you’ll see a small hyperlink for your name.
Click on your name and click Settings from the drop down menu.
Go to the bottom left of the window and click on Account (icon is a small grey shield)
Just left of that, a list will appear for PRIVACY CONTROLS. Under that, click Manage Social Advertising and remove the check from the box.
You may also want to click Turn On/Off Enhanced Advertising and remove the check from that box too…depends on your feeling about ads you receive.
When’s the last time you heard of anything more snake-oily than ‘enhanced advertising’?
When a man describes one as "Da driver of some serious sex and common sense" you've gotta ante up.
http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifA World War II heroine spy who topped the Gestapo’s wanted list after her daring exploits behind enemy lines helped pave the way for the D-Day landings has died aged 98.
Nancy Wake, who inspired the film Charlotte Gray after becoming one the Allies' most decorated servicewomen for her role in the French resistance, passed away in a nursing home in London yesterday.
God bless and God speed to all who were lost, American and Afghan alike. Prayers sent up for their families.
