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A personal observation of mine and even a mild pet peeve from time to time is the current SIZING of things in this world. It seems like most everything is standardized for a person of heights between 5’4″- 5’10” and similar frame. So, at 6’3″ and of average build, I’ve occasionally ran into instances where I’ve bumped my noggin or had to accomodate to fit into what is currently in place. It’s always interesting to get into cars and adjust seats so that you’re just about sitting on the road in order to get your head in decent.

On a trip out West a few years ago, I even ran into a distrubing situation at a few hotels that ran under the same name. I could swear there showerheads were placed at about 5 ft. This coupled with the general lackluster cleanliness of the rooms led me to send a letter to the hotel chain. All they said was they were sorry and when I came back they’d offer me some 15% offer for my troubles. Oh yeah, that’s gonna for sure make one feel welcome back.

As for clothes, big & tall sizes convienently cost extra for the only sizes that I can actually fit into. Size XL shirts or 13+ shoes? Sorry, that’ll be extra $$$ for the added material or we don’t carry anything that size. But when it comes to the teeny-weeny sizes or baby sizes, do these same companies charge less for the same type of products that require a fraction of material to make? No, that would be silly. Rent shoes at a bowling alley? Sure they have a few pairs of waterskis available, but they are cracked to hell and in about as good as shape as a junkyard car.

I really don’t think I’m atypical in my sizing. In fact Americans have been reported as benefitting from better health conditions and diets so that they are increasingly taller and fatter ,yep it’s true, than all generations preceding them. So you think with this upward trend, things would be more accomodating for the ‘average man’. Which is funny in itself. I remember attending a Timberwolves game when Stephon Marbury played here and that his height and weight were the same as mine. And he was the shrimp out there and the court. Just imagine what those poor multimillionaire NBA ballers have to put up with. SAD.

I’ve been toying around with some new features to incorporate into the genealogy section at Piotter.org. I’m updating the links feature in the Extra Genealogy section of this website as well to reflective those additions.

At Flickr, a really interesting photosharing tool, I will be storing genealogy related photos that go along with genealogical data on this website. I may integrate this into the actual Piotter.org pages at some point in time… we shall see.

The other important new tool is PHPGedView, viewable on this site at Piotter.info. It makes the gedcom appear a little more lively and has some interesting features such as a calendar to ‘remember’ important birthdays and the such.

These things should liven up the genealogy section of the site a bit. Enjoy!

Why do you insist on using javascripts to open a new window for every link that appears in an email??? I hate using your pathetic service and now I get an new window for every link I click on? Forget it. I am seriously considering dropping your service. It serves no useful purpose other than to piss me off even more. STOP MESSING AROUND WITH HTML THAT APPEARS IN **MY** EMAIL MESSAGES. javascript is for dinosaurs and idiots, and you can figure out which you are!

—— Hotmail is bad and getting worse. The previous paragraph is my inquiry into a new method of madness they are trying to implement. Every link in your emails are set to open a new browser window. What the hell is that good for? I personally use Mozilla Suite and LOVE the use of tabbed browsing and can often use the open hyperlink in new tab from the right-click submenu in mozilla. But this Hotmail BS renders that inactive and insists instead on opening a whole new browsing window for every,EVERY little link.

Pathetic.

How can they continuously piss me off even more? Maybe the Microsoft connection is why.

What an interesting night. To think one could be rubbing elbows and shaking hands with a player on the world stage that is actually a ‘somebody’. And to meet this person a town none other than St. Peter, MN. Granted some highly important people in their respective fields come to Gustavus Adolphus each year for the college’s Nobel Conference, it’s wild to think you’d be able to dine with them.

I had the pleasure to dine at the same table as Dennis J. Selkoe, a agreeable gentleman that appears close to possibly curing Alzheimer’s disease. It’s interesting that a person who could possibly win an actual Nobel Prize, would be so pleasant and down-to-earth as Mr. Selkoe was towards myself. I was rather astonished when he was giving his remarks tonight at the closing of the Conference that he would actually personally thank my sister, Lynnea, to the gathered crowd of nearly 1000 persons. Lynnea had been his campus chaperone throughout the conference. This honor in itself was humbling for my sister and she was greatly rewarded by his acknowledgement of this as well. I think she gave the same great impressions to some of the other presenters as well, as they personally asked her to give them a call when she is considering grad schools, which were in close proximity to these world-class individuals.

I’m just hoping that Mr. Selkoe persues his great studies and will be justly rewarded with a Nobel Prize for his work!

How can someone like Dan Rather be roasted over the news he covers, when the report that got him in ‘hot water’ is hardly even mentioned?

The story of yet another privileged little twat, that couldn’t amount to a hill of beans in the real world, being giving privilege and hiding behind the story when real, tough questions are asked. You have to wonder why Kerry has laid back and taken the same type of abuse, when infact, he did participate in armed combat and had the service record to back it up.

I wouldn’t be suprised if this is a clever plot by the GOP to undermine Rather, CBS and any other media critical of the BS that is being fed to Americans so they can get their crony in for another 4 years and continue the degradation of American prestige in the world for a few extra bucks.

Is it all a clever game where the answer is already known?