It’s not enough that the move will bring 150 additional jobs in the area, bring people into the city, pay significant real estate taxes and help support local retailers.  Nope.  The best part, as far as the Globes’ concerned, is the ability to leech some more money off of an already over-taxed population.

The key quote in the article is:

“This is major revenue for states,’’ said Neal Osten, director of the Washington office of the National Conference of State Legislatures. Without a government plan to tax those sales, he said, “that loss will continue to grow, and as more people feel comfortable not paying sales taxes online, they also see it as a right not to pay online sales tax.’

How dare citizens think they have a right to keep their own money!  I guess it’s OK though for the Government to see it as a right to confiscate the earning of citizens and use it to expand an out of control and intrusive Government.

For the last thirty years or so, Governments’ main purpose has become taking money from the productive and redistributing it to an ever growing leech class.  In doing so, they also make sure a large portion of the money is siphoned off to build the ever growing bureaucracy.  This was not the way the Founders envisioned this country and it’s really sad that we continue to move in this direction.

I remember the good old days when we had categories like mysteries, science fiction and current events at the book store…

I just don’t get it.  I search around the Internet and all I see is negative reviews about this trailer.  Everyone is saying it’s unfunny and simply awful.

I grew up on the Stooges.  Every morning before school I would be up a 6:00 AM watching the Stooges.  I have a number of episode on DVD and have spent more New Years eve nights then I’d like to remember, ringing in the New Year with Moe, Larry and Curly.  (I know, it’s kind of pathetic)  I would consider myself a Stooges expert.

I had very low expectations for this movie but the trailer is hysterical.  Each of the actors impersonations are dead-on and all the bits seem to work.  Why do people hate this so much?

I know that nothing will ever replace the original, but this looks like it will be a lot of fun.  Mellow out everyone.  If you don’t want to see it, stay home, but I’ll be there opening night.  I can’t wait for this.

It turns out the “cosmetic surgery” was performed by an unlicensed transgender person, by the name of Oneal Ron Morris, who performed the operation by injecting the subject with a combination of fix-a-flat, cement and mineral oil.  The incisions were then sealed using Super Glue.  Cost of above services were $700 dollars.

OK.  I know there are a lot of people out there with little money that would like to have plastic surgery and would consider this their only option.  I can understand that.

There are also a lot of incredibly dumb people out there who would think nothing of having a medical procedure done at someones house and would also see nothing wrong with a magic concoction of fix-a-flat, cement and mineral oil injected into their buttock.  I can understand that too.

What I can’t understand is that after meeting the “doctor’ and finding out he performed the procedure on himself, and is a model of his own work, why you would ever choose to go through with it.

Good Lord.  What is wrong with people?  Could anyone really be so stupid or so desperate that this is what they would want for themself?  Is this really a look you want to copy?  The last time I saw a backside that big was in a comic strip.

I ran 4.12 miles today.  Not bad, but no where near what I was doing before I had the lung problem.  I was actually up to 17 mile runs before all hell broke loose.

My task this winter is to get back in shape and get to the point where I can run really long distances.  My marathon plans fizzled this year but I’m bound and determined that I’ll complete a marathon next year.

To aid in achieving my running goals, I just purchased a Petzl E 93 PT Tikka 2 Headlamp.

By the time I get out of work, the sun has already gone down and while it’s not too cold out, it would be nice to be able to get in a run at the end of the day.  I have a reflective vest that works really well but last year I found that although drivers could see me, I couldn’t really see the road on which I was running.  I don’t want to take a chance of twisting an ankle or taking a bad fall, so I’m hoping the headlamp will do the trick.

I suspect I’ll have a bit of a problem getting used to it at first.  I’ve never liked wearing hats and I’m not sure that wearing a headband with a lamp attached to it will be any better.  I’ll just have to adjust.

There is a way around this.  First, add your reference to the class library using Visual Studio as you normally would.  Next, close your project and open your project file (*.csproj) using the source code editor.  Find the location of the reference you just added and replace the ‘Debug’ or ‘Release’ portion of the string with ‘$(Configuration)’.

Code after the break…

Here’s and example from a project that I modified:

Here’s my update for the last post about the Garmin 610…

Since the last review, I spoke with a women at Garmin support (based in the USA!) and she was very helpful. She agreed the GPS had a problem, and was willing to replace it, but they did not currently have any in stock. She suggested that I talk to the retailer to see if they could do an immediate replacement. I then contacted Clever Training, the Amazon merchant, by email and they said they would send me a replacement upon receiving the defective item. I packaged it up, sent it off and in about a week received the new 610.

I initially had problems setting up the new 610. The software required a firmware update, but the Garmin Ant agent software wouldn’t recognize it. I believe this was because I had previously activated the other 610 on the computer. I tried deleting the old profile, re-installing the software, etc but no-go. I finally gave up and had to use another computer to do the firmware update. There is obviously a bug in the Garmin software which they hopefully will fix in a future release.

For the most part the watch works well. There have been a few minor glitches. I once saw the display reset and start counting from zero after I had completed a mile, but scrolling through the screens seemed to fix it. The actual data appeared to have no problems so this just appears to be a display issue.

On slightly more annoying problem is that the Ant received won’t recognize the watch has data to upload, until I pull out the dongle and reinsert it. A minor problem, but somewhat annoying. Again, I hope this gets fixed in a future software release.

The GPS is definitely a step up from the 305 but for a lot of people I’m not sure it will be worth the 3x price premium. The 305 always felt like a prototype to me whereas the 610 feels like the finished product. Most of the new features are nice to have but are not really required. I won’t go into all the features here, but read the review at the DCRainmaker site if you want to learn more about it.

I’m updating my rating to 4 stars now, but might go to 5 once the software glitches have been fixed.

This is a copy of a review I just posted on Amazon for the Garmin Forerunner 610 GPS Watch.

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I purchased this GPS watch about a week ago.  When I first received it, I put it in the charging cradle and charged it to 100%.  Everything was fine.  I ran with it a few days, then upgraded the firmware to the new 2.4 release.  The next time I attempted to charge the unit, instead of charging, it began to discharge with the percent charge number going down until the unit was fully discharged.

I checked the Garmin forums to see if there was a fix for this and found that there are a whole bunch of people dealing with this issue.  A Garmin rep posted in late June that they were aware of the problem and were looking into it, but there have been no additional postings about it since then.

I attempted a few other things on my own to try to fix this.  I did a hard reset.  No go.  I also attempted to charge the unit through the computers USB port.  Again no go.

I’ve contacted Garmin support this morning (Sunday) and hope that I will get a response tomorrow.

If you’re considering purchasing one of these, I suggest you check the Garmin forums first to see if this issue has been resolved, otherwise you’re taking you’re chances.

I’ll write an update to this when I have more information.  The GPS watch itself is pretty nice with lots of features and if it wasn’t for this problem probably would have gotten a really good review.  I previously owned a Forerunner 305 for many years and was always happy with it and I hope I’ll soon be able to say the same thing about the 610.