Month: December 2009

The following actually appeared in a local computer tabloid.

Q:I’ve password-protected a portion of my hard drive containing sensitive information. Unfortunately, I had too many drinks on the night I set up the password, and now I don’t remember it. What should I do? B.Crosby,Uh,OH

A:Let that be a lesson to you:Don’t drink and use disk drives.

I want to pass along a little story, that is completely true I don’t know if you call it the way medicine is these days or how incompetent some doctors can be no matter what their practice might be.

This all goes back a few years ago, when I helped this older woman I know to get some new eyeglasses. You see over the last 6 years her vision had gotten progressively worst. Than one day when her adult son was over at her place with his 2 kids. She just happened
to trip over one of her grandkids. Reason being she could not see her own Grandkid, as she had become blind due to cataracts and in that time she had see no less than 5 Eye Doctors, each of whom prescribed a progressively stronger set of glasses, and all of them expect for her own son saw she had cataracts in both eyes, and that she was nearly blind.

I am glad to say after some risky surgery her vision was completely restored. But it is no joke she had seen 5 Eye Doctors, including 2 from very well known chains and all of them missed something so obvious it is beyond a joke.

Have your heard the latest about Redbox? As you know Redbox has these stand alone kiosks, where you can rent DVDs for $1 a day. It seems the real problem has been with these that the box does not register their return and some have been hit with late fees as high as $75. I know they say no late fees but that has not stopped Redbox from charging them. It has gotten so bad that the BBB has pulled their accreditation of Redbox and several class action lawsuits are about to hit the courts filed be people who feel they have been falsely charged these severe late fees. To be fair Redbox has made an attempt to solve these complaints, but some have waited as long as a year to get a refund…so be warned.

This time we look at fursuits, ears, tails and etc.

First of all there is for the most part nothing odd about any of that stuff. At least in the furry world, it isn’t it’s more a matter of furry pride than anything else. I would not suggest you wear them to work, but any where else is fine…and that is a matter for you to decide. But they are mainly worn at cons and fur meets so that usually isn’t a problem. First of all fursuits aka full body animal costumes can be rather expensive, some really can be over $1,000. But given what I seen of some of them they are amazingly detailed…they are not the costumes you see in a college play. Some are real works of art. But you should know they are HOT!! I don’t mean sexy, I mean temperature wise. It is very possible to get over heated and pass out. Like mascots at various sporting events, or major theme parks and some have died because they got heat stroke. So be careful with them in hot weather.

I like to pass along here a little story a fellow fur told me about his furry pride. He actually wears his wolf fursuit during local parades. In fact he had become a local celebrity as he also visits sick children in hospitals to cheer them up. I applaud him for not only showing off his furry pride but doing good at the same time.

Obviously ears and tails are a cheaper option, not to mention safer on a Summer’s day. They can cost around $50, but if you have the skill with needle and thread they can be even cheaper. But I would highly recommend something, take a sewing class. You see many places that sell fabric including fake fur have sewing classes sometimes they are just a few bucks, or even free.

Then we go down to the less obvious way to show off your furry pride which can be as cheap as photo buttons, to key fobs, and even jewelry. I long suspected a former girlfriend of being a secret furry as she always wore this deer bracelet.