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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, August 26, 2016 - 3:57 pm 
Here is a free app, that helps keep pedestrians safe, so if you walk at night, or in San Francisco ever, you might want to put it on your phone.
http://pedsafe.net/
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, September 09, 2016 - 5:48 pm
I saw a photo online with a tweet, no documenting where or what.... but I thought the quote was funny. It was like one of those church placques that have saying out at the end of the driveway.
Next time you're afraid to share ideas remember someone once said in a meeting, Let's make a film with a tornado full of sharks.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, September 09, 2016 - 5:54 pm
Ha, that is funny.
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Friday, September 09, 2016 - 7:09 pm
LOL!
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, September 09, 2016 - 9:36 pm
I love it! LOL
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, October 05, 2016 - 2:07 pm
HOly crap, I may be getting a contract job that will run thru the end of the year! At my top rate, which I never thought I would get, now I have to find out if there is a maximum I can earn and still collect my SS!
AND, darnit, I really didn't think this would get approved so wasn't concerned, this will screw up my Big Brother, LOL.
Keep hoping it won't be as big a job as my friend thinks and that I won't have to go into her office very often.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, October 05, 2016 - 9:33 pm
Hahahahaha, Dipo!!! It's only a few months. Unless you really get sucked back in.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - 8:20 am
Yesterday and today a bird has been flying up against the windows of my boss's office in the morning. He basically slams himself against the windows and flaps his wings against them. Sometimes he will perch on the metal frame of the window and just sit there. It is so weird. I feel like that woman in The Birds...I am wondering if I accidentally hit his cousin or something and he's coming to get me!
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - 7:57 pm
Lol Roxip, those kamikaze birds fly right in front of cars.
A place I worked a few years ago had these huge ugly buzzards that would fly and occasionally walk around the building. They would also perch on the window ledges outside our floor. This was in the middle of the city. Someone said they were turkey buzzards.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 6:37 am
This office backs up to a nature preserve in the middle of the City of Richardson and it has been lovely - there are hawks that fly past our windows (we are on the 4th floor - when I was on the 5th floor I was near the corner and watching the birds of prey maneuver around the corner of the building was breathtaking) and a little runoff creek right below our windows...but these kamikaze birds are freaking me out!
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 7:19 am
Roxip, the bird probably sees something inside that he is trying to attack. Probably something that looks like another bird.
Can you block off the window for awhile to give the bird time to forget about it?
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 8:04 am
If he's wanting to attack anything then it's me! YIKES!
I don't think that I can block off the window. He didn't visit this morning so maybe he's found somewhere else to go in the mornings.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 9:52 am
He may be seeing a reflection of himself.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 1:39 pm
That is what I suspect. Perhaps he has lost his flock and is looking or another...
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 4:00 pm
WOW, I got my California Ballot! It is huge and heavy, LOL.
Where I live is not big enough for a polling place so we are always by mail only.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 4:44 pm
LOL, Dipo, did you get the California voter information guide last week? The thing is freaking huge!
Roxip, I am terrified of birds (seriously, I know it's ridiculous but I can't help it, lol.) I'm positive that when they see me they are secretly plotting to get me. There can be 100 people out and every bird I see is going to be aiming straight for me.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 7:32 pm
Really huge!!
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 7:57 pm
My mailbox.....overflow. Lol
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 10:33 pm
Roxip, I would agree he is probably seeing his reflection and coming in to fight for territory. After he crashes into the window he might be stunned or peering into the window trying to figure out where that other bird went.
This is behavior one sees more often in the spring where I live, but perhaps you live in a warmer climate and have more breeding seasons than we do in NW WA state. I would associate that behavior more with breeding season.
JujuOrnithologist
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 11:53 am
Been meaning to report how disappointed I am that Steve Martin, my favorite "IRS agent" from Mumbai, isn't going to be calling me anymore. Steve, and other great agents with similar familiar sounding names, have been running a scam where they call and threaten people with arrest if they don't pay back taxes and penalties. Saw a TV news report that their office in Mumbai had been raided and several of them carted off to jail. Surprising was that authorities estimate they'd scammed close to $40 million off of US, Canadian, and Australian taxpayers. Additionally surprising was that they had convinced people to pay in a number of ways from money transfers to credit cards to iTunes credits! The bad news is they don't think they caught the actual bosses so there's a chance another Steve Martin will be calling me soon. 
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 1:06 pm
Oh no, I will miss answering the phone and hearing that grim voice saying "Hello".
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 1:59 pm
Well I guess you will always have something to look forward to...
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 3:04 pm
hahahahaha, too funny. I am so glad to hear that they were picked up in Mumbai.
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Keldogg
Member
08-12-2005
| Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 3:27 pm
Haha, this reminds me of an experience I had about a year ago. I started a gofundme for a man who owns a small little market near my home who was assaulted during a robbery. Long story short, we raised over $20,000 for him.. I was contacted by a gentleman by email who wanted to make a "large donation" outside of gofundme. I gave him my cell phone number. Well, of course, it turns out that this donation was a little more complicated. He wanted to send me money, and then of course, I was to give some of the money to the fund, and then pass along some money to his son who was in school in "California". Knowing immediately it was a scam, I decided that it was best to string him along as long as I could...I figured as long as he thought he was scamming me, he would have less time to scam others.
This went on for about a week. He of course, needed all the bank account information to make the transfer, and I played dumb, pretending I had no idea where to get that information. In fact I gave him my name...Im A Stupid, and he started calling me Miss Stupid! I strung on for so long, in fact, giving him my home phone number (which was actually the number for my local FBI office, ooops).
Finally, one day he "convinced" me to go to the bank and get all the information he needed..but of course I was not to tell anyone at the bank that I was doing this for. So I literally had him on the phone for about an hour (I told him I was elderly and it took an effort for me to get to the bank) as he talked me through it. I told him that I told the teller I was confused about what I needed, and could he tell the bank employee what was needed...he went crazy.
Anyway after stringing him along for all this time, I told him that he was an idiot and there was no way I had ever fallen for his scam...he went crazy, cursing and swearing at me, calling me all kinds of names, and I just laughed at him.
For the next week, at least once a day, I would send him a simple text "who ya scamming now?".
Good Times!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 5:45 pm
Good job, Keldogg!
Recently our local paper had a huge article all about how the Do Not Call Registry isn't working well and how hard it is to actually track down many of the calls due to spoofed numbers and such.
Seems to me I'm suddenly getting more calls than ever.
One guy told me the Do Not Call list didn't apply to him because he was calling from his car. hmm
And one called me at 7:30 am this morning to say they had been monitoring my credit.
Gosh, so has my Discover account and it was up to 840.. so I'm content to do without this caller's help.
Another insisted he had spoken to me awhile back, thus was just returning my call.
One said their records indicated that my electric bill was $130 $160 and they could help me to get credits. I said well interestingly enough I keep it under $60 and didn't want his help.
The one that made me go  was a woman who called about something. I pointed out that I was on the Do Not Call list.. usually they just disappear. But she snapped "Well, why did you answer the phone, then?"
OK then..
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