Swooning? Cake? Gratuitous cleavage shots? This can only mean one thing!! Its someone’s birthday! I recently stumbled upon a blog unlike any other I’ve seen before. Its not about video games, movies, or the latest technology, but rather the chronicles of a female looking for love. A blog entitled “Year of the Chick.”

Romi does such a great job writing of her premeditated man hunting, Indian Superman, child hood experiences, fabulous speed dates, and inner most thoughts, that I was immediately hooked from the very fist humor infused post I read!

Its not often that a male has the opportunity to delve into the uncensored inner workings of a female on the prowl, even for just a few minutes. After reading some of her posts, I was reassured that not all females are helplessly doomed to live a life of wanna be glamor and ignorant bliss.

Happy Belated Birthday Romi!

With the recent move to “high definition” content and my obsessiveness to keep entire seasons worth of television programs on my computer for easy viewing access via the Xbox 360 or PS3, imagine my frustration when Vista started warning me that my measly 120GB drive was running out of space.

With out hesitation, this tech-savvy consumer rushed over to newegg.com and began shopping for a bigger drive, a drive that could hold a massive video and music library and still have room to spare. After a few hours of searching, comparing, and mentally justifying the expense, I ordered myself a 1 terabyte drive by Seagate!

A few days later, the drive was finally in my hands! I carefully opened the box and pulled out the giant wad of bubble wrap which encased my new drive. As I struggled with the profuse amounts of tape and bubble wrap, my precious new drive suddenly flew out of its bubbly haven, flipped through the air, and promptly landed on the floor before I had a chance to react. Doh!

After gently installing the gravity defying drive, my PC began booting up…*Click* *Click* *Click*, Windows didn’t even detect the new hardware. Just like that, my dreams of massive storage were shattered! I called up newegg’s customer service and set up an RMA. I sent my drive back, 1 1/2 weeks later, I received a replacement.

This time, the unpacking and installation was rather uneventful. Vista promptly located drivers and I initiated a format. After everything was said and done, my entire music & video library now resided on this drive, with tons more storage space to spare! I began clicking through my video library and opened up a video, just to try it out. *Click* *Click* *Click* Eh!?!

It was then that I noticed the new hard drive would “click” when it would spin up, and again whenever it would access data. Usually a “clicking” noise from a hard drive means bad news, but a quick search on the internet revealed that these new 1TB drives were known to “click” during normal operation. I backed up my important data, since in my eyes, failure was imminent.

A few weeks went by and the clicking was still present, yet the drive hadn’t experienced any sort of failure. I did begin noticing some severe lag and skipping while playing back video content located on that drive. To make matters worse, certain programs, like MSN Messenger and Firefox, would stall for short periods of time while this drive was trying to access data. This was completely unacceptable! My quest to find some answers began anew! Read more

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A fine educator facing termination at the hands of a school board concerned only with themselves has been handed his fate. A teacher who wouldn’t hesitate to tell you the blunt truth of your mistakes in order to guide you in the right direction has been terminated. A man with more knowledge and experience of higher mathematics than most college math professors has been fired by a group of people worried about maintaining the status quo.

Its no secret that our fair city’s education system is in desperate need of attention. Teachers are over saturated with students and crammed into tiny class rooms. Some teachers don’t even have a classroom, they “float” from room to room as they become available throughout the day. Teachers like Mr.Menzel are given a majority of students who have previously failed other math classes, simply because of his “status” within the high school monarchy. He is then expected to give these students a “free ride” through his class. Free rides help the students amount to nothing in the real world because the students come to expect free rides where ever they go in the future.

I’ve noticed something about Del Rio that tells me a lot about the current goals of our town.
Look around…what do you see? Fast food, bars, and loan shacks.  Thats the future of our fine city!