Founder and former CEO of Apple Steve Jobs has died after a seven-year battle with cancer. He was 56.

RIP Steve Jobs

My daughter and I travel up the Silver River on Wednesday.  Below is a poem of her observations on the trip.

The Knight and His Squire

Ride out one dark morning

On the Hunt.

They tell the sun to meet them at silver waters.

Fog makes islands of trees

As they feed the horsepower.

Sol yawns

And orange ripples on blue sky

Minnows are their welcoming party

Little Blues march unpainted.

Smooth River –

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I knew that printers cheat you re ink usage, but I didn’t know there was a workaround for the problem.  Here’s a tip from Oregon Expat:

So, now we know we’re being scammed. And those of us with an environmental bent are also fairly pissed off about the waste. But what can we do, when the printer locks up due to the “out of ink” message?

We can reset the chip.

Ink cartridge chips are the latest tool used by printer manufacturers to make sure that customers can’t override the low ink warning. The tiny electronic chips monitor ink usage, or, in many cases, simply count pages. Once the predefined threshold of a chip is passed, it will lock up the printer. The warning cannot be overridden.

But it turns out that there is a whole community of irritated printer owners who do not like being scammed. They have started up companies catering to other irritated printer owners, and one of the things they do is take ink cartridges and reverse engineer the chips. Then they build inexpensive “chip resetters” that exist for one purpose only: to reset the chip’s page count or ink level to zero [zero "usage," presumably].

Details on how to do this are at the link.  You learn something every day.

This. Changes. Everything.

It never occurred to me to make tart crust out of cookie dough, but here it is. Just shape cookie dough around the outside of your muffin tin and bake with the tin upside down. Then use your imagination for what you can put in the bowls: fruit, yogurt, pudding, ice cream, whipped cream, or nothing at all! Link

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The photo was taken at the entrance to Katlian Bay at the end of the road in Sitka ,Alaska …The whale is coming up to scoop up a mouthful of herring………(the small fish seen at the surface around the kayak). The kayaker is a local Sitka Dentist. He apparently didn’t sustain any injuries from the terrifying experience. The whale was just around the corner from the ferry terminal,and all the kayaker could think at that moment in time was:“Paddle Man –really fast!”

The whale’s mouth is fully open with the bottom half under the boat. If the whale had closed his mouth before he furiously paddled away –He might have been LUNCH!!!  Look at the picture again –He is in the whale’s MOUTH!

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