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  • COMPUTERS
    • Rhode Island Computer Laws - General Laws (Criminal Offenses), Sections 11-52-1 to 11-52-5.
    • Need free storage? How about Google-Docs or MS's Skydrive - 5GB ... or ... Mozy - 2GB. 10/28/08.
    • Need an on-line office - try ZOHO. 10/28/08.
    • Need a webcam carrier? - try SKYPE with your Logitech or Microsoft Life Cam. 10/28/08.
  • CONSUMER
    • What is it with these people who wear Flip Flops when shopping at Shaw's or Stop & Shop or Belmont's? They are not at the beach - what are they thinking? 09/11/09.
    • Those cheap bastards - yes you, Quilted Northern. Sometime in 2008 or 2009 they decided to down-size their product. Smaller and fewer sheets. 02/01/10.
    • This juice dispenser looks like a germ factory. Are the white spouts installed correctly? Maybe they should go THROUGH the black guides that project out - the things SCFun was assuming were there to guide your cup and help transfer germs from you to the next motel guest. 02/02/10.
  • CRIME - Juvenile
  • DP PROJECT - Seven phases of a typical DP Project
    1. Uncritical Acceptance
    2. Wild Enthusiasm
    3. Dejected Disillusionment
    4. Total Confusion
    5. Search for the Guilty
    6. Punishment of the Innocent
    7. Promotion of the Non-Participants
  • DRIVER EDUCATION
  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • One can supposedly find free movies and free television at this site. 09/20/09.
  • FINANCIAL
  • MISCELLANEOUS
    • WTF? 09/26/09.
    • Need a haircut, a trim?? 10/03/09.
    • How throwing up is portrayed in the movies and on TV - in this case, "The Big Bang." Who in their right mind actually caresses the toilet bowl - with the seat down - anyone? Funny. 10/03/09.
    • The Maine Italian sandwich. The sour pickle is usually in a big jar in the deli section of your supermarket. Backup. 11/17/09.
    • Iris Dement singing Our Town with Emmylou Harris. 12/23/09.
    • 2,010 ... The last year of the 201st Decade, or the last year of the 1st Decade of the 21st Century, or, how about the simplicity of the last year of the Decade from 2,001 thru 2,010. Easy enough?
      ... a decade is ANY ten year period but if you want a "special, clean cut" decade, a decade special enough to honor The Person of the Decade why wouldn't you base that decade on mathematics (a multiple of 10 years) and not on a "dumbed-down, easy-to-say" version based on the language and the fact that we start hyphenating numbers when we reach twenty-one ...
      ... Speaking of Time Magazine and other media outlets? Why do they have to announce the game MVP in the eighth inning or a list of people who have died in 2009 with three weeks still to go in 2009? Will consumers revolt if they read these "2009 lists" during the first couple weeks of January, when 2009 is COMPLETE, as opposed to the last three weeks in December, when 2009 is INCOMPLETE? What's the big deal? Why can't they just wait until the year is over? Just wait - easy! 12/21/09.
    • Don't you hate these Password Verification, impossible to decipher tests? 01/07/10.
    • A Funeral? ... Dog Died? ... Flunked Bar Exam? ... What? 01/01/10.
    • HUNDRED YEAR RAINS


      The "100 Year Rains" - from 4/29-31/2010 - made a mess of Rhode Island. Worden's Pond Road was closed for almost a week. As of Monday, 4/5/2010, residents of The Village at Worden's Pond, were finally able to drive out the main entrance at Leisure Drive and Worden's Pond Road. This picture, courtesy of the South County Independent, from Saturday, about three days after the rains stopped. 04/06/10.
    • Belmont Supermarket. Why is Belmont moving the interior automatic doors? To lessen the winter draft on the check-out personnel. 06/14/10.
    • DIVORCE. Mark Patinkin is divorced. SCFun has been reading his columns, many about his children, for years. (Mark is a cousin to actor / Broadway music man, Mandy Patinkin.) Mark writes about his divorce in his June 19th column in ProJo. Too bad. 06/21/10.
  • POLITICS
    • Ted Kennedy died Aug 25, 2009. It brought back memories of Bobby's Funeral. By the way, what's with this FUBAR on Google Earth ... Google Earth has been notified that this picture of Chappaquiddick is in poor taste yet it still remains. 08/23/09.
    • The Medicare Vote in March of 1965 on the "Social Security Act of 1965." Lyndon Johnson signed the bill. Guess who the first Medicare Member was? Harry Truman. 09/01/09.
    • Superior Court Judge Gilbert V. Indeglia of Kingston has been nominated to the RI State Supreme Court by Governor Carcieri. 03/11/10. Update: He makes it. 05/xx/10.
  • SOUTH KINGSTOWN
  • SOUTH KINGSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE-FIGHTERS
    • Allan LePage, veteran South Kingstown Fire-Fighter died Tuesday, June 30, 2009 the day after being involved in a tragic accident at the Kingston Fire Station. As Camire's Annual July 4th Road Race was finishing up, his funeral/memorial service was just beginning a couple blocks away. Thousands are expected to attend the memorial service at the Ryan Center on the URI Campus on July 4th.
      SCI On-Line.
      Pictures - Enlarge them. 07/04/09.
  • TRIVIA
    • Beatles Album Cover. Who is that man on the top row? 10/24/09.
    • Dan in Real Life ... filmed mainly in Rhode Island. The house (Raven Rock) used in the movie is at 113 Melrose Ave, Jamestown, RI. It's on the west passage side. 41 degrees 30 minutes and 8.61 seconds NORTH. 71 degrees 22 minutes and 54.23 seconds WEST. You can rent the house for about $6,000-$7,000 a week. 12/07/09.
  • WEATHER
  • ZZZ - OFF TOPIC STUFF
    • George Sodini
      He hated women. His rage against women boiled over on August 4, 2009, when he shot as many women as he could during an aerobics class at a gym in Bridgeville, PA. As of today three women are dead and many more injured. Here's the story. He kept a blog on the internet. NBC Nightly News, in their August 5, 2009 story, actually showed the web site along with its URL. An hour after the telecast, the URL was still active. Here is the blog from that web site. (ABC News had the blog but had censored much of it.) An hour later, it was gone. If you go to that web site ... this one ... you should get Service Unavailable. SCFun is surprised that it was out there as long as it was and surprised that ABC censored much of it, as ugly as it may have been. 08/06/09.


PERSONAL BOOKMARKS
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  • REAL ESTATE continued ...
    • Top Ten Beaches; 1-Grayton Beach SRA, near Seaside, FL; 2-Kailua, Hawaii; 3-Caladesi Island State Park, near Dunedin; 4-St. Andrews SRA, near Panama City; 5-St. Joseph Peninsula State Park, near Port St. Joe; 6- Kaunaoa, Hawaii; 7-Crandon Park, near Key Biscayne; 8- Ulua, Hawaii; 9-St. George Island State Park, near Panhandle; 10-Fort Desoto Park, near St. Pete.
  • Emma THOMPSON

  • TRIVIA
    • GUILTY! 875 S Bundy Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90049 to 360 N Rockingham Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90049. (Distance is 1.9 miles, 10.3 minutes)
    • Kathy Griffin is on "Suddenly Susan"; Vicki Lewis is on "News Radio".
    • Laffit Pincay Jr. On Dec 10, 1999 he broke Bill Shoemaker's record for wins in the 6th race at Hollywood Park with his 8,834th win.
    • Love 22. You can see him campaigning for president at the Baseball Hall of Fame. He used to be Lawrence E. Wagner, from Cranston High School and URI.
    • Red Sox - 7th game, 1975 World Series; 1-Lee, 2-Fisk, 3-Yaz, 4-Doyle, 5-Rico, 6-Burleson, 7-Carbo, 8-Lynn, 9-Evans
    • Feb 03, 1959 ... "The Day the Music Died" - the Big Bopper (J.P.Richardson), Ritchie Valens, and Buddy Holly.
    • Mmm dd, 1916 ... Georgia Tech 220, Cumberland 0 - the most lopsided football game ever.
    • Mmm dd, 1969 ... Newport Bridge opened.
    • Oct 08, 1956 ... Don Larsen's Perfect World Series Game.
    • Oct 11, 1975 ... Saturday Night Live debut(ed).
    • Jan 20, 1981 ... American hostages cleared Iranian airspace at 1:53p E.S.T.
    • Sep 09, 1985 ... Jamestown Bridge - ground-breaking.
    • Oct 19, 1992 ... Jamestown Bridge opened.
    • Sep 10, 2000 ... 7,485th and last performance of CATS at Winter Garden.
  • WEATHER 
    AVERAGE HIGH TEMP, WARWICK, RI 
(LOWS RANGE FROM 22 - 63) 

             TEMP                 
             ----                 
 7/15 - 7/21  82   7/15 -  7/21
 7/11 - 7/14  81   7/22 -  8/09
 7/02 - 7/10  80   8/10 -  8/18
 6/27 - 7/01  79   8/19 -  8/22
 6/20 - 6/26  78   8/23 -  8/27
 6/15 - 6/19  77   8/28 -  9/01
 6/11 - 6/14  76   9/02 -  9/04
 6/08 - 6/10  75   9/05 -  9/09
 6/05 - 6/07  74   9/10 -  9/14
 6/02 - 6/04  73   9/14 -  9/17
 5/28 - 6/01  72   9/18 -  9/19
 5/25 - 5/27  71   9/20 -  9/22
 5/22 - 5/24  70   9/23 -  9/26
 5/18 - 5/21  69   9/27 -  9/29
 5/15 - 5/17  68   9/30 - 10/01
 5/12 - 5/14  67  10/02 - 10/05
 5/09 - 5/11  66  10/06 - 10/08
 5/05 - 5/08  65  10/09 - 10/10
 5/03 - 5/04  64  10/11 - 10/14
 4/29 - 5/02  63  10/15 - 10/16
 4/27 - 4/28  62  10/17 - 10/18
 4/24 - 4/26  61  10/19 - 10/24
 4/21 - 4/23  60  10/25
 4/18 - 4/20  59  10/26 - 10/27
 4/14 - 4/17  58  10/28 - 10/30
 4/11 - 4/13  57  10/31 - 11/02
 4/10         56  11/03 - 11/05
 4/08 - 4/09  55  11/06 - 11/07
 4/05 - 4/07  54  11/08 - 11/11
 4/03 - 4/04  53  11/13 - 11/14
 3/30 - 4/02  52  11/15 - 11/16
 3/28 - 3/29  51  11/17 - 11/18
 3/25 - 3/27  50  11/19 - 11/20
 3/22 - 3/24  49  11/21 - 11/23
 3/20 - 3/21  48  11/24 - 11/26
 3/19         47  11/27 - 11/29
 3/14 - 3/18  46  11/30 - 12/01
 3/12 - 3/13  45  12/02 - 12/04
 3/08 - 3/11  44  12/05 - 12/07
 3/04 - 3/07  43  12/08 - 12/09
 3/01 - 3/03  42  12/10 - 12/11
 2/26 - 2/28  41  12/12 - 12/15
 2/22 - 2/25  40  12/16 - 12/23
 2/18 - 2/21  39  12/24 - 12/25
 2/11 - 2/17  38  12/26 -  1/07
 1/17 - 2/10  37   1/08 -  1/14
 1/15 - 1/16  36   1/15 -  1/16
 * SUMMER
  *  DAILY MEAN 60 OR >
     MAY 22 - SEP 26
 ** WINTER 
  ** DAILY LOW 32 OR <
     NOV 23 - MAR 25

  Want to eliminate winter ... 
  a year in Jacksonville
  would be similar to a year 
  in Warwick from May 5th 
  to Oct 8th - in other 
  words, Oct 9 through May 4th 
  wouldn't exist. 
   Jacksonville, 5/5-10/8
   Savannah, 4/29-10/16
   Charleston, 4/18-10/27
   New Bern, 4/03-11/11

RI DAYS; + = Good, 0 = So-so, 
- = Lousy 
 ------------------------
      +  0  -       + 0 -
 Jan 18- 6- 7  Jul 18-5-8
     14- 7- 7      24-5-2
 Mar 15- 6-10  Sep 23-4-3
     14-10- 6      20-7-4
 May 16- 8- 7  Nov 21-3-6
     21- 3- 6      20-6-5
  • Miscellaneous

"Eastern Airlines, 9-pm shuttle, to Laguardia Airport, now boarding, Blue Concourse. All aboard, please."
"United Airlines, DC-10 Luxury Liner service, from Seattle, Denver, now arriving, Gate-10."


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