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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.
    • Who is spying on your computer? Found out with Ghostery.com. 03/21/11.
  • CONSUMER
    • 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.
    • This PRODUCT DOWNSIZING is disgusting. This alternative to raising prices has got to stop. Are we all that stupid? Sounds like it all started years ago when the coffee industry introduced the 13 ounce "pound of coffee" can. Then ... Breyers ice cream went from a 1/2 gallon to 1.75 quarts and now 1.5 quarts. A pound of bacon became 12 ounces. Dial soap scooped a 1/2 ounce from the back of their bar of soap. A sheet of toilet paper shrunk by a 1/4 inch. Tropicana 64-oz container of OJ is now 59-oz. "Just raise the price, will ya?" 12/09/10.
    • Belmont Market in Wakefileld now has a Rewards Card, as does Shaw's and Stop & Shop. Damn! Belmont's card is a little different ... you can accumulate points and cash them in for gift cards, MP3 players, DVD players, a Proctor Silex grill, etc. Is it worth it to shop at Belmont's? ... Think 4%. If a $1.00 item at Belmont is less than $.96 at Shaw's, then buy it at Shaw's, if not, then buy it at Belmont. Points expire after 180 days. 01/22/11.
    • There is a problem with Belmont's three month old Rewards Program. For example, the sales slip says you earned 28 points (rounded down) but when you check the total online, it says you earned 30.34 points. The sales slip goes by "before tax" while the online total goes by "total charge including tax." You may have actually earned enough points for that I-Pod. Which one is correct? 04/01/11.
  • 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
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Cute side-car from the South County YMCA parking lot. 10/07/10.
    • The Town of Narragansett's new web site. 11/13/10.
    • KindCoupons. Not only does it benefit you but also various charities. - 01/25/11.
    • I just got a call from area code xyz - whom do I know in area code xyz? Try AllAreaCodes. 02/05/11.
    • Can't someone decide where world famous journalist and URI Alum Christiane Amanpour was born. Her Wikipedia Page is undecided between Iran and London. Strange. 02/16/11.
    • The killer of Jason Foreman is to be released early from prison. Jason was killed in 1975 at the age of five in Peace Dale, RI. The killer, a neighbor, has been serving a 40 year term but, because of good behavior, is scheduled to be released this summer, 12 years sooner than scheduled. Jason's father has threatened to kill his son's killer. 03/09/11.
    • SCFun wonders how many people or clients know that this guy is a convicted felon? Here's an article from ProJo. 03/28/11.
    • Is is me or is someone WHISPERING within earshot as annoying as annoying gets - worse than fingernails down an old fashioned chalk board. Even in the library SCFun would rather have people talk in their normal voice - which doesn't omit that "hissing" sound for lack of a better term - it's much less annoying. Give me a break! There's a TV commercial running now with a lot of whispering - it sends SCFun running for the mute button every time it comes on. 04/13/11.
    • The killer of Peace Dale's Jason Foreman voluntarily agrees to enter - around September, 2011 - a locked psychiatric ward in Eleanor Slater Hospital in Cranston rather than take a controversial "early release" from prison. 05/27/11.
    • An Appalachian Trail Tradition! Who knew? 06/06/11.
    • If a Perfect Day is a daily shower, fingernails cut, toenails cut, and a haircut ... and you cut your fingernails every 11 days; your toenails every 21 days; your hair every 31 days ... how often do you have a "Perfect Day" in your lifetime? 07/01/11.
    • RAISING PRICES. They have to raise their price ... their "wholesale costs" have increased and they must pass along the increase to their customers - UNDERSTANDABLE. So, they can either raise the price or do what the jerks at Tropicana Orange Juice and Quilted Northern Toilet Paper do. They show absolutely no class or intergrity and keep the price but lower the volume - 64 oz to 59 oz; 300 sheets to 242 sheets. Just wondering if the wholesale suppliers are equally deceitful. Can't imagine that they change the wholesale price of oranges or paper from say, $500 a ton to $500 for 1,900 pounds? Disgusting! - 08/03/11.
    • Have you seen this AD on TV?. "Need open heart surgery? Tell us what you want to pay and we will do our best to make that work." - Your friendly General Hospital Surgeons. REALLY!? - 08/05/11.
    • Orthorexia ... Really?! 09/22/11.
    • Holy sh**! ... Wow! ... did you see/hear one of the jokes cut from the Charlie Sheen Roast? Too soon? Too soon for Rhode Islanders familiar with the Station Nightclub Fire? - 09/25/11.
  • 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.
    • Mark Patinkin gets into a GOP frame of mind - cute. Be careful what you wish for, Mr. Michael Steele. 07/03/10.
    • Kathleen Fogartty remains President of SK Town Council. She is the top vote-getter with 5,214. Remaining line-up remains the same as the last two years but the batting order shifted a little. James O'Neil moved up to third place. 11/03/10. Correction: A spilt in council harmony ... Whaley gets voted in as President, going against the "top-vote-getter" grain. Some might say the split is based on a couple members black-balling Bob Toth's Camden Lanes as the unofficial local Democratic meeting place - coffee/donuts, etc. Interesting. 11/25/10.
  • SOUTH COUNTY HOSPITAL
    • From the South County Independent of 7/22/10 ... South County Hospital is in financial trouble. Their 2011 budget is $5.5 million in the red. They will be cutting jobs, benefits, and pay. 07/24/10.
  • SOUTH KINGSTOWN - By Date
    • Wakefield Prescription is getting a new home. The old Wakefield Motors will be torn down (06/25/09) to make room for the NEW Wakefield Prescription. More (09/30/09) Progress. Still More (11/30/09) Progress. And ... finally in their new home sometime during the spring of 2010. The Brothers and some of the staff. 5/17/10.
    • Belmont Supermarket. Why is Belmont moving the interior automatic doors? To lessen the winter draft on the check-out personnel. 06/14/10.
    • Blockbuster Video in the Salt Pond Shopping Center in Narragansett has closed. 07/24/10.
    • Town Meats on Main Street in Wakefield has closed after an eight year run. 07/24/10.
    • The Houston Brothers Restaurant in Peace Dale has evidently closed. Too bad - they will be missed, especially for breakfast. 10/16/10.
    • Lilly and Marissa Dufault have opened Moongarden Antiques on the second floor at 313 Main St. 11/11/10.
    • According to the SCIndependent (12/09/10) a 14 year old South Kingstown student gets into a fight with his father over his school grades. The student threatens his family with a paintball gun. The cops are called. A mental evaluation is ordered and a juvenile court date is set. Parenting - a full time job! 12/10/10.
    • Belmont Market should be embarassed that they can't take the time to shovel out a handicapped parking spot. This car is empty - sitting in the middle of a crosswalk and open area. 02/14/21.
    • The "No name" gas station, in Wakefield diagonally across from The Italian Village, is now offering auto repairs. 05/13/11.
    • Bill McWha. No boots? How did he get into position? Have you seen this generous man doing his thing on Main Street, Wakefield? Here's Another view. 05/14/11.
    • Construction continues on the new and improved Playground at The Neighborhood Guild. Here's a picture. 05/16/11.
    • W-O-R-D-E-N ... How do you spell it?. 07/28/11.
    • Belmont Supermarket is now in phase two of a cute bait and switch program. The rewards program started early in 2011 that required a customer to spend $350 to get a $15 gift card ... it now requires that a customer spend $750 to get that same card. - 08/26/11.
  • 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.
    • The ABC TV Show "Wipeout" ... where is it filmed or taped? HERE! In Santa Clarita, CA on a ranch owned by Disney, about 40 miles north of L.A. GoogleEarth coordinates are 34 degrees, 22 minutes, 35.00 seconds NORTH and 118-24-41.00 WEST. 07/24/10.
    • Without looking it up on Wikipedia, guess how much these counterweights weigh? 07/20/10.
    • Why is Grandma PROUD of her 10 year old granddaughter who is a TOM-BOY but ASHAMED of her 10 year old grandson who is a TOM-GIRL? Why is that? 07/01/11.
  • 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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