Deposit Coins

Coinstar machine in pathmark has always charged me some 8%. Today, was my first day taking my coins to TD Bank: A bank that opens more days (7 days) than others and apparently only one that has coin counting machine and cash in service for public use, no extra charge.

If I have not mistaken, I remembered someone from church complained how TD Bank ruins businesses of other banks by offering such services. I thought to myself, it's not a crime to work hard or provide more services than others.

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Bought Computer Gadgets for a Computer Technician

Ordered on ebay a few miscellaneous items for my line of work. Things which I should have with me in the beginning - was embarrassing not having them.

1. Cable/Wire tracer

2. cat5 couplers

3. ps/2 to USB adapters

4. PCI serial ports RS-232

5. Laser Distance Measurer

A tech should always carry these around with him, in addtion to other things I already have.

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Parallax Distance Measurer

We've got ultrasonic distance measurer, now we have the more accurate but expensive laser ones, how about a parallax distance measurer?

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Macy in Flushing

I was at MACY's last morning, picking up some stuff for a friend and I'm amazed at the responsibility there. I was at the same counter a day before an hour prior to closing time, and was told the staff has left for the day. Now, I had waited from 10:30 to 11:50 AM and no body showed up, while the other staffs from other booths couldn't do anything more than serving their own counters which are also apparently very relaxing at this hour.

With this kind of management, how one would wonder why people get laid off, economy is falling or even reaching the conclusion that immigrants (illegal or otherwise) are 'stealing' their jobs is just astonishing.

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IP Webcam

Those IP Webcam is quite handy, especially the remote pan/tilt ones. Would be an easy setup over the DVR ones. As for quality and results, I do not know.

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Importing Excel Contacts into Outlook

Problem importing MS Excel 2003 file: Fields not all imported (seems to limit 4 only from source), named ranges problems, etc.

Solution:

In Excel, save as CSV (comma delimited)

In Outlook, import file as "Comma Separated Values (Windows)

Map Custom Fields...

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Wildman Steve Brill

Today (or Yesterday-Saturday) marks the 3rd time of my participation in Wildman Steve Brill's foraging tour in city parks. First two were Central Park and Prospect Park (I couldn't remember the order). Now Inwood Hill.

This time, with the benefit of my iphone, I get to put photos and notes together very quickly on the spot.

I should upload the photonotes.

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Question to Ask Dr. Stephen Tong (and his family)

Perhaps I should prepare some important question(s) to ask Dr. Tong. Since Rev. Laura Lin is very aristocratically keen on introducing people to me, perhaps I may just use this hand of Uzzah for the balance of things, lest my anger gets the better of me.

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Prediction

Perhaps I could predict this:

Lyna: 哇, 詩班很多不會唱的,最後都唱得很好,感謝神。

Me: 詩班唱得怎麼樣,由聽眾心裡決定,上帝知道,不需要您畫蛇添足。

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Dying Churches in the Bible Belt

Well, at least I'm not the only one pointing this out now. Too bad it has to be from Christian Today magazine and not the other one.

"Christian South's people aren't unreached, but wrongly reached...moralism over the Gospel"...strong words from Pastor Tyler Jones.

I see some of my "minister" friends of the South just keep themselves more and more isolated from the outside while satisfying themselves with the remaining, yet still acceptable in number, Southern supporters.

What's even worse, is those who would like to agree with us on this issue, tend to misunderstand, since their "agreement" comes from being hurt by anyone who follows not their way.

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