My Wife's Dream of Crashing Her Car into 3 Kids

After showing her video of the viral Time Square car crash, she had a bad dream at night, driving a car and crashing into some children. What's funny was then she dreamt that I took her back in time in a time machine I built to cause the car to break down the moment before the crash to avoid the accident.

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Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (1010 pp19s): Best Operating System Comparison

This is for Inspiron Mini 10 (1010)Service Tag:1k5grm1

I got my hands on this device from Tante Lyna, to whom I'll be returning the device. With 1GB RAM, Windows XP, Win 7 both suck. This is a 32-bit/x84 machine. There was a suggestion to upgrade from 1GB to 2GB RAM in order to make it run better.

Note: Regarding WinXP, Installing a new version is not easy due to SATA support not available on XP CD. So, I should have left the original WinXP's recovery system intact. I tried Windows 98 SE, boot time error may be related to SATA support as well.

Online search lists these for me to test them. Example source: http://mashtips.com/lightweight-os/

Basic test area: Wifi, Browsers, Video, Audio, Office
OS Image file to USB loader: PenDriveLinux's Universal-USB-Installer or Win32 Disk Imager.
Video test: YouTube & Russia Today

I've tried Android 4.0 (Android 6 doesn't work), it seems to play well, but wifi and graphics appear to be poorly supported.

Xubuntu 16.04.2 has bad video support as well, though wifi works with third party free installation (bcm). Then it crashes a lot after a few more reboots.

ELIVE 2.0 of Debian appears to be the best (fast graphics), but no wifi and runs live on USB. If you want to install it on HDD, you need to pay, cheap shot developer.

LinuxMint 18.1 runs live on USB, then it gives you the option to install to HDD in the system. It seems better than Xubuntu. Video seems to work better but still breaks from time to time on YouTube.

*** Haitus: I'm working on upgrading the RAM to 2 GB or maybe even 4GB (according to ebay)?

*** Forget it...upgrading to RAM 2GB appears to be more troublesome than I thought: Instead of the memory chip, I had to upgrade the whole motherboard where the RAM is fused to the board.

Damn Small Linux 4.4.10: I couldn't load DSL-4.4.10-syslinux.iso to USB properly to install from USB. I didn't want the embedded DSL version on USB. I burned the iso to CD, booted fine but installation encountered error. I give up.

Lubuntu 17.04: Comparable to Xubuntu, not bad. Everything works. Just that YouTube videos are slow. Adobe Flash Player plays better.

Linux Lite 3.4-32 bit: ...

Puppy Linux

Debian + PIXEL

CrunchBang

Bhodi Linux

Peppermint Linux

Arch Linux

Slax

Solus OS 2017.04.18.0-MATE: Doesn't work, only supports 64 bit system.

Deepin

Q4OS

Cub Linux

LXDE

CentOS

AntiX

NimbleX

ZorinOS 12.1 Education-32: It comes with USB OS, but everything is very very slow. Installing Zorin 12 onto HDD experienced an internal error. So forget it, not worth the time. I read that someone did it but he still preferred LinuxMint.

GeeXboX

EasyPeasy

Remix OS (warning, this suggested RAM is 2GB)

Phoenix OS

CloudReady 56.3.80-32: Had to burn the bin image using Win32 Disk Imager instead of PenDriveLinux's Universal-USB-Installer. USB version: Wifi's fine. Video breaks on YouTube. Considered installing CloudReady onto HDD instead of USB, but Dual-boot option (I had Win7 on it) gives UEFI error. Some review commented: Dell Mini Inspiron 1010 (poor audio/video playback)

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NYC Redeemer PCA: Now we know where Tim Keller Preaches...sort of

There is this cool website: https://kellertracker.herokuapp.com/

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Portfolio

So in the attempt for career advancement, I shall setup my own portfolio here: http://nycphantom.com/projects

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What's all the fuzz about Ahok?

The Jakarta mayor election is over. Ahok has lost and now they want to put him in prison for touching the verse in 5:51.

What about those who manipulate Quranic verse for their own gain? Isn't that wicked? Isn't that blasphemy? Isn't that abhorred by Allah? So it is not when they are muslims themselves I supposed.

But the extend they would go to protect Quran and the name of Allah, as if Allah needs that sort of defense from mortals...makes me wonder and want to ask them:

كنت تعتقد بالتأكيد الله الخاص بك هو إله صغير.

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Common Wrong Conception of Western Missionaries

The misleading idea today is that missionaries are those who work with a christian organization in a foreign country.

The error could be further from the truth. The idea of being a missionary, is to preach the Gospel to non-believers in the most active means not seen in other offices of ministries. It can be supported by a church, not supported by a church, if the primary goal of a missionary is not achieved, one either cannot be a missionary or that one is a failed missionary.

So when someone say to me they are missionaries or are missionary kids, unwittingly I would have to first wonder...because I might not have to take them as seriously as I take a true missionary. I would talk to them about: - So how's your "vacation" in foreign land like? What do you love to eat there most? Do you like the sunsets there? And they wouldn't be offended, I'm sure of it.

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Vocab: Intransigent

Impervious to pleas/reasons.

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All I once Thought Gained, I have Counted Lost

Philippians 3:7  But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

The gain I had before, they are nothing. The gain I have now, it is for Christ and him alone. Not both me and Him for that is a curse. But Him alone.

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Reminiscence of the Past - Port Jefferson Methodist Church

At the time, I did not know much about the American UMC theological content. I went to this small church in Port Jefferson on Main Street. Female pastor hired from China, I think. A search on google gives me a likely match: Dr. Huibing He who seems to also be an artist now.

All I remember was she loves to sing, might have some conflict with the church pianist (possibly some graduate/post grad student) at the time, but only very slightly. I also remember they were all rather friendly. Mostly elderly members. Some old white lady came to me the first day saying that she believed that "I was sent to the their church like an angel" - something like that.

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The Obnoxious Celibates

From time to time, there are those singles, regardless of their ages, usually in churches, deeming themselves to be very good with children, youth or young adults.

I'm not so easily fooled by them as many in churches do today. If a celibate claims to be good with the younglings, I would have to examine their characters as to how responsible they could be if an infant is left at their doorsteps, will they be able to raise that child, or do they prefer to just hang out with the youth, taking kids to movies and ice-creams. They even dare to give themselves the title of "single god-parents", but the truth is, single or not, no matter what, everyone will be tested on how responsible he or she is at raising a new life, not just having a few short moment of fun together.

How one reacts towards other parents, other adults? Does one only care to hang out with the youths, these are all telltale signs of one's characters in one's viewpoint of the responsibility in raising a new life.

I'm my experience, I can only recall one such person. My aunt, Christina. There are others who claim to be good with kids, but they are sorry excuses for needing TO BE NEEDED.

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