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#ParrotSunday - Lolita Meets Carson

I never tire of watching Johnny Carson's interactions with parrots. 

12 Foot Long Florida Sting Ray

Diver shoots video of giant stingray in the Gulf of Mexico. Wildlife in FutureLawyer's backyard isn't the same as yours. Florida wildlife lives in the water, and you don't want to get near its tail. This guy was photographed 8 miles out in the Gulf in 30 feet of water.

Kale And Spinach Lovers - Get Off My Back

Kale, strawberries, spinach top %u2018Dirty Dozen' list for pesticide contamination - Story | WFLD. I have always hated spinach. I never heard of Kale until arrogant food bullies started pushing it at me. I think Kale tastes like cardboard. I knew in my gut that it wasn't the health food it was claimed to be. Now, I find out that it is laced with dangerous pesticides. Now who is the health food expert?

Diane Hits A Gift Home Run

That's What I Do I Smoke Cigars And Know Things T-Shirt | TeeShirtPalace. Diane gets me. This is her latest gift. I will wear it with pride.

Facebook Password Exposure - Another Reason For Two Factor Authentication

Facebook exposed up to 600 million user passwords to its employees | Android Central. Why a company as large as Facebook would store user passwords in a plain text database is amazing; but, even if a rogue employee got one of them, it wouldn't be possible to hack a Facebook account protected by two factor authentication. Unless, of course, the Facebook employee lives in your house, and has access to your phone. Even so, there are many Facebook users who can't be bothered to protect themselves by learning and using two factor authentication. I have been trying to preach the gospel of authentication to you for years. If you don't get it by now, I have no sympathy for you. It isn't just up to the tech companies to keep you safe. You need to take some responsibility for your own safe passage on the Internet. So, the next big hacking scandal that pops up, don't be too quick to join the hordes that jump on the poor company that is victimized. Go look in the mirror.

#PoetryFriday - The Gift

THE GIFT

He tried to choose his gifts carefully.
He went to all the right stores.
He saved up his money.
He travelled in person
to expensive retailers
and spent time in meaningless conversation
with counter people
who would rather be somewhere else.

He read the fashion magazines
and scoured the Internet
with a business style focus
and spent more money than he should
trying to impress her.

When the day came
and he presented his gift to her
he was happily pleased
that she was pleased.
He felt the satisfaction
of the giver
and the joy in her happiness
belied the empty feeling in his soul.

As he grew older
he realized that the greatest gift of all
required no effort
and no money
and no skill.

He would give her the gift of his time
and that much limited resource
would be the best gift of all.

Time flashes by in an instant.
He would try to give it away before it was gone.

Illigitimi Non Carborundum

What To Do When You Meet A Jerk. Lawyers spend a lot of time meeting jerks. Some lawyers ARE jerks. We all meet toxic, nasty, obnoxious and otherwise unpleasant people every day. However, as Marcus Aurelius ( a wise man) said: "When you run up against someone else's shamelessness, ask yourself: Is a world without shamelessness possible?" Of course not. So, you have a cholce. You can allow the jerks in your world to affect how you live your life, or you can ignore them. Avoid them if you can. Tune them out if you can't. You get to decide how you react to them. I find it beneficial to feel sorry for them. They just don't know what happiness they are missing in this life. Since there have to be jerks in the world, we have to be exposed to them. But, we get to choose not to be jerks. Oh, and for those who don't know, the post title translates to: "Don't let the bastards grind you down". Good advice in a world full of jerks.

The Complete Works Of Shakespeare In 2 1/2 Hours. What Could Go Wrong?

Straz Center for the Performing Arts - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised]. As an old English Lit major, I spent a lot of time in College reading, watching, and performing bits and pieces of the Shakespeare plays. I even spent a semester in a course that questioned the authorship of the works. But, it is quite ambitious of these guys to do all the plays in 2 1/2 hours. A little editing is involved. Call this the Cliff's Notes for adults who don't have much time left on the planet. Sounds like my kind of evening.

E-Filing- Practice Law In Every County In Florida

E-Filing Resources for Florida Lawyers | LegalFuel. If I had to choose one new technology that has most changed the way that I practice law, it would be the fact that most pleadings and documents now must be efiled in every County in Florida. This enables lawyers to practice in every County without traveling to them; unless the matter requires a personal appearance. Gone are the days when documents had to be printed on paper and hand delivered to the Court Clerk, or sent in the mail. However, use of this new technology requires competence in several areas; including, but not limited to, the creation of PDF/A documents for efiling, and use of and access to, the Court Efiling Portal. Do you know how to Efile, or do you rely on office employees to do it? As always, the Florida Bar's excellent website, LegalFuel.com, has the details. Read and learn.

Sending Word Documents Over The Internet? Keep Them From Being Edited

How to Protect Parts of a Word Document from Editing. This is a handy guide to protecting parts of Word documents from being edited, and controlling how editing can take place. This allows for collaboration without allowing the users to make wholesale changes that you don't approve. The same can be done with WordPerfect documents. However, my preference is to create PDF/A versions of any document that I sent over the Internet. It is the standard for efiling, and a vast majority of recipients will not be technically sophisticated enough to mess with them. How do you protect your documents?