patndoris' blog

Surely you have stumbled through the land of CAPTCHA. You know what it is. No, it is not an amazing beautiful and magical land with lions and tigers and bears oh my! Oops! Wrong story. No, surely not! They are those maddening little boxes with letters and numbers and squigglies oh my!

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And shift….and move…and shift…and move. No it’s not some new aerobics routine I assure you. (The closest I get to that is exercising my fingers on the keyboard.) It’s all about the little things in life and how the smallest change can seem so unsettling (at least to me).

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I recently saw a Snopes write up on striped icebergs. I would love to post the images here directly for you, and while they've circled the globe via email and blog posts aplenty recently, they are indeed copyrighted. I realize most blogs (mine included) and websites push the limits of fair use at times, but I saw posts where the copyright was clearly visible (although not on Snopes). While I was looking for the photos, I came across some other magnificent iceberg pictures as well. I've chosen to provide links to the images and articles, partly because I don't like the idea of infringing on photos I've seen a clear copyright on, and partly because there are too many images. Even if you don't take the time to read the accompanying text, I hope you'll take a moment to marvel at the incredible natural beauty of these icebergs.

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No, No! I didn't get that confused with FiOS (which according to Verizon is an Irish word meaning knowledge) but is in reality a shortened version of Fiber Optic Service, a service offered by said telecommunications giant. IFOS is something totally different - but knowing me - I bet you guessed that didn't you? (*Wink* You're SO smart!) Might I add, IFOS means nothing in any language I know of, but is another irrational internet fear proudly made up (uh....discovered, I mean discovered...) by me. (Note to self....may need to look into copyrighting or patenting or something, all these newly created (ahem...discovered) internet related mental defects. (Defects?! Did I say defects? Let's call them challenges....) When they make it into mainstream medical diagnosis, I can get RICH!

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Being on the cutting edge of fabricating and otherwise naming imagined internet disorders as I am, I've found a new internet disorder. It's called MSN Disorder.

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