Steve Rossi

	January 2007 Edition
Useless Facts of the Day. Click Here to check it out. Brought to you by Barry Bolduc.

01/29/07

Got the pictures that Rae & Dan took of us putting up the insulation in the cabin. Click here to check them out.

01/28/07

Steve,
I tried to log onto your website, but the browser got stuck on the "Welcome to my little corner of the web" page..... So I sat there and waited... and waited..... and waited.... I realize I could have hit the link "If you are not forwarded to my page in five seconds, click here", but with the picture you have on that page I just felt like sitting there.... I kept wondering where my margarita was... Hey, where's the waiter...... Does Cervesa por favor.....

To reduce individual emissions dramatically,
only a few minor lifestyle changes are needed:

Action	CO2 savings
Replace the 20-year-old fridge with an energy-saver model.	3,000 pounds.
Send out one fewer 30-gallon bag of garbage per week.	300 pounds.
Leave the car at home two days per week.	1,590 pounds.
Recycle cans, bottles, plastic, cardboard and newspapers.	850 pounds.
Switch two standard light bulbs to fluorescents.	1,000 pounds
Replace the current shower head with a low-flow model.	300 pounds.
Turn the thermostat down two degrees for one year.	500 pounds
Cut vehicle fuel use by 10 gallons in 2007.	200 pounds
Switch from hot to warm or cold water for laundry.	600 pounds

If these steps were taken by just 20% of U.S., Japanese, Canadian and European inhabitants, world CO2 emission levels would drop to a point that the human factor would be vastly reduced as a source of global warming, and the day when the inevitable climate shift occurs could be delayed for years, perhaps centuries.

Old pictures of well-known people, click here for "guess who this is"

The last argument they'll ever have........

"Honey, we're here, come on out....."

That woodpecker HAS to go....

How was your breakfast today......

01/25/07

Barbies made special for Utah. Make sure you read the blurb that goes along with the pictures.

Remember the story of the Trojan Horse? Well, there's a type of computer virus called a Trojan Horse, because it comes into your computer looking harmless, and then messes with your computer in the background. Well, I was in Desktop Publishing class, they were working on the project I'd just finished going over, and I was bantering back and forth with a couple of students, when one of them says to me "Yeah, and I'll give you a Trojan you can't get off." Meaning, of course, that he was going to sabotage my computer. As soon as he said it he realized what it sounded like, and a millisecond after I hit the floor laughing, he joined in. Ruined the whole banter thing, but was worth a few good laughs.....

01/22/07

Lucky, lucky man.........

01/17/07

Happy Birthday Lisa!

01/16/06

In case you didn't know - I hate those chain "you must mail this out to 3,256 one armed shephards or great misfortune will befall you" e-mails. I don't waste my time forwarding them even if they are "for a good cause". Well, someone at my school is aware of this and senht me this :

SUMMARY OF MY LAST YEAR OF EMAILS

I must send my thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat poop in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet towel with every envelope that needs sealing.
Also, now I have to scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.
I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl (Penny Brown) who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time.
I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program.
I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me, and St. Theresa's novena has granted my every wish.
I no longer eat at KFC because their chickens are actually horrible mutant freaks with no eyes or feathers.
I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day.
Thanks to you, I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward an e-mail to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.
Because of your concern, I no longer drink Coca Cola because it can remove toilet stains.
I no longer can buy gasoline without taking a man along to watch the car so a serial killer won't crawl in my back seat when I'm pumping gas.
I no longer drink Pepsi or Dr. Pepper since the people who make these products are atheists who refuse to put "Under God" on their cans.
I no longer use Saran wrap in the microwave because it causes cancer.
And thanks for letting me know I can't boil a cup water in the microwave anymore because it will blow up in my face....disfiguring me for life.
I no longer check the coin return on pay phones because I could be pricked with a needle infected with AIDS.
I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.
I no longer receive packages from UPS or FedEx since they are actually Al Qaeda in disguise.
I no longer shop at Target since they are French and don't support our American troops or the Salvation Army.
I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number for which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica , Uganda, Singapore and Uzbekistan.
I no longer have any sneakers -- but that will change once I receive my free replacement pair from Nike.
I no longer buy expensive cookies from Neiman Marcus since I now have their recipe.
Thanks to you, I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big brown African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my butt.
Thank you too for all the endless advice Andy Rooney has given us. I can live a better life now because he's told us how to fix everything.
And thanks to your great advice, I can't ever pick up the $5.00 I found dropped in the parking lot because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car to grab my leg.
Oh, and don't forget this one either! I can no longer drive my car because I can't buy gas from certain gas companies!
If you don't send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large dove with diarrhea will land on your head at 5:00 PM this afternoon and the fleas from 12 camels will infest your back, causing you to grow a hairy hump. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbor's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's beautician!!

Happy New Year

01/14/07

Ok, all the old galleries are back up. Took me a while but it's finally done. Now I just have to go through all the old CD's and get those pictures on here finally. That's gonna be fun, since some are so old they were made before I switched from the iMac to the current PC format, and at least with the old PC, it had a hard time reading the old Mac CD's. Good thing I didn't get rid of the iMac, eh?

01/13/07

Ever wanted to bitch about some driver that pulled a bonehead maneuver or just drives like they're the only person on the road that counts? Yeah, I have. Well, Danny just sent me this link to platewire.com, this web site where you can post their license plate number and what they were doing that was so annoying. You can also post an "award" to thank drivers that do something considerate, a "hazard" for vehicles that have something wrong with them and even a "wink" for drivers you want to flirt with. You can register as a motorist (get notifications when your plate gets a wire), pedestrian (look and post, but your plate isn't registered) or a cyclist (get special options for bicyclists). Check it out.

Talking about bad drivers, just heard a rear-end collision right out in front of the house. It amazes me how many people seem to think that the closer they are to your back bumper, the sooner they will get where they're going. There's at least one collision out there about every couple months (who knows how many when I'm not here to see it), and still people seem to forget that traffic backs up out there and maybe they should leave a little more room. Duh! Totally munched the front end of her Subaru.....

"The Torch & The Axe" - the story of Bruno, Max Sartin & some guy named Rafaele Schiavina.

01/12/07

New Videos : Photocopier Prank & Dancing Plane, PPT of interesting plant statues, choose "open" and then click to go to next picture.

And from Lisa just a minute ago - Speed Racer

Old Galleries that have been returned to the site : Revisit - Ferragosto 2005 - Family at a pool '03 - Lake Powell '04 and Alex's Piper pictures.

01/07/07

Slim,
I had a picture I was going to have you post for Alex, but didn't think my hand would look appropriate on your 'family' web site. Thanks for posting the other pictures though...

Danny

Well, I was going to rant and rave about the boneheads that were too stupid to realize that not only is driving while talking on a cell phone dangerous, but that they'd have to be a total dumb ass to do it during a snowstorm. Since it took me half an hour to type that one, albeit long, sentence without using the "f" word a dozen times, I think I'll just write about the really cool car I saw at the Smith's today. (Don't scroll down to the pictures yet, you'll miss all my sarcasm) Sporty as hell, with a really nice huge tail fin on it. At least it is the same color as the car. Which happens to be one of the sportiest cars on the market. Um. Ok. Let's think about this. A fin is used to push down on the drive wheels to increase traction at higher speeds. Hmm, isn't the Cavalier front wheel drive? & short of "Thelma&Louise"ing it off a cliff, it ain't ever going to produce the kinds of speeds where a fin would make a difference. Now you can go ahead and look at the pictures.

Returned a bunch more of the Family Galleries to the site. Click here.

Slim,

Please post this for Danny so he knows we aren't missing anything.

Dan- thanks for the pics and for doing the drive. Enjoy the snow.

A&M

01/06/07

Steve,
I took these pictures of Alex's house so that he could see what he is in for when he gets back, would you please post them for him?

Thanks

Danny

01/05/06

Football Quote of the Week

Farmer's Advice (funny stuff)

Really funny video from Rachel - "Bug Zapper".

Video : Snow slide

01/03/06

3 brothers, wood, gasoline and a foot of snow. Dangerous combination. Alex, Danny and I went up to the land over the weekend. There was anywhere between 6" and a foot of snow on the road on the way up there, it was a little work (fun) but the Subaru made it all the way to the campground (3 1/2 miles) on it's own. Didn't even need a push, although Alex did run over it on the snowmobile and Danny was ahead of me in the truck.

	Then we get there and start a camp fire, one of the nice things about being there in the winter. It's a little dry there in the summer so we don't have too many fires, and when we do they are mostly just coals for cooking. Well, since the wood is covered with snow we needed a little F.A.P. (Fire Assistance Program), or gas, to get the fire going. The fire gets going, and then starts to die out, but not completely enough to start all over again. We look around for something to use to throw the gas on the fire from, assumably, a safe distance, and we find
an old coffee can. Worked great, well almost.... picture's worth a thousand words, here's 3,000.



If you look carefully, you can see that my hand is also on fire. Was just the gasoline on my hand, didn't even get warm, but it did freak me out a little bit. Here is all the pictures from the trip up there.....
The National Transportation Safety Board recently divulged they had "covertly" funded a project with the U.S. auto makers for the past 5 years, whereby the auto makers were installing black-box voice recorders in 4-wheel drive pickup trucks and SUV's in an effort to determine in fatal accidents, the circumstances in the last 15 seconds before the crash. They were surprised to find in 38 of the 50 states the recorded last words of drivers in 61.2 percent of fatal crashes were, "Oh Shit!" Only the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Missouri and Texas were different, where 89.3 percent of the final words were: "Hold my beer, I'm gonna try somethin."
Pictures from Danny : Christmas 2007 and White Rim Trail, 03/06

01/01/07

Welcome to 2007

Got 2 new galleries from Alex last night : His photos from Rossi Excursion 2006 and from his Baja motorcycle trip.

12/31/06

Put back a bunch of the old photo galleries, school and family galleries for the most part. I've got them all organized from all over the place in the old site and I only have 82 more to set up and get on here.

Oh, by the way - Have a great New Years Eve!

12/30/06

Run down memory lane : Rossi Excursion 2003, the original, Arches 2004 and Arches 2005.

12/29/06

I'm starting to get around to getting all the old picture galleries and videos from the old site up here. I'm starting with the extras - not videos and not regular photo galleries. Here's the first one - Urban Challenge 2004.

Blast from the past.......Hamsterdance.