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McSupper...

Eating lunch.

Lunch buffet.

Break finished, ate lunch, ready to go again.

Lunch

Loaded next load here.

Lunch

Stopped to eat.

Eating lunch after picking next load up at Portland, Maine on my way to deliver to Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

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Windows XP Running Inside Vista…

Here’s Windows XP running inside a VMware Player virtual machine on Windows Vista. This allows me to use software that won’t work properly on Vista inside the virtual machine running on top of Vista. Pretty cool trick, eh?

November 26th, 2007 | Category: Podcast | Leave a comment

Night Of The Living Democrats…

Here’s a movie called “Night Of The Living Democrats” starring me Trucker Tom as the Soothsayer and my friend Jeff a.k.a. TruckerTwoTimes as the Lady TruckerTwoTimes In Distress

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November 25th, 2007 | Category: Podcast | Leave a comment

Dan Rather Can’t Decide…

Here’s a clip of fired CBS news anchor Dan Rather taking more than 16 minutes to decide whether he should wear a coat or not in the broadcast he’s about to do, and furthermore if he should have the collar up or down…

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November 16th, 2007 | Category: Podcast | Leave a comment

Katie Couric Vanity Clip…

Check out this clip of Katie Couric waiting to go live. This is what the talking heads on TV are REALLY like, not the plastic, fake and phony “on camera” performance that you usually see.

November 16th, 2007 | Category: Podcast | Leave a comment

Across America On Horseback…

Oregon rancher Bill Inman is riding horseback across America. Here’s the website:

http://www.uncoveringamerica.com/

November 16th, 2007 | Category: Podcast | Leave a comment

Crash…

Something went VERY VERY VERY wrong with my Windows XP installation late last night. It got to where it wouldn’t reboot completely, even in safe mode.

Fortunately, I still have a hard drive that has Windows Vista Premium on it so it was a simple matter of swapping out drives and I was immediately back […]

November 15th, 2007 | Category: Podcast | Leave a comment

Hillary Plants Questioners…

College student was urged to ask Hillary a planted question interviewed by CNN:

Hillary denies:

November 14th, 2007 | Category: Podcast | Leave a comment

Hillbilly Children…

8 years after Bill Clinton left Washington, D.C.

November 12th, 2007 | Category: Podcast | Leave a comment

Unbelievable Horse…

November 7th, 2007 | Category: Podcast | Leave a comment

Hill-Billy Clinton

November 7th, 2007 | Category: Podcast | Leave a comment
 
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