Overlook at Hardy Creek

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November 24, 2023

Sometimes we might take for granted the area we live in — case in point here would be the overlook just off the interstate south of Hardy Creek.

For all of the times we’ve traveled between Great Falls and Helena it always seemed that I’d make a mental note of stopping at that overlook to … well … overlook.

On the way to an appointment in Helena yesterday I made sure to leave in enough time to stop at the overlook that’s situated just off the southbound side of the interstate. Walked up the narrow path, climbed the stairs leading up to the rock cliffs, and took a look. It’s actually a rather beautiful area and I don’t think the pictures really can do it justice. Looking at it all in real time is preferred.

Interstate 15 was built pretty much through the mountainous cliffs and as a result, there can be some rather spectacular views from the very top looking down into the canyon. If one were to look close enough toward the bottom you might see the route of the old US91 highway (now called the Recreation Road) running along side of the Missouri River.

There are tons of little off-the-byway areas to look at around the area and the overlook just south of Hardy Creek is just one of those areas.

Sounds of the ’80’s

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Alan

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November 24, 2023

Upon after the more laid back charm of the ’70’s we found the 1980’s to be somewhat speckled with tons of new talent.

Pop music was what it was and the music was found coupled with many more new technologies and it showed. MTV was a thing and one could sit for hours upon hours watching all of the latest new music videos.

The 80’s made an impact. The entire decade was full of all sorts of things we had never seen before, like for instance, cable TV making it’s way into rural America.

24 hour a day quick stops sprang up everywhere — Once just the lowly gas station with a sole soda machine out front converted to an over night quick stop that served up crusty burritos and a never ending choice of assorted bags of chips and gallons of fountain soda all for about a buck.

All the while in the meantime, music like this below was blaring on the FM radio.

The music of the ’80’s lives on and reminds us of times simpler than those of today.

Enjoy the music.

Mozilla prevents browser screenshot downloads of Twitter (X) content in Firefox (updated)

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Alan

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November 23, 2023

UPDATED: Tech editor Aimee Rand provided a solution for this issue in the comments section below.

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Recently read a story over on the Fox News about possible clickjacking threats in some popular browsers. The article was primarily focused on the Firefox web browser and after reading it I went in to be sure that my Firefox browser had the latest updates.

After looking around a bit and knowing that my browser had just recently updated, I went away with confidence in knowing that Mozilla was still totally on top of their game.

A few hours later I was kicking it over on Twitter and I saw a Thanksgiving post from Glacier National Park (@GlacierNPS) that I thought to take a screenshot of so I could post it over to Facebook. Though I was able to take the screenshot, I was not allowed to download it. I immediately thought something was wrong and went into the Firefox about:config to see if everything was okay.

Everything was in order on that end, so I went over to Mozilla online to further troubleshoot the issue. At first I thought the problem was Twitter itself (because … you know … Musk), but upon after further investigation I realized that the problem was with Mozilla.

I went into the security settings of my browser and everything there was in order — Security protocols were in place just like always.

On a fluke I set the configuration to accept *dangerous downloads* — Bingo .. I was able to download a Twitter screenshot right after.

The takeaway here is that Mozilla considers even the screenshot downloads from Twitter to be malicious (dangerous). From that point I came away with the notion that instead of Mozilla being on top of their game, they were just way over the top.

Even with what I discovered with regard to Mozilla, I’ll continue to use Firefox.

Firefox screenshots are sharp and focused, whereas the screenshots taken on the Microsoft Edge browser are fuzzy and don’t present the quality that Firefox does. Plus, I’m not a big fan of the Blink rendering engine that all of the browsers use except for Firefox.

Everybody takes screenshots for different reason. Most of us aren’t all off into the sort of Gotcha kind of screenshots that political shills like to take however. I wish Mozilla would understand this. Also, having to set your favorite browser to accept possible dangerous downloads because of someone else’s irrelevant ideology is not really a very good look for Mozilla.

As an aside, here’s the screenshot I was talking about — It’s from Firefox:

Happy Thanksgiving

Does life really stop at 30?

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Alan

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November 20, 2023

Teens who say that life stops after you’re 30 should see me when I pull an even number of socks from the dryer.

There is more truth to that statement than anyone could ever know.

Sure, I remember when I was a teen — I thought 40 was older than dirt. What I didn’t know at the time was that life really didn’t start taking off (at least for me) until I was 32’ish.

What I think kids these days don’t understand is that life at 20-28 is simply the primer needed in order for one to hit his stride.

My advice to the youngsters is to sit back and enjoy the ride — Life doesn’t really start getting fun until you hit your 30’s

Pulling an even number of socks from the dryer is just an added bonus.

Why should Christians support Israel

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Alan

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November 20, 2023

God has made an eternal covenant with Israel and will keep His promises. We must defend and protect Israel and love the Jews in their time of need. Don’t be fooled by what is trending on social media – make sure you are landing on the pages of the Bible!

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