Sun, November 30, 2008 - 9:32 PM PST
I joined the 21st century yesterday when I bought a new laptop: an Acer Aspire One. It's a teeny tiny "netbook" that weighs two pounds. I'm still getting used to the slightly smaller keyboard and the orientation of the keys as well as the location of the trackpad buttons (they're on the sides rather than the bottom), but overall I'm pretty happy with the functionality and size vs cost; it was under $400 and obviously outperforms my old G3 iBook while also being considerably smaller and with dece...
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Sat, November 8, 2008 - 7:54 PM PST
Oh yeah, as long as I'm sitting here logged in to my blog's admin software...
I won an award at work and they're sending me and Linda on a 5 days, all expenses paid, 5 star vacation to Mexico in February. This news came at just the right time, as I've been starting to feel the stress of my position quite a bit in recent months and some good news for my efforts is just what I needed. If I can make it a few more months, I'll get to enjoy a week of sitting around by the pool drinking iced drinks w...
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Sat, November 8, 2008 - 7:50 PM PST
And I end the blog silence...
Iowa beat Penn State today, ending any chance that we had at a national championship. That totally sucks.
I this I might be taking it worse than last time. It's at least not as bad as when the Yankees lost to the Diamondbacks in the series a few years ago. Still, this feeling sucks.
Fri, August 22, 2008 - 6:54 AM PST
I'm on vacation for the better part of the next two weeks. I'm tying up some loose ends today and dropping my car off at the shop (bushings again). Then first thing in the morning, Linda and I are catching a flight to New York.
Linda has this piece of graph paper with our entire week planned out. She is always saying "let's go to XYZ this weekend" but never has anything for us to actually do there, so I tend to veto these requests. She hates this. So she took this matter into her own hands and ...
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Sat, August 9, 2008 - 8:02 PM PST
You should all be proud of me. I was at RE-PC today and managed to get out by only spending $1 for exactly the item that I made the trip for - nothing more. I passed on buying a Sun Netra T1 for $30 as well as a stack of Ross HyperSPARC modules that I could have put into my sparc10 - and they had a ton of SBUS cards that I had a hard time leaving behind too.
It was tough.
Thu, August 7, 2008 - 5:46 PM PST
For reasons that I can't get into, I have a company-purchased XBox 360 game console in my cube. It's a real shame actually because it's only been turned on like 4 times in the months that I've had it now. And because it doesn't get used much, it wasn't hooked up in the best of ways: no speakers, and tied to an old CRT monitor - which of course perpetuates the trend that it doesn't get played.
Inspiration struck me today though: plug the composite video and stereo audio cables into the capture ...
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Sun, August 3, 2008 - 11:33 AM PST
Xavier Nady just hit a three run homer to put the Yankees up 8-5 over the Angels. The commentator exclaimed "X marks the spot!"
That line immediately turned my shouts of joy into a groan.
TBS: get some real commentators!
Sun, August 3, 2008 - 7:24 AM PST
Linda and I went to the Bellevue Humane Society yesterday to look at a dog, an 8 year old male beagle named Hunter. We figured since he was that old, he'd hopefully be pretty chill and have most of his bad habits trained out of him by then, and the description on the pound's website said that he was a really gentle dog that liked to be around people.
Thinking back to the last dog that I spent much time with, I was already comparing this dog to Benny - also a male beagle and probably the sweetes...
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Fri, August 1, 2008 - 6:55 PM PST
So I cannot say why, but as Linda was ordering a pizza over the phone just now, I became overwhelmed by the lyrics of Cake's "Mr Mastodon Farm". I began to sing it. I was actually doing a pretty good job at it, if I don't say so myself. Linda, however, she didn't care for it.
She has bad taste sometimes. It's really too bad.
The thing is, I don't think she's ever actually heard the song before. You have right? You know that it's magical. She swore that she didn't like it - never liked it - and...
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Thu, July 31, 2008 - 8:40 AM PST
I just found out that a friend of mine from college is now a doctor. The first memory that comes to me about this guy involves a kitchen fire and everclear.
I don't think I have anything more to say about this topic.
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