September 2008
1 post
March 2008
2 posts
I was just at the
I was just at the deli and a tourist asked for 200 grams of turkey. The lady behind the counter said, “What’s 200 grams?”
Geocaching on the Florida Hiking Trail
I went for a hike Sunday, March 2nd 2008, with two friends from work, Andrew and Jason. We went to a portion of the Florida Hiking Trail that’s north of highway 20 and between state road 77 and US231. We were on part of the Econfina Creek trail.
Andrew originally mapped out a hike that could be either 4 or 8 miles long depending upon whether we wanted to go further. We choose to do the 8...
February 2008
7 posts
Computers are lame
I’m glad that in 2008 setting up network shares between computers is still completely fucked. In this case, the guilty parties are a PC running Microsoft Vista and a Mac running OS X Leopard. The question is which of the two is more fucked. Right now I’m inclined to think Leopard’s is fucked on creating shares for Vista to browse, but it could be that Vista’s share browsing...
Cruising Facebook for the first time in a while. A bit sad that I don’t talk to a single person from HPU regularly anymore.
I’ve been on a mild Dinosaur Jr. obsession recently, listening to their albums on repeat, especially Beyond.
I went online to find out more about the band and to look for similar sounding music. Most every review I read compared both the singing and guitar style to Neil Young. So I went to Amazon.com’s MP3 store and loaded up 6 or 7 (they’re typically $8 or $9); so far...
While browsing birthday cards for my father a woman came up to me asking me if I worked at the store. I then realized I was wearing a red polo shirt and khaki pants, the exact work uniform of Target.
I Love You, but You Love Meat →
No-holds-barred carnivores, for example, may share the view of Anthony Bourdain, who wrote in his book “Kitchen Confidential” that vegetarians and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans … are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”
Returning the compliment, many vegetarians say they cannot date anyone who eats meat. Vegans, who avoid eating not just animals...
California
I just heard a funny, but sad story on NPR’s Morning Edition: Neighbor A is suing Neighbor B because B’s Redwood trees cast shadows over A’s solar panels. In 1979, in the wake of the oil crisis, California passed a law guaranteeing the rights of people with solar panels on their houses. As a result, Neighbor A won in court (pending an appeal, natch), resulting in the court...
January 2008
3 posts
Rock Band
I know I’m always the last to the party when it comes to hip new things, but I finally played Rock Band (warning, site maximizes browser window, ugh) for the first time tonight. While the guitar and bass parts of the songs were kind of boring and old hat, the drum set was fun. I really got into it after about half an hour.
That being said, I don’t think I’d ever buy it. It was...
Bring Out Your Dead!
Not much too new in the past three weeks. I got caught up reading The Stand, playing World of Warcraft, and practicing guitar.
The Stand was good, though the first third was the best and the last third not so much. I felt the story was written into a corner and the resolution wasn’t genuine, just something to finish it off. A sense of “build-up, build-up, build-up” and then...
I just finished watching the unfortunately named New Hampshire presidental primary debates (“One night, two parties” (too remeniscient of the Youtube video “Two girls, one cup”)) and all I can say is wow. Good discussion all around, though the Democrats were more interesting (natch, I’m a registered Democrat). I’m thinking a Obama-Richardson ticket would be...
December 2007
12 posts
Deaf demand right to designer deaf children -... →
The collision of people’s values for what is right and wrong and medical science’s ability to make to change or influence unborn babies is one tough nut to crack.
The Associated Press: Author Terry Pratchett Has... →
This makes me sad. He’s my favorite author and I’ve read more of his books than anything else since I was introduced to them in college.
(via Kim Vogt)
Problems running vent for WOW - Ventrilo Tech... →
I’ve been wondering why Vent hasn’t been working right since I upgraded to Ventrilo 3.0.0. I apparently forgot to turn on “enable access for assistive devices” when I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5, which is needed to use Push-To-Talk while WoW is running.
Geocaching in PCB
I went geocaching with Andrew and Jason from work today. I hadn’t had a chance to geocache since hanging out with Tyson at FSU. The first cache we hit required 2 mile hike to abandoned shrimp farm on West Bay. Pretty scenery, though I forgot my camera. Andrew took some pictures so I’ll have to snag and post them later. We then hit a couple of caches in Pier Park, all micros or nanos....
Annals of Medicine: The Checklist: Reporting &... →
Fantastic article on how using checklists instead of memory can measurably minimize human error and establish quality control.
Aside: Articles of this quality are exactly why I subscribe to The New Yorker.
Turn Back. Exit Village. Truck Shortcut Hitting... →
Truckers in Britain are using GPS navigation systems to find shortcuts that unfortunately take them through rural villages whose roads are not designed to handle large traffic such are trucks. Ouch.
30 Rock →
My new favorite TV show.
Boomkin-in-Training
Made it to level 45 in WoW this past weekend. I’ve finally obtained Moonkin, aka Boomkin. I think it’s time for Zul’Farrak.
November 2007
30 posts
Ironic that a gold bar item in WoW only sells for 6 silver at the vendors.
The Zagat History of My Last Relationship →
A search on Google for “with a little help from my friends”, i.e. the song by the Beatles (though I was actually looking information on the Joe Cocker version), brought up a sponsored link with the title “US Government Assistance” and the URI “www.GrantsReady.com”.
Busy Busy Busy!
Life has just been too damn busy recently. I went to Tallahassee last weekend and partied hard with the friends that are still left at FSU. Lots of fun, but I don’t know if I ever want to stay up that late or get that little sleep in a weekend ever again. I hadn’t seen them in a long time, so it was worth it though. When I got home Sunday afternoon I promptly fell asleep while on the...
Internet Commenter Business Meeting - CollegeHumor... →
I can’t stop laughing.
Men who look like old lesbians →
(via kottke.org)
FOX News Porn →
Haha. Semi-NSFW
Improve your Stacks with some drawers - The... →
Some pretty awesome use of transparent pngs.
+1 Geek Perseverance -1 Tivo Mac Support
My Tivo has the ability to stream music from my Mac to the Tivo so I can listen to my music through it. Kind of a goofy feature, but I still wanted to mess around with it. All I can say is that whoever does the Mac software at Tivo must just not have time to do it properly or they just don’t care. It won’t play unprotected AAC files, i.e., the default file format an imported CD is on...
Birder Admits Killing Cat, but Was It Animal... →
Obviously, I’m on the cat’s side. The guy should have called the local Humane Society or Animal Control group to investigate and handle it, not go out with a .22 with freaking hollow-point bullets and start shooting!
Geek Toys
Too much geeky goodness for one day!
My Tivo came in; it’s setup and working great already!
My copy of Mac OS 10.5 Leopard came in; I’ve installed it and am still migrating over old data
World of Warcraft patch 2.3 went live today and it brought in a bunch of new things; most importantly for me are an expanded zone appropriate to my level with 50 new quests and all enemies and...
My apartment, right now, is the cleanest it’s been since I moved in. It is still not completely clean (I need to sweep/mop the kitchen floor and clean my bathtub. Everything else is looking pretty great though. As soon as I get my last two bookcases later this week I’ll put up some pictures.
Amazingly, it appears that there is no physical store near me which I can purchase Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. I had decided to spend the evening installing and setting it up, but apparently I can’t just go out in buy it around here. Blah.
Unpacking
After cleaning up the boxes and detritus from my new dining room table, I was on a roll cleaning up my apartment. I threw out the rocking chairs boxes from the porch, unpacked the remaining boxes in the bathroom, the box in my room, and unpacked all the boxes of bookes in my office.
I still don’t have a new, larger bookcase that I need for my book collection, so I have several huge stacks...
Matinees
I saw two matinees this weekend: American Gangster and Into the Wild. I enjoyed both. Both were very visual films and were worth seeing on a theatre screen. The former was a very good drama with great performances by Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. Just a great looking, fun viewing experience. The latter was also great. I suppose it was also a drama, though it was really more of a biography....