Can I just say that Nicole and all the other Tivo fans were 100% correct, and I do indeed love Tivo? Can I? I just watched two Angel episodes from the middle-to-end of the 2003 season that I missed after Zoey was born, and all I had to do was tell Tivo that I like [...]
As Rona mentioned, I’m going out of town. I’ll be in Indianpolis working at Gen Con, the premier hobby gaming convention in the U.S. This will be my first time back to Gen Con since 2002, the convention’s final year in Milwaukee, WI. I haven’t heard many nice things about Indianapolis, but it has to [...]
We ordered Tivo tonight. The "Joneses" will be so proud…
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This summer, on the way to our two-family beach vacation, Brian, Jen, and Barrett stopped by the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon (home of the Spruce Goose). They really liked the airplanes on exhibit, but also discovered a collection of armored vehicles outside the museum building. Apparently a private collector left his collection of [...]
…maybe it’s time to change your goals. I recently asked five of my friends if any of them happened to have an Apple laptop of working or almost working status, which they would be willing to part with for the low, low price of free. It turned out that two of them did, so I [...]
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Diamonds are combustible, given enough oxygen and a spark. So says The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments, by Robert Brent, illustrated by Harry Lazarus, copyright © 1960 by Golden Press, Inc., New York, NY. Which also has a really cool cover (click the little cover to zoom in):
Some of you might recall the addictive puzzle-solving game Lemmings from way back when. If you liked it then, you’ll probably like it now, online, for free. Why, I’d be playing it now if I weren’t in the midst of editing a book. Oh, right—I’d best get back to that… (I just tried the link [...]
I’ve recently started using WordPress at work, and it has won me over with its charm and ease of use. It installs in mere minutes, and using Skeltoac’s excellent instructions and import script, moving all of our posts and comments over from Blogger was quick and easy. Now I just need to create sensible categories [...]
Part The FirstThis weekend we took Zoey to Northgate Mall in her doggie costume (it’s basically a coat with a tail and a doggie-faced hood) so she could walk around and look at stuff and tire herself out. While we were there I happened to somehow stroll into Radio Shack, having accidentally looked on radioshack.com [...]
No, I don’t mean the shuttle service to and from SeaTac. I mean the 1s and 0s that make up this post are flying across the room to my new Apple AirPort Express, courtesy of Robert. The setup was quick and painless, and it works great! I haven’t looked into figuring out how to tell [...]
