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Monthly Archives: October 2008

Jury Duty - Woohoo.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Might be slow on emails today…doing my civic duty and reporting for jury duty.  I’ll probably spend most of the day waiting.  And waiting.  And waiting.  But it’s reported that the courthouse juror waiting rooms have wifi, so I’ll certainly be bringing the laptop along.
We’ll see, I guess.
Update (10/30/2008): Two days waiting and then selected [...]

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More server downtime…coming server migration.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Some of you may have noticed a bit of downtime today.  Should be all fixed now!
On a side note, in the coming days, I’ll be migrating to a new server to make room for expansion.  Most things will occur seamlessly as the DNS servers resolve, but one or two services might take a little longer.

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October 15, 2008 - MacBook Pro unboxing and impressions

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Today, I went to the Apple Store to grab the latest and greatest from Steve Jobs–the 15-inch LED-backlit widescreen notebook known as the MacBook Pro. Normally, I’m a Windows guy, but have a machine in the office running linux and basically holding all of my media. Basically, I’m equal opportunity when it comes to computing.
First, [...]

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An un-fun weekend. Blech!

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

So last weekend was supposed to be a nice calm family weekend.  Do a little house cleaning, visit the little weekend festival at the church, have Ethan out and about playing with the neighborhood kids…nice simple stuff.
Not to be so!  Saturday was a slow day, though I was on baby duty because my wife came [...]

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Brraaaaaains! Hah, this guy is awesome.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Everyone’s favorite online geek toy store, thinkgeek.com, has this guy just in time for Halloween.

From thinkgeek.com:
“Cuddle-Up with the Un-Dead
What happens when you take old broken plush toys and bury them in the woods by the light of the full moon while whistling the theme song from “Halloween”? Unfortunately nothing… which is why the [...]

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Chopsticks 101

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Today, I got lunch at an established oriental food joint here in NYC (Teriyaki Boy for anyone interested).  Because of racial profiling, 99% of the time I am given what every other blond-haired blue-eyed guy usually gets: a fork.  Today, however, I was given chopsticks…nothing but chopsticks.
I come from the midwest.  You know, Wisconsin.  There [...]

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