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It was on September 30th, 2005, at about 7:45pm Eastern time that my wife and I drove out of Connecticut. We got onto the Merritt Parkway southbound, passed through New York State, and stayed the night down a ways into north-central New Jersey at a motel. The next morning, we turned West, began our great journey and left the coast I grew up on to go back to her home.
Check these out; they’re superb:
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What makes the freak of nature so strange is the heads are on opposite ends of the reptile’s shell.
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Oh man, this is hot: NBC has attached director Doug Liman to helm a two-hour pilot for a revamped Knight Rider. The goal is to make the show a “Transformers-inspired reworking” of the role that The Hoff made famous.
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I got whatever the hell it was that Andi had earlier. Maybe we got it at the same time, and it took longer to bloom in me? I started feeling like crap late Monday night, and it got worse each day, until I was doped to the gills on DayQuill and cough drops at the office yesterday. Today I woke up after the bliss of a NyQuill sleep (last night, I sneezed so much my nose physically hurt) and felt even worse. I wish I could fall asleep… my brain is just at a standstill and I can’t stop coughing.
A celebrity photo has led a former president to send a threatening letter to a local restaurant owner. On Tuesday night, President Bill Clinton demanded that a Manhattan restaurant remove a picture of his daughter Chelsea.
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In response to being sued and humiliated on the internet over their “secret website,” Best Buy has added a disclaimer that warns customers that the in-store kiosk doesn’t display the same prices as the public website. Best Buy was caught using a duplicate website to fool customers who tried to compare internet prices with in-store prices.
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Good bye, and good riddance.
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My wonderful wife just turned a year younger today. Happy birthday, my love. Wish her a happy one here:
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Long time faithful readers may recall that back in October 2005, Andi’s old Emachines computer (dubbed “Bessie”) went tits up hard-core when Windows ate itself. Even our friend Rob, an engineer incredibly savvy in the Deeper Mysteries of Windows, wasn’t able to fix it. That was reformatted with a wonderful donation of a Windows XP Pro disk from our friend Tobey, and became Bessie 2.0. Two months later, it began convulsing and frothing at the CD-ROM drive, and promptly became an ex-PC (it was merely resting). It had turned out to be, at the time, the mother board dying. It was certainly out of warranty and extended coverage, and was laid to rest. A quick and annoyed trip to Best Buy later, we had a new Hewlitt Packard, and Bessie 3.0 rode off into the sunset of November, 2005.
This morning, after checking e-mail, she shut down her Bessie 3.0, and after work today, it wouldn’t display video. Odd. Reboot. The fan whirred astonishingly loudly, compared to usual. Odd. No keyboard lights. New keyboard? Nada. New monitor? Nada. Rebooting? Sure, by pulling the power cord out or using the manual switch in back–power cycle by the button in front? Nada–no response. Being judicious computer and gadget shoppers, we always get at least the middle-tier service package. Wasteful? Perhaps, but you’re only paranoid if the technology gremlins aren’t out to get you. We took it back to Best Buy/Geek Squad. Extended service!
Er, nope. We somehow forgot to buy it, this time. Confirmed. Oops. Another mobo bites the dust, and Bessie 3.0 joins her sisters. I need to order a new one from Dell…
Bessie 4.0 will be an XPS 410, bypassing my XPS 400 from October 2005 by bounds, for only $90 more. Dagnabbit.
If Andi is late in e-mail replies or whatnot, that’s why. She can do everything on my PC, or our laptop, but she dislikes working long on the laptop or on my funky ergonomic keyboard.
If anyone got spammed allegedly with invitations from me to Spock.com, it wasn’t me. Apparently Spock blew it’s gasket and mailed everyone that was even vaguely connected to any associated profile. Stupid, moronic design. Sorry, if anyone got tagged.
Oh, splendid! I love Gmail, but I’m one of the weird minority apparently which completely hates their web interface: “A report from India’s Hindustan Times indicates that Google is prepping an offline version of Gmail.”
Here’s to hoping the off-line client is better. Or, you know, they’d just allow IMAP access via my Thunderbird and be ultra-awesome.
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Smart on line shoppers know that there can be a wide divergence in price between the same products from one e-tailer to the next, so in order to obtain the best deal you need to know where the bargains are. To that end, we have provide you with the Top 20 Most Popular Sites for Bargain Hunters ranked by 5 traffic data sources.
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How, I have no idea. I was sitting on the edge of the couch in our living room, putting on my shoes and getting ready to go out for the day, and I shifted my weight forward to rise I felt… a twisting, is the only way I can describe it, in my right leg about halfway between the knee and my ankle. It hurt like hell, and is still sore, but it is one of those weird little injuries on your leg or your foot where it doesn’t seem to force you to favor the leg or limp. It almost (I’m sure it wasn’t this, or I would have been screaming) felt like the muscles and flesh twisted around the bone. I wonder how long this will hurt today.
Is it 2008, yet? Please? Pretty please? Stop motion animation!
It’s a day off today, so Andi and I are off to do the Puyallip. That’s the Puyallip Fair, for the non-Washington people reading this. It’s allegedly like or superior to the Big E back in New England, but I’ll be the judge of that, thank you very much. More later.
They announced a Tron sequel!
Here are some really big holes from around the world.
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This is just awesome.
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One of the best ways to discover new music online is with Last.fm, a music recommendation community. Last.fm is a pretty simple way to listen to tunes, but there are a few quick and dirty ways you can oomph it up a little. Keep reading for fifteen ways to tweak your Last.fm listening experience.
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From Digg. Yessir, they’re all about them family values… “Moreover, when Thompson married his first wife, Sarah Lindsey, at Lawrenceburg Methodist Church in 1959, she was already two months pregnant with their first child.”
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This is too funny: “I recently found a fun feature available within the sudo program that will insult you when you do the wrong thing such as enter your password incorrectly. I
’ll tell you how you can activate the feature for a few laughs and also give a few examples of what insults you might get.”
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Nice: US authorities, The MPAA and other antipirates are desperately trying to come up with new arguments to cease The Pirate Bay’s activities, but the popular BitTorrent tracker is not planning to back down. Pirate Bay admin Brokep notes: “The US government is losing popularity every day in Europe, and people don’t want to see us give in…”
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No, it’s not that old Picard Rap. It’s Patrick Stewart… going all soft-shoe on the Enterpise bridge. Hot.
