Archive for April, 2006

Status Report For Week Ending 2006-04-28

Friday, April 28th, 2006

I have to say that it’s been a couple of crazy weeks here and I haven’t really been online a whole lot to keep you all up to date as to what’s been going on in my life. With that said, here’s a quick run down of this past week. Once again, it’s [...]

BYOL

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Great link found over at Kottke’s site today about employers having their workers buy their own laptop.

Basically treat the employee’s laptop as you would treat the employees’s pants: require it, pay the employee enough to buy it, and provide the infrastructure that works with it, but that’s all. Give the employee the price of [...]

I have to admit guilt

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

Remember when you were in college and out with friends and those “old dudes” would walk into the bar and you made fun of them (or thought they were undercover cops)?

I was that guy today. I clicked a link and hit a MySpace page. Now I know why I’ve avoided that part of [...]

Ugh, Sick

Monday, April 17th, 2006

While spending the weekend spending my time between the couch and the bathroom, I came to the conclusion that Kaopectate tastes/smells surprisingly like horchata (but not in the I’m-going-to-skip-the-taqueria-and-just-hit-the-Walgreens kind of way)…

I’m still not over this, yet.

Argentina On Two Steaks A Day

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

Tell me that you can’t help but salivate while reading this article about steaks (and other cuisine) in Argentina. Remind me to book a flight there, asap.

“The afternoon steak is the workhorse steak, the backbone of the day. It’s the steak that gets you around the city, ensures a successful nap, steers you into [...]

Don’t Worry, I’m Not Getting Crunchy On You

Monday, April 10th, 2006

Well, I posted some hints in the past, but last week was official. I now drive a Prius.

I loved my last car, but with gas prices continuing to escalate and it gulping premium gas by the boatload (I drive on average well over 20k miles a year) and the fact that it was quickly [...]

Status Report For Week Ending 2006-04-07

Friday, April 7th, 2006

Busy week here, but lots have happened (especially in the last day or so)…

Favorite links for the week: - If I had a bigger yard, I would totally be growing my own lawn chair - Video of the Dick Hardt presentation at OSCON 2005 ~ Absolutely amazing and captivating

What I listened to: - Loose Fur, “Born Again In [...]

Sufjan’s Illinois (Part 2)

Friday, April 7th, 2006

Some very interesting news on the Sufjan front (besides the fact that him and Rosie are NOT having a baby)…

Some remixed and unreleased tracks from Sufjan Steven’s Illinois have been put together and will be released (this summer?). The album is titled, The Avalanche, and has officially become my most anticipated album of 2006:

tracklist:

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“Macs do Windows, too”

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

wow. If you’ve been on the internet(s) at all today, you probably have seen this news.

Apple has released a beta tool called, “Boot Camp” that allows users of any Intel-powered Mac to dual-boot their machine to run either Mac OS X or Windows XP. This has been talked about recently and people have [...]

My new hobby

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

The day I get some free time, I have absolutely/positively found a new hobby: Robot Wrestling!

How amazingly cool is this? :)