Monthly Archives: August 2007

Nature of the Internets

I love how com­menters on blogs can be such a pain in the butt that even a blog writ­ten by TV net­work staff for a fic­tional char­ac­ter can go on hia­tus partly because of nasty com­ments.  (Though the Big Love sea­son, not coin­ci­den­tally, ended on the day that blog entry was posted.)  Or, as my

Scented?

Pedal, pedal, chain and metal

Our sum­mer room­mate, Melissa, goes to MIT. Liv­ing in Cam­bridge, she doesn’t have a car and gets around on a bike. She brought hers with her and used it to com­mute to work and to travel around Albany. I have to admit that I was kind of envi­ous. Nearly every­where I

This can’t possibly end well.

Nice.
It would be inter­est­ing to see what would hap­pen if reser­va­tions seceded, but even if they did, wouldn’t the state make darn sure that they kept the Thruway and other highways?

Brain bleach plz

There is a large selec­tion of ham­ster snuff films avail­able on YouTube. One that I saw fea­tured a lit­tle tiny dwarf ham­ster who looked a lot like Bac­ardi.
This is what I have a feel­ing hap­pens when my favorite pet store has ham­sters on sale for 98 cents. They’re cheaper than feeder rats and

I don’t pretend to know anything at all about math.

I like when I under­stand what xkcd is tak­ing about. It makes me feel smarter than I really am. And geekier.

I need this week to be over last week

There are no Morn­ingstar brand veg­gie dogs to be found any­where in Albany. I’ve looked in every store in the city; tonight I branched out to one store in Colonie. I’ll move on to the oth­ers in Colonie, then check the other sub­urbs. I am deter­mined.
Morn­ingstar is the only brand that has

Come along and sing a song and join the jamboree

I guess the good news is that the mouse who has been pok­ing around our kitchen has been caught.  The bad news is that I’m not really sure how the mice are get­ting in the house, so I used a kill trap.  So now there’s a dead mouse on my kitchen counter that I need

Mobile photography

Some assorted recent cam­era phone pictures…things in the city, and a pic­ture of the soon-to-open L.L. Bean store in Colonie that I’m very excited about.
I’m a moblog­ger at heart, but too cheap to buy pic­ture mes­sag­ing on my phone and sub­mit the pic­tures prop­erly that way.

 

We hardly knew you.

Why the Apple/Command Key Finally Lost Its Apple « TWODAY
Noooooo! Apple Key, I’ll miss you so! How can I give peo­ple instruc­tions now? What will I do when my dad gets the iMac he wants? “Press apple-uh, I mean twirly-thing and A at the same time.” Sigh.
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