Last week I went down to Santa Monica for work and to visit Todd, Chris and Ellie. Todd’s been biking to work recently, so he let me borrow his car during the week. When I went down to the garage to leave on Wednesday morning, I found that his back window had been smashed and …
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They’re missing a few things like Bubbler instead of water fountain and jimmies, but it seems pretty good otherwise. I wonder where that dixie comes from? There should also be a California test which asks you if you call it “5”, “I-5” or “The 5”. My Linguistic Profile: 55% General American English 25% Yankee 10% …
I’m staying with Todd this week I have been reintroduced to one of the world’s worst human interfaces – dual shower knobs. Which one is hot and which one is cold? They sure do look pretty, but would it really be a problem to put a red and blue sticker on them? ‘H’ and ‘C’? …
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It hurts your wrist to hold a toothbrush. I promised myself that I wouldn’t start on Grand Theft Auto I got for Christmas until Yahoo! Tech shipped. It did and I may have overdone it. The PSP‘s buttons seem to aggrevate the same parts of my right wrist that mice do when I use them …
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It looks like Mike Lowell, now with the Red Sox, is the only player in the last two years to successfully execute the hidden ball trick. He’s done it twice. I’ve got my MLB.TV subscription going, so go for it Mike! I want to see the look on that base runner’s face when he finds …
Problem: Anne’s the household event planner. I have only vague ideas of when these events/vacations/trips will occur. Anne does not like this. Solution: Connect the pieces Anne’s Tungsten T3 Palm Desktop iSync iCal WebDAV on OS X Remote Calendar Add-in for Outlook 2003 Jeff’s Outlook Calendar Result: Automatic calendar sharing. Marital bliss. (?)