A few months ago, my trusty Roomba stopped working. It would start and just stop after a few seconds of flailing. I thoroughly cleaned all the cat hair out of it, but still no dice. I thought the battery was not holding a charge anymore, so I borrowed a spare one from Tony. That didn’t …
When we got back from vacation, I noticed one of our cats was sneezing quite a bit. He had a cold. What was more amusing is that the other cat is deathly afraid of sneezing and runs like hell whenever someone lets one out. He was quite annoyed that the other cat was doing it …
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It seems that all I do on over holidays is watch movies. Perhaps it’s the only time of year that I have hours on end to do absolutely nothing. It felt good. Anyway, here’s the movies I saw and a 6-word or less review: The Hulk – That ending made no sense Robots – Someone …
A few weeks ago, I ran across a cool product – a supermagnet. I joked on my blog that I wanted one for Christmas. Let that be a lesson to me: be careful what you ask for, you might just get it. The day before I left for Christmas break, my team approached my desk …
I’m just completely amazed at the amount of cool stuff that Yahoo! cranked out this year. It’s truly been the year of the product. While I was only personally involved in a few of the released, it’s great to be at a company where so much exciting stuff is happening. Here’s a list of significant …
I want a Supermagnet! Check out this description: 1.5 times stronger than our previous Supermagnets. If you really need unbelievably powerful magnets, here they are. Uses include magnetic steering of nuclear particles in homemade accelerators, levitation devices, magnetic beam amplifiers, scrap iron separators, etc. Beware – you must think ahead when moving these magnets. If …
After Thanksgiving’s gluttony, I decided that I’ve been in better shape in my life. While I’m prone to hike 10-15 miles in a weekend, I don’t do much else unless you consider running between meetings exercise. I switched to diet soda and generally tried to cut back on eating when I was full or simply …
Last night at dinner I was devouring some blue Jell-o and thinking there aren’t many blue foods. In fact, we could think of only one naturally occuring blue food – blueberries. Blue cheese is kinda blue, but that’s the mold not the cheese. Are there any more? Why does food come naturally in every color …
Although my last gadget purchase was a new alarm clock, I don’t use the alarm. I naturally wake up between 7 and 7:30 each morning, Well, except when I don’t. Fortunately I have a backup system. It requires no batteries and is sufficiently annoying to wake me from any slumber. This morning I rolled over …
My PackageAlert service made LifeHacker today. Nifty. This will be a good test of how many packages it can handle at once!