I definitely haven’t seen many movies recently, but I managed to catch up on one this weekend, Pixar’s Wall-E. Before I watched it, I thought “A Pixar movie about robots in space? What could be cooler than that? This should be great!”. I was disappointed. Usually Pixar movies are so mind-blowingly creative that I don’t …
After much deliberation, we gave up our older cat, Pixel, today. We’re not sure what happened to him in the last few years, but he got increasingly agitated and territorial. When he would see another cat outside, he would freak out and yowl loudly, scaring everyone else in the house. We would constantly find places …
My Mom has been needing a new computer for a few months now. She wanted a Mac, so I told her to hang on since the rumors were that the MacBooks were going to be refreshed in October. On Tuesday, Apple introduced redesigned MacBooks and MacBook Pros. They have a fancy new trackpad and are …
The last time I bought a mattress for myself was about 11 years ago. I bought a fairly new full-sized one off a coworker. Four moves and a decade later, we’ve decided it’s time to replace it with an adult (and sometimes an extra toddler)-sized bed. Shopping Blind When we started looking, I was shocked …
Soon after my move back to the East coast, I realized there was going to be one big change in my daily life – I had a commute to work. For the last 9 years, I lived less than 2 miles from work and my one-way commute averaged about 7 minutes. Traffic wasn’t a factor …
Yesterday was the day we signed our lives away. We sat in our real estate lawyer’s conference room for 30 minutes and signed our names a bunch of times. The lawyer would push a piece of paper in front of us and tell us what it was about. After I signed several, I asked if …
It’s been a month since we moved back to Boston and a lot has happened. The Job People often ask me how I like my new job and I never know how to answer those kinds of questions. I gues it’s been good so far. It’s been harder than I thought to get up to …
Last night I had a dream about skydiving. I was on the plane, looking out the open door and suddenly realizing what I was about to do. It was a long way down and I wasn’t sure I wanted to suffer the gut-wrenching drop, even if I knew it would be a thrill in retrospect. …
We’ve been teaching Audrey some “tricks”. Most of them she picked up after only a few days of practice. Given a simple prompt, she’ll react with a gesture or a sound. It’s very cute. Yes, that’s Signal in the background yelling at us because he’s not getting any attention. That’s because he doesn’t do any …
My first SearchMonkey application has been approved and is ready for anyone to use! PHP Function Reference When searching for for PHP functions, it will immediately show you the syntax so you don’t need to click through to the the actual page. A few thoughts on SearchMonkey: It’s a very cool concept and I hope …