While I was listening to NPR yesterday, I realized that their “ads”, read by NPR staff, are basically the equivalent of the text ads in search engines like Yahoo Search. They’re usually highly relevent to the audience, but subtle enough to not overpower the content.
Well, I had my first Segway ride today, over at The Tech Museum in San Jose. It feels pretty natural to move forward and back on it, but I nearly ran out of the little coned in area they had for it when I tried to figure out how to turn. It would definitely take …
The Sunnyvale Town Center Mall or (the WAVE as they tried to rename it) is closing. We went in today and most of the non-chain stores were closing out and selling everything at half off in preparation for the Aug. 31 shutdown of the mall. The Target and Macys anchor stores will remain open. I’m …
I’ve never been a big fan of New York City. It’s just too big and too busy with way too many people. Then every once a while something crazy happens and the whole city goes into crisis. I bet a lot of people give up on New York after this latest incident and move to …
So, can I post to my blog from my Treo? Apparently I can. Pretty cool.
Just in case you’re trying to eliminate all the possibilities.
“Whats with the frickin’ crickets?!” — Anne, lying in bed last night, apparently not amused at the crickets who have moved into our backyard.
I rolled over on my ankle on a hike a week ago and now it hurts more than it did an hour after I injured it. Damn. Well, I guess I have good excuse to skip running for the rest of the week.
I’m pretty sure that computers are making us stupid. The more I stare at my monitor, the more dumb things come out. If I spend 2 seconds thinking while not staring at a computer, I usually think much better. My best ideas usually come to me in the shower for some reason. I wonder what …
Had a good time in Tahoe. Hiking, watersports, gambling… what more could you ask for? The cat is glad we’re back too. He’s been reminding us of that at 5 am for the last few days. Grrr. That fan sure is effective at drowning out his meows when we lock him out of the room. …