Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 15th, 2008
A short visit to the Apple store tonight and now I have a new iPhone with a working speaker. An iPhone with sound! It’s a whole new experience all over again! While at The Domain, I parked next to a Ferrari. Later, Alex tells me this was a 456, of which there were 3,289 were […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 12th, 2008
I finally made up my mind to buy an iPhone this week after being convinced to flip through the app store. I decided there’s probably enough useful apps that I’d actually use to make it worthwhile. Foolishly I hit up a few AT&T stores on Sunday and discovered they were all sold out. This morning […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 1st, 2008
Ever turn look at the back of a new $20 note and see the scattering of “$20” in the background? Turns out there’s a specific reason and arrangement for it. This week’s interesting wikipedia find: EURion constellation. A pattern of five tiny rings on bank notes which imaging software picks up on to prevent counterfeiting.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 30th, 2008
Today I was a passenger in an auto collision! Rob and I were going to lunch (mmm indian curry) when he rear-ended somebody who suddenly was at a dead stop in the middle of Anderson Lane. A good 40 m.p.h. lick, popped the airbags. I knew we were going to hit, I felt the impact, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 9th, 2008
Hoooray I signed up for a new apartment today. Right across 360 from work, about a half mile commute. My move-in date will be the week after Burning Man, so it’ll be interesting.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 7th, 2008
The weekend before last, I was enjoying swimming in the pool for stupidly too long. I burned myself pretty bad on my face and chest; I hadn’t been burned this bad in like 15 years. Normally I always wear Bullfrog when I’m out for a long time, but for whatever reason this time I didn’t. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 22nd, 2008
Such a successful weekend. Toured a new apartment property today Grilled a phat steak tonight Pulled out appliances, cleaned the kitchen from top to bottom Watched seasons 2, 4, 5 of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares (UK version) Went out with Bob & Julia last night at Spiderhouse; had never been there before Learned the backstroke Figured […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2008
So the server I ordered long ago for tifa has two hard drives. It wasn’t until later I remembered this and realized it was not setup in a RAID. I finally got around to ordering a KVM-over-IP device from The Planet so I could work in single user mode to move filesystems around to an […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2008
The company I started long ago would’ve been 12 years old two days ago if it were still around. huh. I must be doing something wrong, for I am not sitting on a beach earning 20%.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 12th, 2008
Mom and sister visited last weekend. A good time was had, much running around, eating and shopping was done. Pappadeux was out of crawfish, we visited the UT Tower, then shopping at IKEA. I hadn’t been to IKEA in several months and walked out with new huge art for my apartment. In IKEA I found […]
