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Posted in Personal on Jul 24th, 2007
Tonight a neighbor showed up at the door with a plate full of chocolate chip pancakes. They were awesome. If I was a cat I’d be purring right about now. Does it get much better than that?
Posted in Apple, Entertainment, Personal on Jul 23rd, 2007
My car has an Aux port in the glove compartment that lets you plug an iPod in and listen to it through the stereo. It’s easy to find a cable to go from the headphone jack of the iPod to the Aux port, but what has always driven me crazy about this solution is that [...]
Posted in Personal on Jul 7th, 2007
UPDATE - added a few pictures of the new car, just click on the picture to the left.
Shopping for a new car is one of my least favorite things to do. It was time to let my 2003 Passat go so it was time to start the process.
My search started with a new Mini [...]
I never saw this one coming. I woke up on Father’s Day to heart shaped pancakes with sliced bananas and strawberries, syrup, and a glass of milk - all in bed. Does it get much better than that? Then we went to church, lunch, hung out with some friends, miniature golf, dinner, and then drove [...]
Infoworld wins. I have read Infoworld for what seems like forever. They were one of the first RSS feeds I subscribed to that embedded advertisements in the feed, which someone probably got promoted for, but it drove me crazy. Always really disliked that. Ranks right up there with only providing just a few lines of [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Personal on May 30th, 2007
When I was little I remember my Grandmother taking me to a department store and buying me my first album - The Beatles Abbey Road. Every time I would go visit her she would take me to the store and I would get to pick out a new album. McCartney, his first solo record, was [...]
Posted in Personal on May 28th, 2007
Any suggestions? I’m open to all makes and models, but I do need a sedan for the four of us. Probably something with four doors. Performance matters to a point, because I’d like to get better gas mileage than the 25mpg I am getting with my Passat today. I haven’t owned [...]
Posted in Personal on Apr 23rd, 2007
I always hang on as long as I can to avoid using an airplane’s bathroom, but today nature won and I made the long, awkward trip to the back of the plane. Now, admittedly, I am not the smallest human on the planet, but there was barely room to get the door shut. [...]
I took the day off and we headed off to Phipps Conservatory to check out the flowers. I was looking for a reason to take a bunch of pictures, and these came out way better than I expected since all I did was a one-handed point and shoot with my little 4 Meg Canon.
You [...]
Our 3 month long team Biggest Loser In The Neighborhood contest just came to an end. This year put a team of women against men, with the prize not only being bragging rights, but a 3 day getaway for the winners anywhere they choose. Now that’s a serious prize.
In the end the women [...]