Category: Fun


  • Tech: Nice… PS2 is $200. The Xbox is $200. The Gamecube should drop to $150. Might be able to afford jumping up to the next systems. I only have an N64 and Playstation. Yahoo! News – Microsoft Cuts Xbox Price in U.S., Japan  

  • Oooooohhhh… PS 2 down to $200. Sweet! Sony slashes Playstation 2 price Built another web server (Apache + SSL + PHP + MySQL)yesterday. Finishing the configurations and testing this morning. Once I have it finished, then I will build an identical one on the same server in order to have a quick fail-over available. UPDATE 2011-APR-17: LAMP = Linux…

  • Science & Technology News: Yahoo! News – Archaeologists Unearth Base of Egypt Queen Pyramid Business There could be 1.1 million jobs created over the next year. Yahoo! News – Information Technology Work Force Set to Grow Really… these days notebooks are actually decent. You can do quite a bit of stuff of them. Yahoo! News – Notebooks…

  • Just drove 200 miles to a meeting only no one else showed… ugh. If only I had gotten home an hour earlier. I might have made it to the last matinee of Spiderman. My old car at 80 mph was like the Enterprise at maximum warp. Cavitating and scary. She canna take much more of…

  • There are people I know and people I think I know via a few routes of 3-4 degrees of separation but am not really sure. So I think I recognize them and can think of why I should recognize them. Then again maybe I am just experiencing early symptoms of dementia and losing the logical facilities of my…

  • Sports: I predicted Arsenal would win the cup Premiership when I was in London. Just about everyone wanted Manchester United to make comeback from way behind to take it. BBC SPORT | PHOTO GALLERIES | Victory sweet for Arsenal UPDATE 2011-APR-09: My uncle tried to explain to me Arsenal was going to have to go through…

  • No, I didn’t bid on the Lara Croft dress. Out of my price range at $3300 :( (really 2200 pounds, the exchange fluxuated between 1.4 and 1.6 dollars/pound, so about $3300). Ran into the president of the uni this morning. Great guy. I think he is exactly what this institution needs. I did get my birthday…

  • Moving Day

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    Got to move this huge stereo cabinet yesterday from my great aunt’s old house. This thing is heavier than most people I know. I had not been by her house since she died. Reminded me of how much I miss her. She replaced my grandmother on that side of the family since my real one…

  • Funny thing… went to the post office earlier… saw the DMV girl. She looked depressed. Time for the weekend.