My 4th gen (pre-video) iPod went on the blink a week or two ago. It’s been a little sketchy for a while now, especially with my work machine. But it recently became so problematic that I could just barely get Windows to recognize it. Luckily, my Line 6 TonePort arrived the day [...]
I always plan to do some fancy post on the subject, but I invariably miss the date. The rough beast that is Wheatblog started out on 7/13/2000. And it continues slouching toward I’m not sure what. Here are some far more interesting things that are also associated with that date. See [...]
I’ve decided I’m going to use FitDay this time around to track my diet, exercise, and nutrition. Even when I’m not dieting, I weight in every day and generally record the numbers. I like to know how far off the mark I am. I first tried FitDay back in May of 2006, [...]
Okay, just kidding. You and I both know there are no secrets to weight loss. It’s simply a matter of burning more than you take in, which means you can either burn more, take in less, or both (with both being the most efficient option). A few years back, I beat my [...]
Last Friday (say it in a big, scary, horror movie voice with me: the thirteenth!), my brakes failed while I was on my drive home, about a mile from my house, just as I was approaching a busy intersection at rush hour. I’m not kidding. I’ve been told that many people have [...]
Tentative due date is January 8th, 2008. I didn’t want to blog it until we were past the first trimester. Tuesday will mark the start of the fourteenth week. So far, Gina’s mostly been stuck at home, ill with nausea. Not fun. But that seems to have improved by a [...]
I present to you the MixMastah 800, from those crazy kids at Homestar Runner.
I know the country will be awash in the strains of Lee Greenwood tomorrow, but, in addition to fire works, parades, cook outs, and Jefferson’s magnificent Declaration, the Fourth of July always reminds me of that great song, by the same name, by X:
On the stairs I smoke a
Cigarette alone
Mexican kids are shootin’
Fireworks below
Hey baby, [...]
This will make some of the networking savvy among you wince, but for the longest time, I’ve had my home WiFi router open to anonymous connections. I figured leaving it that way was a little karma for all the times I’ve been fortunate enough to find an unsecured hot spot when I needed one [...]
This made me smile today: a story from the Washington post about a music school started by Flea, bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, to fill the gaps left by budget cuts at the public school he attended as a kid.