Post archive for ‘Spiffy Stuff’
Happy birthday Kidlet!
Except I guess you’re not such a kidlet anymore. Seventeen. The big 1-7. You are now allowed into R-rated movies without adult supervision. Congratulations! Man. I can’t believe I have a 17 year-old daughter. Seems like yesterday that you were parading around in pigtails and your Disney princess jammies. I remember your first steps when [...]
JK Rowling is my hero
JK just gave a commencement speech at Harvard and she spoke on the benefits of failure. The whole speech is fantastic but the failure stuff hit home: The fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure….I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a [...]
Lazy Sunday
Do ant bait traps work? I’ve discovered that ants have been getting into my kitchen via a very small tear in the weather-stripping on the back door. I hate ants. Sure, they’re harmless. But they’re all buggy and twitchy and make me feel itchy and seeing one crawl across the kitchen counter makes me jump [...]
Storminess and Geek Chic
Took some video of the oncoming storm tonight. Nothing dangerous and I was safe inside when it hit, although again, my town fared well when all was said and done (though this seems to be the storm that never ends. It hit here around 6-ish, and it’s after 9pm and now we’re getting hail.) Anyway, [...]
It’s here!
I haz a new camera! Now I can stop agonizing over the lack of package tracking updates – it came a day early. So. Much. Woot! It’s smaller than I thought, but it fits nicely in my hand, and so far it takes bloody great pictures I’m pretty much just clicking anything with it right [...]
Snapshots
I read this story on Mental Floss about a man who took a Polaroid snapshot every day from 1979 to 1997. And I was in awe. It really is a wonderful way to tell the story of someone’s life. I tried doing it for a year (from 2005 to 2006, but I fell short by [...]
Thanks a lot Mike
I’ve been haunted by this song for two days now. I played it for Shannon who promptly bought it on iTunes and currently, I am downloading the damn game so I can play it. I can never resist a smartass computer. And I can’t get the song out of my head. I woke up yesterday [...]
