Friday, December 31, 2010

Carytown is cool

Any town frequented by college kids and same-sex couples is always interesting.

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Amazon packaging #FAIL

Read the green label.

Monday, December 06, 2010

Worst thing imaginable: Kate Gosselin guest stars with Sarah Palin http://tinyurl.com/35db9ke

Ronald Reagan was a movie star. Sarah Palin is a reality show star. Hooray for Republican “progress”!

Saturday, December 04, 2010

At the National Cathedral

Enjoying Handel's Messiah with my three ladies.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Old school slate

Traveling back in time this weekend

Cruising through Colonial Williamsburg

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Fine. I guess The Beatles on iTunes was a big deal. http://tinyurl.com/2aqxnt9

Sold 2M songs and 450k albums in first week. Apparently not everyone had a chance to already buy their stuff in the past 40 years.

Ultimate List of Black Friday Laptop Deals for 2010 | Notebooks.com http://tinyurl.com/286dcn3

My friend Josh Smith put some hard work into assembling this. If you’re shopping for a laptop, please take a look.

50% off Robeks! (Reston area only)

Check out this great offer fromRobeks. Click on the link for the coupon. http://www.thatsbiz.com/seeCoupon.jsp?cid=10375

Why is "nowadays" so commonly used by Asian people who learn ESL?

I keep seeing and hearing that word used by Asian people whose English is not so good (either ESL or pidgin speakers), from working class to PhD holders. How did that word take hold? It’s fascinating.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

No red lights! Route 7 from 267 past 495!

Fastest I've ever driven through Tyson's Corner! Woohoo!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Why does Adobe Acrobat suck so hard at converting PDFs to HTML?

I get that format conversion is tricky, but tags split by line breaks and no closing tag on every FONT tag? Sad.

11/16/2010: never forget the day everyone said "Who cares about The Beatles?"

Apple announces The Beatles are now available on iTunes. We will remember this day because it’s when people universal agreed The Beatles on iTunes is not a big deal.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Stop fighting the TSA and strip down to your skivvies #FlyNaked

What can they do? Arrest you for indecent exposure then digitally strip you down to your junk?

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

I may have to buy a camera to take photos of my phone.

Got a snazzy little keyboard and dock set up for my iPhone but can't take a photo of it without undocking my phone.

Monday, November 08, 2010

Chin Ho tells Kono to "Bing it" on Five-O

Two Windows Phone commercials every break plus product placement. Quite a Microsoft payday for Hawaii Five-O.

Thursday, November 04, 2010

Turbulence ain't got nothin' on me

Bumpy ride but we made it home to our grumpy kitties. Now to choose between eat or sleep.

Bye bye SF and Kinley

Remains of a Mongolian hot pot

Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Blue jellyfish

Albino Alligator

Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Monday, November 01, 2010

Cold weather heralds the return of the Sleep Buddies! #cats

SAI offices robbed. Flipcam left behind. http://tinyurl.com/2djq7r7 Sounds familiar... http://tinyurl.com/dbfvqh

SAI, seriously, the original story may be an urban myth, but the guys who robbed you are real and likely read that same myth too. Don’t touch anything (and certainly don’t brush your teeth) before you watch what’s on that Flipcam.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Going with this sign for #rally4sanity

Click through for animated GIF.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

My Green Lantern lantern is a #TEGAv2

Also useful in explaining to people what "Green Lantern" is by pulling up the IMDB page.

My cheap-ass Halloween costume

Made from items I already had. Same deal with my rice dish for the potluck.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Robocalypse - Mobile Mayhem finally updated for iOS4

Thank goodness. Without Robocalypse, I got re-addicted to 7 Cities.

I can't believe nobody commented on the photo in this post. http://tinyurl.com/2cnqrsf

My own fault for distracting people with a topic that gets their emotions up. Still, you’d think someone would have said something.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Kickin' tires at the Toyota dealership

Actual just servicing and floor mat recall. Need picnic tables and/or benches out here.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Consistency is Victory -- Ultra Magnus http://tinyurl.com/p2z2rc

Ah, once again my old standby tactic of sticking to my guns and waiting for a dumb-ass adversary to make a mistake pays off. As Ultra Magnus says “Consistency is Victory.”

Sleep problem on #TEGAv2 fixed! Sleep or resume in one second!

Hugo isolated the problem to chipset drivers. Put my TEGA v2 to sleep and back several times in the last few minutes. Love how speedy that SSD is for this. Everyone else should get the email soon.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Friday, October 15, 2010

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

ink blogging from stevieblue http://www.stevieblue.com/

Got pinged by stevieblue in a couple of new ink blog posts in which he discovers the joys of Windows Journal, the chisel tip, and Build 52. Showed off some Evernote ink too. Thanks for asking about Homer! Will spill some ink on this later.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

A truly profound non-fortune

I normally abhor non-fortunes in my fortune cookies, but this one transcends the rabble.

Happy 10/10/10

Missed 10:10 10/10/10 so I'll now have to drive west really fast to catch it in another time zone.

Friday, October 08, 2010

Crayon inequality

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

It's my cat in a box!

Cat beds are a waste of money. Letter/legal boxes are cheaper.

Saturday, October 02, 2010

The view from Pennybackers

Harrisonburg, VA

Try to make me go to rehab and I say...

It's not drug rehab and not for me.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Angry sky for an angry day

Reminds me of the storms back home, except there's no mountain behind these clouds, just more darker clouds.

Everything today either pisses me off or brings me down

Work, tech, and personal, all news today has been bad. Need to call some family members tonight to hear their cheerier news (and hope they don’t have worse news to share).

Friday, September 24, 2010

Really, Google? Held my day's blog tweets for a single burst? #FAIL

Must remember to reference "My friend Nicole Scott" @Nicole_Scooter

Nicole Scott (@Nicole_Scooter)
9/24/10 6:42 PM
I like it when people cover my stories and say "My friend Nicole Scott" If I had heard of you or your site it might seem less creepy! lol

Great. I took the hit on the Ctrl-Alt-Del button for nothing.

From Ars Technica: "The enterprise targeting is also apparent; there's a dedicated ctrl-alt-del button, to accommodate the Windows default of requiring the magic keystroke to log on in domain environments."

 

Great. This is exactly why I avoided mentioning corporate login in my defense of the Ctrl-Alt-Del button on the HP Slate, for which I am now getting bashed. I log in to a corporate server every day. I know why Ctrl-Alt-Del is needed. What I didn't want is for the button, which should be standard on every Tablet PC, to be equated with corporate and enterprise use. Oh well.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Patty actually sleeps like this

Not a mid-motion pose. He is actually sleeping like this with forepaws at side and head on pillow.

Dis freaky spider wanna kill me

Very intimidating. Or it would be if it wasn't so tiny.

Friday, September 17, 2010

Fear or sanity: Those are your only two choices! http://tinyurl.com/2fxtpad

Jon Stewart is holding a "Rally To Restore Sanity" to be countered by Stephen Colbert's "March To Keep Fear Alive”! And they’re being held in DC! Yeah! I am so there.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Fujitsu Lifebook T580: "IT'S MORE THAN A SLATE, IT'S A TABLET PC" http://tinyurl.com/35e7qat

Dug up the preliminary data sheet for this upcoming, “slate-beating,” entry-level Tablet PC from Fujitsu. So glad to see them standing up for the Tablet PC.

Friday, September 10, 2010

New ThinkGeek catalog is standard size

So glad they upsized from the half-page sized catalogs. Makes me nostalgic of my catalog writing days (until I remember how that turned out).

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Instinctively figured out how to add page numbers to PDFs

I seem to be highly lucid this morning. Was about to look this up when it just clicked in my head to go to Documents à Header & Footer to add page numbers to PDFs in Acrobat. Brain is linking data like crazy. Could be me getting over my head cold or the Breathe Right strip I wore on my nose last night.

Monday, August 30, 2010

Costco in Fairfax carries Mexican Coca-Cola

Made with sugar for real Coca-Cola flavor, not that corn-flavored junk.

Rover Puck: Up to 4 hours of nonstop Pucking http://tinyurl.com/2w3ak2h

Love the specs on the new Rover Puck mobile hotspot: “Battery: Up to 4 hours of nonstop Pucking”, “SSID: Bust out two Service Set IDs - one for you and one for your Puck buddies.” But as much as I’d enjoy 4 hours of nonstop Pucking, their coverage doesn’t cover me as well as their map thinks.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Saturday, August 21, 2010

On the fence

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Apple needs to work on their keywords

Just did a search on “iphone ipod ipad” and came up with no hits to Apple’s main site or store. Pretty weak search engine optimization, Apple.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Black & white on color