Under a Blue Ridge waterfall

Me & mom in Shenandoah National Park

View from Skyline Drive

Fri. Transformers shirt

I am "Hooked on Energon" and Homer's hooked on me.

One full day with my iPhone

Closing out a full day in DC with 10% battery on my iPhone. Did some
mapping. Blogged some photos. Sent some email. Definitely need an
external battery pack if I were to listen to music too but otherwise
it made it through.

Mom don't know how to eat lobster

Not a sandworm or graboid

Mom photographing spinning cubes

Working from the gem museum

A permission request for two months away does not merit sending me a
text msg.

The US Capitol - foggy & distant

Squirrel eating french fry

Going to the Natural History Museum

Looking for fossilized orchids but I'll settle for dinosaurs.

At the Enid A. Haupt Garden

Me on the Washington Mall

Thu. Transformers shirt

Rubberized black Autobot logo on red shadow

Wed. Transformers shirt

I'm going to endeavor to wear a Transformers shirt every day my mom is here. This is my flocked Autobot emblem shirt.

Last bite of cakelove cheesecake

Forlano's Market in The Plains

Mom in Middleburg

Homer on the dining room table

Patty enters the dining room

The dining room hasn't been this tidy since we moved in.

Ink on paper

Tag 'em & bag 'em

My comic book bagging skills finally come in handy.

Conflicting signs

iPhone BT stereo headset on the way?

Apple has discontinued their current Bluetooth headset for the iPhone, which I currently use. I believe this points to a replacement on the way, perhaps a stereo-enabled headset per my prediction.

Trim Firefox history to speed startup

Simple tip from Lifehacker to speed up Firefox. Must remember to apply this to both my main browser and Mediafox when I get home.

Flippin' Pizza by the slice!

Finally! Pizza by the slice in Reston

Some weeks after I bemoaned the lack of a place that sells pizza by the slice in Reston, a joint called "Flippin' Pizza" has come to town, boasting New York style pies and, yes, pizza by the slice! Woo hoo! I must check it out this week. Here's their website with menu.

Winky-kitty-a

Pre-filing the filing

Finally, pounded my workload down to manageable size this week. On the
way back burner is this filing which I still don't have time to file
but could sort into chunks I can handle.

MediaFox: media-centric Firefox build

This is interesting. Lifehacker is showing off a build of Portable Firefox customized for media viewing. Could be very useful for my online consumption of The Daily Show. Has me thinking of a few tweaks myself.

Pondering all-day battery life

Xavier Lanier at GottaBeMobile.com is kicking forward some thoughts on all-day battery life from UMPC Portal. The usual things come to mind immediately, but I have some ideas that need further pondering. I'll see about inking them later.

A new white box? OMG!

I may need to re-think my iconless setup

I like calling up apps and templates by scribbling on the screen, but calling up a dock launcher by drawing a circle via Magic Formation sounds too fun to ignore.

Asking for a beatdown in ink

From Gizmodo: I'm Afraid an Apple Tablet Would Be Stupid. Sounds like a commentary on the possibility of an Apple tablet but it's actually against the form factor itself. That mean it's on, Lam. Ink will be spilled.

Yep, definitely a snow day

Appears to be a snow day

You go that way, I go this way

Patrolling their domain

Homer in the foreground. Patty in the background.

Lenovo's lean, mean inking machine

Lenovo had several ThinkPads certified as "semi-rugged" including the X200 Tablet PC. Suck it, wuss notebooks!
http://i.gizmodo.com/5159091/lenovo-thinkpads-officially-semi+rugged-certified-to-withstand-ass+beatings-mr-freeze

Microsoft hits Ctrl+z

See, I knew those severance overpayments wouldn't sink the company.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10170025-56.html

Oh yeah, Homer's okay

Fixed and back to his normal routine like it never happened.

Odd email morning

Woke up to find no new emails overnight, when usually I get some ecommerce items. Then at work, I find nothing new over the weekend. I am getting new mail, and other mailboxes I check are normal. Just a very odd (but welcomed) start to the week.

I'm a conspiracy theorist. Cool.

Not sure it can really be called a conspiracy theory when someone takes credit, as Intel has done with coining the "netbook" term, but Sam Johnston is calling me a conspiracy theorist nonetheless. He offers a rational counterpoint to my arguments, but unfortunately his support for what he thinks is my fatal flaw is itself flawed.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it...

...unless it's a pet. Yep, poor Homer's at the vet today for neutering.

Another ink blog find

Should have stuck this with the previous one, but too late now. Must check out the ink at Deus Ex Why Zed.

New ink blog find

*거북2* - Korean but the blog is in English. Must investigate later.

The winner is Uncle Julio's

In case you've been following the "happy hour" thoughstream, we've settled on Uncle Julio's for today's event (Reston location, of course). Going to miss the MVP phone conference, and we had to reschedule Homer's vet visit. Weird how things tend to fall on the same day.

Extra 2 mins of battery life!

I suspect this may be a typo, but who knows? Maybe another two minutes
of battery life on top of two hours is a tipping point for consumers.

Finally, something about Windows 7 that interests me

I must admit, I'm just not that into Windows 7. But that was before detailed information on handwriting recognition was published. Not as sexy as the new visuals and taskbar system, but obviously HWR is of great interest to me. Via GottaBeMobile.

Why do I smell donuts?

Been sitting in my office smelling donuts when there are none. Instead
there's just orange peel in a popcorn bag. Must be a fragrance-mixing
phenomenon.

I'm not the only one with raccoons

It seems like not a day goes by that doesn't give me more to like about President Obama. First, he got flak for not wearing a jacket in the White House; I don't like jackets either. Now, he's got raccoons. Once again, I can relate.

Silver Diner rocks (& rolls)

Veggie chili and salad combo is great with a side of fries (and a
milkshake).

Trying generic drink mix

In my quest to quench my occasional fruit punch craving, I am giving
generic mix a try. Conclusion: Not the smartest thing I've done.

Like working on Saturday

Referring to the absence of personnel due to our big mid-winter meeting, my boss hopped excitedly into my office and exclaimed "It's like working on Saturday!" I used to work on Saturdays. It sucked. Not excited about feeling like I'm working on Saturday.

Making an orange creme Tootsie Roll

Software pirate gets pirated...

...and cries about it like, well, someone who had his software pirated. I wonder if those Somalian pirates cry like this when someone steals their stuff. Full ridiculous exchange on Gizmodo.

The Wood Grill in Harrisonburg

All you can eat for $10. Country dining at not quite its finest but
definitely voluminous.

Snowy work morning

Dead Men's Hollow live

Dead Men's Hollow warming up

Getting ready for lunch and live music at Jammin' Java in Vienna.

Bye-bye Circuit City

10% off MSRP is not liquidation pricing.

French President mauled by Sumo

Apparently, Maltese are dangerous dogs, capable of mauling former presidents. Never would have guessed that based on my mom's dog Max, but it happened to Jacques Chirac. Arguably, it's the poodle half of President Chiraq's dog that took him down, but still, you name your dog Sumo, you're asking for a beatdown. Not so much with cats though.

Pandora testing audio ads

As if on cue, Pandora is moving forward with audio ads a week after I blogged my advice on the idea. Not quite what I had envisioned but close with an ad running after ten songs. Just need to fit them into the gaps for station- and song-switching and it'll be spot-on with my idea.

Change has come to my iPhone

Obama iPhone wallpaper from Gx5.

Homer caught in a flurry

Raspberry Brie

The kind you find at the Trader Joe's store.

Biggest asparagus I've ever eaten

To give you the scale, this is a 10"-12" dinner plate. They were like
those fat crayons we used in preschool but all green and less waxy.

National Cathedral at night

Looks kinds spooky.

SketchMap: Cafe Deluxe in DC

Another reason to not Twitter

To my list of reasons to not Twitter, I add: 5. Twitter does not appear very secure. Everyone from Barack Obama to Britney Spears had their Twitters hacked today.

Not so hotspot

Chilling at the Starbucks at Plaza America. Logged on to the wifi
hotspot easily using the accurately named Easy Wi-Fi app. Tested the
speed using Speedtest. Ugh. A quarter of my dl speed at home.

Tawt I taw a fawx

Pretty sure I saw a fox run across the parking lot. Tried to get a good view but it was in a hurry.