The Boston Red Sox. I had managed to avoid the professional sports insanity in Boston for several years, but the past few years I’ve been to Fenway a few times and have been paying more and more attention to baseball.. The 46" HDTV we bought a few months ago definitely sealed the deal. But football still sucks. :)
Our new house kicks ass. It’s now fun to have people over, and people seem to actually enjoy it, unlike our old place, which was tough to get to, tough to park around, and tiny as hell.
I’m still riding the post-Spain trip wave, and can’t wait for our next trip abroad.
The weather is finally getting comfortable…
Walking two miles each way to a job I actually enjoy every day.
BookMooch - I have had an account here for a long while now, but never really bothered to do anything with it. In unpacking my books, I found a ton that, aside from nostalgia, just didn’t make any sense to keep anymore (tons of BeOS books, for instance). I had been bringing these books to the “Send these to China” bin at the supermarket, but then I remembered BookMooch.. I put up 10 books last night and 2 of them were claimed within an hour, and have already been sent out.
Halloween is approaching, which means the annual Halloween Party in Ithaca is also approaching.. This is the one chance a year I get to see some of these friends, so it’s always a special event for me…
Going to the David Byrne/Geoffrey Miller lecture at the ICA tomorrow. I mean, it’s nowhere near as awesome as it would be seeing Talking Heads, but it’s likely as close as I’ll ever get.
Dexter. It’s quickly turning into my second favorite show.
Spain was totally awesome… We had such a great time, both hanging out with old friends around the wedding and then cruising around Spain, France, and the Pyrenees in our rented Peugeot. More details to come, but I’ve started putting photos from the trip up on Flickr. That’s about half the photos right now, and the second half will come soon to that same spot.
I got a prepaid Orange SIM card from GO-SIM today, after some panic it wouldn’t come before our trip to Spain. The big question was whether or not the unlock trick I found online for my phone would work, and as far as I can tell, it has. I guess the jury will remain out until I am on Spanish soil and the phone is working.. This trick seems pretty far-out, I wonder if this is an intentional back-door placed (and leaked) by the engineers or a exploited bug… And if it’s a bug, who is the person who spent the time finding it?
I’ve been trying to be a better user of Quicksilver for quite some time now… Back in January, I downloaded a PDF of a User Guide which I had found, probably via some post on 43 Folders. I opened it up every once in awhile, reading little chunks of it here and there over the year, and have also used it as a reference. I had kinda forgotten about it, but today, I was watching the Google Tech Talk on Quicksilver and remembered the manual, and figured I’d pick it back up where I left off.. Unfortunately, Preview.app decided to forget what page I was on when I last left off, and took me back to the first page. On it I see the name of Howard Melman… After some verification, I am shocked to learn that this valuable resource was written by someone who I’ve broken bread with on several occasions.. I wonder if Howard had already started coming to the film club by the time I had started reading this Manual, or if I have a bit of an excuse for my obliviousness…
Does anyone know of any financial assistance for those needing hearing aids but who can’t afford them? I figure that someone in my RIT/NTID network of friends might have a clue, because I sure don’t.
After somewhere near 20 Stellafanes, I managed to win the second prize in the raffle; \$2500 of Televue Nagler eyepieces.. A 12, 17, 22, and 31mm… Now I have to figure out what their destiny is…
I have a single, double-sided cartridge DVD-RAM which I would like to have copied onto DVD+Rs. I created it using a Mac at RIT, but I’m not sure what filesystem is on it. Is there anyone reading this who has access to a DVD-RAM drive and would be willing to do the copy for me? I know I’ve asked a few of you this question over the years, but the disk was in stasis in my parents basement until I moved into the new house.
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coco_b is kick-ass.
