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I recently upgraded to a
Blackberry 8700g.
Email, cellphone, web
access, and PDA all-in-one.
I love Canon digicams.
I had an S330, then an S230,
now an SD400. They're solidly
made, they take great pictures,
and they're ultra-portable.
I've gone back to the dark
side. I once again have an iPod.
This time it's a 60gb iPod Photo.
The Dell Latitude D620
is my current work laptop.
It's a cleanly designed
Centrino Duo machine with
amazing battery
life and a nice screen.
My home laptop is a
15" Apple MacBook Pro
dual-booting both Mac OS X
and Windows XP. Hooray for
Boot Camp!
I recently upgraded to a 20"
Dell 2001fp LCD. It has great
image quality, and convenient
USB ports on the side.
My current PC is
a P4 system based on an Intel
D915GAG motherboard in an Antec
Sonata II case. 200gb Seagate
SATA hard drive, nVidia GeForce
6600GT video card, SB Live 5.1,
and NEC DVD-RW drive.
Just like with digicams,
I like Canon inkjet printers. My
i860 is quiet, fast, and produces
first-class color prints.
Not much to say here.
If you're an aviation enthusiast
and you have a fast PC,
go buy FS2004 now.
If you get hooked on
flight sims like I did, you'll want
a good flight controller. The
CH Products Flight Sim Yoke USB
is probably the best all-around
flight controller out there.
It ain't cheap, though....
My Current Reading List
Eastward to Tartary:
Travels in the Balkans,
the Middle East, and
the Caucasus
by Robert D. Kaplan
Falling Off the Map
by Pico Iyer
Great Bridge: The Epic
Story of the Building of
the Brooklyn Bridge
by David McCullough
The Polish Way: A Thousand
Year History of the Poles and
Their Culture
by Adam Zamoyski
Best of Europe 2006
by Rick Steves
2008
October (2 entries)August (1 entry)
June (1 entry)
May (2 entries)
February (2 entries)
2007
July (1 entry)June (7 entries)
April (5 entries)
February (4 entries)
January (11 entries)
2006
December (5 entries)November (3 entries)
October (10 entries)
September (6 entries)
August (4 entries)
July (7 entries)
June (5 entries)
May (7 entries)
April (15 entries)
March (9 entries)
February (7 entries)
January (15 entries)
2005
December (4 entries)November (6 entries)
October (15 entries)
September (4 entries)
August (9 entries)
July (18 entries)
June (10 entries)
May (12 entries)
April (19 entries)
March (18 entries)
February (10 entries)
January (20 entries)
2004
December (9 entries)November (21 entries)
October (9 entries)
September (15 entries)
August (7 entries)
July (7 entries)
June (8 entries)
May (10 entries)
April (5 entries)
March (12 entries)
February (18 entries)
January (9 entries)
| 07/31/2005 17:06 |
| Yeehaw! Posted from my PSP while laying on the couch....
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| 07/23/2005 11:26 |
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| 07/21/2005 22:23 |
| I saw on some dude's blog that there is a good little Iraqi restaurant in Kansas City. Now, I've spent a lot of time in KC, and I knew that there are great barbecue places, great steakhouses, even some good Mexican places... But I had no idea that there was a single Iraqi place... Should I not have been surprised? Are there any Iraqi restaurants in Seattle??? |
| 07/19/2005 12:50 |
| It's nice to see that the creeping fungus known as political correctness has reached the United Kingdom: Liz Beattie, a retired teacher, will call on the association's annual gathering in Buxton, Derbyshire, to "delete the word 'fail' from the educational vocabulary to be replaced with the concept of 'deferred success'". Oh, yes, you definitely want to read that article. |
| 07/16/2005 09:32 |
| Is Jan Ullrich making that face because he's struggling uphill, or is he making it because he's about to jump off his bike and beat that devil guy senseless?
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| 07/14/2005 21:53 |
| 7th inning stretch. M's trailing 4-3. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile. |
| 07/14/2005 21:26 |
| No dice for Raffy. Dribbler up the 1st baseline. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile. |
| 07/14/2005 21:23 |
| Palmeiro is going for #3,000.... Photographers everywhere..... Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile. |
| 07/14/2005 21:13 |
| Now a home run by Sal Fasano. Who??? Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile. |
| 07/14/2005 21:11 |
| Jay Gibbons followed Palmeiro with a long home run to right that doinked off the Microsoft sign below the Hit It Here Cafe. 3-2 M's.... Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile. |
| 07/14/2005 21:00 |
| Rafael Palmeiro just got his 2,999th hit on a sharp single to right field. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile. |
| 07/14/2005 20:56 |
| We're at the Mariners-Orioles game tonight. The Orioles had a mini-meltdown in the bottom of the 2nd, with a hit batter, 2 errors, a passed ball, a couple hits, and all-around sloppy play. The M's capitalized by scoring 3, and Aaron Sele has pitched surprisingly well.... So far...... 3-0 Seattle after 3 innings. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile. |
| 07/14/2005 13:51 |
| Well, I finally picked out the appropriate multimedia hard drive enclosure, the Dvico TViX. Now I can watch all the cool DiVX, XVid, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and AVI files that I download without having to sit at my PC. There are many foreign TV shows that I download regularly (Top Gear, Phoenix Nights, Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere, and various other stuff), and how I can watch them on either of my televisions. Talk about cool.....
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| 07/11/2005 09:16 |
| There's a great Newsweek/MSNBC article reviewing a new book by an Australian author who describes how people massacre the English language with sloppy, vague phrases and terms. The author has his own website where he encourages readers to contribute examples of "weasel words." |
| 07/09/2005 22:29 |
| "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball," - historian Jacques Barzun |
| 07/09/2005 13:00 |
| ...from the london stands blog....
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| 07/09/2005 12:25 |
| One of my latest obsessions is the British television program Top Gear. The show involves three witty British guys driving the hell out of assorted exotic and everyday cars, and being very frank about what they do and don't like about them. Part of the appeal of the show is that the guys get to drive cars that most people would never be able to afford--Aston Martins, Maseratis, Ferraris, and so forth. They conduct pseudo-scientific tests like a race between an Aston Martin DB-9 and a TGV train from Paris to Nice. Anyway, it's great entertainment, and it's now on The Discovery Channel here in the U.S. On a related note, as I was driving to work yesterday morning, I was passed by a car-carrier truck that was carrying a Maserati Coupe, a Maserati Spyder, and a Ferrari F430 Spyder. Thanks to Top Gear, I actually recognized these exotics.
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| 07/06/2005 20:08 |
| Google Earth is the absolute coolest thing in the known universe. There may be cooler things out there, but they haven't been discovered yet. Here's a view of where I work. Granted, the satellite image was taken before our building was built, last year....
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