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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)
| 12/30/2005 23:14 |
| Ever have a day where you feel like this picture? The story behind it is here.
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| 12/21/2005 20:24 |
| As a token of thanks for helping her order and setup a new PC, a coworker brought me a 12-pack of Red Hook Winter Hook Ale, and a 12-pack of Alaskan Winter Ale. I don't think you can beat that.
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| 12/19/2005 20:46 |
| I was flipping through my iTunes music library, and I started thinking about how I became familiar with certain types of music. It dawned on my the very kernel of my knowledge of alternative music dates back to my summer in France in 1989. I was in a foreign study program organized by the University of New Orleans, and there were about 25 high school kids travelling around France, studying language and culture. Everyone else was either from New Orleans or New York, leaving me as the lone rural/Midwestern kid. I befriended a kid from Westchester County, New York, whose dad was a photographer for National Geographic. He thought my taste in music was pretty bland, which it was (Phil Collins, U2, etc.), so once we were back home, he sent me a couple of mix tapes of more alternative stuff. There were groups like The Replacements, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Cure, and many others I can't remember. Ah, cassettes.... Anyway, thank you, J.P. Farley.
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| 12/12/2005 18:23 |
| I'm the wimpiest medical patient you'll ever meet. Refer back to the cellulitis incident from several months ago if you need any proof. Anyway, last week I developed a nasty ingrown toenail (same foot as the cellulitis, maybe the whole foot is defective) that i made worse through my misguided attempts at self-surgery. So, after a weekend of hobbling around going "Oooh oow oooh..." whenever I stepped wrong, I decided that it was time to be an adult. This morning I called a podiatrist and made an appointment to get the damn thing fixed. I worried all day long about how whatever the doctor did was going to be excruciatingly painful, and about how I'd embarrass myself by sobbing/weeping/shaking/vomiting/thrashing/fainting or worse. So, when the time came, I drove myself to the doctor and prepared for suffering. Surprisingly, it wasn't bad. The shots (yes, plural) he gave me to numb the toe were a little annoying, but not bad. Once the toe was numb, the doctor went to work cutting off infected skin, and chopping a piece out of the toenail to get it back to normal. While I was a little nervous most of the time, I didn't do too badly, I thought. The key was that the doctor didn't give me a grisly play-by-play, and there was no "Wow, look at all the blood!" or "Hmm... I didn't expect to see that" or even "Come on, stubborn thing..." from the doctor. So, thank you Dr. Wright, I grew up a little bit today. Heaven forbid I ever get a real illness or injury, then I'm a goner. But let me have just this little sense of accomplishment. It's all I have at the moment, besides the freaky blue bandage on my big toe.
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