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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)
| 02/26/2006 11:12 |
| This is stolen from Ace of Spades HQ, and it's hilarious. Top Ten Islamist Grievances Against Western Fast Food Companies 10. Sura 27, Verse 9: "Do not trust a polysterene clamshell that lies to say it keeps the 'hot side hot, and the cool side cool.' This is abomination." 9. Sura 4, Verse 18: "'Have it your way?' By what arrogance does this Burger 'King' presume to rule? There is only one King, and he is Allah, and you will have it His way, or you will have your feet struck off by a sword." 8. Sura 9, Verse 3: "You may eat of chicken, but not in 'McNugget' or 'Tender' form. Such are the eating habits of the polytheists, who prefer their chicken in the manifold forms of their tripartite false god." 7. Sura 43, Verse 2: "Regarding Wendy's: Burgers are round, not square. 'Nuff said. Don't even get The Prophet started on White Castle." 6. Sura 22, Verse 17: "And Satan sent upon the Earth a Deceiver to lead the believers into apostacy and wickeness, and that Deceiver had a name: the Grimace. And he was served by bizarre demons called 'the Fry Guys.'" 5. From a 1999 audiotape by bin Ladin: "And do not forget they betrayal of Acre, when Saladin's noble warriors were defeated by the infidel crusader Colonel Sanders, who burned my people at the stake, women and children alike, burning them both regular and Extra Crispy." 4. Sura 19, Verse 12: "What's the deal with those nasty pickles in McDondald's hamburgers? Seriously, is there anyone who doesn't immediately just take those vile cucumber chips and toss them on their Riddles & Mazes tray-paper? Why do they even bother? And what genius got the idea to put cheese on a Filet O Fish? Most likely, it was the Jews, who are insidious and crafty." 3. From terror-apologist Edward Said's Occidentalism: "The drive for Western imperialistic hegemony is in full flower at Bennigan's, with its American kitsch decor and Nachos Grande platters and Wings & Things and their Ultimate Tater Skins. Plus, I had a Death By Chocloate there one time, and it went right to my hips. I should have just smeared it on my thighs and cut out the middle-man." 2. Sura 11, Verse 15: "Taco Bell dispenses guacamole and sour cream in grease-guns. Doesn't this kind of bother anyone else? Or is it just me? Wait, I'm the Prophet. It must bother you too. It is thusly commanded." ...and the Number One Islamic Grievance Against American Fast Food Companies... 1. Sura 14, Verse 5: "Ronald McDonald's real name? Ronald Goldfarb. I think you see where the Prophet is heading with this." |
| 02/25/2006 19:28 |
| Look, it's my Xbox Live Gamercard: Wooo.... I tried putting Microsoft's HTML for the Gamercard here, but it made the administration page for my blog go wacky. I'll settle for a screen capture of it.
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| 02/15/2006 22:43 |
| Wooo... Here's what I found under the cap of a recent bottle of Jones Soda:
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| 02/12/2006 10:07 |
| Henry Rollins recently had a great quote regarding the difference between being a traveller and a tourist: “The traveler doesn’t know where he’s going, and the tourist doesn’t know where he is.”
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| 02/10/2006 09:52 |
| Talk about a big flaming piece of crap... I'm fiddling with IE7 Beta 2. It looks like what you'd get if you told a 7 year old to make a sketch of an early beta version of Opera or Safari... Buttons all over the place, menus that don't make sense, and slower than Dubya doing calculus.... |
| 02/05/2006 23:28 |
| Here's a picture showing the new Inspiron 6000 next to my work laptop, a Dell Latitude D600.
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| 02/03/2006 21:29 |
| The new laptop is here, and it's pretty nice. It's certainly large.... and Dell certainly puts a lot of shovelware on it. I think I've spent more time uninstalling their crap than installing the stuff I like. Anyway, it's pretty cool. |
