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All hardware sucks.
I have to build a computer, and I need another set of eyes before I buy things. Considering what I do, I’m really not much of a PC hardware geek, especially on consumer-level hardware. But our file-and-everything-else server at home did not fare well during a scheduled power outage lately, and won’t POST. And not […]
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Yay!
This should be good: Rick Mercer (he of This Hour has 22 Minutes‘s Talking to Americans and the Rick Mercer Report) has a blog.
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When it rains, it pours
For ages there has been almost no interesting tours coming through Ottawa — or at least I didn’t notice them until it was too late, mostly because we were so busy with wedding stuff. But now… Tomorrow:French Kicks at Babylon October 9:New Pornographers at the Capital Music Hall October 28:Death Cab for Cutie at the […]
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No.
The idea came to him as he was waiting in line behind a man at a D.C. tattoo parlor: “I noticed his polo shirt and made my decision.”
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Up, up, up, up, up.
Via the always-excellent Get Rich Slowly, a New York Times graph of U.S. housing prices since 1890, with inflation factored out: (click image to enlarge) Holy cow. Candice and I are on the brink of beginning a home-buying stage, but it’s hard to imagine that bubble being sustainable for much longer. Get Rich Slowly’s take […]
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worst bounce message ever
AOL bounce message: <joshuadukes11@aol.com>: host mailin-02.mx.aol.com[205.188.155.89] said: 550 We would love to have gotten this email to joshuadukes11@aim.com. But, your recipient never logged onto their free AIM Mail account. Please contact them and let them know that they’re missing out on all the super features offered by AIM Mail. And by the way, they’re also […]
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Motorcycle thing
I just took a beard trimmer to my 5 days’ beard growth to bring it back to 3 days’ stubble and it worked. Yay! I thought it’d look unnatural and too carefully-maintained. I feel sort of lame, though. But I hate being clean-shaven. I’m never gonna dance again, guilty feet have got no rhythm… In […]
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Definitely not my parents’ realtor, since my parents’ realtor just sells houses
There’s a realtor in our area which advertises regularly in the local alt-weeklies and magazines as “Kiki, Not Your Parents’ Realtor”, with the little sketch you see to the right there. As hackneyed as that sounds, I liked the sentiment behind it, and her ads did seem to be unlike your typical realtor’s WE SELL […]