| Friday, April 4th, 2008 |
| 5:44 pm |
Fracking TWC
Dear Triangle Time Warner Cable,
Thank you so much for still not providing the SciFi channel (and thus the Battlestar Galactica premier) in HD. Of course, why would I want to watch Battlestar in HD when I could be watching Sell This House on HGTV instead?
Thanks,
-Dave
P.S. Please DIAF. |
| Monday, March 17th, 2008 |
| 7:18 pm |
Danny Boy
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| 6:00 pm |
Spitzer was brought down by financial transactions... and I helped! Or not. Per the article it's not as if I could really know for sure. |
| Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 |
| 9:55 pm |
Class actions are a lawyer's best friend Have any of you folks out there who were suckered caught up by the diamond thing for your weddings seen the DeBeers Class Action page? I usually just ignore class action suits, but I've actually read about people getting a good response from this one. It's very hard to get over the feeling that it's one level below a scam to make money for some law firm. |
| Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 |
| 7:41 pm |
Found while house hunting  |
| Thursday, February 21st, 2008 |
| 9:27 pm |
Another reminder that others are way more creative than you I haven't had a chance to really read up on his site, but this guy is pretty much guaranteed his pick of jobs after completing his PhD. This is so rad.
His site |
| Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 |
| 6:51 pm |
Because clicking is hard Has anyone actually read an article on Forbes.com and found the automatic slideshow to be helpful? "Thank you automatic slideshow! How ever would I have progressed to the next picture without you?" |
| Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 |
| 9:07 am |
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| Thursday, February 14th, 2008 |
| 7:51 pm |
All hail the Google van Woohoo! Google has finally added Street View for the Triangle. With our upcoming house hunting, it couldn't come at a better time. Now I can easily see if a neighborhood has been stripped of trees by the developer and mark it off our list. From the images of my house it looks like it was done sometime in the fall, though I know that it might have taken months to do the entire region. I haven't had a chance to find anything interesting yet other than the fact that my lawn looks like crap in their pictures. |
| Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 |
| 9:14 pm |
The world without people...even Will Smith  I'm not sure what it is lately with all of the end of the world stories out there, but I finally got around to watching The History Channel's Life After People over the past couple of days. I have to say that I wasn't that impressed overall. The interviews with the various experts in biology, structural engineering and the like were well done, but the computer animation and overly dramatic narration really took away from what could have been a neat show. Also, you can really tell which animated scenes they spent their money on (hint: it wasn't the scenes involving animals roaming through deserted cities). That said, it did certainly dovetail nicely with my current reading, Alan Weisman's The World Without Us. I've found it to be far more depressing than anything in the History Channel's show. For me it's not so much an issue of "how sad, all humans are dead" or anything involving the abandoned planet, but rather the implications parts of the book have on the world right now. Reading about the sea of plastic debris and how long it will take to degrade (nobody really knows at this point) as well as all the various metals that are now cover the Earth is kind of a downer. Speaking of metals in the atmosphere and soil, the book did remind me of one of my favorite Wikipedia finds. It turns out that one man, Thomas Midgley, Jr., was primarily responsible for developments that would lead to both the addition of tetra-ethyl lead to gasoline and the widespread use of CFCs. The Wikipedia article contains this quote regarding his contribution: "(Midgley) had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth history." That's quite a legacy. Current Music: Bad Religion - Pessimistic Lines |
| Friday, December 14th, 2007 |
| 10:08 am |
From the boy: Merry Christmas!  Or whatever you may celebrate. Or not. That's cool too. |
| Sunday, September 9th, 2007 |
| 9:07 pm |
Yin Yang Otters  |
| Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 |
| 10:14 pm |
So tired Yeah, so having a kid has taken my LJ posting from almost-never to no-really-never-I-mean-it. Everything's been going really well, but it's amazing how much it takes out of you. Christopher has been doing great and seems to be getting close to crawling. Now if he'd just sleep through the night we'd be good. Anyway, my first post in a while isn't going to be a long one, so I'll leave you a cute pic.  |
| Thursday, July 19th, 2007 |
| 5:45 pm |
Have fun at work, eat candy My group has a full time job posted at SAS if anyone's interested. From the posting: * Experience with Perl * Experience with XML * Experience with Java. * Experience with CVS or other source management facilities. * Web client development and deployment experience. * Experience with SAS, particularly BASE SAS and Macro language. * Experience with Open Edition. Enter job number 07002097 at http://www.sas.com/jobs/USjobs/search.html |
| Monday, July 16th, 2007 |
| 11:26 pm |
What I imagined the people around me were saying as a kid This is a great entry from The New Yorker's Shouts & Murmurs section (which I read because I'm so cultured and not just for the cartoons). Current Mood: It hurts because it's true |
| Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 |
| 8:40 am |
There is no God Proof:  Also, Dear Jason Lee, WTF? |
| Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 |
| 9:10 pm |
Hooray for technology (not really) Is it asking so much to be able to have a single music library that iTunes/WMP/Winamp/whatever can all play and all make use of the same meta-data so that I have song data and album art? This seems to be nearly impossible, at least according to what I can find in five minutes of Googling... Current Mood:  annoyed |
| Thursday, June 21st, 2007 |
| 9:06 pm |
Hooray for pair bonding! As of today I've officially been married for four years. I'd like to thank my wife, Tonya. I couldn't have done it without you. Current Mood:  happy |
| Sunday, June 17th, 2007 |
| 9:54 am |
Father's day
Sure, it's a made-up holiday like Valentine's day or Christmas, but my first Father's day as a father is pretty cool. Christopher "made" a framed picture for me in daycare, which is pretty impressive given that he still has no fine-tuned motor skills or the ability to spell "Daddy". |
| Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 |
| 9:31 pm |
RIP Mr. Wizard 
Don Herbert 1917 - 2007Dammit. That sucks. I think only my parents know me well enough to know how much I loved Mr. Wizard when I was a kid and it was on Nickelodeon in the 80's. Oh well, another bit of childhood lost to time. |
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