Last week Beth and I were talking about the internet, and what we did with it at the beginning, before Facebook and Google Reader and video streaming. Back In The Day, in the early 90s, when mice still had trackballs and Windows 3.1 was the hip new thing. From this time period, when we rocked our 14.4 modem and were the only elementary schoolers we ( Read more... )

Now that I have the work side of life settled for a while and a little disposable income stream, it's time to brush up my social life. I've been spending lots more time with my friends, and I've also started playing with online dating on and off over the last few months. I'm not sure how I feel about it. I like the vast expansion of my dating pool ( Read more... )

So Google Reader has a "like" button now, like Facebook. And you can follow people, like Twitter. Actually you could read your friends' shared items before, but I guess that wasn't catchy enough so they redid the interface a bit and renamed it. We are slowly moving toward a single massive RSSFeedFacebookTwitterEmailBlogIM social networking model, ( Read more... )

I love it when I start up Pandora and it plays the exact song I wanted to hear.

I was a Google early adopter. Back in the late '90s before Google was synonymous with internet search, I quickly chose it as my one and only search engine, forsaking all others. But that was it. I didn't get a Gmail account for years after it came out. I already had a free email address. But eventually I got one, and I dumped MapQuest for Google ( Read more... )

Today I stumbled upon this little tool that analyzes your blog and tells you your Myers-Briggs type. Much faster than taking the actual test. I wouldn't trust its accuracy though. It told me that I am an ESTP: "active and playful", "especially attuned to people", "very impulsive", "full of energy, talking, joking and engaging in physical out-door ( Read more... )

The history of the world from the beginning of WWII. As performed by food.

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EDIT: Cuba. They're Cuba. Duh.

Also: Super Obama World

I played the doppelganger game again today. You know, when you type your name into Google and see what comes up. Though probably a bit overwhelming for the Mary Smiths of the world, for those of us with somewhat more exotic names it's lots of fun. Believe it or not, there are at least five other people in the world with the same name as me, and two ( Read more... )

Beth and I have been in our new place for over a month. Only yesterday did we finally get our cable hooked up so that both the TV and the internet were in proper working order. The Quest for Cable was quite a saga, which I may write up in detail later if I ever run out of more interesting things to say. And now I've discovered that I can't watch ( Read more... )

I thought I took the destruction of my laptop very well. I didn't scream or cry or throw things or beat anyone up. I was calm, cool and collected. This lasted three days. I was totally fine until yesterday morning, when it took me 20 minutes to send an email over a coffee shop wireless connection from a borrowed 4-year old computer with a wonky ( Read more... )