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Well, I’ve been fairly silent the last few months, and school work will keep me pinned down for the next couple weeks. However, there’s some sad news from from the old neighborhood - Eastern Market caught fire early this morning and the south end has been almost completely ( Read more... )

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What a week it’s been! I’ve promised to post something about this for those who’ve asked, since I’ve been telling the story over and over again. Why, you ask, am I living the back room of my parent’s house? Ah, now therein lies a tale.

When I moved into my place in Arlington ( Read more... )

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I haven’t been posting much, for a variety of reasons. Mostly, life has been keeping me busy, in what I think (hope?) is a good way.

This past weekend I went up to Genericon XX at my beautiful alma mater, RPI. It reminds me how cold and snowy Upstate New York gets - it was ( Read more... )

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In the past week I’ve been going through a phone upgrade process. I figured it was time to replace my increasingly broken Motorola Razor and switch over to Verizon, which has better coverage in the area than Cingular generally, and coverage in the Metro tunnels, the lack of ( Read more... )

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It’s time for it to get some TLC.

I needed an oil changes, and knew I had an issue with my left tail light. It has a crack in it, collects water in the rain, and was starting to rust out the innards. Now, since the tail light’s a whole module, the whole thing needs to get ( Read more... )

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I posted to the Warmice list for some insight, and have recieved some thoughts, but figured I’d post here for feedback.

I’ve been having issues with both my phone (Motorola Razr) and my carrier (Cingular). The phone sometimes flashes the screen, or dies entirely, and I often ( Read more... )

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Oh, it’s Christmas. Hanukkah. Kwanzaa. Winter Solstice. Take your pick, it’s the end of the year, which brings many good things.

The first is the end of classes. My two economics classes are over, thankfully. Macroeconomics played to my strong points, with a big historical and ( Read more... )

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Oh Comcast, you bastards.

To say that I’ve had a ‘bad customer experience” with Comcast the past week doesn’t even begin to cover it. Where to begin…

Back in February, a friend and former coworker Lee suggested we go in on a line to find a new home for our servers. Sounded good ( Read more... )

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For those who haven’t seen it: Mad World video.

I’m pretty sure this was shot somewhere on the lower-middle West Side.

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Simple decisions seem to have a way to turn into complex matters of personal identity, finance and the state of the world.

Take, for instance, my car.

A 1998 Chevy Malibu, it’s been through a lot, bought as a family car, staying with me through a year and a half of college, then ( Read more... )