Much as it pains me to admit that there is still baseball being played without my beloved Yankees, there is a question I must ask: How the #$%^ does the Kenny Rogers who stunk up the joint as both a Yankee and Met manage to suddenly throw 20+ scoreless innings this postseason at age 41? I mean, seriously.

So, I'm not really one for impulse buys (and making an impulse buy on the internet seems like rather a difficult thing to begin with), but that didn't stop me from entering my credit card info and picking up a 400 gig drive for $100 (along with another FireWire enclosure). For reference, my storage capacity has now shattered the terabyte mark. Yow ( Read more... )

Sorry, yet another post confirming that I am alive without much actual content. Having my backpack cruelly thrust under the cabin would've been much more traumatic if I hadn't found myself bumped up to Business Class on the Vienna-JFK leg. You tend to be much more forgiving when Austrian Air gives you chocolate, glass after glass of champagne, and ( Read more... )

So there's this amazing Mac store near my office called TekServe (it's where I bought DW yesterday). While DiskWarrior managed to my the drive usable again, the fact that it had this sort of problem indicates to me that it's on its last legs. So I have a couple options (presented in allegedly increasing order of expense):

• Bring the desktop over from ( Read more... )

The fact that the Yankees are missing both corners of their outfield until at least September, their centerfielder has been playing with a broken foot for a month, their captain can only DH because his thumb is injured, their regular DH is out for a few days with an injured hand, their catcher can't run because he has a torn tendon in his knee, one ( Read more... )

Oh, to be back in college, where a semester of dance lessons and dance team membership cost less than one lesson at the studio near my office. But soon I will be able to pretend I know salsa.

ETA: Let's all pretend that this has nothing to do with a credit card charge to Dance Chelsea this evening, shall we?

A wee bit durnk

Share of a meal consisting solely of Friday's appetizers: $13
Actual cost of several Smithwicks (Irish Ale) at a cool bar in Pearl River: $12
Amount charged by cool bartender friend of Greg and Pat (a Math major :-/ ): $6
13 minute song about Loch Ness: Priceless

I should write a few more cover letters for tomorrow. Oh dear.