Since I traveled to Iceland during their crash a few years ago, I've followed their economy off and on. This past week, I found Martin Wolf's article, How Iceland survived the fire, detailing the differences between Iceland's and Ireland's responses to their bank failures interesting enough to share ( Read more... )

I've been watching the Doctor Who's from the beginning in order recently (via the DVDs when available, and dailymotion when not) and the last serial of the first season was on the Reign of Terror. I decided to go ahead and read up on Robespierre and the Reign of Terror since I wasn't too familiar with it ( Read more... )

Today I gained "Premier" status with United. Apparently, through January 2012 I will receive ( Read more... )

I was doing some research on the fashion of the 70s, and watched this 1970s video compilation:

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In watching it, I started out thinking "Hell yeah, the '70s were rocking!" Somewhere around 1976 though, it becomes obvious that the people of the '70s are losing their way. By the late '70s it was a little painful ( Read more... )

So I went to Subway this evening and there was only one person working - an attractive ~20 year-old dark-haired girl who was in the process of changing out the bread.

Me: Hi!
Her: One second!
Me: No problem, I'm in no rush.

about a minute passes...Her: Great! What would you like ( Read more... )

So I was going to get my old photos scanned by a local shop, but that didn't work out. Now I'm considering doing it through http://www.scancafe.com/ since I saw a deal today for $0.18/photoMy only issue is that I don't think I'd ever actually use the full $300 worth of scanning. Anyone want to go in with me? I could send you the second $150 card ( Read more... )

So I'm buying a new work laptop for myself and I'm a bit torn between these three models.

New MacBook Pro
New HP Envy 14
Vostro 3300

Weight
4.1 lbs
5.15 lbs
4.6 lbs

Height
1.08"
1.11"
1.12"

Display
13.3" 1280x800 LED
14.5" 1600x900 LED
13.3" 1920x1080 LED

Graphics Card
NVIDIA Geforce 320M 512MB
ATI Mobility Radeon 5650 1024 MB
NVIDIA ( Read more... )

For Valentine's Day 2009, my valentine and I visited The Field Museum in Chicago (yup, we're that kind of couple):

Lyle and Sue

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Finally titled, tagged, and geocoded my 2006 visit to the Yucatan and Chichén Itzá. Here are some favorites.

Anna downs her welcome drink at the Barceló Maya Colonial

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Recently Anna and I were fantasizing about what to do when we retire. The possibility of sailing the world in a yacht came up since we both love to travel. We idly guessed that buying a medium-sized yacht would cost between 500,000 and a million or so and placed it in the "maybe someday" category ( Read more... )