The DVR that Beth got along with cable service failed recently, wiping out her recording of the early parts of the Olympics. Apparently it was a HD failure, and while the tech they sent out to troubleshoot was nice enough, their process is kind of broken ( Read more... )

Beth and I took the children to see Legoland and California Adventure earlier this week. It seemed like a good time: Many schools (but not ours) have started, so the parks shouldn't be too crowded. Also, it was Beth's birthday ( Read more... )

Beth and I were discussing a statistics problem the other day, and it turns out that no one had ever explained to her how to do a multiple-variable linear regression. (Possibly because it doesn't come up all that often ( Read more... )

Beth and I played two games of Dominion with the following card set ( Read more... )

We got a new 24" iMac, which should be in most ways an upgrade from the G5 that Beth's been using. We got the mid-grade 24", since it has the graphics card with H.264 decoding support (helps if Beth gets into HD video editing). Having another Mac should also simplify our recent usage of some of the standard software (scheduling, etc ( Read more... )

My buying pants:

Oh look, the stack of pants at Costco has my size on top. I'll buy three.

Beth's buying pants:

After two hours of searching, she manages to find one pair of pants that fit, in a style that she didn't really like.