So apparently we're getting smart-phones. The only reason I'd never looked into it before was the plans were stupid expensive, but now that they're backing off of unlimited and going to tiered data plans, we can get one that's not much more than our existing mildly-intelligent phone plan which should do fine as long as we only do data-intensive ( Read more... )

Since I didn't get much response on twitter, I thought I'd try this question here. I'm going to be renting a car for a few days in San Francisco. My mom's paying for it (otherwise I probably wouldn't bother), but I'd still like to not waste money. A quick glance at rates seems to show tiny cars available from Dollar or Thrifty at barely half the ( Read more... )

I was just reading an article in the Economist that was mentioning how LED lights are great, but not quite ready for widespread residential lighting use. Good ones are a bit expensive, and while you could theoretically make any perfect shade of white you want by combining red, blue, and green LEDs in practice the relative intensities tend to drift ( Read more... )

So, Konami recently made a deal with SonyBMG to license a bunch of their music for all kinds of digital distribution. Good good, I'm in favor of more distribution options - makes me more likely to get more of my media, you know, legally. They're on iTunes which is nice and convenient for me, though it's a pity they're not on the label that ( Read more... )

Oh lordy I am so dead of sore and tired. I was out mowing the lawn because it needed it. Then I trimmed out half of a bush in the front yard that had partly died for no apparent reason. Then I started breaking and cleaning up some *big* branches that had fallen at the edge of the backyard forest during the windstorm via hacksaw and stomping on ( Read more... )

3-post day, alert the media ( Read more... )