Ok, so maybe there were a few slow moments this weekend.


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So I walked over to the Apple Store to get a display adapter during lunch and found it particularly busy. Perhaps due to classes.  I caught the attention of the first employee walking by but I failed to notice he was wearing a black t-shirt… “Pardon me, but could you help me find a Mini Display Port to DVI adapter for the MacBook Pro?” His response ( Read more... )

The geek quotient of our building just rose.  Discovered that our downstairs (whose patio-rail mounted bike rack I have long admired) is also the author of the graphic novel, Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer. And yes, I read it BEFORE I knew this.

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Very sore and sunburned but I’m back.  I had considered kayaking out to one of the islands in the Puget Sound but my lack of experience with tides and currents, as well as not really knowing my limits I decided for something a bit more modest.  With the help of my sister, I put in at the northern end of Lake Washington near the mouth of the ( Read more... )

I think it all started with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies but I have honestly lost track of the number of books that have sprung up in the “Classics Parody Cultural Horror Mash-Up” genre (or whatever future literature critics will call it). I finally broke down and started reading the aforementioned Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and frankly I’ ( Read more... )