Better late than never, right?
 

• Top 10 Films of 2009 (in Alphabetical Order):
  
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  • District 9
    
  • In The Loop
    
  • Inglourious Basterds
    

As I had earlier reported, Google Maps had a pretty egregious error with how it had labeled Yawkey Way.  I am happy to report that this is now corrected.
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Here's the list of movies I saw in 2009...  I saw 147 movies this year, which is just about where I was the year before.  I think the number of films I can see in a year given all of my other interests and responsibilities is right in the neighborhood of 150.  I haven't really sat down and thought about my "best of" list yet, as I usually take ( Read more... )

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Turns out, eggs DO expire!  I had always been under the impression that eggs don't expire, and boy did I have that notion dismissed fully and clearly.

Last Saturday,
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Was just chatting with Howard, who has literally written the book on Quicksilver, and was trying to figure out why he finds so much more utility out of Quicksilver's keyboard triggers than I do...  I find myself using the "Command Mode" in most of my interactions with Quicksilver, but Howard makes extensive use of keyboard triggers.  We were ( Read more... )

Here are some random things which have been occupying my time:

• My super Aunt Kathy passed away last week, and we drove to ONONdaga County to attend her memorial service. I was glad to be there for my family, and it was a nice service. An Irish style remembrance of all things which made her awesome with a great vegetarian buffet from a local ( Read more... )

So Watertown has a current, massive project to resurface and reengineer Pleasant Street. We live right off of Pleasant Street, on Howard Street. Directly behind our home is a former train right-of-way which is used by the town. It is bad enough in the winter when the town uses the lot to store snowplows even though they just built a big honkin ( Read more... )

It is hard to believe that it has nearly been a month since the big accident. We are healing ever so slowly; each day we seem to be a little less frustrated with the pace.
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(Note: If you haven't already, and are interested in some of the background of my needs and this testing, you should read my earlier review of powerline networking hardware)

So after the disappointment of the powerline networking experiment, I decided to give MoCA hardware a shot. If it performed as advertised, MoCA made sense in our house: There ( Read more... )