I saw a post in my feed lamenting the lack of updates.  Since I've been thinking about posting, I figured I'd finally do it :-)

A few months ago, I decided to try out our Kindle for real.  Saeed has been using it to read articles, etc while traveling, but I never did.  So, since I had some free time, I bought The Hunger Games and settled in to read ( Read more... )

FYI -- for those of you testing things, I just posted a locked post.

Edit: Read here (http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2004/07/08/reading-protected-livejournal-entries-via-rss/) for directions on how to teach ( Read more... )

Just a heads up to any readers out there that don't use LJ.  I will be locking a larger percentage of my posts in the future, so if you'd like to read them, either sign up for LJ and let me know your username or let me know and I will try to be my own RSS reader and email them to you!

Are you KIDDING me?!  I'm one of the most loyal TV watchers out there -- when I start something, I stick with it, no matter what.  But B&S is getting out there, even for me.  Seriously?!  Frankly, I'm disappointed.

My first earthquake!  Okay, so maybe it wasn't *really* my first, but the one in Chile where we though the dome was moving doesn't count (the earthquake was actually in Argentina and we didn't even know something strange had happened until the image came out scrambled).

It was a pretty weak earthquake and it lasted less than a minute, but it was ( Read more... )

Jacoby just got you a free taco!  w00t.  Tuesday, October 30 from 2-5pm.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/fan_forum/tacobell/

I have never felt so guilty for winning... the face of that Indian that they kept showing peaking over the dugout... he looked so sad!  I wanted to go give him a hug and the win back ( Read more... )

If you're a Verizon customer, take a look here: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/14/1844209 -- The article basically says that Verizon is going to share "users’ calling records [that] includes the numbers of incoming and outgoing calls and time spent ( Read more... )

I almost forgot ( Read more... )

This weekend was a good weekend -- especially since it was fun *and* productive!  I finally arranged to get rid of my Boston-Verizon phone (which means I now only have the Naples-Cingular phone.  I also (with the help of Saeed) got my wireless router set up in my room so now I can check email and chat while sitting on my bed!  (Stanford's wireless ( Read more... )