Some years ago I helped a much older, very former girlfriend who will never see this log, move about 80 miles (guess who gets to drive the truck). That experience led me to declare ( Read more... )

This past week I was seeing someone who would have been a very positive influence in my life. We spent a fair amount of time together yesterday, and I thought things were going pretty well (better than they usually do with others). This morning she calls to call it off, saying that our lifestyles were too different, that she doesn't want to make ( Read more... )

I wonder if I should not take more glee in this than I do, but my noisy upstairs neighbors have moved out ( Read more... )

A professor friend of mine is teaching a Java class this quarter, and invited me to audit it, partly just to give me something to do while I'm between jobs. I've known him since 1987 but never took one of his classes before ( Read more... )

NewsFire (thanks, src) pointed out that Apple has a download of a thing called Delicious Library which will accept UPC codes (by iSight, USB barscanner, or manual entry) of books, CDs, Movies, Games, and oragnize them for you. The demo will handle 25 items. So I thought I'd try it out by typing in the ISBN/UPC of all of the books in my bookcase that ( Read more... )

I bought a quart of eggnog today. It's still Daylight Savings Time. Something's out of whack.

Once again it has become a problem here at the apartments that people are putting trash ( Read more... )

Hundreds of years ago, probably 1978 or so, I saw a[n American Film Theater] movie on KTCA and taped the audio portion on a C-180. After that it disappeared without a trace ( Read more... )

Huh. My digital camera (Nikon CP5700) has a knob on top that you turn, while pressing something else, to adjust various things, like speed, shutter, exposure, etc. The button nearest it, labelled FUNC, when pressed makes the knob select between full-auto and three user ( Read more... )

My temporary state of affairs between selling off my original AirPort (graphite) and the arrival of an AirPort Express to replace/upgrade it.