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Ordering
My hot water heater broke--stopped producing hot water--and I have to have a plumber come by to fix it. This is not good as we are also having (a) a potential roof leak looked at, (b) some work on the pool needs to be done, and (c) we want to put up hurricane glass to reduce our insurance rates as they went up about 5k per year ( Read more... ) -
The Hobbit
This isn't a review--and it'll be full of spoliers.
Early on in The Hobbit we see the elder Bilbo writing his memoirs of his adventure ("There and Back Again"--which i exactl the kind of title a hobbit would give that adventure--it wouldn't be "How I Pwnd Smaug"). The narration has us hear him write the opening line of the actua book The Hobbit ( Read more... ) -
Sandy Hooks
Here's The Political Omnivore on the Sandy Hooks shootings: http://politicalomnivore.blogspot.com/2012/12/firearms-massacres-and-second-amendment.html
Here is someone's post on their facebook:
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Armed and Operational
I got my slew of cables in for my iPhone 5. Changing the cable was kind of a final-fuck you from Steve Jobs (I think--maybe I'm wrong) which made my (expensive) collection pretty worthless. I needed one for my office, one for the bed-room, one for the car ... and maybe one for travel ( Read more... ) -
The Two Star Review
When I'm looking at something (a video game? A book? Anti-Obama movies) I find clusters of 1 or 5 star reviews that are, generally, meaningless (if the thing has all of one or the other or a massive shift, well, okay--but if there's only a few it doesn't mean that much). As a rule ( Read more... ) -
I've used those ...
My daughter has to wear a school unifiorm on Fridays unless she pays a dollar to the school for the privilge of dressing in normal clothes. She asked why they did that and I told her it was probably for school funding. I reminisced about getting these little book-order forms in grade school where we'd get to choose several titles and our parents ( Read more... ) -
Working Out This Morning
I work out with a trainer and it's fucking ass-busting. I try to do 2 days a week and two days of marital arts training--but I've been sick and traveling. So today was my day back after missing Wednsday (the kid was up at 3:00 so I didn't make it in at 6:00 as I had to keep an eye on him ... yawn). It was fucking hard and I felt hideously out of ( Read more... ) -
Game Science ...
It turns out I'm willing to pay between 1.00 and 22.00 for a "game" (in the case of 22 bucks, it was 3 games) so long as (a) it looks like something I might play once or twice or (b) it looks pretty. Steam and the App store is a potent combination as these games are streamed quickly to my device (computer for Steam, phone for App store) and I can ( Read more... ) -
The Big Dude
I have my sole claim to plane-Naziism being this: "If you cannot manage your carry on lugage (i.e. get it into and out of the over-head compartment) without help--and you are not quick to ask for help--you have no business carrying that thing on the plane. I used to be pretty impatient trying to get in and out. Now I usually check lugage and just ( Read more... ) -
Seamless!
After recounting my Chinese food experience I was told by someone about Seamless: a food delivery service that (I was assured) would work wonderfully. I tried it.
It did, in fact, work wonderfully.
The secret sauce to internet food delivery is this:
1. Get me my food hot or, at least, warm.
2. Give me a good ordering system.
3. Give me good selections.
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