Category: General

When I go out, I typically order my diet colas without ice. I don’t like the ice melting to make the drink all watery, and since I don’t use a straw, I don’t like the ice bumping around getting in the way of my mouth. Plus, I find that when it’s too cold, you can’t…

So do you suppose it’s because I’m a child of the 80s who grew up under the specter of mutually assured destruction that when I see a strange and fast moving light in the sky my first thought is: “Hmmm? Wonder if that’s a missile. This could be it.” Maybe it was just the Depeche…

See now, this is why I can’t ever have pets. How do you trust your friends to come stay in your place unsupervised when you know they may just be waiting for a chance to wrap the entire thing, quarters, toilet paper and all in tinfoil? OK, maybe I could work on finding friends who…

iPhoto – a few nice new features (in particular the slide show edit/delete tools, the ability to handle more photos (they claim), and less so the ratings smart albums and rendevous sharing). However, I don’t care about any of the other applications in the suite, and it isn’t worth $50 to me on its own.…

I’ve posted an ad for my massage chair on craig’s list. If you live in the LA area, and you’d like to buy it off me let me know. I may be able to offer a slight friends and family discount.

ChessGames.com is a fantastic resource for people looking to get better at chess. You can select players and watch as the games unfold move by move. I never could get the hang of algebraic chess notation. I understand it, but I can’t hold all those moves in my head and imagine the pieces on the…

I’ve noticed a disturbing trend. The past few times I’ve gone in for a hair cut, the “stylist” tries to give me a new style. I wouldn’t mind so much except that I’m concerned they’re cutting with their intended style in mind instead of cutting so that the style I’m going to force my hair…

Yea! On my computer, iPhoto no longer launches every time I attach a camera or compact flash reader. The setting to stop this was not in iPhoto (as you might foolishly expect), but in Image Capture. That is so much better. If I want an application to launch, well then I’ll damn well launch it…

I’m happiest as an employee. In some ways, I’m entrepreneurial. For instance, I’m very innovative. I can conceive and realize an idea. I want there to be some net though. Even if it’s so far beneath me that it looks like a spot on the horizon, I like that it’s there. So, I’m really not…

I don’t want your god damn Disabling and Restricting Mechanisms in my consumer electronics. I don’t want big content in charge of what electronics can be manufactured and marketed. The rules also mandate that makers of consumer devices capable of receiving broadcast digital TV signals, such as VCRs and DVD players, include a broadcast card…