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Entries from September 2007

Damn DRM!

September 30th, 2007 · No Comments

We’ve finally gotten around to starting to unpack the plethora of boxes that are residing in our garage.  Amongst the boxes that we’ve opened are the ones that contain our (mostly my) CD collection.  Looking through it, I noticed that my collection has become fairly stagnant.  It took me a couple of days to fully [...]

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Tags: Geek Stuff · The House

Uno Mas!

September 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Tomorrow is my last Sunday shift.  Since I’m on “flexible schedule” status, I was able to request to work Sunday thru Thursday instead of working Sunday, being off Monday, and then working Tuesday thru Friday.  Which gives me Fri, Sat, Sun, and Mon off.  I’m then going to take two days of annual for a [...]

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Tags: Life in General

Whoa! Disposable Income?!

September 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Perhaps one of the biggest challenges that we have been faced with since I started my current job is the prospect of disposable income. I’ve never had disposable income before in my life, so it’s been something of a shock. The biggest shock has been the difficulty in not disposing of all of [...]

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Tags: financial

Flickr Feed Added

September 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Since I’ve been too damn lazy to write posts updating y’all on the house, I figured I’d add a link to my Flickr account so you can see what’s going on.

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Tags: State of the Blog · The House

Over Due Nano Review

September 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Now that it’s going on a week since our voyage to the Apple Store, I figure that it’s about time I got off my ass and posted my opinions of the iPod Nano 3G. Which can pretty much be summed up as follows

I want to like it.
I just can’t.
They took all that was good [...]

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Tags: Geek Stuff

Stupid Spammers

September 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Well, seeing as to how I have a thriving community of commenters, it shouldn’t be too big of a problem to announce that I’ve been getting enough spam comments on my blog to have me take the check mark out of the anyone can register field for commenting.
Effing spammers.
Seriously, I have no penis, and therefore [...]

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Tags: Life in General · State of the Blog

iPod Nano 3G: The Gaying

September 8th, 2007 · No Comments

The other day the new iPod Nano 3Gs were introduced.
For those of you who missed it, the nano 3G looks like this:

The change in its footprint was so that it could sport a 2″ square screen for your video viewing pleasure. Nevermind that you are limited to 8GB of storage for those videos. [...]

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Tags: Geek Stuff

Note to Self…

September 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

It *is* worth the argument when deciding to do a time based walk vs. a distance.
The distance that I wanted would have been less painful than the timed walk that the husband got.
Ouch.
Edit to add:  Also, don’t be retarded enough to walk for 45 minutes in the >100F heat when you forget your camelback.

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Tags: Life in General