Monthly Archives: August 2008

Holy Clogged Arteries, Batman!

I love Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I mean love. Love, as in, if they were alive, I’d marry them. Love, as in, if I were on a desert island and a plane flew overhead and accidentally dropped something, I’d wish it … Continue reading

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Google Reader May Trump Bloglines For Me

I’ve been using Bloglines.com for feed reading for a few years now. I had tried Google Reader before, but I was quite happy with Bloglines, so I never switched. I’ve actually been using beta.bloglines.com, their beta site, ever since they … Continue reading

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Strange Firefox+Mac WordPress Admin Page

Below is a screencap of what part of my WordPress 2.6.1 admin page looks like when I view it using Firefox 3.0.1 on Leopard. If you click on it to view it better, you’ll see the problem. The stats graph … Continue reading

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My iPhone Battery Drain – Solved

Ever since upgrading my iPhone to 2.0.2 last week, I had noticed a marked drain on my battery. I don’t use my phone that much, so it surprised me that the battery was going down as fast as it was. … Continue reading

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Reminders of Chloe

Chloe’s been gone for three days now and I keep getting hit by reminders of her. I keep walking into various rooms of the house, expecting her to be there and then realizing that she can’t be. I look out … Continue reading

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R.I.P. Chloe Gibson – You Were A Good Dog

  Back in 1993 Tammy and I went to PetSmart one day to get some cat food. As we walked in, we noticed that they were doing dog adoptions, so we decided to go over and have a look. We … Continue reading

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Cuil Thinks I’m More Relevant Than Dr. Horrible

I was looking through my web stats this morning and I noticed that I had a link from cuil.com, the latest in a long string of supposed “Google Killers.” I clicked on the link, http://www.cuil.com/search?q=”dr horrible” and was quite surprised … Continue reading

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Animals Out of Place

About 15 minutes ago I parked my car in the parking lot of my office, which is in North Atlanta, near Perimeter Mall. As I was walking across the lot toward the building, I saw something move, out of the … Continue reading

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Apple Still Working on MobileMe

I just received an email from Apple regarding MobileMe. Here’s what it said We have already made many improvements to MobileMe, but we still have many more to make. To recognize our users’ patience, we are giving every MobileMe subscriber … Continue reading

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Why I Love Jeopardy

I didn’t see this when it aired, but I caught it on one of those “most outrageous” clip shows. It’s now one of my favorites.

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Three Things To Improve Iron Chef America

I used to love watching the original Japanese show Iron Chef and I’ve come to like Iron Chef America. I love Alton Brown and frequent judge, Ted Allen. But there are three things that really annoy me about this show, and it … Continue reading

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The Apostle Paul Went To Spain?

In church this morning I was listening to the minister read from Romans, when all of a sudden I hear him say “… and Paul wanted to go to Spain.” Wha-huh? Maybe I just haven’t paid attention before, but I … Continue reading

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When General Motors Was Dreaming

The New York Times has a slideshow today of gorgeous old cars called When General Motors Was Dreaming. Some of the cars were just prototypes, but some were production. And all of them had beautiful angles and style. Most cars … Continue reading

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Ever Seen Purple Potatoes?

I have. Last night. I bought a bunch of “fingerling” potatoes and when I sliced the dark-skinned ones, they were purple on the inside. Unfortunately they had a really funky flavor that just didn’t work with the olive oil, rosemary, … Continue reading

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Bloody Hell, the Snail Died

I was wrong about Pokey the snail. He died today. I ran ammonia and Ph tests on the tank water and was shocked by the results. The ammonia test was off the charts. The Ph was also out of whack. … Continue reading

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Another Day, Another Fish Funeral

As I mentioned two days ago, we had a goldfish die, buried him at sea, and then bought another fish and a snail to keep the remaining fish company. As Tuesday wore on, the new fish, Speedy, wasn’t looking so … Continue reading

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Michael Phelps – The Man Is a Machine

I’ve watched quite a bit of the Olympics so far, and I continue to be amazed at how Michael Phelps keeps racking up the medals. I just watched him win the semi-final of the 200 Meter Individual Medley. He was … Continue reading

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Our Dyson Vacuum Sucks

We have a Dyson vacuum, and it sucks. In both bad and good ways. On the good side, it has better suction, with a far fuller tank, than any vacuum I’ve ever used. It’s also fairly light and easy to … Continue reading

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Speaking Punctuation

So we’re watching Project Runway (don’t ask) and the designers only have 5 minutes left. Tim Gunn walks in and says Designers! Five Minutes! And some of you are still sewing? Question Mark! I laughed out loud at that. And … Continue reading

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Fish Funeral

For Christmas, my sister-in-law gave my son two goldfish. Without asking us. Needless to say I was not happy about this, but he had them before we knew what was going on. Anyway, he’s been very happy with the fish … Continue reading

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