Tag: Personal

I am late to the game checking it out. Email me your ids, mine is geeksrus. Original, eh? Any good clients to use other than the website?

Wired’s Interview with UMG’s Doug Morris is an eye opener. It amazes me how set in their old ways these executives are and why they are causing the music industry to fail. I won’t go on and on, read it yourself, but consider this paragraph: “It was only a couple of years ago that we… Continue reading Doug Morris is why the music industry is lost

Elizabeth and I ran around shopping. I’ve been in ‘organize the house’ mode this summer, trying to make sure we have places for stuff so that when we move, we already know where things should go. If you didn’t know, Bed Bath and Beyond has turned into “As Seen on TV.” I got the toilet… Continue reading Another domestic Sunday

JFC – Yes it has an acronym. It is about what would happen if Christ walked a modern day Earth. It was fantastic. I don’ even believe in organized religion but this show was fantastic. Write HBO. Tell whatever idiot cancelled this show to bring it back. Seriously, Kyle.

Elizabeth rocks! She has been using the older MacBook Pro to play WoW on and check the web, and now we’ve moved her iTunes off her old PC to the Mac. She went out and bought a WD Passport 160gb travel drive which is super light and super quiet. It is USB 2.0 only, but… Continue reading My Girlfriend Rocks

So if anyone had any question that this war is about Oil, Money and Power, and nothing else, listen to Dick Cheney talk about why they didn’t go to Baghdad in 1994. Then compare it to what has happened in this war. They knew! They knew what would happen! Yet they did it anyway. If… Continue reading Oh my dear Lord – Listen to Cheney talk about Iraq in ’94

Ok its not bionic, but this is an amazing, wonderful invention. It uses no batteries, no power source. Wow. Read about this device and be sure to watch the video on the page.

Thanks to Elizabeth’s mom for this tip, cheap $20 ottomans that have storage inside. Picked up two black ottomans!

Elizabeth took me downtown for the weekend. We rode MAX to Pioneer Square, shopped for crocs (they were hosting a well life event it turns out) and we headed to a very nice hotel. Her plan? No phones, no computers, not a single luxury, like Robinson Crusoe… Anyway, we walked from downtown to the Pearl… Continue reading I wuv my girlfriend

Google has added the ability to add your own maps! You can add search results, edit the text, etc, add photos, what not. I have started my own map of the northwest here: Map The URL is ugly, I hope they come up with a better scheme.

What does it look like inside your computer when you are watching pornography? These new exclusive photos reveal the answer to this decades old mystery! NSFW: Diode Sex

I also bought a Ariens Lawnmower from WashCo today for $399. They love these machines, long life, decent controls and let me tell you, I did the entire yard, back and front, in 3 bags, where the electric Black and Decker took 6 for just the front and part of the back. The Ariens does… Continue reading Ariens Lawnmower

People who know me know I am not much of a gardener. I kill lawns frequently. I want that to change, however, so I am adding a Mantis to my wish list. I think I can use this to aerate, thatch up the moss and maybe even till over the weed patch. Update: Ooh a… Continue reading Mantis rototiller

I’d love to find a nice, small air compressor for mainly inflating car tires, bike tires, fit balls, etc. Sears has a nice one it seems for $30, but it is 6-8 business days away. Does anyone in the Portland area have a compressor they love? Update: I ended up buying a 12v inflator from… Continue reading Tire Inflator / Air Compressor

I used to keep a wish list on my old, old site for myself, relatives, etc. Why not use a WordPress category for that? So the first item on my wish list is a right now! Update Ok I ordered one. They even gave me a free month of Amazon Prime, so overnight shipping was… Continue reading Harmony 890 Universal Remote

There is a reason we do user testing on products, to make sure that no obvious issues are overlooked. The United States Post Office didn’t do a full job with regards to their otherwise wonderful self-service kiosks. I had to mail something to a friend in Germany so I go to the post office, after… Continue reading Designing a user experience

As some of you might have seen, I have been working on my website, moving it from Movable Type into WordPress. Its been fairly smooth with the exception of the URLs for the podcasts and RSS feeds. In trying to make that work as it used to, I’ve left the server in a broken state… Continue reading Please pardon the dust!

I spent the weekend with Elizabeth, her brother and his girlfriend. We watched Clerks, then Star Wars Episode IV (the dvds look great!), played cards, had dinner (quite scrumptious). Charles called to inform me that a power sub station a mile away had blown a transformer, burning 20,000 gallons of mineral oil and causing 50,000… Continue reading I had a fun weekend!