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For those of you who’ve moved from film to digital photography, something to ponder: Remember those envelopes at the photo developer’s that you put your film into? How often do you think that someone who’s recently made the switch from film to digital, and who isn’t very technically savvy, has unthinkingly put their CF or SD [...]
When someone at Microsoft (or any other work-a-billion-hours-a-week company) takes one look at you and says, “Whoa, you look really tired!”, I’m thinking that maybe a nap is in order. For, say, a week or so.
My daughter (she’s 4) saw either the movie “Madagascar” or a clip from it at school recently, and ever since then she’s been singing & dancing to the song “I Like To Move It” as performed in the movie. The first time she did it, I flashed back to… 10? years ago, when I used [...]
There’s been a lot of discussion that developed from a NYTimes article about a proposed code of conduct for bloggers and their commenters. Maybe I’m just too far on the fringe of all-things-blogging, but I don’t really get the point. All they’re really trying to do is deal with a problem that’s been on the [...]
Random, empirical data point: I don’t know why this is, and I don’t have data for the 10% on either end of the bell curve, but I have noticed that showerhead water pressure seems to be inversely proportional to the cost of a hotel room. I’ve tested this out at, among others, Motel 6, Super8, [...]
To illustrate: My sister and I were out practicing her manual transmission skills last week-end. We had been driving around a big parking lot and pulled up to the exit to make a left-hand turn to head home. We’re near a 4-way stop, so there’s a pretty consistent level of traffic approaching from our right. [...]
I was driving home from work the other day and saw a brand-new, shiny, red-and-chrome Pontiac Solstice GXP convertible, all 260 turbo-powered horsepower of it. Fast, flashy, and a bit sexy. And driven by a woman who couldn’t have been a day older than 102, squinting through her steering wheel at the road ahead.