Monthly Archive: January 2004

Especially for (since she’s the only woman on my friends list, methinks)… XX Factor: 25 Adventure Goddesses

With my cell phone happily vibrating away in my shirt pocket… it took me a moment to realize it. Up to that point I thought I was having an annoying neck muscle spasm…

After seeing ‘s post on badly spelled spam, this NYT article was so apropos. NYT requires registration, so see below if you don’t feel like signing up. In Online Auctions, Misspelling in Ads Often Spells Cash By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO...

I’m curious about these devices since I realize that I’m watching less and less tv *in* my room and what I am watching is usually on my computer(s) since they have dvd players and the tv I have, while larger...

I promise.. I will never again doubt the sheer unfettered power of Bawls. I bought a case of the things to give a pair to my roommate as a birthday gift. I thought, since I don’t really do coffee, maybe...

I make sure that if I call a “customer service” department, the emphasis will be on SERVICE. Having done the job myself, I know the usual tricks and doublespeak. But yesterday was a nice and simple matter, I took advantage...

I’m experiencing a very odd bit of time travel today. Something’s up with the mail server at my domain and its sending me messages out of order. Or is it more likely this virus people are talking about is clogging...

OPM‘s website is currently down after the announcement was made that Gov’t Employees can leave 3 hours early. I imagine there’s a lot of gov’t workers hitting refresh, trying to confirm the news. It’s like the IRS site on e-file...

As much as I love the movies, I’m glad that the hype of the Lord of the Rings movies didn’t extend to automatically making its actors seem like gods of the silver screen. The Oscar nominations were announced and the...

This photo was snapped once by Peter as we were coming over for a visit, I think he’d been taking pictures of the renovations, something about it was kinda cute, so I kept it, and now have made an LJ...