Giving up the bean… again
I’m giving up my daily trip to Starbucks… I must be insane, right? I was playing around with some of the trends and graphs in Mint yesterday and for fun I looked at what my spending at Starbucks was over...
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Mac in Black
My slightly frivolous purchase arrived. I’ll take that economo-stimulo check now, please! 🙂 With a bit of advice and encouragement from some friends online, I was able to get it up and running and transferred all the info, docs and...
Fiscal Responsibility and You! *zzzzz*
After all that debt nonsense, the last thing I need is a new credit card… or is it? That’s the problem with the mystical credit score, you know what can obviously help it, but beyond that you can barely tell...
Outright Passé
This is a speech bubble from Supergirl & The Legion of Super-Heroes #17. Through a series of improbable events, Supergirl has traveled to the 31st Century and is in a bit of awe at how much things have changed. The...
Le Transfert de Masse
Seen around the web in a few places, this made me laugh and then it made me a little sad. 😳 The original source article is in French, so translate at your own risk, but it’s so true.
Not a good morning for Evil
I was never a Something Positive fan, never even heard of it. My friend told me that he was/is a character in the strip and I checked it out, but there was far too much backstory to go over and...
Ahead, Geek Factor 10!
New TV + VGA/PC Audio Connection + Netflix Watch Instantly + Justice League: The New Frontier = ♥ The other picture shows it off better, but I realized there was some schmutz on the tv which I had to clean...
Hello, Pretty-Pretty…
I love the smell of kitsch and PR in the morning! I had dinner with Moose last night and bad movies came up, as they always will, and while he and I are a bit at odds over whether Barbarella...
Drinking More HD Kool-Aid
Against my better judgement, but in the face of really crappy HD DVR (not to mention customer service) from RCN, I bought an HD TiVo. They’re running a special that includes lifetime product service and it’s comparable to what I...
Never gonna make you cry…
The phenomenon of the Rickroll is truly going from cute to mega. Noticed on Kris’ shared feeds from Gothamist: Meet the Mets, Rickroll the Mets Thousands of Internet denizens–including some Mets–don’t want to ever give Rick Astley up, so they...