Modern Home Economics

I was just reading a post in dooce.com, which I heartily recommend, and read a line that said “…blast on the stereo while unloading the dishwasher.”

Only I thought it said “…uploading the dishwasher.” And I decided from that point on, I would refer to it as uploading and downloading the dishes from or to the dishwasher.

Also, I can’t wait to get home and download a Coke from the fridge.

Traffic… on Ice!

The AJC is reporting that traffic will be bad around here this weekend, because of several events. One of the ones it lists is “Disney’s High School Musical: The Ice Tour”.

Really? That’s going to be a factor in traffic?

Maybe it has a really large cast that all drive separate oversized SUVs to get to the show.

R.I.P. Netbank

Netbank’s accounts (including ours) were acquired by INGDirect a few days ago. It was sinking fast, and declared bankruptcy.

We had all but one of our accounts with Netbank (including my business account), the other one was with INGDirect.

So… effortless consolidation!

But the thing about INGDirect is that they don’t like you to send in deposits. They prefer you deposit money in another bank, and electronically transfer it in, sortof a bank parasite. Previously, my other bank was Netbank so… what shall happen? Shall I be forced to open an account with some brick and mortar monstrosity? Ye GADS!

The one point of pride in this is that I analyzed the financials of Netbank in 2000 and saw some subtle red flags that prevented me from investing. It’s good to include our averted-disasters in with our clean wins in the investing world.

Every day…

I heard on NPR this morning that the Powers That Be in Atlanta finally admitted that Every Day Is Opening Day isn’t really a very good slogan.

Well… duh.

15 Million down the drain.

So, now they’re going to think up a newer, even better one.

Seriously, folks. Use the next $15M to help fix the sewers.

Chasing the Penguin

Hey geeks, what’s everyone’s favorite Linux distribution?

With my new computer system up and running with four fully functional SATA drive ports and a seemingly infinite supply of free 160GB SATA Hard Drives at my disposal, I figure it’s high time for a dual-boot system.

I’ve installed Red Hat on some decrepit old systems that eventually gave up the ghost. But I believe there are a multitude… Debian, SuSe, Slacker… I may be dating myself by mentioning some of these.