This wouldn’t be too indulgent, would it? It’s only $3,500. And we could say things like “We’re going to spend the weekend in our Victorian Mansion.”
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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.
Kindle
This… is awesome.
Awesome. AWESOME.
“Any Plan Vere You Lose Your Hat iz a Bad Plan”
You know who my favorite webcomic characters are?
The Jagermonsters.
I think there should be a “Talk Like a JagerMonster Day”.
That is all.
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.
Linux’d
This is a test of the Linux/Unix LogJam LiveJournal client.
DId it work? Did it work??
Geekin’ out
Whilest perusing for Linux software, I came across this software that takes a video image and renders it in ASCII.
Pretty cool, in a major geeky way.
What would be even cooler if they pointed a camera at you, and the ASCII formed a message… “YOU@ARE&DOOMED!!!”
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.
Shameless Plug
Uncle Grampa’s Hoo-Dilly Storytime returns this Saturday at 11:30am, running every weekend until November 17.
You have been warned.