Someone’s blasting Christian Pop in the small apartment complex I’m living in.
Somewhat bothersome.
At least it wasn’t anyone who has complained to me about noise.
Category: about me
Pure Vanity.
At least I’m not tone deaf
Chicken Breast Dijon
“You tell nice stories, and sorry to hear about your mom.”
It’s been almost seven years now, so that didn’t really bother me until a couple hours later, as I was driving home, I realized how much I missed sharing stories with her. I fell into a funk.
It is said that Irma Rombauer wrote The Joy of Cooking to recover from her husband’s suicide. One sure way to crawl out of a funk is to cook something.
I pulled up MacGourmet, wrote down a few ingredients and stopped by Safeway:
Chicken Breast Dijon on a bed of Basmati Rice
Sunnyvale, California
Sunnyvale, California
Nikon D200, Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G VR
1/10sec @ f/2.8, iso 100, 70mm (105mm)
Appletini
I got some new martini glasses today. As soon as I unpacked them, I washed them and put them in the freezer. Dave suggested I try to make some apple martinis with them. I try every drink on myself before subjecting anyone else to them, so a quick stop to BevMo, and I find my bartending skills have atrophied to the point of uselessness:
Four sips and I’m buzzin
Sunnyvale, California
Sunnyvale, California
Lumix DMC-LX1
1/20 sec @ f/2.8, iso 200, 6.3mm (28mm)
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Service Recovery
Joseph passed me this article about Redgee’s handling of an interesting customer support issue.
[My service recovery experience and thoughts about products and services after the jump.]
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November baby
I finally am going Intel.
With the 17″ notebook, everything (i.e. what backpacks you purchase) revolves around it. Also since the resolution of the 15″ is the same as my old 17″, I’m switching back to 15″.
Web SIG’s red pill
I promised Bess I’d mention that I’ll be at WebSIG’s “Wiki Technology and Trends” event taking photos and generally making an ass of myself.
Admission is free with RSVP do it!
Because it is Halloween, there is a suggested dress code of being an Agent which I’ve mixed feelings about. On one hand, I don’t have that sort of tie and dress shirt lying around; on the other hand, I look devilishly handsome in a suit. 😀
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8th coolest laptop case
ProductDose lists my laptop bag as the 8th coolest laptop case. It was their “pick for the ‘normal’ laptop bag of the lot.”
Nice to know I’m normal.Continue reading
Argh!
I lost all my photos today.
The net result is I lost about one and a half months of photos permanently (around 1000 images), about six months of originals that haven’t been burned yet to disk, lost days of work, and shot up my entire backup regiment.
I’m also one crash/corruption from losing everything.Continue reading
Split the bill
Blake sent me this article from the Onion: “Caltech Physicists Successfully Split The Bill.”