Ok, I am seriously pissed at one of NBC's reporters; unfortunately, I don't know his name. I am working from home today because of the weather, so I've had the Olympics on TV. After the end of the Finland/Switzerland Women's Hockey game, a reporter was interviewing an American Hockey player (I missed the lead in, so I don't know why). His opening ( Read more... )

I had a brilliant idea this morning for dealing with my computer issue. And ( Read more... )

So anyways, today I got a chance to call back the guy at the service center and had a nice long talk with him about my computer. The short version is this; it just doesn't make financial sense to pay $650 (more than half what I paid to buy the computer new three or four years ago) to have them install a new motherboard and clean the battery, ( Read more... )

This one's for you, londo:
8 nabbed for No Pants Subway Ride in N.Y.

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So like I said in my last post (or maybe the one before that), a week or two ago I finally sent off my personal laptop to be fixed, after being unable to use it for the past month or two. I believed at the time that the issue would be the same as the problem I'd had some time ago, namely an issue with the place the powercord plugs into the computer ( Read more... )

Hi everyone! Wow, it's been awhile ( Read more... )

I frequently knit while riding the T. Maybe about eighty percent of the ( Read more... )

So, last April I moved six blocks down Commonwealth Ave, and lo and behold, I'm in a new voting ward and precinct and have to go to a new polling place. The new polling place is probably about as near my current address as the old polling place was to my old apartment, but it feels closer because my definition of "within walking distance" has ( Read more... )

Since I know a least a couple of people who went to the "Witching Hour" Harry Potter convention in Salem this past weekend (waves to kestrell and alexx_kay), I thought they might be interested in this article from the Boston Globe, which happens to quote Kes' favorite professor, Henry Jenkins (full text follows the link, Kes):
In Witch City, college professors ( Read more... )

Today I popped into Windsor Button on Temple Place in Downtown crossing on ( Read more... )