Time to get things moving.

My iPod Mini is stuck in Diagnostic Mode. I've tried the instructions from Apple's website -- slide it to "hold" then back, press center select and menu simultaneously, wait 10 seconds. That does not work. It just starts a memory test.

Help?

My place of employment is looking to hire customer service agents. As with most customer service positions, we need people who are patient, tactful, and have a generally pleasant phone demeanor ( Read more... )

I'm sweeping my friends list. Of course, no offense intended to anyone, but I just don't check here often enough to keep up with all these blogs.

If you want to keep reading mine, please speak up now... or if you are a lurky lurking lurker, now would be a good time to be added if you care that much. :)(I can't guarantee I'll post/read often. I ( Read more... )

From spaceweather.com:

DESCENDING SPACE JUNK: Almost exactly one year ago, on July 23, 2007, International Space Station astronauts threw an obsolete, refrigerator-sized ammonia reservoir overboard. The 1400-lb piece of space junk has been circling Earth ever since and now, in July 2008, its orbit has decayed so much that it has become an easy ( Read more... )

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life is too busy to bother writing

Gamelan Galak Tika celebrates its 15th season with 3 [edit: first was in November] New England performances, all featuring legendary Balinese dancer/scholar I Made Bandem, in performances of Balinese dance classics. Along with other special guests, Dr. Bandem will perform traditional Balinese dance solos and duos while accompanied by Galak Tika’s ( Read more... )

In the basement of my work is an absolute treasure trove of funeral antiquities. Willow baskets, ice compartment caskets from the 1800's, original Brockport drying boards, and many, many old bottles of embalming chemicals ( Read more... )

NYTimes: M.I.T. Sues Frank Gehry, Citing Flaws in Center He Designed

By ROBIN POGREBIN and KATIE ZEZIMA
Published: November 7, 2007The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has sued the architect Frank Gehry and a construction company, claiming that “design and construction failures” in the institute’s $300 million Stata Center resulted in ( Read more... )

This is a demo video of the trip to Bali that MIT's resident gamelan took in 2005. Enjoy!

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