We finally did it; the purchase closed and we own a house ( Read more... )

Wow, it's been a long time since I used LiveJournal for anything. Anyway, to the topic at hand ( Read more... )

I like my Kindle. People are speculating a lot about whether e-books will replace paper books, and how this will change the publishing industry.

I'll skip to the end of that discussion and say: No, they won't replace them entirely. An e-book reader is better than books, but it's not as good as a book. It's convenient to shove it in my bag and be ( Read more... )

I just spent the last 26 hours with no Internet access at home. I have a term paper due on Monday and a final exam on Tuesday, both of require the Internet for me to be able to work on them.

I had to spend about 2 hours on the phone with Comcast over those 26 hours to convince them that yes, someone needs to show up today to fix this. It turns out ( Read more... )

Well, that's that. I finally got my ass over to the dentist, where I learned that I have 7 cavities, 2 of which are the totally destroyed areas of back molars that I knew about which would be difficult to treat (and even if I did, they would be hard to keep clean even if I had excellent oral hygiene, which I don't), so they're going to be extracted ( Read more... )

A friend, Grant, is stuck waking up at 4:15 every day to take public transit in to work from campus. As it happens, he works across the street from me, but that doesn't really help him at all. Clearly he needs a car (despite still only having his learner's permit). I suggested that ridingsloth's old Honda, which I was fairly certain was not in use at all, ( Read more... )

I.... love... Grey's Anatomy.

The only thing is that you have to realize that it's not a medical drama, like House. It's more of a soap opera set in a hospital, only without the bad writing and acting and whatever that permeates the actual genre of soap operas ( Read more... )

In the UK the car I rented was, if I recall, a Vauxhall Corsa 5-door hatchback. 1.4L, 96.2 horsepower. That was a great car. I loved the way it handled, the gears, the comfort level of the interior. If I were looking for such a car (cheap supermini) that would definitely be on my list. I was driving around with 4 people, but it performed just like ( Read more... )

I was thinking about the possibility of commonplace cogeneration (electricity + heat) or trigeneration (electricity + heat + cold) in private homes ( Read more... )

Most of these could be applied to traveling abroad in general ( Read more... )