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I slept for 11.5 hours last night.
No mean feat as I usually sleep only 5-6.
I think it is going to be a long, long visit.
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I finally broke down and got an IPhone tonight.
It makes me a little sick as I loathe apple... But i'm alittle impressed -
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The synopsis for the movie 'giant' on whatever movie guide service I'm using on MythTv:
"A cattleman (Rock Hudson) and his spoiled wife (Elizabeth Taylor) watch upstart oilman (James Dean) try to take over Texas"
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For most of the nine years I've been working here, my job has consisted of doing primarily research. Of the last five, one topic in particular: variance estimation ( Read more... ) -
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ten years ago...I just had a flash of what seems like another life: I was twitching to the beat of "Doreen", running like a maniac through the house, trying to button down the plumbing in the new bathroom. I really had no idea what I was doing other than what I'd learned in Physics, but it didn't matter. I was ALIVE... BOUNCING off the walls... At ( Read more... ) -
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A conversation with big O:
BB: Dude... you can't wear horizontal stripes with plaid shorts.
BO: Honestly dad, I don't care at all about fasion.
BB: I know, neither do I... but other people do, so you should do the bare minimum
BO: Really, I don't think any kids care about it either...
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Driving home from work a couple of days ago, I caught an interview with the guy from 'big bang theory.' Apparently, he'd just won an emmy. At the time, I thought, 'this is quite likely the stupidest person I've ever heard interviewed on the radio.' Not in some evil way, like say Bush, but... just... ignorant, and dumb. I was intrigued, the way the ( Read more... ) -
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back in March '06, I got the Big O a mac mini for his birthday. He used it to play games for most of that time, then this summer, I built him a decent wintel whitebox, with the notion of using the mini as a Mythtv Client for the basement theatre ( Read more... ) -
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Ever since we've moved into this house we've had a cricket problem in the basement. A couple of years ago we got proactive and started poisoning the yard, then putting down glue traps. These actions really did do wonders... This year, I noticed that 1) I forgot to put out poison, but the number of crickets is still radically lower. H guessed that ( Read more... )