I recently was given a Logitech Harmony One universal remote (thanks, Sarah!) and it was a wonderful and useful gift. However, my experience with it has been about the opposite of any reviews I've recently seen for Harmony remotes, so I'll explain it here.

( My experience )

I recently bought a pair of Vibram FiveFingers to run with. Since the reviews I read while shopping mostly didn't address my questions, I figured I'd write a review to put up places. I also believe such reviews are most useful when they take into account both first impressions and experienced use. So this is the first impressions part ( Read more... )

These are my reviews of the people I interacted with in the recent selling of my house and purchase of a new one. Part 1 contains grades concerning the process of actually buying and selling the houses. Part 2 will contain grades about the remodel and moving companies, etc.

The short and sweet version:

• Realtor (Buyer's Agent) - Jane Adsley Chopp ( ( Read more... )

The last two seasons, I've somewhat gotten into watching American Idol. In particular I liked last season when they selected many contestants with existing musical talent, leading to a lot more creativity in how they sang their songs ( Read more... )

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Long, long ago, on my family's... 386? 486? computer, I played a game called Sim Ant. Made by the creators of Sim City, Sim Ant had you attempting to take over a lawn & house with an ant colony, doing many of the actions an ant might do. The game also had a bunch of trivia for you to learn about ants - how there are gazillions more of them in the ( Read more... )

As gregstoll has mentioned, we are currently playing an online dynasty in NCAA 2009. I control the Rice Owls, and here is the story of their 2008 season.

( 2008 Rice Owls )

My cats had their first adult annual checkup yesterday. They're happily both quite healthy :). And while Mario was the one complaining (i.e. howling) on the way there, it was Goomba who recognized the vet and got all hissy and swipey ( Read more... )

As I was arriving at work this morning, something triggered me thinking about fossil fuels and how we'll at some point run out of oil and so on and so forth. I had my usual thoughts about the impact it would have on people getting to work each day or school or shopping or whatever, all significant impacts, but that hopefully we've got more electric ( Read more... )

In baseball, if the batter swings at a third strike, but the catcher doesn't catch the ball, the batter can run as if he'd hit the ball. Two things I wonder about this ( Read more... )