Hopkins Student With Samurai Sword Kills Theft Suspect"Hours earlier, someone had broken into John Pontolillo's home and taken two laptops and a video-game console. Now it was past midnight, and Pontolillo heard noises coming from the garage out back ( Read more... )

About a week after I moved here, I changed my cell phone number to one that was local to resolve the fact that all my calls were roaming (and discovered that all I had to do was change my plan - but I figured it was time to retire that Chicago number and all that went with it anyway). Since I got the new number I've been receiving a steady stream ( Read more... )

I'm alive, and actually doing fairly well. Since my job involves staring at a computer screen for eight hours, I've been very reticent about sitting down and actually writing an entry, but I'll have to rectify that soon - perhaps this weekend.

I just got a job with Diamond Comics Distributors. You know, the comic book distributor (literally - all the real competition went under in the '90s).

I am geeking out on several levels right now. :D

Knowing the problem doesn't necessarily lead to knowing the solution.

Also, as I learned last night, it seems no matter how many times I hear "How Soon is Now," it never gets old.

Are the two statements related? Who's to say?

-The Chevy Avalanche with "BEARBAIT". It could be a Ted Nugent thing, but I kind of doubt it.
-The White Chevy Bronco with "NOT OJ".

Lots going on in my head and life, but every entry I think of writing in my head somehow never makes it to the screen. Hopefully I'll rectify this soon, but for now you get this ( Read more... )

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Recent events (which I may/will chronicle later) have gotten me thinking about just how much of my stuff I really need. Considering that for the past four(!!) years, most of my physical possessions have been in some form of storage or another, it's time to seriously pare down ( Read more... )

Since I know there's a bunch of you out there: Is there anyway I can hook my hard drive up to my laptop so I can use the laptop as monitor/keyboard for the drive?

I'm trying to downsize, and it'd be nice to be able to keep the drive but not have to lug the extra stuff around.