Checklist of things to do ( Read more... )

or DVD's maybe?
Was looking at CNN.com today and noticed that a newly restored set of DVD's of Charlie Chaplin are being releasedThis makes me happy and sad. Happy cause I can get them in a restored set now . . . sad because I need to spend more money to get them ( Read more... )

Got invited for a climbing trip by tshuma along with angelbob and some others I had never met before, to go to Mt Tam. Had a good time, though only went up one route, still pretty out of it for climbing.
After climbing hiked up to the summit where the routes were set and, I have to quote angelbob here, the view was "Godlike". We had an almost totally unobstructed view ( Read more... )

Yesterday a Senator, and chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, proposes violating several federal statutes to enforce another one.
Today Norma McCorvey, also known by publicly as Jane Roe (yes boys and girls this is Roe from Roe V Wade that landmark Supreme Court case and political hotbed), has asked for the case to be overturned*shakes head ( Read more... )

Met up with bk2w at his place after work and went for burgers at Fuddruckers last night. Had an interesting talk about DSP's, Fourier and Laplace transforms and signal analysis. Over burgers discussed a little of the new Opteron processor and the ramifications on shared libraries in Linux. Went next door to the theatre and caught a late show of " ( Read more... )

I have just spent $405 to fly back to Houston for the July 4th weekend, and I don't have an assigned seat on either flight. This with a flight out there at 6:35am . . . who the hell flies that early. Oh . . . right, me.
Sheesh, heres to showing up at 5am to be first in line for a seat.

When I saw this headline on CNN.com
Man bites dog ... no, really

Urban Myth #3124 IS true.

At least some new ones. I ordered some more contact lenses. I looked at my prescription and realized I never got glasses since the last eye exam, and that was last april. Ooops.
Now to get gear for Tahoe.

Wheeee, spending money.

I finally have a kitchen of stuff, need to do that big grocery shopping trip, but first have to get the last of the things out of the old refrigerator. The garage and my closet remain to be cleared, after that cleaning . . . yeah (twirls finger ( Read more... )

So this weekend I moved to a new apartment. It was a fun filled day of grunting and heaving. I managed, with the aid of Tim, Rieko and Rick and their son, Oscar, and Guru from work, to get all of the big and heavy stuff into the new apartment on Saturday. Sunday was spent unpacking, watching Daredevil, and working on some stuff at the office I ( Read more... )