I AM SO EFFING STUPID!!! GRAAAAAGH ::headdesk::

Tonight was awesome. I came home to discover I had won a contest I forgot I entered. I won a free full version copy of Office 2008 Mac Special Edition with the Expression Media package. Best Buy lists that package at $499. Since Best Buy isn't always the best, I checked New Egg, which only had the upgrade, at $279 (compared to Best Buy's $299 ( Read more... )

The antenna installation went quite well. It was quite easy to drive in six screws total and eight nuts/bolts total. The system includes a built in vertical angle adjustment and a built in horizontal angle adjustment, up to around 60 degrees, so you get a pretty good breadth of angles as long as you put it pretty much where it should be. Just ( Read more... )

1. How awesome am I. With my 99 cent .com domain registration, I registered nightskyre.com, and forwarded it to my livejournal. Now I can go to nightskyre.com and it goes to my lj for me. I know, it's dumb, but hey, I think it's cool ( Read more... )

This weekend at Gamestop:

Buy 2 used games, get 1 free.

Well, I just ordered our antenna for OTA HD TV since I'm done with Charter's ridiculous fees. Does anyone want an actual report on how well the process goes?

Anyone have any experience with BA in Worcester? I need to get a preseason tuneup on my bike.

On this, the 15th of April, CNN posted an article about taxes, and the breakdown of who pays what.

Some lines I thought were interesting:

The top fifth of households made 56% of pre-tax income in 2006 but paid 86% of all individual income tax revenue collected, according to the most recent data available from the Congressional Budget Office.For ( Read more... )

Who on LJ uses Twitter? I've generally been discarding it from my pile of stuff to care about, but it does occur to me that sometimes I start to make a post, and then stop because I realize it's more of a one off comment than a post worthy item. Twitter would fill that void nicely, but if nobody uses it, I wouldn't bother ( Read more... )

Bumptop is now available. If you don't know what it is, there's a decent writeup on the C-Net link.