Lexmark is sending me to NA06, which is in Cleveland from the 27th to 30th. I guess it's a supply chain trade show ( Read more... )

So, my birthday was a couple weeks ago; for it, I went up and spent the weekend with April ( Read more... )

Well, it's apparently official: tomorrow, Pixar's board is going to approve a $7 billion takeover bid by Disney. Steve Jobs will get $3.5 billion, in Disney stock, out of the deal--which will make him the single largest Disney shareholder.

1) "Disney animation" has, of late, been synonymous with "crap".I brought this up in conversation more than ( Read more... )

If you haven't heard, Apple has announced the first set of Macs with Intel CPUs and made pre-ordering possible from its online store. I'm really only interested in the successor to the PowerBook G4.

Okay, first off, I'm not that fond of the successor's name: the MacBook Pro. I think that name is, frankly, stupid; not that it couldn't be worse, of ( Read more... )

Just finished listening to Security Now! episode 6, which is a podcast by Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte of TWiT and, previously, TechTV ( Read more... )

1) I've started listening to podcasts on my PowerBook recently, which means that I'm subscribed to three but only ever listen to one of them. The one I am listening to is this WEEK in TECH, aka TWiT; it's a weekly conversation about technology news orchestrated by Leo Laporte, the guy who used to do ScreenSavers on TechTV. Of which I only watched a ( Read more... )

I haven't posted a new entry in a while, so I figured I'd write one and mention how awesome the 198 E. Lane party was. Much fun was had, many friends were seen, and vast quantities of liquid were imbibed. Marisa made me tell the sock story again (at about beer #3), and I absolutely murdered it--even more so than usual. Later that night I was in ( Read more... )

In my last entry I forgot to mention Chris' contribution to the Haiku genre, made during our canoe trip. (I'm pretty sure I didn't see it in one of Chris' entries....)
perched on a tree
precariously perched
I scare blue herons
Also, Miles may have successfully made me look like an idiot. He's pointed me to the "Monty Hall Paradox", which describes a ( Read more... )

Went on the canoe trip this past weekend, had lots of fun. Barefoot soccer really beat up my feet though; Sunday morning I discovered I had lots of tiny cuts which didn't go all the way through the thick skin, but combined to make it feel like I had a giant bruise covering my entire foot. At least as long as I was barefoot; wearing shoes mostly ( Read more... )

It's true---hell has frozen over. And I don't mean the crisp, glistening freeze of winter. I mean dark-side-of-the-moon, Plutonian-sea-of-liquid-methane, heat-death-of-the-universe frozen over ( Read more... )