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The pull cord on my living room blinds broke so I went to Home Depot to look for a replacement cord. They sell other replacement parts but not that one -- they told me I had to bring in my blinds and they'd ship them off for $25 and in a couple weeks they'd be fixed. (These are cheap metal blinds that cost less than $50 (31£).) So I walked over ( Read more... )

Vacation time, finally. Ciao babies!

There is something fascinating about this: The stadium for a recent U2 concert in Seattle took a picture of the crowd and people can view and zoom into it to tag themselves like it was a Facebook photo ( Read more... )

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Although I don't understand why it's so popular, Angry Birds is fine. You can play it for free if you have Chrome. It is a Chrome App?!?https://chrome.google.com/webstore/

Last night I dreamt the government was bulldozing all the libraries because they were considered an unnecessary expense. It was an action dream, since I was in one of them.

I am about to go running but forgot my phone at home, so I won't have music.

And what if Barack Obama calls me today? I know he needs a new commerce secretary. He's going to end up calling Glenn Beck instead.

Forgetting my phone, what a disaster!

One of the units of measure my contractor uses is a "fuzznuckle," as in "let's scoot that tub up by a fuzznuckle."

Here's an odd music thing. ( Steve Reich follows. )