So at the urging of Elias, Lee, and Ben, I've set up my own blog at http://wingerz.com/blog. I've been meaning to change the template for it, but realized that it may take me a while to get around to it. I may still post here occasionally.

http://www.duelinganalogs.com/?date=2006-05-17

Riding the Da Vinci Code wave. Very clever.

The sun finally came out for a while this evening ( Read more... )

Been following video game-related blogs pretty closely over the past few days as the Electronic Entertainment Expo is going on in Los Angeles. Things have changed a lot since my earliest video gaming days, when I'd have to wait for the next issue of Nintendo Power or EGM to read about the big E3 announcements. In recent years things have been ( Read more... )

Basketball: Jen upgraded our cable for the NBA Playoffs. Followed Cavs-Wizards and Lakers-Suns pretty closely in Round 1. The Lakers got destroyed in Game 7 by the Suns. I thought they were going to win the series at home during Game 6, but that didn't happen. End of Game 5 will stay with me for a long time. Hopefully this is a sign of good things ( Read more... )

Elias wrote a Firefox plugin that lets you Quick-Add to the Google Calendar (even when your current browser window isn't pointing at the calendar) by hitting ctrl-;. For those of you who haven't played around with it yet, Quick-Add let's you add items to your calendar in pseudo-natural language (for example, "dinner at 7pm tomorrow").

Over the weekend, we babysat Jen's coworker's two rabbits.


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Each awesome in their own way:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_culture_references_in_World_of_Warcraft

http://www.sandiegoserenade.com/2006/04/1986_world_series_game_6_reena.html

We arrived here Friday evening and spent all day yesterday at Wharton. I decided to tag along with Jen to get a feel for the atmosphere of the campus and to meet some of her (potential) new classmates. It's actually been a lot of fun - of all the people I've run into, most have been a lot of fun to talk to. In fact, across both business school ( Read more... )

Yesterday dreamhost just upgraded to a new version of rails, taking doGooder down with it.

While fixing the problem (by following directions to temporarily revert to Rails 1.0), it was kind of lonely:

[admiralty]$ date ( Read more... )