• Happy Birthday, Andy!

    03 Oct 2006 » 1 min read

    As a present, I have arranged for the Yankees to get to the playoffs this year! Happy birthday, buddy!

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  • December 2006 Asimov’s

    02 Oct 2006 » 1 min read about Science Fiction

    When I got home from work this evening, I saw a science fiction magazine in my pile of mail and got excited because I thought perhaps it was the December 2006 ANALOG. I am very anxious to read Part III of Robert J. Sawyers, “Rollback”. It turned out to be the December 2006 ASIMOV’S. It’s…

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  • Cost cuts and budget updates

    02 Oct 2006 » 2 min read

    One thing I did over the weekend was to re-reun my financial modeling software (this is software I developed over a period of 10 years that projects every single financial transaction I will make into the future based on a given starting point, and that I use in place of things like Quicken) which is…

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  • Karma?

    02 Oct 2006 » 1 min read about Work & Career

    Why I don’t believe in karma: One would think that because I turned in the $100 bill I found on Saturday that I had a little karma coming to me. So today, one of my co-workers asked if I had a DVD that they could borrow to test the DVD functionality of a laptop. I…

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  • New jeans

    02 Oct 2006 » 1 min read

    I finally got to the Gap on a break today and picked up 2 new pair of jeans to replace the 2 that are wearing away. And you know what, they aren’t those nasty faded looking kind. Still they are not Levi’s. (Do they still make Levi jeans?) Can anyone tell me why Gap jeans…

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  • Freebird

    02 Oct 2006 » 1 min read about Music & Arts

    Yes, ladies and gentlemen, here I am, lead air-drummer for Lynard Skynard (ah-ha! I corrected the spelling before strausmouse‘s head exploded) Lynryd Skynyrd, air-drumming my way through the best part of “Freebird”. Nice way to close out a lazy weekend with a burst of what energy I had left.

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  • Filling a day with nothing

    02 Oct 2006 » 1 min read about Sports

    I have filled my day with nothing today. Well, not quite nothing, but the next closest thing. I watched countless episodes of Scrubs which is probably the last funny sitcom on TV. (People who watch The Office will debate this but I don’t find The Office funny. It’s too much like being at work to…

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  • Slow Sunday afternoons

    01 Oct 2006 » 1 min read about Reading & Books

    Today has been one of those slow Sunday afternoons typical of early fall. I don’t feel like reading, I don’t feel like writing. I would otherwise be pretty bored, except that last night I picked up the first three seasons of Scrubs on DVD so I’ll probably spend the afternoon watching an episode or two.…

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  • Video iChat

    01 Oct 2006 » 1 min read

    I did a video iChat with Jim this morning. We used to do these more frequently but today was the first Sunday in quite a while that we’ve done it. You know what, it hasn’t lost it’s novelty yet. Jim lives in Ventura County, north of L.A. and it’s pretty cool to be able to…

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  • “First of all, it was October…”

    01 Oct 2006 » 1 min read about Reading & Books

    “First of all it was October, a rare month for boys.”

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