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Monthly Archives: May 2010

DWTS, S10

26-May-10

So, I’ve watched nine of ten seasons, and while the dancing of this season has been good (not the best), I’m putting this season’s enjoyability slightly ahead of last season – which is to say it was only slightly less terrible than last season. Why? This money quote: “12 days of Christmas, seven dwarves, and [...]

A few positives to note

25-May-10

First, the Flyers are going to the Stanley Cup!… where they’ll lose to the Blackhawks. No way are they beating them. I know it’s a Cinderella story and all that, but seriously, no way. That team is too fast, and too good. There’s a whole lot of talk about Ovie and Crosby, but I think [...]

What we’re doing

24-May-10

I deleted the whole ‘what I’m playing’ thing on the left because I haven’t really played one game consistently for a long (exception: Muramasa, which I’m currently playing). Even with that, I’m always thinking “wow, I’ve played this for a long time,” but when I look at the play time and the stats, I’m taken [...]

On the subject of future cars

20-May-10

Since Lisa brought it up, this is the vehicle that I’m eyeing. It’s a Mahinda Scorpio. It’s not even in the U.S. yet, but it’s due for next year (which means more likely two to three years from now). It’s a four wheel drive turbo diesel suv. It looks huge, but dimensions wise it’s the [...]

Much Improved

19-May-10

I started toying with Ubuntu Linux back in 2005, version 5.04. Ubuntu’s numbering conventions are very easy to understand: year.month. They work on a six month release cycle, so every year there are two versions, an x.04 and x.10. Further, every three years they release an LTS version, or better known as long term support [...]

Wandering

17-May-10

This is one of those things I didn’t realize I lost until I had a chance to do it: wander aimlessly. This weekend, Lisa and her mom were getting a pedicure, and Nora decided she wanted to sit and watch (though she couldn’t quite get over the hump of having one done for herself) so [...]

Random thoughts on the Wire

12-May-10

Spoilers abound. We finished all sixty episodes of the wire, which by my count runs about 61 hours. Last night the kids went to bed earlyish, and I figured we’d start the Wire right away and hit both episodes and save DWTS for tomorrow. Lisa wasn’t willing to go with this plan, but she lost [...]

Comfortably tired

10-May-10

There is a difference between comfortably tired and painfully tired. Comfortably tired means I could drop off into a nap at any moment and it’d be a peaceful slumber. A painful tired is a pounding headache, exacerbated by the jitters from coffee fueled wakefulness. – - Unlike two weekends ago, last weekend was brilliant. I [...]

Review: Plants vs. Zombies

08-May-10

It’s $10 on Steam but $3 in the app store and has an average of five out of five stars. No brainer there. What Popcap managed to do was take a brilliant desktop tower defense game and bring it to the iphone/itouch unscathed. Apparently there are a few challenges missing from the game, but the [...]

Baleeted

06-May-10

More likely than not, I’m going to delete facebook. The idea that anything I write, click or use on that site being used by marketers creeps me out. Correct me if I am wrong, but it appears the ill conceived facebook connect works on cookies and browsing history. It makes sense – this was facebook’s [...]