Archive for May, 2009

Camry Breakdown!

Everything happens at once. I got the MR2 moved to “classic” insurance so I’m paying $12.80 a month to insure it (or about $200 a year) so the camry decides to buy the farm. I’m driving into work today going “hm, seems like it doesn’t have as much power as it should”. Pulling into the [...]

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A Trip Down Geek Memory Lane

Here’s a blast from the past: A History of 3D Accelerators.
Complete with pictures of the cards.

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Accidental Homeowners

Me and Kelly are now accidental homeowners.
We were looking at houses and trying to land one before the economy recovered and before the market bounced back.  We had seen a lot. We had seen small houses, big houses with big rooms but not enough to interest us, and project homes where people had tried to [...]

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Sturgeon: It’s Like TOOL-Lite

Sturgeon’s new album, errr, only album is a free download. Can’t go wrong with free. Question is – what are you getting?
I’ve been on an American Folk kick as of late with Iron and Wine and Nickel Creek plus a few others.
Sturgeon is not American Folk music.
Sturgeon is like TOOL-lite. If you dig the mysticism [...]

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Adventures in House Hunting! Home Inspection!

Finally got the home inspection done. The house we’re interested in is a 1950s construction colonial house. It’s got fairly nice amenities and it’s well laid out but there’s a few WTFs which run the gamut of “we can deal with it” to “flat out nigger rigging”.
The two biggies which really pissed me off: The [...]

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I’m Paying for it Today

A good buddy got married and I couldn’t say no to the bar. I get home from that and continue that trend of celebration with Jon’s bottle of hangover juice. This came with the warning: THIS IS NOT SCOTCH, THIS IS HANGOVER JUICE.
Needless to say I was like “I’ve been drinking all weekend, I’ll be [...]

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