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 [...]
Archive for May, 2009
19 May
A Trip Down Geek Memory Lane
Here’s a blast from the past: A History of 3D Accelerators.
Complete with pictures of the cards.
12 May
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 [...]
8 May
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 [...]
4 May
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 [...]