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New MacBook Pro

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

I’ve been waiting for a while for the new MacBooks to come out since Apple hadn’t really updated the line in any significant way since the they were using the G4s in PowerBooks. After the announcement yesterday I decided to pick up a new MacBook Pro to replace my aging one. Before I get into [...]

New Music (and the Amazon MP3 store is dangerous)

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Back when there were local music stores that used to have albums I wanted to listen to (as an aside, what do kids call albums these days?) I’d routinely go on binges and grab up to a dozen CDs at once. In the past 10 years, with the ready availability of MP3 players, massive amounts [...]

Microdermal Implants

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Ever since I heard about microdermals over a year ago I found the idea intriguing. Whenever I’d thought about getting any piercings I never figured they’d look right on me so I just hadn’t bothered with them. Microdermals, on the other hand, can be placed pretty much anywhere so I didn’t have to worry about [...]

Restaurant pet peeves

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

A list of things that I’ve experienced at restaurants that have really pissed me off recently: Just because a table has two dimensions doesn’t mean it’s ok to put 4 chairs at it. This especially pisses me off in Japanese restaurants where you typically get a bunch of small dishes that fill up a standard [...]

Dear JDL, please just shut the fuck up.

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

A week or so ago, Will Smith made a comment that was taken out of context: Remarkably, Will believes everyone is basically good. “Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘let me do the most evil thing I can do today’,” said Will. “I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards [...]

5 minute OLPC review

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

Today I had the chance to use one of the much ballyhooed OLPC laptops, made specifically for kids in underdeveloped countries. I didn’t have the time to get too deep into it, but I got some initial impressions. The construction is amazingly sturdy, almost too sturdy. There were several points where I felt like I [...]

The secret of the universe, revealed.

Monday, November 26th, 2007

About a year before I joined my current company, rumor has it that the author of the following paper walked into our offices and sat down for a talk with one of our employees. The topic of discussion? Apparently the grand unification theory. The story also goes that he seemed very excited about his discovery [...]

San Diego fires

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

On a normal Monday afternoon in the Gaslamp district the streets would be filled with equal measures of tourists and office workers out on their lunchbreak. Today though, it’s eerily calm. Most of the workers are absent, due either to evacuations or the fact that both major arteries into the city are closed. The tourists [...]

“Oktoberfest” in Big Bear

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

So I’m sitting in the Marina park in San Diego yesterday, where fall has finally hit, rendering the temperature a balmy 72 degrees, reading a book when I get a call from my friend Carrie, inviting me to go up to Big Bear with them to go to their Oktoberfest celebration. What does Big Bear [...]

iPhone First Impressions.

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

This evening I went to the Apple Store and picked up a new iPhone. I’ve been playing with it for about 5 hours now and these are my initial impressions in no particular order. No iChat seems like a pretty serious oversight. Fortunately I can host an IM application on my own server, but this [...]

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