This is incredible (press release). A couple years old but I’d never seen it. Ed Abbey may be spinning in his grave, but State Parks have always been the piece of our land management system that compromises for convenience and accessibility. In some ways they’re the gateway drug that helps urbanites understand land management and […]
I just wanted to share that buying a second 1GB stick of RAM for my computer was nearly 10x cheaper than when I bought the first stick a little under 3 years ago. $22 is so much less painful than $172. Technology is sweet.
Starting in Q2 2009, you will be able to register anydomainname.yournamehere. (See BBC article.) Rather than tomspot.com, I could have just tom.spot. Or tom.tomspot. Or www.tomspot. Or (maybe?) even just tomspot. Confusing? Heck yes. Apparently each new TLD will cost thousands of dollars. Of course, as soon as the change hits, any big company with […]
The Home of the Week in the LA Times this week is my aunt Mary Jane Elgin’s house. It’s as beautiful as it looks in the paper. Ever since I can remember, her house has been my paradise-home-away-from-home. I’ll miss it as much as everyone who has shared its (and my aunt and uncle’s) hospitality. […]
Yesterday was my first day of unemployment, and to celebrate I decided to drive to Colorado to visit some friends in Boulder and my cousin in Montrose. So far my vacation’s been going great. I’m still alive and it’s been an adventure. I can totally understand falling in love with wide open spaces, so I […]
(big surprise) Review summary – Apple has created a little 3″ digital device that does almost everything, uses only your fingers as input, and has no instruction manual… and it works without an instruction manual. Everyone knows the feature list, so I’m going to play Mr. Negative and tell you what it doesn’t do. The […]
So Michael Moore’s new film comes out 6/29 and I’m bound to have an opinion on it, since I work amongst the evil insurance companies who only care about profit. Here’s my before-I-see-the-film review… “This administration flaunts the law, flaunts the constitution,” Moore said at the press conference, explaining the flap over the trip to […]
… is the official tagline of the Cardinals baseball establishment, I think. I CAN OFFICIALLY DIE. Now, in my lifetime, I have seen the most beautiful thing in the world! Imagine missing 1982’s most beautiful thing by being born 2 months too late! WAY TO GO, CARDS! WE LOVE YA!!!!! — From some kid on […]