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2010 Favorites

  • January 5th, 2011
  • Posted in life

This is the first in a series of 2010 year-end posts. These are my favorite things from 2010. I wish i could say this was complete, but i’m sure there are some i haven’t thought of. And it’s not necessarily only stuff that was new in 2010, as long as i experienced it in 2010 [ READ MORE ]

Daily Gripes 2008Oct06

  • October 7th, 2008
  • Posted in life

I started writing this last Friday. Why does it have to be so difficult to transfer Outlook accounts/settings to a new computer? I dropped my Firefox profile folder on my new computer, and picked up right where i left off—history, passwords, windows sizes, and all. Outlook has no built-in import/export function that’s worth anything, and [ READ MORE ]

Protect Your Thumbs

  • February 14th, 2007
  • Posted in life

Because it’s really hard to do stuff with one of these: And it hurts when you cut your thumb on a table saw. It should be okay, but it definitely didn’t look good. [You might not want to see if you're squeamish[ READ MORE ]

Christmas In February

  • February 9th, 2007
  • Posted in life

So the other night i was catching up on my homey Nina’s blog where i scrolled past this without much thought. So imagine how quickly the little hamster wheels in my head started turning when the next night i saw a box on my porch addressed from Columbus. I guess i should have checked out [ READ MORE ]

Year End 2006, The Numbers

  • January 26th, 2007
  • Posted in life

Flown: 1 round-trip Driven: 7500 miles In the driver’s seat: 300 hours, over 12 days Cost to own and operate my car: $6500, about $20/hour Highest speed: 120ish mph Tickets: 0 Farthest on one tank: 354 miles Spent on 93 octane: $1000 Most paid per gallon: $3.209 Swam: 3 times Surfed: 1, almost Spent at [ READ MORE ]

The Years