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Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:12:32 -0500

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Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:23:47 -0500

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Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:24:52 -0500

First 100+F day this year

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:01:39 -0500

First 100+F day this year

Give me a chop, honey

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:12:11 -0500

Give me a chop, honey

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Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:43:56 -0600

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Richard Dreyfuss on Democracy

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:28:47 -0600

Richard Dreyfuss on Democracy

macbook pro desktop: Post leopard, got it setup how I want it. I...

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:35:38 -0600

macbook pro desktop: Post leopard, got it setup how I want it. I like the transparent menubar, not sure why there is so much pushback on it.

"Down seven points, on the Alabama 30-yard line, 1 minute and 6 seconds left - all it needed was a..."

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:54:02 -0600

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Down seven points, on the Alabama 30-yard line, 1 minute and 6 seconds left - all it needed was a stop.

Instead, defenders Rashad Johnson and Simeon Castille provided a lasting image in this Iron Bowl. They rode the back of Auburn running back Brad Lester, who carried them past the 30-yard line, past the 25, past the 20, and down to the 18-yard line.

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- The Birmingham News, 11/25/07

Amazon Kindle

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:23:02 -0600

Here are my thoughts on the Amazon Kindle

1. What happens when Amazon decides it’s not profitable and shuts down the “Whispernet”. Then that “no computer, no syncing” thing goes from a selling point to a major boondoggle

2. How do you use it if you’re not within Sprint’s network? Why would you not stick wifi or some way to sync it with the computer, and make it optional? I am all for the KISS methodology and the sync it over the air method they use now, but they really need a backup

3. Want to sell 10 million of these things? Get textbook publishers signed up. I would be completely willing to pay full price for textbooks if I could get them in electronic format. Give them away to college students, charge them regular price for the books. Publishers will love it because it kills the used textbook market. Students love it because you don’t have to carry 60lbs of books. Amazon loves it because they have tons of new Kindle customers that will probably use it after college. And college graduates are likely to continue reading after they’re done with school.

Video

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:05:00 -0600

I know what I want for Christmas

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:21:33 -0500

I know what I want for Christmas

My iPhone wish list, version 1

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:07:52 -0500

1. Third Party apps, with full access to all of the hardware. This means an app could theoretically use the microphone and speaker (I’m thinking SIP client here)

2. iChat with AIM support. Even better if you can log in to multiple accounts like on iChat on a mac. 3 points if it includes voice chat.

3. iPod video and YouTube video rotate the other way. Rotating to the left puts the volume controls on the bottom, and they then act opposite to the volume indicator on the screen. Putting them on top (having it rotate to the right) would clean this up.

4. A keychain for safari. Extra points if you sync this and form fill data with my mac.

5. Sync services that tie into .Mac. IE: Let me add an entry to my calendar on the phone, and it should be on my computer by the time I get home.

6. MMS support. Or, at a minimum, put a link to the message instead of the current plain text message to go to a website with the password and message id.

7. Show the wallpaper on the homescreen.

8. quicker access to phone app. Double tap home, go to phone, something like that.

9. A home page for safari. If I haven’t accessed safari for >5 hours, I am probably starting a fresh browsing session. At a minimum, give me a home page and a home button for safari.

10. Flash support, and less important, java in Safari

This is what I’ve come across now, I may have more in the future.

"Mars is essentially in the same orbit [as earth]….Mars is somewhat the same distance from the..."

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:56:04 -0500

“Mars is essentially in the same orbit [as earth]….Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.”

- Dan Quayle, former Vice President of the United States

Oh crap…

Wed, 30 May 2007 23:34:01 -0500

Oh crap…

"…we will fix these problems when we the people decide that nobody else is going to do it for..."

Wed, 30 May 2007 20:10:41 -0500

“…we will fix these problems when we the people decide that nobody else is going to do it for us, but that we have to become personally involved in saving American democracy.”

- Al Gore, at George Washington University 5/29/07

F*&% you Baltimore (do not watch this at work)

Tue, 29 May 2007 13:34:28 -0500

F*&% you Baltimore (do not watch this at work)

LOL President » Blog Archive » How YOU doin

Sat, 26 May 2007 21:21:08 -0500

LOL President » Blog Archive » How YOU doin

"In many ways, George W. Bush reminds me more of Nixon than of any other president. Like Bush, Nixon..."

Thu, 24 May 2007 21:44:51 -0500

“In many ways, George W. Bush reminds me more of Nixon than of any other president. Like Bush, Nixon subordinated virtually every principle to his hunger for reelection. ”

- Al Gore, The Assault on Reason

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by..."

Thu, 24 May 2007 20:58:04 -0500

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”

- The Declaration of Independence