February 25th, 2007
I was perusing the inter-web today when I stumbled across "How's your vocabulary?" Thinking myself the erudite one, I of course took the test. When I received my score, I was flabbergasted, as instead of getting a perfect score, I got an A-. —Continue reading....
February 21st, 2007
The late classical pianist Joyce Hatto released over 100 recordings shortly before her death in 2006. According to Gramaphone magazine, —Continue reading....
February 16th, 2007
Take a look at this image, from the video game Beyond Good and Evil:—Continue reading....
February 13th, 2007
I'm a fan of America's Test Kitchen. I watch the show regularly, subscribe to the magazine and recently purchased the 2006 DVD set and accompanying book (I got the book for with the DVD purchase).—Continue reading....
February 11th, 2007
For the last several weeks, I've been experimenting with making Martinis. For Christmas, Y bought me Martini glasses from Williams-Sonoma (with my initial on them), and coincidentally, TT got me a Martini shaker. To top it all off, I'd recently watched Alton Brown's Good Eats episode "Raising The Bar", and he offered a recipe for a dry Martini: —Continue reading....
February 10th, 2007
It would appear that Google's crack team of engineers has managed to solve an age-old quantum physics problem: can an object be in two places at once? The answer, according to Google Maps, is a resounding yes.—Continue reading....
February 7th, 2007
When I moved to the Bay Area nearly 10 years ago, one of the first things I did was join a softball league. It was in that league that I met my birthday twin, Elliot. Elliot met his fiancé Lisa playing sports, volleyball to be exact, and this past weekend they got married. I was lucky enough to be invited and to be a groomsman.—Continue reading....
February 5th, 2007
Whew. My DSL is back and, more importantly, my servers are back too. It took some doing, though.—Continue reading....
February 4th, 2007
Admit it: you're dreading the day it happens to you. The day you open up your laptop and instead of getting email, you're getting errors. When your Wi-Fi goes bye-bye. Yes, your internet connection has died, and you don't know how to survive.—Continue reading....
