Late yesterday afternoon, the UPS guy dropped off the final piece of the entertainment center. Thanks to everyone (Mom and Dad, Adam and Aric, Will and Jean-Claude) who helped out with this!
Fuzzball, seen partially at the extreme left of this picture, was so impressed that she decided to take a nap. So far, [...]

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Fuzzball with a caption. If she ever had coffee, she’d be a holy terror, as she’s hyper lots of the time.
Finally got my MI tax refund. Not a whole lot of money, but better than nothing. I think that after tax prep expenses, I got about $30 back in refund for 2007.
Apparently, [...]

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Siamese kitty shows you the dangers of having too many energy drinks at one sitting.
Went over to Steve’s last night. He has a new dog, which was interesting. His previous dogs are still trying to get used to the new dog, so it was almost like an extended Israel- Palestine negotiation session getting [...]

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Sometimes, I think of very old video games and the recent marketing trend of prepending “i” to everything, and weird stuff happens.
Trivia: We didn’t win, we got 3rd place, which was annoying since we almost had a number of questions and could’ve gotten second if we had been more focused.
Zach told a story of an [...]

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I don’t know what would possess someone to dress up like this. Large amounts of cheap, nasty beer? A bet that he lost? A dare? The trouble with pictures found on the Net is that too often, you never know the story behind them.
Saw a couple of personalized license plates [...]

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I don’t have any good or relevant images to post today.
Yesterday, went out to the rifle range with Zach, Juan, Juan’s wife, and Dave. I fired a number of things, including Zach’s .22 Magnum short-barreled “noisy cricket”, which I found a bit difficult to use. It’s just such a tiny pistol that it [...]

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The 66% complete entertain- ment center referred to last entry. The bright yellow bar (added in Gimp) is 26.5″ or 67.3 cm. This is the largest video display I’ve ever owned. My previous TV was 21″ diagonal, and my current LCD monitor is 19″ diagonal.
Today the plan is to go down [...]

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So yesterday, I found a guy on craigslist who had a fairly large CRT TV for sale for a much more reasonable price than any of the LCD TVs that I could find on the net. 33″ screen, multiple appropriate inputs, and it had a stand. I went over to Glendale (long way) [...]

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The other day, I was cleaning out my wallet, and noticed that one of my old grocery receipts said, “Turn this receipt in for a really lousy free ticket to the May 17 D-Backs vs. Tigers game”. It was, of course, too late for me to do that. Would’ve been neat to see [...]

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Old-school space Lego had a lot going for it. While building completely new models from the basic parts was fun, one of the things that I always liked was that you could partially disassemble any model to simulate the ship being damaged by aliens, lasers, pirates, missiles, or whatever.
Troubleshot mount.cifs on Ubuntu yesterday at [...]

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