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I have occasionally been bored enough or in need of something completely different from my normal mode of being focused on code and servers and misbehaving software. When it gets really bad, I end up staying up too late playing with Photoshop.
A couple months back, I did a few Nausicaa icons; last night I […]

Google Earth (formerly Keyhole) is now free (for the base level of jaw-droppingly great service)!
You need Windows (so I’m out of luck until I get into the office tomorrow), but in the mean time, here’s a great first peek to whet all of our collective geek appetites. Google also provides some great samples for […]

For the record, lazy weekends pretty much rule.
Friday night we watched Bowling for Columbine, which simply has to be seen to be believed. It’s scathingly funny and incredibly depressing at the same time. Brilliant.
Saturday we slept super-late, which felt great. We went out for lunch, which turned out to be a disappointment, […]

Yesterday we put two coats of paint onto the walls in our bedroom. It looks pretty good so far, though it was a long and tiring day. We’ll finish up today with the trim and chair rail.
We managed to pick out new carpet for the bedroom with a minimum of fuss and rather […]

Recent occurrances, list-style:

Completed Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix late Sunday night.

Trying to recover from stupid, stupid Harry Potter (lack of) sleep schedule… uhhhhghghh…

My aunt and uncle came to visit on Sunday evening! They had been “passing through” and had a night to kill, so a visit worked out nicely. We […]

So I survived the annoyingly long and hellaciously busy work week, but just barely. The worst day was Thursday, when I didn’t get a chance for breakfast, worked straight through lunch, and really didn’t eat anything worth speaking of until about 6 in the evening when I got a sandwich to go on my […]

I keep forgetting that I get Good Friday off from work, which I always find amusing due to our Jewish upper management. Even though this is the fourth year in a row I’ve gotten it off, it always comes as a surprise. I can’t quite shake the feeling that it’s just a giant […]

Okay, I’ll admit it, I am a “24″ junkie. My only problem is that me and my vivid imagination get entirely too drawn into the onscreen events, and I seem to be very affected by the mood, composition, and editing. The average episode leaves me feeling pretty twitchy, and it takes awhile to […]

After installing the new light, it was time for a little TV catch-up.
First was the “Today vs. Iron Chef” segment that I had TiVo’ed this morning. The Today folks had set up a tent pavilion in the plaza, constructing therein a morning-show replica of hallowed Kitchen Stadium. This morning’s contest pitted Al Roker […]

We slept in, which was nice after all that wine last night, then ran around to do some errands. We bought a birthday gift for niece Christine, and I was unable to resist the first season of “Red Dwarf” on DVD. Bought some groceries. Talked to Don out in California. […]