Month: March 2003
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Explosion
About an hour ago, I was watching TV – I forget what, probably flipping through the channels, and contemplating going to Taco Bell for dinner. I noticed that my lights in the living room were flickering a bit, and I was sort of pissed that my fluorescent-LED replacement things that were supposed to last for…
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Spring
It was almost seventy degrees outside today. Since I am going to Hawaii in May and it seems like everything will be a two-mile walk, I have been trying to walk a bit more, so I put on the iPod and went out for a while today. I crossed through an area north of my…
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Repressed memories about computer cases
A reply RE http://elemeta.com/retrocase/index.html Oh man, you just brought back a horrible repressed memory with your case page… When I was in college in 1991, I didn’t have the cash for a computer, and needed one bad. This guy sold me an XT clone motherboard for ten bucks, and I scoured the used junk shops…
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Sidekick
The Sidekick is here! I thought it would take another week or more, but it showed up during lunch, and I plugged it into the charger right away. My old SIM card from my VisorPhone fit right in, and when I fired it up, it asked me to set up an email account right away.…
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Stupid Facts
I like the new Coke can design. It’s cool. I’m trying to figure out how the impending Broadway musicians’ strike will actually affect me, since I’ve never been to a Broadway show and never really intend to. I almost bid on a 1976 Gremlin in Staten Island that was up to $300. I wanted to…
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Geiger counters on the subway
On Friday, while I was riding to work, the subway stopped at 57th and 7th like it usually does, and while the doors were open, I saw three NYPD cops with FUCKING GEIGER COUNTERS! WHAT THE FUCK!?!? Not a lot is up here. I got a copy of Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA…