Month: December 2009
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Frozen Irish
Hello from a veyr frigid Northern Indiana. I am sitting in a Bruno’s pizza just north of Notre Dame, waiting on a pizza and sort of passively glancing at the fourth quarter of the Colts-Jets game. It is cold as hell here, I think in the teens, and I’ve done more ice and snow driving…
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Hello from the land of cheese
Hello from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I am here for the week, visiting Sarah’s family, and hoping we don’t get hit with a foot and a half of snow. We flew in on Saturday, and took a relatively painless Southwest flight to Midway airport in Chicago, where we got a rental car and drove up. Our plan…
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Christmas has come early
Look what Santa (i.e. Sarah) got me! I’ve been on the fence about the eBook thing, not because I am so fiercely loyal to dead trees, or that I see it as some sort of threat to the publishing industry. My main gripe about the Kindle is that it provides such a great reading experience,…
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Requiem for an iPhone
Well, my must-last-two-years-according-to-AT&T iPhone 3G just crossed the magical Apple rainbow at nine months. It was working fine, but it started developing a crack in the back case, just above the dock connector. It probably could have lasted another year, but I figured I would make the trek to the Apple Store and see if…
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A tale of two balls
…baseballs, I mean. Calm down. First, here’s a little early xmas present I got myself the other day: a signed Troy Tulowitzki ball. I netted it from eBay for only twenty bucks. The guy also had Matt Holliday and Jason Giambi balls going for about ten bucks toward the end of their auctions, but I…