If you like the Geography (and I know you do) then you must check out the Degree Confluence Project. I think I need to go out and get a GPS unit and go on a series of road trips. Two very different movies I saw recently both gave me the same feeling. Scary Movie was funny in spotty places, but overall felt like it was…
January 5, 2001One of the biggest complaints that I received over the past holiday season, was that its extremely difficult to buy me anything. To aid everyone out there, I have created an Amazon.com Wish List. Now you can all shop for me to your heart’s content. The Clapper saga continues. It looks like there is a limited range to the sensor, but I suspect that it…
January 4, 2001Last night we installed the Clapper. Just a note: It is not as easy as the old lady in the commercial makes it out to be. You just can’t do clap-clap. It’s more like Clap-Pause-Clap-Pause-Pause and then the light comes on. Of course if you are in the three-clap outlet it is Clap-Pause-Clap-Pause-Clap-Pause-Pause to get it to work. Other sounds that seem to trigger the…
January 3, 2001Alex, Billy, Roger, and I joined Joe and Susie up in Santa Barbara for New Year’s festivities. We started at a Mexican restaurant on State Street (which is the central club/shopping/anything-fun-to-do street in Santa Babs). After everyone was good and full, we proceeded to check out what the various bars on the street had to offer. Most of them were charging $20 for overpriced drinks…
January 2, 2001Our group headed out dancing in WeHo. It was a good night all around. People were in a good mood, and we kept running into people from the “Christmas in the Ghetto” party a few weeks back. Did I not mention that party? It was at Cory and Peter’s and featured many ghetto decorations. For example: an artificial tree with rolled up plastic grocery store…
December 29, 2000Jean-Michel Jarre is giving a concert in Okinawa, Japan on New Year’s Day and it will be web broadcast. Last year, the Twelve Dreams of the Sun concert was web broadcast from the Giza Pyramids of Egypt and it was a success – even at 56k. Now that I have DSL at home, I hope to be able to enjoy the whole thing sans glitches.…
December 28, 2000This time, we rented a 2001 Nissan Altima GXE Limited Edition from Budget. The car had some good power and comfy seats, but the interior was a bit unrefined. It had many of the same elements that the interior of my Xterra has, but with a worse air-conditioner control unit. Some of the highlights of the annual gift exchange: a Clapper, some clothes from Gap,…
December 27, 2000Silophone is back! Silophone is back! Silophone is back! Be sure to have your Real Player installed. A description of what I believe is the ultimate time waster from the Silophone website: Silophone is a project by [The User] which combines sound, architecture, and communication technologies to transform a significant landmark in the industrial cityscape of Montreal. Located in Montreal’s old port, Silo #5B-1 was…
December 22, 2000The absolute worst place to impulse buy is Costco. You can easily ring up $200 in items before you know what hit you. As much as I enjoy shopping at Costco, I can never get food items there. By the time I get near the end of say, a box of cookies, I have no desire to eat cookies for months. DVD’s and Video Tapes…
December 21, 2000Five days before Christmas, I have officially begun my shopping. For those of you who have someone on your list who doesn’t need anything or hasn’t decided what they want, may I suggest a donation in their name to the National Childhood Cancer Fund. I like donating to them because they have one of the highest ratios of how much they get in donations to…
December 20, 2000