Archive for the 'miscellaneous' Category

Yahoo Sports Hijacked
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

I was just catching up on things I missed today over at My Yahoo!, and I saw this in the middle of the page:

The Yahoo Sports headlines caught my eye. At first for being all in lowercase. Then for how they repeated, section after section. Then, I noticed one called “i’m still [...]

Kitchen Knife Recommendations?
Thursday, July 28th, 2005

Mostly due to the positive influence of M., I’ve been spending more and more time in the kitchen. (This coming from a man who somehow lived in the same Manhattan apartment for two years, yet never even managed to take the styrofoam packaging out of the dishwasher.) And as a result, we’re in [...]

Shall We Play A Game?
Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

I’m not much of a gamer. (Unless, of course, you ask M. — I’m sure she’d tell you that any bit is more than enough.) I’ll occasionally go through a phase in which I’ll pick up the current generation of consoles and buy the big hits. But my attention span is pretty [...]

Capresso Burr Grinder
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

I’m not exactly obsessive when it comes to coffee. I mean, I didn’t rush out and buy the $2,000 Capresso Impressa S9 Espresso Machine. But I do like coffee and drink a fair bit of it, and know that you need a combination of good beans, good water, and good equipment to really enjoy it.
On [...]

On The BlackBerry 7100t
Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

Yes, I am aware that some people call them CrackBerries. And now I know why.

For the past few months I had been planning to upgrade my three-year-old Samsung SPH-A500 mobile phone. As phones go, the Samsung was pretty reliable — it was no classic StarTac or TimePort — but it was a workhorse that survived [...]

Cookies
Saturday, November 6th, 2004

A few years ago, I had described my favorite type of cookies to my good friend, Jen. They are sort of coconutty, sort of butterscotchy, sort of chocolatey, very yummy, and very not healthy for you. So Jen, being the multi-talented and generous person that she is, she invented a recipe just for me. (Jen [...]

Soma FM
Thursday, August 12th, 2004

All I can is that Soma.fm’s 128 kbs “indie pop rocks” audio stream is capable of keeping a dying man alive.
If I’m ever in a coma, please put this on my headphones.

Spam
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004

In order to keep my unto.net email address up and running during the move I set the MX records with EasyDNS to redirect everything to my Gmail account.
Gmail does a very good job at catching most spam, and has the best interface I’ve used so far for quickly removing the spam it doesn’t catch. And [...]

On Quitting Smoking, Part 2
Saturday, July 17th, 2004

Not that anyone cares or would find it relevant to their own life, but I’m now on day seven of quitting smoking. I’ve probably put on about ten pounds (tough to say because I don’t have a scale and actually have no idea what I weighed before anyway), but I’d almost be willing to attribute [...]

On Quitting Smoking
Tuesday, July 13th, 2004

I’ve now gone 2 days without a cigarette. (Californians don’t smoke, and I needed to quit anyway before I did something foolish like turn 30 with an addictive deadly habit.)
And let me tell you something, kids, it’s not fun. If you don’t smoke now, don’t start. You’ll either have to quit, which is the least [...]