Electronics are delicate. The Sony I bought a year and a half ago is starting to fritz out after being carried around in my bookbag for months and after being dropped a few times. Occassionally, the CCD doesn’t pick up anything and all I get is a blank image. A sharp rap [...]
Over the past few years, I’ve gotten sporatic mailings from a former employer, EarthWeb (now Dice.com, with the EarthWeb web sites now owned by an entirely different entity) concerning my 401(k) account. These came about once a year, at various points in the year, and didn’t follow a quarterly schedule. Apparently, they had [...]
I had my first class as a 2nd kyu last night, and it was more or less like classes I’ve had for the past couple months, only with less stress and exertion: Itai will have his own nikkyu test in two months and he gets to be uke until then.
Everyone was pleased to see me [...]
Virginia Postrel had a piece in the NYT today about a recent study on consumer surplus from online commerce. The study focused on Amazon book sales of items below the 100,000 sales rank, i.e., the books that probably would not have been found in your run of the mill Barnes and Noble superstore or [...]
We saw about a dozen different buildings and complexes over the weekend from a list mainly generated from Internet searches, and, at the end of the day, the apartment we found was in a building that wasn’t on our list. We had some time Monday morning, and more or less knocked on a leasing [...]
At long last, the renovations are done, and we’ve combined apartments (just in time to sell before we relocate to Cleveland). The main delay was paperwork: months waiting for papers from the architect, getting approval and signatures from the management company and co-op board, getting the final stamps from the Department of Buildings. [...]
Appropriately enough, Ohio has just been profiled on BlackTable.com in their “Six Things You Didn’t Know About” series, which has so far featured Texas and South Dakota.
The six things in this article are:
the non-accent newscaster’s accent is from the middle of the state
it’s where the Wright Brothers worked and has a big aviation museum
sneakers are [...]
This was a wonderful movie, in ways a Philip K. Dick story with heart and hope and mercy, and I can’t tell you how much I liked it. The basic plot is about two people, Joel and Clementine, who don’t quite fit in the world without each other. They’ve broken up and have [...]