a telemarketer called me on my work phone to try and get me to buy a subscription to a local paper.
telemarketer(TM): sir, i want to get you this great opportunity to receive the blah blah blah.
me: oh, i’m not interested in that.
TM: but sir, i’m not even asking you for any money, i just want [...]
lowe’s has shipped me a gift card with a credit for the amount of my order. the only reason i know that they did this was because i got an email from lowe’s telling me that the tracer for the order has been completed and a merchandise card is being shipped to me.
the problem [...]
because there is so little tv on these days, my netflix shipments just aren’t coming fast enough. i’ve been going through movies pretty fast. even though they come pretty quick after i send them out, it’s still pretty slow going. i wonder if it will go out any faster if i drop [...]
after the latest changes to the online photo album, i’ve been really happy with the results. i love, love, love the way that the photos zoom up and down. i love how the gallery looks. it’s the first time where i feel like the UI for the gallery is acceptable.
being a lazy [...]
i have always thought that i would be able to have a 100″ tv screen. sure, it’s true that the room that my tv is in isn’t very deep and a 12′ throw might be a little short to project out to a 100″ screen, but…maybe it’s still possible.
it turns out that after some [...]
this is going to be a horribly boring post for those who don’t care or like computer hardware.
i’ve been talking to a bunch of people to see what they do about backups. i admit that i’ve been pretty bad about maintaining backups and i have finally decided that it was about time for me [...]
ugh, hard drive issues again…
my main storage drive failed on me and so it’s time now for me to start thinking about how i am going to solve my storage needs. how much storage is enough these days? i was surviving with around 500GB, but it was starting to feel pretty cramped. [...]
i thought that shanghai kiss was recommended to me, but the person who i thought recommended the movie to me said that he didn’t have any recollection of recommending the movie to me, but did see it and did like it. anyway, i saw the movie over the weekend.
i’m not crazy about the star, [...]
my trusty laptop has been with me through thick and thin for i’m guessing about the last 4 years. it feels like it’s been forever, but it really struggles running current apps. it used to be that having 768MB of ram was a big deal, but now i don’t think you can even [...]
i must have missed the boat last season because this is the first time i’ve heard of it before, but dryer’s is putting out american idol ice cream flavors!
they are: cheesecake diva, cookies ‘n dreamz, mint karaoke cookie, most orange-inal, one split wonder, and triple talent.[1]
i only saw the cheesecake diva, cookies n’ dreamz, [...]