Monthly Archives: April 2006

Just Try Not to Pop My Bubble of Seeming Neutrality

Tuesday, 18 April, 2006 – 10:15

Sem friends should be aware that I will be on campus this upcoming Wednesday to help demo the product I’m managing at convocation.
You know and I know you don’t have any classes, so I expect to see you there. I may even eat lunch in the general vicinity.
Or we could go out. You [...]

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And to Think You Figured I Was Actually Going to Update This Thing Every Day From Now On

Tuesday, 18 April, 2006 – 10:06

Yes, it’s true:
I was on a bit of a streak recently, what with the daily updates and all.
Appears that’s all come to a screaming halt.  Lots of things have been going down, and unfortunately, this kind of thing tends to take a backseat to other things in my life.  I am sure you can understand [...]

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I Haven’t Seen Them Myself, But I Hear One Hundred Eighty Thousand is a Lot of Dollars

Monday, 10 April, 2006 – 16:10

The title is fitting as we have recently (and by recently, I mean last Saturday) signed a contract and placed a deposit to build us a new house. This would be an old topic if it were not for the fact that Amanda and I look at each other approximately a dozen times per [...]

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They Are Not Actually In Flight, According to Eyewitnesses

Thursday, 6 April, 2006 – 16:01

Amanda e-mailed me earlier this afternoon to share with me the following:
ha ha ha….just so you know, we have one superman, and one supergal, complete with capes…
This, of course, demands a phone call to follow up on the situation. I discover from the eyewitness at the scene (their mother) that they are standing up [...]

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I Hear This Links Post Can Run Two Operating Systems

Wednesday, 5 April, 2006 – 15:57

The nerd news of the year (and it’s only April) leads off this installment. (Now page-divided for your viewing pleasure!)

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This Links Post is All Marketing and No Engineering

Tuesday, 4 April, 2006 – 15:05

The links of the day post you’ve all been waiting for.
Reuters: Sony’s UMD format is on the way out
Tell me something I don’t know. Yet again, Sony comes out of the technological gate with a great technology that might be useful in some kind of application, makes it proprietary, restricts it to the point [...]

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The Greater Dalmuti Commands You To Check Out These Links

Monday, 3 April, 2006 – 15:30

It’s been quite a while since I’ve managed a links post like this, but it’s been a pretty good day for finding random awesomeness, so I’ll begin:
Funagain Games Item Entry: The Great Dalmuti
We’ll open with quite possibly the best news I have seen in a good while. Hasbro/WotC have decided that it is within [...]

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