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The Twitterverse answers my comic book question

July 19, 2010

As a kid, I never got into comic books all that much.  I sus­pect that the only comics I ever read were the free Whiz Kids comics from Radio Shack.  Seri­ously.  When the League of Extra­or­di­nary Gen­tle­men movie was on the hori­zon, I picked up the graphic novel upon which it was based.  I love […]

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AVI video to the iPad & iPhone">Streaming AVI video to the iPad & iPhone

AVI video to the iPad & iPhone">Thumbnail image for Streaming <span class=AVI video to the iPad & iPhone" /> April 10, 2010

A few weeks ago on Twit­ter, I asked the lazy­web if they knew of a way of stream­ing an AVI (or really, any video for­mat that is not directly sup­ported by the video player) to an iPhone for view­ing.  This was before the iPad, so that was not even a con­sid­er­a­tion.  There were a number […]

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Questions for the wearers of glasses

February 5, 2010
Question

Back in Sep­tem­ber, I started wear­ing glasses occa­sion­ally for com­put­ing.  Since then, I have been get­ting used to the idea of wear­ing glasses while read­ing and work­ing at the com­puter.  The main prob­lem I have faced has been keep­ing them clean.  I think this would not be as big of a deal if I wore […]

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The routine Giving of Thanks post, with a side of Black Friday

November 27, 2009

Last night I went to Thanks­giv­ing din­ner at a friend’s house.  It was sort of a com­bi­na­tion of a fam­ily Thanks­giv­ing and an orphan Thanks­giv­ing.  In ear­lier years, Kim and I would occa­sion­ally host orphan Thanks­giv­ings, but many of the folks we would typ­i­cally invite over are start­ing their own fam­i­lies with their own Thanksgiving […]

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Piece of Sale / Point of ****

August 29, 2009

Some­thing I have been notic­ing with increas­ing fre­quency at POS (that’s Point of Sale, not Piece of ****) ter­mi­nals is an option to pay with mul­ti­ple credit cards.  I worked in retail many years ago and know that pay­ing with mul­ti­ple cards has always been a fea­ture that is on the store employee’s side of […]

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My library-loan audiobook dilemma

February 2, 2009

As I under­stand it, I am pretty late to the party when it comes to bor­row­ing audio­books and DVDs from the library.  Although I have been aware of their avail­abil­ity for many, many years, I only checked out my first audio­book on Sat­ur­day.  From what I hear both anec­do­tally and sta­tis­ti­cally, more and more people […]

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Not-so-Christmassy Christmas movies?

December 24, 2008

I was lis­ten­ing to Strange Love last week and the topic of Christ­mas movies came up–specifically, not-so-Christmassy Christ­mas movies.  There was talk of films like Grem­lins and Die Hard–both of which took place on Christ­mas and had strong Christ­mas themes, but were not in-and-of-themselves Christ­mas movies.  I might add Brazil to the list.  I’m having […]

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Grind-N-Brew Suggestions?

October 10, 2008

I have had a Cuisi­nart Grind-and-Brew (pic­tured) since the mid 90’s.  It has served me well, but I fear that like my recently dead car­pet steamer from that same era, it is on its last legs.  Recently, I arrive to set it up to find it is “off” even though it is plugged in and […]

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Don’t forget the milk

October 2, 2008

Does any­one have expe­ri­ence with Remem­ber The Milk?  Does it work well for you?  What do you like/dislike about it?  How do you inte­grate it into your day-to-day life? I really like Ever­note and its online/offline/desktop/web/iPhone inte­gra­tion.  I really like my 3x5 cards, but find that cer­tain tasks don’t work too well with them (e.g. […]

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Evernote?

June 24, 2008

Do any of you folks use Ever­note? What do you use it for?  How do you, specif­i­cally, use it in your life? And have any of you Ever­note users also used Yojimbo at some point in the past?  How do they com­pare?  I’m using Yojimbo for all of my lit­tle notes (project ideas, notes to myself […]

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Azureus replacement?

June 18, 2008

Nev­er­mind.  I found on my own that Trans­mis­sion plus Clutch should do exactly what I need. I’ve been using Azureus as my bit­tor­rent client of choice for years.  It’s true that in the past year or so was bun­dled with some crazy, crappy, bloat-ware inter­face full of adver­tis­ing and stuff.  BUT!  There was always an alternate […]

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Millions of peaches

June 10, 2008

How come there have been a ton of arti­cles on Digg through­out the day that are all “ZOMG! Con­gress is prepar­ing to impeach Bush!!!!1!” yet the NPR site still has noth­ing about it?  Is this “impeach­ment” hearing/proposal/whatever really of any substance?

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