Tonight was the season premiere of “The West Wing”. Overall, I feel it has gone downhill since Aaron Sorkin left as the main writer. But, things had to change… they couldn’t change the laws so President Bartlet could keep being president beyond his 8 year limit. But, their attempts…
Yesterday we went to a store called Marshall’s, which is part of the TJ Maxx group. It’s basically the same store with a different name. I bought this Wusthof chef’s knife for $25 (it might not be the exact same knife, but it sure as hell looks…
Holly isn’t feeling well and is asleep. I grabbed my powerbook and flopped on the couch here, put on “The Mask” and loaded up Poker Room and started playing a free Sit and Go match. 10 minutes later, I had took my $100 of play money to $500. The…
As a followup on the DVR saga, Comcast called three times today to come by and service my cable television. Guess the guy from yesterday “forgot” to cancel the second service call. I called and lectured a supervisor about the idiotic string of failures. I spoke with a lady who…
I have been properly punished by the TiVo gods for my decision to defect to Comcast’s DVR. Let’s see, where do we begin. Last week, I called Comcast and ordered a DVR and requested to move the digital box to the bedroom. They scheduled the service for between…
Well, I feel like I have hit the big times. I just deleted 65 trackback spams. I feel like someone noticed. Hooray! (well, really, Thanks to the new anti-spam features in MT 3.2).…
I just got off the phone to order a Comcast High Defination Digital Video Recorder to replace the TiVo. Why you may ask? Well, there were a dozen stories today about TiVo locking down shows based on flags set in the broadcast. This feature of the Macrovision copy protection scheme.…
Today, I got an e-mail from Classmates.com telling me that Erin Svalstad sent me a message. I didn’t recognise the name so I logged in and looked at it… one of our senior class officers got married and was notifying us that the Class of 1996 would hold…