As I had written about before, American money is ugly compared to foreign currency. The Bank of England website shows off the Brit’s colourful currency. The Euro is also loaded with colors. Here, we get drab, ugly banknotes. The US Treasury has started to add “splashes” of colour to…
The NAS document is coming along, but not as quickly as I’d like. I find that I sit down and load it… and nothing makes its way from my brain to my fingers. I can say that my NAS implementation has been rock solid since I put in the…
I had heard from several people (although, I cannot recall who) that the new McDonald’s coffee was pretty good and that they liked it better than Starbucks. I have taken the Pepsi Challenge, and I can confirm that those people are clearly insane. I’ve had better coffee at…
Keith Olbermann rips the government for its handling of, well, everything, after 9/11. He is very clearly speaking from his heart. Go Ken. Update: 10/21 – Yeah, so I was flabbergasted when I posted this and hosed his name. Sorry Keith. 🙂…
Woohoo! FourThree day weekend! As we start one of the Unique American Holiday weekends, I’m looking forward to three days of hanging out at the house and doing some cleaning. I would like to be playing Dead Rising or something on the Xbox 360. Shame it’s dead. Oh,…
Saturday morning (ok, technically it was early afternoon, but nevermind that), I woke up to The Wife saying “Come look what I bought.” I trudge out half asleep to the living room. I look in the office and see a black and steel futon by the window. I assess it…
Yesterday, Apple announced they were recalling 1.8 million batteries for iBooks and PowerBooks. Turns out, there have been some problems with Apple laptops catching fire just like the Dell laptops. This will be our third battery each due to safety recalls. But, I’m not complaining. I was in…
College pranks rock. This is one of my favourite. Thanks, Kotaku!…