The last two movies D and I saw in theatres were Iron Man (two weeks ago) and Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (last night). We had low expectations for both films, for different reasons, but ended up enjoying…
Year: 2008
Dr. HotSync or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Outlook
Regular readers of this blog will recall that I was disappointed a few days ago by the lack of non-sucky ways for my to sync my PalmPilot’s calendar with my Google Calendar. You’ll be happy, I’m sure, to know that…
Who Ya Gonna Call?
Ghost Patrol, apparently, to avoid any copyright issues. Appropriately enough for an east bay-based Game Control (Lowkey and Desert Taxi), this Game is starting in Emeryville–at the Woodfin Suites Hotel, which Team Snout considered for the start of our egregiously-trademark-infringing…
Go Stanford, Go Scales!
So there’s a picture of me in the current issue of Stanford Magazine, accompanying a sidebar about The Richter Scales. Speaking of the Scales, they recently won a Webby Award for the viral music video “Here Comes Another Bubble,” and…
Disappointment
So I was all excited earlier this year when I heard about Google Calendar Sync, which would not only export my calendar data, but actually sync it with another application. Unfortunately, it only syncs with Microsoft Outlook, and I use…
First of May
Time to celebrate spring! But first: I’m serious. Do NOT click the “play” button below unless you’re prepared to see and hear graphic depictions of adult situations. Yes, it is just WoW machinima, but it’s quite explicit. You have been…
Free Comic Book Day
Since we’re currently traveling, and I don’t have the time or access to resources I would at home, I get my news from an odd variety of sources. For example, it was a hotel copy of USA Today, perused over…
Jane’s Forbidden Book Kingdom
Over the weekend, D and I saw two movies from opposite ends of the genre spectrum: The Forbidden Kingdom (in a theatre) and The Jane Austen Book Club (on DVD). Both were enjoyable, for different reasons. Kingdom is all archetypes…
Trash, Treasure, and Trade
THDI, a term coined by my friend Jeff, stands for “Trash Heap Development Index.” Remember that for later. Two weekends ago, as part of the process of moving out of our house, D and I sorted all our worldly possessions…
Smart People
Editorial Note: Since I’ll be on the road for the next few months, most of my blogging will happen over on Travels With Our Cats. You can subscribe to both blogs using my combined feed from Yahoo! Pipes. (Not responsible…