Category Archives: knowing

fact based reasearch

Yeti in the Jeep

Sometimes you find giggles in the most unexpected places…
In the past couple of weeks, Tim and I have been trying out various third party GPS systems for the Jeep. And by various, I mean two. They both seemed adequate at getting us places, but the Garmin is the clear winner.
The Tom Tom had [...]

Will Portland learn from the greedy music industry?

Today Ars Technica is reporting that "Variable download pricing correlated with slower music sales." Remember a year ago when iTunes dropped DRM but allowed the greedy music execs to raise the prices of popular songs? Let's take a look at how that panned out.
Ars says:
As noted by MediaMemo, this slowdown in growth has [...]

Happy New Year

Who's to say where we'll be in the end of…

First time for anything, I suppose.

Tonight I installed a new dual-band Airport Extreme base station. I have been having problems with the older Airport Extreme non-dual-band since moving out to G-Town and setting up digs in this apartment I tend to call home. So the opportunity presented itself for me to upgrade to a dual-band system and I jumped [...]

My Wedding

What an amazing night. You could feel the joy in the room.
I'm not sure I've ever been so happy. It was the most joyous night of my entire life.
I was surrounded by my nieces and nephews, my cousins, and the family that I have chosen to embrace. My high school friends, my nerd [...]

5 Days until the wedding

We have almost everything taken care of for the wedding. It's been an interesting road.
If you've never planned a wedding, then you won't understand why it's such an exhaustive process. You see, everyone has a perfect image in their minds about what a perfect wedding should look like. And it almost never does look [...]

Nice Touch, Apple (tv)

This morning while I was eating breakfast in the living room, I was also streaming music from the bedroom over the airport network in my house.
It's no secret, but a lot of people never really pay attention to these features so let me explain.
The Mac Mini in the bedroom was playing the music over the [...]

You go, Obama!

Wow, The President of the United States just won the Nobel Peace Prize!
How cool is that?
Does that mean that The USA is beginning to regain some of the respect that it used to have?
Is that why conservatives believe it's the apocolypse?
What a cool thing to wake up to this morning!
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Danish [...]

Bed Bath and Beyond is OFF the list

So tired of advertising that is bait and switch. I'm doing a soft boycott of Bed Bath and Beyond.

Say it with me: Chu-pa-cab-ra

"There are all sorts of strange animals that are roaming the woods here in south Texas…then there are those animals that you just don't know what they are…"