Jack Valenti’s exit interview

What would you say to a mom who wants to make a backup of her kids� DVD movies?
When you go to your department store and you buy 10 Cognac glasses and two weeks later you break two of them, the store doesn�t give you two backup copies. Where did this backup [...]

“I’m saying we don’t know…”

From http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_08/004587.php:
“I’M SAYING WE DON’T KNOW”….Josh Marshall links today to the latest smear from House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Lloyd Grove reports:
“You know, I don’t know where George Soros gets his money. I don’t know where — if it comes overseas or from drug groups or where it comes from,” Hastert mused. An astonished Chris [...]

Caffeine break

Bit the bullet, got a half-caf coffee - I need to write up some more docs, and nothing puts me to sleep faster, even when caffeinated. I’m taking a break while the half-caf kicks in.
My new little PC is running <a href=http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/>Seti@Home</a>, and doing just fine. I thought that if anything, running SETI overnight would [...]

Coffee demons

I’ve gotten into some bad habits lately; my coffee consumption is up to 4 cups a day, plus one or two diet cokes scattered in over the rest of the day. The problem is with guilt by association; I usually end up getting a pastry, muffin, brownie, cookie, etc. to go along with my cup [...]

Therapy

Guys in the past used to go in their garages and work on hotrods as a hobby; for me it’s old PCs.

I got an HP Pavilion 4540 from a company I used to consult for - it was way too cute to toss on the pile, and it had some upgrade possibilities.
It’s an ASUS mobo [...]

Bleaurgh

I’m meeting my family back in my old stomping ground, and riding the same train my dad rode for the majority of his working life. Trains aren’t a bad way to go, as transit goes - I’ve got a seat with a view, it’s $3.00 one-way, and it’s almost always on time.
<lj user=euthymia> waxed poetically [...]

spoils

I need to rush out and buy a Blackberry for an executive of mine who’s going to be traveling next week. I think that if I need to rush out and expense something on my card that I should get 2 and have them pay for mine.
As if.
I think my nextel speakerphone and ghetto 2-way [...]