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Feeling bad about feeling bad about feeling bad about feeling bad…
I left something out of my last post. That would be my Catholic guilt. Yes, I was raised Catholic and spent grades one through five being indoctrinated into the faith. Every Sunday we went to Mass, and every Friday it was time for confession. Ah, those were the days. I’d get in that little booth,
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True confessions of quiet desperation
Wow, I just realized that it’s been two weeks since I last posted a personal blog entry! Over at my work blog, I’ve been more productive. Why the silence? ‘Cuz I’ve been suffering an identity crisis, that’s probably the best way to describe it. Here’s the thing: since I graduated from college, way back in
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MacWorld 2006
Three days, lots of information, much rushing around, information overload, exhaustion, looking forward to going home and crashing. That’s my summary of MacWorld San Francisco 2006. We’ve been up here since Monday, and have been having a great time. We saw Steve Jobs’ keynote on Tuesday and so saw the announcement of the first Intel
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I don’t know why I think this is so funny
There’s this new interactive talking book out (for kids, in case you were wondering) called “Potty Time with Elmo.” It is, as I understand it, a book about the joys of potty training written by enlightened adults for the little tykes still peeing in their diapers. If Elmo can do it, you can too! All
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Will work for bandwidth…
*rant on* Chuck works at home fulltime, and he makes his living on the Internet. Given that, a broadband connection isn’t a neat thing, it’s a necessity. We started out here in Long Beach with DSL through Verizon, which was okay: upload speed was around 126kbps, download speeds were better at around 500-600kbps. Now admittedly
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Supporting iPod cottage industries, one toy at a time
I got an iDog for Christmas. It’s pretty cute, although a tad demanding. Hooked up to the iPod it periodically barks and flaps its ears in a plaintive attempt to get my attention as it listens to whatever is on the iPod. If it isn’t hooked up to the iPod then it just yips, rocks
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