Archives for August, 2005
PIMP Certification
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
You know what’s sad? Quickly glancing at a copy of PMP Certification for Dummies, thinking it was PIMP Certification for Dummies.
DSL…
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
So, after years and years of waiting for pages to load on my dial-up Internet connection, I finally went ahead and bought DSL. And what’s the first thing I download using my new found high speed?
The new Crazy Frog album. Yeah, it’s a bit sickening - but I’m addicted to that Axel F remix. […]
designing for experience
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
Designing for Experience
Interesting presentation which includes the re-designing of a library to better meet patron’s needs, both online and in person. (via kottke)
lucky…
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
We were distraught over broken tree limbs and power outages. We were lucky.
Looking at all those aerial shots reminded me of the tsunami disaster a few months ago, but this time it wasn’t some foreign country thousands of miles away. It’s right next door, and it was caused by the same thing that howled right […]
what a week…
Saturday, August 27th, 2005
Well, Thursday night proved to be quite a rush with strong winds, blackouts, and falling tree limbs. Quite a bit of debris in front of our house, but no major damage. Can’t say the same for others a couple of miles away from us who are suffering from heavy flooding and newly installed skylights.
We weren’t […]
looking for casino chips? Heathen!
Friday, August 26th, 2005
Looking for “casino chips” on walmart.com?
Hmm, how about a Bible instead?
Um, that doesn’t look right…
Thursday, August 25th, 2005
Found the other day while looking up Boys Will Put You on a Pedestal (So They Can Look Up Your Skirt) on Amazon:
scrabble babble…
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
A Beautiful Endgame
Results of the 2005 National Scrabble Championship, where the final rounds pitted an American mortgage underwriter and a Thai student.
Panupol demurs when asked how much he studies word lists. Two or three hours a week, he says. But the other day, as Panupol stayed perched atop the leader board, I asked his […]
bookstore…
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
Neat tips on opening up a small, used bookstore
…something I’ve dreamt about doing for a while now.
here we go, again…
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
A tropical storm is expected to bombard the coast of Florida sometimes tomorrow, and severe weather is pretty much expected through Friday.
Yep, Friday.
Not just any Friday, mind you, but a Friday that Green Day is playing in concert. And I doubt Green Day will play on an extremely rainy day.
A particularly gloomy weather […]
