One of my favorite gameshow hosts of the 1980’s, Peter Tomarken, and his wife died in a small plane wreck over Santa Monica Bay today. I used to watch Press Your Luck! a lot when I was a kid, and for years after it was off the air on the USA Network every time I […]

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As previously mentioned, I decided that today would be the day that I switch out my DVD burner from my upstairs desktop down to the MythTV. Initial tests indicate success! The drive made it through Family Guy: The Stewie Griffin Story, which was previously one of the DVDs that would continually fail in the old […]

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Last night we ventured to Champaign/Urbana for dinner and a concert. At the recommendation of and we went to Radio Maria, which is a relatively fancy restaurant. They assured me that I would be able to find something that I would eat, given my tendancy toward being picky. I knew I was in trouble when […]

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This morning marked the triumphant return of my Dad. He and I arrived around 10 after 8 this morning and started in on our kata training. I was able to knock out 20 Sochin, however I was fighting the whole way to do it. For some reason I’m turning my feet out before I move […]

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Tonight my lovely wife and I finished watching 2001: A Space Odyssey. What a great film… Kubrick was a genius. I want a HAL-9000 casemod now worse than ever. Tasha’s so smart… she was using the long theatrical sprawl of the film to start her film analysis engines running. She was remarking about the film’s […]

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Than cinnamon and sugar toast. I don’t know if it was the Big Steel Toaster’s virgin run or not, but that thing does a really good job. We got that toaster for our wedding and it has been more an art deco piece than it has been an appliance for us, I’m pretty sure it […]

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I was flying high tonight from the good news of my promotion at work, so I decided to celebrate the best way possible: with some Sochin. I knocked out 10 before class started. They caught up to me quickly. The first class was very basic, and my thighs were cramping the whole workout long. The […]

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I am pleased to report that my annual review went well. Very well. I got a very good rating (a 2!) and a promotion to IT Analyst II. And I didn’t even have to make a case or fight a battle to get it done. I’m thrilled right now… it almost hasn’t sunken in yet […]

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And no, Matt, this post is not intended for you to post the Hasselhoff Recursion. Please do not do this. It scares . Now that this matter of business is taken care of… does anyone ever feel like they are surfing a very small endless loop of the same websites? For me it’s: Slashdot, BoingBoing, […]

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I found this petition that is going around to get a Linux port of iTunes from Apple. I signed it. It only has a few thousand signatures so far, but hopefully this will spur Apple to do something good for the Linux community.

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