Monthly Archives: April 2004

Family Fun – 3x Thursday

  1. Do you keep in touch with most of your family (internal and external) members? Why/why not? Here and there, I think I keep in touch less now that I moved back to the Detroit area.
  2. If you’ve lost touch with some of your family and friends, is it time to call them up and find out how they are, or do you even care? I haven’t seen them much lately but I’m doing Easter at my place this year so that’ll be fun. Many of them haven’t even seen my place.
  3. Are you afraid to contact someone that you haven’t had communications with in a long time? Do you think they’ll be pissed that you haven’t called in 5 years? Or do you think, “better late than never”? Better late than never. Sometimes it’s hard when you wonder what they are expecting, or vice versa…

Bonus Question: How do you react when someone (friend or family) that you haven’t spoken with (for whatever reason) in years contacts you? I always like it, it’s fun to catch up and see what people have been up to when you haven’t talked to them for a while.

From 3x Thursday.

Home Improvement – Thursday Threesome

Home for geeky toys and some sleep.

  1. Onesome: Home- What’s the one thing your dream home must have? Every room, closet and porch wired for networking, speakers, audio, video, satellite, cable, phone and (of course) electricity.
  2. Twosome: improvement- What’s the one thing you would change about your current home? New bed, couch? New carpet or wallpaper? Or something major like an addition? I live in a condo on the 3/4 floor, if I thought I could get away with a hot tub on the balcony, that would be it. But I think it’s probably going to be a new bed, actually the bed isn’t old but I need a new mattress, maybe one of the spongy memory foam ones.
  3. Threesome: shows – Do you ever watch home improvement shows? Which one(s)? Do you actually learn anything, or is it simply entertaining? Not really into the home improvement shows. They are kind of bizarro, IMHO.

From the Thursday Threesome.

Your house on a magazine cover!

“When the 40,000 subscribers to Reason, the monthly libertarian magazine, receive a copy of the June issue, they will see on the cover a satellite photo of a neighborhood – their own neighborhood. And their house will be graphically circled.”reasoncover
How cool is that?!? I wonder how many people will notice it right off the bat? FYI Nick Gillespie is the editor of Reason, so his name is on the sample. They focus a lot on custimization of magazines ads and catalogs.

“What if you received a magazine that only had stories and ads that you were interested in and pertained to you?” he asked. “That would be a magazine that everyone would want to read.”

FYI – If you subscribe by Friday, April 9th, you’ll get the personalized issue with your subscription. (A least that’s what their web site says)

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Quote of the Day, Every Day!

I now have a new item in my Today section on my links column. So with the Sun, the Moon, “my” weather, word of the day there is now the Quote of the Day. As with everything else it gets updated automatically, so if it doesn’t change, it’s not my fault…

You can click the links to go to the main page of the site or click on the author to see other quotes by the Author. Today’s quote was
“Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.” – Mark Twain

PS – I’m always looking for more additions to my “today” section.

The last two… – Tuesday Twosome

  1. What are the last two movies you saw? Butterfly Effect (excellent!). Paycheck (pretty good).
  2. What are the last two TV shows you saw? Keen Eddie (always fun). West Wing rerun (always good).
  3. What are the last two items you purchased? A computer projector to use as a TV (still debating if I like it). Some new tennis shoes.
  4. What are the last two beverages you drank? Water and OJ.
  5. What are the last two sites you surfed (before coming here)? Heck, I don’t know I went to the Movable Type page and was checking out the new posts somehow found a link to the TT…

From Tuesday Twosome.

Experimentation

Trying out some backgrounds to fill in that old grey space. Trying to make it so it’s easy to change the colors to make ‘skinning it’ easier. Background tiles are from Citrus Moon Patterns.

5=Time*Money squared – Friday Five

    If time and money were infinite, what are the five things you’d love to learn how to do?

  1. Learn how to raise a child (via doing it).
  2. Travel into outer space.
  3. Write a book.
  4. Program my own computer operating system.
  5. Learn to Paint.
    Which of these do you think you’ll do anyway, no matter what the economic and temporal restraints are?

  1. Raise a child.
  2. Write a book.
  3. Travel to outer space (if they ever open up public travel.)

I’m not sure if this is my ‘regular’ Friday Five or a different one. It’s delayed since I couldn’t find it on Friday.

Daylight Savings Time – Bah Humbug!

My body has a natural rhythm or at least it’s supposed to. Messing around with my internal clock doesn’t help. Here I am knowing I need to sleep but my body is really telling me it’s an hour earlier (because it is). I think the daylight savings time thing is just a money making scheme made up by Hallmark and all the other greeting card companies! And it’s the people who have to suffer because of it!