Monthly Archives: November 2005

Expressway Heaven!

Posted on November 14, 2005 | Leave a comment

So they’ve finally opened up all the lanes on I-96 from Telegraph to Greenfield (maybe farther but I don’t go that much farther). It’s definitely sped up my ride to a from work! We bottleneck at Southfield now but that’s okay I can always skip it if it’s really busy. It’s the mornings that are always the killer with the ride and traffic. So I’m a much happier camper now…

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Shopgirl – Review

Posted on November 13, 2005 | 1 comment

I had read the book a while back and enjoyed it, I remember it being odd, but I did enjoy it (it seems to me some of the sex stuff was a little odd, but I don’t recall why).

So (and I bet you saw this coming) I saw the movie Shopgirl last night. It seems to be playing at a limited number of theaters. It’s more of an “arts theater” movie than mainstream. I don’t remember how much they used from the book but it was still enjoyable. So it’s really got an array of odd characters.

  • Mirabelle (Claire Danes), the meek/quiet beautiful woman who’s single and pretty much a cat lady waiting to happen.
  • Jeremy (Jason Schwartzman), the eccentric slacker guy she meets at the laundromat and has a disastrous date or two with.
  • Ray (Steve Martin), the older wealthy gentleman who asks Mirabelle out. He wants her but not commitment.

    We’ve got some dry(?) humor, the characters say and do insane things. You know these people, you’ve seen them do and say the stupid things that happen in this movie.

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    Too many of… – QOTD

    Posted on November 13, 2005 | Leave a comment

    Look around your house, what is one thing that you have too many of? One thing?!? I’ve got too many things of several items:

  • Books
  • Magazines
  • Computer and other tech ports

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    Jumping the shark – Friday Fiver

    Posted on November 12, 2005 | 1 comment
    1. Have you ever been to the ocean?
    Yes. The Atlantic and the Pacific. I’ve swam in them both multiple times.
    2. When is the last time you wore a swimsuit?
    I think the last time I had a swimsuit on was about fifteen months ago. I was swimming in the English Channel at the time. (I said in not across.

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    Free-for-all Friday

    Posted on November 12, 2005 | Leave a comment
    1. What is the first thing you did this morning?
    Hit snooze on the alarm clock (several times).

    


    2. How many pictures do you have on the wall in the room you are in right now?
    None. It fell off a few days ago and I need to fix the hook on the back of it. It’s a print of The Kiss by Klimt.

    


    3. If you could go to your favorite store and buy 1 item, regardless of cost, what would it be and why? Nothing that is a necessity!!
    I’d go to the Apple store and buy a new dual-processor desktop system. It’d be loaded to the max with storage and memory (and if a computer and monitor counts as one item I’d get one of their huge beautiful LCD monitors for it). My current desktop is loaded to the max and had an upgrade on the processor and I’m pretty close to the max on everything else so it’s about that time. I think I bought it in early/mid-2001 so it’s getting up there in dog years…

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    If I was in charge… – 3x Thursday

    Posted on November 12, 2005 | 3 comments
    1. If you could write one law regarding the driving laws, what would it be? Why?
    A $500 fine for notusing blinkers (changing lanes, turning, etc.). And double the fines for anything if they are practicing districting driving (cell phones, turned around for their kids, yelling at their spouse) if it’s important enough to endanger others it’s important enough to pull over.
    2. If you could get the entire world to change one thing about itself (the way it works, the way we think on the whole, etc), what would it be? Why?
    To be more tolerant of others and their opinions.

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    New TiVo Overlap Protection Enhancement (so you don’t miss over-lapping shows)

    Posted on November 10, 2005 | 1 comment

    TiVo added a new enhancement this week (or at least it showed up on my TiVo, it might not be on yours yet but it should download it soon) called “Overlap Protection”. Now it can help with goofy network show times, ome shows are scheduled from 9:00 to 10:01 or something similarly goofy, so now the 10 o’clock show previously wouldn’t record it due to the overlap (or depending on your “priority” settings, it might not record the other one). The enhancement is now it won’t skip the second show, it’ll just give priority to the hight priority show and chop the few minutes from the lower priority show! Yeah!

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    If I were to win the lottery…

    Posted on November 10, 2005 | 6 comments

    So if I managed to hit the lottery and get a few hundred million I’m thinking I’d want to share it with my readers. To prove you’re a reader I’d have to have some kind of requirement like you’ve posted a comment in the last six months or something like that; that’s beside the point but it might be a reason to start commenting. I only get a few hundred commenters every six months so what’s a few thousand bucks per commenter if I just got a couple hundred million?

    So here’s the sharing part: Assuming I offer you your dream laptop what would you pick (it must exist, you can’t make up a non-existant machine) and why? I don’t need model numbers, I’m just wondering what features you’ve want/need and what you’d use it for. In good faith, this would need to be a laptop for you to keep and use, not sell.

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