Over at Music City Bloggers, Malia asks: will all your holiday dreams come true if there’s a little velvet box waiting for you under the tree? My holiday dreams? Do not involve jewelry boxes. At all. As I said in
Furnace not blowing heat, but will blow cool?
At some point today, the furnace stopped coming on periodically to blow heat, even though the house was noticeably cooling off. After a few hours, we tried switching the setting on the thermostat from “Auto” to “Fan,” and air did
Sorry about all the movie-watching
Check it out: “The anonymity of the Netflix Prize dataset has been broken by a pair of computer scientists from the University of Texas[…]. It turns out that […] it’s straightforward to find a match by comparing the anonymized data
Even Google can’t make your turkey cook faster
I’m so amused by the numbers of top searches in Google today that have to do with preparing a turkey. People, if you’re just now starting to wonder about how to cook it, it’s probably a good idea just to
Twitter Updates for 2007-11-20
non-matching test results make my brain hurt. is a or b the better option? how will i ever know? gah! #
What constitutes a kickass song?
I’ve got a playlist on my iPod called Kickass Songs. I’m listening to it right now. Right now what’s playing is “Guarded by Monkeys” by Cracker. And I just listened to “Cowboy” by Kid Rock, but I’m wondering what for
It’s finally soup weather
I know they say not to blog about what you ate for lunch, but Karsten and I just shared the soup Jon made and gave me to sample. It was great! And I had to write about this because I
I did it!
I finally managed to pull up the blinds in the morning without scaring all the birds away from the feeders. Normally the cats are looking at me like “gee, thanks, dumbass.” Now they’re entranced by the dozens and dozens of
Cross-medium inspiration
I’ve been getting creatively inspired a lot lately. I already talked about going to hear the Peter Plagens lecture at the Frist and how creatively inspiring that was, but then on Thursday night we went to the Société Anonyme show
Thanks, Josh Ritter, for getting me ready for Monday
Monday is the anniversary of my dad’s death, again. It was a reflective time for me last year and it’s looking like it will be the same this year. I can tell because last night we went to see Josh