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Boredom begone Comments Off

Today I found www.stumbleupon.com, and i’m not sure if I’ll ever be bored online again.

Sometimes you need loud music, sometimes you don't Comments Off

Between Bill and myself, we’ve got a very respectable music collection, heavy on the ecelectic. I’ve got all of mine plus maybe a third of his on my external hard drive, and stream tracks directly to our old but still very servicable stereo. I don’t work well in total silence, and usually something’s on for [...]

In other news Comments Off

I had jury duty today. My civic duty included sitting around in the Bergen Co. couthouse for seven hours before being told that the trial they needed us for had been settled out of court, so we could all go home. Thank god I brought books and an iPod. And my sketch pad. And lunch.

Google Reader Comments Off

So, I have a gmail account, but I don’t use it much. I *do* make frequent use of Google’s “customize your homepage” feature to get my news headlines all at a glance, but I’ve been holding off jumping onto their web based feedreader – my last online reader was newsgator (the folks that bought feeddemon, [...]

Fun with yarn Comments Off

Every year I try to get myself a little something silly for christmas, just because. (And yeah, I’m hard to shop for. Even when *I’m* the one doing it.) This year, I’m trying out a knitting loom. (All those fancy yarns at Michaels are *soooo* seductive). This isn’t that radical a departure, as anyone who’s [...]