Archive for January, 2005
Monday, January 31st, 2005
I played poker last Tuesday. It was my regular game with people from work. We had 14 people show up and we played No Limit Texas Hold 'Em. We had two tables of 7 and I was the 4th person out at my table. I never get far enough to ...
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Friday, January 28th, 2005
I remember when I was a kid in the 80s, Coca-Cola had a contest where you if you collected the phrase "Have a Coke and A Smile" (or something like that) from bottle cap tops that each had a letter, than you win the grand prize. In addition to letters ...
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Thursday, January 27th, 2005
I have stated many times in many posts that I own an iPod and that I buy digital music from the iTunes digital store. The beauty of iTunes is that Apple makes it very easy to load the songs you purchase onto your iPod and take your music anywhere.
Napster offers ...
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Friday, January 21st, 2005
I just got off the phone with a resolution specialist from Home Depot. She informed me that the store manager will not raise his offer to compensate us $500 bucks for the kitchen fiasco. I'm not going to give up though. She's going to have another resolution specialist review the ...
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Friday, January 21st, 2005
We got our first big snowfall of the winter. I hate snow. In case we were trapped in our house over the weekend, my wife wanted it to be fun-filled. Usually, I become a grumpy, head case when I can't get out of the house, so I didn't blame her. ...
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Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
...you put lotion on your hands and it burns like hell. I've been washing my hands like crazy lately because my daughter was sick over the weekend with some kind of stomach virus. More on that later. My son went to bed with a fever last night, so I'm crossing ...
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2005
Well, the big Apple announcement came yesterday. As rumored, Steve Jobs introduced a flash-based iPod and a sub-$500 Mac.
I'm still up in the air about the new iPod shuffle. It's cheap, cheap, cheap at $99 for the 512 MB version. Almost cheap enough that I'd consider buying it just to ...
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Tuesday, January 11th, 2005
Kids can be funny. Jokes can be funny. Kids telling jokes is pure comic gold. Everyone probably remembers this classic Knock-Knock Joke:
Knock-knock
Who's there?
Banana
Banana who?
Knock-knock
Who's there?
Banana
Banana who?
Knock-knock
Who's there?
Banana
Banana who?
Knock-knock
Who's there?
Orange
Orange who?
Orange you glad I didn't say banana.
This joke is funny on its own (if you've never heard it before or in ...
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Monday, January 10th, 2005
I love rumors -- especially rumors based in technology. Interestingly enough, once the rumor is proved as fact, I lose interest.
For instance, last January, Tivo announced that its TivoToGo feature would be ready for release in Fall of '04. This feature allows Tivo owners to move programs to their PCs, ...
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Wednesday, January 5th, 2005
Well, I was so dissatisfied by the service I received from Home Depot during our kitchen remodeling job that I wrote a letter to express my frustration and demanded a 20% refund. I sent the letter to the president of Home Depot and dropped off a copy at the store. ...
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