The apt has been a total geekdom the past 2 weekends. I’ve been building my own computer, because I’m not happy with anything available from the big vendors like Dell and HP, and I don’t trust the smaller outfits. Also, I’m a very hands-on kind of guy. If I can do or build […]

I took a life expectancy questionnaire today, and was a little surprised I wasn’t chided for my drinking habits. Instead I was told to keep it up!
Having 2-3 drinks a day has maximized your life expectancy
Bring me another!

The New York Times has a story today on the scarcity/popularity of the Wii:
“Nintendo is afraid that if it makes too many Wii, the boom may crest too quickly,” said Masayuki Otani, an analyst at Maruwa Securities in Tokyo. “It doesn’t want to satisfy all demand right away.”

I’d been skeptical about paying extra for “clean” or “green” energy options from ConEd before. We got another mailer this weekend, and this time I put a few minutes into research and I’m glad I did. Their “Green” option will let you sign-up for a month-by-month variable rate. This at first sounds a little […]

Now I want to go to St. Maarten just to hang out on the beach and watch planes land:

More here.

There’s a Hobo Foundation, a Hobo Museum, and a Hobo Cemetery in Britt, Iowa. Apparently, when a hobo passes away his pals say s/he’s “caught the westbound”. Here’s a sampling of some of the westbound’s riders:
MOUNTAIN DEW
SLOW MOTION SHORTY
A MAN CALLD JOHN
LORD OPEN ROAD
CARDBOARD
HAIRBREATH HARRY
KING DAVID 1
SONNY SLIM CHANCE
TROUBLE
STEP AND A HALF
FLORIDA BOY […]

When I saw “Canine Freestyle” I was expecting some unintelligible doggie rapping/howling. This golden retriever doesn’t rap, but he puts my dance moves to shame:

January 15th and still no snow. This is sad news for a Florida boy who still finds excitement in the first snowfall each winter. Clive Thompson was asked to write about the future of NYC weather for New York Magazine. The short version:
The Five-Year Forecast
Unseasonably warm, with freakish snowfalls and chance of cyclone. […]

If you have to ask how long something will take to complete, consider Hofstadter’s Law:
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

Ha ha! All the headlines this morning read “Man shot in PS3 waiting line.” But the REAL tragedy here is the poor kid who ran into a pole as he was racing 50 others for a chance to buy a $600 game system.
Short supplies of the PS3 and strong demand led to […]