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Missing

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

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UPDATE: James Kim’s wife and children have been found. James still missing. Keep checking Google News for updates:

news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1111621719

Update
This web page has videos of news coverage:
http://www.nbc11.com/news/10439630/detail.html

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A member of the tech community has gone missing with his family. Please read the bulletins and let’s hope somebody has seen them!

http://digg.com/tech_news/CNET_s_James_Kim_and_family_missing

http://www.twit.tv/2006/11/30/missing_techtv_family_member

google news links

Official Missing Persons report

Spread the word. Maybe someone will recognize them and phone in.

Blech

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

I feel sick.  I’ve felt like shit for days.  But is that really new?  Kinda dizzy, mildly… lotsa sneezing, but it doesn’t feel like a  cold.  I took clariting and ever since I’ve felt worse as far as feeling run down and now I had a bit of nausia.  I’m going to go take a vitamin and go to bed.  :(

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Sunday, November 5th, 2006

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Thursday, October 26th, 2006

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HAPPY PUMPKIN SEASON!

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

HAPPY PUMPKIN SEASON! Starbucks has Pumkin Spice Lattes, I hear Perkins has Pumpkin Pancakes, I saw a commercial today for the Pumpkin Coffee Mate, and today I found out that Coldstone Creamery has Pumpkin Ice Cream!

Hair and nose (not nose hair)

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

My new piercing and my new red hair…

Schnoz

Friday, October 20th, 2006

I got my nose pierced yesterday.

Hee hee.  :)

It only hurts when I forget it’s there and bang it or catch it.

Coffee

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

I was sleepy, laid on the couch.  Not tired enough to sleep.   Wanted my Pumpkin Spice Latte, but didn’t want to drive 20 minutes one way to get it (nor did M.).  So I dug out my Senseo and cleaned it and made pod-coffee.

Pumpkin Spice Lattes are back.  Not sure when Starbucks started selling them again, but ever since I found out on 9-10 that they were back, I’ve been happy-happy.

Last year I bought all the pumpkin-spice Coffee Mate creamer I could find. (_1_)  (_2_)  It was only out around Christmas.  I still have some, but it’s probably spoiled.  They really need to make it available year-round, or at least for a longer period of time.

I like this Starbucks Gossip blog, it’s pretty neat.

I heart twit!

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

I heart twit!



ShoZu

Effortless mobile Sharing

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Thursday, September 21st, 2006

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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

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Friday, January 13th, 2006

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Site Move

Sunday, December 25th, 2005

I’m moving the domain to new registrars and hosting, so this site may be down for a few days. Just fyi.

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Sunday, December 4th, 2005

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Coincidence?

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

I finally found that statue I was looking for! It was total coincidence how I found it. I had been all over the web and all over town in stores looking for it, and at only *one* store did I ask a sales lady about it, and when I described it she said it was in a catalog that she had at home. So I gave her my card and she just called me w/ the url and item # and now I have two on the way! I’m so excited! Hee hee. It’s here by the way.

They say there are no coincidences.

I want to get one for myself and one for my sister’s grave.

Sunday

Monday, November 28th, 2005

I have a wild hair to mess around w/ the MT structure of this blog. So if I disappear, it’s just because I f*cked up, and I’ll be back when I can get M. to rescue me.

Oh BTW Nala, M is packing up your crack for you right now! :)

I ate too much dessert and now I wish I could throw up. :(

I took a road trip today and I’m so tired now. Road shock. It was a lot of fun tho’. Went to a p|anetarium north of here that burned down a couple years ago and is now rebuilt and SUPER MEGA cutting edge tech! I was salivating, remembering my 10 years at our local p|anetarium which is now in the stone ages in comparison. *sigh* “Back in MY day we didn’t have all this fancy schmancy stuff!”

Happy Turkey Day!

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

Happy Turkey Day!

We are taking “the boys” (the dogs) over to Mom’s for Turkey Day. Watch the moblog for camera phone peeks.

Statue

Monday, November 21st, 2005

I want this statue:


(photo copyright Ian Fraser of ianfraser.com)

Can’t find it anywhere.

Googling

Monday, November 21st, 2005

I went to the library to look something up on google. I forgot to email myself the link. I come home, do the SAME search, and it’s not there. I wonder why. Does it change search results based on the browser? The originating domain? The history/cookies? UGH! I can’t find it now!

Oh dear freaking god!

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Oh my freaking GAWD! It’s not even Thanksgiving yet!! TWO people on our street already have their christmas lights up!

Brain dump

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

Not much is new. Nothing new.

Went to the dr. today and he told me that I have rocks in my head, literally.

Went to lunch and had the best Carrot Cake in the world.

Then took a long nap on the couch, didn’t get enoug sleep last night. Now I’m up late cuz I’m not tired, so I won’t get enough sleep tonight either. Vicious circle.

Tomorrow (Thursday) is my only free day, Friday I have plans w/ a friend, Monday I have plans w/ a lady to help her w/ her computer, Tuesday I might have Jury Duty.

The dogs are great, the cats are great.

Not much to say. Not sure what I’ll do w/ my day off tomorrow. At this rate I’ll probably sleep half of it away (3:11am) It’ll probably involve videogames and starbucks.

What’s up

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

What’s wrong w/ me that I haven’t been saying much?

derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Went to 0rlando this weekend, on Saturday. M’s bro was in town so we went up to meet him. We drove thru hickville on the way there and back. We were only there for the evening. It was good to see him, and in that short time I realized I had more in common w/ him than I knew. I wish M could spend more time w/ his bro. Family is important and we all had a nice talk and I wished M could have more of these great chats w/ his bro.

My arm is bleeding. Why do I keep picking at it?

Today- sushi, iced tea w/ mom, shopping, pumpkin spice latte, drive thru pharmacy for kitty, home.

The lady on tv right now is thin as a stick and has a HUGE HEAD.

Sunday we did nothing but sleep, or, well, I did nothing but sleep. I can’t sleep too well, my allergies are worse and I can’t breathe thru my nose, making sleep impossible. That + road shock = I slept a LOT. I have nothing to report from Sunday.

I need to be in bed.

3:22am, I hear M is up upstairs, is he just up to pee or did he get paged for work?

Today is Wednesday?

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

I guess I’m just not feeling very talktative lately.

Let’s see….

Here’s what I’m “digging” (bookmarking) at digg.com – click here.

You can peek into my daily life via my moblog.

I joined a local paran0rma1 group. It was really neat, I ran into an old friend I had not seen in 15 years so that was really cool. I look forward to future meetings. 2 days after the meeting I got an odd phone call talking about how it was a “cl0sed group” (avoiding g00gle w/ the misspellings) and that I was “invited by accident” but that I’m welcome to keep going since they like me but not to expect to go on any investigations any time soon. Fine. No problem. But WTF!? Sounds like a really strange disorganized and heavily political group. *sigh* So these people from another paran0rma1 group who were at the same meeting liked me so much they’ve officially invited me to join. So I’m pshyced.

I’ve always been very interested in the paran0rma1 but have experienced NOTHING. NOOOOoOthing. It’s like I’m in this isolation box. That or there is NOTHING. No ghosts, no demons, no psychic abilities, no afterlife, no god. Which is it? Idunno. So I go into this as a “hopeful skeptic”.

Have any of you had any paran0rma1 experiences? I’d love to hear of them. Email me, addy on sidebar, as comments are still down due to comment spam. (!!!)

So then last night I have this long involved dream that we’re at a restaurant w/ my dead brother and he asks if I want to see my dead sister (yes I’ve had a lot of loss). I said “sure, but” and I can’t remeber what I said. But I remember saying somethign to the effect of it had better be convincing. I rememebr banging my arms on the table to make sure that I wasn’t dreaming (*), and I could FEEL it so I was convinced it wasn’t a dream. So later on in the dream I meet my sister. She looks the same, is dressed like me, and it’s wonderful. But later on I realize it is not her voice, it’s a different voice and also has a bad southern hick accent. I get angry that once again I’ve been denied a real visit with her.

I wonder if this dream was trying to tell me that the reason I “see nothing”, have had no paranormal experiences, is because I’m so science minded that I’d doubt it was real even if it happened.

(*) Lately I’ve had a lot of dreams where IN the dream I say “well, that’;s ok because this is just a dream” or “wow I wonder if this is a dream or not”. How odd is that?

My pug is asleep against my foot. I love him so much. :)

Strange life.

The pug woke me up too early today so then I got tired later on and slept on the couch WAY too long. Now it’s late and I’m surfing w/ no bra on (*) (*) and have accomplished nothing.

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Friday, November 4th, 2005

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Coffee

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

To this day I still LOVE love love my Senseo coffee maker. It makes coffee for one or two, uses the easy pods, and is ready to make coffee before I can rinse my coffee cup and put sugar in the bottom.

Well at Wa1 Mart yesterday I got this Presto MyPod refillable coffee holder for it so that I can use ANY coffee I want! Not just whats available in a certain size pod!

GoPresto.com….

They make them for Senseo and for Home Cafe machines. And the filters are dirt cheap, like $1.27 or so for 100, so you really do save money. I was thrilled to death tonight to make CHRISTOPHER BEAN
Tiramasu coffee for one in my senseo.

So far my experience is that you need the 1 1/2 scoops to make the coffee strong enough, and for some reason the machine seems to push more water through (making the coffee weaker, hence the 1 1/2 scoops), although I can’t think of a technical reason why the machine would push more water thru w/ a different filter in place. I thought the one-cup and two-cup buttons on the coffee maker was what deterimined how much liquid was produced. Oh well.

I love it.

UPDATE: I’ve decided that if I use the filters for this senseo adapter, it makes the coffee too weak, even if I use the 1 1/2 scoops they recommend for stronger coffee. I find, actually both M and I find that it tastes much better without the filter, you just have to leave a tiny bit in the coffee mug after cuz it’ll be a bit sludgy, but it’s just a tiny bit. Overall it just is much better without the filter. Now, I may find that with different coffees this is not the case, so trial and error I guess.

Skype-ity Skype Skype Skype

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

Idunno what took me so long, but I finally installed SKYPE! Wanna skype me? Email me!

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Monday, October 17th, 2005

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Coffeeeeeeee again

Saturday, October 8th, 2005

OH yeah I was gonna mention this before –

Lewis Black does this comedy rant about there being TWO STARBUCKS at this one intersection in some city. Well I’ve one-upped him. On ONE CORNER in my little town, there will be THREE STARBUCKS ON ONE CORNER!

1) There’s a Barnes and Noble w/ a Starbucks inside (*), 2) there’s a newly rennovated and expanded Target in the same shopping center with a Starbucks Cafe inside, 3) and now in the same shopping center they are building a freestanding Starbucks!

But that’s ok, cuz I’m addicted to their new Pumpkin Spice Latte. :D

Oh, and I found this neato Starbucks Gossip Blog:
http://starbucksgossip.typepad.com

[[* I have a friend who is a manager at a Barnes and Noble and she corrected me, it's not a starbucks cafe, it's a Barnes and Noble cafe proudly serving Starbucks coffee. And don't you forget that!]]

UPDATE: From an Amazon interview:

“Amazon.com: Can you talk about the genesis of a bit in your routine… How long does it take you to get it from that germ of an idea–from reading something that drives you nuts–to honing it, trying it out, getting into your act full-time?

Lewis Black: OK, let’s take Starbucks. I’m going down the street–I’m in Houston. Some restaurant offers me a free meal. I don’t pass that up. So I jump in the cab and go to this restaurant. And as we’re driving there I see a Starbucks across from a Starbucks. And then I’m at the club and I went onstage and I said to the audience, Do you guys wanna come on out here? Follow me out here to the end of the block and we’re going to stand out there until one of you explains how the f–k this could possibly happen in my country. And it started that way. And I yelled about it and yelled about it.”

from: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature…..

Backups

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

So my main pc upstairs died. It’s basically a file server as that room is too hot to sit in and I’m now in the habit of using the laptop downstairs. But all my files were on there. So I moved my two external backup drives downstairs and hooked them up to the laptop. What a bitch crawling around plugging stuff in in that sea of wires.

bitch bitch bitch

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

f*ck f*ck frickin’ yay

Last night I installed the trial version of Flexi Music Wave Editor and after that my laptop has been running SO FREAKING HOT and slow, even when the program wasn’t running. Maybe it was coincidence, maybe not, I do not know.

I uninstalled it.

And then my PSYCHO PC upstairs went to shit. This pc has been nothing but trouble since we built it. It’s just awful. Now it’s clicking and not booting. All I can say is thank god for my two external hard drive backups. So long as those are ok I won’t panic.

That and our internet is just dog slow today. Ugh.