http://www.aioxipa.com/mrg Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 31 May 2008 06:51:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en please learn how to write using proper English grammar and punctuation. The Elements of Style is not an expensive book, nor is the Hacker Handbook. please, buy one, read it, and then post your blog entry. (yes, I'm quite aware about my lack of capitalization at the beginning of sentences. ... http://www.aioxipa.com/mrg/uncategorized/2008/74 So I'm pretty horrible about updating this. So in the past month or so I've been sick, got mostly better, started doing more interesting stuff at job #2, and caused a whole buncha damage to my car (well, more than I was expecting) by hitting a curb. I can now ... http://www.aioxipa.com/mrg/uncategorized/2007/73 So I scored some new wheels and tires for the 7 off eBay.. actual BMW parts, even, which is nice. 15"ers with Michelin tires on them, so when they wear out it'll be fairly cheap to replace 'em. So, I should be able to get the thing home soon, and ... http://www.aioxipa.com/mrg/uncategorized/2007/72 It lives! Now, to learn to drive a stick... http://www.aioxipa.com/mrg/uncategorized/2007/71 yano, there's something I really like about lights. man's struggle to be one with the gods by creating itty bitty little incandescent bulbs to resemble the sun. who knows how we ended up exisitng on a planet that orbits the Sun -- if anyone can explain that to me, they ... http://www.aioxipa.com/mrg/uncategorized/2007/70 so the iMac's gone and i've been using my Mac mini for a while.. the Mini's pretty nice - since I was kinda forced into a general cleanup, I'm benefitting a bunch from that - but it's (again) not the drastic speed change that I was kinda sorta hoping for. ... http://www.aioxipa.com/mrg/uncategorized/2007/69 few things: 1. Wendy's at 12:30 = gross. 2. rollerderby is fun to watch and less violent than expected (which is just a bit disappointing). 3. I am now well on the way to being divested of my iMac. Nov 06-Sep 07 is a pretty good run for me. http://www.aioxipa.com/mrg/uncategorized/2007/68 so, Wilco puts on a pretty damned good show. http://www.aioxipa.com/mrg/uncategorized/2007/67 so it was recently brought to my attention that I never update this thing anymore. well, duh. so, in between the last entry in this one, I moved, went back to comcast (because 5 lots down evidently breaks the DSL), and stuff. I'm now rocking a Mac Mini in addition ... http://www.aioxipa.com/mrg/uncategorized/2007/66 So comcast sucks, and now I have DSL. Yay, 3mbit! I ordered 6. Interwebs suck. http://www.aioxipa.com/mrg/uncategorized/2007/65