Archive for January, 2004

Louisville Boat & RV Show

So last night I went to the Boat & RV show over at the Louisville Fairgrounds. There were some really cool boats and RV’s out there.
My favorite boat (mostly because it’s small enough to fit in my garage) was the Sportster from Sea-Doo. Very stylish, I was so tempted to talk to the sales guy […]

Rex’s first Gas & Electric bill

Yesterday I got my first real bill from Louisville Gas & Electric. I’d gotten a prorated partial month’s bill in December, but it only had like two weeks plus the installation costs so I wasn’t quite sure what a full month was gonna cost me. Now I know–$143.
That’s a good bit higher than […]

KFC the victim of bird flu

Man, and I thought switching to chicken instead of beef would keep me safe from these weird diseases circling the globe, but now comes the bird flu. And it has claimed a corporate victim–KFC has closed their restaurants in Vietnam. At least until they can figure out where to get chickens–might even have to […]

2004 Razzie nominees

The Razzies, which celebrate the very worst of Hollywood, have announced this year’s nominees. Gigli, the J-Lo/Affleck film that so thoroughly tanked last year, heads the list with the most nominations.
I can’t believe though that they’ve nominated Angelina Jolie as Worst Actress. I mean, anybody who looks that good in lycra outfits can’t […]

Sir Bill Gates?

Well, he won’t officially be able to call himself “Sir” but Bill Gates is set to receive an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. Oddly enough, a number of British government agencies are experimenting with open source software to replace Microsoft products.
Well, those experiments probably won’t slow the inexorable march towards Microsoft’s ultimate global […]

Kentucky’s Ice

Had the first real winter event since I moved here to Louisville–a major ice storm. This morning I ventured out thinking I would go work out at the YMCA but it was so slick and dangerous I had a change in plans. Instead I just went to Kroger’s, bought a paper, and then […]

Google Orkut

I wonder if Google is going to make a business out of the social network site they recently launched. Well, one of their engineers launched it that is–a site called Orkut.
It’s kinda cool that Google encourages their engineers to do personal projects like Orkut, and Google News. Frankly I love Google News, couldn’t live […]

Loving that Dish DVR

Okay, I know I should have been the good citizen last night and watched the State of the Union speech last night. But I didn’t–instead I was watching Mark Philippoussis dismantle the 2002 Australian Open winner, Thomas Johansson.
Watching it, that is, on my Dish DVR. I’ve had the thing for about […]

Microsoft takes on 17-year old kid

Microsoft admits now that they may have been too agressive when they took on a 17-year old kid who registered the domain mikerowesoft.com. Seems the kid’s name is Mike Rowe, and he does Web design part time.
You wonder how a nice huge mega-corporation like Microsoft, which probably employs more lawyers than most countries, could […]

White men dominate science posts

Like this is really news–a survey has found that the top science professorships at major universities are largely held by white men. Even at universities where the large majority of doctoral students are women and minorities.
It’s kinda sad that racism exists in a field that should be above that, but clearly the sciences are […]