Archive for January, 2005

Wesley Snipes better have other options

Just saw Blade: Trinity tonight at the dollar theater (well, actually the $3 theater). Boy I hope Wesley Snipes has other career options besides trying to make a fourth Blade flick. Because this one was just awful.
The series has followed the traditional arc of most sequels–the first movie was good, the second was okay, this […]

My Duo has arrived

The Duo I won last week from eBay has arrived. It was waiting on my door step last night when I got home. Had to let it come up to room temperature of course, which drove me crazy. I so wanted to just turn it on but I knew that was a bad […]

Oral yeast infection

So I was at the allergist last week, meeting with the cute “nurse practitioner” Angie (don’t know what that title means, aren’t all nurses practicing some kind of medicine?). And I heard something I hope to never hear again–I have an oral yeast infection.
The yeast is this yucky-looking white stuff that is on the roof […]

Best quesadilla ever

Had lunch yesterday at El Nopal, a Mexican restaurant I’ve never been to before. It’s in a weird location–behind a now-defunct K-Mart shopping center. But it was the best quesadilla I’ve ever had.
We’re not talking those wimpy skimpy little quesadillas you get at Taco Hell. No, this was a real meal–big helping of […]

Let the gambling resume!

The Caesars Indiana river boat casino has been closed for the last week-and-a-half. Two consecutive weekends, which must have hurt their revenue for this first quarter. Anyway, the Ohio River has cooperated and dropped low enough to let them re-open today. Conveniently it’s the MLK holiday so a lot of people, including me, had the […]

Rising price of a cheap movie

My favorite cheap theater, the Village 8, has increased their ticket prices by 50%. Instead of $2 it’s now $3 to see a film. Supposedly this price makes them a mid-price theater and they will get first-run movies sooner.
I don’t know that this was an issue–they always seemed pretty crowded to me even if the […]

I got a PowerBook Duo

Okay, it’s a weird sickness but a couple days ago I won an old Apple PowerBook Duo on eBay. Unfortunately the guy is in Canada and for some reason he decided to ship via the state-owned mail system up there, Canada Post. So it’s gonna take a week or two for it to arrive.
Well, that’s […]

We’re throwing out too much crap

So there was a story this past weekend in the Courier-Journal about an organization called FreeCycle.org. They let people offer up free stuff that they’d ordinarily throw away, and then other members can chime in hoping to claim the freebies. The idea being of course preventing stuff from ending up in the landfill. […]

Inventor of SPICE has died

One of the un-heralded giants of the electronics industry passed away over the holidays–Donald Pederson. He invented SPICE, the standard program every electrical engineer uses to simulate the behavior of their semiconductor circuits. And he was a true visionary because he made SPICE open-source back when nobody had even yet coined the term.
Amazing […]

Put down my deposit for a PSP

Yes I am in fact an uber-geek, I’ve put down my $20 deposit on the Sony PSP that I’ve been lusting for these past few months. I guess really though I’m not a true uber-geek, because I would have already bought the Nintendo DS as well. That’s the kind of thing an uber-geek […]