Archive for June, 2005

iTunes to make the album disappear

I’m taking a road trip next week to go see Stevie Nicks, and one of the best things about road trips is the uninterrupted time to just listen to new music. So I was shopping around last night on iTunes to see if there was any new music I could add into the iPod […]

Starting a neighborhood association

Kevin Kramer, the city council representative for District 11, organized a meeting last night to try and get the ball rolling on a neighborhood association in Four Seasons. That’s the development where I live (actually I’m in Four Seasons II which was one of the more recent phases in the neighborhood). So I […]

The Tomorrow People

What is it about the Brits and cheaply-made science fiction television? We’ve all heard about Dr. Who of course, with its infamously cheesy special effects. But the production values on that show look head-and-shoulders above The Tomorrow People, a 70’s-era Thames production which I just stumbled across while browsing at Wild And Woolly […]

A great lunch

Fridays are good to begin with, but this Friday was extra good. The lunch crowd I usually go out with decided to ditch our usual destination (Jucy’s, a BBQ joint) and try Shalimar instead. It is a great lunch buffet on Hurstbourne. Not cheap but well worth the money.
Best bets were the […]

Helping out at Pitt Academy

So tonight I helped out at Pitt Academy, a local Catholic school that seeks to help students with learning disabilities by providing personalized education. They’re relocating to a new building (the church had to sell the old location, in part because the school is struggling with budget problems due to lowered fund-raising). The […]

Cashews are the perfect snack

I stopped by the Walgreens on my way home tonight. Not to pick up a prescription or any other kind of drug. It’s just the most convenient place to grab some milk–at Krogers you have to wander all the way to the back of the store to find the dairy section, at Walgreens […]

Comic-book movie weekend

This past weekend was kindof a comic-book-movie weekend. Movies based on or inspired by comic books.
Saturday night I dragged my projector out onto the patio and finally watched Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I’ve had the DVD forever and just for some reason haven’t gotten around to watching it until this past […]

Burned my first DVD this morning

So last week the laptop I ordered from Best Buy arrived. It’s an HP Pavillion, one of the models they customize for various retailers based on the dv1000 platform. Only got a Celeron, but the specs are excellent for an $850 laptop–512 MB RAM, 60 GB hard drive, and a DVD+/-R & RW drive. […]

FInally finished Angels & Demons

Lately I just haven’t been able to sit down and just read when I get home. Used to be something I could do readily but lately I’ve just been restless when I get home. So I’ll flip thru the TV for a while, browse the Internet, wander thru the used CD store, […]

Finally used up a sheet of stamps

A couple summers ago I bought one of those sheets of 20 self-stick stamps. Bought it at a grocery store in the Bay Area, because I had to actually mail a letter to a person who didn’t have email. Yeah, I know–who doesn’t have email these days?
So anyway, I bought the whole sheet […]