Archive for January, 2006

Decent Filipino food arrives in Louisville

We finally have one decent option for Filipino food here in Louisville–a take-out/delivery place called Sari Sari. I had the chicken adobo and the leche flan on Friday, both were excellent. If I have a complaint it’s that they only used drumettes (the small drumstick-shaped part of a wing) in the adobo. […]

Free mailing labels

So I rarely send physical mail anymore, almost everything can be done online these days. Pay bills, communicate with friends, all of that stuff is easier and quicker to do on the Internet or via email.
But every now and then I do find I need to mail an actual postal letter. […]

They should label both the clean and explicit versions

I agree it’s a good idea that the record industry labels explicit albums with that little parental advisory sticker. But the problem is you don’t always know whether an album has a clean/explicit version. So it’s possible to accidentally buy a “clean” version, because you don’t know you should be looking for the […]

Canadians swing to the right — sort of

Canadians last night voted out their Liberal government in favor of the Conservative party. But it’s a minority government yet again, just like its predecessor Liberal government. Meaning they won’t really be able to shift policies hard to the right as they will need to find coalition partners to help them govern.
That’s kindof […]

Another white guy promoted

Oh look, yet another white guy promoted to a senior management position in a major Silicon Valley company. I think that’s hardly news, they shouldn’t waste bandwidth putting that out as a news story.
What would be news is when they promote a person of color, or a woman, or somebody who’s both. Of […]

I’m way out of touch with pop music

There used to be a time when I was really into pop music but clearly those days are long behind me. The proof is that of the 100 albums Amazon picked as the best of 2005, I only own two. Neither of which is in the top 10 either.
I’ve got Kanye West’s Late […]

God bless Richard Stallman

I’ve never met Richard Stallman, but judging from his picture and his statements at a recent public forum, the guy’s a bit of a fanatic. But God bless his particular brand of fanaticism, because it has given us the open source movement.
The General Public License, created by Stallman and propogated thru his GNU and […]

I hate changing passwords

For a while now, my employer has had a rule that you must change your Windows password every 90 days. It’s baked into our Windows network–the system starts popping up reminders about two weeks before the due date for your next password switch.
That was fine with me, I have a set of passwords that […]

What’s for dinner?

I’m in line at the Meijer this afternoon, and I’m trying to figure out what the other people in line are going to have for dinner. Based on the contents of their shopping cart.
So the woman in front of me was pretty simple–she had a five-pound ground beef. Not only is she having […]

Comet probe returns, Pluto probe departs

If everything goes well, NASA’s Stardust probe will land somewhere in Utah on Sunday. It contains cometary material that it picked up during an encounter with the Wild 2 comet nearly two years ago. Since then it has been making its way back to earth with the precious cargo.
Then on Tuesday next week, […]