Archive for June, 2007
Thumbs way down on Ruby Falls
I’m spending about 24 hours in Chattanooga, TN on my way to Atlanta for the week of July 4th. Got into town around 10 a.m. and have spent most of today at the various Lookout Mountain attractions. I’m now sitting in my room at the Motel 6, tomorrow I’ll be seeing the Tennessee […]
Grease for lightbulbs
The little computer in my car alerted me yesterday that the right turn signal was busted. So I went to the AutoZone to pick up a replacement bulb. It’s kindof cool, the bulb has two filaments in it because one is the tail-light and the other is the signal/brake light.
Anyway, at the store the guy […]
Dammit, Steven Levy liked the iPhone
One of the few tech journalists that I think gets it right more often than not, Steven Levy liked the iPhone. That’s a pity, I was kinda hoping the reviews would be bad. Not that I want Apple to fail but I just thought the hype was way overboard.
But Levy seems to think the hype […]
Courier-Journal finally realizes an Apple store is coming to Oxmoor
The intrepid reporters from our local newspaper finally learned about the Apple Store coming to Oxmoor later this year. A mere three-and-a-half months after I mentioned it back in March.
I wonder what finally clued them in? Might have been the big black wood panels that block the new storefront location in Oxmoor. Even though it’s […]
And to think I almost watered the lawn on Friday
I am so glad that I’m lazy, because if I had watered the lawn on Friday it would have been a waste of water and money. We’ve finally had two good days of soaking rain, not enough to really break the drought but it will help. We’re still no doubt many inches below where we […]
Fastest time from release to second-run
The movie DOA: Dead or Alive was just released last Friday at the first-run theaters, but this week it has already arrived at the second-run Village 8 theater. That has to be some kind of record, one week in general release before being dumped at the bargain theater.
BoxOfficeMojo shows that it earned less than $1,000 […]
My boss is leaving the company
Got some really bad news today. My boss is leaving the company, he’s moving to take a job in Nashville. The move makes sense both professionally and family-wise. At the new gig he’ll be leading a data warehouse project from scratch, not struggling to work with a big mess of a warehouse like we have […]
One sad, lonely bag of grass clippings
Tuesdays are the scheduled yard-waste pick-up in my neighborhood, and unlike the last two weeks I actually had something to put on the curb this morning. But not much–a lone garbage bag of grass clippings. And not even a full bag, it was maybe just two-thirds full.
That’s all the clippings I got from mowing my […]
What, the Courier-Journal fails to make Top 30 Newspaper Web sites?
The list of the Top 30 Newspaper web sites for May just came out, and once again the Courier-Journal here in Louisville failed to make the list. Not a surprise, we’re hardly a big media market of any kind here.
I was surprised to see that SFGate, with 3.7 million visitors in May, is still trouncing the […]
11 months between Amazon.com orders
I just ordered a couple things from Amazon (main thing was an HD-DVD edition of Forbidden Planet), and when I was done it occurred to me that I didn’t know when my previous Amazon order was. So I clicked the link to view my order history and it turns out it has been well over 11 months, […]