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New book

I finally finished Neuromancer after spending way too much time getting through it. It’s just damn hard to find time to read when you have so much other crap going on. Anyway, the book is awesome. I really like William Gibson’s writing. This is the Cyberpunk book. Though,

Voter #1!

That’s right, this morning I was voter number one. How does it feel to be so much less patriotic than me?

Damn cats!

So, Figaro has ring worm. We got back from Sarah’s sister’s Sunday and he had a patch of nasty skin. We did some research online and it appeared to be ring worm. It also appeared that getting rid of it would be an expensive pain in the ass.

Gaming! Yay! Gaming! Boo!

First, the good news. After many years I am going to be playing Dungeons & Dragons again! I’m really quite psyched. I was told the best type of character to create for the campaign I am joining would be a wizard type. So I’ve picked up the latest

Real not being treated fairly by Apple

Real says Apple is not being playing fair by refusing to license it’s FairPlay DRM technology. FairPlay is what keeps you from giving the music you buy from the iTunes Music Store to the masses on the internet. FairPlay is also used on Apple’s iPod. Real decided to

Victory at 88.3 MHz!

Huzzah! Finally, after searching and searching I found it. If I tune my crappy ass FM transmitter for my iPod to 88.3 I can get from home to work (and back!) in relatively static free bliss. I don’t know if it’s the crappy transmitter I have or

Good Apple, bad Apple

I had fun with Apple products this weekend. A few weeks ago my little brother ordered a new iPod from Apple. I have been wanting to get Sarah a green iPod Mini for a while so I asked my mother to order one for me. This way my parents could

End of WWDC

The Apple WWDC is now over. There were some very excellent sessions and some that were not so great. The Quicktime in the Enterprise session was great. Dave Schroeder from UW DoIT showed the Digital Academic Television Network (DATN). People were very impressed. Of course some of the sessions were

San Francisco

Sarah and I have been in San Francisco for a week now. I’ve had the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference to keep me busy. Sarah spent a good portion of her free time doing some site seeing, s you can see from some of these pictures. We’ve had a

Apple and Quicktime

At the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference today I went to a session on the new h.264 standard for video. Very nice. This new codec is a huge step ahead of the current crop. The presenters went through the typical techno stuff that only the digital media people understood, but

The wonders of wireless

I’m sitting in my backyard right now setting up my itinerary for the WWDC while my kids play in their new sandbox. 802.11 wifi is damn cool.

Saying goodbye sucks

We found out last night that our very sick cat Frodo has FIP. It’s one of the 3 killer viruses a cat can get. He’s been really sick for almost 2 months now and it has gotten to the point where he does not even want to move.

The Plague is here!

I cannot think of any other way to describe it. Here’s the low down: Week ago Friday: Noah has a fever, comes home early from school. Vomits that night. Week ago Saturday: She seems to be doing better, has a great day. Vomits again that night. Week ago Sunday:

Damn cats

Frodo has been sick this week. Damn sick. I took him to the vet Tuesday and the vet was thinking he had FIP, which is pretty much a death sentence. He seems to be doing a bit better but damn, he still looks hella bad. I thought I would post

Oh wonderful day!

Today is shaping up to be kick ass! Unsanity just released Shapeshifter 1.2 and Swizcore just released 2 themes! If you are a Mac user you must check this out.

Jebus!

It’s cold. My face hurt for 10 minutes after walking the block and a half from my car to my office. -30 degree wind chill will do that I guess.

Hurray! Home Movies is back!

In case you are not aware, Home Movies is back on Adult Swim on The Cartoon Network. Oh joy of joys!

Happy freakin’ Holidays

What you are about to read is true. No part of this story has been embellished for entertainment purposes. Our story begins Christmas day. The kids (Noah, 4 yrs. old and Jack 20 months) opened their presents and we were all relaxing. As the morning wore on Jack started dragging.

w00t! and stuff (take 2)

So I had posted this info before but a I took it down since I wasn’t sure if certain people read my website. My big news is I got a new job! Starting Monday December 29 I will be working for the University of Wisconsin National Primate Research Center!

Can’t we all just get along?

The other night we went to dinner at the Olive Garden. Sarah and I met there so we had both cars. As we were walking out of the restaurant with the kids there was a car pulling out of it’s spot. A VW Passat wagon was waiting with it’

w00t! and stuff

Uh, I edited this post because I think I need to keep the exciting news a secret for a couple weeks? 🙂

I am SO funny

So, we are all sick in the Anderson household. Sarah has actually lost her voice. Over dinner tonight she leaned over the table and said quietly: “Just talking gives me a headache.” My response? “Your talking gives me a headache too!” Luckily, this was one of those times she could

I think I’m gonna hurl.

After taking the kids to day care I stopped at PDQ and got a 1 Liter Mountain Dew and this big ass chocolate muffin with a bunch of chocolate frosting on it. Why do I do these things?

The age old question answered.

Just what is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? Someone with apparently far too much time on their hands has come up with an answer to the question.

Just in case you ever have to use the bathroom while in zero G

Taken from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. If you ever find yourself in need of some relief while without gravity you’ll be happy you took the time to read this.