Jim Rittenhouse's semidaily journal of news, commentary and reports
If I’ve been quiet again, it’s because my main PC in my office downstairs (where I’m exiled to pending the doc saying I can go up and down stairs again) has been zapped by a nasty virus. It got past my Trend Micro antivirus, and started disconnecting various things on my PC (including the virus [...]
…if y’all have any experiences with the service, mention them here; I’m curious how well this will work and how useful it will be.
…new fall show showing up on TV this fall. This is totally a guess, but my take is that sometime in the recent past, a group of around 50 scientists came to ‘our’ timeline from an alternate one that was more advanced than ours – similar enough to communicate well, but the difference / advancements [...]
This year, we consolidated our bank stuff from three different banks to one local credit union; two of those banks had just been eaten in big-fish eats littler-fish takeovers (one of which was handled by the FDIC as the bank went bust), and we were paying a hideous amount of money in fees for sneezing [...]
University of Dayton basketball playing for the NIT championship, 7 pm. Be there. Aloha!
Couple makes ‘wedding trailer’ as an announcement of their upcoming wedding for family and friends: it’s VERY funny. Helps if you’re some kind of film buff….watch for 2012, Matrix, Bruce Lee and other references in the video. Look for the Vietnamese subtitles…
The Bruce Schneier Action Figure! At $100, it’s a steal! Be the first on your block! Now, i’m just waiting for the RJ Johnson and Bill Roper Auctioneer Action figures…
We’re facing a foot of snow or better in the next 24 hours, and the phone and internet are *already* up and down like a windowblind today. Highly annoying. Comcast says it’s weather-related failures – which makes me worry about what we’ll do if we get first snowed in and then frozen with sub-zero temperatures! [...]
The typewriter turned out to be broken; the carriage does NOT advance when a key is struck – you have to keep hand pressure on the thing to move it with each key. Everything else is in good shape. Anyone who has a good idea of where in the Chicago area I might get this [...]
Christmas Eve is usually the day we spend with Susan’s aunt and mom at Susan’s aunt’s house in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago; dinner is followed by passing out the presents (a small child is usually too excited to sit through dinner in any sort of relaxed fashion, and is the elf who supervises the [...]
As some of you may have sussed out, since November of 2007, I’ve been working 99% of the time out of my basement office…with a huge long line of doctor’s excuses, bases on either my non-healing foot wound, or my weak response to infections casing raging problems on and off. The office finally said that [...]
This year we decided to buy a big household present for everyone rather than a lot of stuff (of course, Mere still makes out, but…) so the big add was a combination of an HD TV for the living room, and a HD TiVo and a Blu-Ray player to go with it. This is changing [...]
http://www.newsweek.com/id/225492/page/1 The Power of Two: http://www.newsweek.com/id/225098 Photo gallery of the kids, etc. The Intro picture is particularly stunning. This has been in the works since spring. Newsweek came in with a Pulitzer-award winning photographer who was fresh from covering the White House and Obama and Bush to do the shots. The interviews mostly were around [...]
Meredith’s 10th birthday (and that of her twin sister Mer, of course) is today, and we are having a series of birthday parties for her; the first included Susan’s aunt(s) at their home in Elgin over the weekend, and the next is a just-the-household one tonight, and then this Saturday night, Mere has five pals [...]
Some extra notes on the show: The Digital Deli’s excellent posting on the history of the show and its cast; very much worth a read. (PDF version ) Other logs and listening locations: Old-time.com (txt) Otr Network Library (real streaming audio links) Freeotrshows.com (streaming mp3 links) Waybackradio (mp3links to various shows up on the Internet [...]