Memnison Journal

We tossed our many-years-old and majorly defective strings of Christmas tree lights, and are in the market for a new set.  A thought crossed my mind, though - are there such things as LED Christmas lights for trees and if so, where can they be found?  (Or if you have a good source for Christmas [...]

Kindle problem #1: The machine has been continually locking up on me. Had to hard reset it several times, and finally called up Kindle Support.
 
That was actually quite interesting. You go to the Contact Us link, click for a phone call, and it asks for YOUR phone number. Fill that in, and [...]

Susan managed to drop her new Centro phone in the sink, and it’s apparently good and fried.  We got a Torx T-6 to open it up, and she and Rich Rostrom were working on it, but it sounds like it’s a goner.    So she’s getting a essentially-free-after-rebate replacement…she uses her PDA constantlty, and backs it [...]

On the way to the airport to pick up Meredith Ellen, I was droning on to Susan and Meredith Grace and Kathy about the new Kindle,  and all that it can do.  (It’s internet-active, and you can tool down the highway and surf the internet…without flash and with problems in rendering graphics and page cosntructs, [...]

What I can mention is that the New Year’s Party was a good time, though a little frazzling.    I also spent a good deal of the day in the library with Rich Rostrom, who stayed over and was helping me with getting all of my stuff out of the closet under the stairs in the [...]

Actually, it’s pretty bone dry in the basement, and just laying out the stuff so it can rapidly dry seems to be making a LOT of headway.  Yeah, it’s not going to be as neat to store, but the entire idea was to scan the suckers and pitch them afterwards, so that the only copy [...]

The carpet fan is whirring away in the background, and I think we dodged the bullet on this one, at least as far as  It Could Have Been Worse.  The major damage that isn’t replaceable is a small stack of papers I’d set aside for scanning, which were on the floor in my office.  I’m [...]

This was a very odd Christmas for me; some really high points and low points. Some old traditions unexpectedly brought back, and some things mucked.  Julbord and full holiday report after the cut:

Toshiba’s getting out half-terabyte solid-state drives (designed for laptop use…)

HBO production and presently running on that network.  My take on it is that it’s a once-funny;  I have a hard time watching gangster movies because I really don’t get off on people beating and killing each other, especially if the people involved doing the beating are serious scum.   This is SOPRANOS GO BAGHDAD; [...]

Joe Cool and his faithful Scandinavian sidekick, Woodchuck, at a Kennedy Space Center photo thingy.   Memorial Day weekend, 2007.

I have been having a LOT of problems with my eyes recently in regard to reading things, and set up an appointment a while back with the eye doc that the rest of the family sees.  (I’m the only one who didn’t need glasses to function; Susan had LASIK surgery a while back, and does [...]

No more Polaroid film.  Digital’s killed it.
Whole Paycheck Foods is having problems, and people are going for store generics everywhere in grocery stores.
Mark Penn can’t imagine how he hurt the Clinton campaign for President.
China is having serious upsets and problems due to the recession elsewhere; if nobody buys the stuff you make, [...]

*glyph of annoyance*and another*
*notice of attempt to retcon Anne of Green Gables with a made up new origin*
*Or when they retconned the USS Rittenhouse into mad Admiral Rittenhouse who wanted to rule the universe in Star Trek fiction - aaargh*

An outfit back in my hometown in Dayton, Ohio, called “Excellence in Motivation” (they’ve been setting up employee incentive programs for 15 years for big companies) just laid off about 15% of its staff…first layoffs ever.
Various reports are coming in to me of layoffs and hurry-up-and-retire efforts at Adobe, where the new CS4 suites and [...]