Month: March 2008

[All of my reviews of Skin MD™ Natural are here.] Let me preface–for those new to my blog, especially–that I am somewhat cynical by nature. With that being said…I can easily say, though, that Skin MD™ Natural lives up to its reputation and hype. The results after 2 weeks? First, the flakiness of my forehead…

In all fairness to the initial post… I received a reply Saturday from Mr. Ahlbum, from his Blackberry, actually. (Pasted, so did not correct errors).Thanks for your response, I completely understood your frustration and I am sorry if ny words did not adequately convey that sentiment to you. I certainly did mot mean to insult…

Found a phenomenal blog post criticizing more of the nearly- (or in some cases, clearly-) moronic statements regarding the recent CA ruling on homeschooling and certification:http://principleddiscovery.com/2008/03/14/homeschooling-elitist-and-anti-democratic/ Check it out…hits back logically and with references. PS You’d think that if the libs in CA and elsewhere were right, that homeschoolers would be performing poorly compared to…

So I’d grown accustomed to the default fonts in Mint, and hadn’t had any issues since the font smoothing. But today I decided to install the Windows TrueType fonts….and wow, what a difference! It’s not so much the fonts themselves, just that nearly everything online and off is built using them. So websites look different–heck,…

On Thursday I ordered something from Office Depot’s website after failing to find locally–was something I needed for a project this weekend and then to ship off to the east coast. Item was in stock and qualified for free Next Business Day delivery. So Friday afternoon rolls around and there’s no delivery, so I check…

Yesterday at some point our heat died, so yesterday evening I got the opportunity to troubleshoot our furnace. A little different from computers and networks, but same general troubleshooting steps, including turning to the Internet for help and, as it turns out diagrams. So appeared to be either the thermostat or thermocoupler. Went to Home…

Yes, this really is the front of his new shirt. And each of them applies (though he’s not really in trouble much…)

No, not some pet or something I saw…it’s a Mexican restaurant in Tacoma. And we went there for dinner tonight. It’s a small hole-in-the-wall type of place off of 38th St, next to Dightman’s. Great service, good authentic food, and great prices. Highly recommended.

My scambait of a Nigerian 419 has officially ended. Unfortunately, I didn’t get anything out of him, but did successfully waste a week of his time. Because of the nature of this, I probably will not post details here…but may give some general outline of what transpired with some audio of voicemails received.

That was easy. A little too easy, if you ask me. But you didn’t, so nevermind. Showed up for jury duty and was greeted at the assembly room by a gentleman asking if there was any reason I couldn’t serve the entire two weeks. I hesistated about 3.4 milliseconds before saying yes, whereupon he directed…