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  • Use my iPod?! Are You Nuts?!

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    I love the iPod. Its sleek design, its shiny and unbelievably vivid color display. Just looking at the marvel of consumer technology sends me into daydreams: caressing the clickwheel, my thumb ever-so-gently navigating through 30 gigabytes of music and movies and photographs, rocking out to Belle and Sebastian, showing off home movies and snapshots of…

  • The Apple Store Forces Man to Jump Through Hoops

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    As a follow-up to my heartwarming tale of the $500 MacBook, I am sad to say that the online Apple Store has failed me. I mentioned in that post that the MacBook was slated to arrive a few days after we left for vacation. So, as I hinted, I was toying with the idea of…

  • Early, Unlike His Father

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    I had a dream that Liam came early, and I wasn’t witness to the birth. The murky quality of my dreams tends to obscure specifics, and last night was no exception. For some inexplicable reason, I was stuck visiting a friend (who, in real life, is one of my most vile enemies, which is odd)…

  • The $500 MacBook

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    I’m very excited about my new toy, which we ordered online last night after a failed attempt at reaching the Apple Store before closing. Here’s how it works: Natania’s dad needs a notebook, so we’re selling him my G4 iBook for $800. I’m taking that money and putting it toward the MacBook, and then giving…

  • Instant Fahrvergnügen

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    or, HOWTO Organize and Access a Thousand Volkswagens This is absolutely amazing. From Autostadt in Wolfsburg, a new way to garage and retrieve Volkswagens: Anyone considering buying a new car usually does a lot of careful research before coming to the realization: this is it! At Autostadt, we think the moment in which you receive…

  • Mice and Cameras and Disposable Income

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    We were on the futon, watching “House” last Thursday, when our cat, Jolie, sprinted into the office. Natania noticed that she was chasing something largish, or rather something larger than her usual fare: mosquito hawks, beetles, etc. I believe my wife’s exact question was, “Is she chasing a mouse?!” Interrobang added for emphasis. Jolie was,…

  • Google Reader Loves Me

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    … And I love Google Reader. So, last Friday I posted about some issues I was having with Google Reader not displaying my reading list properly. Four hours after my post, Chris Wetherell from the Google Reader team somehow finds my entry and gives me some feedback. He wants to make a “house call,” and…

  • Google Reader Hates Me

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    Yesterday at work, I was playing around with my Google Reader to ensure that an RSS feed for a client’s blog would work properly, and I somehow succeeded in completely borking my news reader of choice.

  • So Many Splendid Sundays To Come

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    My God, I am in heaven. They’re doing a second printing of the amazing Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays!, the collection of many of Winsor McKay’s greatest Sunday Nemo pages. This thing is just beautifully made. It’s actual size, too; each comic is lovingly restored at 16×21, as originally printed a hundred…

  • The Internet is Broke

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    It’s lovely when you open your browser and half your Google Homepage tells you that Information is temporarily unavailable. Then you click your RSS reader and it, too, does not work. Then you check the forums that you regularly read, and they’re down. Add to the mix that you, yourself, aren’t feeling up to par,…