December 2008
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carry-on from hawaii was 22.6 lbs. i have the scale out and am weighing the carry-on for Italy/UK, shooting for under 12 lbs.
November 2008
66 posts
Made a 14-minute connection in LAX in 11 minutes. Amazing. Now about that luggage…
Airport in Hawaii, outbound for home. That was good.
Lingering over long birthday lunch, Max sitting with me watching the ocean as Ilana and Sam are off fueling the engines of American commerce
Luau. 81 degrees.
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Mobile Safari on the iPhone just decided that I was done reading my article, and kindly returned me to the main application screen. Again.
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i wonder how many times i’ve turned off that winxp search dog on different machines. i’ve seen him jump off the cliff at least 100 times.
running to catch a tram … *phew* caught it
Helicopter ride was a kick, lots of great live lava scenery, evil festering earth holes, and clouds of all-natural toxic gas. Kids loved it!
t-minus 5 minutes until our helicopter ride over the volcano
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for some reason, the wired LAN on the eeePC isn’t working, so I’m using the dongle from the MacBook Air + some random DLL I found. works!
Um, folks, there’s nobody here in Hawaii. It’s kind of eerie.
Landed Hawaii. It’s warm here, and smells of ocean and coconuts.
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at SJC on way to HI via LAX, MBP at home, on the eeePC sipping tmob wifi. any more abbreviations?
10 is the new tween
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watching participant videos at very high speed (like 150x) is interesting: magnifies little tics like shifting their weight on the chair
interesting how awkward it is to spell “awkward”
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thinking about installing winxp on the eeepc sdhd rather than the in-built ram … but then again it works as-is … ah, the technolust
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I’d love to ride a funicular, if you’d be so inclined. Ba-dump-bump.
I’d like to visit the Leaning Tower of Pisa, if you’d be so inclined. Ba-dump-bump.
Mouthfeel →
nice to return to a warm, comfortable place where I’ve spent many years and have so many happy memories: PowerPoint.
horribly embarrassed after getting pwned in Halo by a 14-yo and a 10-yo. i need to get in some late-night practice sessions.
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reminiscing to “See how we are” by X
Early morning at the cabin with non-Tweeting heretics, as they bemoan the downfall of stone tablets and smoke signals
Starbucks line goes out the door and down the sidewalk, causing me to find cute little bakery just down the way. Yum!
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some device in the home office just went “bling”. no idea which one it was, and i’m somewhat of a ding-aficionado. weird.
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the iTunes “Genius Playlist” has stepped out for a smoke, and his old friend “Random Unrelated Crap Playlist” has taken his place tonight
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holy cow, the iPhone report has hit over 20,000 views and got mentioned on daringfireball.net, hi-id.com, and fr.techcrunch.com
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Just lost iPhone Othello to someone from Louisiana, lost air hockey to the iPhone. Time to to dishes instead. I can beat the dishwasher.
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yup, that was a little earthquake - 3.1 in San Jose Eastern foothills
I didn't know Facebook ads required proper... →
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stupid iphone wouldn’t charge all morning. that said, it usually helps to plug in the other end of the cable to the laptop.
accidentally tipped massive box of candy nerds onto the floor. now watching them hop around through clear plastic window on vacuum cleaner.
been using PowerPoint 2003 nearly daily for five years since it came out. just found a new and very helpful feature: Pick Up Object Style.
reveling in the irony of yelling “there will be no more yelling in this house” (where yell = talking too loudly, natch)
burning a CD of music for the car. next up: growing out a mullet.
