8910 – Tuesday –

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First time using mass transit to get *to* work. Not bad, but it seems harder to arrive than it is to depart, contrary to the toilet roll hypothesis. Rode in to the station with mom-in-law, and aside from the lack of knee room in some of the seats, I’ve got no gripes. It means getting up a little bit earlier, but I think that this will save us a ton of wear on the love cube and even more fuel. Total round-trip cost for a day is under $10. (just). Of course, my trip home threatened to rain on me at the bus stop – only one place I have to wait under cover is right as I leave the office. I think that if I leave about 10 minutes earlier, I can get into the office about 30 minutes quicker. We’ll see.

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BHK made Louise an awesome birthday cake… 4 layers! (see above – Neopolitain style, vanilla, chocolate and strawberry – with a milk chocolate frosting.) also barely-seen are some cupcakes spelling out her name, too. (I took the S cupcake to work today. 🙂 ) The cake is more of a silo than a disc, but that’s aok with me. Initially, it was to be a ckae for both Doug and Louise, but Doug broke it off with TM – moved out of the townhouse, and gathered up his belongings. I hope it’s what is best for the both of ’em… they’re both pretty nice folks from what I’ve seen. I imagine he’s back on the base now, and will be going back overseas shortly. Kind of a bummer way to enjoy leave. Louise, however made out like a bandit. We got her a nice purse, TM got her some really pretty earrings, and the inlaws hooked her up with outback gift certs. I’m not sure what will become of Doug’s presents… I imagine they’ll be recycled or reprocessed. (I suspect father-in-law is going to get a Bass Pro shops gift card fairly soon for his B-day in August, and Adam may reap the TM rewards.)

via boingboing – The OpenMoko is a $300, Linux-based open smartphone. Unlike the iPhone, it doesn’t come locked to any provider (and certainly not to the crooks at AT&T), it doesn’t come with DRM, and it allows you to install any third party app you like, even if Steve Jobs worries that it might spoil your experience. It’s still in “developer preview,” but this might just be my next phone. The current version of the Neo1973 has built-in GPS too, and the mass-market unit that will ship in October will have wifi and accelerated graphics.

The Neo 1973 boasts the following hardware specifications

* 2.8″ VGA TFT color display
* Touchscreen, usable with stylus or fingers
* 266MHz Samsung System on a Chip (SOC)
* USB 1.1, switchable between Client and Host (unpowered)
* Integrated AGPS
* 2.5G GSM – quad band, voice, CSD, GPRS
* Bluetooth 2.0
* Micro SD slot
* High Quality audio codec

In the year 2000… (probably my favorite Conan O’Brian skit music) : Predictions of the Year 2000 – from The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900

1 year ago – wiggle chicken / keys trip / ripley’s pix, one night in bangkok, scotto-dungeon game

2 years ago – diggers, sky high/ff, career personality, dr zaius, ugly dog, choosing wrong, 12.5% inked, bike thief, presidential medical histories, people like slinkies

3 years ago – thermo-issues, helping cockeyed find spammers

4 years ago – bro, health, monkey, sun-sentinel cam, clown lovin’.

5 years ago – hard rain, dream thoughts, tests, IM spam

6 years ago – evil news, louche, fill in the blank, gush, insane beautiful people journal nonsense (he’s now suspended)

7 years ago – Mr. Rogers, April hassles, H is pregnant with B’s kid, inevitable slippery, mootpoint adds me to his reading list Geotarget

8909 – Monday the 9th

High: 98°F Real Feel®: 101°F – Partly sunny, very hot and humid

Phew. Heat. Sun hot heat. Hot sun hot heat hot heat hot. Last night, I fretted a bit, because I thought the thermostat was going. fortunately, it kicked in, but for how long, nobody knows.

Triple digits is one too many. I’m designed for cooler climes. How many iced coffees is too many iced coffees? I had three today, and right about 5:30, I was cracked out. (My standard coffee of choice is one cup hazelnut coffee and one cup of hot cocoa, mix and add ice. no additional sugar or milk needed… mocha-liscious)

Steve introduced me to cacls. Why did I not know about this before? That’s just too dang handy. I wonder if Novell has an equivalent?

current music – Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! … Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput

Plans to see Thomas Dolby and / or Johnathan Coulton at the Ram’s Head in the near future, possibly for BHK’s birthday?

Here are my AD&D stats.

str: 16
int:17
wis:15
dex:10
con:9
cha:15

Oh, for the days when my CON was above a 13.

To complete my nerd hat-trick, I want to see the Transformers movie on an IMAX screen. Sadly, it seems the local Smithsonian IMAX theaters aren’t doing it. The Baltimore Science Center is, but that’s a bit of a haul.

Stolen wholesale from Matt (his summer jukebox is fantastic, too, by the way)- The mafia wants your ass, so you’ve gotta hide out in a shady hotel on the wrong side of the tracks for the next two nights. You’ve got a backpack. What’s inside? This should cover your food, drink, entertainment and protection. (feel free to answer in the comments) Alternately, if you think that the mafia is imaginary, pretend there are Zombies outside instead – you expect the infection to go dormant / be rescued in 2 days.

Took the train home – not too bad! c7 bus to greenbelt, get off at Suitland, and then rode with bhk home. (I can take the Suitland bus to about 6 blocks from home too, if need be.)

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view of my office from the first bus stop.

dc metro in motion
then the metro.
(taken on another walkabout, but the scenery is the same)

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and then the front porch… looking up. home!

1 year ago – phone post from keys… riding the bus is about all I did that day.

2 years ago – power outage, cool magicians, my eyes are blue, klaxons, past life/ice cream/coffee, stem cell steaks

3 years ago – pizza with dan, adp screws up, paid users get lj-priority, making fiends, Fiona apple mp3, Miami Travel Piccies, condo

4 years ago – trolls, naughty hulk, wonder woman movie

5 years ago – Wave of Husband killings, apple nipple monkey, star trek chairs auctioned, Ashcroft afraid of kitties

6 years ago – brackish , some broken links, dancing poll, tried mcD’s yogurt &fruit, Le Petomane, band name poll, bid farewell to some junk

7 years ago – angry beavers, scary movie, don’t look behind you Geotarget (via Scotto’s Wall Scrawls)