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Today is the day to put a derby on your shad!

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

A Shad and His Derby

Quick Facts About Shads

  • The shad is the Connecticut state fish
  • Shads have an annual queen and parade
  • Shads wear derbies at jaunty angles
  • Shads like beer and burgers
  • The shad jury is out on deep fried peanut butter and jelly sandwiches

So slap on your derby and come on down.

Hipster Fail

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Last.fm Scrobbles

It would seem that the inclusion of TV and Movies into my last.fm history has destroyed any hipster credibility I might have built up over the years.

Deliciously Fast Internet

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

This week we had our Internet and voice packages updated by AT&T to their new UVerse offerings, which, as I understand, is a fiber on the pole to a copper drop to the house but regardless of the cables involved it is yummy fast. Comparatively, our old DSL connection was 6 Mbps/768 Kbps.

Getting Work Done From Home

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

New Office Set-Up

Took me well over a year to finally buy a notebook stand but my neck and back are glad that I did. The stand is Targus AWE26US Ergonomic M-stand which amazon sells for just under $28 USD and it is well worth the money as it is sturdy and holds the notebook at an angle that approximates a stand alone monitor. Tossing in a cheap keyboard and mouse set from Logitech kept the whole bill under $50 USD. Not too shabby.

Up on the walls are my basses, a Washburn XB-600 fretless and an AB-20 fretless/acoustic, and out of the picture is my Seagull S6 acoustic guitar.  This past summer I hung them up in the hopes that I might start playing them a little more and while I’m not writing any opuses I have found myself pulling them down and letting muscle memory run through some scales and modes while I think about scaling websites.

Slowly it is coming together and maybe when it warms up a little more I’ll seal the floor and paint it which would pretty much finish the yearlong project of renovating this room as an office.  Provided I can stay on task and keep motivated.

Date Night

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Swedish vampire movie, Let The Right One In, followed by bacon cheeseburgers at Five Guys. I’m in love.

Let The Right One In

New Year’s Lunch at Hometown Buffet?

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

From the guy watching gameshows on a portable tv to the conversation about napping to pass the time until death it has been a strange dining experience.