Archive for February, 2005
southernmost
I recognized a bad pattern in my behavior years ago … I wait until the last minute to pack for a trip. And this year, even though I started a list weeks ago of things I needed to get done before leaving for the Keys and things to take to the Keys, here I sit [...]
double dirty mattress
The most amazing thing about this quiz (via Max) is not the claim (which I truly find hard to believe) that a toilet can spray water — and fecal matter — up to 20 feet away. No, no. The truly amazing claim is the one about your mattress: “Hair, pet dander, dust, and bodily fluids [...]
Winston’s portrait
While I was gathering my camera equipment together for Key West this evening, I played around a bit with my new lens: Canon EF 17-40mm L. Marlin was extemely generous with my birthday gift this year, thanks to his big-cable-company bonus. And what a beautiful lens. I can’t wait to try it out someplace where [...]
music meme
Bill has passed me the baton on a music meme, so here goes:
1. Total amount of music files on your computer:
I have 8626 .m4a files (ripping my own CDs in iTunes), 996 .m4p files (purchased via iTunes), 5346 .mp3 files and a few dozen .wav files, some of which are things I digitized from vinyl [...]
the big FIVE OH!
Happy 50th birthday to my friend Jack. I spoke with Jack today by phone. He was piloting the Raging Queen near Bird Key, where they were shark fishing. Bird Key is near Sand Key, which is a place I like to visit. You can only get there by boat. You can then walk to Bird [...]
paging Mr. Webster
I’m proposing a new word: iPause v. to cease or suspend an action temporarily in order to adjust your iPod. For example: I bumped into a woman this morning when I was rushing to catch the subway because she suddenly iPaused on the platform.