Archive for: October 2005

There’s a guy I work with at my day job, whom I’ll call Bill. Bill and I have had issues dealing with each other in the past. Bill also has issues dealing with lots of other people we work with. …

File this under the “PhoneBoy will never get elected President” category. Oh wait, George Bush Jr. did Cocaine and he got elected twice. Maybe not. Anyway…

I remember in college hearing Jello Biafra tell everyone to grow more …

I’m officially taking the plunge now. I’ve gut my actual surgery scheduled for the 27th of October. We’ll see what happens next…

I went in for my evaluation today and it looks like I am a good candidate. I have good, thick corneal tissue, so they’ve got lots of room to work with. I’ll probably do my procedure in the next couple …

I think Mark Cuban’s right on the money with this one.

Now if all television shows were done this way, I might be able to drop cable altogether and tell the losers at Wave to take a hike. …

Tomorrow I’m going to make a trek to Renton to give a visit to Clearly Lasik for an evaluation. This place was recommended to me by one of my wife’s friends, though I did a bit of research before …

This blog post by Tom Keating is basically a tease. Unprofessional. If you can’t talk about something, because you’re embargoed or whatever, here’s a novel concept: DON’T POST ABOUT IT IN YOUR BLOG. At least until the embargo is …

My wife told me that she needed a new car charger for the Nokia 6102 I got for her from Cingular. Huh? I thought all Nokia phones used the same charger–at least that’s been the case for as long as …

There are plenty of people that complain about the lack of “simple” mobile phones out there. They exist, but they appear to be mostly sold and marketed outside of developed countries. I’ve seen a few in the US: the Nokia …

No I’m not talking about various monopolies that control our telecommunications infrastructure, I’m talking about the Parker Brothers (now Hasbro) board game called Monopoly.

Probabilities in the Game of Monopoly is a rather lengthy analysis about …