Year: 2005

This list of my current World of Warcraft characters was prompted by a question asked by as a comment to one of my previous posts. This just has a lot more detail than anyone could possibly want or need. I’m strongly considering updating this every once and a while… but how many of you would…

The official Excel spreadsheet tabulating the Watertown election is available on the town website. The number of votes received in District A-1 (mine) for city council president was 352… which is the number displayed on the voting machine when I inserted my ballot. Since I voted about 5 minutes before the polls closed, and no…

I voted for assorted city council, school board, and library board positions. Since there was no information that I could find online, other than a list of candidate names, I spent about 30 minutes interviewing the people standing next to various signs. In particular, I talked to the “Yes” and “No” sides of the Community…

So I started to switch from free open source GnuCash, which sorta worked but didn’t have any of the budgeting features I wanted to Quicken 2006, which was included with my new iMac. It has come to my attention that Quicken uses completely custom GUI widgets, although they are designed to mimic the Aqua look-and-feel.…

It really isn’t supposed to snow this early in Boston, is it? I mean I’m not in Minnesota anymore! On the other hand, the super-wet insta-melt snow is very pretty. This does mean that I have to take the T to go visit Jo over at BU to celebrate my birthday. She baked me a…

Even though today is the actual date of my birth on some calendars, for me the celebration was really last night, because yesterday my new iMac G5 and several new software titles arrived. I couldn’t help but grin incessantly and dance around, in spite of the fact that my apartment was at the time 56°…

Okay, calling it a crash is a huge overstatement. Even calling it a bump would be a huge overstatement. Tap is barely appropriate. The old man driving a red Alfa Romeo convertible in front of me was a little fast off the brake and slow on the gas on a slight incline at a stoplight.…

Today I purchased a nice lightweight cordless trimmer to maintain my bzzzzzzz. The box was about a centimeter too large in each dimension to fit in either pannier, so I had to harness the Power of Bungee and attach the box to the rear rack. This is the exact sort of eventuality that I expected…

Yup. I definitely said “what’s up?” to my boss today. Le gran sigh.

The Netflix genre page for Star Trek says the following: “Whether you’re into James Kirk or Jean-Luc Picard (or even Kathryn Janeway), grab one of these titles and you’ll feel like you’ve hopped aboard the Enterprise to fight Klingons and Borgs.” Notice anything wrong with that sentence? If you’re a big enough Trekkie, you’d want…