Monthly Archives: April 2006

Week 29 of NHL 2005-6

A very, very belated NHL tirade this week. Other stories were more pressing and I was just reeling over my team’s humiliating 8-2 spanking from Buffalo. My dude in goal Robert Esche had a horrendous game two when he gave … Continue reading

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First AppleCare Excellence Award in years

Yesterday I was pleasantly surprised with an AppleCare Excellence Award for doing a really impressive (to the customer) job helping an IT consultant back in February. My evil twin must’ve come to work that day. Seriously though, I don’t really … Continue reading

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Democracy (In)Action or mini C-Span

Tuesday night I finally went to my first homeowners’ association meeting after living in Sarah’s Creek (my ‘burb’s name) for five years. I hadn’t attended in the past because they were always scheduled when I was working later shifts or … Continue reading

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Continue with your plans for May

I was checking out Dr. Plait’s Bad Astronomy site earlier and saw that he had to debunk another false alarm about a comet hitting the Earth in May. I hadn’t been to his site for a while because his clarification … Continue reading

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Operation Teeth, Part Two

Stage two of my dental work was completed yesterday. I would’ve posted the pictures then but Monday was rather crazy due to errands with Somara, my selfishness at the mall and then Tuesday’s fun (see “Democracy Inaction” story in Headlines). At … Continue reading

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Another Intel-based portable, getting closer

Apple officially released the 17″ (43 cm) version of the MacBook Pro, aka a Mac-based portable with an Intel processor.    Still too big for the backpack my wife made me years ago to carry and store my old 5300c, … Continue reading

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Poor stray kitty

I’m feeling somewhat better. I probably need to see a doctor for my two weeks of sniffling, hacking and constant nose blowing. At least I am well enough to function at work and around the house.    I did have … Continue reading

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Thunder Storm Fun

Picayune went down last night around 2-3 am and I got it back up by 7 am thanks to a thunder storm (or maybe a series of them). I doubt anyone was looking at this site in the middle of the … Continue reading

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Week 28 of NHL 2005-6

I decided to wait until the regular season was officially over last night to post my diatribe over hockey, plus I’m still under the weather (can’t seem to shake the coughing part, but I do feel somewhat better today).    … Continue reading

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Freebirds

Before Chipotle came along, there was Freebirds, the original burrito restaurant chain for us in Austin. It’s another local chain or place that I really enjoy but it originated in College Station, TX (the anti-Austin), thus it’s not in the Austintatious category.  … Continue reading

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Seven years as an Apple employee

On this day, I received my package, employee number and modified badge signifying employee, not contractor (really a temp). It was a pretty sweet day going through the orientation with the other six people who made it. Back in 1999, … Continue reading

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Small World through Marquette II

I received an e-mail from my friends Paul & Helen Silder about Marc Schauer. We guys all lived on the same floor of McCormick (Paul, Marc, John, Brian [Slats] that Tony Keys guy I mentioned in an earlier entry, Doug, … Continue reading

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Week 27 of NHL 2005-6

The Playoffs kick off April 18 and it seems the East is pretty much wrapped up. Only seed eight is being battled over, I really don’t think Toronto or Atlanta have a shot with seed seven. With the West, only … Continue reading

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The Gift of the Magi debuted 100 years ago

According to History.com (aka the History Channel’s web site, aka the WWII Channel), this was the first publishing of O. Henry’s famous story about a young married couple making great personal sacrifices to give each other Christmas presents. It was … Continue reading

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Picayune Down Monday Afternoon

Sorry about the inconvenience if you were looking for this site.    I intentionally took it down on purpose to back it up before updating to 10.4.6, something I should be doing before any or every upgrade.    There shouldn’t … Continue reading

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