Jenn and I have one year (and two months) to go on the five-year fixed rate portion of our adjustable rate mortgage. We locked in when interest rates were pretty close to their all-time low so it’s a pretty sweet rate. Without much checking, I know that the interest will be heading up at its …
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Productivity Systems
Richard from Pantsonfaster.com asks if productivity systems are for everyone? I respond, and not just because he used my images. Just for full disclosure, the image that Richard picked was a doomed experiment. It did not end up working in a manner that was useful. For one thing, the credit cards were nearly impossible to …
Dragon*Con 2008!
Dragon*Con is fast approaching. Our first out of town guests arrive one week from today and we’ll have a full house the day after that, preparing everyone in a zen-like-fashion for the trials of the 4 day weekend. The pocket program has been released, so it’s full steam ahead! (There’s also a google docs spreadsheet …
RSS Happiness!
I just goes to show: Once you’ve punted and begged for help, somebody might fix your problem. Anyone reading this over a feedreader, please let me know if the posts are again deprived of formatting or images or paragraph breaks, etc.
Accent Quiz
Apparently, I’m a crass American who can’t even determine if it’s an American accent I’m listening to. Language Trainers Group: Accent Game I scored 15 points, getting 5 accents correct out of sixteen. I suck.
The Intertubes will GETCHA!
Apparently, someone found some cached electronic documents that show the Chinese Gold-Medal Winning Women’s Gymnast ain’t quite 15 yet. Darn interwebs…
RSS is Making me Go Gray
If you read the Eyebrow through a feedreader, you already know that the images, formatting, bullets, etc., do not come through. You get an undifferentiated mob of text, which is highly unsatisfying because I have gone though HUGE efforts to provide you with delicately formatted content. It upsets the content to be squashed back together. …
Beloit College Mindset List
The 2008 Beloit College Mindset list is up. If you’ve never heard of this, it’s a list of facts and bullet points about the “traditional student” (~age 18) who is beginning college this fall. For example: 19 films have never been X rated, only NC-17. 20 The Warsaw Pact is as hazy for them as …
Dresden Files #11: Turn Coat
The eleventh book in Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series, Turn Coat, will be published in April of ’09. I’m already looking forward to it. If your only exposure to this fiction was through the SciFi channel TV destractular of the same name, I’m very sorry; retrieve and read Storm Front right now. The novels are …
Coke Going Down?
Two volunteers at a British Alternative Film cinema are replacing the familiar taste of Coca Cola with a home-grown variety. They object to Coke’s business practices so they don’t serve the beverage, however people keep asking for it. They’ve spent two years trying to work out a substitute. Read all about it. Go them!