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- where i’ve been: monica & i moved at the beginning of june. we started out looking for something older and with character but guess what, character takes a lot of freaking work! we ended up opting for a 9 year old house in the heart of suburbia. honestly, i would be just as happy [...]

site was down yesterday due to an ipowerweb update/move and when it came back, all of my posts were in reverse order. an upgrade to WP 2.5 sorted everything out but the .zip download is missing the wp-admin and wp-includes directories. the .tar file had everything though. i’ve been increasingly annoyed with ipowerweb and the [...]

“aquaman, you cannot marry a woman without gills! you are from different worlds! (sees neutron bomb) oh, i’ve wasted my life…”
- last week, aaron sent me the first look at the costumes from the upcoming watchmen film. i guess they’re OK. certain comics lend themselves to film, but watchmen definitely isn’t one of them. this [...]

points if you recognize the title quote (no googling). i didn’t come close to reading 25 books this year but i did manage to discover some new authors and finish a couple from last year. the only book that was a bear for me to read was world’s end, it was quite dense and i [...]

mail functions and www service on the mail server at work stopped responding after hours yesterday. stopped by this morning to check things out. MS exchange information store seemed to be running but would not respond when restarted from the services console. after reboot, it seemed to take much longer than normal for mail functions [...]

photo by kristin k. phil & shafik get down to business.
carrie brownstein tries out rock band:
It turns out that the more you know about music, the less qualified you are to sell Rock Band. I get that now. Rock Band isn’t about music or about being in a band, it’s about pretending. But instead of [...]

monica and i have a 20GB 3rd gen iPod, an iPod mini & one of the new iPod nanos. i’d been looking at getting a video iPod but spending $250+ on one doesn’t really interest me. with the november release of the zune 2.0, prices on the original 30GB zunes have dropped dramatically. i picked [...]

while i’m an avid comic book reader, my realm of expertise is mostly limited to the big two mainstream publishers and larger independents. the world of small press remains shrouded in relative mystery to me, so when aaron suggested that i join him and our other friends at the our friend the atom table at [...]

what was i saying about being thirteen years old? mike, john & i went to see CHIKARA’s “maximum overdraft” (i don’t get it either - stephen king meets my bank?) at the new alhambra in south philly yesterday. i go to a small handful of independent wrestling shows a year and they are a ton [...]

summer vacation has been nice. i was at the beach for a while, off from work even longer and i have no complaints, except for transformers. that film didn’t even meet my lowered expectations. all i want in a movie about robots fighting is… robots fighting. instead i was subjected to like, ten robots, way [...]