There’s just one day left to bid on my iPod on eBay. I just thought I’d let you all know (well, I guess I could have just called up all three people not related to me who read this).
Monthly Archive for February, 2005
Ashley asks:
What’s the worlds longest word?
While I have a large vocabulary (pardon the pun), I found the answer in Dictionary.com’s FAQ.
I’ve got a new SMS address to quickly send a message to my phone. This will help those of you who don’t get a cell signal where you normally sit in front of a computer on the internet (à l’école ou au travaille, par example). My new address is markomni <at> tmomail <dot> net. It will send a text message to my phone, so keep it short or T-Mobile will likely truncate it.
So, I tuned into the State of the Union about half an hour after it started (I was watching recorder episodes of NBC’s Committed). I’m not going to get into the specifics of the actual speech, since I was only half listening and it will all get analyzed to death over the next twenty-four hours by every news outlet in the United States. While I was watching, I noticed that there was a weird blue-purple strip in the upper-left corner of the screen. I flipped stations and did not see this on the other channels.
Then during one of the closeups on audience members, I noticed that the overlay of the person’s name was half off of the screen. It looks like the overlays are somehow zoomed in, while the video is at the appropriate size. A good chunk of the overlays are off of the screen because of this weird zoom. Did anyone else see it? And why the hell didn’t NBC fix it after a commercial break or even during the President’s speech or the Democratic Party’s response?
After work, I went to fill up my tank at the Mobil at the corner of Quentin Road and Dundee Road in Palatine. While there, I decided that I wanted to get my car washed. While filling up, though, I noticed that the cars that were waiting in line for a wash started leaving one by one. I got happy when I saw that the line was now gone, so I drove my car over to the wash and entered in my code from my receipt.
As the car in the wash finished and left, I drove into the wash and put the car in park. The car wash did a semi-adequate job of cleaning my car, although it left quite a few spots on the rear where the brushes or rinse water did not completely clean things. When the wash finished, I tried to drive forward to leave, but noticed that the two doors were coming down and closing in front of and behind me. I was stuck in the car wash!
Eventually, the rear door opened, but the front door remained closed. A car behind me blocked my path so that I could not reverse out of the wash, and I wasn’t about to drive my car through the closed door in front of me. I tried yelling back to the driver behind me that the door was not opening, trying to be cautious so that I didn’t get myself caught in a starting car wash with my door or window open. Eventually, the driver behind me got the message and went to get an attendant to open the door. I eventually did get out, but not before having my car sit for far too long inside the wash. I left the Mobil station with spots all over my car from water that dripped from the wash internals 
So, if you’re in the mood for a car wash, I’d think twice before getting your car washed at this Mobil station. You may want to go get a real car wash at Delta Sonic or Turtle Wax.
Wow, just when I thought I was the ultimate dork, I come across Hersch’s post that points me to Jacqui’s post. I have been saved from ebarrassment (at least this particular kind) by being part of a different group of dorks and my semi-ghostliness ways of high school. I tried to avoid getting my picture taken until my senior year when I had a weird "change of heart" or something. It could have been my first girlfriend (about which I do not plan on posting about now that I’m married…quite happily 
), it could have been my summer of badness, it could have been the chemical burns on my scalp from too much bleaching, it could have been my really befriending my wife for the first time. Whatever it was, I was different my senior year from my junior year, that’s for sure.
Oh, and for updates on Bryan, I hear he’s in grad school at Northwestern, but I never actually talked to him at Al’s party, so I can’t confirm that 100%. Perhaps Grant can.
OK, time for sleep
A little over an hour ago I finished watching an episode of CSI: Miami from November (while I wish I had TiVo, Dish Network’s DVR device is also quite good). Then I go to check my e-mail (which can sometimes take hours even if I only have a couple of messages because my ADD takes over and I get sidetracked with other computer things).
What am I doing now at almost 10:30 on a Tuesday evening? I’m reading about Galaxy class starships on Wikipedia, while listening to Lindsay Lohan’s Speak on iTunes. What I should really be doing is studying for my MCSE exams. There’s always tomorrow.
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