And another new decade. Third decade of running this silly blog, for what that’s worth. I don’t think it proves much except that I don’t know when to quit.
On the home front, just another year, I think. The bathroom got completed yesterday, and I’ll post photos once I get a chance to finish the cleanup and get everything where it belongs. One day of work in the new year, and I’m already back in the regular work pattern.
I alluded to it last time, but the one major change that came out of the holidays is that my DirecTiVo finally died. So I called up DirecTV, asked if they had an HD TiVo yet, and shut off the account when the answer was still No.
Since I don’t have an antenna connected to the TV, the only source of video amusement now are DVDs / Blu-Ray and things retrieved from online. I’ve got a PS3 and an AppleTV, and I think between the two I’ll be covered, except for some way to watch NASCAR races when that season starts. Might end up using the radio for that. But it’ll be an interesting experiment.
- Cooking and sex in one simple post: HOWTO make the perfect fudge and get laid. All sounds good, and funny, too. Though I might substitute the Chocolate Chip Cheesecake I’ve made a couple times now (with tasty results). Any takers?
- Here’s How to use Facebook with a feed reader from jwz. Way more convoluted than it should be. [flutterby]
- It’s not every economist who’ll ask Who Cares About Unsexy Men? It’s interesting to see what sorts of answers a question like that will bring.
- Stephen Haynes has a very disturbing Conversation with an American Cop. If you’re a photographer who can get past the (NSFW) photo of the nekkid lady at the top of the article, you should probably go read it. Just make sure to not have too many breakables around. [shaynes]
- A friend wrote a note for the new year titled Have Fun, Be Free. Sounds like pretty good advice, but which also meshes with an article titled Class War in this month’s Reason (not available online yet) which pointed out that with government employees (all levels combined) being nearly half of the voting-age population in the US, there may be no way to turn back big government. It’d be cause for despair normally, but heck, even my state senator counseled me, back when Minnesota had banned buying more than 10 days worth of sudafed every two weeks, that sometimes the best thing to do was just ignore the law and avoid getting caught.