Miscellaneous 10 for Monday the 29th October 2007
Brooklyn, NY 2007-10-29T13:04:25Z
- Had a disappointing shopping experience with Levi's over the weekend. I've been wearing the same style black jeans for maybe ten years and discovered that Levi's has dropped the style entirely (they still have black jeans, but they look like jeans now and not the dressier style I've been wearing). I'd heard that as a 40 year old I should mature and stop wearing jeans everywhere but didn't expect the manufacturer to enforce it!
- The dogs and I are heading to Amagansett, NY today to work on a non-profit's web site.
- On Sunday morning we'll be at our usual mile 14-ish point on the ING New York City Marathon route, handing out tissues to runners. This is the seventh year I've done it and 8th or 9th year Lisa has done it. It's a lot of fun and about the only way I'm ever going to participate in a marathon.
- Later on Sunday I am heading to Denver, CO for the Defrag conference. Sort of an anti-O'Reilly conference (if only because it's not within spitting distance of the Pacific).
- Our kitchen renovation continues. I've been posting pictures on flickr (restricted to friends and family, sorry. I just can't bear the thought of my bare kitchen counters and walls being exposed to the world). Theoretically the main work will complete this week.
- I haven't read anything interesting to note here. Have bought many books, which some day I'll find the time to glance at and regret never reading.
- I'm still working through setting up my new Lenovo Thinkpad x61. I'm mostly liking it. Couple of minor complaints: I got the EVDO setup but didn't realize that there's an external antenna (not pictured on the web site). The system came with an Office 2003 trial version pre-installed, which is nice, but I found the process of excising the Business Contact Manager to be a pain (BCM comes with SQL Server 2005 and consumes every possible resource. I've found it to be useless to me in the past). Also didn't realize that there's either a hardware limit or O/S limit to usable memory so the system is only using 3 out of the 4Gb RAM I had installed.
- On the plus side, the entire process of ordering the laptop from Lenovo was unbelievably easy and quick. A complete turnaround from the time I tried ordering my last laptop (when IBM was selling off PCD).
- Fall has finally arrived in New York. Actually it was here for two days last week and left, it was 40°F this morning. I assume we'll have a six week stretch of bitter cold this winter, to be followed by a three day spring.
- I was toying with setting up and writing a separate blog working through picking and endorsing a Presidential candidate for next year's election. I realized though that 1) no one cares 2) I have never voted for a Republican for US President and am highly unlikely to do so, 3) Of the Democrats I only like Obama and Clinton (though I'm troubled by how Obama's campaign is being run, and wish Clinton would stop focus-grouping every last decision, take a firm stand against the war and against domestic espionage already) so 4) there's not much to write about in a political blog except to point out repeatedly that a Republican led Congress repeatedly increased US debt and spending while ceding more and more power to the Executive branch.
- BTW, as my 11/10th item, the Republican created and managed Department of Homeland Security has proposed that all travelers in the U.S., regardless of citizenship, file papers documenting their travel itineraries with the option of vetoing said travel itineraries, even if it's domestic travel. How many rights do we need to cede?
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