Monthly Archive for December, 2004

The Great Train Robbery Reunion

While in Buf­falo last week­end, we took a break from family hol­i­day activ­i­ties and caught the Great Train Rob­bery reunion show at the Tralf. I’m much too young (27) to remem­ber those guys from the 80s, but it was a fun show. Very 80s…

And, since our good friend runs the Tralf, we got free admis­sion and drinks all night.

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New Apple Display

“apple.com”, posted by nedward

Christ­mas & my Birth­day, within 3 days of each other… Put them together, and you get a new Apple 20" Cinema Display.

Every­thing looks more beau­ti­ful tonight.

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On turning 27

Thanks to every­one who came to my little birth­day party last night. Pres­ley did an amaz­ing job orga­niz­ing, and taking care of every­thing. I hope every­one had fun.

Here is an iMix of the playlist last night — Ned’s 27th Birth­day Playlist.

There are 167 tracks on my playlist, but iTunes only has the rights to sell 104 of them… The full songlist is below the fold.

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No More Comments, for Now.

I had some trou­ble today — seems there was a Com­ment Spam attack, which caused my instal­la­tion of MT and MTBLack­list to crash the host­ing server.

So, my domains were sus­pended. Seems to be hap­pen­ing to a lot of people this month.

Com­ments are turned off for now. I prob­a­bly will go with a Type­Key only option, though I may have trou­ble con­vinc­ing my web host that every­thing will be stable.

Anyone have ideas? (besides “switch to WordPress”…)Email me.

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MiracleSex

Provocative title, espe­cially for this weblog… but, it doesn’t have any­thing remotely to do with what you may be imagining.

With Pres­ley busy study­ing for her final exams, I’m on my own for dinner. What to do? Grab the Power­book, and head for the Mir­a­cle, of course. Free wi-​fi. Nice wait­ress. Beer. This is all the Modern Urban Male needs.

Why the silly entry title, then, you ask? Well, I’m get­ting to that.

I sit down, turn on my Power­book, and order my Grilled Chicken Salad (with the most deli­cious lime-​cilantro dress­ing), a pint of Bass. When the wait­ress leaves, i look down, and my com­puter is asking me if I want to join the Wire­less net­work “MiracleSex”.

Need­less to say, if I had been taking a pull on my Bass, I would have spit it out onto the tabletop.

Then I real­ized, I was sit­ting in the Mir­a­cle of Sci­ence, and was two doors down from Mid­dle­sex, a new lounge opened up by the same owners. They share the same wi-​fi con­nec­tion, so why not call it “MiracleSex”?

Hott.

Oh, and in case you were won­der­ing, I’m sit­ting in Cam­bridge, the largest city in Mid­dle­sex county.