January 2009
133 posts
Bad week: computer broke, car needed $1,000 in repairs and found out house has a leak from the outside that will cost thousands to fix.
December 2008
49 posts
I lost the whole day running around trying to get my computer fixed. Now I will have to work twice as hard tomorrow.
Delivered a hard drive to the Apple store so they could try to back up the hard drive of my Macbook Pro before they ship it off for repairs.
The Apple store says theor backup of my hardrive seems to be successful. That’s a relief. Now if they could only fix my computer!
Macbook Pro stopped working, or at least the screen did. Headed into the Apple store to see if they can rectify the problem.
The Apple store couldn’t fix my Macbook Pro. It will take 48 hours to diagnose the problem. Insert lots of profanity here!
Jeff Koons sculpture at LACMA.jpg - Photo: http://bkite.com/03iiA
The Vanity Fair portraits exhibit at LACMA is fascinating, if only to see how pop culture changed throughout the twentieth century. -…
The Marie Callender’s near the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is pretty fancy. They may be shooting for four star status. - http://…
want to read: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Saw “Frost/Nixon” yesterday and it was great. Phenomenal acting mixed with solid direction and a gripping story. I recommend seeing it.
want to read: Freakonomics Rev Ed: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About... →
The public assumes that wireless carriers’ costs are far higher than they actually are, and profit margins are concealed by a heavy curtain.
Digital Domain - What Carriers Aren’t Eager to... →
Text messaging is a wonderful business to be in: about 2.5 trillion messages will have been sent from cellphones worldwide this year. The public assumes that the wireless carriersâ costs are far…
TwitterPacks / FrontPage →
A place to get a starting idea of who on Twitter posts about what.
Creole Seasoning Blend →
Chuck Taggart’s recipe for creole seasoning.
Saw “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. While the movie demonstrates amazing craftsmanship, it lacks character development and emotion.
I am still confused at how a Slingbox is not a meaningful gift for a loved one. Who doesn’t appreciate ectronic gadgets on Christmas?!
Kendall, my two-year-old, has her eyes on the cookies we’re leaving out for Santa. She wants to eat one and insists Santa wants to share.
The hills above Chatsworth California, the same ones that burned in the October wildfires, are covered in snow today.
'Deadgirl' duo to update Danish thriller →
Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel are attached to write and direct a remake of the Danish thriller “Murk”/”Mørke” for Gold Circle Films.
United noticed I had missed my connecting flight and automatically rebooked me while en route from Grand Rapids. No agent required. Sweet!
The United Airlines customer service counter at O’Hare in Chicago rivals those at Disneyland. 300 flights out of were canceled yesterday.
You know you are traveling too much when you begin to consider Wolfgang Puck your personal chef. Even worse, you’re tired of his cooking!
Congratulations to my friend Marcel Sarmiento: http://tinyurl.com/68xxxh
To all those who have commented on my typo mentioning that the Grand Rapids airport had “free wife”, thank you! I needed more nagging! ;-)
Jeff Dunham, the ventriloquist comedian, has released a Christmas album. How exactly do you think that works? How could it be funny?
Well, looks like the flight to Chicago is actually going to take off. At least during the delay I got some of my holiday shopping done.
I should take wagers on my flights actually getting from snowy Grand Rapids to rainy Los Angeles today, via snowed in Chicago. Any takers?
First flight to Chicago got delayed, so will miss the connecting flight to Los Angeles. At least there is free wife at Grand Rapids airport.
Okay, what made Netflix decide they needed a social networking aspect to their website? http://community.netflix.com/
Had a productive day in Grand Rapids at Celebration Cinema (Loeks Theatres) training their staff on Digital Booking System.
Headed to Grand Rapids. It is pouring rain in Los Angeles and it took me 1 hour 30 minutes to get to the airport. Hope I make my flight.
Doing lots of work to setup for training Loeks Theatres (Celebration Cinema) on Digital Booking System this week.
A User's Guide to Twittering - WSJ.com →
Katherine Boehret explains what Twitter is, how to use it and what its benefits are.
Twitturly - Real-time Link Tracking on Twitter →
A service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter.
Are you having a bad day at work when you reach your hand into your pocket for your car keys and pull out your toddler’s pacifier instead?
Trouble in the (99-cent) App Store →
With 10,000 applications and 300 million downloads in less than four months, Apple’s iPhone may be the most successful software platform since the IBM personal computer.But that doesn’t mean all is…
Journalists Are a Chatty Bunch, as CNN Finds Out... →
CNN says it wants newspaper feedback as it creates a news wire service to compete with The Associated Press and other services. At a meeting last week, one newspaper staff member offered his advice…
Trouble in the (99-cent) App Store - Apple 2.0 →
With 10,000 applications and 300 million downloads in less than four months, Appleâs iPhone may be the most successful software platform since the IBM personal computer. But that doesnât mean all…
How is it that I am receiving two or three spam messages for dating services on Skype everyday? Better yet, how do I make them stop?!
Twitter multi account manager & brand monitor |... →
Easy management for multiple Twitter accounts and brand monitor. The definitive twitter client for heavy & corporate users.
6 Tips for Using Your Twitter Profile to Get New... →
Sara Rosso, digital strategist (@rosso) and Ms. Adventures in Italy shares some tips for optimizing your Twitter profile to increase your followers.
Copious amounts of toxic chemicals and lots of rubbing mostly took out the fingernail polish two-year-old spilled on carpet.
Two-year-old is now upstairs taking a bath in nail polish remover to get it out of her hair and off her face. She’s not liking it one bit.
My two-year-old daughter, who was supposed to be taking a nap, was actually covering herself, her dress and the carpet in black nail polish.
Bruce Springsteen "My Lucky Day" →
Video for the title song of Bruce Springsteen’s next album, as posted on Amazon.com.
Don’t know whether to be upset I just finished work at 11:30 on a Friday night or happy because it’s the earliest I’ve finished this week.
At some point this week I’ll actually have to stop attending meetings and get some work done, wouldn’t you think?