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2010-09-06 19:34 UTC
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We just bought a new TV - this is a first. Some family members had given us CRT TVs over the last 20 years, and we did buy our daughter a 13" Hello Kitty CRT TV, but never one for the family.
This one is a Samsung 55 inch, with many bells and whistles. I've always planned to have one of these flat screens hanging up on the wall with no wires showing, and that's what I've done - behind it are a power outlet and a jack for cable and one for gigabit ethernet.
So far, things are good, but I'm starting to run up against the limitations of my insistence on not connecting any boxes. I'll post details in the coming weeks.
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shredding
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2010-08-26 21:24 UTC
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At work, I deal *almost* exclusively with electronic documents. Some documents, like corporate records and contract originals, exist originally in paper form but are tucked away in files, so I don't see them - instead I work with electronic copies of them. Other documents exist primarily in electronic form, but are sometimes printed (including copies of the filed paper originals). Most or all of these printed documents contain confidential information, so I can just throw away or recycle the paper - I have to shred it. Fortunately, there's not too much of that, but every few weeks I have to shred a small stack. It's weird. I shut my office door so that the noise doesn't bug anyone, but that just makes it weirder. The remnants of Enron are officing in the same building as me, and that just makes it even more weirder. There, I said it. My desk is clean right now, and I like my clean desk.
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nafta superhighway
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2010-06-30 23:12 UTC
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just doing a little websurfing - one interesting thing about the web is that a lot of stale information stays in place - sort of like a bunch of old newspapers and magazines in your attic - except that often there's not much of an indicator of how stale it is.
Other stuff happily stays up despite being clearly dated. I'm glad it does
Take this article (which does have a date):
Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway
Amusing to me because I live and work very close to Highway 59 in Houston, which was to be / would be / will be(?) a part of the highway. I'm not aware of the specific facts he's claiming with regard to the development of the "trans Texas corridor", but none of them are inconsistent with what we've heard around here. The whole time I've been living here, we've been waiting for 59 to turn into Interstate 69, knowing it would connect through Laredo. But it doesn't seem any closer to happening now (2010) than it did in 1996 - ten years before the panicky article above. I love the references to the star chamber conceived "North American Union".
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ad supported hot sauce
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2010-06-27 16:39 UTC
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| I'm waiting in the long line at Laredo Taqueria, and today, I notice a bunch of new, mostly unopened, hot sauce bottles on all the tables. I tried to see what brand they were, but instead, see these ads for cheap mortgages and stuff. Kinda cool? I wonder what the whole story is. |
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