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New Hotness, Take 3

lew — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:25:18 +0000

In what I would consider revision 3.0, I’ve decided to bring the old blog back to life with a few new posts, and a new theme. As always, it’s a work in progress, and could just as easily be abandoned next week. I think I’ve just grown tired of writing in sentence fragments, and needed a cleaned up place to put, you know, whole paragraphs! (Gasp!)

Saladworks

lew — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:51:06 +0000

Because I don’t think I had anything but meat yesterday to eat (maybe with a little bread and rice), I felt compelled to have a salad today. As usual, I forget that they never put on enough dressing, so it was a dry-ish chicken Caesar.

100,000 Miles on the WRX!

lew — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:24:59 +0000

Of course I had to pull over, how many times do you get to see your odometer like this?

...and just 2,866 days to do it.

Time for some math (results rounded for human consumption)! That means I’ve driven the car just shy of 35 miles a day on average for almost 8 years. It also means that at approximately 20 MPG, I’ve burned up over 5,000 gallons of gasoline (120 barrels in oil-speak). Somewhere, Al Gore just shed a tear, and then wiped it off with a $100 bill. Finally, it means that Subaru builds a pretty solid car, because I abused this thing for a better part of its life, and have had nothing but a few minor issues. Sadly, I haven’t saved the receipts or know the total cost of ownership for the car, but I’d guess that it would fare very well against other cars of its age, and if I had to do it again I’d still buy it.

Why ask why?

lew — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:15:02 +0000

...try Bud Dry?

Chipotle

lew — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:16:12 +0000

Mmm.. beef burrito.

Snow People

lew — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:46:35 +0000

I got a little ambitious.

Nice Spam

lew — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:26:38 +0000

I usually don’t have a lot of spam slip through my filter, but this one did, and if their intention was to be the funniest email I got all day, then they succeeded. It was a few words, and this image:

Bad/Good

Simplify that Remote

lew — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:23:23 +0000

Now this is a great idea. I pretty much get called whenever someone comes over to watch Katie that has never used our remote before, especially if she gets her hands on it and gets the TV and cable box out of sync:

Clever Uses: Simple User-Interface Trick Makes Your Remotes Idiot Proof.

Netbooks

lew — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:13:03 +0000

For whatever reason, I feel compelled to comment on the recent popularity of the “netbook” tiny form-factor laptops. Holy crap is that cheap. For the same price I paid for my iPhone you can have a super portable laptop. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love my new 15″ MacBook Pro, it’s rock solid, but at the price point for those little guys, if you don’t have a recent computer, and just want to surf the internet a little, read some email, and maybe Skype with some people, $250 for a tiny Dell with built-in WiFi and a webcam is a sweet deal.

Facebook

lew — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:02:17 +0000

So, I finally caved and joined everyone’s favorite facebook. I’m still not sure all what I’d like to do about this. My goals were just to keep in touch with cousins, who seem to use it pretty extensively, and maybe share some pictures with close friends. So, to start, I feel like I need some rules. I’ll be working on these over the next few days, with feedback, if there’s anyone left out there.

Rule 1: I will not fill out any profile information. This is not negotiable. You know they never delete this stuff, as if we don’t already give enough of our private lives away to Google.

Rule 2: I will not, under any circumstances, “friend” you if you’re a co-worker. Sorry. If you get a new job, and we became friends while working together, perhaps I will reconsider then.

Rule 3: I will not, at the moment, friend you if we have not had some sort of contact in the past 12 months. This could be email, IM, or phone. Beyond that, I won’t flat out reject you, but if we don’t keep in touch, do I need to know what you’re doing right now? Probably not. I won’t flat out reject you, just leave you hanging. Like I said, these are in a process of revision. I will friend you if we haven’t been in contact in the past 12 months. I will not, however, share my baby pictures with you. Seems reasonable.

Rule 4: (Credit to Dave for this one.) I will not ever refer to “friending” you. It’s annoying, and with the exception of these rules (being a formal document, correct verbiage is required!) I will go with “ping me/you” for the nerds, and “stalk me/you” for the non-techies. If you catch Dave saying it, you can punch him in the gut. If you catch me, I’ll buy you a drink next time I see you.

That’s it for the moment. Ultimately, when the rules are complete, I will copy and paste the applicable rule (just 2 at the moment) into the message I send (if it lets me) when I turn down your “friending”. If you have any suggestions, let me know. Like I said: my goal is to connect with close friends and all my cousins.

Update 1: I’m searchable at the moment, but once I feel like I’ve got most of the family and friends I’m looking for added, I’ll probably disappear from search entirely. Again, if we keep in touch, I can always tell you where to find me.

Update 2: I don’t know how I feel about groups yet. At this time, I’m going to avoid them.

Update 3: Moved my official version 1.0 to a dedicated page. Stripped out some stuff to simplify, formalize the document.