Nikon D50 Digital SLR
6.1 MP with a lens for $900? We are so buying one of these.
My neighbors, the ones who had their mid-80’s Dodge Caravan stolen a few days ago? They stole it back. Apparently the wife, who was riding the #2 bus to her job in downtown Baltimore, passed her own van parked somewhere on Pratt street yesterday morning. She and her husband returned later in the day, removed the parking ticket from the windshield, and drove it back home.
I guess there’s something to be said for having a distinctive paint job.
The Bush Game
Funny. Educational!
Design In-Flight
I’m going to have to buy this when I get a chance to breathe.
Last night I finally got to talk with Jen’s sister Cath and her boyfriend Jason, who have been doing some research on cell providers and phones, and leaving messages on our machine. Jason just picked up the phone I’ve been looking at, and he has nothing but good things to report. I’ve been holding off because of the lack of Bluetooth support in 10.3.X, and I’m hoping that Tiger will support full iSync functionality. (The word seems to be that you can sync the phone with your Mac, but you need the optional Motorola phone-to-USB cable. Thanks, but no.) So I’ll wait it out another couple weeks until the early adopters iron out the bugs in Tiger and I hear that the phone is supported officially.
I got an email out of the blue from our friends Matt and Sophie, who were kind enough to send us a sizable iTunes gift certificate as a wedding present (which was awesome but totally unexpected—they flew all the way out here, and I didn’t want them worrying about a wedding gift as well), which I’ve been sitting on for a week or two. Last night I finally sat down to redeem some music, and started out with a recommendation from Jen: an album by Kasabian, which we decided is a mixture of the Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, and Lo-Fidelity Allstars. Next, I hit the record store disease list and picked up the latest from Thievery Corporation, an oldie from Tosca, another oldie from Zero 7, and the latest releases from UNKLE and RJD2. I’m halfway into Since We Last Spoke, and I’m enjoying it completely. (I also take issue with most of the reviews for this record and The Private Press; everybody seems to want another hip-hop turntable jam, but these guys are reaching for something here. I don’t find either album disappointing in the least.) I’m jazzed to hear the UNKLE album (hoping it will be as mind-blowing as the first one) although it seems a lot of folks have been less than impressed. (This critic needs to tone down the personal dissing and actually review the record, in my opinion.)
Finally, the time has come to replace the head unit in my Jeep. Now the radio stations cut out and the casette adapter for my iPod refuses to load. There’s nothing like being stuck on the Baltimore Beltway in the summer with no radio, next to a worthless iPod jammed to the gills with music. Good times!
Update: The RJD2 album is solid. Excellent stuff for any of you DJ Shadow heads out there. The UNKLE album is spotty and not all that exciting—the clips I heard online sounded…better than the real thing, if that’s possible. Zero 7 is good mellow chillout got-work-to-do kind of music. Or for sipping coffee and reading the paper on Saturday morning.
Update Update: The Kasabian album is a pretty groovy mixture of genres-I’m enjoying it tremendously. It’s kind of funny that the singer has a slight Ian Brown vibe going on, because I’ve had Reign by UNKLE going through my head all weekend.
Ratz.
Excellent article on the selection of the new Pope. Jen and I were talking about this over coffee this morning.
…is the peeling phase. Eeeeeeew.
Jen and I are trading out the cars this week to have oil changes performed and routine maintenance finally performed. This means I got to scoot into work in Jen’s Saturn, which features standard shift and a sunroof. A couple of years ago, I had a functional standard-shift convertible, and driving Jen’s car always makes me homesick for the Scout. The other day I was driving home in the Jeep with the windows down, and some strange confluence of scents on the air reminded me of driving on the beach. I immediately thought about Assateague, and had the idea to take Jen camping on the beach again before the summer heat and bugs move in. We have a bunch of commitments in the middle of May to attend to, but I’m going to shoot for a long weekend sometime that month to smell salt air and camp smoke again. Time to dig out our camping gear and take inventory…
In the small amount of downtime I’ve had today, I’ve been doing some preliminary reading on starting seeds from scratch. It appears we’ve missed the recommended window by a month or so, but I don’t think that will hurt anything in the long run. Most of the plumbing is roughed in as of last night, so I’m just waiting on the plastic and the final fittings from the greenhouse supply company. I’ve set the whole thing up so that we can attach and detach different piping based on what’s growing underneath, and there’s an inside fitting roughed in for a hose attachment and the valves to support it. I also found a downspout diverter for the rain barrels; this will get hooked up to the gutters I’m going to be installing on the garage and routed into the greenhouse piping system, so that we have a natural gravity-fed watering solution.
N.W.A. Explicit Content Only.
Turn down your speakers and prepare to laugh. Only the curse words-Funny!
Flickr Pro Upgrade
$24.95 for 2GB of uploads and archiving. I will do this.