Nokia 770 internet Tablet.
I wonder how the Web looks on one of these? It’s priced at $359.
Not that I have any time to restore one, but I should have just gone to buy the BSA engine and frame I saw on Craigslist on friday instead of thinking about it for an hour. For $60, it was a deal.
Sending Faxes From OS X.
With an eFax account (free) and a phone line, who needs another stupid machine in the office?
Rip DVD’s to your iPod Video.
Like I’ll ever be able to afford one of these, but it’s good info. (via)
After finishing most of the touch-up work in the kitchen, this weekend I moved out into the dining room. (Some history: the dining room has been unfinished since our first year in this house. We scraped wallpaper and pulled the lousy paneling off the walls before the wedding, pulled the carpeting up the night before our first Fourth of July party, and painted last fall. It’s been in stasis ever since.)
The strange hole in the front corner has been filled. There are two new baseboards installed and finished with cap molding, waiting for a fresh coat of paint. The other two will get new molding and a sanding before being painted—it’s hard to get a 17′ length of wood without having it specially cut—and the remaining nicks and dings in the wall are getting smoothed out.
I’m leaving the window as it is for a while, until we can afford a replacement—getting something architecturally accurate with modern construction is going to cost big bucks. Until then, we’ll cover over the holes with curtains and I’ll tack in the replacement molding.
Also, I covered the nasty paneling out on the front porch with three(!) coats of white Kilz to try and brighten the light coming in the front of the house. Years of nicotine have already burned through the paint and stained it brown.
With these two rooms done (or close to done), we’ll have three rooms on the ground floor completed, and we’ll be able to focus on the living room.
I’m taking a break from wrestling with Illustrator 10 this morning. Often I find that Adobe adds all kinds of ‘features’ into their products that don’t act the same way they did in previous versions; right now the Free Distort effect is not behaving the way a mature 10-year-old should, in my opinion.
It’s been pretty quiet in my corner of the Web lately; that’s not because I don’t want to write, but because I’m exceptionally busy these days. I wish that activity was correlating into income, but sadly, it’s not. I’m making some cash, but it’s not the kind that will keep the mortgage, health insurance, and grocery bills paid.
Instead, I’ve been rocking out in the kitchen, getting the finish touches down—all the stuff that usually takes the longest. I’ve also moved out into the dining room, to finally finish the baseboards off, and try to dress the front window up as much as I can. I’ll refer you to this entry for more information and some pictures in the afternoon.
Meanwhile, we’ve been keeping busy with friends and other activities. Dave C. stopped over to haul away two (!?!) truckloads of debris from a year’s worth of rehabbing last weekend. Dave, I didn’t follow up last week on the final trip to the dump, but I hope everything went well. Thanks! You’ll be happy to know I filled that empty space on the garage floor with…more debris. I’ll haul it away this time.
We’ve been getting used to the new kitchen slowly. The user guides for each of our appliances are thick, like manuals for the Space Shuttle, which makes heating coffee a technological challenge. We’ve figured out how to turn off the beeping that accompanies every keypad entry, which is nice. We’ve also found that the microwave cooks the shit out of anything you put in there in about five seconds. It’s actually kind of frightening.
On Sunday Jen busted out all the china and various boxes of stuff marked “KITCHEN” that we threw in the basement and never opened when we moved. It was interesting to see all kinds of stuff I’d forgotten we owned, and better still to have it up in the cabinets looking purty. The decision to have glass doors installed was smart.
Overall, we’ve taken a room that we used to feel uncomfortable in, embarassed by, and annoyed with, and made it into a room that we enjoy spending time in. I often find myself standing in the middle and staring off into space (possibly beacuse I’m contemplating the interest payments) but also because it’s just better to be in there.
Google Analytics.
Interesting. I’m going to give it a try.
Firaxis Sold.
Somebody made a lot of money there. I’d bet it wasn’t the employees. Better start polishing those resumes, kids…
iDoom for the Nano.
Another reason to get a Nano, besides all that music playing stuff.