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Busy Bee

Just to let you know that I’m still here. It’s just been a busy summer! The past three months or so, we’ve … 1) Bought a new house 2) Packed and moved (we live in Pennsylvania now) 3) Redid our old house to sell 4) Started my own engineering business 5) J was offered (and accepted) a teaching job read more..

Flux Capacitor

I found something to put on my Xmas list. Put it in your car, speed up to 88 mph and it’ll help you travel back (or forward) in time. It does work better with a Delorean. For those of you who don’t have a clue what it is or what I am talking about, it is read more..

Enemies

“Keep you friends close, and your enemies closer.” One of the quotes that has always stuck in mind. Supposedly Sun Tzu said it first in his book The Art of War but that claim is subject to numerous debates. My interpretation of it is … you should always keep an eye on your enemies so that read more..

Thoughts on the new Indy movie

I watched the new Indiana Jones movie last weekend. Here are some thoughts… - they shouldn’t have mixed Science Fiction with Indy Indiana Jones is traditionally known for mythical or biblical adventures, not SciFi. That is what makes him different. You’ll know what I mean when you go see it, there won’t be any spoilers here. Steven read more..

Trilogies: The best and the worst

I was watching the third installment of Blade yesterday and it got me thinking about the best and worst trilogies I’ve watched. Here are my picks (in order)… Best 10 1) The Godfather (they don’t make movies like that anymore) 2) Star Wars (the original three) 3) Lord of the Rings 4) Indiana Jones 5) Back to the Future (I love the read more..

Super Mario on your webpage

Just stop and think about how far we’ve come in technology when Super Mario comes to the computer in the form of a 14 kb JavaScript code. It’s far from complete, and you’ll have to start over when you die but that’s besides the point — I’m in awe that something like that is actually read more..

Opps… not supersized

So it wasn’t a supersized venti after all … Share This

IRONMAN

Haven’t been this excited over a movie in years. Finally my all time favorite Marvel superhero is making it to the big screen and it looks mighty fine! You know where I’ll be on May 2nd, 2008. “Heroes aren’t born, they’re built” Interesting trivia from IMDB: # In October 1999, Quentin Tarantino was approached to write and read more..

Drinking toilet water

Few months back I watched a news report on how some counties/ cities are recycling sewer water to make it suitable for drinking. The water is then fed back for human consumption and sold to some manufacturers. The water supposedly exceeds drinking standards and is purer than distilled water sold by wholesalers. It is probably very read more..

Starbucks supersizing?

Got this in my inbox today. Great, just what I need … a supersized Venti Starbucks cup. Like I don’t spend enough on Starbucks already. Share This

It’s not easy being green

J gave me a card with Kermit (the frog) on the front this morning. It said, “It’s not easy being green, except on St. Paddy’s Day.” Cute. Happy St. Patrick’s day everyone! Share This

Vista bug

For the past week or so, my hard drive had suddenly started to work overtime i.e. it was constantly active as if scanning for something. My CPU utilization was getting maxed out (close to 100%) and my whole operating system became extremely slow/ sluggish. At first I thought that it was my Anti virus software read more..

Left handers rule

With the presidential primaries going on, thought it might be interesting to mention some left handed presidential facts and stats (being left handed myself). Left handed presidents: James A. Garfield (1881) 20th Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) 31st Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) 33rd Gerald Ford (1974-1977) 38th Ronald Reagan (1981 -1989) 40th George H.W. Bush (1989-1993) 41st Bill read more..

Can’t get it out of my head!

Speaking of earworms … Can’t believe I haven’t heard of this song until J told me about it. Now I am regretting ever hearing it. Share This

Organizing tax receipts

With the ongoing planning of my new business (which I’ll be officially launching mid this year), I am trying to explore the best way to organize future receipts incurred for tax purposes. In my personal finances, we’ve always taken standard tax deductions and not itemized anything (didn’t really need to). Receipts and tax related stuff read more..