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Bailey the cat

Just spreading warm-fuzzies…

2007 08 12 snolan Personal Comments (0)

Express Orchids

So I am standing outside Merrifield Garden Center today, loading my latest garden plant purchases into the car when a lemon yellow Lamborghini Countach 5000S pulls up, parks diagonally across two handicapped spaces, and the driver jumps out and heads into Merrifield. I was joking with a friend I ran into in the parking lot […]

2007 08 05 snolan Local Comments (0)

Nice Birthday Bash for Dan

Well, Erci and I hosted Dan’s 40th Birthday Bash per arrangement made with Dan and Jeff a few months ago and it was a blast. We had something on the order of 60 people out, enjoying some Contra Dancing, some time in the pool, a lot of Erci’s cooking (Tiger Cried, yummmm!), and the company […]

2007 07 30 snolan Dance
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Happy Independence Day

While I am not feeling very positive about our nation lately, I can at least celebrate being independent minded and having the freedom to express myself how I like. I went to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in DC with my partner, , and enjoyed the heat, crowd, cultural exchange, and like-minded people. I was annoyed […]

2007 07 05 snolan Local
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Partner’s iPhone review

This is a proxy review of my partner’s brand new iPhone. I am impressed. My biggest concern was that this new “smart” phone would have loads of features and suck as a phone. This would be like 99% of the “smart” phones on the market and thus no big surprise. I am thrilled to announce […]

2007 06 30 snolan Computers
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AppleTV see YouTube now

As predicted, the update to AppleTV was available this morning and I downloaded and installed the update via remote control… it took about 12 minutes. YouTube is now a menu option and we enjoyed some Robo Chicken Star Wars spoofs as a test. Navigation of YouTube is going to be interesting; I have to figure […]

2007 06 21 snolan Computers Comments (2)

Thai Food

Erci has been taking additional cooking classes from Chef Nongkran Daks of our favorite local Thai restaurant, Thai Basil in Centreville (near Picante). Sunday night she made beef Tiger Cried as an experiment, and it was astonishingly good. I just finished the left-overs, so that means I’ve had Tiger Cried for three nights in a […]

2007 06 19 snolan Personal Comments (1)

Slacker finally hooks up AppleTV

So I am a slacker. I pre-ordered the Apple TV as soon as I could, and I was one of the first to get one shipped, but we’ve been so busy that it sat in it’s shrink wrap until this morning. I finally pulled it out and hooked it up. It’s the first HD content […]

2007 06 16 snolan Computers
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Yikes! Been way too long…

Life has been good, Erci and I have simply been enjoying the good weather and using cool, sunny weekends to garden. We tackled the section of yard in front of the attached garage. Pulling up crab grass has been very challenging, but we’ve rescued some monkey grass and planted more. We had Merrifield Garden Center […]

2007 05 07 snolan Dance
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Conspiracy Theories in the Star Wars Universe

Two links have recently been brought to my attention (thanks Rocketboom and MLF) that bring up very interesting questions about whether the Death Star was really taken out by rebels in small x-wing fighters, or if it might have been an inside job… Also a case study in why some believe that R2D2 is the […]

2007 04 06 snolan Comments (0)