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Rubik’s Cubes Are No Longer Sold

January 13th, 2008 · Comments Off

For various reasons, I recently got a hankering to mess with a Rubik’s Cube. Now I’ve owned them in the past, but can’t find any of them. My brother had them too, but he can’t find his. The only cube I could find was a little keychain model that is extremely hard to rotate and [...]

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Down Another Shrimp

December 11th, 2007 · Comments Off

It must be an unlucky time here at my house, as I just noticed I’m down another shrimp. That means I only have two left. I’ll have to consider it to be Rei that is no longer with us. This means I need yet another set of names.
I think I’ll go with the simple: Player [...]

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Down One Shrimp

December 6th, 2007 · Comments Off

This is a highly minor update. My EcoSphere came home with me a month or so ago so it wouldn’t have to sit in my office over the weekends, where without heat I figured it would freeze. Due to this I haven’t been watching it as closely as I used it. Today I discovered that [...]

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My EcoSphere

October 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off

About two weeks ago I purchased an EcoSphere from Brookstone in my local mall. They have a few different sizes and shapes available (you can see the full range here at Amazon). I bought one from Brookstone because I could see them for myself before buying one, and pick out the one I wanted. I [...]

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Criminal Dealings

July 9th, 2007 · Comments Off

Lots to comment on.
Being a Criminal
At least according to Microsoft. In the last week I have had to install Windows about 6 times. I’ve had to activate it a couple of times, calling MS at least twice (and I think I will need to again). This all started with my mother. I setup Parallels on [...]

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