Scene: Anchorage, AK; Living Room on Vassar Drive
We see Stephanie engaged in an on-line chat with her friend in NYC.
[laughing]
[typing]
Time passes and we see Stephanie take her MacBook into the kitchen.
Scene: Kitchen of same house
Stephanie and her friend continue their on-line conversation.
Stephanie fills pot with water for cooking pasta.
[typing]
Stephanie adds pasta to water, stirs.
Looks [...]
Archive for January, 2008
28 Jan
A Twenty-First Century One Act Play
26 Jan
Happy Birthday, Stephanie!
Well, it’s Stephanie’s birthday today (Sat, 1/26). And it’s friggin’ cold in Anchorage again (currently 10F). But we’re still going to brave the cold (but sunny) weather to go shopping today. Stephanie doesn’t know what we’re shopping for, but I do.
Meanwhile, a year ago this week we flew off to Seattle, San Francisco and Santa [...]
24 Jan
"Hillary Rodham Clinton is a man."
For the past three years I’ve been working in public media, at a company that runs a public TV (PBS) station, a public radio (NPR) station and also a statewide public radio news network. In that time I’ve gotten more and more involved in the actual creation and publication of content, especially on the web. [...]
20 Jan
60 channels and nothing on
So I wrote this long post about how we just upgraded to a new cable package that has all kinds of channels and went on and on about what a screw job this is. But it was boring, so never mind. Here’s the upshot:
We went from basic cable to something like 60 (watchable) [...]
20 Jan
More Flickr (photos) to come
Well, I broke down and finally paid for the “Pro” upgrade on Flickr. For $25, all the photo uploading you can stand for a year — no limits on uploading bandwidth and no storage limits.
That means more photos from our collection will start showing up here and on Flickr. Fun, yes?
If you want to [...]
16 Jan
Hey Jason!
So I go to Best Buy this evening to buy a (crappy) Linksys router for a guy at work that needs help setting it up. And Stephanie (who bought Monk – Season 5) introduces me to Jason, a former colleague at ACS and, apparently, the sole reader of this site.
Hello Jason. Welcome to [...]
15 Jan
Gasping for Air
Well, I won’t be buying one because I simply don’t need one right now. But she is a beauty.
Why is it that Apple has to be the one to make the best computers? Why isn’t there more competition in the computer and electronics design space?
10 Jan
You might be a redneck if…
…they don’t make beef jerky out of you, they make ham jerky out of you.
…I served with Bob Evans; I knew Bob Evans; Bob Evans was a friend of mine. Redneck, you’re no Bob Evans.
