Archive for December, 2006
The 24th
Good morning. When I sit in the lanai with my iBook facing out to the yard, angled just so, I can just barely pick up a tiny trace of signal from a “linksys” WAP. It is via this tenuous thread of connectivity that I radiate this message out to you. I spent most of yesterday [...]
Caturday!
Since I’m away from home, today’s Special Edition Caturday features non-Pandora cats, specifically Mom’s backyard-bred Persians, which sadly are kept in cages in the back of the house:
Third World Connectivity
Much to my dismay, broadband internet access at my family’s home has been down ever since Typhoon Milenyo, and PLDT DSL has been dragging its feet on getting things back up and running again. All we have at home right now is painfully slow dial-up access, charged by the minute, on my mom’s computer, a [...]
The Long Trip to Manila
Washington DC National Airport (DCA) Manning the United Airlines check-in desk, a Ms. V. Hawkins. She is remarkably standoffish and catty towards me, especially when I tell her that I am connecting in Hong Kong to an airline with no ticketing agreement with United. I would like my bags checked forward to my Cebu Pacific [...]
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Well, I’m off to the Philippines to spend Christmas and New Year with the family. The flights go from DCA to ORD to HKG to MNL, the longest leg of the trip being the 16 hour transpolar ORD-HKG trip, and the longest layover being the 6 hour transfer at HKG. All told I’ll be about [...]
Eerie Snowmen on my Wrapping Paper
Here’s a roll of holiday wrapping paper I bought at Papyrus for Christmas in 2003. “Lots of presents to wrap,” I thought to myself back then, “better get three big rolls.” But I had overestimated my wrapping needs, and ended up using only about half of one roll that Christmas. Ever since then, this has [...]
links for 2006-12-18
cheap and tiny // Fruit Powered Clock (tags: tech food shopping cheapandtiny) okcalvin: Friday Feature: Photos from Dryden – Joust! (tags: aviation nasa) Washington City Paper – City Desk – Streetscape – Unfare at any Speed. City Paper on Metro’s proposed fare hike. (tags: dc metro) Tips for Using Images on Your Site and Optimizing [...]
Christmas-y Weekend
This weekend was designated a Christmas-y weekend — for Amy and me to do Christmas-y stuff together before I leave for the Philippines. We dropped by the Postal Museum to get stamps at the Stamp Shop (which was closed, so we just ended up getting stamps from the post office vending machine). We viewed paintings [...]
Caturday!
Here’s Pandora, caught in the middle of cleaning her face. (I was trying to get another licky pic, but she’s just too fast.)
links for 2006-12-15
cheap and tiny // USB Mini Vacuum (tags: tech shopping cheapandtiny) cheap and tiny // Electricity Usage Monitor (Please note the “Give ‘em Watts” gag. I’m very proud of it.) (tags: tech shopping cheapandtiny) CBS Considering New Animated Trek Series For The Web. Set 150 years after TNG, in a post-apocalyptic Federation torn apart by [...]