Starting on June 4th I’ve started using foursquare. Here I am: https://foursquare.com/user/10224842 Now I must admit that before actually using it, I thought that it was a dumb idea to “check in” everywhere you go. Dumb. So why do it? Well, a friend started using it and my objective was to have more points than [...]
The Seven Falls pictures are the last ones from our not-so-short trip to Colorado. In the first post after we returned, I had some raw random observations. Let me distill two of them, for posterity. I said that we will never rent a car from Budget and that Google Navigation screwed up big time a [...]
I never really liked the name Irene. For some reason, I’ve always associated it with trouble. Don’t know why… Until now: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hurricane_Irene_%282011%29 Turns out the hurricane is visiting New York at the same time that we should have. And it’s going to hit hard if you believe the media frenzy around it. “Thank you” Mother [...]
Did you ever had an idea which seemed like a good one until you really thought about it? I get them all the times. It starts with an innocent thought and quickly develops into the “that is extremely stupid” dead end. The latest and greatest idea was born out of frustration. Let me explain. Since [...]
The nice guys at Puget Sound Electricity regularly send me a very informative report that should make me feel bad about myself and improve my energy efficiency. 70% more. Not 10 or 20%. 70%! This makes me question either the validity of the report (are you counting empty apartments??) or the sanity of my neighbors [...]
