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Still small compared to the larger industry, but growing quickly. Woo! That means nicer places and more people and stuff. Cool. Nudism becoming big biz (Rose DeWolf of Knight Ridder on CentreDaily.com)
(via Fark) So, Randy confirms that it was him I saw in my logs, and leaves a comment. The first comment by other than me on here. Woo! Thanks Randy!
There is more in typical Randy style if you click through. Ok though, time to check if Randy made the top ten in the last year and thus would meet what I’ve kept saying it would be fun to wait for… lets see… Looks like Randy last made my email top ten in September 1999. Yeah, that’s not in the last year. So still waiting. But thanks Randy for the long comment! :-) Just like with Challenger. They lasted a little while and probably knew quite well what was happening. Not “instant” at all. :-( Columbia crew probably lived at least a minute beyond last contact (LA Times on AJC)
(via Google News) Well, so Lynn was the first person I know personally to look at the redesigned site since I redesigned it as far as I can tell. And she emailed me, but without any comments on the site. And looking at the logs I suspect Randy may have looked at it yesterday, but no comments. Erikas looked at the redesigned site this morning and sent me email commenting on where my random trip selector was sending him, and saying “Oh yeah, nice blog” thus becoming the first person to actually comment on the blog. Thanks Erikas! I’ll answer your email tonight or tomorrow probably. :-) Still waiting for the first comment from anybody who has made my top ten email list within the last year. I’m trying to avoid mentioning my website to people just to see how long it takes. But I did slip and mentioned the site to Brandy yesterday in answer to a question. So if she sees this and comments, I’ll still be looking to see who is the first person to say something without haveing been prompted in email by me to check the site for something. This is a fun game! Still deciding if there should be a prize. :-) OK. Now I really have to rush and get ready to go. Had I mentioned, YAWN? I have a meeting in NYC at 13 UTC today. Which means I should be out of the house by 11 UTC at the latest. Which means my alarms started going off at 9 UTC. After me not actually lying down to sleep until about 6 UTC. I hate days like this. Yawn! It is now 10 UTC. I am now up I guess. Gotta rush to get ready and out the door now. Yawn! Yawn! Yawn! I just got an email from my grandmother encouraging her grandchildren to register in order to be able to vote in the primaries as well as the general election. She also implying a subtle endorsement of Dean as a possibility. I first wrote something longer and bringing up more esoteric points, but I ended up thinking better of that and shortened my reply to this:
There was a second email from her talking about Governor Dean and mentioning again how important it was to vote in the primaries. This time I replied with this:
For those of you who saw the SelectSmart results I got a couple weeks ago, this is more acurate, as last time I neglected to fill in the “how important is this issue to you” parts, so the various issues were not properly weighted. This is probably better. Although I think some of this may evolve over the next year and a half before the election. :-) I wonder how my grandmother will react. Hopefully she won’t be too upset with me. :-) When I got home today, the people had been here again. They put the doors back up on my closet and rehung the shade for the hall light and the carbon monoxide detector and stuff. They looked at the dryer, but just left a note saying “clean the lint trap after each use”. Well DUH. OK, I do clean it BEFORE each use, and I forgot to clean it before they came, although I did remember to empty the dryer. But I *do* do that. Every time. The problem is the lint trap isn’t catching everything and a lot of lint is getting through that and into the rest of the works. And the stupid thing does get warm, just not warm enough. I have to run it full length (2 hours) two times to get a load dry. Three times if there are any towels or sheets or blankets in there. But you know, screw it. I’m in this apartment for LESS THAN FOUR MORE WEEKS. And this dryer has had these issues almost the whole time I’ve been here. So I’m not going to call and bitch and tell them to look more deeply. I’m going to ignore it, and the next person who lives here can deal with it. But at least the closet doors are back on. This page seems to be pretty useful. Shows where Apple Products are within the average product cyles for each line. Neat. Says not to buy a Powerbook now, cause they are overdue for an update. Which I knew. But cool. I plan to replace my powerbook at the end of January with whatever is the best powerbook available at that time. I am hoping for not just a speedbump but a major revision before then. But we shall see. http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
(via “Sick of Waiting” thread on AppleInsider) If Greenspan cuts rates and mortgage rates drop again before my closing on August 11th now that I’ve locked in, I’ll be quite pissed at myself, and Ivan can say “I told you so”. Greenspan Says Fed Could Cut Rates Again (AP on Yahoo News)
Although, the next Fed meeting, which is when these things usually happen, will be August 12th, which is the day after my closing. So it probably won’t affect me. :-) It would not be fun to have to be a voter in this and pick between characters like this. But I don’t live in California, and watching this from the sidelines is going to be fun! The Battle of the Accents (Don Hazen, Alternet)
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